Remember when you ran away and I got on my knees and begged you not to
leave because I'd go berserk?? Well...
You left me anyhow and then the days got worse and worse and now you see
I've gone completely out of my mind.. And..

They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa!!
They're coming to take me away, ho-ho, hee-hee, ha-haaa
To the funny farm. Where life is beautiful all the time and I'll be
happy to see those nice young men in their clean white coats and they're
coming to take me away, ha-haaa!!!!!

You thought it was a joke and so you laughed, you laughed when I had said
that loosing you would make me flip my lid.. RIGHT???
I know you laughed, I heard you laugh, you laughed you laughed and
laughed and then you left, but now you know I'm utterly mad... And..

They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa,
They're coming to take me away, ho-ho, hee-hee, ha-haaa.
To the happy home. With trees and flowers and chirping birds and basket
weavers who sit and smile and twiddle their thumbs and toes and they're
coming to take me away, ha-haaa!!!

I cooked your food, I cleaned your house, and this is how you pay me back
for all my kind unselfish loving deeds.. Huh??
Well you just wait, they'll find you yet and when they do they'll put you
in the ASPCA, you mangy mutt!!! And...

They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa.
They're coming to take me away, ho-ho, hee-hee, ha-haaa.
To the funny farm, where life is beautiful all the time and I'll be happy
to see those nice young men in their clean white coats and they're coming
to take me away, ha-haaa!!!
To the happy home, with trees and flowers and chirping birds and basket
weavers who sit and smile and twiddle their thumbs and toes and they're
coming to take me away, ha-haa!!!
To the funny farm, where life is beautiful all the time...

The Indians suck. The end.

We're going to the Lake County Captains game tonight. They're the low class A affiliate of the Indians. Every Friday and Saturday they have fireworks nights, so it should be fun.

A friend of ours is the corporate sales manager there and he gets 8 free tickets to each and every game. On top of free seats tonight, we also get free parking. I think he also gets a food allowance per game, but sadly I think it's only about $10. Not the $800 that would be preferred.

Lindsay bought me a pressure washer for my birthday. I'm really looking forward to using it tonight to wash my car. It's SO dirty now. Covered in pollen and bird poop... poor car.

Matt aka Mookie is coming to town today. Should be a good time. It'll be nice to see him on his worldwind tour of America because heading back to China.

So over the weekend there were three movies I wanted to see, in this order:

Iron Man
Indiana Jones
Chronicles of Narnia

We went to see Narnia. What follows are some spoilers, so don't read if you don't want to.

It wasn't nearly as good as the first one. I have huge problems with the storyline, or lack thereof. I think the movie could've used another 30 minutes or so to give some sort of reasoning as to why they'd go fight with Prince Caspian to restore his claim to the throne. Granted, we missed about the first 3 minutes of the movie, so maybe something really insightful happened then, but I doubt it. We arrived shortly before news of Miraz's son was proclaimed by the professor. It seemed like this movie was all about the battle, but no thought was provided as to why they'd so willingly go to battle. The dwarf Narnian could've been used as a plot point and could've explained more thoroughly what was going on, but they chose not to do that.

The best part of the movie was the one on won fight of the kings. Everything else was kind of meh. I disliked the blatant Lord of the Rings ripoff with the attacking trees. Bleh.

I give it a 4 out of 10.

Happy birthday to me.

We're back from South Carolina and it finally got warm here in Cleveland while we were gone. It's supposed to be in the 60's or 70's all week.
Hooray.

I got a birthday card last night (my birthday is Monday by the way, for those sending gifts). On the front of the card it had a caricature of Hillary Clinton sitting behind a sign that said President Hillary Clinton.

On the inside of the card it said "There are worse things than turning a year older."

How true. Seeing her beady little caricature eyes staring back at me filled me with rage. Everything was made better though when I opened my gift and it was Mario Kart for the Wii. Yippee!

You know what I'm tired of hearing? "Oil prices rise to new record on supply worries."

You know why I'm tired of hearing that? Because there are no freaking supply worries. Supply has been as steady as ever. There are no disruptions anywhere. The headline really should read "Oil prices rise because they can and there's nothing you can do about it so just bend over and take it." Yes there are artificial constraints on supply, but existing supply is not going anywhere.

There's a whole confluence of issues driving prices higher. Among them include price caps in China. Essentially that means that the Chinese (you know, those driving demand supposedly) don't actually pay what it really costs for oil. Their government subsidizes it. China also has windfall taxes when suppliers there sell oil above $40 per barrel. That means that the suppliers have no incentive to increase their supply. Thus China is artificially inflating the prices that we pay because they're constraining their own suppliers.

Another is that the oil companies are recording huge profits but are not using them on new development. Instead they're returning that money to the shareholders. In general that's a pretty good idea, but they're doing it way too much. Instead of returning $30 Billion in profits to the shareholders, how about using $20 Billion of that to build a new refinery? You know what that would do? Give us more supply and them more profit. Instead of that, the oil companies themselves are now constraining supply. Effectively, the oil companies are living it up right now and will be paying for it later. Sounds just like our government and the typical consumer. Let's spend all of our money now and worry about how we'll buy food next month later.

We beat Super Mario Galaxy tonight. Now we just have 14 more stars to get. We've been playing it periodically for a while and both have enjoyed it. Lindsays job is not quite as difficult as mine, but it's nice that we can both play at the same time.

Next up we'll probably play through it again as Luigi. Actually, Lindsay said she'd play through it again as Luigi. My next game is Legend of Zelda. I've played it for about an hour even though I've owned it for a year.

Now that I think of it, I've got about 4 games that I've owned for a while that I've never played... Adulthood. It stinks.