CNN.com - Rehnquist silences retirement speculation - Jul 14, 2005

3 more years! 3 more years!


We can but hope.

Ok, so I headed out after work today to try to find a comic book store. I had gotten directions to one from the internet and I mailed them to my phone. Unfortunately, I left off the mileages so once I hit the last place I had no clue how far down it was or whatever. Consequently, I came home without going to a comic book store since I could not find it.

Tune in tomorrow when I try to find it *again* during lunch.

gah...

I'm working on something for work and it's not working. (let me throw work in there a few more times)

Anyways, what I've got is fine for what I need...but I'm trying to be slick and make it a little nicer and it's just not happening.

Should I throw in the towel and call it? Or should I keep plugging away?

Decisions, decisions...

GateWorld | Your Complete Guide to Stargate!

Both Court and I are really looking forward to tomorrow's season premieres of SG-1 and Atlantis. After the demise of Enterprise :( it's nice to be able to look forward to some good scifi TV. Also, Monk has started back up so we're watching and enjoying that too.

This season Stargate is moving away from Egyptian mythology and moving more towards Arthurian/Medieval type stuff. Looks very interesting. They've also added a new team member...Ben Browder who used to be on Farscape. I've never watched Farscape but I know some people who have and they've enjoyed him.

Anyways, we're going to order up some $5 Little Cesar's and have a good time.

(I'm also looking forward to Battlestar, but Court doesn't watch that...yet!)

I've gotten my cat addicted to dog treats.

It could be worse. He could be addicted to starbursts.

The Superficial - Rob Thomas is offended: "'If I were gay,' says Rob, 'Tom wouldn't be on the top of my list. It would be Brad Pitt. I'm more offended by the rumours saying I'm Scientologist.'"

I've only heard about 3-4 things Rob Thomas has ever said...but they've all been funny as hell.

Ok.

Please keep in mind, anonymous posters, that nothing makes me happier in life than the false sense of power I get when I delete comments from people who're being nasty or making racist comments.

Yes, Michelle called people losers...directed to the person (or persons) that has made multiple racist comments on my posts.

If anybody wants to slam on somebody, slam on me. I don't care, really. Particularly when it's either from somebody I don't know or somebody I do know that's not identifying himself (or herself...) for some reason or another.

Everybody is free to come here and comment. I try to make the posts interesting but mostly they're random thoughts I have and stuff I want to talk about.

Let's direct the comments to the posts (or at me, personally) and not to other posters.

Channel 2 sees future in expanding Web site: "*'This Old Cub,' the 2004 documentary about Cubs third-baseman and broadcaster Ron Santo, will air for the first time at 7 p.m. Saturday on WGN-Channel 9. The film, narrated by actor Joe Mantegna, was written, produced and directed by Santo's son, Jeff."

Give it a look if you have the time.

From Sunday night to Thursday night I get about 4-5 hours of sleep a night. Now, this is no one's fault but my own. Ever since I was in college (actually, before that) I just haven't been able to go to bed before 1am or so. Sometimes I start reading around 1am and stay that way for hours. Sometimes I eventually drift off in my chair with my glasses on and my book in my lap. I usually make up for the sleep-loss by sleeping in big time on the weekends, but sometimes I have to get up early for one reason or another.

On Sunday we got up around 9am for the Cubs/Marlins game...and I didn't exactly get to bed early the night before. During the weeks where I don't catch up on my sleep during the weekend there's usually one night a week where I have to go to bed early--like before 11pm--or I'll start hallucinating or something. As I fell asleep watching the beginning of the All-Star game, it seems tonight will be that night.

Press Briefing by Scott McClellan

Wow. Way to go press corps!

ESPN.com - ETICKET - Searching for Bartman

I'll let it speak for itself.

Needless to say we are back in FL. The drive home was abyssmal. Lots of traffic and two accident--one pretty serious--slowed us down two hours from our trip up. Keep in mind please, a drive from FL to IL (and back) gets old after about 45 minutes.

