Red Light/Green Light

08.01.2003

Yesterday it seemed to take forever to get to work. There's 13 lights between home and work (yes, I counted them). Even though it seemed to take forever, I was only caught by 4 of the red lights. Today I seemed to be making pretty good time, and realized that I had only stopped at 3 of the lights.

Yesterday I left 15 minutes later and was caught by more of the school traffic. The lights I was caughtat were mainly the first ones after leaving the house. I think it makes more of an impact when you're zipping along at 60 and then have to stop for a light. Today the lights were right after the other, closer to work where I was already going slower to begin with.

So maybe the pain of the red lights are all a matter of perspective.

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07.31.2003

10 die in Cameroon after drinking homemade gin at a funeral wake. Although it could be sorcery that caused the deaths.

Today is the first day ofschool for Madison County schools. It's July. When did they start going to school in July? I sweear we used to start in the middle of September.

I've got no kids to bother me about school starting, I just hate dodging the school traffic.

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Making Jerry Snort

07.30.2003

Last week, from nowhere, I did my Billy Dee Williams/Lando Calrissian impression for the first time. I can't remember the circumstances, other than seeing Wayne Brady do an impression the night before on Whose Line Is It Anyway, but I said to Jerry these words:

"Han. Chewie. Give me back my ship."

And then Jerry snorted.

Almost 20 years I've known the man, and never before hadI heard him snort. Was it my dead-on Billy Dee impression? Only if you like bad Howard Cosell impressions. Was it that it was so completely out of context I caught him off guard? Possibly. Is fatherhood slowly draining him of all sanity? Probably.

So even though nobody else in the world will get a chuckle out of it, Jer can geta laugh from today's pic. And maybe one day he'll get his ship back.

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Camtoon Tuesday

07.29.2003

After a double dose of camtoons last week, the follow up is ready. And on time, too!

And on the random news front...

As is the trend with Star Trek series and their third seasons, Enterprise is shifting to a more action oriented theme. I think I've watched 2 episodes of Enterprise. I don't feel as if I've missed anything.

In Palm Bay, Fl, a man picked a display computer off a Wal-Mart shelf and left before being caught in the parkinglot. Maybe they need to put price tags on the display models?

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Update Time

07.28.2003

Over the weekend, I started to install some new goodies for the pc at home. I got both hardware and software goodies to make up for being forced to reformat the hard drive from the virus last week, so this way I could have some fun. On my list ofthings to install:

1. DVD Burner
2. Graphics Card, because I needed to free up a PCI slot.
3. Another Gig of memory
4. 2nd IDE Controller
5. Star Trek Elite Force II, because I'm about due a game to play.
6. Dazzle MovieStar, because it looks like something fun to play with.

I got the memory, graphics card, and ide controller installed Saturday. I've got to open the case one more time and try to retrieve some Quickbooks files from the old hard drive before wiping it completely, so that'll be the time to install the DVD burner.

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