I was glad for Ladies' Night yesterday. My first time to go in more than 2 months, it was good to go eat a Paris, Texas platter of migas and french toast. And chocolate coffee! My how I've missed that. Of course, it wasn't all about the food. I enjoyed my girlfriends, too.

I watched the first five episodes of Roswell on Hulu over the past few days ( Read more... )

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I don't do it.  Hardly anybody does.

But TV does.  For that matter, most fiction does.  It can't be otherwise.  For a story to be told and resolved in such a short amount of time requires one immediate, pressing crisis to come after another.

Everything presses in on everybody, demanding attention, requiring immediate action. Characters make ( Read more... )

Last year, at the recommendation of Steve and others, I got addicted to the TV show Heroes.  The first season rocked, the second season kinda fumbled a bit by following a similar story arc to their successful first season.  What worked in the first season -- having people discover their powers and all learn about their interconnectedness -- flopped ( Read more... )

Last night Elise & Matt dropped by for a visit on their way home from Corpus Christi.  We ate take out Mexican food and talked for roughly an hour and a half, then the too-short visit ended when they hopped in the car to keep heading home.  I lost track of how many times we exchanged yawns during the course of the evening.  We were all quite tired.

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I lost my temper too many times today to count.  Not a good day.  Perhaps my lack of control pushed Isaac towards madness, too.  He kept testing every boundary, over and over.  Not very pleasant.

But, in the wasted time I sought to sooth my soul apart from God and prayer, I stumbled across a clip of Tiny Toons animating the They Might Be Giants song ( Read more... )

The house is empty except for Isaac and I.   Killing time reading favorite blogs and the links they provide gives me lots of food for thought.  Like this essay in Harper's ( Read more... )