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I found out a few days ago that I'll be headed to Houston, TX next week for a week-long inspection of a vendor's system.  I've got family in the area, but coincidentally, they'll be in Pennsylvania at the time, visiting my other family.  Looks like I'll bring a book or two and catch on some reading in the evenings. 

I might even get a chance to go catch a movie or two (quite a luxury when you're usually shackled to a 2-year old anytime you go out).  Anyone have any recommendations?  The one's I'm sort of considering are:

    – Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (I'm a sucker for the series, although I like the books more than the movies)
    – Transformers (who doesn't enjoy having their childhood repurposed to sell millions of new toys to a new generation of kids?)
    – Ocean's Thirteen (If it's anything like the first two, I'll enjoy this one a lot)

On the fence (I would need a really good recommendation to push me into seeing it)
    – Pirates of the Caribbean 3
    – Fantastic Four: Silver Surfer
    – Evan Almighty
    – 1408 (I've read the Stephen King short story this is based on…Meh.)
    – Evening
    – Live Free or Die Hard (Is this the one where the corpse of Bruce Willis is resurrected to fight terrorists in some city somewhere?)

Ones that are definitely out:
    – Anything animated (I get enough of this at home, I'll see them soon enough when they come out on DVD)
    – License to Wed (Um…if you've seen a preview, you'd understand)
    – Knocked Up (I had to wash my eyes out with bleach after watching the preview for this movie)

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In case you're wondering, I'm referring to myself here. 

I just ducked out to the local deli to grab a late lunch since I forgot, once again, to bring mine in.  Ordered an Uncle Fred (deli ham, bacon, lettuce, tomato, and honey mustard on a sub roll) and filled up a big 32-oz foam cup with pepsi.  Took the to-go box with me while I ran by the bank to make a deposit and headed back to the office to chow down while catching up on some neighborhood posts.

Door-lock-thingy

As I got out of the car, I decided to lock my doors not with my keyfob (which I had already stuck in my pocket), but by pressing down on the door lock-lever thingy on the driver's side door.  This in itself would have been fine if I had just pushed it down with my hand….but no….my hands were full, so I used my drink cup…and very quickly realized that styrofoam drink cups do not put up a good fight against unyielding plastic door lock buttons.  Unfortunately for me, not quickly enough to avoid punching a door-lock-button sized hole in the bottom of my cup which rapidly deployed the contents of the cup all over (and inside) the driver's door panel.

So now I'm left with an empty styrofoam cup, a puddle of pepsi on the ground, another one inside the door panel, and an expression of chagrin on my face.  NOT a good way to cap off Monday Thursday.

I will now go find a whiteboard and write 500 times "I will think through my actions before trying to use flimsy materials for uses in which they were not intended".

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