Month: December 2007

Closing The Books

12-31-2007Another year shot to hell.

And I can’t start 2008 yet, I don’t have my calendar. Shutterfly shipped it on the 19th…

I was invited to take part in the second annual Enchanted Ceiling Last and Beginning photo shoot. I looked up at the sky several times today and there was nothing in it, no character. I could have started an image in PSP with a plain blue background and submitted it. Went out on the deck with the camera on a tripod and set it on Starry Sky mode. No much there either, even after running it through the auto photo fix. Maybe tomorrow will be more interesting.

With 20 of 32 bowl games completed I have picked 12 correct which is 5 behind the leader. Of the 12 games left I differ with the leader on exactly 5 games, so best possible scenario is a tie. Unfortunately there are eight people closer than I. Kiss the 2007 Pigskin Prognosticator Prize goodbye.

Started up, went down, still down.
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Clearing the Decks

We have zero DVDs awaiting watching. Yesterday we watched Flags of Our Fathers, today it was Kate & Leopold.

Leopold: Why is it called a toaster when it produces no toast, but simply warm bread, and inserting it two times produces charcoal? The ideal toaster would have one and a half insertions to produce the correct toast.

This afternoon I watched Letters From Iwo Jima. I have one last Christmas gift DVD coming in the mail, an Amazon gift certificate from friends, that will need watching – The Incredibles, maybe later this week.

Now comes the daunting ask of cleaning up a years worth of worthless photos I’ve got filed away under the My Pictures folder…

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Lost on Altair IV

Forbidden PlanetI’ve weeded out one post per month for inclusion in my Best of 2007 page. Pickings were slim. Pretty much the whole year was full of eating out meal recaps and Post Office Safaris travelogues. Not my best work.

I’m surprised you are still out there reading, that is if you *are* still out there.

So tomorrow, or the next day, when the link shows up on the sidebar for Best of 2007 don’t click on it, click on the one from, say, 2003, it’ll be better. Then again if you are the kind of person who slows down to rubberneck at accident scenes, read away.

I can’t promise that next year will be any better, it could get worse. I guess we’ll just have wait and see.

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WTF?

2007 is almost gone and tonight I wasted 10.5 minutes of what is left watching The Fountain. Here is my three letter review. WTF?

We watched Dark Side of the Rainbow on Christmas day and the same three letter review applies here as well. One difference though, we watched the whole movie. But that probably has to do with we both like Pink Floyd and the Wizard of Oz.

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. I haven’t seen it and more than likely won’t. A barber who slits throats and has a downstairs neighbor that grinds up the carcasses to sell. WTF are people thinking? A musical?

How does someone whose name is Brian, who has a blog, and its main focus is Miatas, go undetected by me? Three letters. Briansworld.

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Deny Crane. Denny Crane. Denny Crane.

So as to make episodes of House not seem so repetitious we have decided to inter space those DVDs with episodes some different TV shows. First up was Disc 1 – Season1 of Boston Legal. We watched 15 minutes of the first episode, Head Cases, and turned it off. Too quirky.

We were sitting in the living room eating dinner off the coffee table. Popped the DVD out and surfed for entertainment. Couldn’t find anything else on the tube to watch, so Donna suggested trying to watch some more of Boston Legal. I said OK, and put the disc back in and started at episode 2, Still Crazy After All These Years. I don’t know if this episode was less quirky or we recognized guest star Elizabeth Mitchell from Season 3 of TDTVS and liked her, but whatever reason, we hung with it. We then watched episodes three and four to finish off the disc.

I’ve added the rest of Season 1 to the TV queue. Thanks for the suggestion D.J.

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Double Down

Had a cholesterol follow up with the doctor yesterday and as always, I’m close, but no cigar.

  Chol HDL LDL Trig
Goal <200 >31 <100 30-150
12/12/07 175 38 104 165
07/17/07 185 36 117 162
03/05/07 195 39 123 167
09/19/06 167 37 103 135
04/06/06 168 37 106 126
12/08/05 182 35 120 137
07/28/05 177 30 113 169
06/17/05 164 31 85 238
05/06/05 174 27 108 194
01/10/05 176 33 110 167
09/21/04 209 24 131 271

No more monkeying around with the Red Yeast Rice supplement, the new course of action is to add another statin, 20 mg of simvistatin (AKA Zocor) to the 48mg of Tricor and see ya’ in March.

Monk Moment

We spent a frustrating 2 hours tonight searching several stores for a 32oz insulated water bottle with a big enough opening on top to except ice cubes. They are in every store, on numerous aisles as long as it isn’t Christmas time and Donna had the misfortune of dropping her water bottle and breaking it this morning December 27th.

To ease our suffering we dined on Carnitas at Marias. We were seated at a booth by the window with a lovely view of the laundromat next building over. As I looked through the faux wood blinds, it came to my attention that several of the slats were tilted different from the majority. Reflexively, I nudged the offending slats into line with the rest.

Adrian would have been so proud.

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