clock2.jpgSorry I haven’t been posting much lately.  As you may have guessed, getting stuff ready for a new baby has sort of been trumping my perceived importance of telling you all what I think about Christmas decorations, reviewing bad local restaurants, and mocking people who go to my gym.

Go figure. I doubt you are heartbroken, though.  :)

But here is the Cliff’s Notes version of stuff I would have written about in the past week in a less busy alternative timeline:

  • There are now over one million Priuses on the road.  I have been getting 53MPG lately, and expect even higher as the weather warms up.
  • Over 50% of our Incentive Check will be spent offsetting over-the-top gas prices.  Check out my previous post on the topic here.
  • GTA4 has the best co-op version of any game I have ever played. The noticeably smarter and tougher cops are now sort of a cross between low grade Terminators and 007-School dropouts.    
  • I believe that forests aid in randomizing weather patterns.  By chopping down huge (and not-so-huge) areas to make room for housing developments, the now chaotically smooth areas allow for stronger straight-line winds and weird hurricane-like weather patterns to develop over land.
  • I don’t watch soap operas, but I am really getting tired of listening to Spinelli.  No one talks like that outside of a Renaissance Faire.
  • The news angries up my blood.  The world is doomed, celebrity news, the world is doomed, puppy dials 911 to save master, the world is doomed… Etc, etc, etc.  Do what you can to fix stuff locally, and the bigger stuff falls into place a little easier.
  • My tobacco plants are coming in nicely.  I hope to be able to use some of the crop as insecticide for next year.
  • Today is Bike-to-Work day.  It got me thinking of all the places between my house and work (about 25 miles) where bike and/or pedestrian traffic is prohibited by law (bridges, tunnels, certain Interstate portions, and whatnot).  Is it actually illegal for some people to get to work without involving a car? Wow, if true.