Anyone who’s been to Starbucks with me (or any other place that takes your name when you order) knows that more often then not the order taker writes my name down as “Jerry”, or some variation thereof, but almost never the right way.
Well, yesterday Martha and I had lunch at Rubio’s, and it happened again, this time with a more amusing result, since the cashier’s name was “Garcia”.
Yesterday I finished putting in the flooring in the downstairs “game room”
Unfortunately, you can’t really see it in this picture (except for the very bottom), since Martha is now in the middle of phase 2: painting, so it’s mostly covered up.
I occasionally need to do stuff like this to remind myself why I really like the kind of work I do for a living. Maybe it’s psychological, but it seems like the soreness of being on your knees all day lasts a little longer the older you get…
I forgot that I wanted to publicly thank Randy for an emergency babysitting session on Friday night. It was kind of last minute, since I had to take Martha out to dinner to make up for forgetting to meet her for lunch, even when it was my idea and we talked about it that morning. doh!
Judging by the surprising number of comments I’ve gotten this morning on my Green Lantern t-shirt (people recognizing it just be the logo, since there’s no words), I’m going to reconsider a conversation I had a while back with some of you.
I remember saying something about how I always thought that it was common knowledge that Superman’s “real” (Kryptonian) name was Kal-El (even before the Nicholas Cage baby thing). Several people said that I only knew that because I was a comic geek, but I was thinking that most people knew this (even if they didn’t read comics, since it was in the movies).
So, now for a completely unscientific poll: How many of you knew Superman’s Kryptonian name was Kal-El?
… in the blink of an eye. I just imported Martha’s blog (comments and all) into Wordpress (new URL: martha.freepressblog.org). It was pretty easy; just took a few minutes.
It was a good day; here is a brief summary of my gifts:
Thanks Martha and kids!
Randy has been in line since this morning, saving our place at the front of the line. Since there are about six more people coming to join him, we have devised a strategy to not make everyone else behind us mad. Randy may be ordering pizzas later to share with the people in line, and when I go I will be bringing the previous episodes on DVD and we will watch them in line on my laptop (since it has a larger screen). I’m pretty sure there will be no one cooler (or as Martha would say, dorkier) in line than us.
