This picture was on my screensaver this morning.  J sits just across the room so he sees the monitor at a slight angle.  So he asks me (and I swear this to be true)...
J: Is that a hot air balloon on your monitor?
Me: Nope, it's a cow.

LMFAO!!

Weird Dreams

I have always had vivid dreams and I usually remember them very well.  Most of my dreams can be attributed to something or someone I've seen, heard or talked about earlier that day so I can generally decifer the meaning behind them.  Last night was kind of an exception, but it did involve a guy I work with.  Here's the general gyst of the story:

C and I were in some big dining room (like a hotel or something) that had a piano and racks of clothes.  He pulled a child's dress off one of the racks that had [notes] along the skirt in a sheet music pattern.  I couldn't make out the notes because they were just random symbols placed on lines.  He asked me to play it on the piano because he loved, loved, loved the song.  (In real life, he likes head banging rock and classic rock).  I was trying like hell to make out the notes, but couln't quite comprehend what I was seeing.  Then, like magic, the notes appeared just as it would on real sheet music.  The song that came out was not anything I expected and certainly not anything C would love!  I am kinda confused on the dream song because I haven't heard it anytime recently at all.  If you're curious to know what song it was, check here.

P.S. I know that I am a nut job!   :)

Monday

I wish I could outsource my Mondays. 

Relay for Life

Friday night, V, T and I went to the luminaria event of the Relay for Life here in town.  My friend, Dawn is a cancer survivor and was part of a relay team.  Her team sold some of the luminarias and I purchased two...one for her and one for my father who died from esophageal cancer in 1989. It was nice to stroll around and look at the different displays and all the lighted luminaries. At 10:00 pm, the reading of a list of all the names began.  I thought this was a neat idea until we all realized that the high school students reading the names couldn't pronounce at least half of what they were reading.  One of the boys actually started apologizing after each name he knew he was struggling with and giggled once.  It was then I decided that I'd had enough of the disrespect and it was very apparent the other two were disgusted also.  We were appalled that someone could completely butcher something that was supposed to have been touching (especially in memory of people who have passed).  I hope somebody learned something from that debacle and it will be much better in years to come. 

Thursday Thoughts

Why is it necessary for the big studio execs (writers, directors, producers) to redo movies to satisfy some younger generation's desire for "bigger and better?" Or maybe it's not the younger generation of movie go-ers, but the money hungry and arrogant execs who think they can out-do the last guy...either way, it sorta bugs me.  I tried watching the new 'Psycho' - boy, did that suck! The new 'Friday the 13th' and 'Halloween' movies (Rob Zombie style) just pissed me off.  'Footloose'?  Don't even get me started on that one!  Now I read that somebody wants to revamp 'It' because he thinks Pennywise the Clown needs a makeover...say what?!! He's one of the scariest movie monsters of all time!!  Take a hike Mr. Cary Fukunaga!  I also read that Portia de Rossi is trying her hand at playing Lillian Munster on a "new" series based on the 'Munsters'. Why not just leave well enough alone?   And as if all the 'Superman' movies aren't enough, somebody's gotta try to make more money off that franchise by releasing yet another movie.  Enough is enough!

Summer projects seem to suck whenever I'm involved.  I think there must be some brain cells jumbled in my head that make me think that the project I pick to do will not be as difficult or as time consuming or as expensive as it always turns out to be.  I need to start psyching myself mentally into an understanding that all projects are gonna be a pain in the ass!

I really wish I could go back in time (knowing what I know now) and stay in bed a little longer on Saturdays instead of waking my parents up at the crack of dawn to ask them if I could turn cartoons on.  I should have let them sleep in a little longer like I want to and get to do now.

Speaking of cartoons...I feel sorry for the kids of today that think the cartoons they get to watch on Saturday morning (or after school) are of good quality.

I am really good at saying tongue twisters.  Here's my favorite one. (I do wonder what the answer really is)-
If one doctor doctors another doctor,
does the doctor who doctors the doctor
doctor the doctor the way the doctor he is doctoring doctors?
Or does he doctor the doctor the way the doctor who doctors doctors?

If I could make a living at being sarcastic, I would be a billionaire a billion times over.

There was a pro-life billboard that was displayed near the house for several months that had a picture of a newborn baby that proclaimed: "I could dream before I was born." Really?  What frame of reference would an unborn baby need to dream?  What unseen images would an unborn baby dream about?

I'm glad Thursday exists...it makes it easier to see the approaching end of the work week.

Findlay Bicentennial

This year marks the bicentennial of Findlay.  I don't usually get wrapped up in celebrations of this sort, but I do think it's important for a lot of people.  One of the cute things the city is doing in celebration is painting the downtown fire hydrants. Most of them are just patriotic color designs, but some look like firemen or cops.  I like the one in the picture.  It sort of reminds me of a weeble.       

The Hancock County Courthouse is also really very pretty and I like seeing it when I drive downtown.

Indian Lake

My friend J at work hates snakes with a passion.  He does love to fish though and does so with his brother at Indian Lake quite often. Yesterday, his brother sent him this picture that he claims was taken at Indian Lake...J is no longer sure he will fish there.

Pretzel Art

My mother always told me as a kid not to play with my food, but she didn't tell me I couldn't as an adult (smile).  I was eating pretzels today at work on my break and decided I should try some pretzel artwork.  This is what I came up with. (I know my tree should have leaves since there are blooming flowers, but I couldn't make small enough pieces).  :)

Sunday Humor - Real Church Signs

Keenan Ivory Wayans

Today is Keenan's 54th birthday.  I think this is one talented guy (along with the rest of the Wayans gang).  I was a faithful watcher of 'In Living Color' in the 90s and every once in awhile I catch part of an episode airing on some obscure cable channel and it still makes me laugh.

Happy Birthday Keenan!

"Down here we all float." 
                     -Pennywise the Clown

Teardrop

I'm already missing House M.D.  It's only been over for two weeks, but I looked forward to watching it every week. The theme to the show is done by a group called Massive Attack and the name of the song is Teardrop.  It sounds weird in it's entirety since I'm used to hearing the shortened version, but it's worth a listen.

How Much?

I read an article in the tech section of the CNN app on my phone yesterday about an HDMI cable (just one) that cost $1300 made by AudioQuest.  I was dumbfounded and could hardly believe it so I looked on Amazon and found this:

Even more $!!

Then I saw (where they show you what other people have looked at or purchased) a set of terminated speaker cables.  What the hell does terminated mean?  I looked it up and am now schooled in speaker cable terminology.  Terminated cables already have the terminals on the ends.  So that makes these totally worth this asking price:

Seriously?

Whatever.

Mashups

I am a fan of the mashup. For those of you who may not know what a mashup is, the explanation is quite simple. A mashup is a song comprised of two or more pre-recorded songs blended to make a new song.  Some artists do it very well while some do not.  One of my favorite mashup artists is Norwegian Recycling.  (His real name is  Frans Peter Bull Enger).  Not only does he excel in the blend of the actual music, but he uses clips of videos from the songs he uses for his mashups.  The end result is something really very cool.  Check out some of his work  here.

My personal favorite is Miracles.