Time to get back onto a schedule. I start back in on Pulmonary Rehab this morning. Right now I’m drinking a bunch of water to get all hydrated beforehand. I’ll grab an apple too to give me some energy. The only problem is this takes up most of my morning.

On another note VH1 Classics has sucked me in this morning. Right now A Girl Like You by The Smithereens is playing. I feel like I’ve taken a trip back in time.

Hee Hee.

Thanks to the Church Sign Generator, via Halley at Misbehaving.net. Damn, I keep getting more and more ideas for this.

From Elizabeth Spiers via Bookslut:

Lou Reed had a book party. Elizabeth Spiers reports.

8:48 – Friend points out tiny yappy dog running around leather art gallery furniture. “Who brought their dog?” friend asks. Dog is summarily scooped up by Lou Reed. Realize that Lou Reed has a tiny yappy dog. Lose tiny bit of respect for Lou Reed.

I still can’t quite picture it.

I’m no longer the second Gregory on Google. Must do something about that.

I’ve been mostly happy with Apple’s iTunes Music Store. They don’t have the most complete selection, but they have a fairly eclectic one. Just recently I noticed they added in chunks of the 4AD catalog (including some Colorbox) and the Beggars Banquet catalog. Heck, they’ve even got the Christmas with The Brady Bunch record. The one place where the store has a lot of improving to do is with its customer service.

The other day I bought The Gunslinger from iTMS. I’d wanted to give the whole audio book thing a try (which, btw, is quite nice on long drives). Things were great until about 1 hour and 46 minutes into the first track. At that point whoever was encoding the audiobook must have screwed up. Because for a few minutes, you hear a bit of the second chapter, then things resume where they left off. At first I thought i was just not following the story, but I compared it to the actual text and it is definitely not right in the recording. So, I sent off a help request to customer service. My first reply from them was next to useless. They asked, what OS I’m running, what my network connection was, what kind of machine I’m running, etc. All OS/hardware/connection related things. I looked back over my initial email and realized it might not be totally clear. So I answered their questions and reiterated that it was a problem with the file itself. It exists on the two machines and iPod I played it on. Today I got a second response that told me I could download the file again. Had they gotten a corrected version of it? Nope. Same exact thing. For some reason I don’t think they are understanding me. Oh well, hopefully this time around things will be better. All I want is the corrected file or a credit for the purchase price if that isn’t available.

Oh yes, and Apple? Audible? To the one of you that produces the actual files. Could you please break your audiobooks up into CD length tracks? It would make archiving them MUCH easier. And it would mean I could take them with me to listen to when in places I can’t use my iPod.

It’s 33 degrees F out. Brrrrr. Of course the part about this I don’t mind is that I get to curl up in a blanket on the couch and drink hot cocoa. Supposed to go grocery shopping today, but if it doesn’t warm up maybe I’ll look into using Peapod.

Last night my friend Heather was taking me out to dinner for my birthday. She’d been talking about a place called Evoo for ages and how she thought I’d love it. The added bonus was that when we got to the restaurant a bunch of my friends were waiting there to surprise me. Dinner was amazing. For an appetizer I had this pork and garlic sausage that was on some cheese and it was really yummy. The entree was a Chinese Box Full of Mustard Glazed Shrimp, Sesame – Hoisin Braised Beef, Gingered Vegetable – Cashew Salad and Jasmine Rice. They actually bring out a plate with an upside down chinese takeout box on it, then lift it up and everything is right there! Desert was some Concord Grape Sorbet that was very very grapey!

Have I said lately that I have the best friends in the world?

Catching up on anime and watching Looney Tunes (Now I just need to find a girlfriend who enjoys those things).

The New Hampshire Supreme Court made a major decision yesterday.

N.H. Supreme Court: Gay sex cannot be adultery

By Anne Saunders, Associated Press Writer, 11/7/2003

CONCORD, N.H. — If a married woman has sex with another woman, is that adultery? The New Hampshire Supreme Court on Friday said no.

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Looking at a dictionary and old case law, the court determined that the definition of adultery requires sexual intercourse. The judges point to a Webster’s dictionary definition that mentions intercourse and an 1878 case that refers to adultery as “intercourse from which spurious issue may arise.”[Boston.com]

Spurious issue huh? Also, is oral sex considered intercourse? So guys can go and cheat with another woman and as long as they don’t fuck it isn’t adultery? Who says this just has to apply to same sex interactions? My personal opinion, cheating is cheating. Playing around with technicalities like this is just wrong.

We see the fish below the ice sometimes.