Well, my horse a splode.
Not much exciting to report from this weekend, just a mish-mash of fairly tame news.
Okay, not necessarily our pregnant mare. But one of the other horses at my in-laws’ farm is just gigantically, that-can’t-be-comfortable pregnant. Even her ankles are just gargantuan. We spent all weekend on “baby watch” and nothing happened. Well, I suppose they say a watched horse never boils…or something like that. Poor thing. As for our mare, she’s bagging up and making milk, so we’re mere weeks away. Hopefully she has a better time than this poor quarterhorse.
We’re expecting what’s starting to look like a doozy of a bad weather event this Thursday; considering all the nasty crap that has come at us from the sky in the past month before it was spring (when the conditions for bad weather are supposedly even more abundant), the next couple of months have me a bit worried. To put it mildly. I think I worry about these things more now that I’m a homeowner, which really, if I think about it, doesn’t make much sense – rented home, my home, doesn’t matter, if either one gets blown away then I’m screwed.
I did something stupid today and followed a link to ThinkGeek.com (there, you can share in my misery), a site which is loaded with tons of delicious gadgetry that I’d love to festoon my house with. Well, okay, I’d love to festoon my house with these things if not for the fact that my wife would then have to put up with them, and would probably cease putting up with me shortly thereafter. So I do a lot of browsing, a lot of drooling, and a lot of not buying. (I originally went looking to see if they had any of these.) Some of the items (an LED scrolling text message belt buckle or name tag, an ant farm made out of NASA’s malleable aerogel material) I can live without, but some of the other goodies – goodies, it must be said, of roughly equal usefulness to society – I drool over. I think my current favorite is the “Tix” digital clock. I think that would look mighty fine and BBC-budget-futuristic sitting next to my HAL 9000 faceplate. 😆 Yes, I’ve got a HAL-9000 prop at my desk at home. That’s about as much of a concession I’ll ever make in the direction of transforming my game room into a replica of the Enterprise bridge or any other fictional setting. But a similarly-shaped item with random patterns of blinky lights that also serve as a clock? Yes! Must have. (And this little baby is drool-worthy too.) But alas, they’ll have to wait until the budget allows for such things.
That’s really all I can think of at the moment; I’d tell you about my weekend gaming, but I’m sure you’ve heard enough about Dune 2000 in the past month. 😛… Read more
