The Occasional Solipsist

So Trinity, Superwife and I just got back today from our first vacation of the summer, and now I'm settling into the first of four graveyard shifts in a row. (Don't worry boss: I'm blogging this on my lunch!)

The first day of my four days off we drove to my in-laws place on the lake for a well deserved break that was just long enough for everyone to have a great time. The trip up always takes 5 hours (each way!), which with the baby is about 4 and 1/2 hours too long. We're planning on hooking up an in-car DVD player for Trin so she can watch Sesame Street for at least a few minutes of the trip before she gets bored, (and thereby give Mom and I a little break) on the next trip.

We had a great time though. Trin got to go for her first real fishing trip and she loved it. I caught my limit in fish and exceeded my limit in UV rays; I forgot the sunblock and got one of the worst sunburns I've ever had. At least now, when the Big C: Cancer finally shows up, I'll have no one to blame but myself.

Note to self: obscure Alec Baldwin SNL reference, check!

And now that I'm back and plugged back in, I have a plethora of likely-only-interesting-to-me things that I have been intending to blog about, but lack the werewithal to write separate posts about each. So the following are some good links to click on, in no particular order:

• The Matrix is right around the corner. Scientists have found a way to implant a neuroprocessor in a human brain that can be used to detect brain activity and transmit those signals to a computer to then do .... pretty much anything I guess. Pretty soon, you too can say "I know kung-fu".
  
  
• Star Trek 40th Anniversary Convention. If there were a way for me to simultaneously get out of work AND convince Superwife that its a good idea for me to go to Vegas alone for a weekend, I would SO be going to this.
  
  
• 2 faced kitten video (courtesy of MSNBC) Pretty much proves evolution in one fell swoop because no god could be this much of a fucking jerk.
  
  
• Natalie Portman to star in the next Indiana Jones movie. Guess they managed to cast the part of Harrison Ford's Great-Great-Great-Granddaughter.

Btw, the pic above is one I actually took of the view of the sunset from pretty much outside my in-laws door. The photo isn't spectacular because I took it, but because I could hardly lose with a subject like that. Feel free to click the image for the big version and adorn your desktop (as I have) with the splendor that is a Lake Nipissing sunset.

I miss it already.

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