This past weekend et al...

First of all, let me say Happy Cinco de Mayo. And it is my girl dog's birthday. She is 10. very sad that she is that old. but she is going great and running everyday, so i think she will be kicking for a while longer. Maybe she will get a bone tonight. Have to think about that.
This past weekend was just ok. Friday night we did deliveries of the music magazine we pass out around Denver. We got almost all the way done when we ran out of magazines that were in the car. So we just went home and watched some tv and headed to bed. The next morning my boyfriend suckered me into going to this park where they were supposed to be having a duck race (you know where you buy a rubber duck and they float them down a water source to the end of the course for a winner) well i say they were supposed to be having, because we got there and it ended up not being held on saturday and was scheduled for sunday but my boyfriend got the day wrong. He was covering it for his paper, we were not just going to go. So, that was a bust. We did, however get to two comic book stores because Saturday was Free Comic Book Day. Some comics had actual free books made for that day. We went to one and they had a sign that said "one per customer". There were a few that i wanted, because either the art work or just to have (like Archie and Simpsons). So we went to another store. I took a few just my boyfriend took so long looking around that the owner (typical comic book store owner) started watching us. Very strange.. So he asked what we picked and I had to show him that i had about 6 in my hand. The guy kinda made a face, but i just smiled at him and said thanks when we walked out the door. My boyfriend laughed at me all the way home. WHAT?? there wasn't a sign, i wanted them all. I only took from the larger piles, meaning that people were not picking them up.. so, i took a few more than a couple.. so what.. I am never going back to the store again, (until next Free Comic Book day), so, who cares??

So, sunday i refused to go back to the duck thing, so i stayed home and got some laundry done, watched some baseball (surprise) and cleaned a little. ok, not much, but a little.
It was a weekend that i didn't take a shower all weekend and as a Hippie with a day job, it's nice not to shower every now and again.

On a music note, Nine Inch Nails is doing it again. Trent Reznor said today that since so many people liked the fact of dowloading the last album, that they are giving another way The Slip is the name and they are giving download codes for free.. I know it is happening today, but i don't know for how long. So, get your NIN downloads. I just hope it is better than the last one.. I'm just sayin.
(http://theslip.nin.com/)

So, here's my new want.. I know it's a little strange, but i want a backyard composter. I want worms and i want to feed them table ad cooking scraps. I really do. I have wanted one for a while, but i saw this show that was showing how you can have one in an apartment. I took a look on line and there are a few that i really like. My boyfriend says we can't have one until we know where we are living in a year etc. so we are not moving a full composter across the country. I know he knows best, but i really want one.. You don't put poopie in it, just garden stuff and vegi scraps.. and newspaper, and cardboard, and best of all WORMS!!!!






And here are some things to take your mind off my composter:

Today is Cinco de Mayo in the U.S. and Mexico.

Today is Totally Chipotle Day, a day to herald a popular new flavor in the U.S. A Chipotle, which most Americans mispronounce, is a smoked jalapeno pepper.

Today is National Boo Boo Day, a day to call someone "Boo Boo."

Today is National Chocolate Custard Day.

Today is Cartoonists Day, a day to honor all cartoonists, funny ones, poignant ones, and even the editorial cartoonists we don't agree with. Thanks for making us laugh and think.

Today is Children's Day in both Japan and South Korea.

Today is Patriot's Victory Day in Ethiopia.

National Wildflower Week begins today

Astronomy Week begins today.

1978: Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds registered his 3,000th major league hit.

1982: Singer Vince Gill and wife Janis named their newborn daughter Jenny.

1986: Britain’s William Whorriskey set a world record by lifting five barrels filled with water totaling 771 pounds. With one arm.

1988: Anatomist Randall Susman reported that a South African archeological discovery shows ancient non-human creatures may have made and used tools.

1991: Yasuyuki Kudoh did a record nonstop wheelie on his motorcycle covering 205.7 miles at Tsukuba City, Japan. He was riding a Honda TLM220R.

1996: LeAnn Rimes’ first single "Blue" entered the Billboard music charts.

1999: A man who admitted making thousands of obscene phone calls over a 3-year-period was arrested in Vienna, Austria, after one of the women told him she was busy and would return his call. So he gave her his phone number.

1999: Garth Brooks was named artist of the decade at the annual Academy of Country Music Awards.

2000: The world's first cloned mouse, Cumulina, died of old age at 2 years, 7 months.

2002: Movie producer Michael Todd Jr. died in Ireland at age 72. He had produced the only feature film in "Smell-O-Vision," entitled "Scent of Mystery."

2002: A drunk teenager walked away virtually unscathed after a train ran over him when he collapsed on a railway line in Trondhiem, Norway. The 18-year-old passed out lengthways on the tracks and the 82-ton train went within inches of his head at 75 miles an hour. The teen slept through the entire episode and walked away with a small cut on the chin and a hole in the front of his shirt.

2004: Picasso's 1905 painting "Boy with a Pipe" sold for $104 million at Sotheby's in New York, setting a new record for an auctioned painting.