I Like The Bear Book
She absolutely loves the puppet bear book, as you can probably tell by this picture. She gets so excited when it starts moving around and talking to her. Beth’s a good puppeteer, too.

Today was one of those strangely unproductive days. I spent a lot of time in various discussions and reading. That in and of itself doesn’t equal unproductive (because many things were dealt with in a sense), but it wasn’t exactly what I expected to accomplish today.

One thing I’ve noticed is that since I uninstalled my anti-spam software, the website at WCCO.com has been working better. Namely portions of the website that didn’t function correctly (the navigation sidebar, for one big example) are back in order. It’s the strangest stuff. I don’t know that it’s related to the anti-spam bit at all, but it’s strange that uninstalling said product in turn, after a restart, allows Firefox to render the page correctly. Coincidence? Perhaps. More likely — something that was corrupt got removed.

When I got home, I fed the dogs and we went back in to town to Pizza Hut, a place where we normally don’t eat. I had some gift certificates from nearly two years ago (that are set to expire at the end of 2007) burning a hole in my pocket, Beth had a hankerin’ for pizza, and I didn’t feel like cooking myself. So we had a little family outing. It was a good time…and the pizza wasn’t bad either.

We made a brief stop at Pamida (another place I’d not been at for some time) to see if the cheap blenders had been brought back into stock (they weren’t). So I did a few things today I’d not done for quite some time. Eat at Pizza Hut. Shop at Pamida.

The rest of the evening has been pretty normal. I spent a significant amount of time writing up bits for the firefox blocking update post, mostly so I wouldn’t inter-mingle topics too much. It’s one of my goals to start sticking to topics a little better (make a second post if necessary) rather than rambling into several areas (unless necessary). So I figure I can keep the mundane life events out of the circle of hot topic stuff. Perhaps I’m wrong in doing so — who knows. It doesn’t really matter that much to me anyway. People are going to either read my ramblings or not. I’ll still write them. 🙂

At any rate, I’m going to head for bed soon. It’s been a long week, and I think the weather has really drug me down a bit. I’ve been more tired than normal lately, and the only thing that’s been really different is the cloudy weather patterns. So I plan on sleeping in a little bit tomorrow and going from there. It’s the big Threshing Bee weekend, so I’m sure we’ll spend some time in town with that (a good time) checking out all the antique tractors and whatnot.

So anyway, until next time…

“It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.”
– Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

–MZ