Good day world! Today is a much better day. Good stuff has been happening to me today, and as of 1:22 PM on this Wednesday, I feel pretty good. :-)

First of all, I must apologize but there will be no jokes today. I went through my email this morning, and there wasn't a decent joke in the whole group. I was disappointed about that. The jokes today were all stale. I'd either read them before, or they just weren't funny. Am I the only one that has noticed that there is a collection of jokes that just circulate the internet endlessly? Every so often you'll open your mail, and there will be one of those classics that you've read in emails about three times before. Right now I should punctuate my comment with an example, but I can not. I wonder if my brain is defective. I start a topic that just begs for an example, the topic is front and center in my mind, but the proof of my statement eludes me. I hate when my brain betrays me.

First good thing to happen today. My mom phoned me about 8:30 this morning. They were coming for lunch. That pleased me a lot, since they'd had to cancel trips out here to Watson in the preceding two weeks. The first time they cancelled it was because Mom had a sewing order to finish. Then last week they had to cancel because it snowed. That was a doubly depressing day. First snow, and then the cancellation of the trip. But today everything was a go. The weather was nice and they showed up at the office about 11:15. I gave Mom the keys and they went to my house ahead of me, to cook the pizza. I made it home at my usual 12:00 and we had a nice lunch. After lunch my Mom cleaned. I'm kind of conflicted about that. On one hand she doesn't have to do that. Its my house and I'll clean it when the spirit moves me. On the other hand I appreciate her efforts. I ended up in a situation of inertia. Thinking I should do it instead of her, but ending up not doing anything. I wonder if I'm a bad son?

The other good thing to happen today was, my parents brought the power supply for my laptop out with them. That was exciting. I've had this old, grey Pentium 133 laptop that Sean gave me a long time ago. It was just collecting dust because it didn't work. I was surfing the internet the other day and found a good deal on a power supply for it. So I ordered one and it came yesterday. My parents brought it out today, and after we were done eating I plugged it in, and got the computer working for the first time in over a year. That was cool! So now I have a laptop computer again. I had one before, but it was a 486 and the power was no good on that one either. This one works good. I haven't made up my mind yet exactly what I'm going to use it for. I will be hooking it up next to my main system, to monitor MSN while I play games. My preference would always be to chat with my friends over playing a video game. But a lot of the time there is no one online to chat with, so I might as well spend the time doing something else I enjoy, video gaming, rather that sitting there bored, waiting for someone.

So its been a good day today. I have the afternoon ahead of me, but I see only good things coming out of that too. I finished one project this morning. The shop drawings for the Town of Balmoral are finished. Hooray!!! That was about a two day job. They're all wrapped up and ready to ship out. Now if I could just get the Souris package done. :-( Damn these recalcitrant suppliers!!! I think I'm going to work on my White Bear model this afternoon. I've picking away at that since August, I think. I started the drawing when Murray was on vacation. I remember that because I was out of other things to do, because I needed his input on about three things.

Anyone have any really good song ideas? I'm kind of hooked on downloading music again. I'll think of a song or two, and I'll go straight to WinMX. That's a good program but the downloads can be really slow. My trouble right now is, I'm out of song ideas. I downloaded three songs from the Last Action Hero soundtrack, because I watched the end of the movie the other night. That lead me into downloading derivatives of songs, but I'm fresh out of ideas. I'll have to remember to ask Tara for some songs the next time I talk to her. Having a friend in a major US market has greatly improved my musical selection. No offense to Saskatchewan, I love this place dearly, but the radio situation SUCKS!!! There are no good stations anywhere. Just different levels of awful or mundane. Maybe I should go back to watching MuchMusic, or the MTV channel I was so desperate to get. That reminds me, I finally got around to phoning Expressvu this morning. I've had these interactive features on my satellite since I got it. I think I took them because they were free to try for three months. Well the only one I care about is the Weather and that's $0.50 a month. The games and the trivia are $5.00 or something like that, and I've looked at them twice. I have a huge computer so I don't need games on my TV. So I cancelled them finally. In their place I substituted an eastern feed of network stations (ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox) for $1.00. So it'll balance out with getting more stuff I might actually watch, for less money. That's a good deal for me.

That's all for today. Have a good afternoon and evening everyone. Toodles!