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Toni is taking off for 3 weeks, which is going to suck, but it will give me a chance to get a bunch of stuff done on the house and elsewhere. Here is a run down:
I finally had a chance to go see the Dark Knight, and at the IMAX to boot. Toni, Jon, Jon’s lady friend Katie and I went to the 10:30pm sold out showing at the Minnesota Zoo last Friday night.
It is 11:30CST on Thursday. I should probably go to bed, but i feel like I need to do SOMETHING. This is my first moment really to breathe in over a week. At work, the fruits of nearly a year and a half of labor came to coalesced this previous Monday at around 1AM CST – the New Propeller.com Site HAS LAUNCHED!
When I was younger, my dad got a call one evening from some telemarketer. Getting fed up with getting cold calls, he decided to screw with one of these guys and so he gave the fictitious name of “Ralphie Garrett”. Then I hear my dad say “uh yup, middle initial is ‘E’, first name spelled R-A-L-P-H”. heheh. So then for years later we got junk mail for “Mr. Ralph E. Garrett”.
I went home this weekend and grabbed all my comics from when I was a kid. I’m glad I had the stain of mind to keep them bagged and boarded.
Last week sucked again for working out. I have been eating shitty lately. Time to get back on the bike. I have been considering joining anytimefitness. They have one a long walk/short drive away. Interesting.
I had the pleasure of listening to a recording of Aldous Huxley from 1962. Huxley, a visionary speaker and thinker predating the 60s hippy movement was a leader in predicting the social control that is all the rage in counter culture thought even today. It reminds me of some dialog in THE MIST, where the people trapped in the grocery store discuss the potential impending violence among the captives. They argue the good nature of people vs. the psychotic fickle nature of man when all the social safety precautions are removed. The MIST wasn’t a movie about Terrorism, but still commented on the fear imposed when you are exposed to the