Eight Things

It’s a meme, thanks to Candace.

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1. We have to post these rules beore we give you the facts.

2. Players start with eight random facts/habits about themselves.

3. People who are tagged need to write on their own blog about their eight things and post these rules.

4. At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.

Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.
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Here are eight random facts about me. I’m including some that some of you know, because some of you don’t know them.

1. I once made a pumpkin pie from scratch, meaning, from taking a whole pumpkin and cutting it up and baking it and scraping the pumpkin stuff out instead of using canned pumpkin — and I don’t even like pumpkin pie.

2. I am the only person in the history of the Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting who was a finalist twice with two different scripts, and won.

3. An early version of the script that won once had Sissy Spacek, Gary Oldman and Alfred Molina attached with Melanie Mayron to direct, and still didn’t get produced. Sigh.

4. If someone has a few million to toss our way, we could rectify that error. Ahem.

5. My favorite Cowboys are Harvey Martin (may he R.I.P.) and Michael Irvin.

6. My father was at Dealey Plaza when President Kennedy was shot.

7. I have an older sister.

8. I married my high school sweetheart.

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I don’t know 8 people who would want to be tagged or wouldn’t mind being tagged, so I won’t tag anybody. But if you want to be tagged, please respond here and let me know and then do the meme!

Tagging Nick!

This and That-ing

 

 

First of all, that is the UK cover for the long-awaited Harry Potter finale, and I will have more to say about it later in this entry. But I wanted the pretty picture on top, so, bite me.

Since I am your self-appointed personal trainer (and if I am truly your personal trainer you are in so much trouble) I have found you something else to do besides ride bikes, if you truly insist that riding bikes is not in your near future (ingrate). It is called the C25K and it is a training program to take you from your couch to running a 5K in easy, healthy steps. I don’t know why, but any program that has “couch” as a starting point cracks me up enough to almost make me willing to give it a try.

I thought it couldn’t be done, but spicetalk has blazed a trail in genetically modified fruit that wins my stamp of approval.

I’m glad another slow foodie has joined the blogosphere. She acts as if she hasn’t really started yet but I swear, anybody who makes their own cheese is a slow foodie already, geez. Now, if she’ll just find a source of local organic produce for me that I can buy by the peck or even bushel without taking out a loan to do so….

I tried the Sojourners Coffee this morning and like it, hey I really like it!

I just listened to In the Woods by Tana French and I think the Publishers Weekly review nailed it nicely: Irish author French expertly walks the line between police procedural and psychological thriller in her debut. The relationship between the two detectives, Rob and Cassie, is one of the most fascinating I’ve read in a long, long time.

I knew this would be so, but I liked reading it anyway when Jean Jacques Taylor said, I like Michael. He’s one of my favorite people because the same Irvin you see on TV is the same Irvin you see when you bump into him on the street. He’s one of the most charismatic people you’ll ever meet. He has made some dumb decisions in his personal life, no doubt, but he’s not a bad person. I have a friend who was on his jury pool and she knew nothing about him at all, but had a lot to say about his grace and charisma. I wish she’d blog about that experience someday, mainly because she cracked me up so much talking about it. Ahem, ahem. I think I shall point her to this entry.

I am going to go see Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix today or tonight. I am not sure which. I think I need to make up my mind. But my more pressing Harry-quandary is whether to wait for my UK Edition to arrive before reading, or whether to break down and join the midnight madness at Barnes & Noble and buy the US Edition. The only reason to really do that (besides the fun of midnight madness) is because I don’t trust the world around me not to spoil me if I try and wait for the UK edition. Sigh.

But I know I prefer the UK cover (top) which actually allows Harry to look like he might be 17 to this one, the US:

What do you think?

This is not the post I intended to write.

But every time I tried to write the other post, when the “post entry” page appeared, Safari shut down.

Now for those of you with PCs who wonder what is the main difference between a Mac and a PC, from where I sit this is it. With a PC, the screen would freeze and I’d eventually have to shut down the entire computer and restart.

With a Mac, the program closes. That’s it. You open it and then keep going.

But after doing this numerous times this morning I finally broke down and downloaded Firefox. I’m using it now. How does it compare to Safari? Well, I only know one difference so far.

When I hit “return” for some reason it appears to be more sensitive and is returning twice. How can that be?

Okay, two differences.

It’s letting me post an entry.

Getting there first –

– before Max beats me to it.

Because Max loves posting nudes on her blog.

I just lost all my readers, didn’t I? They’re all over at celluloid blonde looking at nudes.

Damn it.

Well. Here is one that I got to first:

And doesn’t it make a stunning jersey?

(Who am I kidding? She would never post this one. It’s got color.)

Hmm.

So I updated my sidebar to show today’s ride and it doesn’t show up that it has changed. Maybe a wordpress issue?

Anyway, 13.4 green miles today. Woohoo!

Total miles should be 84.0, so this is a note to myself. I’ll check back later and if the new numbers don’t show up, I’ll need to try again. (I’ve already tried twice.)

You may return to your regularly-scheduled ennui.

(Okay, it finally updated, on the fifth attempt.)