Month: January 2008

Now I’ve Gone & Done It

Because I’ve pretty much stopped watching network television all together I was blissfully ignorant of the phenomenon. When the first season came out on DVD and after hearing people at work talk a bit about it, we opted to give it try. Dumped disc one in the Netflix queue. Oh. Man.

I resisted trying to join Season two in mid stride. Donna attempted to watch S2E12, but couldn’t pull it off because of the commercials. We bided our time. Seven months later Season 2 DVDs arrived and we spent a weekend gorging ourselves, watching it all.

When Season 3 hit the airwaves we just ignored it, vowing to only watch the show on DVD. When they did arrive in stores, we went to the local video store, rented and then watched the whole season in one fell swoop, two days, a Friday and Saturday.

I think that is when the banana peel slipped out from under us. We bought Season 1 on DVD to rewatch. When we finished that, we bought Season 2 and watched it again. Season 3 is in the mail to us right now. I’ve created a separate post category for it. There is now even a link category in the sidebar.

But tonight I did something I vowed not to do, I watched it as it was broadcast on ABC. I wonder if there is a support group at Santa Rosa Mental Health Institute for people like me?

The only thing I have going for me right now is I still haven’t bought a shirt.

But my resolve is weakening…

That Damn TeleVision Show

Started up, still up.
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This Is Awful…

…trying to watch Lost on regular TV.

ABC is showing the third season ender right now, I guess in an effort to get everyone excited for tomorrow’s Episode 1 of Season 4. The commercial blocks are annoying as all get out and to make matters worse they are crawling extra information at the bottom of the screen to explain what is going on to newbies.

To further indoctrinate newcomers, ABC will breakdown the whole first 3 seasons in a clip show that will be shown at 8 PM, just in front of the 9 PM premiere of season four.

Like before, I got tired of failure on eBay bidding for Season 3, so last night I broke down and bought it new. Found it on Buy.com for $28.98 ($38.98 minus $10 for first time Google Checkout buyers.)

Started up, still up.
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Oh Well

We really wanted Roma Pizza to work out for us. It is a mile away from the house, so it makes a perfect distance for walking to, having a meal and strolling back from. We have been there three times since they opened a few months ago, the first was about a month after they opened. The last was last Friday.

On our first visit the service was spotty, which we chalked up to teething pains. The pizza was great, right up there with our old favorite Ferrando’s.

On our second visit the pizza was great, as was the service.

Last Friday when we walked in, the hostess grabbed two menus and looked over towards the bar area and asked a woman sitting there, was Missy in yet. To which the woman, possibly a manager or owner said, “She’ll be here momentarily.” We were seated at a booth and off the hostess went without further word. We really didn’t need the menu as we knew what we were getting, a five topping pie, two garden salads, water and a sweet tea. We sat for a few minutes and wondered among ourselves what momentarily meant. After a while a waitress appeared and stopped at the booth behind us and asked the occupants did they want anything else, as they were finishing up. The waitress didn’t even look our way, obviously she wasn’t Missy. We had now been seated for a good five minutes and we had gotten not so much as a somebody will be right with you from any of the 4 restaurant employees in sight. Not even water yet. We then decided that we didn’t feel like waiting for Missy any longer, so got up to leave. As we headed for the door, Donna said, in a voice loud enough to be heard by nearly everyone in attendance, “I guess we’ll have to go somewhere else to get waited on!” The hostess replied, “OK.” I kept on going out the door, but Donna turned around and gave the hostess a piece of her mind before joining me in the parking lot. We went to Krogers, bought a Digiorno Frozen Pizza, went home and ate it.

We were boycotting Ferrando’s because they closed the location we liked in downtown and opened a store on the south side. And while the new spot is actually closer to us, it is less convenient and always crowded making getting a table hard. But tonight when we wanted “real” pizza we went to Ferrando’s. But we went early, almost right after work at five o’clock and it was a smooth experience.

Started down, went up, still up.
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The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds

I have an interesting post for today, but you’ll have to wait until the photos come back from the lab.

“We’re stuck in a bloody snow globe!” is another answer to the question, “What did one snowman say to the other snowman?”

Started down, went up, back down, still down.
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What Did One Snowman Say To The Other?

“Smells like carrots.”

Finished up Season Two of TDTVS this morning. After watching Season 3 just a month ago, it is amazing how much we have forgotten. Is Mr. Eko dead? I don’t remember him in Season 3. I know Locke is alive because I remember him. How did Desmond come back? I guess I should have paid attention. Or maybe I’ll just go here and read about them…or maybe go here and watch them.

In spite of the afternoon being sunny and in the upper 60’s we opted for the comfort of the couch once again. We watched Season 1 Disc 2 of Boston Legal which came from Netflix on Saturday. If it weren’t for the US Figure Skating Nationals on NBC, which Donna is watching, we might have watched the original 1959 3:10 To Yuma which also came in a red envelope on Saturday.

We did get the top down for the trip to Hardee’s and the weekly grocery trip between TV DVDs. At the store I was looking for something different for my morning snack. Last week was fat free fig newtons, the week before was ginger snaps. When I spotted something called Dipping Delights I was intrigued. Cheesecake flavored, hmmmm. They are shown on the package being dipped in a glass of milk, probably why they got there name. I was sure they would taste OK dry, so I picked up the the bag and checked the nutritional info. 90 calories, 6% of your daily value of total fat, 8% of saturated, 0% trans & cholesterol (naturally) per serving. Not bad, until you look at what the serving size is, 1 cookie! I’m sure the other customers in the store thought we had lost our minds we laughed so loud.

Started up, went down, still down.
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5 Down, 1 To Go

Watched Lost Season 2 pretty much all day, discs 3, 4 & 5 or about 8-1/2 hours worth. Saving number six for tomorrow though. We have decided that seeing as we watched all of Season 3 just a month ago, we probably won’t buy that set, right now. Plan is to wait until they are getting ready to release Season 4 on DVD and buy #3 then. So end of this year, early next year we will start over again and watch Seasons 1, 2, then 3 followed right up by 4. After that I think we’ll have to go out and buy a new couch, because we will have worn the covers off this one.

The polls have closed here in SC and everyone is saying that Obama is the big winner, but Donna and I already knew that around 6 o’clock this evening. That is when the phone stopped ringing with those automated campaign messages, today’s tally at the Bogardus household, Barack Obama 6, Hillary Clinton 3. There were 3 “undecideds”, i.e. no message left. We had planned to get out and vote, but were afraid The Others might kidnap us, so we stayed inside.

Started up, still up.
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Blast From The Past

Barndoor Fan ClubWay back in the past, 2005, I closed up shop on the Barndoor Fan Club. I thought I had found a suitable replacement web master, I even sold him the domain name, but he never did anything with it. At one time I resurrected it in a subdomain of the mr-miata.com site, but that went away when my grasp of that domain did. Someone asked me about it the other day, so I thought, what the heck, I’ll tack up the files to this place as a museum to my earlier derangement.

Barndoor Fan Club

Just don’t click on any of the email addresses, they don’t go anywhere, the Store is no longer open and it doesn’t look like it is part of the Miata Ring anymore.

Started up, still up.
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