3 Musketeers Mint with Dark Chocolate

Holy crap, go try one NOW. I found these guys while I was waiting to pay for groceries yesterday morning. (Buy one, get one free? Don't mind if I do.) They're pretty much York Peppermint Patties in bar form and I'm surprised nobody has attempted this before. I'm not really a candy person, but if I had to spend the rest of my life with one candy bar in sickness and in health, this would be it.

3 Musketeers Mint with Dark Chocolate, I think I love you.

Don't Panic

While checking my e-mail this morning, Gmail provided me with some very exciting news via Reuters. Author Eoin Colfer (of Artemis Fowl fame) will be writing a new book in Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series! (Adams passed away in 2001 from a heart attack at age 49.)

The book, titled And Another Thing..., continues the story from the previous five books The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Life, the Universe, and Everything, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, and Mostly Harmless. And Another Thing... is scheduled for publication in October of 2009.

I can't speak for anyone else because I haven't been practicing my ventriloquism, but I'm terribly excited to get my hands on that book; so much so that I may even attempt to break in to Penguin's offices and "borrow" the manuscript. Keely, I'm expecting you to be my wingman ---wingwoman... no... partner in crime... hmmm, seems like a little much... teammate... yes--- teammate on this definitely illegal and potentially deadly mission. (On second thought, "teammate" sounds a little cheesy... ACCOMPLICE! Success.)

Taking on Water

Almost 14 inches of rain fell over the weekend. There's water in the basement all over the bar, on the floor, and a cracked pipe on a pump sprayed water all around our furnace room.

Fantastic.

I understand that Hurricane Ike was about the size of Texas, but did it really have to reach all the way up here, 1500 miles away, and dump rain on us? Combined with what it did to lovely places like Galveston and Houston, I'm more convinced than ever that we should start a War on Weather Systems. We've been attacked on our own soil for the third time in 2 weeks.

Ike, you have soiled the good name of former President Dwight D. Eisenhower. And for that, I'll never forgive you.