Ever since King Kong, I’ve had a soft spot for Jack Black, and his work on the cartoon episodes of King Fu Panda have only improved my opinion of him. Now he’s back with Kyle Gass, and a new Tenacious D album,
I like it so far. A good mix of rock and comedy, quickly witted yet still full of authentic growling guitars.
Yesterday when I got home from the doc, found the cat had made a little mess by the litter box, and missed it entirely with a pee. After I cleaned everything up, I put the drip pan from the old clothes washer under the litter box, as an extra insurance policy.
This morning, on my way to work, I noticed the cat hadn’t used the box at all since. No pee or poo for over 12 hours.
Hrm.
UPDATE: Litter box is still untouched, but twist isn’t acting especially unhappy.
Culian Jope – An all-Julian-Cope-covers band. I’ll need a drummer, guitarist, bass player, and a real keyboarder. My simplistic tinklings would never do for playing out, and hopefully I’ll be busy as lead singer, naked in a tortoise shell.
Ok, we’ll do at least one Eurythmics cover too. And a Rolf Harris.
The housecalling vet came by and saw Twist today. He was already kinda skittish after being stepped on by a visitor last night, and people with needles didn’t help much; now he’s hiding under my bed. On the plus side, other than his blood pressure and fast breathing, likely from nervousness, they gave him a clean bill of health, contingent on the blood work results.
She did recommend I switch from the current mix of wet/dry food, to a wet-only diet, to prevent diabetes. I’m willing to give it a shot, though I dunno what I’ll do with the 20 pounds of left over dry food; I don’t think a shelter will take an open bag of food. Maybe they will.
Not being super experienced with wine, I’ve never actually had a bottle where the cork went bad on me, but I’ve heard of the concept. And today, I found out it can happen with a screw-top. The banding was still sealed, but the screw-top didn’t match up with the threads, and just spun round and round. There was no visible sign of leakage, but there seemed to be an awful lot of play for an ‘unopened’ bottle. I moved on to the next bottle, and it seems OK.
While I was busy playing with Lego, one pair of friends was having a grandchild, and a co-worker was having his child as well.
It’s hard, sitting on the shore, watching the rescue boat leave you behind, in favor of someone a bit more up beat. They don’t even bother with a polite lie of “we’ll be back for you next”.
Better no hope than false hope?
Built 2 small
Watched Captain America, The Green Lantern, Cowboys & Aliens, and the final Harry Potter.
Re-watched Down Periscope, hi there Patton Oswalt, being all quiet and background-y.
Cowboys and Aliens was an OK movie, probably a good flick for the big screen, just an OK flick for a home theater of less than heroic proportions. Plot holes the size of a bus, character’s whose primary motivations change on whims, and lots of stuff blown up real good. And grit, lots of grit. Sometimes I thought Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford were having a squinting contest.
Captain America was similarly engaging entertainment, fun in the moment, but nothing that will stick with me, beyond a vague sense of contented satiety.
The final Harry Potter, I will need to rewatch more than once, while not primarily occupied with Lego construction. It seemed to tie everything together, killing off characters left and right, while leaving some unscathed for the final epilogue scene, I’m sure satisfying in it’s mundane suburban fantasy to most fans, but for someone without the path of kids and family before them, it seems childish and hollow. Which is probably a good thing.
The Green Lantern was the least engaging of the weekend’s entertainments, with the oddly reminiscent of the second new Hulk film’s disfigured scientist sub-plot. Like many super-hero films, without a proper grounding in the mythos, too much of the film comes across as contrived and artificial. And the you-know-they-won’t-make-a-sequel-now, kiss of death, setup for the next crisis ending. I’m still waiting for the second Flash Gordon film; by the time they get to covering who picked up Ming’s ring, we might have the technology to bring back Freddie Mercury for the soundtrack album.
Yesterday, looking through my budget, I’m seeing a very tight future without some sort of income boost, or cost cutting measures.
Today, my team lead announces she is moving out of state and will be a remote employee, giving up some of her current responsibilities. I of course am filled with the likely naive hope that whomever ends up with said responsibilities will end up with a commensurate bump in income, and said someone will be me. I guess I should figure out what kind of baked goods the managers in charge of deciding what happens next, likes. =)
I’ve started work on the LEGO Taj Mahal
UPDATE: As suspected, it’s more a matter of finding pieces, than actually missing. At least, I hope so, I’m down to only one missing pieces, but it’s unique, so I figure I may not be able to find it until the unused pile gets much smaller. I completed six elements (minus the one piece, but it’s in a facade area I should be able to fix once I find Mr. AWOL Tan 8×2, without major reconstruction), and assembled them into the base courtyard area.
This morning I got 85% of 4 minarets done, before I came into work. So far, twist has been good about leaving the parts alone; will have to monitor him today remotely, see if he stays good =p
Pics coming soon.