Friday

Finished Catcher in the Rye.  Not my favorite book ever, but a fun read.

Remember that thing I said a few weeks ago about the shithead attitude that SUV drivers generally have in common?  NPR confirms it:

Poelstra says back in the good old days when gas cost $2.50 a gallon — last year — he was spending $100 a month to fill up his pickup, just to travel to places like the grocery store. The cost of electricity for the Xebra is $10-$12 a month. He loves the car and loves telling people about it.

A passerby outside the grocery store inquires about the Xebra. Poelstra says the car is totally electric and requires minimal maintenance.

“Right on! That’s pretty cool,” Clay Dierdorff exclaims. Poelstra says he gets such inquiries all the time.

“Every time we park, somebody wants to talk about the car,” he says. Poelstra’s 12-year-old son Alex says that drivers in large SUVs occasionally aren’t so polite.

“A couple of people yell when they see it,” Alex says. Sometimes they use “words you would not want to say — especially on national radio.”

Told ya so.  Fucking assholes.

Saturday

Didn’t do shit all day.  I took my wife to work, played with the boy, then played Lord of the Rings Online all night.  I don’t get to do this often, so it was a nice break.

Sunday

Went to the Old English Faire, added a few new bottles to my blue bottle collection, picked up a leather-bound blank book, then got harassed by some medieval fundies selling absolution.  They were play-acting, of course.  But it is sad that after hundreds of years, the real fundies haven’t changed much.

Found out George Carlin had died a little past midnight.  I knew it was coming eventually (the guy was a dinosaur), but I didn’t know I’d be so damn depressed about it.  The world really is a better place because he was born, and we’re sad to see him go.