Hungarian, sprinklers, wii

A few months ago a monument appeared in one of the common areas around the entrances to the government complex.  It has a huge marble square base with the statue of a guy on one knee, holding up a Hungarian flag with a hole in the middle of it.  The face on the guy looks like he is crying.  The monument is for Hungarian war heroes. Um….. ok….  I am sure there are Hungarian war heroes.  The question is why   would such a monument be placed in the government complex of a sw florida county?  It just seems out of place.  It would be like putting the Rocky statue in Canada or something.

After work I am heading back to Home Depot to load up on things needed for this weekend’s leg of the sprinkler project.  It’s funny, my trips to HD to get sprinkler stuff almost gives me the same feeling I used to get as a kid going into the toy store.  It’s weird.

Charlie got a Nintendo Wii a week or two ago and has been singing it’s praises to me.  My take on the Wii when I heard about it was it just is another fad.  People would get sick of having to move around so much to play a video game.  However he swears it is one of the coolest video game experiences he ever has had.  I started checking out some videos of it.  It does look pretty damn cool.  I floated the idea by Ali, since she asked me if there was anything I wanted to get for myself with the tax return.  The idea was not received warmly.  She assumes that since the xbox sees little use besides acting as media center for my bittorrent videos on my pc, another video game system would just be a waste.  However I think the interactivity and simplicity of the Wii might actually be fun for Ali to play too.  It would definitely be a fun thing to do when company comes over.  We have a big tv, high ceilings and a good amount of floorspace, a perfect setup for it.  You just have to be careful when you are flailing around or else you wind up on this web site.  

Three day weekend coming up.  Government jobs are hard to beat I must say.  I will spend the lions share of it on the sprinkler project.  If things go just perfectly, by the end of this weekend I would have the controller box mounted on the exterior wall, all the valves wired to it, a little trench under the driveway will have been blasted out by water pressure and I will have 11 sprinklers installed around the border of the house which will be fully operational.  That is pie in the sky optimism, but I am going to roll the dice and see how it goes.