Everyone give a nice warm birthday wish to…

hapflygirl!!! 🙂

Some birthday present…UAH 2 Robert Morris 3. It was a cool game, though. It was fun to watch, if not a bit painful at the end.

Went to Tokyo, a Japanese steakhouse around these parts. It was quite yummy, and I very much like the way they cook it all in front of ya. Quite entertaining. They have a very awesome fillet mignon, too. I’m not entirely sure what sauces and spices they put on it, since I’m just entranced by everything the cook prepares, but it’s darn good cow. Medium rare, of course.

A nice serene upcoming weekend, me thinks. Monday is off, so I get to rest up after a long full week back after an uberly blissful winter break. I was dang tired by this evening, too. It was a bit of a long Friday.

Wrigley is getting friendlier and friendlier every day. He now consistently comes into the computer room to sit on my lap. I almost have to shoo him away, he’s so insistent about it. He’s going to definitely be one fat cat when he grows up.

Anyhoo, off to that sleep-type place. I’m out like the Republican majority.

I’m staring at the Drudge Report. The big front story is “Israel plans nuclear strike on Iran”.

At the very top, it says “Israel has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran’s uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons, the SUNDAY TIMES of London is planning to report, British media sources tell DRUDGE… MORE…”

Of course, all it links back to is the root of Drudge, but still…

*shivers*

So, I have the beginnings of an ear infection. Blarg! My ear has been feeling very funny, so I went to the doctor yesterday to have it checked out. There’s no pain, which is unusual with me and ear infections. I didn’t think my sense of balance was all that skewed, but today it certainly is. But, still no pain. This is the weirdest ear infection ever, that’s for sure–usually my ear feels like it’s on fire, but not this time. Maybe I just detected it before that could happen. I wish all of my ear infections in the past had been like that. lol. Anyhoo, she gave me some antibiotics and stuff to rid my ear of the fluid. I hate these 😛 They’ve been my nemeses since I was a kid. Ahh, well…at least it was caught early before it got too bad.

I watched Real Genius this morning on HDNet Movies. I hadn’t seen it since senior year of high school, oh so long ago. Even then, I had only watched parts of it. Definitely a good movie, one of the underappreciated movies of the 80s, IMHO. While everyone was busy gettin’ addicted to the likes of The Breakfast Club and Back to the Future in ’85, this one quietly popped into cult limelight. Or else I was really that behind in movies when I first saw it 🙂 Anyhoo, great movie and I highly recommend it to anyone who hasn’t seen it.

Today will be relaxing, darn it. hehe. The holidays are over and now it’s time to relax and…zzzzzzz. lol. Well, maybe not be entirely slothy. That would just be no good, even with an ear infection 😀 It does look kinda like a blah day, though…cloudy and more cloudy. One of those days that would be good for snow, though I have more and more doubts that snow of any appreciable amount will be in Alabama ever again 😛

Insomnia sucks, particularly when you hear noises in the living room and go out there only to find two cats staring up innocently at you–and finding nothing really out of place.

So, Ruthie’s in KSC and sent me the following images. I mean, just…wow.

Launch Pad 39B

So, I saw Galactica & Firefly last night on Universal HD *DROOL!!* It was very much kick ass. This morning, I saw Angel on TNT HD. It also very much kicked ass. I’m definitely liking this DirecTV stuff. It got installed on Saturday and I, obviously, got the HD package. Good stuff.

This weekend wasn’t too frickin’ bad at all 🙂 Friday night, I went with Ruthie, Matt & Rynn to a little ice show. It was pretty cool. The Huntsville Youth Symphony was playing, or at least I think they were. They weren’t very amplified at all, and the Ice Plex has very poor acoustics for such things 😛 All-in-all, though, it was quite the smashing evening.

Saturday was full of DirecTV-ness. It took the guy a couple of hours to install it. After toasting my Internet connection, the thing worked like a charm. After getting my connection back up, I was happy again. lol. I went to the LAN party that was goin’ on after that for a few hours. Not bad, but would be better if the host would configure his darn servers before LANs 😉 lol.

After some LAN action, I went to a Christmas party. Some eats were had. We saw the movie Ricky Bobby, which was actually a bit more entertaining than I thought it would be. We played some Dirty Santa afterwards. I won “An Evening with Kevin Smith 2: Evening Harder”. Good stuff 🙂 We watched the first Toronto Q&A. He’s hilarious when he speaks. I’m too used to seeing him as Silent Bob 🙂

And, so…Monday. Bleh! Ruthie’s gone to FL for the day to get a tour of the KSC facilities down there. I think she even gets to go up to the pad 😀 Lucky ducky 😛 It’s funny, though, she left this morning and will be back this evening. A jet commute! How cool.

I was listening to NPR. Ok, I had an insane moment. They were talking about the parallel worlds of science and religion. What a bunch of frakking idiots. It seems that, in the host’s eyes at least, they’re mutually exclusive entities. You either have science explaining away God, or God explaining away science. What a bunch of closed-minded boobs 😛

It reminds me of that stupid little war of the fish that Christians and atheists/agnostics have going on with their bumpers. The Christians first had the fish. The atheists & agnostics then had a fish with legs, with “Darwin” embedded in the middle of that creature. You then had a fish eating the legged fish with the word “Truth” embedded in the middle of that fish.

Why does this have to be a world where extremists have the most voice? It’s frustrating, being a rather moderate individual who sees the middle ground in such things. God does not explain away science, neither does Science explain away God. Science, to me, is merely a tool; it’s a tool to quantitatively and qualitatively explain the mechanisms that hold together the universe, thereby explaining how God did it. Why do extremists have to see them as one proving the non-existence of the other?

I’d wonder what that makes me in their eyes, politically. I’m obviously on the side of science, so I must be a flaming liberal. Conversely, I also have an inherent faith in God and His works in this universe, so I must be a Jerry Falwell conservative. Am I really such a freak that I’m not an extremist? I swear, reading and listening to things in the media I almost think so 😛

Then again, maybe I’m just a boob for thinking everything has political overtones *shrugs*

Happy birthday, Shookster 🙂 (mwshook)