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Okay, I just saw a sign for the new specialty license plates. To hell with the Cape and the Islands one, or even the one we used to have with the kiddie drawings on it.

Now I can get one with a smiley face! I am SO going to save up for this!

All you have to do is fill out an application – when the organization has enough, they’ll give them to the RMV to begin production. They think they’ll have enough by this fall, but I’m guessing they’ll have enough by mid-summer. Who doesn’t want a smiley face plate? Visit Embrace the FACE for info and the forms.

Man, what would we do without coffee? I remember back when I didn’t like the taste of it…but when did I cross that line from not liking it to liking it? I know I didn’t drink it in college, I was more of a Diet Coke kind of person. I actually wasn’t a caffeine fan. So at some point after college I must have started liking it. I know that my first job after graduation we had a Mr. Coffee machine and regular Creamora. This was a 2-person operation, so nothing fancy for us, like, say, real cream, and they hadn’t yet invented Creamora Royale, which is actually very good.

While I think about that, I’ll give you a beverage review for what I have in front of me right now. It’s NectarFizz by Nantucket Nectars. I’m drinking the blackberry fizz, because when in doubt, buy the purple one. So it’s 10% real fruit juice, lightly carbonated, with 100% vitamin C. And it’s pretty tasty. Actually, it’s very similar to that other fizzy juice/soda, Clearly Canadian. I don’t think you could tell them apart in a taste test unless you were a HUGE fan of one or the other. Hey, I just like supporting the Juice Guys; if I can buy from a Massachusetts company, I will.

I not only barbecued a steak for dinner, we ate outside. It probably would be better to eat lunch outside, given that once the sun was going down it dropped at least 10 or 15 degrees in half an hour. But it doesn’t matter – we ate outside and it was heavenly. Blue blue blue skies, the color you never get in the summer because of the damned smog and humidity. The back yard has dried up a lot in the past two days, so Junior got to run around for a while. Oh, and today we went with my parent’s to buy his (belated) birthday present – a new bike. We needed to upgrade him from his original 12 in bike to a 16 inch. He ended up with a red Huffy from WalMart. Maybe he’ll be more into it this year, but last year he wasn’t much into riding his bike, so we certainly weren’t going to pay a lot of money for a lot of bells and whistles. Plenty of time for that with his next bike, anyway. At five, we’re just going to work on getting the training wheels off.

Junior wanted to watch Batman: The Movie. You know, the GOOD one. Who am I to deny him Adam West?

Something just occured to me for the first time. See, Bruce and Dick are out for a Sunday drive and they race back to Stately Wayne Manor. Their aunt is out front in the flower beds and they wave as they run in to take the poles down to the Bat Cave. It occurred to me for the first time – what if Aunt Harriet wants to come in the house and ask Bruce a question…she won’t be able to find him. Wouldn’t she get worried if she saw him go in the house and he disappeared? I don’t care how big their house is, you would eventually wonder why two people who are home aren’t “home”.

Something to think about, anyway.

We took an Animal Crossing break (well, *I* didn’t want to, but hey, you know how it is) and went back to playing Ty the Tasmanian Tiger again. You know, sometimes you just need a break once in a while to open up your eyes. That and cheat codes.

Okay, yes, we did a cheat code, but it only helped to a certain extent. We couldn’t figure out how to finish up the Ship Rex level. Four of us all had turns. I finally looked in the water and noticed a tunnel. Duh. I can’t tell you how much effort we put in to trying to climb OVER the rocks (unsuccessfully) when we really needed to go UNDER the rocks. So the Ship Rex level was the first one that we officially “finished”. Nothing left to get at that level, and it let us get the fire boomerangs. Did I mention that I love talking about games like this because out of context it just looks surreal to say things like “get the fire boomerangs.” If I haven’t plugged it before, go buy that game. It’s only $20, and everyone who’s ever played it on our GameCube has raved about it. So go. Enjoy.