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I just finished reading Harry Potter!!! …

Well. I read the last page of the last book….

I haven’t read ANY Harry Potter before. … But now I’ve read the LAST page of the LAST book.

I feel like I can skip all the other books now.

Whew. That’s a relief.

Wanna know what the last word is?

Saying “Thank You” is, sometimes, not easy to do. Cathy and I recently got married. We received wedding gifts. We love them. Heck, we asked for them. So, we should tell the people who sent gifts that we are thankful that they sent them. That means we need to send “Thank You” cards to those people. But here’s the thing…

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While Cathy and I were going through our 48 hour marathon of West Wings (during my recuperation) she mentioned that there were only so many shows you could watch in this way. All day. Here are mine in no particular order.

• The West Wing
• LOST
• Red Dwarf
• Mr. Bean
• Young Ones
• Monty Python’s Flying Circus
• Blackadder
• Sports Night
• Doctor Who
• Mystery Science Theater 3000
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

When, exactly, does it go from twisting an ankle to a sprain? What are the qualifications?

Anyone?

I got tagged by Jenni and I normally don’t do these “tag” memes but I figured out a good #1 so I thought I’d go through with it.

1. Despite the title of this post. I HATED the movie Se7en…. Sorry Cath. You’re never gonna be able to convince me that the time I lost watching that film will ever be returned to me in a positive way.
2. I work too hard… got that from my dad. no offense, pop. but I’m getting better and my boss is very respectful of the change from 12-14 hour workdays (at times… as a single man) to my now more “normal” 8-10 hour days (as a soon-to-be-wedded-man). I just love what I do.
3. I religiously try to use my turn signal and despise (seriously) people when they don’t…. It’s a matter of courtesy people. I’ll let you in, if I haven’t previously seen you driving like a dick (definition varies according to my mood). And being in a designated turn lane does NOT give you a pass because “it’s obvious”.
4. (hoping I don’t get busted by the RIAA for this…) I have over 3000 live concerts downloaded… Yeah, I’m addicted to music. I’ve listened to EVERY one of them (that aren’t currently in my queue). Storage isn’t too much of a problem. Prolly over 100 dvds and over a terabyte of hard drive space filling up quickly. MANY of them are legal boots. And I’ll NEVER take money but WILL freely give.
5. I moved to California, Christmas 1998, with the idea of creating a social-networking website almost exactly like MySpace, Facebook, etc…. I’m horrible at keeping in touch with old friends. I think about them a lot and wish I was stronger at emailing/calling/pony expressing them and figured an easy-to-update website that allowed you to group friends together into a universally visible “what I’m doing now” sort of thing would be perfect. I lost out on MILLIONS of dollars there. [sigh] I even had a napkin that I made notes on when I was in Minnesota sitting with my friends Monika, Lisa and their husbands, just before moving out here. Miss you guys.
6. I’m getting married… nuff said.
7. I love sports. But maybe not sports you might think of at first. Among my top sports, in no particular order, are… The Scripps National Spelling Bee, The America’s Cup, The Westminster Dog Show (and actually all dog-related shows/sports, including Stupid Pet Tricks), darts, aussie rules football, curling, dodgeball, and last but not least, billiards (in all it’s manifestations)

I started this before I got married so that’s why I had to strikeout the premarraige comments.

Overheard during the Nathan’s Famous International July 4th Hot Dog Eating Contest.

“You Google ‘Hero’ tomorrow, ‘American hero,’ you’re gonna get Abe Lincoln, possibly Neil Armstrong, Taylor Hicks, and then this man, of course, Joey Chestnut*.

Yeah, those are MY American heroes. Oh, and William Katt

and then a little later this lovely “chestnut” as well (heh)…

“This would be the greatest moment in the history of American sports if Chestnut could bring the belt home to Coney Island, it’s been gone for nine years.”

and I think I’ll sleep a little better tonight knowing our country is a little better off …

“Unbelievable valor from that man Joey Chestnut. He may indeed have changed the course of this nation. Righted the course of our nation. Chestnut is a true American hero”

I still think William Katt could kick his ass. If he could ever figure out how to fly in a straight line.

Oh, and Happy Fourth of July!

* Joey Chestnut is a Civil Engineering major from San Jose State University. So let’s hear it for the local boy. Woo hoo!!

PS - Thanx WIFE for stealing my thunder. 

Wish we were back there.

Okay. I’ll talk about getting married. Jeez. Like a guy doesn’t have other things to do.
This is my wife.

and these are her boobs.

I’m coming out of blog hiatus to post about this important bill recently passed in Virginia. It relates to my biggest pet peeve about driving. People who don’t use their signal.

Didn’t use your turn signal? That’ll be $1,050, please!

Now, if only every state decided to use this. The world would be a better place.

PLEASE USE YOUR SIGNAL!!!!