Wednesday Digressions

• “This is our 16th year, and I wish I had a big piece of wood to knock on right now, but we have not had an incident."
• A monster truck racing promoter said this the day before he was run over and killed at a Madison Wisconsin show.
• "Jack devises a plan to keep the nation safe from the latest terrorist threat"- the plot for hour 1-2 pm for this season of the show 24.
• The same as every other episode.
• A Jack Bauer joke: Jack Bauer's favorite color is severe terror alert red. His second favorite color is violet, but just because it sounds like violent.
  
• Another: Jack Bauer is the leading cause of death in Middle Eastern men.
  
• Well, one more: Upon hearing that he was played by Kiefer Sutherland, Jack Bauer killed Sutherland. Jack Bauer gets played by no man.
  
• Don't understand why a computer operates so slooooowly if it's been on for extended time periods or why it takes so long to be operational when it first starts up- it's not like there's vacuum tubes in there warming up.
• People are crazy.
• Now that I'm back in the habit of reading again I don't know how I let myself get away from it- I hope the weather allows a trip to half price books tomorrow. My favorite bookstore was in Fort Worth on Rufe Snow- lots of up to date history, bestsellers and DIY books and alway less than half price. It converted to a romance novel only bookstore- from front to back, tens of thousands of them.
• No, not kidding.