Wherein the author remembers his password/username and finally makes it back into Blogger. Whew...I thought that all of that was gone. I should probably write that stuff down-then I can promptly loose the peice of paper. At least that way I can maintain the illusion that I'm not losing my mind.

New stuff: It's now December 2nd, 2005...there are 29 days left in 2005. You know, every year I tell myself that I'm going to start Christmas shopping in January. I tell myself this and then I find myself right about here. The begining of December with nothing purchased. Fan-freakin-tabulous. They say it's the thought that counts-maybe I can give thought as a gift. Merry Christmas I'm thinking.

I've been fighting an ongoing battle with Dora Juniper (my beleagured and much loved Jeep Grand Wagoneer) this has been going on for months now. Well, yesterday morning she won a decicisive victory in the current round. We have gotten our first snowfalls recently and after the first fall DJ got plowed-in, my fault for not having moved her in time. So the other night when it looked like there was going to be a sizeable fall, I moved her into the driveway. The drive way is where she sat till the nice man with tow-truck came and pulled her away-this caused, as I'm sure you can imagine some consternation, I had moved her to try to make getting out easier. What actually ended happening was that there was a large Dora-shapped peice of inanimate object blocking the driveway. Made it kinda difficult to get Fiona (KJ's Ford Taurus) out of the garrage in the morning, well played Ms. Dora, you bought yourself a trip to the car doctor...

I've been having really good luck with DVD sales recently, in the last little while I have picked up:

The Big Lebowski
Bruce Cambell Vs. The Army of Darkness (Director's bootleg edition)
Resivoir Dogs (Tenth Anniversary)
Sin City
Saved

All of the above where gotten for less than what it would cost for some new release titles so, you know, that's all to the good. I recently saw the release of Sin City with all the bells and whistles in a magazine-so I'll be picking that up, but for now I got the spare (one docco-light on any actual information) edition to satisfy my Noir cravings.

I finished reading Kate Remembered by A. Scott Berg recently-good book and a quick read. It is a collection of the author's memories of his friendship with Katherine Hepburn (RIP) over the last two decades of her life. Aside from the fact that A. Scott Berg is A. Pretensious ninny, the book is excellent. Right now I'm about five pages into a book called Freakonomics. It is very interesting concept-wise, but I'm worried that the number-related stuff is going to make my brain melt.