Change of Plans

D and I have altered our plans for J&C's wedding in July. We were originally planning to do a drive around southern France and then pop over to Spain for a bit, but J&C have asked us to join them, and their son/our nephew Olly, for part of their honeymoon around the coasts of England, so we'll be doing that instead. We are still planning to go to Paris for two nights and we'll also spend more time up at D's dad's house. Anyway, it'll be nice to see J&C more, and especially get to know Olly again. I doubt he'll remember us, though he might recognize us from photos.

We saw Pan's Labyrinth last night. It was better than I was expecting and not as stellar as D was expecting. The fantasy stuff was well done and not annoying like Lord of The Rings was. The director was definitely not afraid to show some brutal violence. There were several scenes I watched through my fingers, which is difficult because it was a subtitled movie.

I love to read about consumers fighting back against unfair business practices. This guy refused to pay an additional $3.76 for photos he had developed when the store wanted to charge a price higher than the $5.99 advertised in their flier and actually walked out without paying more. After three appeals (wonder how much court costs were for him?!), he was cleared of the shoplifting charges.

Annoyance: I don't know if anyone else has noticed, but when you cut and paste the embed code for a video into your blog, the /embed tag gets erased when you go from the HTML to the Compose tab, thus causing a problem when you go to post. Easy enough to put it back in, but still annoying. More annoying is that I sent an email to Blogger to let them know of the bug, stated I didn't need a response. I get a response 5-6 days later (i.e. not an automated email) that says they've read my issues, but cannot provide personalized help and here are some things to try (none of which related to the problem). WTF? I didn't ask for personalized help. If they'd read my email, they would have responded with, "Thank you for reporting the bug." Or just not responded at all. But don't tell me you read the email and then send something not at all related - that's just, well, annoying. I can't complain too much more because it is free after all, but still.

Random Story of the Day
This has been on the Internet for a long time, but I only recently found it. It's a guy who quit his job, took all his money and decided to travel around the world until money ran out. At some point, a friend suggested he film himself dancing in each location. Thus, the first video was born (not this one). Then Stride gum contacted him and offered to pay for a second trip around the world and he made the video embedded below after that one. What's really cool is that Stride gum didn't require him to wear a t-shirt or chew the gum or do anything. Just make another video. Anyway, it's actually quite a happy, uplifting video, though I'm not sure why. My favorite shot is in Rwanda.