Month: August 2006

Margarita Shrimp Kabobs

Applebee'sSo, the four of us went to lunch at Applebee’s today. Adam, the guest of “honor,” ordered the Honey BBQ Chicken Sandwich with fries, Bob ordered the Zesty Ranch Chicken Sandwich with fries, Les ordered the 100% Angus Bacon Cheeseburger with fries and I ordered the Margarita Shrimp Kabobs over rice with broccoli.

When my wife asked me what we had for lunch I said, “They all had burgers & fries and I got shrimp & broccoli.” She replied, “So who’s the gay one of that bunch.” Ouch.

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The Purina Diet

A friend of mine has a huge dog that eats a lot and last night we went to the store to buy his weekly jumbo bag of dog food. We were in line to check out and a woman behind him asked if he had a dog.

He told her that no, he was starting The Purina Diet again although he probably shouldn’t — he said he had ended up in the hospital last time, but that he’d lost 50 pounds before he awakened in intensive care with tubes coming out of most of his orifices and IVs in both arms.

He told her that it was essentially a perfect diet and that the way that it works is to load your pants pockets with Purina nuggets and simply eat one or two every time you feel hungry. He said that the food is nutritionally complete so he was going to try it again.

Horrified, she asked why he ended up in the hospital — had the Purina made him sick? He told her no; he’d been sitting in the middle of the street licking his balls and a car hit him.

Tunnel of Heat

Shift TurretThe 2 rubber shifter boots for the Emperor came on a big brown truck today. I was going to wait until Saturday, but I just couldn’t stand it. It only took 45 minutes to do the swap. Now we’ll see how well it knocks down the heat near the center console.

Tomorrow is Friday and it is summer helper Adam’s last day. As is usual we (me, the boss and the boss’s boss) will take him out to lunch, we’ll probably head over to the local Applebee’s. Any excuse to eat on the boss’s boss’s American Express card. I hope come Monday I’ll be able to stand the quiet. 🙂

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Exit Only. Do Not Enter.

Exit OnlyWell, it worked, I’m going to blog about it. Augment the buzz if you will.

Watching the evening news Monday night I caught a bit of a story about NBC’s new show for fall, Studio 60 from West Wing producer Alan Sorkin. Part of building some pre-release hype they have decided to make DVDs of the pilot episode and you can rent them on Netflix. The interweb was all excited a week ago because somehow the pilot in 5 parts had mysteriously appeared on YouTube. It seems that just in time for the Netflix release, they were pulled for copyright infringement. Aaaah, marketing.

Anyway, on to the show. Typical Sorkin stuff; smart, witty and overlapping dialog. But for some reason it just didn’t connect, and maybe this is just me, but it seems like I’ve seen this all before. And maybe I have. Take one part West Wing and one part Sportsnight, stir gently…

It’ll be on Monday’s at 10:00 PM starting in September and as much as I would like to watch, I probably won’t. If anything, maybe I’ll rent the DVD’s next fall, ALA my current watching of “Lost.”

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Back Again

CVSWe went to CVS again tonight. Different store from Sunday and different mission, but none the less, the highlight of my evening. Well…besides the Tater Tots and crab cakes for supper. And now that I think of it, the Law & Order rerun on TNT wasn’t bad either. OK, maybe the 15 DIBS I just finished were the high point for tonight. 🙂

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Captain Jack Will Get You High Tonight

A wedding?My Jack Sparrow doll action figure has gone from being alone, to sharing the spotlight with Davy Jones, to battling ol’ Davy for monitor top supremacy, to standing solo again. Some where along the way he has lost his trusty cutlass, so now his only job is to hold up a selection of pithy quotes from the two Pirates of the Carribean movies.

Today’s quote was especially on point as this morning I got a request to scan and OCR a old wedding program for a maid of honor co-worker. She wanted to use that particular format and change the words to match the ones needed for her friends upcoming betrothal. “Oh,” she asks, “Can you change the holding hands to a glass slipper while you are at it?” No problem at all. My summer intern doesn’t call me the Arts & Crafts Engineer for nothing.

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Mushrooms Sprouting in Reprocessed Hay

SunburstsThis morning we braved the sticky weather to go for a 2 mile walk in the woods, instead of our usual 10 mile Sunday morning bike ride. Afterwards we continued the alternative Sunday by getting a bagel at the Atlanta Bread Company instead of a muffing at the New Moon Cafe. I took a couple photos on our walk, including one that matched this post’s title, but in retrospect, even though she pointed out the image to me, Donna felt I shouldn’t put it here.

So tonight, when we went out to do a little shopping and get some gas, I brought the camera along to find a my suitable picture. This one was taken outside of CVS and after a little digital manipulation…

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