Head full of useless knowledge

It is no secret that I have a lot of useless knowledge in my head, mostly having to do with pop culture or entertainment. I am not sure why this type of information sticks with me when a lot of important stuff flies right out of my head but it does and my friends and family know this. It makes me good at trivia.
Last night I was sitting at home catching up on TiVo and I get this text from my friend KS....

Crazy enough I knew exactly that LHOTP stood for Little House on the Prairie, but the rest of the description was clearly not enough to come up with a a plausible answer. I actually paused my TiVo and thought about it for a good 10 minutes wracking my brain. I texted back, "I need more Info"
About 10 minutes later KS called me and said if she had more info she would know who it was as well as to illuminate me on why she was stalking a D- List celebrity at her local corner store. I asked more questions like, can you think of a small role she might have played or any actors who were in the TV show or movie she was also in? Nope. All she could tell me was she was an annoying younger sister type with curly blonde hair and big teeth, kind of goofy. We managed to talk it out some more and landed on the time frame being the 80's. I threw out shows like Growing Pains, the little girl is too young, Rosanne, it wasn't the first Becky but a good guess, Full House etc. Then we started talking movies. I was thinking John Hughes right away. KS said she is definitely a John Hughes type character. Then a light bulb went off. The little sister in Some Kind of Wonderful. Not the youngest sister that was Candace Cameron of Full House but the middle sister....YES!!! That was it. KS was amazed I managed to pull that out of my butt but hey that is the stuff that is burned in my brain. I have a lot of stupid useless knowledge taking up valuable space up there but this time it resulted in an impromptu catch up session with a friend who lives too far away from me these days.
In case you do not remember the little sister here is a picture from the movie to jolt your memory. Ms. Maddie Corman ala Laura Neslon.



and of course you all remember her, Watts...because we all know after HS was over she dumped stupid Keith Nelson went on to become a big old Mo.


and who did not want to be on the other end of this kiss....



enough said.

Peace

I was just as surprised as anyone the other morning when I heard Obama won the Nobel Peace prize. My first thought was, what!?!?, that is weird but then I remembered the day after he was elected and the celebrations held around the world. I was so moved to see people in the streets of England, Germany, France, Africa etc gathering and supporting us again.






Leicester Square England(Leon Neil, Getty)

The last time that happened was the solemn days after 9/11. There are many people in this country who do not want to see Obama succeed. I do not understand this. No matter how I felt about Bush I knew if he failed our country would fail and that is exactly what happened. Do we really want that to continue, it is obvious the rest of the world doesn't. If the good people of Oslo gave Obama this prize for bringing the world together again around our great nation after many years of alienation then I can get behind that. I believe Obama and the U. S. can live up to those expectations. Don't you?

-- Post From My iPhone

Catch Up and Killer Spiders

It has been a while since I updated. I thought it was time to catch up. Here is what has been going on....

1. I started a new job... well kind of.

I was lured back to an old work place to join the small ops team that supports the financial system for the organization. I am happy to be back working with some great folks, some old and some new. I get to be part of interesting projects and learn some of the technical stuff I never got to do at my old job.
Now for the hiccup. My direct supervisor who is also a dear friend just went out for 6 to 8 weeks after having her hip replaced. I barely had enough time to get up to speed. Unfortunately my co-worker has had me attached to his hip so I can eventually be a help to him and less of a burden. Since I started three weeks ago there have been 5 days of all day workshops or conferences thus hindering my progress on learning how to handle the day to day support issues we have to deal with. On the plus side I have been super busy and everyday I run into an old friend who is still there. It has been great to catch up with these people who I enjoyed working with so much in my last tenure. It is like coming home.

2. I have almost been killed three time by spiders.

I know you are thinking I am crazy but this will change your mind...

Attack #1
In the Shower. I was in the shower about to wash my hair and just as I turned around to adjust the shower curtain out from behind it jumped an evil spider in attack mode. I was naked and at my most vulnerable. Think Psycho people. Of course I screamed and almost fell, luckily Mel was at my place, she had to rush in and save me. Ramona and Henry who I am now referring to as The Domestics were of no use. Henry was on my sheets cleaning himself. As usual.


As a matter of fact Ramona is not even a good watch dog anymore. My neighbor just came down to inform me of the new washer and dryer begin delivered on Friday. We were 5 minutes into our conversation before she realized someone was at the door and started barking her head off. I could have been dead by then, geez...but I digress back to killer spiders.

Attack #2
In the Car. Mel and I were driving around doing errands last week and I saw a spider on the outside of the windshield. Naturally I put the windshield wipers on to fling it off but the dang thing fell into the front of the car. I had this sneaking suspicion this was not the last I would see of it. Later that night I was dropping Mel off and the little fucker crawled across my windshield on the INSIDE of the car. I almost froze but managed to keep my composure. Mel was like, "I do not have a tissue". WHAT?!?! Luckily I had a poop bag next to me in the car door, I pulled it out and gave it to her. She killed it while I managed not to kill us in a car crash. I was remarkably calm. So to Mel's credit this was her second save, but in the future it would be nice if she had spider killing equipment with her at all times and I think she was going to leave the bag with the dead spider in it in my car. Yeah, I do not think so.

Attack #3
On the Deck. I was rigging a homemade clothesline on my deck. I was trying to get my kayak straps around a vine covered pole on the other side of my porch railing, so naturally I was standing on my cooler to reach around the pole. All of a sudden this huge spider came out from the leaves and almost threw me off the deck. I jumped so far back off the cooler with my arms flailing that I broke my watch strap. It took a good 10 minutes of jumping up and down and brushing off my clothes violently to make sure he was not still attached. I gave up on the vine covered pole and rigged my Kayak paddle to hold up the other end of the homemade clothesline. Unreal.



Needless to say it is obvious I have done something to piss of the spider community.

3. I have become obsessed with Glee....I really cannot watch enough. Mel and I keep re-watching portions of the episodes on my TiVo. Love it.
Here are just a couple of the reasons.



and



Finally Jane Lynch is getting the recognition she deserves.