Greetings, good people of Blog Nation. It’s time for my bimonthly update. Actually, about that, I am going to start trying to do a regular Friday update with a weekly roundup type of thing. We’ll see if I can pull that one off.

Now then! The now ex-governor of New York got himself a pricey hooker, a boot in the ass, and guaranteed late night talk show references for at least the next few years. This one’s been talked to death, but the one question I want to see answered, admittedly one that the media probably can’t explore a whole lot due to those dastardly decency laws, is what in the unholy name of Heatman a woman can do in bed to merit 5 Gs or what not an hour, plus travel and expenses. Shoot, at that rate Butch’s LOTR-length features would cost him almost 20 large. (Probably plus the cost of the milkshake). Mine? Well, 10,000 +, at least. *smirk*

I’ll leave the rest of the Spitzer commentary to the always capable Lewis Black. Check out the Visa rant at the end….classic.

TRAINING: Well, as those “in the know” know, yours truly is the tech support type for A Certain Major Wireless Carrier. The latest tech support class for emails came out on the floor this week, and they got frustrated as they did not feel prepared to do the job. So guess who was asked to come in and run his very own training class with some refocused training? *points to self, RVD style*

I am very excited about this. I have two days under my belt so far, and reviews from the class itself of my training skills are very positive and our manager even personally encouraged me to apply for the open job on the tech support training side and waived the “you have to be in your position for one year” rule for me. This is a chance for a major promotion. Exciting times on the job front.

It is a little bittersweet because the guy who is responsible for me being in Lenexa in the first place (Fred) is basically the other main candidate for the job, so it will be at his expense (and he is qualified for the job as much as I am) if I do get the opportunity. Fred is a good guy and a longtime friend, and I don’t think it will be anything personal no matter who wins. No Obama-Hillary stuff here. (VOTE FOR ROB! YES, WE CAN!).

VACATION: I was off the past week on vacation. I remained here in Olathe, but Candice and Husband of Record voyaged here and stayed with me at my apartment.

She bought me shiny new stuff (a George Foreman grill) for my apartment, we did local BBQ restaurants, an essential in KC. We caught the new Spiderwick movie (review in a sec), played PS3, and made a fantastic mess cooking in my kitchen. There was bowling (I rolled 78, 80, and 84 - if only we’d played five more games, I’d probably broke a hundred!), there was Dave and Buster’s, there was an awesome hibachi restaurant and even caught some NCAA action via big screen TV at a local bar/pizza style of place.

On a sidenote….should I become a Jayhawks fan? I’m still musing that one over. While my professional sports loyalties are well known, never really was much for college. But there isn’t much avoiding the Jayhawks around here.

We also stumbled across an awesome outdoor mall style place. You should see the gaudy new purse Candice has - it’s blue, it’s (when it’s not like 70% off which it was for a final clearance sale) ricockolously expensive, and she is so proud of the thing and it’s matching purchase, a blue wallet. If I had a nickel for every time she showed off that purse while beaming like the Frenchie (it was at least a .9 Frenchie beam, for the three people that will get that joke), I could probably retire or buy an island.

PS3 was also played. I now want one, especially with Metal Gear Solid 4 and GTA 4 coming out.

Lots of fun was had by all.

THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES: Another in the fantasy/semi-sci-fi kids Narnia-movie realm, this one being goblins and ogres and other such fun creatures discovered by a old man named Arthur Spiderwick, who gathers a lot of important data about all of these supernatural creatures in a Field Guide type book, but apparently if this book falls into one particular ogre’s hands It Would Be A Very Bad Thing, mkay? Good. Not really a Harry Potter style movie, despite the press it’s undeservedly getting, although it is based on a very popular series of children’s books like good ol Harry is, which is why the pundits are tending to compare the two. For those that care about how closely the book matches the movie, it’s a decently close adaptation. David Strathairn turns in a pretty good performance as Arthur Spiderwick, Freddie Highmore dual-roles as the twin boys the story revolves around and is passable enough, and Nick Nolte, bless his insane soul, is probably the highlight of this movie as the ogre. Can’t say it’s as good as Narnia, iffy on whether it’s worth eight theater bucks…most definitely worth a DVD/Blueray rental or purchase when the time comes. ***1/2

See you Friday!