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What is the deal with Stand Up Comics?  Do they really have to stand up?  Does this somehow help the jokes they are telling?  What if they get tired and have to sit down?  And why don’t they just sit down anyway?  It seems it’d make them more comfortable, I mean, you don’t have to stand up to watch.  What if they break an ankle… do they have to take time off, or do they have to bill themselves as a temporarily-sitting comic?  I’d bet that’s their worst nightmare… I mean, who wants to see a comic in a cast?  “Well, I was planning on going out to see my favorite stand up comedian, and I heard he has to be in a wheelchair.  I’m sorry, but unless he’s standing the jokes just don’t work for me.”  Stand up comics… huh.

So, I’m off to see Jerry Seinfeld tonight at the Orpheum theatre in Omaha… I’m totally excited!  I can now add Jerry Seinfeld to my list of “Comics I’ve Always Wanted to See Live.”  So far that list contains Lewis Black and George Carlin.  After Seinfeld I dunno who else is on the list… I’d have to think about it.

Speaking of Jerry, did you get a chance to view his Microsoft commercials?  If not, you’d best get to watching because as of today, they’ve halted the campaign:

Microsoft is expected to announce Thursday that it will be suspending its ad campaign featuring Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and veteran comedy superstar Jerry Seinfeld.

Valleywag broke the news Wednesday, and Microsoft spokesperson Frank Shaw told the LA Times that the move was planned, despite the appearance that the company is reacting to negative reaction to the ads.

According to Mr. Shaw, the Seinfeld portion of the campaign, for which he was reportedly paid some US$10 million, was always intended to be just an introduction for the overall campaign — a two commercial introduction for $10 million.

“All along we said we were having a teaser campaign,” he told the LA Times. “We’re getting ready to start the second phase. This was the plan all along.”

Here is the first commercial:

And the second:

Sad that there won’t be more, but at least we got to enjoy it while it lasted.

Well, I have to go… I need to ponder peanuts on airplanes and why they have that little slot for razors (who is shaving on a plane?!).

Multiple apartments in our area (including at least 4 in our building) had their locks superglued so the families couldn’t get in.  Right now I’m listening to one of the repairmen trying to drill through the lock of the people who live across from us (close call for us).

This really sucks… I tell you, each year this place gets worse and worse.  Did I mention the dripping roof is back?  Yeah, so much for it being fixed.  The bright side is we finally have a new head manager and lead repair man this month, so maybe things will start getting taken care of.

Can you believe the guy has worn through 2 drill bits trying to get through our neighbor’s door?  He says it’s as if they used an entire tube of glue.  We really need cameras in the hallways (and outer doors that actually lock like they’re supposed to), methinks.

Last Thursday (Sept 4th), my mom was told that there’s a good chance she has Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma.  She hasn’t seen a specialist yet, and there’s a chance she doesn’t, but looking at the pathology report, it seems more likely than not (as you can see here):

This isn’t the best news one could get, but on the brightside it’s not the worst cancer there is.  Right now we’re all taking it day by day, as we still need to get more information (she has a follow up appt later this month).  What we do know is that the surgery she had three years ago for a mass in her leg and an enlarged Thymus gland seems to have been precursors to this and should have been caught then.

At this point we’re all doing all the research we can on this disease, so if anyone out there has gone through it and has some advice, feel free to comment!

We’re back from Colorado… the view from Mount Elbert was great (before you ask, no, we didn’t quite make it to the top, but that’s a different post):

More to come later!