Sometimes, I feel the need to talk about me (imagine that).
As we get farther & farther into the holiday season, I wanted to take a moment to suggest you pick your favorite charity and give generously. As you might guess from the image with this post, I’d highly recommend Toys for Tots.
Image taken from the Toys for Tots and used here without explicit permission.
We’re getting our first real snow of the season. We’ve had a few clouds piss some snow down on us twice before. But it wasn’t hard enough to do more than pepper the ground and that was gone in hours. Tonight’s snow storm is expected to leave a good couple inches on the ground and looking out the window it looks so peaceful. Come morning though, the snow will have been disturbed by those unfortunately souls who have to be at work before I do. Plus I’ll have to clear the snow from my car which never puts me in a good mood. *sigh*
It occured to me that I’d totally forgotten to post pictures from that (now) long ago trip to the Niabi zoo. I have finally posted a few of the images in the gallery. Unfortunately, when I was going through the pictures there were quite a few where my camera’s autofocus had grabbed onto the wrong subject. *sigh*
Over the weekend, Ariesna & I went with some friends to watch Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. I went into the movie with extremely low expectations1 but much to my surprise; I rather liked the movie. Sure huge chunks of the book were wacked out, but you have to expect that when you are taking 734 pages of text and converting it into a movie just over 2.5 hours long. The special effects were upto pair with anything in the prior movies. Also, although the actor playing Mad-Eye Moody didn’t look quite like I had pictured the character; he did a nice job of it. Overall, I give this one a thumbs up and it will eventually be going in my DVD collection (unlike some the previous one).
1 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was such a wretched film that it nearly ruined the entire series for me.
So last night, the wife was asleep. The cat was on the couch. I was sitting at the computer going through my email, reading a few news websites. Since the wife had left the bedroom door open, I closed the door into the computer room to keep the lights from bothering her.
Then about 10:00, 10:30 at night when I noticed a pounding sound. I was a bit puzzled because it sounded like somebody was at our door. I peeked out the window, but didn’t see any of our friends cars. So I headed up to the door and I could hear voices like the people were talking to one of the neighbors. I looked through the peephole, but couldn’t make out what was going on. Then they knocked again. I opened the door and found two cops on my doorstep.
They said one of the downstairs tenants had called in a complaint that we were making too much noise. They said they’d been told the noise sounded like somebody was stomping or bowling down the hallway. I told them I didn’t know what the noise was because we weren’t doing anything. I also mentioned that sound bounces around in the building quite a bit1.
They replied they’d been out there knocking for a while and hadn’t heard anything, but when they get a compaint they are required to check it out.
1 I recounted the story of the time when we thought the people above us were playing their music too loud, but it turned out the music was actually coming from one of the downstairs apartments.