Month: December 2002

Updates

5 Minute Infomercial – Stumbled on the 30 minute version of the very annoying infomercial for the Ionic Breeze this morning while laying in bed channel surfing until I absolutely had to get up to go to the bathroom.

What Color Is Your Pee? – Everyday is like St. Patrick’s Day now. It is a loverly shade of green, like I’ve had way too many green beers…

No Task Is Too Large… – I have at least straightened out all the IDv3 tags on the Christmas MP3s, still need to weed out the marginal ones. I did meld my 2 different version of My Favorites folders (home & work) and delete a few duplicates and dead links, but it has ballooned to 533 links in 42 folders!

5 Minute Infomercials

My wife was watching some of a marathon of yet another sneaky redecorating show on the Discover Channel, Surprise by Design. At about at the 50 minute mark of the show they went to a commercial (nothing unusual there.) The commercial was for The Sharper Image’s Ionic Breeze Quadra Silent Air Purifier (nothing unusual there.) The difference was it looked like an infomercial with the snappy pitchman, the perky woman hype-cheerleader and the testimonials from users. Plus it just kept on going. At first I figured it was one minute commercial (which in themselves seem long in today’s 15 second spots) but no it went on some more. I’m guessing 5 minutes but it could have been three. We no longer have the time for whole 1/2 hour infomercials, 5 minutes is enough. I only wish that what I saw was 1/6 as annoying as 30 minute jobs.

Like A Cat With The Mange

Went to Sam Goody this evening to return the M*A*S*H mistake. Since I have no receipt, I have to accept a gift card. Whilst the manager is helping others (he has to OK the form) I wander the store looking for stuff I might want. I find nothing, for three reasons; a) I’m particular (some might say peculiar) in my tastes, 2) I live in a small town so we have what amounts to a 3/4 scale store and III) it is 2 days after Christmas so everything is pretty well picked over (the shelves were full of empty patches like a cat with the mange.) Good news is that the gift card is good at SunCoast movie stores too, of which they have one in the Augusta Mall, so it seems like my Saturday has developed a plan. Almost as an afterthought the manager tells me that I can use the gift card online….wait a minute, I don’t have to drive to Augusta at all, I can shop for movies in my underwear! I burned up all but $2.04 of the card’s value by buying M*A*S*H and Ronin just a few minutes ago. 🙂

Started up, went down, still down.
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What Color Is Your Pee?

Because my old friend the prostate has been bothering me, I went to the Doctor today. He prescribed an antibiotic and analgesic/antispasmodic. The antibiotic probably won’t do much, I’ve taken stronger in the past. Usually after a while my symptoms go away, but always they return weeks or months later. Taking antibiotics either works on the placebo effect on me or whatever happens to cause the flare-ups goes away on its own accord for these instances. The antispasmodic is a new thing, supposedly this will ease the pain/burning. One of the side effects is it may turn your urine blue-green. Cool, can hardly wait for that to happen…

Old Turret Oil

Picked up the Short Shifter kit today. Opened the box, looked at the parts and then closed the box back up. I may wait a while to put it in, as I think I need to change the upper shift boot again. When I replaced the original in September I didn’t push the boot far enough down the shifter shaft leaving it already stretched, with not enough left for the shifting movement, so I think it is torn. Plus, because I didn’t do it back then, I still need to change the turret oil.

Started down, went up, still up.
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Should Have Gotten The Exorcist

One plan worked, the Miata hasn’t moved.

The other plan partially worked, as I only got one DVD for Christmas, Pulp Fiction. Donna also bought me another from the list, but accidentally purchased “M*A*S*H TV 1st Season” instead of M*A*S*H the movie. She couldn’t get 12 Angry Men so I got a card in my stocking telling me to order it off the net. Also on the list, but not purchased was The Exorcist, she didn’t want to get that for me because it was too scary (for her.) After watching Pulp Fiction just long enough to see the close-up of Uma Thurmond’s face after she accidentally snorts heroin thinking it was coke, she said she wished she had gotten the Exorcist instead….

Started down, still down.
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No Task Is Too Large…

…for me to ignore a little longer. I have had some pictures that I scanned on my desktop since the middle of October of family that I was going to add to a little webpage, but I can’t bring myself to do any HTMLing. I real quick like a bunny burned all 15 of my Christmas CDs to take to work to share with other people who wanted to listen to some holiday music. The directory ended up being a little over a Gig in size. I need to go through it and pare it down to 700 Meg so I can burn a CD full of MP#s for the car (and next year.) But I can’t get started because they were mostly various artist compilations and the tags all need to be fixed and that task is too daunting. I thought that perhaps I would weed out the garden that is my “Favorites” folder, after all there are 451 links in 35 folders, I can’t need all of them. It’ll be simple I’ll start clicking and delete the dead ones and ones that I don’t use. HA! I started at the bottom with the X-Files folder, it should be a goner as I don’t even watch the reruns anymore, but instead I got lost in that world I enjoyed so much.