Month: January 2007

Crazy Crab

In spite of last night’s midnight bedtime my wife decided that 6:30AM was enough time in bed. I on the other hand wanted just a bit more sack time. She got up and showered and started cooking breakfast while I dozed. She was finished with the sausage and the English muffins, but somewhere part way through the eggs, the smoke detector started wailing. I jumped out of bed and reached for the detector on the ceiling. When this happens at home I pull down on one side of the cover causing it to open, giving me access to the battery which I then slide off the contacts. Here in the condo when you pull down on the side of the smoke detector it comes unplugged from the ceiling mount and bounces off your nose. It didn’t break the skin, but did leave a nice diagonal red mark on the bridge…

We dined out tonight, but the money spent will not appear in the yearly tally because Jerry the Condo King and his wife Donna treated me and my wife Donna to dinner out at the Crazy Crab. I was wearing little of my wife’s make-up foundation on my nose so as to not freak out the other restaurant patrons. We were going to eat at Catch 22 where we all had such a great meal about a year ago, but changed our minds.

After we finished our lunch at the Japanese restaurant Donna and I walked down to Catch 22, they are in the same strip shopping center, to see if they had menu out front. They did have menus, but the also had a pink flier attached to the door handle from the local electric company. I could read the words “Important Information About Your Electric Service.” Curiosity made me open it up. After all we might need to change our dinner plans if they were going to be without power because of some maintenance issue. What I found inside was that they were $2,000 behind on their power bill. Maybe we should eat there, they could sure use the money. On the other hand, if they were behind in the power bill, where else were they cutting corners? Staff? Food quality? The four of us did change our dinner plans and opted to try one of the hundreds of other dining choices on Hilton Head Island.

Started up, went down, back up, still up.
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Noumitsu Mizugiwa

When Donna and I went for our 2 mile walk on the beach this afternoon we must have passed about 20 people! Man, that is one noumitsu mizugiwa! (which I hope means crowded beach in Japanese) 😉

Lunch was at Donna’s favorite Japanese place, Hinoki of Kurama. Katsudon and a Coke for him and a Bento Box with Sprite for her.

Meal Cost: $25.42
Tip: $3.58
Spent Today: $29.00
Year to Date: $152.84

53,0000 Nuetrons

Who knew that the Godfather of Soul was into Geocaching? Not me, but according to his “widow” Tomi Rae Hynie*, he buried large amounts of cash in the backyard of his Beech Island, SC home. If you feel like you want to take a chance that you’ll get by the gates, the security and quite possibly the guard dogs here are coordinates of the stash/cache. +33? 25′ 30.90″, -81? 49′ 58.08″ (If you enter those coordinates into Google Earth you can get a nice view of the next Graceland.)

We are in Hilton Head for the next couple of days for some off-season beach fun. On the way down tonight, the Emperor passed through the 53,000 mile mark some where on Road #1 on the US Government’s Top Secret Bomb Plant less than 20 miles from James Brown’s house.

Started up, still up.
Miata Top Transitions since 01/01/07: 27

* I could have sworn I heard this a couple times on CNN Headline News last night, but searching for any reference of this “story” on the CNN web site today returned no hits.

Eat Mor Chikin

Cup of chicken soup for her, small lemonade & small waffle fries to split. His Chick-Fil-A sandwich was free because of the coupon on the cow calendar. Desert was several hours later at Mickey D’s, two hot fudge sundaes with nuts.

Meal Cost: $4.38
Tip: None
Dessert: $2.18
Spent Today: $6.56
Year to Date: $123.84

It’s All In How You Ask

Got nothing to say tonight, so in lieu of actual content here is an oldie, but goodie (relatively speaking), that Mark forwarded to me today.

George Phillips of Meridian, Mississippi was going up to bed when his wife told him that he’d left the light on in the garden shed, which she could see from the bedroom window.

George opened the back door to go turn off the light but saw that there were people in the shed stealing things.

He phoned the police, who asked “Is someone in your house?” and he said “no”. Then they said that all patrols were busy, and that he should simply lock his door and an officer would be along when available.

George said, “Okay,” hung up, counted to 30, and phoned the police again.

“Hello, I just called you a few seconds ago because there were people in my shed. Well, you don’t have to worry about them now cause I’ve just shot them all.” Then he hung up.

Within five minutes three police cars, an Armed Response unit, and an ambulance showed up at the Phillips ‘ residence and caught the burglars red-handed.

One of the Policemen said to George: “I thought you said that you’d shot them!”

George said, “I thought you said there was nobody available!”

Started up, still up.
Miata Top Transitions since 01/01/07: 27

Noow What?

Yesterday I whined aboout the laptoop drooping the letter ‘a’ if the key wasn’t hit in just the right way. Toonight my nifty lighted keybooard seems too be dooing doouble ‘oo’s.

OK, maybe I exaggerated that a bit to much, but earlier when I was composing an email it must have happened ten times. I know there is a setting in windows to regulate the keyboard pressure, but it was only happening for the letter ‘o’. And now, later, I can’t seem to get it to do it unless I force it, like above.

Started up, still up.
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I’d Like To Announce…

…my intention to form an exploratory committee to judge whether or not I should think about the possibility of seeking the Party’s nomination for the office of the President of the United States.

If elected, my first order of business will be to pull our troops out of Iraq. We are going to need them to invade Iran.

Why is the SciFi Channel showing wrestling?

How does Carl Yastrzemski feel about a birth control pill being named after him?

The ‘ ‘ key on the lptop is strting to ct up. You hve to hit it in just the right spot to mke it work.

Started down, went up, still up.
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