View From the Bushes

It's Groundhog Day, which as far as February holidays go, ranks third, after President's Day (because I get a day off), and my birthday, but ahead of Valentine's Day. My female readers may object to the ranking, but even though countless movies have been made with Valentine's Day in mind, none are as good as Groundhog Day. I once heard the film critic for Vanity Fair (at least I think that's who he wrote for) say that he had often thought of putting Groundhog Day on his "Desert Island List" but he felt the storyline of every day being exactly the same as the day before might hit a little to close to home if he were trapped on an island.

Furthermore, one of my friends celebrates Groundhog's Day instead of Christmas, so although that is more a commentary on my friends than an argument for the day itself, I thought I'd throw it out there. On a separate note, the easy thing today would have been to talk about the Super Bowl, but since everybody is doing that, I doubt I have anything original to add. I will say I was very disappointed to have it not go into overtime. Actually in the course of browsing I came across something much cooler. It's a periodic table that has examples of the actual elements and takes up an entire wall. Let me just say right now that if I am ever wealthy beyond the dreams of avarice I am going to get me one of those -- that and a private sub.

The only disappointing thing about the display is that for a variety of very sensible, but completely uncool reasons like "If we had a visible quantity on display here, you would be dead," they don't actually have all of the elements. Still, even taking that into account, it's still pretty cool. I was going to talk about the massive server issues that have been beleaguering, but I still can't talk about it without pulling my hair out in frustration, and I already look funny enough as it is, but imagine you open a closet door and everything starts falling out, but you manage to sort of get underneath it and support it, meanwhile tossing boxes back in, which sometimes stay there and other times just fall back out. That's what today was like.

Carpe Diem Quam Minimum Credula Poster
Ross