A nice, pleasant spring break evening

It's the Sunday evening before spring break, and quite a lovely one it is. It's not raining or snowing yet--that's supposed to come later in the evening--but you can smell the moisture in the air. Like when you go to the mountains, maybe go skiing or something, and you get there right before the snow blows in. You go out to the balcony of the condo, or go back behind the cabin or whatever, and you don't even have to see or hear a weather forecast to know that there's something coming; you just know it. That's the situation in Castle Rock right now, and its so cool. Our house faces west, and though we don't have the best view in the world, we can generally see the weather coming down from the mountains. It got really hot in the house this afternoon, so this cool breeze is heaven-sent.

Really nice, lazy Sunday today, just the way I like them. We went and picked up a few things from Wal Mart (stuff that Target doesn't have), and that was it for running around. I did some quick yard work, then we spent the rest of the day watching movies. Cynthia always gets such good ones from Netflix for us. We watched Walk The Line, a biography about Johnny Cash, and Ray, about Ray Charles. Kevin did school work; he has some to make up from last week. The dogs--our Italian Grayhound Charle and the two other Italian Grayhounds we're fostering, Minnie and Buck--were well behaved for the most part.

Not having to be at work on Monday makes for a highly satisfying Sunday. I may read some RSS feeds on the laptop, or maybe watch some iTunes video podcasts, or watch a Blu-ray disc, or even some telly on the over-the-air digital tuner on the laptop. Cynthia had a headache and a bit of a tummy ache earlier, so she is now sleeping. Of course that still didn't stop her from fixing us blackened salmon with pasta and mushrooms for dinner. She and I love espresso coffee so I'll probably be making us some coffee later.

The Alaska cruise pictures are FINALLY done, so I'll probably be getting those up on Facebook here in the next few days. I have three days off from work this week so I BETTER get them up! Next up are the Washington DC pictures; we didn't take as many pics that trip--it only lasted three days--so it shouldn't take as long. I have a serious Jones for one of those Canon high-def video cameras, the ones that are all digital and have no tapes to deal with. There's everyday stuff around here that I really want to get video of. for example, the 2 cats that we have, Phoebe and Kawaii, like each other so much that they actually play together sometimes. Who ever heard of 2 cats being that cool with each other? It's HELLS cute and I need to get it on video. Plus if we can ever afford to go on vacation again, it would definitely come in handy.

What else--I finally got serious about looking at iPhones for the family once the contract for the evil Verizon runs out in September, and my findings are not good. For us to all three get iPhones, we'd have to pay 80 bucks a month for voice, and another 20 bucks a month PER PHONE for data. We really don't have that kind of daniero, so it's a much more likely scenario that we'll probably be keeping our current phones through Verizon and simply going contract-less until we can find an alternative. Cynthia really likes her phone and doesn't want to give it up, which I can totally understand. There is hope, though; I'm highly interested in those Palm Pre PDA phones that are supposedly coming in June. If that rollout is successful and Sprint refrains from forcing Pre owners to pay for a data plan, the way AT&T does with iPhones, then we should be able to switch to Sprint; they have the newer model of Cynthia's phone, so she'd get that, I'd get a Pre, and we'd find a phone for Kevin as well. He may want a Pre himself by then. Until then, those Apple iPod Touch devices are looking pretty good right now.

Anyway I've got a lot of relaxing and kicking back to do tonight--viva spring break!--and I better get started. Peace!