What’s Hot, What’s Not #3

Time for What’s Hot and What’s Not, thanks to Claire.
What’s Hot
– Being married for thirty-one years, which is what my parents have achieved today! Happy anniversary to my parents!
– Other anniversaries: Sunday was my nine-year blogging anniversary! (I forgot, obviously; I’m not a good blog spouse.) Next year is a biggie — a decade of pointless rambling on the internets.
– Powdery snow. I mean, if it’s going to snow inches and inches, I’d rather it be the kind of snow that’s easy to shovel away. And The Radio said it’s made the roads less dangerous than they would otherwise be.
– My friend Gwyn and the Groucho Club Choir have made a Christmas song. You can get a little preview here and then go to iTunes and buy it. I particularly like the ‘yummy yummy yum-yum’ and ‘oom-pah’ sections. Gwyn always tells everybody he introduces me to that I have a fantastic blog, so it’s the least I can do in return to try to persuade you to download the song. It’ll make you smile. Do iiiiit.
– Hulu has started uploading episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000. Most of my best memories of college took place while episodes of MST3K seemed to loop endlessly in the background. Keep it on the road, Ted Nelson.
What’s Not
– That I still can’t get an iPhone and use it with T-Mobile. I realized that an iPhone would be perfect if I could keep my current calling plan (ie, no extra internet service); it would just do everything my iPod Touch does and also make calls + take photos.
– Being a klutz. I’m getting tired of wiping up glasses of water that I’ve spilled. Or running into doorways. (You’d think that I’d never been in my house before. And that I walk with my eyes closed.) I don’t think I’m particularly hasty in my movements or absent-minded; things just get in my way. That’s what’s not hot; get out of my way, stuff!
– Forgetting where you are in the world. One of the few downsides to having spent a lot of time abroad is that I often think, ‘Ooh, I’d really like to get lunch at ____,’ or ‘Hey, it’d be fun to go see ____,’ and then I realize that the place in the blank is four-thousand miles away. For example, I wouldn’t mind having a cream tea at that nice place in Leigh on Sea, but it hardly seems worth the expense. And I’ll have eaten something else by the time I get there, anyway.