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So I think I finally jumped through the necessary hoops to make the Sprint and Cingular folks happy with my phone port. People shouldn't be so surprised that we have to jump through so many hoops in life. Jumping through a hoop is the first thing we do when we are born. It just continues from there. I will know if the port was successful when I awake tomorrow morning. It is a little sad moving from a Blackberry to a normal phone again. I won't be able to obsessively check my email on my phone or try to write notes and thoughts on long car trips while driving. It will probably save my life or someone elses to not be typing and driving but I can always keep my old and mostly useless HP Ipaq handy to stay connected on the road. Maybe I can even configure the POP email on it but it doesn't have a keyboard and without a Velcro solution I don’t think I can accurately write using the pen based interface.

The past couple of days have been lazy. I have continued to attend ImprovBoston events as if I were a boxer training for a come back fight. I tried to do some musical improv last night at the open jam and was lucklessly given the style of ragtime. So I gave it a lame attempt, felt rather unfunny, and sat to watch other funny folks perform. The show before the open jam was amazing. They were reading excerpts from an unauthorized critical white house insider blog that I wish I could remember the name for, and then creating scenes on the fly with music in them. They were so professionally done that they looked scripted but they were all improvised on the spot. They were preceded by a group of New Hampshire college students that looked like the cast of That '70s show but didn’t have any girls or the foreign exchange student. They were pretty funny too. After the shows we went out with a bunch of Gadi's friends and played Improv games at the Druid with Gadi's three female friends as an audience. It was fun.

Hattie was annoyed that we had enjoyed ourselves without her so Sarah and I decided to put all plans on hold and do nothing that could be construed as fun. When I got home on Sunday night Sarah and I watched half of Without a Paddle. We were entertained by Bart the Bear, who had an extensive party including growling loud, eating Seth Green's cell phone, and causing Seth Green to roll around in the fetal position. We were joking that Bart the Bear(II) has been in a lot of movies. I did some research and it turns out that there are two Bart the Bears. The first one was born in Baltimore. His biggest feature role was in L'ours, that great French movie that was all about the life of a bear. He was also in The Great Outdoors, The Clan of the Cave Bear, Legends of the Fall, and White Fang. He died at age 20 at about the right age for a bear to die during the filming of Growing Up Grizzly, a made for TV movie where Bart the Bear II debuted in his acting career.

Today Sarah and I mostly were home chilling out. We cleaned and organized the apartment as the snow was coming down. We made it all the way in the snow to the Cheesecake Factory and to CVS to grab household items. We watched the end of Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 3. The finale in the last show is incredibly good. The season ends in a symphony of swears. If you can’t watch the whole season watch the last episode.

We watched Napoleon Dynamite after dinner. A lot of people warned me that it was an over-hyped piece of dung of a movie. I liked it as a creative look at folks with a guy cast as the main character that looked more like Beavis than anyone I had every seen in a cute but awkward love story. I liked it better than Ghost World. We had been thinking of going to the real movie theatre to see Life Aquatic or Million Dollar Baby but the plan evaporated as we got busy and our fear of the real movies sunk back in.

I have lots of fears of incomplete work on my conscience. I need to finish a press release. I never called some people on behalf of VMS. I didn't connect with Hattie on Friday. I still haven't figured out what we are doing with all the weddings this summer. I still haven't done the work to organize the future of my healthcare situation or become an individual corporation for consulting purposes. It is good to have some new hoops to jump through this week.