Thank you Facebook for all the little nuggets you give me. Today's happy phrase is

"happy happy future sister-in-law".

Gee golly, that just makes me warm and fuzzy inside.

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What Facebook said about me today when taking the quiz "What car are you?"

You’ve done it your way and you know what works and what doesn't. You are tested, tried, and true. You are passionate and practical and can appreciate the finer things in life. You are an athlete at heart, a leader, and a competitor. Where others focus on strength, you focus on agility and durability. While others fall out due to injuries and breakdowns, you keep on going strong. You also keep practicality in mind and try to live you life as balanced as possible . . . of course, the excitement of competition and chasing your passions seem to take lead.

I'm blushing, thanks Facebook :)

So I was walking the dog this evening, and I looked up at the stars. We do this all the time of course. But geez, those stars must be really, really, really big for us to see them. Think about it. The sun isn't all that big in the sky, and it's so close it actually keeps us in orbit. The stars aren't really all that small in the sky, and they are millions of miles away. It's also cool, as the little photons hitting our eyes were spewed from those stars hundreds or thousands of years ago. So we're seeing the universe as it was a long time ago.

Pretty neat.

Yes I'm a nerd.

And now on to something completely different. Shout out to:

1. Otter Lake, Michigan
2. Worcester, Massachusetts
3. Greensboro, North Carolina
4. Dallas, Texas
5. Cine-Med

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Seriously, "Genius" by iTunes is the coolest thing ever. So is Pandora. So are The Killers. So is Radiohead.

This morning's playlist generated from "Lovers In Japan"
lovers in japan/coldplay
chocolate/snow patrol
where are you going/dmb
weird fishes/radiohead
nothing in my way/keane
phantom limb/the shins
city of blinding lights/u2
angel/natasha bedingfield
these hard times/matchbox twenty
now my feet won't touch the ground/coldplay
jumper/third eye blind
leave out all the rest/linkin park
hands open/snow patrol
space between/dmb
here is gone/goo goo dolls
reckoner/radiohead
babylon/david gray
spiralling/keane
world/five for fighting
life in technicolor/coldplay
sometimes you can't make it on your own/u2
take back the city/snow patrol
new slang/the shins
bigger than my body/john mayer
name/goo goo dolls
shiver/coldplay
clarity/john mayer
everybody's changing/keane
i'll be waiting/lenny kravitz
all i want is you/u2
austrailia/the shins
house of cards/radiohead
you're all i have/snow patrol
rainy day/coldplay
ants marching/dmb
why georgia/john mayer
this year's love/david gray
new shoes/paolo nutini
th lovers are losing/keane
sympathy/goo goo dolls
pictures of you/the cure
lost!/coldplay
you and i both/jason mraz
pride/u2
crack the shutters/snow patrol
sweetness/jimmy eat world
the one i love/david gray
15 steps/radiohead
see the world/gomez
a bad dream/keane
love stoned i think she knows/jt
she's so high/tal bachman
strawberry swing/coldplay
open your eyes/snow patrol
no such thing/john mayer
everything you want/vertical horizon
stuck in a moment you can't get out of/u2
please fogive me/david gray
do it/nelly furtado
karma police/radiohead
look what you've done/jet
one headlight/the wallflowers
glass of water/coldplay
bright lights/matchbox twenty
everyday/dmb
other side of the world/kt tunstall
creator/santogold
shut your eyes/snow patrol
bad/u2
breakdown/jack johnson
trust me/the fray
in my place/coldplay
bend and break/keane
how's it going to be/third eye blind
amber/311
3 a.m./matchbox twenty
the heinrich maneuver/interpol
satellite/dmb
life in technicolor ii/coldplay
i will follow/u2
fake plastic trees/radiohead
you could be happy/snow patrol
for reasons unkown/the killers
secret/maroon 5
sleeping lessons/the shins
buddy holly/wheezer
wanna be startin' somethin'/mj
warning sign/coldplay
carry you home/james blunt
walk on/u2
these are the days/10,000 maniacs
all for you/sister hazel
spitting games/snow patrol
in too deep/sum 41
ray of light/madonna
crystal ball/keane
meet virginia/train
daughter/pearl jam
42/coldplay
today/smashing pumpkins

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Had the first grilling event of the spring. Several peeps came over. Menu included bratwurst, hamburger, chicken, salad, baked beans, grilled asparagus, grilled yellow squash, grilled zucchini, wine, beer, margarita, smores. Then it rained, but not for too long. The pool looks good. So does the backyard. I need to do some landscaping, but not too much. Things are continuously blooming. It comes in waves.

Miss Texas looks good. She hopped in the 55 degree pool again today. Quick swim. She got all of her shots, pills, this week. The vet tells me she is doing well. I'm pleased about this.

Phoenix pictures on Facebook.

I love this Netflix thing, cause you can watch movies and such over the internets. Imagine that, I can watch a movie over the internets. My how far we've come. I completed watching all of The Office episodes from the first four seasons. I've since moved on to 30 Rock, which I seriously wanted to take a look at but never found the time. The first several episodes were very smart, as I would expect from Tina Fey. However, the episode "Black Tie" was hysterical. Paul Rubens performed! He had such cute little arms and legs. If I would have been drinking water while watching, I would have spit it out everywhere. That reminds me of a scene in the "Band Trek: The Last Generation" movie I was making with Mike Leffingwell in 8th grade. (That would have been seventeen years ago. SEVENTEEN YEARS AGO!) Anyway, there was a scene where Mike (Playing Captain Smirk), had to spit something out after hearing something appalling. Unfortunately it was food (I think cake), which is quite hard to spit out. So I made him drink water with the cake, which only made it worse. So basically instead of projectile spitting and looking really funny, he vomited a glob of water and cake and looking really gross.

We had a lot of fun in junior high. Good times.

Don Cherry. Need I say more?

I so want that suit.