In the news...

I'm glad to see the White Sox make the World Series. Maybe baseball is working its way through the underdog teams. So perhaps the Cubs will have a turn next year.

A Catholic high school on Long Island cancels it's senior prom. I was shocked at the exce$$ these parents tossed around myself. I didn't go to my prom - even when I grew up in a neighborhood that had a few "JAPs" - (Jewish American Princesses), I can't imagine the Hamptons Houses or booze cruises (although when I graduated in 1980, the NY drinking age was still 18).

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/10/16/prom.canceled.ap/index.html

16 year old pro-golfer drops her ball incorrectly and is disqualified - Michelle Wie did pretty well in the tournament, but didn't follow the rules for moving an unplayable ball. She's under a micrscope due to her age and apparent skills, too bad.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/golf/10/16/samsung.final.ap/index.html?cnn=yes

Hurricane Wilma has appeared. I wonder how many Fred Flintstone imitations will spring up saying "WIL-MA!". (Then again, do children today even know the Flintstones? My husband asked this while looking at childrens vitamins the other day.)

Slow day at work, one test environment (computer) is down. I'll post a weekend update later.

Good news

My husband's car was towed to the mechanics on Saturday - engine turned over, didn't start, couldn't be jumped. Although the car won't be ready until tommorrow, it just needs a tune up. My husband is taking the battery to Sears for replacement as it was purchased in December 2004.

In the craziness Saturday with being unable to get his car working, he had put the receipt for the battery in the pile with the book and cd's being returned to the library. So it got dropped off there - I e-mailed the library last night and called this AM, they had the receipt which made my husband happy. (and me too!)

Hopefully his car will be good for a while. We have a GM Test Drive coupon that will give us a 50.00 gift certificate to DSW shoes, it would be nice to have fun with it and not use it in a buying frenzy!

I need 2 rear tires soon but that's a quick fix on a Saturday.

Sigh

This sounds weird but I need to vent.

We went to Walmart tonight and got Alan's costume - a Superman for 12.44




I thought I would pick this one up somewhere - since Alan loves Thomas - I just hadn't gotten back to the two party stores that had it locally. But he might not wear the hat.




I thought this was adorable from Babystyle.com - its 9.99 + 2.00 shipping. But Alan wouldn't wear it, I'm sure the hood wouldn't stay up.





I don't know. The last 2 years he had costumes he had nice ones from Old Navy. One was a fleece fireman that was a steal at 1.49, the other one I thought was him was a race car driver. The superman just seems kind of blah, but he will keep the 2 pieces on (no hat or masks that he'd lose).

Maybe next year he'll be into a little more and we will pick it together. He did pick the Superman over a really cheap Ninja costume, so I guess he has some opinions! Also since we are going to a sci-fi/horror convention on October 30th, he could wear the Superman costume...Thomas just wouldn't fit :(