A child’s birthday party – I went to a child’s birthday party not too long ago (twins, no less). From a distance, kids are great but, up close, they’re mutants. Let me explain: you take two disparate people who get together and make a chemical reaction happen and out pops this child. This child is – literally – a mutant pool of their parent’s genes. There’s a little of each parent in that child. That’s all I’m saying. 
Happy accident – So I get home tonight and see what’s on my TiVo. Listed was a comedy special of Kathy Griffin. I like her and I’ve seen a few of her specials so I thought I’d watch a few minutes and see if the material seemed familiar. What it actually caught was “The Actor’s Studio” with George Carlin. So I watched and it was good. A few of the things he said were kind of prophetic -- the parts where he talked about what he'd like to see before he died.
Through another one – Last night I went on a date with another young lady who ‘fit the mold’ of what they have been sending me all along. She looks decent, she’s intelligent and a good conversationalist, but she’s got one or two extra pounds – not that that in and of itself is a turn-off – but I feel like I will end up with a mediocre woman. You know, maybe I shouldn’t talk about her weight. Yes, she is not a stick-thin supermodel… not what I’m looking for. I guess, ultimately, I’m talking about who she is to me and that’s where I see the mediocrity. (the picture is of actress Laura Linney, who this most recent date resembles).The weekend – My whole body is off for some reason. I generally use the weekend to reset myself but I haven’t felt like I have had a weekend to do that in a while.
The Love Guru – I went to see this movie with some family members after a birthday party (see “Child’s Birthday” above). It was typical Mike Myers’ fare – double entendre, fart jokes, sexual innuendo (“in YOUR endo”), and flirting with a pretty girl. I don’t recommend this movie unless you’re the biggest Mike Myers fan there is. Before the movie we ate at this Japanese place that my sisters LOVE. I’m not the biggest fan of the place but I like it okay. It just gets tiring going to the same place every time we get together. My parents won’t go anymore, they’ve had enough of the place. 
Teasing me – Around this time every year, for the past few years, “Rescue Me” comes out with a new season. I saw the listings pop up on my TiVo and was mentally prepared to get back into it. I must admit I have not seen any commercials for the coming season but I don’t watch FX a whole lot. So I pull up the episode to watch and it mentions something about a ‘mini-sode’, whatever that is. So I start watching it and I notice the opening credits are shortened. I check the show length and it’s only 6 minutes. Wait, what? I’m not sure what has happened to the ‘regular’ episodes but after this minisode was over they talked about showing more of them – instead of the regular series.
The last to know – I was watching one of the news programs and there was a story about a radio show on PBS/NPR called “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me”. It’s a trivia show about current events that is recorded before a live audience. I thought “okay, neat concept”. Then they mentioned the show has been around for 10 years. Seriously? Why am I always the last to know these things. I’m quite certain there are a lot of interesting and entertaining things out there that I would love, but just haven’t found. A lot I’ve found on the internet but that seems too easy.