Gotta love vimrod

Despite the drama of Thursday and Friday, Saturday went very well. Will cooked me my favorite breakfast (breakfast burritos with tons of salsa) and did all the cleanup. Then I went to lunch with Dad and Paula at the Fox & Hound. Then they took me shopping to the World Market and to a little farmer’s market kind of thing in Hernando. Then I got to take a nap (YAY) then we went to a hockey game. After the game, we went out with some of our friends to TGIFridays for cake and drinks.

I got lots of good gifts and had a great day!

After a bad day at work, I’m driving home and coming up on the Green Tea overpass, I almost hit a puppy. So I slow down and pull over. It’s a little beagle puppy and it’s very scared. So I put on my hazards and get out to try to get it to come with me. I have no idea what I’ll do with it, but I have to get it off this very narrow overpass. I’ve finally got it to move in my direction, and I hear a loud motor coming from the otherside. I stand up and get out of the middle of the road and it’s some kind of utility truck. And it’s going way too fast. So I start waving at him, to get him to slow down. Well, he doesn’t, so I get over to the little shoulder and I’m waving like crazy. Well, he was too busy looking at me to look ahead. He killed the puppy. Ran it over, hard. And he never slowed down. I was horrified. I just stood there and cried. Another car, saw what happened and pulled over. He thought it was my puppy. I explained what happened to him and he was very nice about my little breakdown. He told me to go ahead and get on my way, and he’d clean up the puppy.

So, a great way to polish off a Friday. I’m so sad.

The day before my birthday sucks. Will had already planned on not getting me anything for my birthday (I got the iMac for Christmas/birthday present) and then last night he asks “So, what do you want for your birthday?” I didn’t realize it was a trick question and I say “Whatever you want to get me” which of course sends him into a tailspin because I already got my present. I thought he was asking because he honestly intended to get me something else and was asking. So we fought and I cried myself to sleep last night. Then today, I’m having trouble planning lunch with my dad for my birthday, things are falling apart for my party tomorrow night, and it’s all going downhill. Everyone that’s not already a season ticket holder was coming, but they didn’t get the memo that we weren’t getting a box for my birthday, so they thought that we were covering their tickets. Now none of them are coming to the after party, since there’s no telling what time it will start. And there’s a skate with the players, and I’m sure the kids will whine, wanting to skate.

Well, I have to stop for now, as I’m about readyto either boohoo again or put my fist through….something.

You scored as Lara Croft.

A thrill-seeking, slightly unscrupulous, tough-as-nails archaeologist, Lara Croft travels the world in search of ancient relics perhaps better left hidden. She packs two Colt .45s and has no fear of jumping off buildings, exploring creepy tombs, or taking on evil meglomaniacs bent on world domination.

Lara Croft 83%
Neo, the “One” 67%
Captain Jack Sparrow 58%
The Terminator 54%
James Bond, Agent 007 54%
Indiana Jones 50%
The Amazing Spider-Man 46%
William Wallace 46%
Maximus 46%
El Zorro 38%
Batman, the Dark Knight 38%

What action hero would you be?

From ABC News

Virginia May Conduct DNA Testing to Determine if Innocent Man Was Executed in 1992
By KRISTEN GELINEAU Associated Press Writer

RICHMOND, Va. Jan 2, 2006 — With less than two weeks left in Gov. Mark R. Warner’s term, time is running out for him to arrange DNA testing that could determine whether Virginia sent an innocent man to the electric chair in 1992.

If the tests show Roger Keith Coleman did not rape and murder his sister-in-law in 1981, it will mark the first time in the United States an executed person has been scientifically proved innocent, say death penalty opponents, who are keenly aware that such a result could have a powerful effect on public opinion.

“I think it would be the final straw for a lot of people who are on the fence on the death penalty,” said Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center in Washington.

A Gallup poll in October found that 64 percent of Americans support the death penalty. That is the lowest level in 27 years, down from a high of 80 percent in 1994.

Warner a potential Democratic presidential contender for 2008 hopes to complete negotiations over how the test would be conducted before his term ends Jan. 14, said spokesman Kevin Hall.

Coleman was convicted and sentenced to death in 1982 for the murder of 19-year-old Wanda McCoy, his wife’s sister, who was found raped, stabbed and nearly beheaded in her home in the coal mining town of Grundy.

The case drew international attention as the well-spoken Coleman pleaded his case on talk shows and in magazines and newspapers. Time magazine featured the coal miner on its cover. Pope John Paul II tried to block the execution. Then-Gov. L. Douglas Wilder’s office was flooded with thousands of calls and letters of protest from around the world.

Coleman’s attorneys argued that he did not have time to commit the crime, that tests showed semen from two men was found inside McCoy and that another man bragged about murdering her. Coleman was executed on May 20, 1992.

“An innocent man is going to be murdered tonight,” the 33-year-old said moments before he was electrocuted. “When my innocence is proven, I hope America will realize the injustice of the death penalty as all other civilized countries have.”

There are a few folks I’ve already heard from that say that they hope that if he’s found innocent, they will do away with the death penalty altogether. What do you think?

We didn’t win last night, but I have faith. We’ll turn it around on Friday! Woohoo!

Here’s a photo of my favorite RiverKing, Travis Banga.

…..what would become of us bloggers?

According to Paul Di Filippo, the downfall of the net (”chaos of viruses, worms, spam, terrorism and busts by the FBI anti-porn squad”) makes bloggers become crazy street-people that people fear:

I HAD TO run a few errands downtown, but I hesitated to go.

What if I ran into bloggers?

Ever since the total, irretrievable collapse of the Internet in a chaos of viruses, worms, spam, terrorism and busts by the FBI anti-porn squad, that archaic species of human had become a bigger street menace than mimes, Jehovah’s Witnesses, or panhandlers ever were.

Still, I had some banking business that had to be conducted in person, and I couldn’t put it off much longer. And I hated feeling like a prisoner in my own house, living in fear of the depradations of this class of homeless attention-grabbers.

This is good.

Went to a NYE party and they were serving a ton of food. Ordinarily a good thing, right? Well, one of the platters was shrimp, and I’m big time allergic. So I avoid the shrimp think it will be ok. WRONG! Somehow, something got on my hand that gave me a nasty case of hives! It itches like crazy and it’s all puffy. Thank God for Benadryl!!!