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WARNING: VULGARITY

Also: Big laffs!

But! VULGARITY.

A LOT OF IT

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

(and it’s better if you’ve seen the episode titled “The Impertence of Communicationizing”)

(but it’s still damned funny!)

TV-show franchises must go away immediately

Chatted just now:

Bug: Law and Order and CSI and all their offshoots need to DIE.
Don: I’m waiting for a crossover series, Law & Order: CSI, where the CSI people investigate a massacre in the NY DA office.
Bug: LOL! Brilliant! :D

Weekend in a minute

1. Beautiful weather. This was all weekend, but it started Friday, so chronologically it goes first.
2. Drinks and dinner with Katharine and our coworker friend Ian at Macaroni Grill Friday night. Second time I’d been there in a week, but only once for a meal. And while we were there . . . .
3. Ran into my friend Matt and his roommate Liz, who were there to wait for their other friend Jason, who is one of the bartenders. So of course I had to hang out with them a bit once the dinner part of the evening was over, and somehow that meant a trip to the grocery store to buy a foot-long sub that was actually 14 inches (I called it “the baker’s foot”—I am such a card) and a 12-pack of Coca-Cola. For Jason, that is. I still had my lasagna leftovers.
4. SLEPT. Ahh.
5. Relaxing Saturday morning and early afternoon of household stuff. Never used to relax me, now I find it enormously satisfying. Damned adulthood.
6. A complete reset of my TiVo, which had been doing Spanish-language and cooking shows again, but oddly, no Spanish-cooking shows. Also insisted it was out of program info as of yesterday even though the listings actually ran through the 18th. The little TiVo dude may be cute and cuddly, but damn if I don’t want to slap the shit out of him sometimes.
7. Lovely happy hour and dinner with Julie Anne at Bell Street Diner on the Seattle waterfront. Watched some cruise ships pull away, watched some drama with a whole passel of Seattle Fire Department trucks and personnel including divers for a water rescue that wasn’t actually necessary. Also a lot of BYU fans who were just pleased as non-alcoholic punch by their football team’s one-point victory over the Washington Huskies, though the one set of blue-wearing jackasses on our left did spend a good part of their meal whining about how the Cougars beat the Huskies by “only” one point, woe are they, their team is better than that! The one guy ordered the salmon pot pie, which Julie Anne hates and would normally warn persons she likes against ordering it. This BYU-fan numbnuts she encouraged to order it.
8. Home by 21:00 Saturday so I had a nice evening of warm weather, lovely Seattle city views, and my new rope lights on the balcony to add a bit of ambience, and to blind me to the views of the closer neighborhood. Hadn’t quite thought that all the way through, but it works well enough for the light I actually want out there sometimes.
9. SLEPT more. Ahhhhh.
10. Woke up absurdly early, silly body getting used to the work schedule and holding me to it on the weekends. Drank 12oz Diet Coke, which seems like way TMI but is important a point or two down the line.
11. Met Matt for coffee at Borders in Alderwood Mall. Twelve ounces of non-fat white chocolate mocha there (again, not really TMI, just wait for it), ahead of
12. The 11:30 showing of The Dark Knight in Lynnwood, accompanied by roughly half of a 32oz (they call that “small”) Diet Coke at the theater, so that when the (3-hour!) movie was over
13. I could barely stand up, my bladder was so stretched. RESTROOM EMERGENCY, I walked out of the theater bent over like Igor from Young Frankenstein, but I made it with no lasting ill effect. Ahhhhhhh.
14. Late lunch with Matt in Edmonds at Anthony’s Beach Cafe, or Bell Street Diner North as I’ve decided to call it. Similar menu, similar waterfront experience (though the sandbox and screaming children added a whole level of Family Fun! to the meal), absolutely GORGEOUS afternoon.
15. Home to wind down the weekend with a few more householdy things while I get into the mindset for my first full five-day work week in what seems like months, but is really only a few weeks, after the last few work weeks were shortened by holidays and visiting family.

Seems like such a more happenin’ life when it’s listed in 15 items like this, go figure.

Links for 2008-01-01

• NOVA | Absolute Zero | PBS
  Seeking the coldest temperatures possible. Don’t miss out on the scale widget. (Show airs mid-January.)
  (tags: nova pbs television shows chemistry laboratories temperature cold absolutezero extremes via:kottke)
• Poynter Online - E-Media Tidbits | Mini-Tidbits: Pageview Bonuses, More...
  Amy Gahran links to articles discussing pageviews as a way to track performance for newsroom folks. Uses my CC-licensed image of pageviews from my own blog in Sep 2005.
  (tags: blogs articles pageviews statitstics poynteronline amygahran photographs screenshots published)
• Local News | We’re adding NY Times journalism, crossword | Seattle Times Newspaper
  The Times “times two” starting Jan 1, 2008: Content and the crossword from the New York Times included in the Seattle Times’ print and online editions!
  (tags: seattletimes nytimes newyorktimes newspapers seattle journalism crosswords)
• karmen buttler music
  Karmen Buttler opening for Vienna Teng at the Bazaar Café on Jan 12, 2008
  (tags: karmenbuttler viennateng music singers songwriters musicians)