I Want To Break Free

Started listening to the Altered Carbon series of audiobooks this evening.  Been a while since I have done any cyberpunk. I got through Neuromancer and Count Zero but couldn’t find a clean version of Mona Lisa Overdrive last year so I sort of stopped.

After that A Song of Ice and Fire sort of became what I was listening to for something like nine months.

After Netflix picked it up as a series last year I decided to give it a read/listen.  I snagged all three ebooks and should have all of the audiobooks now.  We shall see how it goes.

It Has A Basket And A Bell

Today was literally an all over the world day at work.

Then there was a bike ride that had the end result of finding a safe way for the wife to get to at least Wal*Mart, so good times.

At least these two had a lot of fun riding all around!

I’m On The Highway To Hell

Walked into work today knowing it was either going to be 40 degrees inside the building or 90 degrees due to the AC being either left on or turned off over the course of the long weekend.  I was hoping for 40 since it is easier to warm the place up than cool it down.

Also, I had a jacket in the car.

Incorrectamundo.

Today was truly a sick burn…

I Ain’t Got Me Nobody To Carry Me No More

Finally got around to watching Star Trek Beyond over the last few nights.  Stayed up to finish it this morning.

I was pleasantly surprised, honestly, with how much I enjoyed it.

So much that I have decided to watch these more or less together.  I remember enjoying the first one but not really enjoying the second one.  Granted, that may have been me wanting to despise it from the outset. There is also a pretty good chance that the tequila had something to do with it…

I vaguely remember finishing the movie but I definitely remember finishing the tequila.

Anyway, I am going to go into the movies with the mindset of enjoying them.

I Will Choose Free Will

So then there was this…

It had to be posted…Let the memes begin!

Oh Let The Sun Beat Down Upon My Face

Welcome Race Fans!

Or not.  Took the boy child to the zoo today.

The logic was that it would not be nearly as crowded due to the race, and we were not too disappointed with that logic.

Warm Within

The day your two-year old is rocking out to Metallica in a Five Guys...

You Can't Take The Heat In The Kitchen

You would think that DVDs that I have kept in the case (granted, it is a rather bizarre cardboard book sleeve thing) would stay nice.  I've watched the majority of this television series twice on DVD and my step-mother watched it once.

But no, some of these discs are pretty scratched up.

It Says Right There In The Constitution That It's Really A Ok To Have A Revolution...

You know, it's interesting.

All of the school shootings that have happened recently.  It is hard to turn a blind eye to it, regardless of where you are, but it is even harder when it happens so very close to home.

Does something need to be done to curb this?  Yes. Most certainly yes. Have we hit on the right answer yet? Unlikely.

I know that the answer lies somewhere between "a polite sign" and "federalize the National Guard, and post armed soldiers in every school and federal building" to "ban all guns...Ban them right now!"

This is the United States we live in. We have this wonderful(ish?) government that is supposed to roll with the will of the people.  Problem is the people don't actually do a lot of voting for the offices that actually matter so we end up with, for lack of a better term, lifers who are in it for the money.

That is a problem.  A problem that only we can change!

If You'd Like Substitutions He Won't Put Up A Fight

Someone came in to work one day a few months ago and shipped a package to a place on Endor Forest Court...Turns out it was Endor Forest Place.

I had always wondered if it was a neighborhood full of Star Wars themed streets, but only one openly done and another misspelled.

Not, fortunately, suffering from the same drama as the Game of Thrones neighborhood in Australia.