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Well, they’ve got a great new marketing campaign…  have a look.

And what’s even better, they’ve tied this into their preflight safety briefings. Brilliant.

Link in the upper right corner or just click here.

Another entire week has passed without a post.  I plead sheer exhaustion.  The wake-ups at 5am-ish lead to 9pm bedtimes and it’s all downhill from there.  However, it’s a weekend off and nothing overly strenous planned.  This morning’s 5am wakeup led into a full pot of coffee gone at this point.  That and two loads through the dishwasher, some minor pick-up, a phone call to check in with the now officially retired Mother, and the newspaper from yesterday read.  Today’s plans include such thrilling things as a trip out with laundry and a stop at the pet store in the mall to find out about small dog boarding recommendations.  This eve, a trip downtown to partake in wings and wobblypops appears to be going ahead.  Time around 7, location TBD but possibly Wings on Granville.

Hophead wallabies running amuck not withstanding, I plan on a relatively calm weekend.

Seriously, some of you guys see anything political as an opportunity to haul out the partisan make-up kits and clown yourselves up.

just plain a great line.  taken from Chris Walters at the Consumerist writing about the Michael Savage/Rockstar Energy Drink hoo-hah going on.

that’d be my back this morning.  2 days in a row this week I’ve gotten home, had dinner, and promptly passed  out on the couch.  and not a little nap, either.  we’re talking full-on zombie-rising dead-to-the-world asleep here.  wake up about 10, stumble into bed.  back asleep damned near immediately and then wake up somewhere between 5 and 6am.  wtf is going on here?  why am I so damned tired?  oh, and I really wanted to get some stuff done last night so I’m a little chuffed about this today.  bah!

I’ve decided it’s not worth the work to get them back.  So I shall leave things as they are and go no further down that path.  Easier that way.

and not a particularily successful one, either.  I don’t feel like I got near what I wanted to get done today.  boo hoo.  There’s always tomorrow.

Sitting here, sipping my coffee, reading the papers.  Blissful peace… Nice and quiet.

I’m still here… Just tired.  Every day.  Even resorting to recycling pictures.  This one just seems right.  Overly warm Mark loves the sun.  Really.  I do.

Today I cranked on the tech support peoples and then belatedly discovered that I had a dns entry pointed at their address rather than a new one.  Hee hee, my bad.  Fixed that this evening as I didn’t think it through to the logical end until I was walking home.  Zoning out while walking is a good thing.  Even if ya end up nearly in traffic.

Spent the morning sorting through code archives and trying to make sense of the jumble.  Amusing to say the least.  Found something I’ve been looking for since last summer.  Made me happy.  Then laid karmic hands upon the mail server and allowed my Ju-ju to fix the issue.  Good for another day.  Too bad the karmic Ju-ju hands don’t extend to the laser printer.  That would have been nice (technically that was a yesterday problem but who the hell cares??).

Now home, eating, having a frosty beverage.  Pondering tasks for tomorrow.  Thrill thrill.

Found a deal while wandering the cold beer & wine this afternoon. Bowen Island Brewing has an 8 can sampler pack available for $12.85. Of course, I bought two.

So far, I’ve sampled the Honey Brown, Extra Pale Ale, and the Irish Cream Ale. All in all, not too bad. The Irish Cream was nice, especially after the initial aftertaste though I think the irish part of the name comes from some poor mick they dunked into the cream ale vat. Honey Brown compares nicely with what’s available elsewhere, and the Extra pale was light and refreshing. I won’t cover any more here as my judgement is probably impaired a this point.