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At quarter of seven (while I was safely snuggled under the covers) I heard a truck pick up my recyclables. I am the man! Er, the woman! When I hopped out of bed a little later, I glanced out the window and saw at least two houses that didn’t have their rubbish out. Hmmmmm. (tee hee!) And that truck was early because I assume it was just flying around on its route without needing to do too much stopping.

But by 8:45, when I added a little more to my barrel and dragged up the recycle bin, I saw at least 3 houses now had barrels or bags out. So either they heard the truck this morning or they saw my empty recycle bin on the side of the road. There. At least I didn’t screw up. Today. I can’t vouch for tomorrow.

I realized that today is Sunday and tomorrow is Monday, which means I needed to do trash. I was not a happy camper, as it’s pouring rain and dark out. I crossed my fingers that it’s a trash holiday, but according to the piece of paper with the trash calendar on it, no such luck. So I grabbed the recyclables (cause, you know, it’s my luck that it’s not just a simple trash night, it’s both) and the trash and went out to deal with it all. Ah, lovely wet weather we’re having today. So I drag the barrel to the end of the drive while pushing the recycle bin with my foot, and I look around – nobody else in sight has their’s out yet.

That means they are looking at each other’s drive, and saying “Well, if XYZ doesn’t have it out, I won’t put mine out.” And they’ll see mine out and laugh at me. But when they have to store their trash for a whole extra week, who will be laughing? This happened in this neighborhood before, for the record. The trash guys just flew through the neighborhood driving past all the houses, and they made an assumption about Chez Dump. I took great pleasure in watching them have to back up when they realized the we were on the ball. Maybe after tomorrow I will be the unofficial “house to watch”. That’d be cool. I actually watch a house up the street sort of across from our road. An older couple lives there and they are always right on target with holidays, and whether or not it’s recycle day. Well HE didn’t have his out. But maybe it was in a dark back and I just couldn’t see it. I just feel confident that I’m right about this. Wish me luck.

Moving around some of my regular links. I may play with some other stuff too, now that this is a .php page. Maybe I should finish the “learn PHP in 24 Hours” book I still haven’t finished.

Also, what smells? I need to do some investigation, because something over here where I’m sitting smells like sour milk. Because Junior will be 5 in January, I know it’s not spit-up on my shirt.

My team is in 4th place, and that’s really only because everyone else had a bad week last week. Looking at my competition, I’d say we’re pretty evenly matched this week.

I think the base of knowlege I’m missing is to look at a player, and the real-life opponent of the play and say “well, this QB does poorly when they play team X so maybe I’ll put in my backup QB.” Either that or too much thought will put me in the toilet for my second fantasy league this year.

Okay, last night Junior and I rented Toy Story 2 for the Playstation. After our delightful experience playing Spiro 3: The Year of the Dragon all week. Spyro was the first game that Junior and I actually sat down to play together (by that I mean taking turns with the controller, and pointing each other to stuff to check out; it’s only a 1-player game).

Toy Story 2’s graphics aren’t that great…in fact I keep seeing flaws in the graphics (places where you can see things that you shouldn’t see…flickering, etc.). But the worst part (given that when you rent from Blockbuster you don’t get the little booklet) was just not being able to figure out how to do stuff. And when we think we’ve figured it out, it’s just wayyyy too hard for either of us to do it. I mean, I can’t win the race against RC. Now you don’t get a 2nd chance to race against him like you do in Spyro. He goes into an endless spin. Do you mean to tell me that I have to restart the game for a 2nd chance? Ridiculous. I’m glad I only rented it instead of buying it.