Crap! I have to go to the grocery store because I just threw out the last spoonful of my 2111 peanut butter

:::with extreme sarcasm::: thanks a lot Sherry!

She did however, make a good point. The salmonella was probably in that last bite since I ate the whole freaking jar myself and never got sick. Or maybe Jiffy is just pissed off at Peter Pan and made the whole thing up.

And I suppose I can't keep feeding Rob cereal and Eggo Waffles for dinner much longer before he snaps

BUT the kicker is we are supposed to get snow flurries tonight.

The South + snow flurries + grocery store + suburbia = empty shelves.

The South + snow flurries + grocery store + the hood = empty shelves and no carts because they've been liberated and sitting in peoples' front lawns

Damn it! I suppose I can drive up to Vinson Street and pick up my own cart. But then I am going to have to get bundled up, grab a tape measure and see if the cart will fit in the back of the Mastiff o'wagon first. But then I don't know the measurements of a cart off the top of my head.....and I will probably have to pay somebody off to remove it from their lawn. Boy am I in a sticky situation right now.

Or I could see how far my stomach-of-steel will carry me and fry up the fuzzy green thing in the back of the fridge. Yup, sounds like a plan.

If any of you don't have dinner plans just phone ahead, I suspect I have enough green fuzzy things to feed an army!

"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right.
(wow, I can hardly spell either correctly much less know which hand is typing it

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
(except murple....duhhh)

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
(what about Mt. Everest?)

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing
(hmmm. I suppose my nose does look a little larger today)

The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.
(this is very useful)

The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
(hey, so is poop)

There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
(I will trust this is accurate)

There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
(and this one, too)

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
(coincidence? I think not!)

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
(hey, did a dog hater come up with these?)

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
(Me too!)

A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
(that was a mad scientist that came up with that one)

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
(who was on this research team?)

A snail can sleep for three years.
(...and this research team)

Almonds are a member of the peach family.
(I knew it! I have always seen the resemblance)

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
(Me too!)

Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
(and your coccyx keeps growing until your 30's)

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
(I bet that year reported the least amount of road rage, too!)

In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
(so people were keeping crawdads as pets 4,000 years ago. I don't believe this!)

If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
(is that walking back wards or forward?)

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
(I bet he ran with them and never got scolded! Lucky bastard)

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!
(is that why you don't get them on airlines anymore?)

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
(so does food!)

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
(but which one is the nose picker?)

The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
(cruises are like jail with the possibility to drown...and now this)

The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid ..
(this surprises me it was the ONLY year)

There are more chickens than people in the world.
(That's cuz people like Kristin play both roles)

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
(nothing like introducing your little ones to swirlies before Jr. High)

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
(that's cuz we are confused)

Now you do know everything!

A few years ago we walked into this hole in the wall bar in Colorado and would you believe it......3 guys that play bagpipes for the Murphy's were there.

I got a hands-on lesson playing bagpipes (100 year old pipes at that) from a punk in a skirt.

By the end of the night the old toothless guys that had been in the bar since 10:00 am didn't know what to make of a bunch of freaks jumping on tables playing the bagpipes and slamming pitchers of shitty beer.

I will never forget trying to hold the dang thing (they are quite heavy and bulky), situating the bag into my armpit and pumping while blowing into the pipes and covering the holes for note changes. My cheeks hurt SO bad the next day! So did my head, come to think of it, I never turn down a beer chugging contest!

Parents, do not let kids try the instrument. I can tell you the sound is AWFUL during the learning process......something like a dying cow with really bad gas!

Rob got this thingy-ma-thingy that we have joined. Private viewings of independent movies where we rate the movie and Emory University sends the ratings to the movie director and whateva' else they do with it.

Sunday we went to our first movie and oh my god! I am going out on a limb and declaring this one of the best movies I have ever seen.

There is a discussion afterward with a film professor dude at Emory....but we had some margaritas to drink and a party to throw for the Superbowl, so we shuffled out a little early. The next filming we will stick around and check out that scene.

Beautiful and sad and tragic and simple and complex and amazing. It is in German so if you don't understand German or you can't read English (subtitles), this may not be for you. But then I suppose if you can't read English you have no clue what I am saying anyway.

They did a great job with the subtitles, or I suppose just the dialog as it translates to subtitles. There isn't the "rush to read" before the scene changes like many subtitled movies I have seen. So if you aren't a fan of subtitles, this one goes pretty easy on the viewer.

It opens February 13th across the country. I can tell you I will be seeing this again before it is all said and done.

Since I have never recommended a movie here and frankly, you don't know me from frank......here is what google has provided on the film's accolades

2006 Academy Award Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film
2006 Los Angeles Film Critic Award for Best Foreign Language Film
2006 European Film Award for Best Film, Best Actor – Ulrich Mühe and Best Screenwriter
Winner of 7 Lola Awards (the German equivalent of the Academy Awards) 2006 for
Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor and
Best Production Design and Best Cinematography
Official Selection 2006 Telluride Film Festival
Official Selection 2006 Toronto International Film Festival

"The Lives of Others"



East Berlin, November 1984. Five years before its downfall, the former East-German government ensured its claim to power with a ruthless system of control and surveillance. Party-loyalist Captain Gerd Wiesler hopes to boost his career when given the job of collecting evidence against the playwright Georg Dreyman and his girlfriend, the celebrated theater actress Christa-Maria Sieland. After all, the "operation" is backed by the highest political circles. What he didn't anticipate, however, was that submerging oneself into the world of the target also changes the surveillance agent. The immersion in the lives of others--in love, literature, free thinking and speech--makes Wiesler acutely aware of the meagerness of his own existence and opens to him a completely new way of life which he has ever more trouble resisting. But the system, once started, cannot be stopped. A dangerous game has begun.

"He's not hitting you to punish you, he's hitting you to keep you in the moment."

Well, I'm in the moment now, and at the moment I'd like to beat the crap out of him."

"You don't mean that."

"oh what?" I'm supposed to want to BE the crap I beat out of him."

"Yes, Biff" Joshua said somberly. "You must BE the crap." But he couldn't keep a straight face and he started to snicker as he sipped his tea, finally spraying the hot liquid out his nostrils and collapsing into a fit of laughter. All of the other monks, who evidently had been listening in, started giggling as well. A couple of them rolled around on the floor holding their sides.

It's very difficult to stay angry when a room full of bald guys in orange robes start giggling. Buddhism.

I love the last line. So true. This is an expert from "Lamb" by Christopher Moore.