dodgeball

Not sure how many have seen the movie "Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story". It's one of my new favorites, and I'm not really sure why. It makes me laugh - and who doesn't love Ben Stiller as a pumped up weirdo. It's greatly amusing to me...

other people's lives

In looking at a former academy friend's blog, I found a link to http://www.dooce.com/. He titles it "Really funny. Really well written. Really good pictures. Really... good."

I would tend to agree. Here's one of her posts that I found just outrageous, but somehow oddly amusing at the same time. http://www.dooce.com/archives/daily/01_05_2005.html

library

Our public library has 6 locations throughout town. We have a county library too, that has 10 locations throughout the area. The county library closest to our house is kind of small, and more for reserving and picking up, rather than perusing for hours and finding all sorts of stuff. The public library closest to our house is larger, and has more of a selection. After finding them, we began going there just about every Friday (our day off). We'd collect movies for the weekend, and magazines, books, etc. It's great.

Until last Friday when we went in, and they told us they had new hours for 2005. So here's their hours: T 12pm to 8pm Th, Sa 10am to 6pm Su, M, W, F Closed. Looks like we've lost our weekly Friday visit to the library.

Granted, we can visit other branches, but they're not as close. And the county library is ok, you just have to figure out what you want, reserve it and get it to our branch for pick up. And then you have to wait until 1:00pm when they open. I'd not mind going to the public library downtown main branch, but you have to pay for parking there, or walk over a mile to park in free areas.

I'm a bit bummed about this. I'm not sure why they decided to change their hours and days (probably financial reasons) but I think this may come back to bite them.

The pig

Something we found very amusing from Spokane's Spokesman Review, InLife section, The Slice article, Tuesday, January 4, 2005:

Contest time: "My son's family is into charades," wrote Judy McKeehan. "Margaux, 5, got the subject of 'chopping wood'. As soon as she began making chopping motions, Nicole, 2, shouted out, 'Whipping the pig!'

"They all wondered, what pig? What whip? (They live in suburban Cleveland.)

"Needless to say, 'Whipping the pig' became a default guess anytime someone was stumped."

come on, snow!

Hooray for us! It started snowing yesterday afternoon, around 2p or something, and didn't stop until sometime last night after 11p. We have 4 inches or more, with 3-5" more expected to come along tonight. Granted, this doesn't even come close to the 30" Reno has, but it's still snow, and it's still white outside, and we have icicles, and it's just so cool!

I say, "come on, snow!"