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It is impossible to watch The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross without getting warm fuzzies inside. There are no mistakes, only happy little accidents.

Amazing, inspiring, insightful, hilarious and various other adjectives that I can’t think of right now. Thanks for the year ze.

Oh sleep! Why have you forsaken me so? This was the only reasonable thing to do at 4am when insomnia has you in her deathly grip.

It’s been raining for two straight days here in Lubbock. This is what I look like after that much rain.

This west Texas boy just isn’t used to water falling from the sky in such amounts. In other news FedEx says that my laptop is in Anchorage, Alaska. If anyone from FedEx is reading this can you give it a blanket or something? I’m afraid it might get cold, and I want it to be in a good mood when it gets here on Wednesday.

I’m fairly certain that Apple will be announcing the release of Leopard and probably all new products within the next couple of weeks. Why am I sure of this? Because I just placed my order for a new MacBook. I’ve been contemplating this purchase for a while, and I’ve come to the conclusion that it really sucks not having a laptop. I’ve been traveling the last two weekends, and not having access is very unsettling. Sure, I can check mail on my phone. It works ok, but it’s just not the same. I found myself in a number of places with free wifi, but no computer to take advantage of said wifi. It does feel a bit odd to be spending a chunk of money without having a steady source of income at the moment, but I’ll get over it.

I never really got the hang of February. It seems like we just started the year and now it’s already March. Just for reference, here’s the straight dope on why there’s only 28 days in this particular month. It’s odd to think that rulers used to rearrange and modify the calendar to suit their needs, but I guess we still do this to a certain degree with the upcoming changes to daylight savings. I shall now distract you by posting a quick sketch I did earlier this evening while watching the Mavericks win yet another basketball game.

The sketch has absolutely nothing to do with what I wrote above. I have now been jobless for one whole month.

I got the chance to go and see body worlds this last weekend in Dallas. The exhibition will be at the Museum of Nature and Science until May 28, 2007. If you get a chance to go, I highly recommend it. Just make sure and buy your tickets online, it’s attracting quite a crowd. We had to wait an hour and a half for our time slot.

Using a process called plastination all of the water and fat is removed and replaced by a polymer. This can be done on a single organ or an entire human body(or even a horse as in one display).

The result is both beautiful and educational. The human body is an amazing piece of machinery when it is given proper care. Seeing side by side the difference between the lungs of a smoker and a non-smoker, the liver of a drinker and non-drinker, what a brain hemorrhage looks like, etc is scary. Not that I do a horrible job of taking care of my body, but if anything this has strengthened my desire to take care of my body with both exercise and diet. I think I’ll end this here and head to the gym now.

This question was posed to me earlier today. It’s really given me some problems. I just don’t know how to answer. I’m not trying to play myself off as some buddhist jedi monk with no attachments to anything, but it’s just stuff. I have a hard time picking one thing that I couldn’t do without. Don’t get me wrong, I have nice stuff. Nice truck, HD tv, speakers, furniture, etc. I’ve never really been into collecting things. The one thing I do tend to save is ticket stubs. Movie tickets, bus tickets, museums, sporting events, zoos, and so on. I throw them all in my nightstand drawer and pull them out to use as bookmarks. If all of these stubs disappeared I really wouldn’t be that upset. I honestly don’t have a valued prized possession, and I’m not sure how I feel about that.

I always find it interesting which passages and selections have been highlighted, starred, and underlined in library books. What one person finds relevant or interesting might be something that I would have skipped right over. I stop and take notice though, because it was marked. This makes me stop and rethink, does it have meaning? Am I missing something in this passage that I should be getting? Different people read for different reasons, and this probably explains the differences, but it still makes me stop and think.

Ok, so I sat down for an early dinner with a couple peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and a glass of milk. I flipped on the tv and on came Brian Williams with the evening news. In the middle of chewing my third bite I hear the word “peanut butter”. Huh? I look up and hear the word “salmonella”. Whoah, what? At this point I’m running to the pantry to see what kind of pb I have. Well, crap it’s Peter Pan with the infamous serial number beginning with 2111.

No what am I going to do for dinner? I hate throwing food away. The jar of pb is nearly half gone with no problems thus far, so what do I do? Sigh, alright the sandwiches and jar are both in the trash
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