I really need to get around to redoing my MT templates and style sheets to make them more MT3 compliant. I’ve been meaning to redo them for a while now, but it’s one of those things I never seem to be able to get around to doing. Time to get started on that task. So I expect for the next little while things will look different, some things will be broken and other things will just look wierd. Bits are going to be reorganized…that’s the plan anyway.
oh my poor car
my poor little car is almost at 179000 miles, but it hasn’t been doing well lately. It’s still running ok, but hasn’t been wanting to start as easily as it used to. At first I thought it was the battery, because it was very sluggish in starting like the battery didn’t have quite enough juice to get things going. Battery reads 12.3V though, which seems ok to me, and it’s only a 4 year old battery. It also sounded a little more grindy for a while when starting. Now, I have to let it turn over 2 or 3 times before it will start. And if I drive out somewhere, stop the car, getting it started again is a bit dicey. It barely turns over before starting like the battery has run down.
I’m thinking maybe the starter is going bad, or maybe I’m having distributer/spark plug/wire problems. The distributer and spark plugs/wires seems like something I can check out myself easily enough, so that will be my weekend task. I think I can also replace teh starter myself too, so that will be the next thing I look at. If none of that helps, then it’s off to the shop.
The Incredibles
Went to see The Incredibles last night. I think it’s probably one of the best and most adult oriented movies out of Pixar to date. Pixar’s other movies I think have all been targeted primarily towards kids, with a good dose of humour for us big kids too. The Incredibles to me feels like it’s targeted more towards an older audience, with plenty of humour for the big kids. There’s a good bit of superhero violence in the movie, so probably not the best movie for small kids.
As usual, the animation is excellent and I thought the movie was hilariously funny. I think if Frozone (voiced by Samuel L. Jackson) had played a bigger role in the film, he could have easily stolen a good part of the movie. One scene in particular will remind anyone who’s seen it of Pulp Fiction.
Definitely one to add to the DVD collection when it comes out.
I wasn’t as impressed with the short film, Boundin’ that came before the movie. The best one to me is still For The Birds.
Elastagirl’s quite the hottie in that stretchy red outfit.
Bush and Iraq
“It’s their government, it’s their country. We’re there at their invitation.” – G. W. Bush on when the planned attack on Fallujah will take place
We’re getting a dog!
The wife and I have decided to get a dog. She’s wanted to get one for a long time now, and after humming and hawing over what kind of dog to get, we settled on a Labrador Retriever. Last year she was all about Miniature Schnauzers. A few months ago, she decided to get something bigger that could also help fend off marauding strangers, so for a while we were considering German Shepherd dogs. We wanted a dog that would get along nicely with other dogs too, so finally we decided on the Lab.
Now we need to consider a time frame. I pushed for recyling a dog and getting one from the local Lab rescue group, or starting off by volunteering with them. But she wants to buy new. Fortunately, there seems to be a couple of prominent breeders in the area and not very far away for us to check out. That will be our next step.