Garden Of Blog

What next? Better safe than sorry I guess. We ought to throw the rest of our public money at permanently banning the letter “F” from license plates nationwide. That will surely fix this and other potential problems.

… these. What does that say about us? Thanks to Dave for the pointer!

[note: one, mine, is in the shop and may have seen its last action... after much abuse from me.]

[note #2: okay we actually have two 96 Camrys, not 1990-1994s, but they're just as boring I assure you.]

The Celts did it! They staged the best season-to-season comeback ever, and won it all last night. Ray Allen kicks ass. They all kick ass.

These are always the sweetest victories. At the beginning of the season, the future of the team was quite uncertain. The team had regrouped and reformed, coming off a horrendous record in the previous year. Only with that kind of a recent past could they emerge the triumphant underdogs, putting the “best basketball player in the world” in his rightful place: on an early plane back to L.A.

My marriage is kind of like that. We’ve hit some epic lows that have threatened to define us. But they really don’t. We’re always making comebacks. Nothing feels better than a comeback.

Jessica is my sweetheart, the fated mother of my children, my living archetype of femininity, the person who makes me feel whole day after day. She goes out of her way to make me happy in countless ways, accommodating my every eccentricity. And most of all she makes me proud (how could I land such a lady?), giving me a constant +10 buff to Self-Esteem (imagining, for a moment, my psyche as a cluster of World of Warcraft statistics)…

I’m hoping we can get free for dinner and movie soon. Anyone want a couple kiddos fo a night?

Hope you like the new look of Garden Of Blog. Thanks to Ed for discovering what turned out to be a hack on the vulnerable PHP template I was using. No Garden for awhile there.

I also realized that I didn’t necessarily want everything I post here on gardenofblog.com to propagate to mindmined.com, although I thought the idea was nifty a few months ago. I only want to cross-post in some instances. I’d like the freedom to write complete drivel in the Garden without always defacing the community site with my garbage. I’ll send this one over there however.

I’m actually pretty pleased with the new version of WordPress, because I can add ‘mindmined’ as a tag without promoting it to a category, yet the tags show as category objects in the RSS feed. So I can detect that on the mindmined.com side and only pull the ones I tag for cross-posting. Thanks to the author of XML::FeedPP.

Let’s see, what’s coming up. Justin’s birthday is coming up! What does he want?