Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Yet Another Shot In The Dark

It doesn't take a genius to figure out why I do so many pictures like this one:



(For the record, though, being a genius in no way impedes your ability to figure it out)
I mean, the reason is pretty obvious: it looks cool.
Oh, wait, that's not it. I mean, yeah, I do think that images like this look cool, but that's not the main, obvious reason.
That would be because they're (relatively) easy.
Anyway, that's my latest quickly cranked out disembodied limbs floating in darkness picture.
This morning I got up, took a shower, drove to Ashburn, had my permanent crown put in, went to Wal-Mart, then came home, all in the space of about two hours.
Getting the crown put in actually took just under ten minutes.
Once I got home I decided that I didn't feel like doing anything else, so that kind of squashed any plans I might have had for getting my taxes done today.
I'm not really liking their chances for getting done tomorrow, either.
Yes, I know I need to get them done and that putting it off isn't going to make it any less likely that last year's $10,000 windfall is going to cost me this year, but I do still have over a month, so I'm bound to get them done sometime.
Speaking of money, last month's extra expenses, such as the extra $85 it cost me to get my emissions inspection done, plus the $28 for the inspection itself, plus the $64 for renewing my registration which had necessitated the inspection in the first place, ended up cutting into this month's income a little.
It's nothing too serious, but after paying the bills it was clear I saw that if I wanted to avoid tapping into the savings I was going to have to live frugally until next payday.
So naturally I spent over $70 on groceries yesterday. D'oh!
Actually, even though it's about $30 more than I normally spend on groceries it's not that big of a deal, as I did stock up pretty well and wil likely not have to do much if any grocery shopping next week.
Still, I had to laugh when I saw that total.

So You Don't Have To Department:
A while ago at work, my co-worker Simon commented on having just watched a video clip in which Tyra Banks fondles singer Katherine McPhee's breasts.
(The reason for the groping, apparently, was that McPhee was responding to allegations that her breasts are fake and asserting that they are natural and jiggly. She invited Tyra to feel them in order to verify their authenticity, though given that they're really not all that terribly big, I'm not sure who it exactly that's alleging that her breasts have been augmented.)
As it happened, this was the day after I'd posted the video of Scarlett Johansson being groped, which Scott mentioned in response to Simon's comments on the Tyra clip. As Simon had never seen the clip, Scott directed him here.
Simon then went on to read some other entries, and in response to the bit in the Operation: Mindcrime entry in which I self-deprecatingly draw attention to my lack of an exciting social life, he laughed and said, "Well, at least you can make fun of yourself."
I said, "Yes. I do it so that other people don't have to."

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