Getting ready for the Sabbath and the trip to Charlotte tomorrow. Have a good one yall!

A 20 degree drop overnight?

No one is here. I love this time of year (students being gone, not the holiday per se). I can park anywhere, go anywhere without worrying about lines. The only drawback is that a lot of places will close early until the students return.

I need help. The kids are spending the night with Grandma and Pa Pa, and the M.R.S. wants to go on a date. I'm fine with that, but I don't want to see the movie she's picked out: "The Pursuit of Happyness" with Will Smith. I know it's a feel-good movie, but it's not something I feel like dropping 15 bucks (plus popcorn) for. I'd much rather watch it on DVD. Any suggestions? I'd prefer one that doesn't involve me ending up in the hospital.

Here's an interesting (to me) discovery reported here by Reuters - I guess they've found the Komodo Madonna.

Edit: The movie was much better than I expected, primarily because it wasn't as sappy as I thought it would be. A little language in a couple of scenes is the only thing that detracts from the film.

Like San Diego, only cheaper

The weather here has been fantastic recently. I think the high today was 75-77 or so. I strongly considered walking to work just because it was so nice. Even better is that the traffic is negligible due to the end of the semester being upon us. It's amazing how a little sunshine and warm weather can perk up the soul. Don't have much time to post today as I've got a bus to catch. Later peeps.

Errata

I fell into a burning ring of fire... I fell down, down, down...

Nothing much going on here. I came downstairs Sunday to find Nick watching a NASCAR show. Thank you very much, Lightning McQueen. Noah's black eye is healing up nicely (thanks, Rocky Balboa). Jalen and our 14-year old neighbor met this weekend and appeared to hit it off pretty well. Our neighbor's a pretty nice kid, so I think that's a good thing.

I've been thinking of doing a little project next time I go home to visit the folks. I was thinking of going to the library and looking up old newspaper articles that I was in and saving them in a scrapbook for my kids. Those of you from small towns know it doesn't take much to make the paper. I've got a few spelling bee mentions, stories on my high school football and basketball teams (basketball, very good; football, not so much), etc. Would you like seeing stuff like that about your folks? It would prove that we really were young once - and that some of us had a full head of hair once upon a time. (I wonder if there's a correlation between those two things?)

New Link

I just added a link to a new blog called "Thoughts En Route" by Wallace Smith. He's an LCG pastor in eastern MO, and the new presenter on the Tomorrow's World telecasts.

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I was all set to type up a cheery blog post, but I decided to see what was going on in the COG world first. All of a sudden I'm not in such a cheerful mood.

It's almost Monday already?

I made the mistake of leaving several journal article printouts on the arm of the couch when I went to bed last night. Whilst I was fixing breakfast gremlins came through the living room and trashed my papers... I must've fed them after midnight or something.

Anyway, HOW BOUT THEM COWBOYS? I thought they were gonna tank today and lose to the Giants, but they managed to pull it out by a field goal with 1 second left. It would've been nice to see 2nd half, but one must work. That's more than USC or Arkansas could do this weekend. I don't want Florida to meet Ohio State for the BCS championship, but it looks like that's what's going to happen. Clemson might be playing in the Music City Bowl in Nashville. That's only a 6-hour drive, but methinks it'll be a tad chilly for my tastes. I guess I'll just support the team from afar (i.e. my living room).

I think I'll start petitioning restaurants to have more round tables. It's hard to hear the convo when I'm always at the far end of the table... Watching/holding/wrestling with Noah. There appeared to be some spirited convo going on from where I was sitting. I'll have to ask the M.R.S.

I'm not complaining, but wasn't there supposed to be some Arctic-type weather hitting us or something? We were in the 60s again today. Gotta love the South.

Dude in the corner thinks I'm stupid... Like I don't know he's just surfing the web. At least open that textbook you've had beside you for the past hour.