Grill

icky is getting his grill done this morning. Hopefully he both lives
and stops peeing on things in the house.

rip

Howard Zinn and J.D. Salinger in one day, what a bummer. I still have
good intentions to start my copy of the people's history of the united
states any day now.

Icarus or a MacBook

So I had a sort of impulsive thought the other night involving a Macbook. I have wanted one for years but have been too cheap to pull the trigger since i can get a windows one for so much less. However my current laptop is starting to fail and has to be plugged in all the time and Someone depends on it quite a bit for school, including a class this semester that requires you to submit an essay in the last hour of class. I am worried that without a plug someone might have a computer failure and get an F in the class. So Sunday night I put it in my cart, but then had second thoughts about the 1000 dollars it would cost and removed it.

Thank goodness because then this week we had to take Icarus to the vet. He has been crying a lot, acting weird and worst of all started peeing on all kinds of things. I know from experience that male cats are predisposed to getting urinary tract infections so I was afraid that might be the cause. Well that issue hasn't been answered but in the examination they found he has a broken tooth(WTF, how did he break his tooth?!! Was he in a bar fight I don't know about) and the extraction will be about 500, the other tests etc about the same.....
now if i can only get Icarus to send emails and wear an apple sticker.

Christopher Buckley

I love Christopher Buckley's books and I stumbled on this article at the Daily Beast:



http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-01-25/the-audacity-of-oops/p/

birthday dinner

yummy!! To put the icing on the cake of the crazy suprise party that
Bo threw with lots of help from the rest of the family my mom made my
favorite dinner!!! For those of you ho army familiar that is salt pork
and crock pot mac n cheese with some beans on the side. I love salt
pork and can usually only guilt trip my mommy into making it on my
birthday!
I'm very lucky!! Thanks to all my friends and family that made this a
birthday i will never forget. I'm going to refrain fromm posting
pictures from the party because the embarassment factor was quite high!!

The Chicago connection

tried this little pizza place out at first and bullard in te center by
Savemart. It was delicious!!!!! The corn meal crust was really good
and for the quality and quanity of food the price was good also. The
owners were there and were very friendly and very nice. The place was
squeaky clean, I just had a leftover piece and it was still delicious.

Mike's Pizzeria

I just dropped in the Mike's pizzeria(on west and shields) and got some yummy minestrone soup. They are always so friendly and nice in there and I enjoy their food. Their minestrone soup and fresh bread is the perfect answer for this weather. I also enjoy the other location on shaw.

making a mountain out of a mole hill

clerk(via email 9:14):
subject: safety hazard- mud in parking lot
good morning
it has been reported that there is a truck outside in the parking lot
that brought mud into the parking lot. can the person using this truck
please clean up the mud to prevent a safety hazard?
Please remember safety is our #1 priority.
**followed by graphic showing someone tripping

Supervisor(via email 9:18am) :
subject : re: safety hazard mud in parking lot
we are taking care of it now.

---several employees and shovels called to parking lot to shovel the
mud( it is raining)

supervisor (via email 10:40)
re:re safety hazard- mud in parking lot

the area ha been cleaned with a shovel but it still remains a slipping
hazard. cones have been placed to delineate the area. we are working
on getting a hose that will be long enough to spray off the area.

**rain continues

employee(via email12:24)----
we need to use some caution in washing the area so that we don't
deliberately discharge large volumes of mud to a storm drain system.
this can result in negative consequence with the agency. probably best
to use a large street broom and continue to shovel until most of the
solids are taken up.

WTF

supervisor asks employee to make sign and laminate to place on stake
and place In cone to provide information regarding the cones off area.

FYI -still raining in fact pouring is the word. It is most 2 pm and
the hose hasn't arrived. I hope no one slips while trying to hose of
pavement on rain.

doesn't anyone have something better to do?!?!??

playing ship

the night isn't over yet but so far they are both alive and well an
sort of in bed!

hmmmmmmmmm

yosemite

happy new year

The new year so far is going well. So far in the new year I have been
quite unusually active.
Friday- new years day just some shopping and pretending to see Avatar
again ( keep going to theater then bailing) but managed to grab some
lunch at Panera and get some good deals at the bookstore.
Saturday- headed up to Yosemite. The snow quantity was a bit
underwhelming but it was still pretty and the number of people wasn't
too high. It was good to go there, I can't even rememvet the last time
I was there probably almost 10 years ago.
Saturday Night- hit the Rocky Horror live show at Tower Theater.
that was a good time I really enjoyed myself even though rice throwing
was prohibited. The plce was packed to capacity I was really happy to
see te turnout. I hope they bring it back next year.
Sunday- broke out the bikes for a jaunt around Woodward park.
Yup I am out of shape!!!!!!!! Watching my bro-Inlaw dust me then turn
around and relap me while pulling a trailer with a kid and a baby seat
on the back with a second kid is quite humbling. I'm so tired right
now I can barely move, it quite sad!!! I'm very sure that this year I
will think about attempting to exercise more frequently and then not
do anything.

awww

world peace Is possible!!