For the second Friday in a row the UPS guy has delivered us new toys (but we’d best not make a habit of it or we’ll be totally broke). Today saw the delivery of the husband’s new faux leather workboots from Pangea (the last Vegetarian Shoes pair held up for many years but were in sorry shape). Ah, compassionate consumerism. And the arrival of my new used laptop. It is absolutely lovely and everything is running perfectly. But. The husband had a great “I Told You So” moment not long after I’d received it. A new posting appeared on the Minneapolis craiglist just today…for a reasonably priced and slightly better G3 Powerbook. Could have been mine, if I’d only waited. Doh! But I love my baby just the same, and it came from a seller with a good track record, rather than this unknown entity. And more importantly…I have mine in my hot little hands, right this red hot minute, and have already been loading up the old iTunes. Yeah.
In other news, I received the most random piece of mail today…a postcard inviting me, and a guest,
to the suburban Southdale Cinema on Monday night. For a special preview screening of, get this, a television show. It’s called House M.D., the title character touted with “solving medical mysteries like Sherlock Holmes with a stethoscope.” Uh, yeah. But it does star Hugh Laurie, an actor I adored back in the day from Jeeves and Wooster (but who the little man recognizes from Stuart Little). And stranger still, it is directed by Bryan Singer. Of The Usual Suspects and X-Men movie fame. I don’t get that. I heard he pulled out of X-Men III because he doesn’t have time, what with working on Superman Returns and all. But he does have time to direct a weekly television program? Go figure.