Scooter Chronicles

Nigel loves trains. Or as he calls them, “Woo’s”. Maybe a better phrase would be that he is obsessed with them. A while back we had a couple of Target gift cards to use on Nigel and decided to buy him a toy. We opted for THIS GeoTrax set.

A month or more later, on St. Patrick’s Day, Nigel, my Mother-In-Law, and I went over to David and Catherine’s for dinner. Nigel started playing with Lyric’s Thomas the Tank Engine trains, the ones that use wooden tracks. I could not tear him away from them. So last...

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I see these type of internet questionaires from time to time. I usually go through them to see how I rate, but don’t post them often. But this one I couldn’t pass up. My sister Jenn posted this a couple of days ago.

So what am I? A Labrador Retriever.

Labrador Retriever

The Caretaker

Your family is what makes you tick, and you never “flea” from an opportunity to hang out with the whole gang. A family picnic...

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This past weekend I stopped reading (meaning: didn’t finish) “The End of Mr. Y” by Scarlett Thomas. I was reading this as the second book that David and I were going to discuss as part of our mini “Brew and Book Club”.

Here is the plot description (which was really a review) thanks to Publishers Weekly and Amazon.Com:

… Ariel Manto, an oversexed renegade academic, stumbles across a cursed text, which takes her into the Troposphere, a dimension where she can enter the consciousness, undetected, of other beings. Thomas first signals something is askew...

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This past Saturday Marcia and I watched “I Am Legend” starring Will Smith. This is the third movie based on the 1954 published novel by Richard Matheson of the same name. However, this is the first of the three movies to actually use the name of the novel.

Here is a plot synopsis that I found at IMDB.Com which was provided by the studio itself, Warner Bros. Pictures:

Robert Neville (Smith) is a scientist who was unable to stop the spread of the terrible virus that was incurable and man-made. Immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City...

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Here are a few funny comics I saw this past weekend. The first is from the comic “In the Bleachers” by Steve Moore.

If it were only that easy.

The second is “Rubes” by Leigh Rubin.