Another Manassas evening

Drove to Steph & Matt's, had some tasty chicken, steak & mushrooms, fruit salad, and ice cream, while hanging out with Steph, Matt, Shauna, Brendan, and Matt's parents. We then adjourned to the basement, where we ended up watching Mallrats instead of The Seven Samurai, followed by the last few categories of the Oscars.

And now I am home, and have work in six hours.

Monday night, my parents get home from their anniversary cruise. :)

Accomplishments for the day

Best Goats in recent memory:
You can call yourselves "The Barons of Funk" for all I care, as long as you're functionally subservient to my evil whim.

During downtime at work, I succeeded in balancing three months of checking--only two errors!--and paying the outstanding medical bill for which I received two or three invoices while away. I also noticed that the bank had included a Shauna/mom statement in the middle of a me/mom statement--guess I'll pass that along tomorrow, when I go visit. (They're getting back from their anniversary cruise this evening sometime.) :)

During my lunch break today, I went to Giant for lunch and some grocery shopping, but realized I hadn't yet put my Bonus Card back in my wallet, so I'd be wasting a lot of money, and just got lunch--jambalaya!--and went home, where I found Nathan, suffering from a minor bout of food poisoning -again-. I think he needs to pick his delis more carefully. :)

After work I went grocery shopping for real, to the tune of $102 (after $29 in Bonus Card-related savings--see why I didn't go earlier?) Dinner was leftover jambalaya, dessert was cheesecake that Nathan bought from a fundraiser recently.

I've also accomplished cleaning up and vacuuming the floor of my room, office, and upstairs hall, as well as disassembling and cleaning the ferret cage for storage, and rearranging the existing cages to allow for, perhaps, my stereo. :)

Ooh, and on the way back from the store, I ended up behind a '52 Bentley. Nice!

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Interesting article via motorcycles, particularly section 3 on "inattentional blindness." Wrong Turn: How the fight to make America's highways safer went off course.

Good things for the week

Right now: Eating Tin Roof Sundae ice cream
Tuesday evening: Dinner with parents/family, most likely
Wednesday evening: Fetch Lucy the macaw from Chelsey's house!
Friday evening: Visit from Esther! Might watch Pirates. :D

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And a slew of links courtesy theninjakitten, courtesy her friends page:

Grab your torch and pitchfork, kids, we're gonna go lynch us some queers! (Gay marriage)

The Greatest Heist Story Ever Told (ze Passion)

A little Christian History:Christian attitude towards same sex unions may not always have been as "straight" as is now suggested

Passion tickets bear 'mark of the beast'

Hypothesis (as originally advanced by one St.Rev), and I have to concur: (On a possible reason for Orson Scott Card's opinions on homosexuality, and themes of his novels)

Quote of the Day, on abuse of civil liberties

And, what looks to be another entertaining, offbeat comic, with only a brief archive: Friendly Hostility