1. The ESPN.com widget on my Google homepage has displayed the same "Favre signs with Vikings" headline ever since Favre signed - over a month ago.  I see this as further evidence that ESPN is lame and does not get it.
    
2. Windows 7 might actually be worth paying for.  Not worth the price Microsoft is asking, mind you, but worth buying.
    
3. We got a new german shepherd dog two months ago, and I should so be writing about her.  As I type this, she's in her crate, laying on her back, sleeping.  Don't get all PETA on me about the crate - it's god's gift to puppy owners who don't like their shit wrecked.  Besides, she likes it and goes in it on her own.
    
4. I just upgraded the software I use to maintain this site.  It has tagging support, so you can see at a glance what I used to write about back when I actually paid attention to this site.
    
5. I finally saw Little Shop of Horrors.  A musical featuring a bunch of upcoming actors who can kinda sing and a plant that eats people.  Yeah, it's just as weird as it sounds.

I recently got on Facebook, along with 150 million other morons.  Today, there have been a couple requests from friends for that 25 Random Things list.  Random crap about me.  I have a blog so I can post hundreds of random things about myself.  Here's a sampling:

1. I have a cast iron kettle, inherited from my grandparents, that I've moved with me three times to the tune of around six thousand miles.  It's almost three feet across, 2 feet tall, and weighs at least 200 pounds.
    
2. I've never owned a pair of leather pants, but I've worn leather pants on many occasions.
    
3. I owned my first home at the age of 23 but never rented an apartment until I was 36.
    
4. One night, when I was nineteen, I encountered a local weatherman whooping it up with his news buddies at a bar, did a couple shots with them, and got arrested for underage drinking an hour later.

How's that for random crap?  Here's a little more.