Resturant Review 1

This morning, Dustin and I enjoyed breakfast at The Downtowner Woodfire Grill, in St. Paul.
It was good, but being the critical diners that we are, there were a few things that bothered us. Our biggest complaint was the toast that came with the expensive omlette (which you were allowed NO substitutions) was "buttered" with FAKE BUTTER. It tasted like fake butter. I guess you just have to always order the toast dry.

More to come on restaurant reviews...

Fockets

I made up a new word today...

Focket, n. (fock-it) a word referring to one of those stupid fake pockets sewn into a piece of clothing to trick you into thinking you have a pocket.

14 Women/Glad I voted this year

Today, Best Buy and WoLF (Women's Leadership Forum) sponsored a screening of the independent documentary, 14 Women. Briefly, it is about the 14 (now 16) women that represent our country in the US Senate. It was a look at why they got there, how they got there and how they balance personal life with a never ending job in Washington, DC. The other fun part of the movie was the answers that a group of elemantary school kids had regarding senators, politics and why women might be good at different jobs.

The highlight of the event, however, was a visit by Minnesota Senator, Amy Klobuchar. She was so down to earth and wholesome, like a neighbor or a mom. This year was probably the first year I took any interest in who might be representing me and my state. Like in an old post about the HRC, it seems like the older I get, the more important human rights and other issues are. I voted for Sen. Klobuchar, and tonight I wrote her a letter and thanked her. What she had to say, (and it really wasn't life changing) reinforced my vote and made me proud to say that she represents our state!

Please take a minute to check out the review on this movie and see if you can watch it. You may have a better appreciation for some of the women and men in the Senate.

http://silverdocs.com/festival/films/14-women/

I joined Facebook

So, I was totally holding out on Facebook. In fact, I made fun of some folks for joining it. I finally succummbed to peer pressure from an old High School friend and joined. I feel like a dork. You know what I'm doing now? Messaging people and adding silly stuff to my account. I downloaded some new software and was planning on spending my computer time using that. Instead, I find more totally useless stuff to do on the web.

I must say, I did finish quite a few things on my list this weekend. I even got two coats of joint compound up in our basement hallway. It was SO HOT here this weekend. All of the drywall dust stuck to me. It was really gross.

I was really lonely this weekend, but I had a nice long chat with my friend, Erica. It was so nice to catch up. Dustin will be returning home on Friday! I know this week will go fast as I have lots of things to do!

The Emoticon :)

The emoticon celebrates 25 years by Daniel Lovering Pittsburgh (AP) - It was a serious contribution to the electronic lexicon. :-) Twenty-five years ago, three keystrokes -- a colon followed by a hyphen and a parenthesis -- were first used as a horizontal “smiley face” in a computer message by Carnegie Mellon University professor Scott E. Fahlman, the university said. To mark the anniversary Wednesday, Fahlman and his colleagues are starting an annual student contest for innovation in technology-assisted, person-to-person communication. The Smiley Award, sponsored by Yahoo Inc., carries a $500 cash prize. Language experts say the smiley face and other so-called emoticons, or emotional icons, have given people a concise way of expressing sentiments in e-mail and other electronic messages that otherwise would be difficult to detect. Fahlman posted the emoticon in a message to an online electronic bulletin board at 11:44 a.m. on Sept. 19, 1982, during a discussion about the limits of online humor and how to denote comments meant to be taken lightly.

Motor Trend Secret Photos

Check out this Ford truck my friend and I saw on the way to work last week. They must be road testing it here in the cities...

Maybe I should send them to Motor Trend, although it's probably old news by now...

I kept Believing

So, Apple contacted me and I have a new computer coming, sometime this week. Diana at Apple corporate was very nice and determined that they had spent quite a lot of money shipping me new computers. In fact, not that there was anything wrong with this computer, but I will get a brand spankin' new one with more memory and a bigger processor!!!

IN the meantime, this is what happened the last time I tried to open PhotoShop:


Pretty awesome, huh?