There’s a meme on Facebook where you post 25 random things about you, and then tag others to do the same. I was tagged today and this is what I posted.
25 Random Things About Me

We went to Fosters Freeze today to satisfy my craving for a chocolate dipped soft serve, only to find out THEY WERE CLOSED TODAY! On a Sunday!

We then headed over to 31 Flavors, which I normally like. The guy behind the counter warned me not to get dipped ice cream on a cone, but I did anyway. Now I know why. They dip the soft serve ice cream in the hot chocolate topping, which melts the ice cream, but not before the hot topping rapidly solidifies with lots of holes in it. So it immediately starts dripping and running down your hand.

Oh, Fosters, how I miss you so.

Maybe tomorrow will be better.

My Comcast connection is evidently screaming fast today.

I checked my speed because my gmail account was incredibly slow, and of course it must be Comcast and not Google, right? Turns out I’m getting this from Google:

It lasted only about ten minutes but was very annoying. C’mon Google, I want my instant gratification!

Let me summarize the plot in terms of the bad guy’s plan:

“So guys, I was up all night working on this. Here’s the deal: we’ll blow up a train so we can steal a secret hardware device that will allow us to melt down all of the nuclear reactors in the US. And at the same time we’ll kidnap the Secretary of Defense and hold him on trial in the biggest streaming media event to ever happen online, simply to hide the fact we’re uploading a few lines of code to 300 computers. Ah, but if they foil our plans and not even one of the reactors melts down, then we’ll steal a Stealth fighter and shoot down Air Force 1, but only enough to make it have an emergency landing. Then we’ll get there before anyone else, steal the football and take only the pages out of the code book that we need to set off the nuclear warhead that we have. (Note to self: steal nuclear warhead.) Then we’ll launch the nuke from 1800 miles away and fly it below radar, and for three hours no one will notice a 600 mph missile zipping over their heads. We’ll aim it at Hollywood for no good reason other than they think they’re significant. And I’ll be sure to be in LA at the time, except I’ll escape the nuclear blast in a helicopter 10 minutes before the missile hits. Oh, and I’m taking that hot white chick with me, but no one else. Any questions?”

My sons and I started watching “24″ last season, but after about 8 episodes we got behind and never caught up. This week I was cleaning up the TIVO and was going to delete the remaining episodes when Eric came up with the right way to watch the show:

“Why don’t we just watch the first couple of minutes of each show where they do the ‘last week on 24…’ summary?”

Brilliant! In less than an hour we had seen every moment of significance, courtesy of the show’s creators, and we didn’t even have to fast forward through the commercials. Next season I’m going to set up the TIVO to just record the first 2 minutes of the show.