Why I hate driving

Last night I pulled up to a stop light in the right lane. A taxi pulled up in the left lane, then turned right, while the light was still red. Whatthefuck. I've seen several cars run red lights lately.

Spring is here

I'm going from one thing to another this week. Today was focus at the Lyric from 8-5, then my show call here at Copaken at 5:30. I should be home by nine. Tomorrow and Saturday are all day Lyric, then on Sunday I'll close a show at Copaken then head back to the Lyric for more tech. It should be a profitable week, at least!

It seems Subway is having a promotion with footlongs for $5. I got one at lunch and ate the other half for dinner. Lunch and dinner together cost me about $7.

I'm sick of driving. It used to be fun, but now it just seems like there are too many assholes doing asshole things out there. I want a subway, now.

We watched 28 Days Later last night. I was pleasantly surprised that there weren't cheap scares where something jumps out at you. The story wasn't complex, but it didn't need to be. Also- more Cillian Murphy can't be bad. I'm definitely going to be waiting for Danny Boyle's next movie, since he also directed Sunshine which I loved.

I love flowers! I love going out every day and looking at new growing things. My hens and chicks have decided now is the time to grow bigger. It must be all the rain. I also enjoy daffodils, tulips, hyacinths, irises, and violets. I love that violets grow all over the yard. Purple, light purple, white with purple centers and white. Soon lilacs will bloom. I may have to dig up my plants when we move. I'm getting rather fond of them.

Overheard in NY again

Guy: How was the weekend? Were the kids well-behaved?
Woman: It was fine, they were great.
Guy: How was Max at night? He sometimes gets lonely and starts crying.
Woman: Hmm, I don't know. I locked them out of my room.
Guy, yelling: You what?!? How could you? You know how they are at night!
[pause.]
Woman, unruffled: They are pets. Not kids. Pets. And I don't sleep with dogs that weigh more than I do.

wtf, smoke detector

There was a peep. Then we heard another peep. Then Donald got up on a chair to take the apparently dead 9v batteries out of those smoke detectors. Of course, we didn't have more. We resolved to get some later and went back to our business.

Several hours later, another peep. This time it was the one by the kitchen. Donald went up the chair and removed the battery. It didn't stop peeping. What! I can't stand any peeping all night long so Donald went to get batteries at 11pm. He came back with the batteries, $17 poorer. Highway robbery, I'm telling you.

We finished season 3 of BSG the other day. I'm so hooked on that show. It's very hard to stop watching, but we could only watch a little bit each night. I'd get home from the show at 9:30 or so, but Donald has to get up every morning and go to his real job so we had to stop at 2 episodes. Next up is to watch season 4 episodes online. We loaned season 1 and 2 to Mike recently, and then I loaned them to a theater friend, Porter. They were both hooked, and Now Mike has our season 3, and Porter is watching season 3 from Netflix because he doesn't want to wait for Mike to finish. Oh yeah, and next I'm getting him to watch Firefly. I'm spreading the nerd love. :)

Work continues on our new house. I've been helping during the day lately. I've done various small things, but yesterday Donald and Mike and dad painted all day. They painted the ceilings and did a base coat and a top coat on the walls in all three bedrooms. I haven't even seen the result yet, but I hear it looks great! We're repainting all the rooms, so there will be more painting to come. Slowly but surely, we're getting things done.

And holy crap, paint is expensive! The top of the line paint was $40 a gallon before it went on sale.

Overheard in NY delivers

Environmentalist with clipboard: Excuse me, do you have a minute to help save the environment?
Woman in suit: I'm sorry, I already saved the children this morning and then told the Democratic Party to go fuck themselves three blocks ago, so no, I don't have time to save the environment today. Maybe tomorrow, hippie.

So awful

Whatever you do, don't Netflix The Girls' Room. The description makes it sound pretty entertaining, and it has Wil Wheaton, and Netflix thought we'd like it- but it was wrong. As readers of Wil's blog, we know that he acted in crappy movies in exchange for shiny gold rocks in order to feed his family. But damn. The dialogue was hokey, the characters were unlikeable, and the story lacked conflict. We fast forwarded large parts of it.

Verdict: Stay far far away!

Been awhile

I got all manner of tied up with tech for about a week. It was a fairly normal tech. We did discover a major downtown improvement very close to the theater. It's a lovely new restaurant dealing out tasty hamburgers known as Chef Burger. You may have guessed, but they specialize in burgers. They also have hot dogs and even a few salads. I will surely branch out in the future, but right now I'm hooked on the sweet potato fries. ( I looove sweet potato fries.) We went there about 4 times during the tech process. They also specialize in milkshakes, and for an extra fee you can have yours spiked with booze. I'm looking forward to trying one.