Whoo, lots of things happening, including me being half asleep due to some Benadryl I took earlier, so here’s hoping this entry will make sense. I’ll just make a big list of recent events:

• Dr. Zoidberg died. The poor little guy just fell out of his shell the other night when Todd picked him up. We thought he’d been looking grayish for a while, and he hadn’t been as active. I’m thinking about picking up another crab to join Ricky Bobby so he won’t be lonely.
• Todd and I went on a tour of Maker’s Mark distillery today with a Lexmark group. It was very interesting and I got a lot more enjoyment out of it than I had expected. They let us play around in big wooden bins full of mash. Some had a really thick, doughy crust of mash on top, others had just a thin layer, depending on how far along in the process they were. You could breathe in the fumes of some and burn your nose, while others had a very mild alcoholic scent.
• Todd, Eric, Kelly, Brent, and I are going to see Ratatouille tonight, and boy am I looking forward to it. I’ve loved the other Pixar films and it’s always exciting when a new one comes out.
• Kathy, Elaine, and I went shopping last night. In the middle of Sears, when opening my phone to pester Todd, the display went out on my phone. Todd thinks a wire in there finally snapped after two years of use. Turning it off and back on didn’t help, nor did taking the battery out and replacing it. It still dialed and seemed to function normally, I just couldn’t see anything. At least it had the good grace to die in a mall, so after 1.5 hours of standing around in a cell phone store, I walked out with a new phone: the LG CU400. It’s pretty sleek looking, has a camera and video-recording capabilities, but other than that, the battery life was good and I can do what I want with it: talk and text message.