300 please

Just saw the movie "300" at the dollar theater. Totally AWESOME!! There's around a 100 percent to 100 percent chance I will own this on DVD. WOW.

My fortune and satisfaction

Cleaning up the mess that is my computer desk / entertainment center, I've ran across an old fortune cookie slogan from eating out. Ponder this:

You cannot run away from yourself; you're always right behind you.

Oh. Kay.

I also found this post card from some company I ordered stuff from at work (don't ask why I have it at home). It's a survey card. "Our Goal Is Your Satisfaction" and "How Do We Measure Up?" I wonder how many of these are never returned. I guess "no news is good news" eh. I think I'll join the crowd.

Survey

As you know, I've been out shopping and running errands. Ya know when your out and about with the general populous, you ever get the feeling that people are giving you - that - certain look. Is it me? My dress? B.O.?

Here's the survey. Does the dress make it? Style, color, matching? Perhaps its not acceptable attire unless you hanging out drinking beer with your buddies. Let me know folks.

Lunch

Tasty Toasted Sandwiches

1 pimiento
1 small onion
1/4 point American cheese
2 hard-cooked eggs
1/4 teaspoon salt
Dash pepper
1/4 teaspoon paprika
2 tablespoons prepared mustard
16 slices bread
Melted butter

Force pimiento, onion, cheese, and eggs through food chopper. Add spices. Mix. Spread on bread. Brush tops with melted butter and grill in pan or under broiler. Serve. Makes 8 wiches.

Mmmmmmmmmmm Gooooood!


The plan - Road Trip
Pitt stops: - in no order whatsoever

- grocery store
- post office
- bank
- crafts store
- Target
- drop off recyclables

And I thought this was suppose to be a day off. Someone, wake me from my dream. PLEASE.

An extra day off

Hey folks, it's Tuesday and I'm at home taking the day off. Ohh YEAH!! I've never been one to take a Monday or Tuesday off around a three day holiday, but this time I decided to go for it. So I'm joining a portion of the American population that is making this a four day weekend. Although a day off means doing what ever when ever, easy come easy go type of attitude, I'm already feeling like the day is speeding right ahead. It's already 9:50! I originally woke up at 6 (must be habit), rolled over for another 30 minutes or so, then stared at four walls until around 7:30. OK, that's it! Let's start moving around. I spent a little while looking over a cookbook troving for something different to make for lunch, then had a crappy breakfast; that being cereal and a poptart. I didn't feel too bad because the hot sandwich I plan on making for lunch will have eggs and (can it be) BREAD. Ahhh, staple food. I've been spending a little time getting photo's downloaded from the digital camera and selecting photo's for this post. I've got to get a system down to make it quicker I tell you. I think I've got a file naming system down that will keep files in order but also let me reference dates as well. I suppose I'm a little slow right now because I'm new to all this photo stuff. After several more times, I might have it down to a science. We'll see. For the rest of the day, I've got bills to pay and a trip to the grocery store before lunch. Afterwards, I'm planning a trip to a fabric or hobby store to get fabric for a cover for the entertainment stand. I'd like to try making things look more simplified when I'm not goofing off on the computer. Ya know, that whole feng shui thing. Again, we'll see. Unknown what's for dinner. I'd like to cook something, but not sure what yet.

So yesterday turned out to be a rather uneventful day. The only real excitement was checking out the Albuquerque Wine Festival at the Albuquerque Balloon Park. I'd never heard of it until this year, but apparently, this three day event takes place every Memorial Day weekend. News to me. The only wine festival I've known of has been the one that takes place in Bernalillo in the Fall. See, I learned something new this year. Now if I can only learn what 2 + 2 equals.


The Event - No shortage of a crowd.



When you've just had it all, the grass comes in pretty darn handy.



Well as this post gets longer by the second, I'd like to close with a rant on this whole holiday thing. In particular, on how every holiday seems to be a major event for the retail industry to sell us shit. Sales seem to be everywhere. I'll admit that I haven't heard as much in the way of T.V. and radio ads, but trust me there out there. The one that is sticking in my mind is a radio ad for a car dealer. Goes something like this, In order to gauge the economic strength of this area, [car dealer] is holding a four day market test . . . You get the idea. One other rant, why has every holiday become a means to party. Even this Memorial Day holiday is suppose to be somber moment to reflect on what this nation is all about, pay honor to those who have fallen for our freedom, and to question if what were assigning our troops to do around the world really achieves our nations goals. Instead, our public parks are full, and there is plenty of food left overs from the barbecue to last a while.

Anyways, the music I've got going is lulling me right now. Time to shift gears with the music and the mood. Cheers all.

Memorial Day

It's Memorial Day. A day to honor our service men and women in the US Military. As mentioned yesterday, I took a trip to the Sante Fe National Cemetery. Here are a couple of photo's. However you chose to honor our Military, I hope you feel rewarded in your efforts.

Survived the day.

Well it's the end of another day. Today went well. We took a trip to the cemetery and our scenic drive went well. I'll share some photo's tomorrow. The camera's downloaded and I'm just a bit too tired to deal with all the image moving, resizing, renaming, etc. Just keep your eyeballs peeled tomorrow. After we got back around 6:30pm, we took a trip to Sweet Tomato's for supper. As usual, I get more salad which leaves less room for the more solid food. Salad is great, but doesn't stick around for very long.

I've given the FireFox, Macrohard, blogger problem some more though, and along the lines of what K. commented, I'm wondering if, when it comes to Windows based computers, if Macrohard and blogger aren't in bed together. Just a thought. I haven't spent a lot of time looking into the issue, so I can't claim the statement above. I'll look into it some more in the coming day's.

Anyways, I'm in for some R-n-R, so I think I'll lull myself on the couch with a DVD movie in the new player that K. got me. Sharp picture too. So, let me get to looking through my small collection while I bid you all good night. Enjoy folks.

Remembrance # 2

Well, it's Sunday and I'm getting ready to head off to my folks house. Today's plan is to visit my father in Sante Fe's National Cemetery in New Mexico. We'll pay our respects not only to him, but also to all the service men and women in the military. Honoring them through this Memorial Day holiday. After that, looks like we'll be taking a scenic drive through the city of Los Alamos and other byway's. We'll probably grab a bit somewhere before heading home. Should make for a nice afternoon.

On another front, I'm wondering if anyone knows what's going on with the following problem; when I use FireFox browser to make changes to the blogger template, the "!" hourglass stalls for days, while Macrohard Exploder works fine. I haven't looked into it too much yet, but I'm hoping there is a quick answer out there.

See ya!

Wordless

Enough Said!

Oh, helping global warming

Well apparently, I hear that the city of Albuquerque has enacted a new ordinance that allows one to be fined if you have weeds in your yard that are over four feet high. So The Peak radio station had some guy out this morning choosing random houses and going in to pull a few weeds. When the morning DJ crew was talking to him, he commented he was stopping global warming one weed at a time. How funny!