I wandered into our local Sally Beauty Supply for the first time yesterday.

WHY have I not been getting my haircolor needs from this joint?!?! They had a MUCH better variety of colors and brands than any drugstore. Yes, it's DIY haircolor -- you get a huge bottle of developer, instead of the individually portioned packages in the boxed stuff, and you have to measure and mix manually. But I'm OK with that.

I'm definitely shopping there the next time I need to color.

Scott's book is up on Amazon!




Help Is on the Way: A Collection of Basic Instructions

It's the top four, and it's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame night.

( I'm interrupting a great game of Pokemon Snap for this, so it better be good. )

All right, this is the last picture post ... for now.

I got a new ukulele! It's a Johnson UK-120, which is a step up from my previous super-cheap uke. Although it's still not a high-quality instrument by any means. But it got great reviews for the price point, and it has decent sound.

I have the starter, so I figured, why not try bagels? How hard can it be?

( Photos of the sourdough bagel attempt under the cut! )

Finally, I'm catching up on downloading pictures from my camera. We went to the Great American Pie Festival last month, held in beautiful Celebration, Florida.

( Eight pictures of pie festival under the cut! )

We went out to Disney's Hollywood Studios today to ride the newest ride, Toy Story Midway Mania. (It's cast preview this weekend; the attraction is open to guests May 31st.)

Some people don't like it, some people do. Me, I found it to be awesome fun. It was similar in style to the Buzz Lightyear Space Ranger Spin ride, but with 3-D glasses. I scored 111,000 points and made what Destructo refers to as my "happy monkey noise" when it was done. All in all, a delightful ride in a park that needs more rides.

We then had lunch at the Sci-Fi Dine-In theater, where you sit and eat in big fake cars in the dark, watching old 50s B-movie trailers on the big screen. The food was good (especially the BLT soup), but our waiter was irritating and inattentive. Which makes my Disney-lovin' heart heave a big sigh.

I napped for too long this afternoon, and now I'm groggy. Hopefully a shower will perk me up.

I find myself caring less and less each week. Which is sad.

( Onward to the results! )

It's not too late in any time zone! Today is 31¢ scoop night at Baskin-Robbins. From 5pm-10pm, you can get a single scoop cup or cone for 31¢!

We just had some scoops ... and are calling it "dinner". So naughty!

Neil Diamond week, eh? All right, let's get to it.

( Due to a flawed experiment, I'll be brief this week. )

Huzzah for my weekend! Two luxurious nights off. Destructo is re-drawing for his own days off today (they do it twice a year where he is; we only draw once a year) so hopefully in a couple of weeks our schedules will mesh again.

I need to figure out a good audition song -- all I need is 16 bars. They're having a general call for one of the big musical shows on property, and I figured what the hell. It never hurts to try out, and there are sure to be lulz.

I have many pictures of things to post for you guys; I've just been lazy. Maybe I'll get around to it today.

Oh noes, this week we're only getting a bottom two instead of a bottom three. Oh well, better odds for all of us, I guess.

( Now let's ask Andrew Lloyd Webber some insipid questions. )

We just got done watching some of the 2004 show Long Way Round. What a fantastic few hours of television that was. And now, I can hit Idol commercial-free!

( It's the music of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber! )

In looking at ukuleles this evening, I came across the banjolele.

I'm totally in love already.

We got the new tabs for our cars and the scooter today. Here in Florida, your vehicle registration is tied to your birthday, so it's harder to forget. Tabs for the year for two cars and one scooter: 90 bucks. Yay, Florida!

Tonight we're going out for my big birthday dinner, as part of the celebration of the fortnight surrounding my birthday. We're going to Texas de Brazil, the Brazilian steakhouse we've both come to love. We've been emailing the word "meat" to each other all day.

I finally joined the masses and got a bluetooth headset for my phone. It was $19 on clearance at Staples, and it matches my phone. I promise, however, to not walk around with it stuck in my ear all the time -- I'll only wear it when involved in an actual phone call.

I discovered that WDW has a shockingly great discount for cast members on its golf courses. It's good enough to make me consider taking up golf. At any rate, I let my golfing parents know about it, so I'm sure they'll want to hit the links when they next visit.

Yesterday I had some Voyant chai cream liqueur. All the nom of chai, with the gentle kick of a low-proof alcohol. Awesome.

For bdonornot: today's sandwich was on a homemade sourdough roll, and included havarti cheese, smoked turkey, mustard, mayo, red onion, dill pickle, lettuce and fresh cracked pepper.

Others have posted the link (I got it from retardomantaban) but here it is if you haven't seen it yet:

IRS Stimulus Payment Schedule

Curses, I'm the primary filer and my SSN ends in the 76-99 category. Guess we'll wait until the third group of direct deposit recipients. Then it'll be time to book flights to Disneyland!

I still haven't watched the "Idol Gives Back" show. It's sitting on the TiVo, crying.

( We're down to seven. Will it be a lucky number? )

garfieldminus is so weird and sad and wrong, it consistently amuses me.