On Friday I had to drive to a gas station and fill up a 5 gallon tank to put into Mike’s generator. My car’s trunk is full of stuff so there was no room to keep the tank there. I had to put it in the front with me.

The fumes started getting to me before I even found a station that was open so I opened all my windows. That helped quite a bit.

Early on Saturday I had to go out again and refill the container. Unfortunately my windows were all frozen shut. My car began to smell of gasoline fumes as I drove down route 28 looking for an open station. It wasn’t until after I was on my way back to Mike’s that I was able to get a window open. I was afraid my car was going to reek like that forever so I left the window open all morning. When we left the house about three hours later the gasoline smell was gone. Bullet Dodged.

While Christmas shopping on Saturday afternoon I did something I have never done before. I went into a Yankee Candle store, braved the ridiculously long lines, and bought one of those silly little car air freshener smelly things. Christmas Cookie scented. I was paranoid about the smell of gas. Now the interior of my car smells of Christmas Cookies. Every time I reach my destination I am STARVING.

This morning it came in handy. I was driving on route 126 in Wayland and some one was leaking gas. Lots of it. There was a streak of spilled gas on the Westbound lane that ran for at least half a mile. The smell was overpowering. When it ended I was very thankful for my stupid little Christmas Cookie thingie. It helped a lot. Until, that is, after about a mile of clean road there was another gasoline spill in the lane that lasted for another half mile or so.

So some one spilled a ton of gas onto the road, it stopped on it’s own, and then after a while started again. Huh? Did the driver of the spilling tank car notice it, turn off his/her engine, coast as long as he/she could, and then start up the motor again?

Regardless of the circumstances, the gas reeked to high heaven. Glad I had that cookie thing.

I found another source (from December 10th) that says the Dead Like Me straight to DVD movie, “Life After Death” will be released on Tuesday February 17, 2009.

There is also a website right here.

And last but not least… there is a trailer.

Enjoy.

I wanted to express myself via a clip from the movie Office Space. I wanted to display something about having a bad case of the Mondays. Youtube failed me so I’ll post this video instead.

Is it Friday yet?

The house is officially decorated for Christmas.

We didn’t have enough room for the tree in the living room so we had to put it up in the dining room. Jen and I felt that the living room looked a little sad without a tree so we bought a super cheesy fiber-optic fake tree-like decoration thing and put it on a table next to the couch.

I love all of our decorations, even the cheesy one.

and finally, the goofy fiber optic things, shot without a flash so all you see is light. Sometimes I need to make things artsy even when they are as far removed from artsyness as humanly possible

After a full and unusual day that included an ice storm a power outage that is in its 21st hour with no end in sight a trip to the hospital a fiance in an air cast and other bizzah events we close things out by sending christmas cards. some thing else I have never done. at least I have mobile blogger to help us keep our heads. whew!

What we learned from taking hundreds of awful pictures of the second show…

1: The person running the lights was probably not the same person who ran the lights the night before. It doesn’t matter where I was standing, if the light guy only turns on a couple of red lights for the duration of the show, my pictures are going to look like dung. There was more light coming from camera flashes than from the actual stage lighting.

2: Using the repeat function on the Casio camera is a great way to end up with 10 times more pictures than you remember taking. The burst function on the Kodak takes up to 5 shots at a time. The same function on the Casio will take as many as you want. I took 340+ shots with the Casio while only using it on 4-5 songs. I kinda lost track.

3: Despite getting good shots from the front of the balcony at other shows, I got next to nuthin’ at this one. I lowered my definition of “marginal keeper” quite a bit while saving files from the second night.

Here’s a slideshow of the keepers, marginal keepers, and somewhat less than marginal keepers from the Tuesday 12/9 show.

What we learned from taking hundreds of awful pictures of the first show…

1: The Kodak camera can go phluey. The rechargeable Duracell batteries did awesome, but after a certain amount of time the camera just stopped focusing. I think it might have over heated due to the huge, vast, number of pictures I took.

2: The Casio camera is capable of taking some AWESOME shots when you’re really close to the stage. Granted, it was still one out of 20-30 that looked good, but when they looked good I actually liked them.

Here’s a slideshow of the keepers and marginal keepers from the Monday 12/8 show.

Is my namesake approving our wedding plans?

Day two was better than day one. Just leave it at that for now.

Thanks to the members of Letters to Cleo for giving us two unreal shows. Thank you thank you thank you

Now that the Cleo is through I am sad that I will probably never get to see them live again. Maybe this mini-tour will be enough fun for the band that they will make the occasional show a regular thing. Once a year? At Christmas time? Maybe?

But now I have to focus on other things… like putting up a Christmas tree… which we just did. The kids will decorate it with us tonight. Now we’re going Christmas shopping. Ho-Ho-Ho babie

With my baby at the letters to cleo show at the paradise