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I miss my dog.
I don’t have to take any care what I throw in the trash, and stuff dropped on the floor stays there.

I did okay. I played team 601 (win), doubles cricket (lost), singles 301 (won). The team lost 4-3. I got the winning out on 601. We closed out first in doubles cricket but were out pointed. I also sort of spaced out and at the start of the doubles cricket, I forgot what game I [...]

[netlfix] [IMDb]
A documentary in which the director (Pepe Danquart) followed the Deutsche Telekom team (and team members Erik Zable and Rolf Aldag in particular) around the Tour de France. The 2003 version of the tour is one of the best in recent memory. It was Armstrong’s 5th victory, Tyler Hamilton rode with a broken collarbone, [...]

[netflix: The Three Doctors] [netflix: The City of Death]
I never really followed Doctor Who. It never really captured my fancy, but I do loke the new version, or at least the Eccleston ones I’ve seen so far. But I decided to watch a few as they are also on the December 1 expiry list form [...]

Pretty friggin impressive! I love the scoring. And the ramp jump at the end is awesome.
Name: Kevin
City: Ft. Wayne
Occupation: McDonalds (on the fryer)
[Update] It’s fake. Well, not “fake” exactly, but it’s not real.

Long, long, long, long overdue.

Wilkerson resigns a day after indictment
Embattled Sen. Dianne Wilkerson resigns
Wilkerson resignation letter
Senate President’s Statement

Hopefully, the governor will appoint Sonia Chang-Diaz to fill the rest of her term and get a month or so of seniority over the other freshmen senators (if there are any others). Then, at long last, we’ll actually [...]

Most Valuable: Pedroia

Inch for inch, the best in the league.

[netlfix] [IMDb]
This could never have been made in the US. American movies require black hats and white hats and there are none here. Ashitaka (voice: Billy Crudup) engages a demon in battle and is wounded. In order to find a cure to the cursed wound, he must journey to the forest and ask the forest [...]

Seven games. Seven loses.
I played team 601, doubles cricket and singles 301. Lost them all, although I came very close in singles 301. This was against the current #1 team in the league.

Prepare to lose whatever productivity you’ve got left.

[netflix]
Another December 1 expiry.
A short, 60-minute concert film of a charity function at Wembley. Very disappointing. The sound, at least the balance, is really off. The performers looked almost bored. It might be my imagination and I know these are simple pop tunes, but it sounds to me like they were simplified even more for [...]

[netflix] [official site]
I looked at my Neflix “Watch Instantly” queue the other day and saw a whole boatload of things going to expire on Dec 1, so even though I have two discs here, one of which dates back to August, I need to work my way through some of these. That or move them [...]

The team won 5-2. Mostly, I think, because I didn’t play any single games, only the team 601 and doubles cricket. It took forever! One of games took, like, 45 minutes to play or something. The play we play has two boards, and the matches on the other boards were completely finished by the time [...]

[netflix] [IMDb] [Official site]
Dir: Jon Favreau, 2008
Who doesn’t know this story? Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.) a super gazillionaire arms merchant is captured during a visit to a war zone, and forced to build weapons. Shrapnel wounds sustained during capture threaten to puncture his heart, but can’t be removed without killing him. A fellow prisoner, [...]

[amazon] [MBLN]
The first book to introduce the characters of Blandings Castle it’s pretty standard fare. Then again, I’ve read enough of these to almost be able to predict what’s going to happen. It’s very good though, but reminiscent of the Wooster and Jeeves adventure with th cow creamer.
Lord Emsworth visits Mr. Peters, a rich [...]

Tuesday is my client day and during one of the meetings they sprung (sprang?) a surprise deadline on me of Monday morning for some critical changes that Must. Be. Done. It’s not a big deal, really, just a bit of a coördination soft shoe but I was up until 1:30 last night trying to get [...]

I voted this morning. It took a little over an hour. I should have waited. When I worked the polls for a couple of year, it seemed the best time to go was about 10:00 – 10:30 in the morning or about 2:30 – 3:30 in the afternoon.  So I went about 9:15 and got [...]

Still not doing too well. Can’t figure out how to improve. Played three games: won, lost, lost.
Won team 601, lost doubles cricket by a bit, lost singles 301 by a lot. My 301 opponent closed in only about five throws. It’s the same guy I played last time and won. I did score a tonnage [...]

Did I really do nothing this weekend?
Nope. No, I don’t think I did anything.
Oh wait! I changed my clocks!
My life in a nutshell. Which brings us to this week’s question. If you were a nutshell book, which animal would be on your cover?