The past few days have been good yard days and I've been diligently putting in my time. Yardwork is not my favorite in case you didn't know. I brought home two tomato plants from the farmer's market and I've got the garden plot about 1/2 ready for action. I've been telling myself I wasn't going to work back there today but I can already feel myself thinking I should finish what I started yesterday. My seed collection needs to be cleaned out too. I have all kinds of things that I've never opened or packets with only a few more seeds that I should finish up. A couple years ago I planted Cosmos which take over the backyard in summer -- I've been afraid to plant them again. Everything goes to seed and then to chaos.

This afternoon this man knocked on our door and I'm not sure if he was insulting me or trying to help me. (ESL). He did convey that he thought my lawn needed to be mowed and I think he wanted to mow it himself. He was driving a white minivan which was parked in front of our neighbor's house, door ajar, not quite at the curb as if he'd stopped in a big hurry. I told him my husband was going to do it -- even though I don't think that project is even on the radar at this point -- because I wanted him to think that we keep on top of that sort of thing. I'm not clear if I made arrangements for him to return or if I informed we weren't interested.

Last weekend I watched this movie called The Tao of Steve. I didn't hate it--it had some funny parts -- but the more I thought about it the more problems I thought it had. The protagonist is basically loser guy and gives little indication that he's going to change -- yet we're supposed to root for him to get the girl. If my friend was dating that guy I'd be begging her to reconsider. Last night I was switching channels on the new a million channel cable and found Bring it On which is a stupid cheerleader movie and we ended up watching the whole thing because it was hilarious.

I can't remember where I saw this First Annual Keanu Awards -- pretty funny. And while I'm talking about awards I'd just like to say that this was just about the least satisfying Oscar Ceremony ever -- and it was WAY TOO LONG.

I sold my CRX on Sunday. I wrote up a story about it but somehow it disappeared into the blackblog and I'm not in the mood for resurrecting it at the moment. It found a very good home.

First of all, check out this tug boat getting pulled under a bridge. It's a little slow loading -- but completely worth it.

Yesterday we finally decided to put a second cable box downstairs and AT&T is having a special deal where you can get their super-deluxe-every single channel package at an amazing low price for 6 months and then they brought the second cable box and installed it for free. The AT&T people came over at about 8:20am and at first they didn't even think they could do it without drilling concrete or something like that but eventually they found a way to do it (it took an hour and 1/2) and the finished scenario involves wires strung all over hellandgone but Bob can watch cable in the basement and that's all that really matters.

So what's the first thing we find to watch on the new cable service with everything? A documentary on the Sundance Channel about Linux and open source.

Last night I went to a -- I don't know what you call it -- a product demonstration? It was for the release of Flash MX. Just look at these pages, obviously my webpage-making skills are primitive at best and I'd love to learn more about using all the Macromedia stuff but you know, only so much time and energy and I have some other creative things I spend my time on. There was a time when web technology was vaguely in my grasp, but those days are long gone and I spent much of the demo trying very hard to follow the presentation.

During the demo the guy showed all these new features and tools in this latest version and occasionally you'd hear murmurs through the crowd and once people broke into applause.

I told Bob it was like when he took me to a Phish concert. I could tell when something good was happening, but I didn't really understand what it was.

I wanted to take care of DEQ, tags and sales tax on my car today but it all seems to be in paperwork limbo somewhere and the person I need to talk to won't be in until Monday so yay for me.

Yesterday was the first time I put gas in the new car and I can see the day of the $8 gas tank is over. I've been spoiled for too long.

Today I saw one of those hybrid cars on the road. I don't understand why they have to look so Jetsons. Is it mandatory because of the hybrid? Or is it some marketing gimmick? Because I'd be more into it if they looked like normal sedans. But I don't want to drive a Jetsons car.