Wow… CornCam. Man, that kinda makes me homesick! (Link courtesy of fellow Midwestern girl Amy.)

Last night we finally had our much-anticipated Murder Mystery Dinner Party. The theme was 1920’s Chicago and the guests went all out on the costumes. The Snook, as you can see, was a dodgy millionaire gambler. (He also cooked us an excellent four course dinner.) It was an entertaining evening of alcohol, murder, sex, greed, bootlegging, crooked cops, and dangerous ladies. Nothing but good clean fun at the Chippendale Legitimate Businessmen’s Social Club! Photos are available here. Thanks to all the guests!

Happy Birthday to my sister Amy! Our cat’s namesake turns 25 today. (Well, yesterday really, but it’s still her birthday where she is!)

Awww… Jeff Smith, the Frugal Gourmet, has just passed away. Man, I used to love his show. I had a crush on his hot assistant Craig.

Excellent. OverSeasVote.com makes registering for a US absentee ballot pretty darn painless. I’m definitely using it this year!

Bloody hell. I just had a big long post about how I’m getting better at work but it’s still hard standing all day, and how it’s really fun when we get American tourists in, and how I managed to take a phone call and handle the whole enquiry myself, and how I got a great pep talk from my boss with nothing but positive reviews… but somehow I lost it. So bugger that. I’m too tired.

Have I told you how much I friggin’ love The O.C.? As I mentioned before, Channel 10 purchased the rights (after it tanked on another station) and they started showing it a few weeks ago. I think even the Snook is getting hooked! At first he claimed he didn’t like it – because “there aren’t any cute girls, and that main one looks like she’s 35” – but it’s slowly winning him over. Last weekend I had on a hooded sweatshirt and he was all, “You’re pretty far from 8 Mile!” and I was all, “Welcome to the OC, bitch!” We need something to replace the aching void of Buffy and Amazing Race.

Mac users: I just found a great little application called gCount that automatically checks my Gmail account for new messages. Pretty neat.

How many of these 100 Wonders of the World have you seen? I had fifteen, but only because we saw, like, all of the Italy ones on our trip last year.

How many hate groups are in your state? Indiana has fifteen and (as I expected) most are KKK groups. My parents went to high school in Butler, which is, like, their national headquarters or something. (Link courtesy of Max, who unfortunately has to contend with “Neo-Confederates”.)