Loose Ends: Diaper Cakes, Quantum of Solace, Trail Races, and Graphics Cards

I have difficulty finishing tasks and thoughts. I’m easily distracted. Tangents and I are much more than occasional acquaintances. Our hot and heavy relationship looks more like that of a lusty, neglected menopausal woman and a ripe-for-adventure pool boy. That’s how in touch tangents and I are. However, I realize that my straying from topics and tasks can be a naughty addiction annoying and will now attempt to conclude some previous posts.

The accurately placed butt paste. Because your diaper cake should always be anatomically correct.

I detailed my journey from diaper cake virgin to first-timer in June. I did, in fact, construct the cake as you can see, complete with butt paste in the back (because where else would you put butt paste?). It was a huge hit at the party and hopefully my friend isn’t damning my name to fire and brimstone for all eternity because she now has to deconstruct the cake and unwrap 100 diapers.

Diaper Cake Breakdown: Pros: a cute and cuddly outlet for your masochistic domestic goddess and oodles of love at the baby shower. Cons: rolling nearly 100 diapers will chafe the hands while Big Bird and Elmo continuously leer at you, the realization

My inner domestic goddess quits.

that your domestic goddess isn’t all that into domestic pursuits and would rather be surfing, and a building feeling of panic at just how small an infant’s butt is.

Damn Harry Potter anyway. Because of Harry’s premier switch from November 2008 to July 2009, Quantum of Solace has been moved back by one week to November 14. Yeah, I know it is just a one week delay, but can’t I whine about something? I’ll just have to pack a picnic and comfort myself by going to see the earlier James Bond movies at the Crystal Screen Outdoor Film Festival.

On the dead computer front, I did manage to open up the desktop a few days ago. No stray popcorn, but it was chock-full of morbidly obese dust bunnies, some of them clogging the graphics card fan. In the words of the programmer: “that’ll do it.” But thanks to the programmer and his friends, I didn’t have to dip my toe in to the online sea of graphic card reviews and gnaw my fingers off in agony over which one to pick. Out of the chaos that is the programmer’s desk, he unearthed a brand new graphics card a friend had given him a year ago. In just a few minutes (spent vacuuming out the computer), I was up and running again with a supposedly three hundred dollar, kick-ass graphics card. I’m just happy my monitor is alive.

Finally, I signed up for my first AND second trail races. After much hemming-hawing, toe-wiggling and naval gazing I decided to enter the Backyard Burn series hosted by EX2 Adventures. I’ll be doing the 5 mile loop; I wussed out when I thought about committing to 10 miles. I couldn’t get the programmer to join me but he promises to be at the finish lines with a beer. The beer is for him. Not me. That would be a sure way to revisit breakfast with a side of dirt.

I’ll leave you with that delicious image. I’ve got pool boys tangents to stalk.