Hello. It was a hot weekend, and I spent the Fourth having a party with my cousin's family. They came over, and the older kids had sandwiches, while the new baby just sat there and gurgled. I held the baby! Wow, that was an experience.

It was too hot this weekend to really spend a lot of time outside. I watched a couple of DVDs, "Burst City" and "Onmyoji." I also watched the first disc of the "Master Keaton" series. It was all right, some good writing in a couple episodes, but not spectacular. "Burst City" was a good surprise. The music was terrific.

They had a good sale at the bookstore, and I was able to pick up a three-in-one Terry Brooks hardcover collection. Yipee! I can never seem to get his books at the library-- I've read the older ones, but the newer ones are always checked out. This time I figured I'd catch up on my summer reading all at once.

That's it for now. I'm going to try to cool down. See you soon.

This is a yo-yo which had candy inside it. The disc lights up when you use the yo-yo. No, really. It looks like a giant light-up tire.

Wow. We lost Michael Jackson, Ed McMahon and Farrah Fawcett within a few days of each other. I'm stunned; I grew up when Jackson was just making his first few albums, and he was such a huge star, you wouldn't believe it. Rest in peace.

I tested out the new dance pad for "DDR Universe" on my new X Box 360, and it works fine! I still have no rhythm, though. I have a habit of staying close to the top arrow and not being able to reach the bottom arrow in time. Yipes.

My dog is all sorts of scared because there's a rainstorm. She'll calm down as soon as I have a pretzel.

That's right. It got the red ring of death the other day. I switched it on and off several times, unplugged it, replugged it and did a bunch of other little checkups, but nothing would help. The rings kept coming back. I had the machine about a year and a half. I checked the ads at Game Stop.com, and a refurbished one is $150-200; a refurbished PlayStation 3 is $350 and up. I also called Game Stop's customer service line, and they said the store does not perform X Box 360 repairs. So I'm stuck with a non-working block of no value. I now have to worry about whether to wait for the sales later in the year, or maybe get a portable system to tide me over. I'll have to go ahead and cancel my subscription to Game Fly. The funny thing is, after the incident happened, I received my previous selection from Game Fly in the mail, and I had really been looking forward to playing it. The game was "Cabela's Dangerous Hunts." Also, I got a game in the mail that I had ordered from Game Fly's used games store. It was a wrestling game. So, I'm stuck here just staring at my TV, and wondering what I should do. My dog used to jump on the bed whenever I was playing X Box and try to eat the controller. Now she has nothing to do...

"Animal Planet" finally has a "Cats 101" show, to match the "Dogs 101" series. I'm glad they're showing it now, because I've been thinking about adopting a cat, and it's good to know what the different breeds are like. I'll have to wait until I get an apartment, maybe later this year, but it'll be fun when I do.

It's really hot in here. The thermometer on the alarm clock says it was 80 degrees before. Yipes. I've got to get some ice water.

That's it for now. See you later. Thanks.

100 colors of awesome.

Hi there. It's been a funny weekend. It was very hot here, and I spent most of the time catching up on my sleep. I did go out on Sunday. There were a bunch of ducks, walking around and probably building nests. I've seen the babies hatch in previous years-- they're as adorable as can be.

One of the new things I hate is embedded sound ads online. I have a pop-up blocker that kills off most ads, but they've been implanthing new stuff that plays whether you click on anything or not. Pleh.

It's been a boring few days for TV. I didn't see anything I liked since maybe the middle of last week. I wound up watching a lot of my own DVDs.

I am somewhat confoozed by the existence of some games that say they are X Box Live-capable, but don't contain any achievements. I rented a couple like that, and I wanted to scream. What's the point of promising us we can play this in the XBL setting, and then making the game no different from any other? Ugh!

That's it for now. Thanks for reading. See you soon.

(This is my new art book. I like to do lettering.)

Hi, it's the end of the first week of June. Here it is, almost time for "Cops." I love that show. I wish they would have a channel with nothing but that. Not only Fox Reality Channel-- I mean one network consisting of "Cops" only. The 'Cops' Channel. Now that's television!

One of my cousins graduated from high school. Congratulations, Danny.

I have a new podcast, which you can check out if you want. I had a heck of a time getting it to post, too. The server was very slow. Glad it's done for now.

I noticed the oddest thing the other day. I was playing "Winter Athletics 2," (I think that's the name) and they give you one or two points for certain achievements. What?! No kidding. There are so many events you can do in the game, maybe they didn't want to let people rack up tons of player points at one time. Still, I think it stinks. I prefer the old way, where you get an average of 10-30 points per achievement or what have you. I'm surprised they had the nerve to design the game that way. It was a playable game, which I enjoyed because most Olympics-style games have really annoying controls. It was quite a let-down to see the low mark total for the different goals. I hope they make a better decision the next time they come out with a game.

All right, that's it for now. See you soon. Thanks.

(Not my dog, but really cute anyhow!)