Year: 2002

Its A Small World After All

Every night I get all set to post to this little blog, but before I do I usually click on a couple of random Blogs from the recently updated column on the left of the Blogger home page. Sometimes I wander for hours reading stuff others have written. Tonight I stumbled on 4 or 5 that were cool which led me to this one – Ho Ho Holy Shit – absolutely great! On the right hand side there are links to the blogs of contributors and one of them happens to be Gretchen Pirillo, wife of Mr. Lockergnome Chris, whose embroidered head adorns the sweatshirt I happen to have on. Small F*cking Internet.

Out With The Rabbit

Back from a weekend in Hilton Head. Once a year we get the run of a 2-bedroom condo down there for free. Well actually it is in payment for doing the owner’s web page (man, I hope the IRS isn’t reading this) he owns a couple and manages a lot more. I did the original page a ways back and do a couple of updates to it yearly to keep the units and their photos updated.

Actually had the top down on both Friday and Saturday afternoons. Felt good as it had been almost a week since the car was convertiblized…

Yesterday I washed the grime off the car. When I was finished, I pulled the Wabbit Teeth out of the mouth. Never did grow to like them. May give them away if I can find a sucker that’ll have them. Should I put the Alley Gator teeth back in or should I go with something different?

Today it was actually nice enough to ride home with the top down.

Started up, went down, went up, went down, went up, went down, still down.
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Off To Hilton Head Island

Tomorrow is the half day off I’ve been working extra every day this week for and me and the Mrs. are driving down to Hilton Head for the weekend. Sounds like a big deal, but actually we are staying a friend’s condo and we are bringing our DVD player and three movies to watch. We usually just hang around the condo like we hang around the house, the big difference being we can see the ocean from the window on HHI, while at home we see the neighbor’s decrepit boat that is filled with leaves.

Gloves In My Glove Box

The sun and 60 degree weather didn’t arrive as predicted. The clouds were hanging heavy overhead all day and I bet it didn’t get out of the lower 50’s. By quitting time it was already too cold to think about putting the top down, drat it all. I’m sure tomorrow’s weather will be absolutely correct because they are calling for rain….

My intent was to keep the driving gloves in the center console, but alas there isn’t any room because of the 2 sets of sunglasses that reside there now, so I’ve decided to keep them in the glove box, how about that?

Started up, still up.
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Poor Earl

Just got through watching “An Evening With The Dixie Chicks” on NBC. While I’m not a big county music fan, I liked this enough to stay for the whole show (which is either a testament to a good program or a statement on the amount of crap available on the other 60-odd channels.) It was actually good stuff. Put me in mind of the Eagles’s Hell Freezes Over concert of a while back. Nice harmonizing with the extra kick of a string section. You can tell it was filmed in Hollywood though, you had to be an aspiring actor/actress to get in the audience – nothing but good looking people to be seen in the whole theater, I’d have never gotten in.

Christmas Packages

Tomorrow starts the nearly daily trips at lunch to the Post Office to mail Christmas boxes to relatives in far flung lands. It is always a pleasure to stand around and wait and then have to go through the little verbal song and dance about how fast would you like it to get there, do you need insurance, or delivery confirmation. Now they have got an exit spiel too, about that did you know the Postal Service now accepts credit and debit cards as well as checks. I guess I could go to one of those mailing places, but they are hit and miss and charge more. I will just suffer and use the experience as my penance for actually not visiting family over the holidays.

Christmas Music

I’m a sucker for Christmas Music. Not just any Christmas Music though, mostly I go for for the slightly weird and non-commercial type stuff. I own about 20 Christmas CD’s and about 5 of them come from Rhino Records if that helps. Every once and a while I pick a CD that I listen to once, and my Christmas CD that falls into this category is “Blame it on Christmas.”

Don’t be seduced by the glowing reviews on the bottom of that page. If you want a humorous Christmas CD buy Dr. Demento presents The Greatest Christmas Novelty CD Of All Time.