Walnuts. No, Pecans!

• Anniversary celebrating: dinner at the Treehouse Italian Grill, obeying the GPS, chilling at Lost Pines Resort, the guy from work, enjoying the spa, a fun dinner at Polvo's

• Wedding ring update

• Gremlin's leg is getting better, but we're sad about Weasel

• Cocktail Talk

• Project Terror

• Feedback City

Link-O-Rama: Treehouse Italian Grill, Lost Pines Resort, Polvo's, Life On Tap

• Anniversary planning: secret plans, many October weddings,

• Gremmy's health issues: how we got the ancient cat, WARNING: don't google kitty medical problems, the substitute vet, massaging the legs

• Politics is EVERYWHERE: politics in the office?, Frank's blue shirt, candidate cookies are back, my political over-twittering

• Project Terror: concrete done, no leak/yes leak, tub replacement gambit

• Tech Talk: like the new nanos, my new podcast, App Store Pundit

• Feedback City

Link-O-Rama: Redboy Podcast, talking politics in the office, App Store Pundit, Desperate Husbands, Air Sharing

Today's intro music "Hole in the Ground" by Mekons, courtesy of the Podsafe Music Network

Old Peculier

• Podcasting from the car

• Project Terror: concrete to be finished this weekend, mixing cement by hand, worried about further leakage, Frank threatens more digging, living downstairs, epoxy blisters, department of irony department, bagging our quota or pedestrians, the warm floor effect

• Seeing Cheryl Wheeler in Houston: finding a place to stay in the hurricane aftermath, meeting the book club at the Mucky Duck, prickly, some folks had a lot of storm damage, shirts by committee?, fine fine beer options, Cheryl's new songs, recommending Wheeler albums, planning another list gathering

• Coffee in the barn

• The new door is chosen: trying to buy local, vintage doors, Crestview's frankenhouses

• Random stuff, brought to you by Frank: Super donuts/Souper Salads, Sun City scares Frank's buddy Mike, little kids pee on the fence
  NOTE: I considered several titles for this show. Which should I have chosen? Old Peculier, Prickly Dick, Stop Singing Right Now, and Frankenhouse
  

  Link-O-Rama: Redboy Podcast, Cheryl Wheeler, Blue Bell Ice Cream

  
  
   

Looking a Gift Apple in the Mouth

• Lightning News: weather, basil, beer, cake, cat food

• Tech Talk: no keynote, funnest, newer cheaper iPod Touch, iPod nano, tiny and talkative, iTunes 8 and podcasting, iTunes accessibility, putting the genius to the test, remote genius

• Project Terror: concreting the cave, cement mixer gurgling,

• Feedback City
  
  
  
  Link-O-Rama: Redboy Podcast, Me and the Bean, AndyCast, Tastes Like Burning, Wicked good Podcast, Consumerist, Life of Spaguy's Wife
  
   

Naval Jelly

• Welcome

• Frank's invention plateau

• T-Mobile phone rant: stress fracture after less than a year, pricey replacement surprise, discount roulette, text messaging for $.20 apiece, THEY can change the contract but WE can't change the contract, didn't like the new phone, better service away from the mall, and now the old phone is free?, things don't cost what they are actually worth

• Mom calls on my birthday

• Visiting the LBJ library as a kid, and as an adult: I was a baby history geek, meeting LBJ at his library opening, telling the president my birthday, mom misreads my embarrassment, eating BBQ at the library, checking out the fountains

• Cocktail Talk: The scofflaw

• Project Terror

• Tech Talk: my favorite iPhone/iPod touch applications and wish list, Yelp, Remote, NetNewswire, Cocktails, Fat free Video Poker

• Feedback City

  Link-O-Rama: Tastes Like Burning