old busted

The Doors When we moved in to our place, the doors were all very dark, and kind of beat up. We're putting new doors in, one or two at a time. It takes a lot of coats of primer, paint, and topcoat for each door! One thing I learned: Paint takes space, so make sure there is enough clearance around the door for all that paint... our you can "measure once, cut twice"! I think they look pretty cool, though!

new sweetness

Who has time to do all this blog stuff? As you can see, I don't very often...but every once in a while, I get the urge. Usually when I'm ticked off about something. I guess that makes this the curmudgeon press. :-)

I've been hacking and coughing all week, fortunately "only" the cold, not the flu. I think I got it from our multimedia guy at church, although I told him I wasn't sure that it was him, because I didn't want him to feel too bad...

So Berkeley Breathed has a new comic strip, Opus. At least, they say it is new. I say, the man hasn't had an original idea in years. It's run now for 3 weeks in our paper. I missed one, maybe it was brilliant...but the other two were about Opus dreaming about cavorting with a woman or women.

I wrote to our paper, suggesting that this was not exactly new, since that was the same thing he did in "Outland" and "Bloom County", and even 2 out of 3 weeks in the "new" strip. His response was that everyone else has loved it...Go figure.

I guess since last week's had Condoleezza Rice in it, that makes it "Incisive. Political. Commentary." Except that "Boondocks" has been riffing on Rice for what, a year? (Or does it just seem that long)? Like I said, original this stuff is not...