These Mojave Experiment ads are – desperate? Anyone else think it’s exactly like Folgers instant coffee commercials from way back?

Reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle and wishing I had a spot in the yard for a garden.

2 for 5 on the “ring the bell” sledgehammer. Not great. 🙁

Wishing my Big Green Egg chiminea wasn’t 3 weeks away. 😕 Rearranged the deck for it, great spot and nice layout now. Zen.

Got the fountain running for the first time in 3 years. Now it’s setup outside. Much corosion to clean in the pump, but got it going!

Just finished replacing the gasket on the Big Green Egg. More work than I expected, but closes so nice again.

  • Queueing to get in Ralph’s World concert. Mazie very excited!
  • Bumped into Mykl Roventine at Ralph’s World. Any other parents here?
  • Mazie in line to get here t-shirt signed by Ralph. Dad holding the seats and hoping there is enough time for her to get it signed.
  • Mazie got a Ralph signature!

Sun coming up much later these days. Fall is here.

Note to self: must put iPhone earbuds in my computer bag to have with at all times.

Rather excited about news that Amazon is entering the CDN market. That is a good thing. Will help a lot of small companies.

Facebook should make an IMAP interface to their messaging system. Growing annoyed that I have to check it. 😕

Like much of the new Twitter layout, but not a big fan of these super big tabs on the right.

I wish the iPhone would have had an IR emitter in it. Would be a great remote setup.

Waiting to speak at Dan Grigsby’s class and watching him pulling off the Professor thing like a Pro!

The new Canon 5D Mark II looks shockingly cool. Never thought of HD video through a fisheye.

  • At the “Grillmaster: Smokehouse” class at Kitchen Window. Fired up!
  • Learning about smoking oysters. I’m sorry, but these things are just gross. Don’t think I can eat one.
  • Ate a smoked oyster. Not for me. People eat these things?
  • Love that they are serving Chimay at the class.
  • Eating some amazing fish off of a stove-top smoker. Wow.

My least favorite error from MobileMe (which is paid for):

idisk.me.com server returned “payment required” (402) in response to a request

Waiting for the DirecTV guy to come and take my TiVo away from me. Grrr…

Seriously, is it ever a good idea for an IVR system to ask you to “speak” your social security number? There is a keypad on the phone!

I cannot believe how painful it is to transition health insurance around. Frustration level: 10+