Can’t You Just Pick for Yourselves?

SamoasTonight, for our appetizer we polished off a box of Samoas. Mmm, tasty. Now I know why all those south Pacific islanders are so big in stature. with these cookies as their diet staple…

Do not watch The Departed if you are having spaghetti and red sauce for dinner. Very good movie otherwise.

We are getting a professional baseball team right here in Aiken. Don’t look for the name Aiken in the standings of your sports page though, we ain’t that big time, we are going to have a team in the South Coast League. Its short season ball, starting towards the end of May and finishing up in August. The team will not be affiliated with Major or Minor League Baseball, sort of the equivalent of off-off-broadway.

Last year when the South Coast League decided to put a franchise here in Aiken, they asked for team name suggestions from the general public. There were over a thousand of them. The league picked 5 and voting was opened up to pick the team name, your choices were: Blueticks, Boots, Chukkers, Foxhounds and Horseflies. Foxhounds came up the winner.

Now we are naming the mascot, can’t they just pick one? If this is all in an effort to curry goodwill with a locals, it might work for people who suggested the winning names, but it is just as likely to turn off the folks that vote for the “losing” names.

Anyway, if you would like to vote for the name of the person and their dog suit, go to the team’s home page by clicking the Foxhounds link in the paragraph above and choose between Ace, Fritter, “Hitch”cock, Hunter and Southpaw.

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Do-Si-Dos?-Gone

Do-Si-Dos®Tonight’s dessert was a box of Do-Si-Dos?. Round, bumpy perforated oatmeal cookie top and bottom surrounding a peanut butter-flavored layer inside and come in an orange box. Do-Si-Dos? used to be called Gauchos.

Donna and I did not watch the Oscar telecast because we don’t feel we need to have our movie choices validated anymore, but in honor of that fine Hollywood tradition, this week is Oscar week at the Bogardus homestead. Sunday we watched a movie that should have won a statuette, “World’s Fastest Indian.” Tonight we watched “Little Miss Sunshine” and tomorrow night it will be “The Departed.” Thursday we will watch a movie, that didn’t win an Oscar, but it did get nominated for a couple of those prestigious Teen Choice Awards, “Failure to Launch.”

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Cure For The Common Blogger’s Block

As a public service to my friends in cyberspace (and you know who you are) next time you run into conception congestion and have nothing to write about in your blog…

A few year’s ago (2003) I subscribed to an email service that was going to provide a daily note with blog fodder in it. They apparently ran into their own issues with blogger’s block, because it flowed from January 1st consecutively until May 23rd before it started to hiccup. It then limped along until it totally ran out of steam in October. The archives are still up and are good for a couple hundred brain barricade breakers: Blog Fodder. (the original)

For once a week cranial constipations: Blog Fodder – Every Monday a new topic is posted to kick start your brain.

For anytime clogged cerebellums: Imagination Prompt Generator – Still blank? Hit the Next Prompt button for another.

If none of these work for you you can always Google “blogger’s block” and plagiarize someone else’s post on the subject….

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