The weekend was one that felt both long and short at the same time. I cut out of work a bit early on Friday, having wrapped up most of the tasks I was working on, and not wanting to dive into anything substantial with only a few hours left in the week. Plus I was feeling a bit run-down, and figured that a quiet evening at home wouldn’t hurt at all, so that’s exactly what I had.
Saturday saw some errands and then the monthly poker gathering. We managed to get a quorum, but found out that the game conflicts with Surf Night at the Hexagon, which meant a few arrivals were late and drunk. I ended up talking and drinking with one of the attendees until after sunrise, which I’m pretty sure wasn’t the best plan in the world. Slept until mid-afternoon on Sunday, and watched some more TV before getting back onto the normal schedule again for the work-week.
I still feel as though I’m living on the edge of having a cold. I’m not exactly sick, but I’m not feeling 100%, either. At this point, I almost wish I would get sick so I could get healthy again, but that doesn’t appear to be in the cards.
And I think that’s going to do it for today. I hear there was some football game over the weekend, but hadn’t heard the result until I read Dave Winer this morning. It feels odd to get my sports news from Dave. I’ve got a fair number of links piled up from the time spent on the couch surfing the web Friday evening and yesterday, so the week’s blogging looks like it should go well. Heck, I may even find time to do some other work on the site, but I’m not going to promise anything, since that would probably doom any such project. Have a good week!
- Three more calls from the 255 country code on Friday. I wonder if maybe they’re using Spoofcom to fake the caller ID information. No calls over the weekend, though. [police state]
- Maybe only a few of my readers will enjoy My Name Is Yu Ming, but it’s a pretty damned funny film. See, this Chinese guy wants to move to Ireland, so he spends six months studying Irish…
Who knew old Paddy could speak Chinese?
And don’t worry about not understanding — the Irish (and Chinese) is subtitled with English. [holy schmoly] - A “conservative” Group airs ad during ‘24,’ hoping to influence Patriot Act debate, trying to scare people about what might happen if USA-PATRIOT is weakened. What, maybe Jack Bauer will come over and threaten to cut my eyes out? [fark!]
- If you go out drinking in the evening, are you driving to work with a Breakfast Buzz? I remember the time during my brief career driving schoolbuses when one of the guys got tagged with a DWI after his morning routes (about 10am or so). The only really surprising thing about it was that he was stupid enough to do something to cause the cops to pull him over. He wasn’t the only one showing up to work at 5:30 in the morning after having left the bars at 1:15. [fark!]
- This cartoon captioned Okay, we get it. You win. made me laugh. It’s not the normal Alien Loves Predator fare, but I’m pretty sure it was a good departure. [accordionguy]
- Covered in Oil reviewed the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto. I guess it’s just as well I didn’t visit it when I was up in Accordion City. [colby cosh]