Month: December 2006

Another Year Shot To Hell

We had our usual quiet New Year’s Eve planned, dinner with friends early and then returning home to watch “The Wizard of OZ” before getting into bed, before midnight. Dinner was great and if you are ever in Aiken and have a hankering for some fine Italian food you can do no better than Olive Oils. The Wizard will wait one more day, because it turns out “My Cousin Vinny” is on FMC right now, in all it’s uncut and uncensored glory.

Vinny Gambini: What about these pants I got on? You think they’re okay?
Mona Lisa Vito: Imagine you’re a deer. You’re prancing along. You get thirsty. You spot a little brook. You put your little deer lips down to the cool, clear water – BAM. A fuckin’ bullet rips off part of your head. Your brains are lying on the ground in little bloody pieces. Now I ask ya, would you give a fuck what kind of pants the son-of-a-bitch who shot you was wearing?

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Il Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo

Tomorrow when you look up and notice that the flags are flying at half mast, who will it be for?

The Good – Gerald Ford
The Bad – Saddam Hussein
Or
The Ugly – James Brown

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Lose Something?

What?Regular readers know that while at work, Donna and I walk a couple laps around the parking lot at morning break, lunch and then again at afternoon break. Today on lap one in the morning I noticed a couple of what I thought were run over Tupperware containers. On lap two I had another glance and realized they weren’t Tupperware, but I wasn’t sure what they were, so we went over to check the things out. Whoa, now that is interesting, they look like jellyfish without tentacles that have washed up on the beach. I kicked one over with my foot and that is when I recognized exactly what they were.

The Emperor’s New Screensaver

I’ve taken the 54 images of The Emperor that are in the online galleries here and made a nice little screensaver out of them. Its what all the cool cats will have on their PCs for 2007. Don’t be left out, download your copy today.

The Emperor’s New Screensaver (3 Meg)

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Increasing My Odds By 50%

Or Good Money After Bad?

Took $20 of my Christmas money and bought another ticket in the Miata raffle at that museum in Washington state. My first two tickets purchased 2 weeks ago were numbered 2155 & 2156. The third ticket arrived in the mail yesterday and is numbered 2369. That means they only had 131 tickets left as of last Wednesday, probably down to just a few left with only 4 days left until they pick a winner. If you want a chance at winning, better hurry and call them at 360-533-5862.

My odds of winning this new Miata, er, MX-5, are 1 in 833 or about the same as hitting a 12-Way Box (whatever that is) on the local Pick 4 Lottery, to put in plain language, pretty slim. But a man’s gotta hope.

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Well, I’m Glad That’s Over With

We went out briefly today to run a couple errands, one of which was to burn up Donna’s gift card at Target. She wanted to buy some ribbon and other Christmas stuff at half off. As we made our way to the back of the store where all the holiday stuff was we passed by the greeting card area where an associate was busy putting out the Valentine’s Day cards.

A stop at Kroger to pick up a couple of prescriptions took us by the seasonal aisle. The Christmas stuff was piled into shopping carts with hand lettered signs proclaiming 50% off while unopened cases of heart shaped boxes of chocolates stood by ready to take their places on the empty shelves.

While watching TV this evening we saw a commercial for a Hugh Grant / Drew Barrymore movie that will be opening February 14th.

I’m glad we got that whole Christmas thing out of the way.

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Merry Christmas

Santa, Me & DonnaPlease accept — with no obligation, implied or implicit — my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, non-addictive, gender neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable tradition of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your preference. In addition, please enjoy a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2007.

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