Hey guys...

Just had another wonderful dining experience at BJs Restaurant and Brewery. I gotta say, their Chicago style deep dish pizza is incredible. I have had a couple of other dishes there, and have always been impressed. For you who have yet to be initiated... it's all about the Pizookie.

I only have 3 more performances in Oklahoma. To the cast and crew of the show, thanks for making it a lot of fun. You guys are the reason I am in theater. To Kitty, thanks for believing in what I can do, and for letting me take this "throw away" role and have some fun with it.

My niece's softball team came in 2nd place in a tournament this last weekend. Well done! Apparently, they did it in a very dramatic fashion after losing all 3 games on Saturday and being seeded in last place for day two. First off... how many frickin' times do you have to lose to be outta there?!! Second... that's just a helluva lot of softball! Ahh to be young.

I had to replace my keyboard today... Now I ruined one due a rather comical incident involving a bottle of superglue with the "whiteout" type brush adapter and two pairs of pliers, but had never simply worn one out before... and apparently there are several keys which I managed to break all at once....

You wanna know about the super glue now, don't you?

So I threw a $5 dollar keyboard into my KVM switch and it is passable. But I do see the difference between typing on a cheap keyboard and a more expensive one -- you can feel it.

Still on about the glue huh? OK...

I was in need of some SuperGlue and when I went to buy, found the bottle that basically resembled a bottle of whiteout, with the brush in the lid. "Perfect!" I thought, as usually the tip of the superglue tube congeals shut after the first use and you need an acetylene torch to get the glue flowing again. This one had a nice brush applicator, so that wouldn't happen... unless in your attempt to be neat you do what is most natural -- that is as you pull the brush out of the glue, you wipe the excess off the brush by dragging it across the rim of the bottle. Worked great, and I never had a neater superglue experience.

HOWEVER!!!

Remember that excess glue? Yeah... glued the damn bottle shut when I put the lid back on. No... it REALLY glued that Mother F'er closed! So one night after months of periodically grabbing it and trying desperately to open the bottle with my hands I got so frustrated I grabbed two pair of pliers and went "Tool Time" on the bottle. Well, I was sitting at my desk when I was doing this, in just about the same position I am sitting now, which means the bottle which I was performing this tug o' war with was hovering over my keyboard! Well I got the bottle open! Yeah Baby! Don't mess with me... oh wait... did I mention I managed to splatter copius quantities of glue all over my desk (drafting table) and keyboard? I learned something kinda cool that night... If you use a wad of paper towels to wipe up a lot of superglue, the wad will start to smolder as apparently that's how the glue works! Cool....

Hey, I have never pretended to be the smartest guy in the world. In fact, when it comes to anything of a mechanical nature -- or anything that requires an actual tool, I really make a great computer instructor!