Thursday miscellanea #20

• I didn’t make any formal resolutions for 2009.  I believe I’m mostly aware of my shortcomings, and really, most of them are trending correctly.  That’s going to be enough this January 1.
• Husbands, check it out:  if you resolved to help your wife more around the house this year, that’s great.  She’ll be happier day to day, and plus you’ll probably get laid more.  Be advised that when you’re helping with laundry, you really have to be folding and putting away to make a difference.  Getting the stuff to the washer, and then moving it from the washer to the dryer, while necessary, is not that big a contribution.
• The first song I ever heard on CD was “All She Wants To Do Is Dance” by Don Henley.  The first CD I owned was Yngwie J. Malmsteen’s Rising Force’s Odyssey.  I remember each vividly.  I have no such corresponding memories for the first time I heard an MP3 file.
• We were so damned sick for so damned long last year for Christmas break, and there isn’t a hint of anything on anyone this year.  That’s definitely better.
• I’m about halfway through Gears of War 2, and it’s worthy.  The gameplay, sound, and graphics are all outstanding.  Plus, the story is much richer this time, which was the only real complaint I had with the first one.  I’ll finish it this weekend, and then get into Condemned and Condemned 2, which Santa Claus brought me.
• Know what irritates me?  Someone who never just orders off the menu.  You know those people, who always have to add this, or subtract that, or can you do this, or can you substitute that?  Is that you?  Do you have any idea how petty you look when you do that?  Would you have us believe that your palate is consistently so damned delicate that you can’t deign to consume any of the focus-group-tested-out-the-ass menu items as they come?
• There is a 2003 Sheryl Crow concert popping up on HDNet periodically, and it’s excellent, both aurally and visually.  I try to be a little distinctive in my celebrity crushes, and you can’t get any more mainstream than Sheryl Crow—but man, what a freakishly good-looking woman.
• The STP Gorton’s Taco Bell Samsonite BASF Kotex Craftsman Brookstone Allstate Sugar Bowl is on Fox tomorrow night, which means Brent Musburger won’t be calling it.  This is a Good Thing.  Roll Tide.

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