Sad news from the Disney Gallery:

Our beloved Gallery storyteller, Beverly, has decided to retire from her post. Her last day will be March 3, 2003 (3-3-03, she engineered it that way). She was fighting off an illness of some kind. She will be missed, not just by the cast, but by the many annual passholders and day-trippers who make it a point in their trips to come up to see Bev. Some have known her for many years, and introduced their children to Bev. Like Rod Miller, she is a Disneyland legend in every sense of the word.

There is an effort going on, as far as I’ve heard, to give Bev a window in the Gallery, or on Main Street. Also, the cast members are hoping to give her a huge send-off. They want everybody to come, former cast members, APs, friends, etc. I’ll let you know when I have a definitive date.

Beverly will be working the first few days of the Pirates of the Caribbean exhibit in March. So, if people can’t make the celebration, they can still say “good-bye” when they say “hello” to the new exhibit.

Beverly is a really wonderful old lady and was extremely nice to Tammy and I in the only interaction we’d ever had with her. She took us backstage at the Gallery and showed us the room that was to one day be Walt’s grandchildren’s bedroom.

It wasn’t much to look at, but she noticed us peeking at the door and then went out of her way to show us a room that we always wondered about. She loved her job and did it a lot better than some of the other cast members who’ve worked at the park in recent years.

Tammy and I will probably be stopping by to drop off a card before she leaves.

It’s tough when one of the good ones leaves!

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They are power-washing the building outside my window, and I am hypnotized. That has got to be the funnest job ever in the history of stuff.

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A co-worker just reminded me of this funny StrongBad email.

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The enter key has made my right pinkie strong and powerful! AAAARRRRR!!!

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Valentine’s Day was fun. I took Tammy to dinner at Hook’s Pointe. She had prime rib or something, and I had the ahi. At dinner I surprised her with a gift certifcate for a massage and facial at this new spa over in PV. It was the first Valentine’s Day gift I’ve gotten her that wasn’t a video game or a piece of electronic equipment. She was impressed!

Tammy got me a GPS receiver! Can you believe it? Now we can go geocaching! I’m so happy!

Oh yeah, I also picked up a dozen rozes on the way home from work that night. I actually got them at Ralph’s, a supermarket of all places, and they had PLENTY. I was amazed. It was 7pm on Valentine’s Day, and this grocery store had more than enough roses to go around, and they were all fresh and beautiful.

Sunday we spent almost the entire day watching Farscape episodes from the season one box set, and we’ve still got at least half of the first season to get through. It’s amazing how much stuff you miss in a TV show like that the first time around.

Monday we went to my parents’ house for dinner, and I did our taxes in about thirty minutes with TurboTax! Hooray!

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So I’m sitting here watching the first episode of this season of Survivor, and I can’t believe the insane comments made by some of the guys.

This season they decided to mix it up by putting all the men in one tribe, and all the women on the other. So all of the guys just keep going off on how incompetent and helpless they think the women are. They’re all, “Man, there’s no way those women are as strong as us.

They’re gonna be cryin’ and they’re so weak and we’re gonna win it and blah blah blah.” They’re just so insanely sexist on national TV, I’m pretty sure they’ll have trouble getting dates after the show airs.

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I’ve got the major headache action going on today. Yeeow.

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Okay, okay, I was wrong! The Mole turned out to be Frederique!

Kathy Griffin won the game, which I sort of suspected, but I was SURE sure that Erik Von Detten was The Mole. I was totally convinced. Who would have thought that a model and not an actress could have pulled it off so well? Not I!

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I think LA weatherpeople use El Nino as a crutch.

We get one day of heavy rain in Los Angeles, and everybody’s blaming El Nino. El Nino this, El Nino that. Whatever! If we weren’t in an El Nino year, they would just be calling it a “rain storm” instead of an “El Nino storm.”

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Lik-Sang got their hands on a GBA SP and opened it up.

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