I was clicking away on the old internets earlier this morning and came across this picture:

This is supposed to be the "new" KITT for the newly-recycled Knight Rider series due out in a couple of months. What the hell? A Ford? A MUSTANG? Now most of you know that the original was an early `80's Trans-AM, which was a pretty futuristic looking car in a world full of Yugos, Crown Victorias, and Cadillacs. Christ, I think a baby angel just died. I'm not sure how much better a concept I could have come up with, but I certainly know I could have done better than this as a replacement for the original KITT. I will reserve any and all bad thoughts concerning the actual show itself until I see the 1st episode. Until then, here is a picture of what the real KITT should look like. Enjoy and have a great Thursday.

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Sorry guys. I made dinner last night and as I was taking the last bite, I remembered that I was suppossed to be taking a pcture of it. Whoops. By I will NOT forget for tonight, because we are having ribs w/ slow cooker sweet potatoes and carrots. This will by far be the best meal of the week. Also, I forgot to leave the carrots in the vegetable crisper and they got all wilty sitting out. I had to go back to the store and by some yesterday. $1.97. So, I'm still just under the 100 dollar mark for the week and its Friday! So I guess it can be done. Although I did have to keep my snacking to a minimum, which is a good thing and a bad thing I guess. The meals for the week weren't all that hard to make (although last night's cranberry-fig chutney was damn good and I had to keep an eye on it to get the right consistency.) So, instead of a tasty pic of some good food, here's a stomach-churning video. Enjoy! (This happened right in Santa Fe. I'll be driving a lot less on the rural farm roads.)

Okay. I was browsing the internets a few minutes ago and HAD to post this. I came across this GPS jacket for your kid. That's right. For your children. If you lose your child or your child decides to go AWOL and didn't leave a note behind, this jacket has a GPS locater in it. The jacket will send its location to a "base station" of sorts and then that station will alert your cell phone of your missing child's location. U.K. based-company Bladerunner is the maker of this device ironically. I would have figured that the US would have pioneered this sort of tech, but those silly Brits surprised me again. Does anyone else think that this is just the beginning of these chips going in all of our clothing and the government watching your every move, or am I just being paranoid? And what the hell ever happened to just "watching" you kids anyway? I don't think I could rely on a piece of machinery to tell me where the hell my kid is. That's just being a lazy parent.

Earlier today I was watching a little television while Adriana was asleep (X-Play on G4 TV if you're curious) and I saw this commercial for these drawing utensils designed for little hands and fingers. Here is a pic of what I saw:

Now I normally don't just run out of the house and buy something I saw on television, but this was an exception. The markers are washable with soap and water from walls, clothes, dogs, whathaveyou. I thought "Man! Adriana would LOVE to play with these things!" Actually, they looked like a lot of fun for me to play with too, but whatever, nothing but the best for my little girl! So after lunch, I scooped her up and we departed across town to the only place in town I could think of that would carry these awesome looking markers: Walmart.

20 minutes later we arrive at our destination. To be honest, I have NEVER seen this many...um...overweight, no uberweight people in a long, long time. I actually felt out of place, but then I remembered that I was at Walmart and I felt better. I wove my way through the throngs of shoppers and eventually found myself in the crayola aisle. Holy crap. It was like I was 4 years old all over again. Every type of crayola utensil imaginable. It was like a pre-pubescent Picasso's dream. I had to really focus to just pick up the markers I came for. It was like I was being controlled by some unseen force telling me I needed double-sided markers. My daughter can barely hold a pencil, let alone draw with a crayon. But I can. I can draw with the best of them. I made a mental note to come back at a future date and by the hell outta some crayola markers.

Anyway, I walked to the cashier, payed for my wares, and exited with a huge smile on my face. Back at home, I sat Adriana down on the floor, broke out the markers, and grabbed some paper. Adriana snatched the balls of ink from my hands and went to town. Then came the flood. It seemed like all it took was minimal force and these so-called markers let loose their contents all over the paper. Not in a smooth line, but in a torrent of red, green, and brown?(WTF, brown?) I looked at the box they came in and tried to read if there were some sort of instructions on use while Adriana giggled in playful glee. At the very bottom corner read "Made in China." Dammit. Now I have an ink-covered daughter, a messy floor, and more cheap overseas products in my house. Well, at least the ink was washable with soap and water.