So, today we trudge off to the blood donor clinic to do our civic duty and I find out that I can no longer donate blood because I have had cancer. It actually made me sad. The ironic thing is that for the last four to six years that I supposedly had the cancer, of course unbeknownst to me or the blood service, I donated several times. Now that it is, for all intents and purposes, gone, they tell me I can no longer give.
If you are ever looking for a good movie to rent on a Saturday night, pick up Billy Crystal's "Forget Paris". We have been revisiting this gem lately and getting quite a chuckle out of it. Hilarious scenes include one that involves Debra Winger with a pigeon and William Hickey's obsession with the Toyota jingle "You asked for it, you got it. Toyota." This film has now made it onto my 50 all time favourite movies.


I found this neat little screen saver in, of all places, the XP OS itself. It's called My Picture Slideshow (don't you just love the way Microsoft insists on adding that cutesy possesivness to everything it names in Windows; My Computer, My Pictures, My Illegally Downloaded Song Files, My Self Destructive Operating System) and it actually displays pictures that you can select on your hard drive with neat little zooms, wipes and special transitions. So I have a few of my more "artsy fartsy" digital shots zooming around the screen when the computer is not in use. I guess we'll leave it like that until we get bored of it or the new Lord Of The Rings trailer comes out, whichever comes first.

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