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The Senator held a "Lord of the Rings" marathon today featuring all 3 extended versions for a 12 hour odyssey. A prior engagement meant I had to kidnap Lila from the event for the first movie, but powered through the last two. Lisa simply could not take any more hobbits and left before the final movie concluded. Only the great TomTom can claim to actually have seen all 12 hours of madness.

Less than 2 weeks after returning to duty, my Cougar decided to spew transmission fluid all over my parking space at work. After a momentary stun, I got back in the car and drove about halfway home before hearing the humm of a transmission with no transmission fluid. I did manage to get within the free 5 mile tow range of AAA so this return trip was much less expensive than the original. I shouldn't be surprised, as everyone on the Cougar forums warned me the sheered bolt head would probably get lodged between the differential and the case and cut a hole through it (which I assume is what happened). Silly me and my faith in the magnet.

With the weather stations forecasting a class 3 kill storm, I decided it was time to bust out the HD DVD player for a showing of Blade Runner. I can't remember the last time I watched the movie but my post HD-DVD failure discounted limited edition did not disappoint. As is typical with kill storm predictions, nothing actually happened and the mood was not as dark as it could have been.

The ultimate beer, at least in my opinion, is Innis & Gunn. Unfortunately, it's only available outside the U.S, or rather it was until today. TomTom found French landing liquor which actually stocks the liquid of the gods.

After sitting in my barn for 3 months following the breakdown event, I decided it was time to investigate what actually went wrong with my Cougar. Knowing it was internal to the transmission, I took a chance and removed the shift tower where the most common issue of a sheered bolt made itself known. A call to Jason from the Cougar club yielded a replacement tower for $50, which after a $150 fee to a local transmission shop to frankenstein the two into a workable one had it replaced and back on the road.

A year of Lila has come to pass, and a befitting party was planned and executed by Lisa, including 40 people who somehow managed to cram into the house. A lengthy present opening ceremony got everyone ready for cake and ice cream, where Lila obliged the fans and plowed into her smash cake after some initial cautious investigation.

Today Lila had her first taste of ribs, which I dubbed baby back ribs for comedy despite the fact they were actually rib tips. It mostly involved licking the salt off them with very little actual consumption, but it still technically counts. After the ribs, she was treated to a full 2 hours of Sesame Street Live which was not on ice as every person I mentioned it to assumed. It was on wood at the Fox Theatre stage. I was just starting to settle into the idea that this was who I am now, a parent bringing his kid to a kid show when Elmo appeared and the entire place erupted to the point I was looking around to see if some famous celebrity had arrived. An hour into the event, Lila simply could not take any more excitement and we left, but she learned to get excited about Elmo and that's an important social skill.

After Lisa complained about my lack of spontaneous flower deliveries (yes, spontaneous is defined as frequently for her) I decided to get a ridiculously large bear and chocolates, which TomTom promptly violated (the bear, not the chocolate). Post-violation, the bear was of course inherited by Lila, who is 1/3 the size and uses it primarily as a pillow. Hopefully this will cover my flower requirement for at least a week before I'm required to spontaneously deliver more.

Some actual detailed rumors on the next Xbox today, here's hoping the official specs are announced at this year’s E3. While I'm obviously throwing money at whatever Microsoft decides to release, here's hoping for at least 8GB of RAM. I think the lowly 512MB this generation has severely hampered any kind of visual improvements. Also hoping they don't eliminate the used game market, or at least drive down the price of new games or Lila will have to start using food stamps.

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