DLand - Is it hot in here or is it me?

Weather forecast in the Walt Disney World Dolphin Hotel - partly cloudy. I woke up this morning and when I stepped out into the hall smelled burnt toast. After much confusion, I finally found out that there was a forest fire about 3 miles north of the park and that the winds were sending the smoke all through the park ... and into the hotels. The exhibit hall and front lobby all had several feet of smoke hovering at the tops of them. It was very strange. Earlier it was bad enough they closed the airport and it was hard to drive around. But it seems to have cleared up so far. Saturday I flew down to Orlando for this Medical Library Association conference. Overall that was pretty uneventful. But I'm discovering that all of Walt Disney World was designed by a ten-year-old. The happiest place on earth? More like the tackiest place on earth. I am staying in the most gaudy hotel known to man. Salmon and mint julip vomiting all over the curtains and furniture. My lamps are shaped like palm trees. My light fixtures are covered with pineapples. I'll add pictures when I get home. It's horrendous.

So the work part of this trip has been a bit of a joke. I was brought in to be the medical features expert on our product and I think I talked to three people today. Ah, well. I'm getting a free tour of DisneyWorld. I had breakfast with Pluto and his friends this morning. I tell ya, that Dale Chipmunk is a real Casanova.

DLand - Feebles and Fishies

A couple of things I learned watching Meet the Feebles. Frogs foughts in Vietnam. Hippos have huuuuuge tits - poke your eye out tits. If an elephant and a chicken have sex, the baby is might crazy looking. If you snort borax you melt into a green ball of slime. Nasal sex is an up and coming porn industry. Your head can fit inside your ass. The movie was entertaining but not your average film. Sorta like Clockwork Orange and the Muppets mushed together. Feel free to borrow my DVD if you wish. Overall I give it two hippo tits up.

In other news ... The glory of cable modem is mine! All mine! I'm so pleased I could just faint. Now wild horses couldn't drag me out of these digs unless it was to a huge house with a T1 line. I'll recant that at some point but for now there is no other place to live besides here. Paradise of internet connections.

Speaking of digs, I'm very excited to hear that Mike and Sue have found a suitable home in the beach area and will be moving here soon. It's stinky that Mike has to drive back and forth in the meantime 2.5 hours one way but I suppose it could be worse.

We were eating at Ying's Wednesday and we sat next to the fish tank. There were these little goldfish type fish in the tank and two of them were making a little nest. It was the neatest thing. They had made a little gravel moon crater in the middle of the tank. And they were pulling out rocks from the middle by sucking them up and spitting them out over the edge. It was amazing to watch. I could barely concentrate on my food. I was wondering if the little fishies knew disappointment, frustration and grief. Like if I had reached in and pushed all their rocks back in would they have been like “Fuckin' A!” or would they have just turned around and said “Hey, where did all these rocks come from?” and keep going. They say ignorance is bliss.

SweetPea has lost 17.5 pounds so far in his Weight Watchers adventure. I'm extremely proud of him. His pants are falling off of him! He compared it all to role-playing and the similarities are uncanny. Every new cookbook is a monster manual and every equation for how many points a food has is like figuring what level spells you can cast. It's pretty easy and quite entertaining. We're both eating better and he's getting a healthy dose of positive reinforcement. So, go Sweetie go!

Oh, and I'm still car shopping. Can't ever be happy with what you have.

DLand - Too Much Fun for One Birthday Girl

Birthdays are so great there should be more of them. Friday was a leisurely trip to Richmond for gaming (I'm the voyeur in the group - but it's equally entertaining). Saturday was a pleasant breakfast at IHOP followed by a maddening dash back to the office in time for some work projects. Then a trip to dinner at the Duck-In before a VERY late movie at the MacCarthur Center to see Shrek - which was a very entertaining movie. I have not laughed out loud in a movie in a long time and there were moments in that one were I had to pinch myself. Maybe I was just feeling punchy. We make it home by 12:30 or so. I never have to worry about Jeremy having an affair behind my back because he can't keep any secret from me. He couldn't stand waiting to give me my present. So since it was technically the 20th, I got my beautiful black opal pendant to wear to bed.

The next day was a pleasant jaunt to my parents' to borrow the truck and gab for a while. Then off to Bossman's to eat way too much food for lunch and dinner while we watched the entire season of the Sopranos including the finale. I looooooove that show. Love it. Love it. Love it. Bossman was a sweetie and saved them all on his Tivo for me. But that's a lot of Sopranos to watch so we didn't finish until 3am. What a night. We had homemade ice cream in two flavors and barbeque chicken. Mmmmm. There were some rousing games of ping pong and Bossman got me a ping pong table for my birthday! I'm so happy I could burst. It's a Kettler indoor/outdoor kind and their indestructable. I can't wait to put ours together at home. Oh the joy of ping pong. I am a ping pong wizard. Ok, well, maybe not, but I really like the game. It's just easy enough that anyone can play without having to be good.

Oh, and Carl sent me a DVD of Meet the Feebles which I plan on watching tonight. It's described as “the Muppets on acid.” Expect a review of that soon. I'm very curious about it. Carl is a pretty kick ass father-in-law. Other than that, not much to report. It's been a good week of many cool things.