I am really starting to hate the theme I picked for this site, look for a change just as soon as I can find one I like. If you don’t read the MINI blog, you should as the theme there is really kind of cool, in a fruity way.

I’m disappointed, but not surprised, in the result of the San Diego Mayoral election. The results bothers me in that I really think Donna Frye has zero clue about anything to do with running a city, but what bothers me more is that she looks like a warning poster for staying out in the sun too long: wear sun block kids, or else look like this….

I’m off to England Friday evening for a week, visit my mother in her convalescent hospital, so there will be no updates for a while.

A prize for anyone who can use more than 13 pounds

In other, ahem, news I bought some new albums this week:

• Astronaut - Duran Duran
• Waiting For the Sirens’ Call - New Order
• Let’s Bottle Bohemia - The Thrills

All pretty good, but the New Order one is the best of the three.

Fox (or rather producer Nigel Lythgoe) showed once again that they know how to do reality TV right; So You Think You Can Dance was far more enjoyable than Dance With The Stars. The dancing was great, we didn’t have to suffer too many fools in the auditions, and the judges were spot on with their comments. My favourite of the night was the girl in the brown dress who did a jazz/modern-type ballet with amazing footwork. Least favourite was Isis - the belly dancer with the huge fake boobs - now that was scary!

Last Year’s Hash House Harriers Red Dress Run; this year’s is on Saturday. I think I look ok in red….

Now is definitely the time to start buying music from the iTune Music Store. If you are customer of the 500 millionth download, then you win some big prizes, including 10 iPods and a 10,000 song gift card! Right now they are at 499, 564, 000 and rising rapidly.

[Update:] So I keep forgetting that here in the USA you have to pay the taxes on any prize you win. So I figure this Apple giveaway is worth close to $15K which means, what, you’d have to give the IRS $5K?? Doesn’t seem so much of a prize anymore.

Ugh, coming home from a late lunch today, the temperature sensor on the Camry said 121F, or 49C for those of you who use sensible scales. Now that is hot.