Digging into Lance further, I was hoping to find out what the hack a Nekot is. The cookie page says “Take a break from the daily grind with the subtle sweetness of Lance’s Nekot® cookies with peanut butter . . . While you snack, try to solve the mystery of the word Nekot®. " Sneaky Lance people.

Mmmm…. Toastchee. Lance Snacks has finally established a web presence. According to the nifty animated gif at the top of their page, we’re expected to consume about 3000 calories a day of between-meal snacks. I can’t afford to buy that many honeybuns, but thankfully, they’re giving away free samples of their new sugar wafers. Sugar wafers make great coffee stirrers, you know.

I’m pretty sure I used up at least a month’s worth of luck today. This morning I received word that the potential country home is now my country home. I’ll go tomorrow morning to fill out the papers. Wait… not mine, really, as it is a rental, but as they say, possession is nine tenths of something or other. Apparently many peoiple looked into it, but I’m the winner. Then I had lunch out with many of my coworkers, and my boss picked up the tab. After work, I picked up a pair of choice hockey tickets (Toronto at Atlanta on Feb 29). Then, to round off the day, I made it all the way through the Who Wants to be a Millionare questions. And this was even more of a fluke than the first time I did it last month… I managed to place four teas in order based on the countries that made them famous moving from West to East starting in the United States. Hopefully, I’ve got a bit of luck left in me, because I now have to wait by the phone for three hours tomorrow for Regis to call and invite me to New York. Of course,it’s a bit more complicated than that, but I’ll be waiting by the phone like a good boy. (No fair calling me and pretending to be Regis. Really.) For those of you interested, I’ll be posting more specifics about the house over the next week. Hopefully I’ll be able to borrow a digital camera and all. I’m very excited about the whole thing.

My luck continued this morning. When I went to sign my new lease, I found out that the house has several well-producing peach trees, several more prolific pecan trees, and (if I’m good) I can even get a kitty to live with me. All three were pleasant suprises. I then went home to wait by the phone for Regis to call and… nothing happened. No call today. I guess I’ll just have to try again. Sigh.

James Doohan (Star Trek ’s Scottie) is a father-to-be at age 79. BBC headline: “Scottie to beam up a baby.”

If you need transcripts, video, audio, or background information from Monty Python’s Flying Circus, look no further than Stone Dead Productions in Australia. Those Bruces sure know how to serve up a transcript.

textfiles.com is your source for everything ASCII. Over 20,000 documents are at your fingertips. The emphasis is on text files from the 1980’s, and they are arranged by category. The humor section alone is a goldmine for would-be fram ers.

Ask and you will receive. The very next site I visited after posting about the yak creature was a weblog titled Mandomonger Farm, 21st century American Homestead. Of course, I’ll be spending plenty of time there reading, but the very first entry there was for Oklahoma State’s Breeds of Livestock - Goat Breeds pages. Photos of every type of goat are there, as well as cattle, horses, sheep, swine, and “other”.

I was leaving the potential country home last night and made it a few hundred yards down the road when I had to swerve to miss some sort of Himalayan yeti mountain yak. Or something… I have no idea what it was. It had a body like a yak, but a goat head with big curled sheep horns. I checked the American Goat Society webpage where they describe all the breeds, but they don’t have photos. I’ll know by Saturday whether the house is mine or not, and then I’ll try to track down the critter and figure out what it was.

Where is Cassini now? Cassini is on its way to Saturn, arriving in 2004. While it’s flying there, you can see simulated views from the spacecraft. One view looks back at Earth, a second looks toward Jupiter, a third looks ahead at Saturn, while a fourth view looks down on the craft from high above the solar system. The pictures update themselves every few hours, and for the next few months they serve a second purpose: watch the planets align in the great 5/5/00 alignment that will destroy the Earth (as we know it)! You know, this planet’s getting hard to live on what with all the catastrophes lately. First the devestating asteroid impacts last November, the whole Y2K / apocalypse thing, and now the planets pulling the Earth apart. Sheesh! Enough, already! How will I ever make it to 2003, when the mothership arrives to take home the chosen 144,000?