Short weekend

Well it is almost 2 o'clock in the morning and I can not sleep.  Guess I should write and see what happens.

Had an dull weekend.  Believe it or not I had to go back to the doctor last week.  Finally get over the cold I had and I developed an ear infection.  The ear doesn't bother me too much but I have recurring tinnitus in the ear so it is annoying.

Anyway, Friday night we went out to dinner, grocery shopping and we went and bought Xander a new kick pedal for his drum set.  The kick pedal is nothing more than a step with a mallet on the end and you use it for playing the bass drum in the set.  For some reason the drum set that Santa had brought him included everything but a kick pedal.  I thought this was weird.  About the only thing I can compare it to would be buying a computer and not getting the hard drive.  Sure you could USE the computer and run everything from disk like in Linux..but you can't use the computer for its intended purpose without one.

Saturday I begged off going to Xander's drum lesson down in Tuscaloosa.  I love the fact that he is having so much fun with the drums but I did not see the point in Paula and I both going down for the lesson.  I missed the guy so I don't know if I will miss any more.  After the lesson they came back and we went over to 2nd and Charles which is a used book/movie/music store over in Hoover.  They took over a rather large department store and it is by far the nicest used book store I have ever been in.  In a miracle I did not see coming, I convinced Paula to get rid of some of our old DVD's.  I hate to admit it but we have like 300 DVDs...and we might watch 20 of them.  We loved the movies, that is why we bought the DVD..but when it comes time to put one in we always go back to the same 15-20.  So, we took in a bag of DVD's to trade in and used the money to get a toy for Xander and a poster for me.  Plus we have a lot of money on account there so when they do their book sales we can take advantage of them.  The poster?  Oh it is cool.  It is a take on the British WWII propaganda poster but with a Doctor Who slant.  Blue with a Dalek on top and it says "Keep Calm I'm the Doctor".  I joked that Paula could get it for me and we could frame it for my graduation.

Today I do not think I left the house.  It POURED all day.  One of those soaking pours we seem to get here that never hit up in any other part of the country.  Anyway, it rained and rained so I saw very little sense in going out into it.  Instead I stayed home and watched TV.  In particular I have been watching a BBC show called "Whitechapel".  Like most BBC shows it was a miniseries - in this case, 2 miniseries.  The first was on a copycat Jack the Ripper, the second a copycat of the Kray brothers organized crime spree.  Very well written and acted.  It is amazing, from what I can tell the costs of filming BBC shows is MUCH less than that of shows made here in the US but the quality of the shows writing and acting is infinitely higher.