Quick thoughts

So the church up the road from where I live had another set of fun sign snafus. I think I've mentioned them before, somewhere along the way. If not, someone let me know and I'll post up some of their previous gems as comments. Anyways, on my way out of the house today I noticed the sign read:

Get On Your
Knees Boys
Mens Prayer
Sat 8:00 PM

Which really really does not take much to read the wrong way... Anyways, on the way home they had someone out changing the sign, at the point at which I passed it read:

Get On Your
Boys Mens
Prayer
Sat 8:00 PM

Which wasn't much of an improvement, though the sign was in the process of being changed so you have to give them points for trying.

Full Metal Alchemist was at episode 44 tonight on Cartoon Network. Series ends at 51 ( there is a 52nd episode, but it is a re-cap episode summarizing the series up ) so while I really really would encourage people to give the series a try, watching it on Cartoon Network right now would be an awful place to start since it'd spoil all the surprises in the first part of the series. Actually, the series doesn't quite end at episode 51. It ends there, but then there is a feature length movie that came out later which continues on from there and provides the real ending to the series. The manga is still on-going actually, and I like the story in the manga a bit better then the way the anime ends. But still, the anime is damned good and by-and-large paced better then the manga ( which is the opposite of Naruto IMHO, where the manga pacing just feels so much more exciting then the anime ).

The tv ad for the Gilette Fusion razor is depressing. It has this nice whole sci-fi sequence of buried lab in the desert, black helicopters, people in lab coats with the cliche silver metal attache of doom, and it looks like it could be a trailer for a much better sci-fi show then the alien invasion crap that is on the networks right now. But it isn't. It is an ad for a frickin' razor. God dammit.

A magnitude 2.8 earthquake in Portland today, back at 6pm or so. We don't get blizzards, or much flooding ( okay, this year the weather is fall fucked up ), or tornados or hurricanes... But we do have volcanos and earthquakes. So... Yeah... My natural disasters are cooler then your natural disasters!

Weather is all messed up though. Last year we had the dryest first three months on record in Oregon with no appreciable rainfall through the end of March. This year we may have the most rainfall on record ever for a January in Oregon.

This goes to some of the people I know and the really weird conversations I end up having at times, but little did I know, Amazon.com has a bondage department. No longer do you need to go to scary stores that are poorly lit and smell of leather, latex and lube to get your cat'o'nine tails or your four-cuff restraint set. And oddly enough, the prices on Amazon.com are amazingly low.

More info on the earthquake here. The irritating thing about this for me is that I am left wondering now if that is an aftershock I just felt or a really big truck just drove by a street away. Mapping it out, I am roughly 8.7 miles south of the epicenter's surface location though the actual epicenter was nine miles down.