Court started driving in both cases and then got tired so I took over and drove most of the way on both trips. Hooper was tired as hell on the way back and slept on the passenger's lap the entire time. We probably should have done it that way on the drive up as well.

We got in at 3:30am Saturday morning and both slept until around noon. We saw 'Fantastic Four' that afternoon after unpacking. More on that later.

We went to the Cub game (more damn driving) on Saturday and saw the Cubs beat the Marlins 9-2. Why the Cubs couldn't have won the last damn game I saw them play before this in Florida I don't know.

I did get a mini-bat, putting my collection of mini-bats at 4. I've bought mini-bats at Pac-Bell (Giants), Bank One Ballpark (Diamondbacks), SkyDome (Blue Jays), and now Pro Player Stadium (Marlins). I'm going to make it a mini-goal to collect bats from different baseball stadiums I visit. On the horizon is a trip to Tropicana Field to see the Devil Rays...and possibly a day in/game/out flight to Atlanta in August or September.

Everybody's got to have a hobby.

I've just decided the next TV we get will be a DLP projector and screen.

There. I've said it.

I just gave Boots a pupperonni. Hopefully they're not made from ground up cats or anything.

Britain launches search for bombers.

Britain is our greatest ally, and an attack on them might as well be an attack on us.

In a way, yesterday and today have been what Warren Harding might call 'a return to normalcy' for me. I went into the office for work. I have to say, it's very nice to be back in the 'real world' career-wise. I have always missed my friends, but something about the simple task of driving into work, getting settled, and getting to work really made me feel 'normal' for the first time in a long time.

Though I've recently been assured to the contrary by the boss, I sometimes feel like less of a 'worker' when I work from home, or that I'm really just getting away with something, I guess. I don't know. I'm happy they're happy with my work, of course. Of course I'm happy that I wasn't told that I couldn't work from home under the last regime change as well. It has just always felt a little weird. I sometimes think that other people think I have a pretty easy job because I work at home...not that I particularly care what anybody thinks.

In any case, I am excited about what the future holds in terms of returning to IL. These last few days have been nice. We've had a good time visiting with everyone and seeing Tom off to start his journey towards serving our country overseas. Best of luck to him and God bless him for it.

In terms of things here--though I've seen that some things will not be exactly how they were before I left I am still excited. Maybe some things will go back to the way they were before. Maybe the things that don't aren't meant to anyway. Such is life. That's why they play the games, right? To see what happens.

CNN.com - Storm Cindy�tiring as Dennis rallies in Caribbean - Jul 6, 2005: "The models disagree, however on where it finally will make landfall -- anywhere from New Orleans to Tampa, Florida."

Ah, Florida. I can't leave you soon enough.

CNN.com - Bush tightlipped about high court candidates - Jul 5, 2005: "But he has said he won't have a 'litmus test' for judges on that or other issues."

Boy, I miss the days when the only time I saw 'litmus test' was when I had to find whether something was acid or base.

Visited with family today and had a very nice time.

In the 'I feel old now' department, I wore my 'Classicly Trained' shirt with the original Nintendo controller on it...only to have my second cousin's young son ask me..."Is that a radio?".

Oh course, he's got a PS2. But oh man.

With this I happened I noticed just how few of the Justices that were on the court when I originally learned the make-up (for school) are still there. Some have retired (Day O'connor, now) or died (William Brennan, Warren Burger, Thurgood Marshall) but some are still around, like William Rehnquist and Antonin Scalia (who replaced Burger).

Of course, this is a big political matter, as she will be replaced by President Bush. Also, I have to believe Rehnquist himself (80 years old) will be retiring soon. These are big political matters because the court can make pretty big decisions regarding our country. President Bush will have the opportunity to greatly effect the future of this naiton, for good or ill.

(of course, his pick will have to be confirmed in any case)