well i finished hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy. i’ll probably pick up the second book tomorrow(payday) if i have time before work. (after typing that all three monitors at the desks behind me came back on out of sleep mode, creepy.)

btw, for those of you who are Beck fans, the new album is sweet ass.

adios

so, i’ve finally purchased the guide to the galaxy. what’s boggling my mind though is that i can be completely awake and enjoying the read, but 40 pages later i’m dozing off uncontrollably. is my conscious mind being sucked into some unknown void of improbability???

Vale and I were talking last night in bed; laying under the black-light illuminated stars and fluorescent paint splatters that cover our ceiling (it was a kids room, ok, though we have no intention of removing them). Vale was talking about an IQ test that he took online the other day. He showed me the results of 131 and the comments that dubbed him a visual linguistic with further getails on his abilities, which I thought fit him quite well. He said, “I was in the 98th percentile. If that’s accurate I could apply to Mensa.” I said “wow” not fully grasping the idea being presented (my cool tone is usually what inspires him to go off on one of his “other worldly stories”, which of course is why I do it). That’s when he drew a finer line for me. Half into his pillow he said shyly, “That means I’m brighter that 97% of the people on the planet…. I laugh “well yeah I knew….” and I’m stuck in Lancaster making 41,000 a year! There was a moments gestalt for both of us (I was thinking that it’s an odd world that doesn’t push us all hard toward what we do best and pay us well to do it; ego maniacs teach and heal and people with great heart and/or brains become wage slaves) but what I said was.

“Well you lazy bastard….” *giggles*
I could feel him giggling under his breath (Vale doesn’t like to be surprised).

HEHE, the only thing he could say was “that was funny enough to blog, and if you don’t I’m going to beat you like we live in a trailer park (an obvious slam at my past and current blog reticence).

Oh well, you probly hada be there, ~.~ laters

I’ve been growing my hair

Originally uploaded by Violet166.

I told you I’ve been growing my hair. Next I’m going to grow a new face and then work my way down ~.~

Robert Scoble has decided that one blog is enough for now and is giving up his link blog.

I can’t tell you how much this means to me Robert as I will now no longer feel guilty that I was unable to finish reading all of my feeds before I pass out at the end of the day. No more will I open my aggregator and say, “1054 new items! What the hell?! Does Scoble actually do any work?!”

Peace has been restored to my RSS world.

P.S. Robert, I know you don’t like linking to people who use pseudonyms so should you want to link here my real name is Joe McLemore. Thank you.

So I was poking around Gmail this morning and noticed the following ad.

I’ve always wanted my own memory leak and you can’t beat the price on this one.

mm-man (Small)

Originally uploaded by Vale.

I feel that it is my duty as a parent that when my children do silly and/or stupid things under the auspices of “being bored” that I document the occasion for future reference.

This clever construction was produced at the dinner table last night at which point I took the picture. Shortly after this shot was taken Marty the M&M Man was beheaded and devoured.

From the heading of “Never Needed to Know” comes this very ambitious effort.

I have a new favorite now.

29. The Irish MPs are not after

Big and I were talking about this the other day so I finally looked it up again. Funny shit. My personal favorite is “181. Pok