It's All About Me

At least, it should be. I've noticed that much of my posting lately has consisted of reviews of this book or that movie while what happens in my regular daily life sits quietly on the sidelines. Granted, I do enjoy writing about the books I read (though my reviews don't go as in-depth as those of a professional reviewer), and two books are in line for reviewing, but I think this post should break from that rut for a moment or two.

+ Last night, I made a Shepherd's Pie for the first time. Not too bad, if I do say so myself. Caesar seemed to enjoy it, and I'm glad he helped with the mashed potatoes. That would have driven me crazy, trying to cook too many things at once.

+ Tomorrow, my Brother and I are treating our folks to Hairspray at the Orange County Performing Arts Center. It will be their 45th Anniversary (our folks, not the Arts Center), and we wanted to do something other than our usual family dinner. The last time we saw a show as a family was way back in the early 1980s, when we sat through Paint Your Wagon at some dinner theater in Santa Ana. I think the theater now shows nothing but girls! girls! girls! on stage.

+ We finally severed ties with our local cable company. Too many issues with tiling on the HD channels, the On Demand freezing during a program, the sound being off-synch with the image on our standard TV, and a decent but slowmoving internet. We now have Verizon FiOS, thanks to our landlords' having the entire building wired for it. Dozens of HD channels including Logo (Finally!!) and my new favorite Chiller (nothing but horror 24/7). The picture quality seems so much clearer. And my home computer -- web pages open faster than I thought possible. I. Love. It. (And Caesar managed a good deal. I dubbed him "The Haggling Ninja".)

+ I wrote another blog post for my work, this time about those pesky Homophones.

Update: spoke too soon about the FiOS. Somehow, the box doesn't appear to be working and can't be reset. Yea! I hope we'll get someone in tech support at this time of night (8:46PM on Friday), but we may have to without the HD and TV in the front room until Monday.

A brief glimpse, I know, but I need fodder for future blog posts. As I mentioned before, I have at least two books needing reviews, and a few more should arrive soon that have requests for reviews. Though I know how much everyone loves the reviews, variety is the spice of blogs.