Had to work late today, so there isn’t much exciting to talk about. My sister is getting me a Griffin RadioShark for my birthday. It’s like a TiVo for the radio. Unfortunately it isn’t out yet.

I’m trying to decide what to get myself for my birthday since I’m turning 40. One possibility was a new ham radio but the one I’d want is close to $1500 after I get all the accessories. Plus, I’m not on all that much any more. Other than that, I can’t think of anything.

So I didn’t see my sister off to the airport, but it sounds like it was a good thing that they left early. She got a lot of grief on the way here because she was late. She was expecting the small San Luis Obispo airport to be empty, as usual, but it was the start of spring break for Cal Poly and the place was packed.

Anyway, my dad wanted to go into the airport, even though I think that’s about as fun as visiting a prison. It took my dad a long time to get out the door, and then after my mom dropped the two of them off at the terminal, she missed the turnoff for the garage. She ended up driving all the way out of the airport and back.

Rather than go the airport, I was helping my friend Greg put together an antenna. Weird thing is, another ham we both know was there and it turns out his fiancee knows my sister. She went to the school in Japan where my sister worked. That was also where my sister met my brother-in-law. Portland is a small town.

It was pretty simple, Wonderfalls at 9PM, Touching Evil at 10PM. Well, the geniuses at Fox moved Wonderfalls to Thursdays to play against CSI. I’m not sure why they keep killing the shows I like, but I’m sure this is another show they’re trying to kill.

Well, I watched Wonderfalls instead of CSI because I know CSI is going to replay a half-dozen times, but Wonderfalls may go the way of Keen Eddie.

Well at least I still have Touching Evil on Fridays. And in a couple of months I should have Monk again.

Got a quick call from Megan’s brother, and sounds like she made it through the surgery just fine! I know the date doesn’t yield much confidence, but I trust Craig on this one.

My ma got home today! Sounds like she had a good time but her friends are getting old! She wants to make some more trips to see them while she still can. And my dad started driving her nuts immediately.

Tomorrow my friend Megan goes in for breast cancer surgery. She’s getting the new Diep flap procedure, something an article in the local paper said was the way to go. I wish her well.

And tonight I realized that the reason I don’t eat udon more often is because it’s so darn hot and my tongue burns easily. Plus, I got it in a big metal pot that kept it all quite hot. And I’m not bright enough to avoid things like that. I’m sure I’ll order it again.

Last Wednesday my dad and I went to Skyline Restaurant and I was very disappointed. I’ve been going there for years and so any changes are disappointing. Since my sister’s in town, we went to the old standby hoping things were back to “normal.” I saw a car with the plate “SKYLNE” so I was pretty sure the boss Michelle was there and everything would be fine. And it was. I figure last Wednesday was just a bad day for them. Yay!

Someone asked why I bother going to the Japanese restaurant I dislike. Well, my dad likes it. And there aren’t that many Japanese restaurants open on Sunday.

I was in REI today with my sister. She just wanted to get a running hat for my brother-in-law and she hadn’t been to REI yet. I saw the Odwalla cooler and had to get one. Instead of getting what I usually get — Strawberry C Monster — I got Blueberry B Monster. My sister warned me about getting Odwalla if I wasn’t used to eating fruit. All that fiber. Plus, it must have really been vitamin-fortified because my urine was fluorescent for several hours.

But other than that, all I did this beautiful day was sit around and read more comic books.

I took my dad to a Japanese restaurant I don’t like much, and it was crowded and not very good. But I expected that. It’s the last day of spring break so it’s crowded and the restaurant is never very organized when they’re busy. I was finished with my mediocre curry udon before my dad got his sushi. But that’s why I don’t like the place much. They’re very spotty.

So I can’t say there’s any big reason that I haven’t been posting other than laziness. A couple of the nights the computer was busy compiling things. I was also out one night helping my ex-girlfriend move her computer to her new boyfriend’s place. And last night I was at a guy’s “retirement” party.

My slacking almost killed my sister and it’s a wonder it didn’t kill my ma. The windshield wipers on my ma’s Camry have been bad since the Toyota dealer replaced them for her. I didn’t realize just how bad they were until I drove my ma to the airport in her Camry. The windshield wipers just smeared water around and basically created an opaque mess. I actually opened the window and stuck my head out to see. But the weather got nice and I didn’t have to use the windshield wipers so I forgot about them. Well, my sister drove the car in the rain and couldn’t see a thing! I finally replaced the wiper blades with some spares we’ve had for years and things are clear again.

After going to all the trouble of sharing my iTunes with my sister’s laptop, she said she couldn’t find anything to listen to. I have 6092 songs and she didn’t like most of them. She listened to “ELO’s Greatest Hits” and then made fun of me. At least her friends were over and told me they might have some Howard Jones that I’d like. Whee.

iTunes has the capability to share your music with five people on your subnet. What that means is that my stupid wireless gadget (the thing my sister uses to connect to my network) doesn’t work quite right and I had to do some fiddling to get iTunes on her Windows machine to see the songs on my Mac. After a bit of fiddling, I found a Java program, RendezvousProxy that runs on Windows that allows her to see my Mac’s iTunes. Yeesh, what a pain.

Went to the horribly pretentious, always crowded, yuppie French bakery in my neighborhood today. I finally got something (Croquet Monsieur) that was actually good enough that I can tell why all the yupsters go there. My sister says it’s supposed to have the best croissants in town (she saw it on some foodie web site). But still, it’s very icky in many ways.

I also finally finished a book I’ve had for over a month, Set in Darkness by Ian Rankin. Time to find some more books to read.

I suppose the real story is that my sister is visiting, presumably to keep my dad and I from driving each other nuts. But I’m really more worried about all the damn moths that flew out of my blankets today when I changed my sheets. I know the cure is to stick the blankets in a walk-in freezer, but I can’t be without the blankets unless I want to freeze myself. I should have figured out where all the darn moths were coming from much earlier.

Well, it’s time to finish a reading book before I go nuts thinking about it.