I went to Disneyland with some friends yesterday. You know how people sometimes joke about getting stuck on It's a Small World? Well...

Actually, fortunately, we weren't stuck, but a boat somewhere ahead of us must have been. We were moving very slowly for much of the ride, though. And the other fortunate thing is that It's a Small World was in its "holiday" configuration, so the children of many lands were singing both the title song and "Jingle Bells."

The other highlight is that I briefly got to ride a Segway. Turns out the hardest thing about it (at least for me) is getting your weight distributed exactly right in order to keep it in one spot (i.e., that it doesn't think you're leaning forward or backward, which is how you make it move).

From today's strip: "Somebody ordered Runway 19L chopped up with bulldozers, so everything's delayed."

Way back on August 3rd, even before my baseball trip, I bought tickets to see the Buccaneers play the Chargers in San Diego. Finally, the game actually happened on Sunday, so I drove down with Jason (a friend from college) and Joe (a friend from work). Surprisingly, the two never really came to blows, although it probably didn't hurt that Jason spent much of the drive asleep in the back seat.

Joe brought a camera, so courtesy of him, I have these photos to share.

Me getting off the trolley before the game. Note that there's other Bucs paraphernalia in the crowd. Seems quite a few people dug their Bucs apparel out of mothballs. Errict Rhett is a former Bucs player I hadn't thought about in a while, but I saw not one, but two people with his jersey...


The view from our seats, which were in the very last row of the lower deck. There was a TV overhead showing the game broadcast, and the problem I kept having when there was a penalty is that I'd look up at the TV to see what penalty was being called, and then because we were sitting on the opposite side of the field from the TV cameras, it would look to me like the referee's arm was pointing the wrong way...


The crowd waiting to get on the trolley after the game (this picture was taken from the ramp leading up to the trolley station; presumably, a lot of the people this far back in line had to come all the way down from the upper deck)...

I pulled into my parking space yesterday after doing some errands. As I often do when returning home from doing errands, as I was getting out of my car, I pulled the floor-mounted lever to open the trunk.

During the three seconds it took me to walk to the back of my car, a passerby helpfully informed me, "Your trunk's open."

"I know," I said, although I now wish I'd have better been able to convey a tone of "have you not ever seen, or even heard of, the 'remote trunk release' option that is fairly common on automobiles?", or at least have been more specific and said, "I know. I just opened it." It's not as if I was walking away from my car at any point.