eternal sunshine of the spotless mind came out on DVD yesterday. I went to Borders at 8 am before work to pick it up. Borders didn't have it yet. Poop! They told me it wasn't out yet. They were wrong. The commericals were telling me otherwise. I was so disappointed. It really is my favorite movie in the past few years.

So, today, I went again. Jeff and I went after lunch and looked around for it. It wasn't in the new releases racks. Poop again! But then I found it in the Comedy section. I don't think it is a comedy. It is more of a drama. Anyway, I have it now. whoohoo! But Lost is on tonight and the presidental debates are on tomorrow, so it looks like I will have to wait to until Friday to watch it again.

I was counting my ninjas last night. I keep fearing that I won't have enough and then that no one will buy any at all. Haha. I will post a picture of all of the little guys tonight. It is just this massive pile of ninjas. Massive. ;)

the blimp
"there is a huge white blimp hovering over us," jeff said as he brought archie in from his walk this morning. "just turn down corcoran and you will see it. it is really low and unmarked."

so there i was, standing on 16th street in washington, dc, looking at this huge white bobbing blimp hovering above me. marvelous. it was so low, i felt like i could reach out and touch it. the capsule part that holds the people at the bottom was all shiny and flashing like a tiny lighthouse. a tiny bobbing lighthouse in the sky. what was that flashing? someone taking pictures? someone taking pictures from an unmarked blimp on a lovely day in the city. what would it be like to be that someone? is it a job or just for fun? and who let's blimps fly around this close to the White House.

I was the only one looking up. Everyone else just kept walking. It made me wonder if it was real. But I knew it was since Jeff told me about it. It also made me wonder what I am missing by not looking around every corner every day. What marvelous sights escape me. I almost ran inside for my camera, but the giant thing started to float up, higher and higher. And I thought a picture wouldn't be as good as I would remember it.

FROM THE AP about my blimp:
Security blimp takes flight over nervous D.C.
Associated Press
September 29, 2004 BLIMP0930
WASHINGTON -- Here's a head-turner for a security-nervous city: A large white object was spotted in the skies above the nation's capital in the pre-dawn hours Wednesday.
Pentagon police said the Defense Department is testing a security blimp - fully equipped with surveillance cameras. The white blimp was spotted early Wednesday morning hovering at various times over the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol.

The 178-foot-long device, which is expected to remain in the skies until Thursday, is conducting a mission for the Defense Department.

Authorities say the airship is equipped with infrared cameras designed to provide real time images to military commanders on the ground. The equipment on the blimp already is being used to protect troops in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The Army says the device will make at least one 24-hour flight in the District of Columbia area. It has been in the region since last week, and is also being used for test runs over the U.S. Marine Corps Base in nearby Quantico, Va., and the Chesapeake Bay.