Ridiculous Thoughts

The ramblings of a slightly mad chick with far too much time on her hands :)

Post archive for ‘Spiffy Stuff’

It’s like Christmas!

Shannon’s been out of it for a couple of days with an ear infection but not even that kept her from hunting down the elusive Wii. (For the record, the doc gave her some meds, and she’s much better, so don’t be thinking I let my sick kid wander around town looking for a game [...]

Damn Nintendo

Why the feck is it so damn hard to buy a Wii? I understand the whole supply and demand thing, but I figured it’s well past Christmas now, shouldn’t the flow of Wii’s produced be back to normal? Is it really THAT COOL of a machine that Nintendo can’t keep up with demand? None of [...]

NPR Jack Bauer Feature

Well NET radio let me down The Jack Bauer thing was supposed to air at 7:50am, which was perfect because you know, I only told everyone and their uncle to tune in and that’s right during drive time etc. Well, they began the piece, and then clunkily switched to a show about the stock market [...]

NPR Interview

Just a quick note for now. I’ve been so busy! The NPR interview I did a few weeks ago for their “In Character” series on 24′s Jack Bauer will air on Monday morning (on St. Patrick’s Day! Go Irish!) I don’t have an exact time but I got an email from Pam Fessler yesterday saying [...]

The day cannot begin

Without passing by this puppy. Well, he/she is probably more or less past the age of puppydom, but to us, he’s the funnest puppy EVAR. We pass him/her on our way to school/work every morning, and I wish we could just park and watch him. I’m going to assume he’s a he because I’m tired [...]

Let the Wizarding Commence

I’ve just bought out Hasting’s entire stock of Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files books. For once in my life, in this nowhere little city where things I want are hard to come by, my local bookstore didn’t let me down. Last post I mentioned I’m listening to “Storm Front” which is read by James Marsters and [...]

Want

The Darth Vader hot air balloon. Want it. Now I’m gonna have the Imperial March stuck in my head all day.