Ready for eggs

Went to Pet Palace today on Goldsmith and picked up a commercial grade incubator. And this puppy is nice. Digitally temperature controlled. Whisper quiet fan. Water tray for humidity. Blue light for illumination. Front-opening glass door. It even has a handle and DC plug for the car.

And I don't think I could have bought it at a better time. Pandora is plump with eggs. And she didn't eat any crickets today. I read that the first sign of "egg time" is a 2-day lull in eating. Keep your fingers crossed!

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Happy Birthday, Jooj!

Happy 34th, Jooj (see what I did there?)!!! I love you so much!

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Just not in the mood...

What a meh day. Work was tough. Jooj had a rough day. Leading me to have a rough night talking it out with her. Ugh. I'm so miffed at those that will not be named. I'm in such a bad mood that I didn't even have a single bit of desire to play any video games.

(I don't know how well you know me, but after that last sentence you should probably be on the phone with the suicide hotline to see if I've called recently - LOL!)

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L'ville Blues - My Fantasy Gambit

Over the past two weeks I've been battling in the semi-finals in Fantasy Basketball. Over the last week of this two week battle I identified deficiencies in my team and made the necessary add/drops to shore up certain weaknesses. I was playing last year's defending champ and over #2 in the league. I have come so close but I fear my gambit wasn't quite enough.

I was down in several categories. I found that I could catch up in steals. So I dropped some players and picked up the best stealers in the league. Then I noticed that I could possibly make a run for blocks. I dropped players and picked up Centers. In two nights I had a healthy lead on blocks. But try as I may, I just can't seem to strike the balance that I'll need to catch him. As I watch, and as the games wind down, I see the two of us switching off field goal percentage.

I have healthy leads on 3-pointers, steals, and blocks. He is destroying me in rebounds, double-doubles, and overall points. We keep trading off field goal percentage. He has an uncomfortable lead in free throw percentage.

Even if I keep my temporary lead in field goal percentage I fear my battle for free throw percentage is lost. I think I overloaded on Centers and it killed my chances over those two nights.

Live and learn. The L'ville Blues will be battling for 3rd starting tomorrow with my eyes on 1st next season!

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Fantasies within fantasies and dreams within dreams

Today was a glorious day. Not only did I get to watch a movie with Kelsey (one of our favorite past times back in the day) - at the theater no less - but I also sat down with Jooj for an evening flick. The movie I watched with Kelsey was the newly released Sucker Punch and the movie with Jooj was the award-winning Inception. Talk about a double-whammy mind-flip!

So Sucker Punch cannot be explained easily. It has a fantasy inside a fantasy featuring cute hotties, insane asylums, gargantuan samurai, 'splosions, gatling guns, bazookas, biplanes, automatic weapons, 'splosions, nazis, steampunk zombies, nazi zombies, 'splosions, zeppelins, creepy cooks, bombers, .50 caliber machine guns, castle sieges, knights, orcs, dragons, swords, 'splosions, moons of Saturn, hover trains, robot assassins, 'splosions, sassy nicknames, and lobotomies. It really was a dream for my inner geek. And I wanted to walk out of the theater proclaiming to the world, "This movie was made just for me!" (Much like I did for the personal favorite Scott Pilgrim vs. the World) But while the content was geektastically nergasmic, the story didn't pack a lot of punch. It was eye candy to the extreme but the story was a tad thin. I still enjoyed it. I just wanted it to rock my world and it only mustered a little nudge.

Inception, on the other hand, did rock my world. A dream within a dream. What a fantastic premise. I was on the edge of my seat for most of this one. I don't know what awards it won but it probably deserved more than it got. I highly recommend this one to anyone.

Damn, Zack Snyder and Chris Nolan are definitely on their game at the moment. Funny enough that their next project is working together on Superman: Man of Steel. If these two movies are any indication of what's to come we should be in for a treat (and I'm not that big a fan of Superman).

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GO BIG BLUE!

Those UK Wildcats did what few (outside of the state of Kentucky) thought they would and won against the overall #1 seeded team in the NCAA bracket. I was watching it on the laptop last night and couldn't even stay awake for the whole thing. I woke up to a nice surprise!

Oh, and the new oven is coming tomorrow (which is today, btw). Can't wait! What shall we cook and/or bake first?

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ZZzzzZZzzzZZZZzZZZzzzzz...

Too sleepy to post. Busy day at work. Watched shows with Jooj after dinner. Played some games. Lexie is laying low. Sleepy time.

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