Hello. Wish I had time for lots of stuff tonight, but I don’t… and I don’t have time to return phone calls before 3 in the morning, either, so like, you know, once again, e-mail me with news & stuff, the chances I’ll get back to you are a heck of a lot better at this point with that than the stupid phone. Tonight I’m digging the Grosse Point Blank soundtrack, if you haven’t got it you should… what can I say, the Violent Femmes, The Clash, David Bowie & Queen doing “Under Pressure”, Guns N’ Roses, really old Faith No More, The Jam, The Specials, can’t really do much more to shoot me right back to college and HS again, heh, the Bowie/Queen alone will do that immediately, 1982 in a heartbeat.

Anyway, speaking of Grosse Point Blank - a great flick - anyone who’s been here very long knows John Cusack is one of my fave actors and Say Anything… is just about my fave movie of all time, a fondness I also share with my evil brother-in-law Troy, and we also share this theory about John Cusack having been Lloyd Dobler in just about every movie since… you think about it, you’ll get it. Lloyd Dobler as a hit man in Grosse Point Blank. Lloyd Dobler as an air traffic controller in Pushing Tin. Even - not quite so perfectly but almost - Lloyd Dobler as a puppeteer in Being John Malkovich. About the only movie he hasn’t been Lloyd Dobler again in is Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, and I’m not even 100% sure of his non-Lloyd Doblerness in that. And I haven’t seen it yet but I’m absolutely positive of this - Lloyd Dobler as an indie record store owner in High Fidelity.

Anyway, I gotta go, only other thing I have to say is life is suddenly starting to make some sense for a change, that’s scary. But cool. Later…

My horoscope today actually had the audacity to tell me to ramble on at will tonight, can you believe that? That’s a shame, ‘cos I really don’t have much to report at the moment. The weather is soooo yucky, it’s been raining for days and I swear we’ve gotten more rain so far this year than we did all last year. I have so much clover growing in the front yard it’s taking over, and really need to mow, but you can’t mow the yard when it’s been pouring down rain for days, nope! I am distressed to find not only CD rack as well as my movie rack (both of which are huge) are just about full… what am I gonna do now.

Speaking of movies, I started watching one of my faves, Benny & Joon, after That ’70s Show was over, but I’d come in like when it (the movie) had already been on for a half hour, and it’s been so long since I’d seen it so I was going to go back and watch the first part since I’d forgotten…. and there are many who just won’t believe this, can you believe I do not have that movie on tape??? Unreal, I must have a couple of thousand at this point and that’s one I don’t have!! So that’s a must-get, I just love that movie…. and speaking even more of movies, we (speaking in the, yes, collective we) are all really annoyed about this whole movie version of Nick Hornby’s fabulous book, High Fidelity, a copy of which was given to me as a present last year and I have passed around the throng… anyone who knows me knows I love John Cusack and John Cusack movies, but my god, they moved the tale for the movie to America and that is just not right. I don’t think I can stand to see it, John Cusack or no, it’s ruined already for me. I did, however, catch Cusack’s Pushing Tin not long ago and that is funny, funny, funny. Anyhow, back to movie gripes, the next thing I know my other fave actor, Matthew Modine, is going to turn up in something I hate… caught him in the new TV movie of Flowers For Algernon when I was required to be out of town most of February, and that was yet another great performance.

Well, that’s about all I’ve got to say for today so I guess this wasn’t a good day for my horoscope, it said you would all be fascinated by my ramblings tonight but I just don’t really have any fascinating news, so sorry. Must get a few projects done as well as do my darn taxes so maybe after mid-month I will actually have some real, honest to god, free time. See ya soon…

So, hey. Sorry for the downtime, did you think I’d died or something? Ah, no such luck, many of you knew better anyway, for one thing, there is such a long list of people I fully intend to haunt whenever I actually do kick the bucket, and I’m certain most of you haven’t noticed any poltergeist activity around the house lately, so, yup, I’m alive and well. Just haven’t had much time for the site lately plus there’s been plenty going on but nothing much new fit for public consumption. And this also turned out to be a busier weekend than originally planned, so maybe I’ll get caught up again about mid-week. Here’s something kinda funny for those I haven’t already sent this to…

How to determine YOUR Star Wars name:

For your new first name:

1. Take the first 3 letters of your first name and add

2. the first 2 letters of your last name.

For your new last name:

3. Then take the first 2 letters of your Mom’s maiden name and add

4. the first 3 letters of the city you were born in.

How to determine your Star Wars honorific title:

1: take the last three letters of your last name and reverse them

2: add the name of the first car you drove/owned

3: insert the word “of”

4: tack on the name of the last medication you took.

Use the force and Enjoy!

Mine is Elimc Bamem, Noecougar of Axid. (giggle)

Anyway, so my car is finally finished, although they still didn’t fix what they messed up while fixing it, but it was just too much trouble to go making another fuss so I will just fix it myself later. I managed to get said vehicle inspected and registered so I can drive in Tennessee for another year, but you know what, I’m p.o.’d - the new stickers for the year 2000 don’t match my license plate like last year’s did, the color I mean, red does not go near as nicely as blue did, hmpfh.

Anyway, I wound up in Arkansas again while scouring antique/junk shops, can I just say that Arkansas has the goofiest interstate exits I’ve ever seen? I’m glad I don’t drive over there much, but let me just say they are unlike any other exits in any other state I’ve driven in… if I tried to describe this phenomenon, you just wouldn’t believe it. I also got caught in a mega downpour over there, one of those where you can’t even see the car in front of you and there’s so much water on the road you’re almost floating, and I think I was just lucky to make it back across the bridge alive, really. Very scary driving situation, especially with all those goofy exits. But my hunt for stuff turned out very successful, so all was not lost. And somehow, mostly inadvertantly and I guess fortuitously, I have expanded my online auction sales base from just Barbie stuff to include… yes, Pez! Who’d a thought Pez could be profitable! Give me your tired, your poor, your would-be-thrown-away Pez dispensers! I just wish I had kept some of the ones I had as a kid - I never did, and in fact I really wasn’t into Pez all that much. Sweet Tarts, Pixie Stix and Wint-O-Green Life Savers yup, not much Pez.

Anyway, I just happened to pick up some Pez dispensers in a junk store one day when I was scoping Barbie stuff a while back, put one of ‘em on the auction to see what I could get for it, hopefully what I paid for it at least, and it sold for a really obscene amount so I was like, hey, cool! It really wasn’t all that much, but a lot more than I thought it’d be, just goes to show you you never know what people might be looking for. Just call me Little Miss Entrepreneur… I’m certainly not getting rich by any means, but I’d just about rather chew glass than have to go get another second job again and hopefully Barbie and Pez will continue to stave that potential two-job unpleasantness off indefinitely… Barbie and Pez have been berry, berry good to moi. (snicker)

Anyway, I really need to be doing about fifty other things besides babbling about Pez, like doing laundry so I have clothes to wear to work tomorrow since I don’t think they’d like for me to come in naked, some major accounting tasks I’ve been putting off, attending to what’s becoming continuing bidding wars over a certain John Cusack movie I’m trying hard to get a used copy of, and dealing with exes who might, or might not, be currents again and pondering whether or not two years in the future is worth the wait. So I should go, just thought I’d bop in and spread some Lynnsterness around the globe after my long absence. So, ’til later, or at least when I can stay awake long enough again…