IMPORTANT QUESTION OF THE DAY

My belt issue is being put on hold until I can get to an REI and check out Sonia's assertion. This will happen on Saturday, I think.

When I'm making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, I always spread the jelly first. For some reason I feel like there's less PB/J cross-contamination on the knife this way. Do you do it that way too, or am I the only person who pays attention to that sort of thing?

Yes, I realize there is ultimate PB/J cross-contamination inside the actual sandwich, but I feel like it's important to keep the knife somewhat less so. I have no idea why. I'm willing to accept that this may mean I am crazy.

LAZYWEB BELT

I am a man whose waist is the wrong size for his belt. If I go to N holes, it's too tight. N-1 holes is too loose and I feel like my pants are going to fall off.

The solution: one of those skater belts with the teeth.

The problem: all of them are covered in crappy bullshit designs.

I'm trying to find one on the internet that:

- Has the buckle I want
- Is plain black

This is turning out to be trickier than I thought because I can't seem to find the right search terms. Internet, can you find for me a belt that satisfies these requirements. I have included a handy illustration that shows the type of buckle I'm looking for; I got one of the bottom kind a couple of days ago at an army/navy, and it's not quite as convenient as I thought it would be.

STILL UNENTHUSIASTIC

Today is a day for talking about cartoons.

I guess that Clone Wars movie is out today? I don't care about the Clone Wars even a little bit. Fuck the Clone Wars.

1. We know how they turned out. It was called Episode III.
2. We already had a Clone Wars cartoon. Remember that Genndy Tartakovsky cartoon about the Clone Wars? It was called Clone Wars. Yeah.

I know I've said this before, but what I would really like to see is an animated series about the Dominion War. I know we know how that shit turned out, too, but imagine for a second how nice it would be to have new Star Trek material that took place in a familiar era, with new characters and guaranteed action & adventure. Does nobody else live in the same universe I do.

I DON'T KNOW WHY THIS IS

This sounds too good to be true. All it does is arouse suspicion in my glands. Not sure why. I think it's the "Not available in stores!" thing. Why do this.

I didn't know J. Michael Straczynski wrote for this show, though, nor that Maurice LaMarche did the voice of Egon. Of course, these names are only meaningful to me now, not to my kid self.

VARIOUS STATES OF FAILURE

Three personalized license plates witnessed on the drive to work today:*

1. Black BMW of some sort? "COLIN C". Really. I guess everyone knows whose car that is now. Good job. I'm not sure if this plate rates above or below the ones that say things like "JOES TOY" on my hatescale.

2. Gray Lexus: "TEDHEAD". I cannot conceive of the set of circumstances necessary to cause another human being to think this was an acceptable choice for a license plate to put on their personal vehicle.

3. Silver Corolla or similar small car: "MLN FLCN". This was indecipherable to me until I saw the "Jedi Academy" sticker on the rear windshield. It makes sense, right, but don't you think "MLM FLCN" would've been better? Maybe it was already taken.

* I drove today because I've got to meet some people after work in a place and time that precludes the use of my bike.

STOCKPILING

So Kraft makes this roasted red pepper Italian salad dressing* that is ridiculously good. This, of course, makes me immediately suspicious that it'll be taken off the market without warning (something that happens with regularity to the aftershaves I tend to choose), so I'm buying extra bottles of it whenever I find myself at a Safeway. Mine is the only rational response to this world.

* It says something about the usability of their official website, btw, that I had to resort to googling and linking to an Amazon page for this product

DORMANT PRIORITIES

I am comfortable admitting that I gave up what would otherwise be a prime parking spot here in my neighborhood because I know a hawk likes to perch more or less above it. I would not really call myself a dude who is vain about his car from an appearance standpoint, but this hawk does not shit on things -- it paintbombs. I chose to avoid this. That was a choice I made.

SPIN PALS

One of the people who works near me has three of these guys on her desk. I have no idea what it is that does it, but if you set them all spinning at the same time, it puts a smile on your face that's hard to get rid of. They're just so irrepressibly jolly.

There's a lesson here. I just don't know what it is.