False Idols

American Idol has run its course. These wanna-be stars are mediocre at best this season. Thank God I've been doing my bills while its on the television or I would be bored to death. I need to find some new shows to watch next year. My time is more valuable than this.

Rainy Days and Sundays

I was going to have a rainy day Sunday with nothing to do but get caught up on everything I had to do during the day so I could have the night to myself. No such luck. My son called to ask for a ride to the house from his apartment in Boston so he could come home to do his laundry. Storrow was a nightmare so it took forever, but I would still be able to get most of my work done early. That is until my wife called to say my parents dropped by for a surprise visit. Did my mother really wear those sweatpants to the wake they just came from? Okay another pleasant obstacle but after dinner I would still have just enough time to do my work. That is until everyone decided to go to Chili's for dinner. After the six of us fitting snugly in a table for four, the car broke down in the parking lot. AAA jumped me and the car died again after they left. A wrench and a coke from Home Depot saved the day. Dead batteries and chicken wings to go (or not to go, that is the question). I can't wait for tomorrow.

HD TV BLOWS

What do you do when the lamp bulb of your big HD Hitachi TV blows? I guess I'll be finishing that new Stephen King book after all. This really sucks as my extended warranty just expired and of course I didn't see the need to renew it. Damn it.
Now I gotta go through the hassle of finding a service center, set up a repair man to come to the house and install the new bulb in the TV and all that crap. Aaarrggh.

Walk Hard

I just saw Walk Hard, the movie with John C. Reilly based on Johhny Cash and every other country singer's life. It was very, very funny. Some slow parts but mostly really funny. I have a feeling it's going to be funnier the second time around.

Laptop Attachment

I am now permanently attached to my laptop computer. I can't even watch TV without typing (not that I'm missing anything). I'm supposed to be working on my bowling league team average sheets, my story for this week's newspaper and a cartoon idea for this week's paper. But instead I am going to bed. I'll have to think of some ideas while I sleep.

Cat Scratch Fever

At six a.m. as I lay in bed waiting to hear the morning news on the radio, the cat decided to use my face as a springboard to leap across the bed, digging into my face and lip with her back claws. After rushing to the bathroom to rinse my bleeding face with hot water, soap, neosporin and Listerine, I thought to myself, I love my cat.

Roller Coaster

Wow. Things have been moving fast. February and March were a blur and now it's the end of April. I need to type here every night just as a lesson in discipline. It's gonna be tough, but I'm going to see how many nights in a row I can do it without missing one. Starting now. Go!