Month: January 2003

The Others

Seeming average ghost story movie with a nice little twist of an ending. If you haven’t seen it, it is definitely worth the rent. Just be sure to watch the whole thing. If you have seen it you know what I mean.

I Hear By Announce…

…that I am running for President of the United States. Please paypal your donations to brian@mr-miata.net. Once I have received enough donations I will register the easy to remember domain of BrianBogardusForPresidentIn20004.org and get my web page up so I will have an appropriate place to publish my platform. For my running mate I am seriously considering the corpse of Pat Paulson.

I wonder if just announcing it here will get me listed HERE.

My Old Hometown

They predicted partly sunny and mid-50s for today. Ha! Missed the mark. The clouds stayed thick and the sun never showed up, so it was lucky to make it into the middle 40s. The top stayed up all day as it was pretty typical mid-winter day here. I can’t complain too loudly as today’s weather in my old hometown, New Britain, CT, was snow/winter mix with a high of 32.

Started down, went up, still up.
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God, I’m A Sucker

I rejoined the Columbia House DVD Club. They sent me a flyer in the mail, buy 5 at 49 cents each. Take your first DVD at $14.95 and reduce your committment to just 2 more in the next 2 years. Plus as a bonus take a 7th for just $9.95. I ended up ordering Shrek, Spinal Tap, Sixth Sense, American Beauty, Exorcist, Momento and Woodstock. This means I’ll end up with a total of 41 movies in my collection. Trouble is that I usually watch them once and put them on a shelf. Everytime I say to myself, “Let’s watch a movie.” As I look at each title of all my movies the whole movie is fast forwarded through my mind’s eye and then I have no reason to watch them….

Naught Plus Naught Equals Double Naught.

Bonus rant today. Just as I was finishing up my last post, my wife told me we had to go to the store, seems we were plum out of plastic sandwich bags. As we were checking out, our cashier was so busy flirting with the bag boy that see didn’t notice my wife had written the check over so we would have a bit of cash. When Donna said I wrote it for $20, the cashier re-opened the draw and took out a 20. Nope, she corrected, the total check was for 20, so I should get the change. Our cashier tries to use the cash register to figure out how much change we should get back, but it would do that because the order was closed.

Now perplexed, our cashier calls for back-up. The new girl shows up and realizes what needs to be done, she gets her pen out and writes 20.00 on the top of the receipt and then puts 14.30 under it and proceeds to subtract – her answer 6.30!?! At this point I say we should get 5.70. Our original cashier says, “Really?” Yes, really. At this point the bag boy pipes in with, “Yeah, 30 plus 70 equals a dollar.” Thanks Einstein. These folks must have studied under the eminent mathematician, Jethro Bodine of Beverly Hills, CA.

The Buttoneer

I’ve been watching VH1’s I Love The 80’s and they have been tossing in PSAs from that era that are kind of interesting. I just saw a commercial for the Buttoneer and I thought how cool, they are showing 80’s commercials too. Only guess what, it was a real ad, not a retro replay! Geez that thing is still around. What’s next? Popeil’s Pocket Fisherman?

The Sports Car Character

Happy Gregorian New Year Ya’ll. Treated today like a Sunday, I thought for sure the Miata wouldn’t move, but this evening my wife informed me that we were out of plastic snack bags, so it was off to Kroger.

Getting used to the short shifter. It does seem to make shifting a bit notchier, but I think that is a good thing, seems better suited to the sports car character of the car. Mind you the Miata shifter was so short and smooth to begin with that a step down still keeps it at the fantastic level.

Started up, went down, still down.
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