Thoughts on the day (9/14):

Today is:

National Cream-filled Donut Day
National Pet Memorial Day
The Walton's Birthday 1972
National Anthem Day

Cream filled donuts are good. And I do understand the appeal of places like Krispy Kreme -- after all nothing is as good as fresh donuts. Even average donuts served fresh are great. But my favorite donut are what we call "Sawdust rolls" they are a type of large cinnamon roll/donut that has a thin coating of frosting and is then sprinkled with crushed peanuts or bread crumbs. Yum. It's really good if you put a slice of garlic bologna on it. Add a cup os coffee and you have the breakfast of champions.

Heh.

Actually, it's really the mid-morning snack of cold, hungry hunters. Nothing tastes as good as hot, strong coffee when you've been standing still for four hours in below zero weather. Of course, it was our mid-morning snack when we were out logging. In below freezing weather. You had to haul the logs out of the forest when the ground was frozen, after all. And really, it's a lot more comfortable to log when it's cold than when it's hot.

Pet Memorial Day. I went through a lot of pets when I was a kid. Dogs, cats, fish. There were also the rabbits, cows, pigs, etc. But they weren't really pets because they were more than likely going to end up as dinner. Never make pets out of things you plan to eat. It's a good rule. I had a dog named Flash -- a basset/beagle hound mix that I loved dearly. He was, however, just a hound. A wonderful, terrific, absolutely adorable hound, but a hound none-the-less. Which means that he loved hunting above all and would forever follow anyone who would feed him. Still, he was a great dog. He was a gentleman. He would walk away from you if you would light up a cigarette. He wouldn't lick your face if you had been drinking. He would do anything for food, but if he wasn't hungry... well, let's just say he liked his rest. I miss him.

Fan Heaven!

Mellennium and SG-1 are here.

YAY, me!

I will add that to Magnum PI and The A-Team that I have I will totally geek out here.

The fun, fun, fun.

But I also need sleep, sleep, sleep.

The good thing is I can watch the shows any time I want.

And the best thing is my daughter is currently making friends with other kids at the middle school who also like SG-1. She's thinking that a SG-1 viewing party is a must do in the next month or so.

Yes. We are that pathetic.

What I find interesting is that people can live for sports -- football, baseball, soccer, which-ever -- they can build lives around the teams, spend thousands of dollars indulging their "vice" and that is perfectly normal and acceptable. In fact, it's expected. But geek out on scifi or fantasy...

The world is a strange place and far too often people feel that if they don't like something, then no one should like it. It's kind of a "I'll take my ball and go home" only it's more like "I don't like your ball so I'll make sure that you can't have any fun either". It's the ultimate in self-centeredness: if I don't like it, it has no value at all.

*Bah*

But I, for one, will gladly carry the geek badge. Someone has to be happy to be weird. I choose this as my weirdness.

Of course, I do my packers. I'm not sure what that says of me.

NOTE: Take time to read the manual for the new DVD player, 'cuz otherwise you may accidentally turn off the "widescreen" option, forcing everything to play as full-screen. Evil.