Month: February 2003

I Took A Day Off

Almost took tonight off too. I have fallen into an old habit – mass market mystery novels. Read one yesterday and I’m knee deep into number 2 today. I have my mother-in-law to thank for this, she also reads the same sort of crap and came back from the library with a stack of about a half dozen of ’em. Yesterday’s book was P is for Peril, as Sue Grafton works her way through the alphabet. Today I am reading Strawberry Sunday: A John Marshall Tanner Novel and tomorrow if all goes as planned I will be knee deep in Janet Evanovich’s Hard Eight, while Stephanie Plum is not a PI like the other two protagonists, she is a bounty hunter who gets thrust into a whole mystery solving thing. My favorite of this genre are Robert B. Parker’s Spenser novels. Man I wish I was half as tough and half quick with the snappy answers as Spenser is.

Hibernated All Day

Yesterday it rained in the morning, but cleared up later in the day. For the first time in a long time both Donna and I decided we didn’t want to do a Master’s Miata Club event. We went out to lunch (while it was still raining) to check out a place for a possible Club meeting in a town that is halfway between the two “big” towns that members come from. The food was good, but the atmosphere of the place was just so dumpy that we are thinking of other alternatives. When it came time to go out for the MMM…Time we just didn’t feel like it, even though the rain had stopped.

Today was a normal Sunday, the Miata sits. Hibernated all day except for a quick outing for lunch at Moe’s. They have been open here in Aiken for a while but we like to give a new place about a month or so to settle in before trying it. Not bad, but not so good that we will be hurrying back.

Started up, still up.
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Share The Road

Big doings today. It was Donna and my 1/2 day off and we had planned to go for a walk in the woods, but we got rained out. Instead we went out to lunch and then headed over to Michael’s to pick up the framed Miata caricature, before heading home. Looks really cool, but it is going into work on Monday because there is no place where it would fit in at home. When we got back to the house there in the mail was the Share The Road license plate. Now if I could only bring myself to go for a bike ride…

Started down, went up, still up.
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Professional blogger on a closed Internet.

Watched West Wing tonight so you know I have plenty of fodder for here on the absurdity of advertising, but I won’t do it. Instead, I keep coming back to a little thing I saw in this morning’s local paper about folks renewing their wedding vows, they were Alzheimer patients. Couldn’t help but thinking, “How often do they have to do that?” Insert your own insensitive remarks here

What’s Sexy?

Blared the headline on the issue of Teen People at the checkout counter of the store tonight. I didn’t pick up the magazine to see what the article said, as I assumed it was a rhetorical question, everything is sexy to a teenager (except maybe their own parents.)

I Hate Sundays II

Real bummed out this evening. Sunday is usually my least favorite day of the week mainly because Monday is next. This evening the weight of impending doom was heavy on my shoulders and there are several reasons for that:
1) Yesterday was sunny and 70 – today rainy and 30s and I hate winter.
2) In spite of the theme for this evening’s broadcast of Thistle and Shamrock being Songs of Life and Love Celtic music sounds so melancholy. (There just isn’t any way to make a bagpipe sound upbeat.)
3) Watched “Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood” this afternoon, God, is that the exact opposite of a feel good movie.
4) It’s time to do our income taxes. Not that I’ll owe a lot of money or anything, but just seeing how much I’ve paid to Uncle Sam hurts.
5) My blog comments are on and off, tonight as I write this, they are on. I don’t like inconsistency.
6) Maybe it is reading all the teen angst over on Court’s blog, Tangled Mind.
7) I’ve been trying to redesign the Barndoor Fan Club site and I’m not sure I like what I’ve got.
8) or it is just the fact that tonight is a full moon…

Score Bonus Points

It was an ugly day, not nearly as ugly as say Washington D.C. or some other Mid-Atlantic states, but cold and rainy. We drove the Miata on a small errand this evening, but that was it. Watched a couple of the DVDs sitting around on the coffee table this weekend. Saturday was Amelie, this French film is worth the watch, even if you absolutely despise subtitled films. I think I may buy this one. Sunday was spent watching Get Well Soon and Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. Get Well Soon was sort of typical indie fare and I watched it all the way through hoping it would get better. Ya Ya was the longest 116 minute movie I have seen in some time and I watched it all the way through trying to score bonus points with my wife because it was a Sandra Bullock movie.

Started up, still up.
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