*Blink*

Thanks to Bill, Michele, and Steve, I’ve been through a good portion of the Caribbean but I’d never had the chance to visit the Bahamas until January 2006. Brenda Becker, Bill’s mom, rented a villa on Harbour Island for a few weeks and invited me to come along with Bill and Michele for one of the weeks.
Let me just say, uh, “wow.”

I’ve placed some pictures in a .Mac photo album so you can get a feel for the place.

I admit it, I am obsessed with the movie Madagascar. Actually, the last half of the movie. The first half, I’ll label it “Before King Julian” or BKJ for short is fairly boring. Mildly amusing at best.

Midway through the film we are introduced to the lemurs, most notably King Julian. This character is the most fun I’ve seen in a movie in years. King Julian quotes been completely integrated into my vocabulary — not to mention that of my friends and family. This hasn’t happened since such movies as Party Girl, Love and Human Remains, Real Genius, and Top Secret.
Go ahead… take a nibble.

I was working out last night on my bike, parked on a trainer because it is freaking winter out there. In front of me sat a television, upon which I was viewing the show Super size me. This is a show where the documentary artist went on an only-McDonalds diet for 30 days and nearly killed himself in the process.

Now here is the dumb part… when the show was over, actually during the show, I was so hungry for a McDonald’s cheeseburger. Good grief.

My wonderful and fabulous friends Bill & Michele have given me a fabulous, black, iPod nano for my upcoming “threshold” birthday which shall remain nameless. I knew they were fabulous and all, and I’ve heard people say that you really don’t understand how fabulous they are until you hold one. Well, it is true. Taking it out of its diminutive packaging I almost missed it because I thought it was a picture of the nano, not the nano itself. Truly a stunning player.

Thank you guys!

Well, we have moved into our new office space and are all pretty much loving it. However, our old office was all open space without any walls or doors. Our new space is individual offices.

I’m finding it difficult to, you know, bother people directly like I used to be able to by making faces or what not.

Being the resourceful person that I am, I solved this problem by using my isight and ichat. A simple face made into the camera and copy/paste allows me to deliver my attitude to my co-workers without leaving my chair. This solution, however, is not without its drawbacks.

Example 1
Example 2

I’ve been a nomad for several years now — my stuff is mostly all stored and I live in a room in a friends house like a stray dog with no where else to go. A vagabond. A drifter. Aimlessly wandering the halls of the world with nowhere to go. Nowhere to be.
Anyway, I was using some of the vastly oversized office space we had over in Minneapolis for storing my stuff. Naturally, when our office moved this week, I’ve been forced to put all that crap back into storage. At least the stuff that isn’t being used by the company…

In order to help reduce the chaos, I spent three days going through some of the boxes that have just been moved around for a few years but not really opened. I managed to discard 10 boxes of crap that I’ll never need again. I had credit card receipts and records from accounts that were closed in 1990 and earlier… all in neat little files. What in the world happened to me since then?

Now to the point of this entry… while cleaning out these boxes, I found my Newton MessagePad 2100 with keyboard.

It seems to work (it shows stuff on the screen) and it is free to anyone who wants to use it. Just post a comment and the first person I like who wants it for personal use gets it!

I happened to look in my hotel desk drawer last night and there was a book that I expected to be a Gideon-placed Bible. However, on closer inspection (the arabic on the cover was my first hint) it turns out to be a Qur’an. First time I’ve ever seen one up close. It is a two column version with english on one side and Arabic on the other but I think that the translation may be somewhat faulty. It doesn’t say “Jihad! Jihad! We will swim in your blood!” nearly as much as the Arabs on T.V. would have you believe….

Today is Saturday and as such I didn’t feel a need to look as fabulous as I normally do (cough) at breakfast. Especially since I was planning on heading to the pool. So I tossed on my jeans and the one T-shirt I brought with me.

Well, we were seated next to this quite well dressed couple from India. Based on the clothing, I’d say Hindu. The woman did several double take’s at my shirt and I could see her peeking at it when she thought I wasn’t watching. Naturally, I became self conscious and looked down, thinking I’d dropped some Kaya there when it dawned on me what the problem could be.

Hrmm. Maybe not such a wise choice for my current destination….