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While waiting on hold for someone on the help desk to pick up the phone, I had the pleasure of hearing Gilbert Gottfried singing the "Tiki Room" song. 

New Year's Resolution #5

Stay more up to date on all of my friends blogging efforts.  I admit it, I'm way behind.  I have about 3 months worth of catch-up work to do.  Now that I finally put in the Wizz RSS extension to Firefox, maybe I'll stop lagging forever behind. 

How can I ever forgive myself for missing out on this fabulous thread:

TV Dinners

I'm a prepackaged food and vending machine cuisine fiend.  I also have a keen fascination with automats also, but unfortunately, never made it to any of the classic, old ones that were in NYC and other large cities.  I had the pleasure of hitting a small one in Amsterdam a couple of times last year, but it wasn't as grand as I imagine the Horn and Hardart shops were.  (I can't wait to go and check out the automat exhibit in the Smithsonian.)

If I had made it to Justin's thread in time,  I would've definitely posted this link about the Hungry Man All Day Breakfast .  Or perhaps just suggested that he try out the XXL Roasted Carved Turkey Meal next year. 

Here's to catching up.

New Years Resolution #4

Become a falconer.

Ok, sure.  It's just a hawk.  And you probably can't even see it, but my cell phone camera zoom isn't that great, so you'll just have to take my word for it, but! while having lunch at a table in the Disney commissary patio today - a freaking hawk flew up on top of the trellis - roughly 10 feet away from me.  Now, I lived in the country for a long time and frankly, I get rather concerned when wild animals start getting close to humans (it just usually doesn't work out so well for either the animal or the human in those cases).  I've never been so close to a hawk before.  It was quite amazing.  Having just (FINALLY) finished reading the Odyssey, I have to admit that the first thoughts running through my head were wondering what type of omen this represented.  Stupid, but...  true.  The semi-rational part of me doesn't believe in such things, but the other side sort of does.  I digress.  Next, I started imagining how the folks that were staring at the hawk in amazement and awe would react if they saw the bird swoop down, pick up one of the semi-wild squirrels that were scurrying about the patio area grabbing up leftovers and commence with his/her lunch. 

I'm glad it didn't happen, but it would've been interesting.

I had never before realized how cool large birds of prey are and now feel the need to have one rest on my wrist sometime soon.  I can't really explain this desire any better than I already have, so I gotta go do it soon.

New Years Resolution #3

Hang out with the Woz and go cruzing in his Z8 again really soon.

New years resolution #2

Practice folding my shirts more efficiently.  Learn this method and you'll be the envy of everyone in the laundromat. 

http://www.howtofoldashirt.net/

Should cut off at least 10 minutes off of my last Launderland speed folding record. 

New years resolution #1

Eat more clementines!!! 

It's that time of year again.  Actually, that time of year started back in Nov. 2005, but that's right around the time when I bailed out of MGM and took a break from much of anything computer related.  Wheee!!!  Playtime is now officially over and I recently got a gig with Disney and also just realized that between Marisol and myself, we've worked for over half of the 'major' studios in L.A. so far.  She first worked over at Fox and is now punching data at Paramount.  Crazy, no?  Anyways...

BEHOLD!!  THE CLEMENTINES!!!!

Mmmmmm......