Barely enough time left to post tonight as I devoured the other 4 episodes from season one tonight in a Feast of Rumpole. And now “She Who Must Be Obeyed” has demanded I turn off the PC and come to bed….
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A friend from work has lent me his DVD set of the first two seasons of Rumpole of the Bailey I loved this series when it aired on PBS in the late 70’s -early 80’s. I have quite a few episodes on fading blurry video tape. I watched 2 episodes tonight and I vaguely remember them so it was much fun watching. The back of the DVD mentioned they are on the discs in the correct chronological order. They are at least in a different order that what it listed on the few web sites I visited. 10 episodes to go and then there is the 2 hour movie Rumpole Returns on the last disc. I do hope the release all of the series on DVD, I think there were 6 or 7 series of 6 shows apiece. Leo would do 2 seasons and call it quits, it would take a couple years of coaxing to get him back to playing Rumpole. Then the cycle would repeat. He finally hung up the robes and powdered wig for good in the early nineties.
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Busy for a Sunday. Made a bagel run at 8:00 AM and back out at 4:00 PM to make a trip to Kroger’s for some iced molasses cookies (my next week’s daily snack at work.) The top was up for the morning drive and down for the afternoon run. The top will go up first thing tomorrow as tonight’s low will be in the 20’s.
This afternoon we watched “Serendipity.” Second chick flick in 2 days and this one was as innocuous as the other, a couple of cute people stuck in a lame, but cute plot. At least it wasn’t a total waste of time.
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This morning while lounging in bed awaiting sufficient motivation to get up and get on with Sunday I learned just how much of a loser I am. Watched a rerun of Sportsnight on Comedy Central (no, not the indicator.) When it was over I switched over to the Weather Channel to see if it was going to warm enough to wash the car today (this is not it either, but we are getting warmer.) The first 30 seconds or so of the anchors spiel was accompanied by the blocky Weekend Now logo instead of their smiling faces. With just their voices going I thought to myself, “Oh, that’s Bill Keneely and Kelly Cass.” And sure enough, when they showed the faces, that’s who they were. Pretty sad, huh?
Ironed out the details on the Miata caricature. I know you are probably asking what the difference is, well if you look at the first one closely you would see that the steering wheel was on the wrong side of the car (the fellow who does them is in England.) Plus I didn’t want to see the big CarArtz.com logo in the white space. Dave has agreed to make it a lot smaller and hide it in the shadow of the car.
Tonite was the “gala” 10th Anniversary Dinner for the Master’s Miata Club. Good time. We had 25 people enjoy good food and good company. We had 2 of the founding 12 in attendance. One is a somewhat active member still and the other has pretty much been a ghost, she hasn’t been to an event since I’ve been active with the Club (November 1995.)
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I know I was probably a little naive to think that they printed up those World champ T-shirts in the final 2 minutes of the game, but come on HSN. Today, if you wanted, you could purchase hats, shirts, pennants, etc. that proclaim the Bucs or Raiders as Super Bowl Winners. The game wasn’t for another 24 hours. I checked and if your chosen team loses, they will not ship the items and not charge your credit card. Nice of them…
For our half day off Friday we went over to Augusta to see a movie. We have devised a plan in which every other Friday afternoon off (which means once a month) we will see a movie at a matinee. The drive to Augusta is that is where the closest stadium seating theater is, plus when the weather is warm it will be a good excuse to go for a drive. Today I let Donna pick, so we ended up seeing “Two Weeks Notice.” Donna is a sucker for Sandra Bullock or Julia Roberts movies, so we go, and I get major brownie points for it (and believe me, I usually need ’em.) Next movie will be my pick.
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