minutiae-extremely small details
Kevin was supposed to come to town today. Unfortunately, instead of flying to Houston, he spent almost hte entire day on a plane waiting to take off in Bay City. In fact, in the amount of time he was on the tarmac he could have driven to Detroit (and back several times) to make the connection. So our cousin hasn't made it to town yet.
I really wanted to go out tonight (my plans are always stifled before I even get around to making them) but instead wound up playing Trivial Pursuit with my parents. Mom got her six pie slices in the first 50 minutes and Dad kept getting mad because the new TP questions aren't nearly as good as the ones from the 70s. Anyway, the game went very quickly in the beginning but then for hours nothing happened except for a series of questions involving George Steinbrenner (and some oddly connected ones involving him and Reggie Jackson). The game wound up as a draw after 2 and a half hours of play. It was ridiculous. Seriously. Mom should have had this tied up in an hour, if not sooner. But Noooo...she had to spend over an hour and a half circling thecenter, I was there for over an hour, and Dad...well, he's really bad at remembering names.
I saw Charlie Wilson's War today and enjoyed it thoroughly.
Listening through The Brit Box (I hope this is just an epiphanic misstep for Rhino rather than a harbringer for things to come) has turned me to listening to Blur tonight. I don't know why I'm mentioning this except that it fits in with the theme of triviality.
The friend density application on fbook is pretty cool. It's not as interesting as the clustrmap on my LJ profile though, though the new version of that has gotten lame since it started. See now, I got it on July 29 2006 and the map was cleared and started anew after a year. The new one has very few dots on it--they appear to be Houston, Ft. Worth, Conway, LR, something in Kansas or Oklahoma and a new one between Talahassee and Gainsville. I don't know who some of these people are. The old one was doing much better--hits all over America (over 100 in Arkansas) with other hits in Canada, UK, France, and Australia (inexplicably, somebody in every city on the Boomerang Coast read my LJ). Apparently this decline in LJ that I've noticed through the lack of people posting (seriously folks, what are you blogging your lives on now? tell me so I can join) was officiated when Wired labeled LJ as "expired" in its new issue.
I really wanted to go out tonight (my plans are always stifled before I even get around to making them) but instead wound up playing Trivial Pursuit with my parents. Mom got her six pie slices in the first 50 minutes and Dad kept getting mad because the new TP questions aren't nearly as good as the ones from the 70s. Anyway, the game went very quickly in the beginning but then for hours nothing happened except for a series of questions involving George Steinbrenner (and some oddly connected ones involving him and Reggie Jackson). The game wound up as a draw after 2 and a half hours of play. It was ridiculous. Seriously. Mom should have had this tied up in an hour, if not sooner. But Noooo...she had to spend over an hour and a half circling thecenter, I was there for over an hour, and Dad...well, he's really bad at remembering names.
I saw Charlie Wilson's War today and enjoyed it thoroughly.
Listening through The Brit Box (I hope this is just an epiphanic misstep for Rhino rather than a harbringer for things to come) has turned me to listening to Blur tonight. I don't know why I'm mentioning this except that it fits in with the theme of triviality.
The friend density application on fbook is pretty cool. It's not as interesting as the clustrmap on my LJ profile though, though the new version of that has gotten lame since it started. See now, I got it on July 29 2006 and the map was cleared and started anew after a year. The new one has very few dots on it--they appear to be Houston, Ft. Worth, Conway, LR, something in Kansas or Oklahoma and a new one between Talahassee and Gainsville. I don't know who some of these people are. The old one was doing much better--hits all over America (over 100 in Arkansas) with other hits in Canada, UK, France, and Australia (inexplicably, somebody in every city on the Boomerang Coast read my LJ). Apparently this decline in LJ that I've noticed through the lack of people posting (seriously folks, what are you blogging your lives on now? tell me so I can join) was officiated when Wired labeled LJ as "expired" in its new issue.