All good things...

must come to an end. Wait, maybe it's supposed to be "come to those who wait." Today, it happens to be the first. Not necessarily unexpected, but still as much of a pain. For the first time in quite a while, I (along with about half of my compadres from the past year) will have the pleasure of the night shift for a month and a half. I don't necessarily hate the shift since I'm actually somewhat vampy. I just won't see my wife as much. And seeing our best friends, my mom, and my in-laws as often will pretty much be right out the window. But stuff happens and only seems fair to those currently pulling nights. Besides, it might be fun for a change...

Suzanne let me know today that Cats is going to be in Huntsville for two days near the end of May. I wouldn't mind seeing it again. And I'd love to see Sarah Brightman again. She was tremendous! I'd very much love to see Bond as well.

Well, it's late (we ate dinner with our best friends this evening) and I have to crash soon. Until later...

w00t!

I fetched my ticket from a local retailer this evening. See?





Come to find out, my wife's family from Atlanta is coming here for Easter weekend. I guess it's a good thing she's not choosing to head over there with me.

The latest South Park is pretty funny. They're doing a little parody of 24 and several other cultural phenomena. We're watching the episode from 3/28/2007. Let me just note that (as usual) it is VERY WRONG. SO VERY WRONG....

By the way, if you're so inclined, check out some of the samples from the upcoming VNV Nation releasecalled Judgement. I'd be happy if they had the CD for sale before the official release date (April 10, 2007).

By the way, I believe that I heard a rumor about a new Lords of Acid album in the works for this summer. That would be sweet.

Holy schnike!?!

Yahoo! is going to be offering unlimited e-mail storage. As noted in the post at the link, this is supposed to begin in May 2007. I've been a Yahoo! Mail user for a long time and unlimited space seems pretty amazing...

Speaking of Yahoo! stuff...

I started a Yahoo! group for 1988 graduates from Butler High School (Huntsville, AL) a few years ago in anticipation of our approaching 20 year anniversary. Tempus fugit! Feel free to join if you're an '88 grad.

With the upcoming political season gearing up, here's a little PSA to check out the candidates when possible. Plus, see what your elected representatives in government are doing. Last but not least, sort the crap from the facts. I can't wait to watch the upcoming election season unfold...

Although it was my first day back to work...

It turned out to be an OK day. I was actually occupied for a major portion of the day. The most exciting part was making something along these lines ready for operation on one of our units ready for operation after about twenty years. We were attempting to make this stuff work on Sunday but it didn't all go down as planned. They moved on it yesterday as well, but had a fair amount of the Tennessee River pouring into our plant (as I understand it). We had some small leaks today but they were mostly fixed by the time I left. It couldn't have even approached the Navy's flooding trainers like this.

Then I came home to some great dinner. Add to that some steamed frozen veggies and most of a bottle of the Riesling wine (Biltmore Estate Riesling) from here and I'm set for the evening.

I just wonder how much joy lies in store tomorrow...

I mentioned harmless fun last time. I tend to think that this would approach the summit of fun (as far as I'm concerned). I'm certain this won't happen this year, but I'd love to visit sometime in the future.

Ever want news from a different point of view? Check out one (or more) of these:

Xinhuah
Pravda
AlJazeera English
Islamic Republic News Agency (Iran)
North Korea's Korean Central News Agency

As usual, my day off was tremendous...

Although, one thing I suppose I miss out on when I'm off is my daily ritual of downing a spoonful of this crazy stuff. I tell everyone that it will keep me from getting sick. Heck, it's worked so far. I always forget about the unopened bottle that sits behind my coffee pot here at home....

I have been known to do some silly things. There was that time when I downed about half of an eight ounce cup of pickled egg vinegar. I half figured that the desire to do lunatic things like that would have disappeared by age 36, but I guess I was wrong. In fact, we were driving home the other night and I turned to Suzanne and suggested that we engage in a Chinese Fire Drill at the next red light. She didn't want to play. I just might do it next time. All a little bit of harmless fun...

I'm not normally one for much television, but both Suzanne and I LOVE Gene Simmons Family Jewels. The new season started last night. All I can say is that it's still great this season. By the way, check them out on MySpace.

I still think I'm going to be able to swing Atlanta. Woohoo!