Observations

My Chicago-based family has a bad habit of going to The Maker during the winter months. And since that seems to be the only time I get there I've seen plenty of snow and ice, if only periodically.

• So, this means it's been 1978 since I've seen anything else. It was early September(another funeral), a very long time ago. I forgot all about the summer weather, which basically sucks from where I'm coming from. In the 80's, everyday, with rain... every day. Humid. Ugh! But it's still better than Florida, and greener than Georgia, Arkansas or Oklahoma.
• All Chicago really needs is a Waffle House or two... preferable near the Cabela's in Hoffman Estates... which isn't near as awesome as the Cabela's in Rogers, Minnesota... and neither comes close to the Bass-Pro in Springfield, Missouri.
• Illinois really needs to get a grip when it comes to speed limits. There ain't no damn good reason for the speed limit from Kankakee to Paducah to be 65mph. But it's strictly enforced. It must be a control issue on the part of the anal retents in Springfield.
• Seriously, cops up and down the state need to just lay off and let the people drive. After spending my life on California roads, I probably couldn't make it there for very long, but I'll always have a love for the place.

In a break with tradition, I've got a week penciled in to visit this spring. The cousinery is demanding it. Hopefully, I'll get to see the sights for a change.

Home

And it looks like the JapBots had a field day on my absence.
Where is that Tully when you need him?

Quick Hit

Ya ever get to saying "We need to get together more often", or "let's not wait til the next funeral,yeah?"

I say it all the time.
Life gets busy.
Days are short.
And the years... well, I guess you can tell where this going.
One can make all the excuses in the world, supply all manner of reasoning, but the end result is always the same.

I'm trying to change that. No excuses for me.

In a few hours I'll be flying off to Chicago. Like always, when we gather round the table another loved one will not be there to sip the wine with us.

A short trip at a fast pace, but for a few days I will be leaving this place wide open to Tully and the Japanese Viagra Bots. Maybe between the two of them something interesting may get posted.


Take care.

Killers

Katherine Heigl stars as Jen, a gal who accompanies her parents on a vacation to Nice,France as a way of overcoming her latest breakup.
She meets Spencer (Ashton Kucher), they fall in love and quickly marry, unaware that he is a CIA super spy/assassin...

It's three years later, and Spencer's past has come back to trouble them as everybody they know, so it seems, is out to collect the large bounty on his head.

A dull and formulaic action-comedy type thing that never clicks, Killers basically sucks as cinema, and is barely average as entertainment. Also starring Tom Selick as the uptight, over protective father.

Pass, unless you like seeing Katherine Heigl looking cute, because, well... that's what she does. And she does it so well.
OK, so maybe it's not a total waste.

And It Better Not Suck!

I am so looking forward to this.

From The Shreds Catalogue

BP announced this evening that they installed a wedding ring around the leaking pipe today and it immediately quit putting out.