Year: 2007

Imagine

What Would Yoko Say?“You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us and the world will live as one.”

Right now I’m working at my ripping CDs project and listening to the FRS come from behind to whoop up on the Baltimore Orioles. I’ve almost got one shelf of the ten total done and I’m up to Bogguss, Suzy.

I’m still leaking copious amounts of Brain Lubricant, but I made it all the way through the work day without the overwhelming desire to take a nap. I made it all the past dinner before having to catch 20 winks.

When I woke up Fox News was in the middle of wall to wall coverage of a low speed chase in LA, some knucklehead in a stolen car was leading cops and news helicopters around town. At one point, riding on nothing but the rims, the “suspect” did several doughnuts in the middle of an intersection leaving nicely marked up asphalt in his wake. When they finally stopped him, he immediately hit the ground flat and about 20 LEOs pounced on him. I’m sure it would have caused a big uproar in the media, but I was actually hoping they would beat the crap out of him for being so stupid.

Uploaded the other 24 photos from the northeast trip, but I’ve still only got captions on about eight. I’d better get busy because 4 weeks from tomorrow we are off to the other side of the country for 10 days.

The screened porch is still covered in a layer of pine pollen and my hope is to get out there after work tomorrow and wash it off.

Started down, still down.
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Toilet Seat Condom

I ran into something I had never seen before at that Italian restaurant in Jersey from last night’s post. My wife tells me she has seen a bunch of them, but maybe because most of the time I’m using a different appliance and there is no need for something like that for what I use.

Didn’t use it here either, but the door was open so I noticed the device and was intrigued. I just had to try it out. Wave your hand over a sensor and a fresh tube of plastic wrap is automatically pulled out of one side and dragged around to the other side, covering the toilet seat. Just a whirring noise and it looks like a snake molting its skin or something.

Ladies, I guess you have already seen this thing, but guys maybe pictures are better than my stumbling words: Sani-Seat.

Started down, still down.
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Love Me Do

Paul's in the NationLeft over story from our northeast visit: After the service for Donna’s aunt the family gathered at a nice Italian restaurant in Summit, NJ, where we were served a five course meal. Donna and I sat at kind of the “kids” table with the youngest cousin, her husband and their young daughter, a couple of family friends and the daughters of the middle two cousins, Susan’s two girls Meghan 14, Jessica 12 and Mary’s 14 year-old Kristen. When they came around taking drink orders those three girls to my right ordered Shirley Temples, I had a glass of red wine and for fun Donna ordered a Shirley Temple too. I’m not to sure who started it, might have been Jessica, but the girls decided to see if they could take their cherry stems and tie them into a knot in their mouths using just their tongues.

Meghan was the only one of the three to actually accomplish the feat, we of course applauded her success. If I was her father I’m not so sure that I’d have been that proud and I would have definitely instructed her not to demonstrate that talent on a date with a hormonally charged teenager.

Arri’s Grill for supper. Two 1/3 lb hand formed patties of ground chuck served with lettuce, tomato, onions, pickles, mayo and mustard. We split an order of fries.

Meal Cost: $10.37
Tip: None
Spent Today: $10.37
Year to Date: $891.27

I’ve got a 485 CD collection that is rarely used anymore. Matter of fact, if it wasn’t for the rental car the other week and the one we’ll be driving out west in another month they wouldn’t ever leave the shelves they sit on. So I have decided to rip them all into MP3s and store ’em on my hard drive. I’ve done about 30 so far, but I haven’t really been applying myself to the project. I mean if I do get them done, what do I do with all that plastic? Maybe I can find somebody to wholesale ’em to about 50¢ a piece…

Started up, went down, still down.
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Forgot Something

We had Chinese take out for dinner. Two Egg Rolls, Wonton Soup for 2, Beef & Broccoli with some Shrimp Fried Rice for Donna’s lunches this week.

Meal Cost: $21.45
Tip: None
Spent Today: $21.45
Year to Date: $880.90

Feeling Nearly Human

Took the day off from work and laid out to help get over the yuck I got somewhere. Snagged a couple of major naps and now I starting to feel better. The body aches are now mostly gone and the fever appears to be history, but I now have a icky little cough. I took some Vicks 44 this morning and it helped, but this afternoon I took a tablespoon of some of Donna’s leftover prescription stuff that is laced with codeine. Big mistake, that stuff made me stupid.I set out to finish up tweaking and posting our vacation photos from the other week. I had 48 selected and only managed to 34 done. I uploaded them and managed to get captions on 8 or 9 before I couldn’t maintain the intense concentration required post pictures on the internet…

Couple of random thoughts after watching the FRS on TV three straight days;
a) the new style hats the big leaguers are wearing this year look like a truckers hat, you know the kind with a foam front and a mesh back.
b) The green shirts they wore on Saturday looked very elfish with the red long sleeve undershirts.
   1) but I do like the green hats and may get one…
c) when you put a batting helmet on Willie Moe Pena it looks like he has to squeeze his head to get it in there.

While we are talking baseball and blogs: Curt Schilling‘s got one.

Started down, went up, still up.
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I Got the Sunday Paper

The end of the driveway is as far as I’ve been all day. A close second was I retrieved a load of laundry from the garage, but that nearly wore me out. I’ve taken at least four 1 to 1-1/2 hour naps. Baring a miracle cure over night I plan on spending tomorrow in the same manner while my co-workers toil away at the valve store.

The bad news is that while Donna has been an angel in taking care of me, this afternoon she started to get a little sore throat which is how this whole thing started for me.

Started up, went down, still down.
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Well, At Least The FRS Recovered

When I blogged last night things looked grim for the Sox and they were trailing the Yankees 6-2 when they came to bat in the bottom of the eighth, but they scored 5 times to end up winning the game. In this afternoon’s contest they were back and forth until the FRS scored three in the bottom of the fourth and kept the lead until the end.

While I, on the other hand, if anything, got worse. The sore throat peaked this morning and is going away, but I’m in full blown (pun intended) running nose, watery eyes and body aches. I’m hitting the showers as soon as I’m done typing this and going to bed.

Started down, went up, still up.
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