I had lunch today at King Buffet, a new restaurant on Albemarle Road near Harris Boulevard. The food isn't bad, and they have one heck of a selection. Not just Chinese, but pizza, home cooking (mashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese) and even stuffed shells. Good enough that it's not worth driving across town to the China King Buffet. That's not to say I don't like the China King - only that they are close enough in quality that it's not worth the drive.
Just about three hours ago, I transferred the final payment to our mortgage. Yippee!
The local paper is reporting that USAirways has ordered 230 Airbus planes. Unless you read the article, where you will find that they have apparently ordered 20 planes. That's a bit of a discrepancy, don't you think?
I've been using the GIMP for a while now. Part of it is that I don't really want to spend a ton of money on something like Photoshop when I really don't need to do image manipulation that often. GIMP has worked wonderfully for me. But yesterday, I needed to read in a PDF file, make some changes, and save it back out (as an image, not a PDF). The problem? When I tried to open it, I received an error saying something like "Error starting ghostscript: Failed to execute child process (Invalid argument) ". What to do?
On a quick trip this morning, I noticed gas at $2.13, $2.12 (three stations) and $2.09 (six). Impressively low results. Hard to believe that it was 50% higher just a few weeks ago. I've heard reports of sub-$2 gas in some areas of the country. Anyone seen it in the Charlotte market yet?
The other day, Denise and I went to see The Wedding Crashers. If you haven't seen it, be forewarned: Though there was a boy of 8 in the seat next to me (what is wrong with some people?), this is not a movie for the kids. It probably isn't even for most adults. While I enjoyed the film to some extent, it isn't dinner table material for most people.
While it was hard to stop Terrell Owens on the field, he has become frighteningly human off of it. An arbitrator ruled in his greivance case, saying that the Philadelphia Eagles are allowed not only to suspend him for four games, but to deactivate him for the rest of the season.
Owens is too good a player for someone not to take a chance on him next year as a free agent, but they have got to be wondering. I bet TO won't see quite the signing bonus this time around, and instead will find a contract laden with performance and behavior clauses.
If he doesn't, the team that pays him like he has been should be benched. Give the job to someone who appreciates it instead of this moron.
So Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey have actually broken up. Is anyone surprised? Not me. In their words: "After three years of marriage...we have decided to part ways". That's just pathetic.
If you're not in the US, I would assume you don't celebrate Thanksgiving, but that doesn't mean you can't receive well wishes, and I hope that your day goes well regardless. And perhaps you do celebrate the day, but it may not be today. I suspect the "pilgrims and indians share turkey" theme is unique to the US, but the concept of a day of thanks certainly doesn't need to be ours alone.
So, with that in mind: Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!
I recently signed up for Google Analytics to see what sort of web site tracking they offered. I like the idea of easily-accessible data, and Google has typically been very good at providing just what I need (with at least one exception).
Since the service has apparently received overwhelming response, Google has turned off the ability to sign up for new profiles. Presumably this will be back soon. I hope so, because I was waiting until things worked on one site to set up the other. Yes, I know you can track two sites using the same code with filters. I didn't want to do that.
Ever wonder just where you can find the closest fast food restaurant(s)? Me neither. But luckily, someone does. Taking what I would assume to be a massive database of 27 thousand fast food restaurants - hopefully not entering them manually - we are presented with the wondrous fast food mashup, providing hours of endless entertainment for you and yours (via).
