Month: June 2004

So the current Happy Meal prize is a Neopet. I bought Junior a plush one for Christmas, and we also had some little plastic ones from last year. Then friend of the dump sent me over to the Neopets Site where you can play games and stuff for free. Free. No real ads either. I have no idea how they are doing it, but can I *tell* you how much fun I’m having. Of course, it’s a big time suck, but I’m still having fun so there!

Swing by, pick out a neopet, and then play some games! You’ll hate me in the morning!

Finally replaced Old Shivvers last night. He was about 9 years old, and was loud, didn’t work all that well, and was loud. We have an open floorplan on the first floor so we need a bigger air conditioner to cover the whole area. Back when we bought him we didn’t have a lot of cash so he definitely wasn’t top of the line by any stretch of the imagination.

I got a Kenmore last night that has a timer on it, so I can set it to start up about an hour before we get home. You cannot begin to imagine how great a feature this is. With the old one, if we wanted to have the house cool when we got home, we had to leave it on all day. This was a total waste of electricity.

And it’s quiet. That alone is worth the [sale] price. So today we’re expecting 93, and when I get home tonight…it won’t be an oven!

I’m already hungry. That can’t be good. I hope I didn’t get spoiled with all the grazing I did over the weekend.

Actually, I weighed myself this morning and there was no change from before I left. Does weight gain show up right away after you pig out?

It was a very lightning weekend for me. I hate lightning, so you have to know it was stressful. Especially when I was driving in it.

Last night we were watching some heat lightning in this big cloud – we couldn’t hear any thunder with it – that eventually starting actually arcing to the ground. Forgive my lack of meteorological terminology.

Anyway, I shot a bunch of movies with my digital camera (NOT my video camera) through the screens. If you download the movie to look at it (just over a 2 meg download in .wmv format) the clouds sort of appear to be undulating. They weren’t doing that, shooting through the screen added the effect. Also, what you are seeing is me editing the best stuff from about 100meg of video into one clip. It was a pretty light show, but not that intensive.

It was 95 and sunny there, and I had a convertible to cruise around in, and I spend two days in my friend’s pool. When my plane landed, it was 59 and rainy here. I’m just so happy to be back.

Oh, here’s my toe. I did this on the edge of the pool.

If you know anybody who, for whatever reason, is looking for a road work detail complete with big trucks and cops directing traffic, I highly recommend the route from Leominster up through Towsend and Brookline NH to Nashua. At least 10 different spots of construction.

But I got here and all is good. Wave to me…I’ll be up in the sky in about 20 minutes.