It's not often that I frequent the ice cream aisle at any store....

When we lived up in Illinois, one of our frequent haunts (especially during the summer) was Whitey's Ice Cream. That's one of a few things I miss about living up there (not enough to ever move back, mind you). Anyway, during some of my most recent forays into the netherworld of Wal-Mart at 4 A.M. I noticed that Ben & Jerry's had little single size servings of several of their most popular flavors. I happened to stop by the local House that Walton Built this morning and my curiosity got the better of me. I must say that I kinda dig these little cups. One 3.6 fluid ounce serving was of course loaded with calories (particularly from fats) but only about as many as you'd find in an average candy bar.

Hey, if you're lookin' for something interesting to do on Sunday night (April 20th this coming weekend), consider checking out the Dixie Derby Girls vs. the Nashville Roller Girls. I think that would be highly entertaining but I'll be working.......

In parting....

I download the Department of Homeland Security's Daily Open Source newsletter. They used to send it via e-mail, but they have since ceased doing so. Now I use a nifty little batch file (that invokes wget for Windows) to download it via Windows Scheduled Tasks. For those who have any interest in that type of thing, here's the batch file that I use:

@echo off
echo %%date%% = %date%

for /f "tokens=1-4 delims=/ " %%i in ("%date%") do (
set dow=%%i
set month=%%j
set day=%%k
set year=%%l
)

wget http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/DHS_Daily_Report_%year%-%month%-%day%.pdf -O dhs/DHS_Daily_Report_%year%-%month%-%day%.pdf


Well, I'd better run along. Time to catch as many ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZs as I can! Peace, y'all!

Woohoo, it's Tax Day......

Speaking for myself, I'm much hipper on THIS IDEA.....

'Twas a VERY slow day off for me. I did get the chance to do my standard early morning run to the local branch of the Bentonville behemoth. Plus, there was a great dinner at Red Lobster (well before Wally-world). Topping it off with the "Warm Chocolate Chip Lava Cookie" made dinner wonderful.....

I just read that one of the bands (backandtotheleft) from the Metropolis Records label called it quits. They were working on a new album prior to dissolving. The songs they had been working on are available for download via their MySpace page....

Speaking of things musical...

The latest issue of Improvijazzation Nation is up in the aether! Check it out!

One nifty thing I found at the Wally-world was Sarah Brightman's latest album Symphony. I looked last week but only skimmed the racks. I looked a little closer this morning and was somewhat surprised to find it....



I have to listen to this CD some more to figure out my faves and such but it seems good so far!