Year: 2008

Sightless Gas

According to a college student I know, carbon monoxide is a dangerous gas because it displaces oxygen, is odorless, tasteless and sightless.

The gift from my Roadsterchat Secret Santa arrived today and it came all the way from Switzerland (not the one in South Carolina either.)

The gift from my Regions Bank (n?e AmSouth) Secret Santa arrived day before yesterday, the title to the Emperor.

I can imagine the tiny little gas molecules with their tiny little hands feeling their way into my lungs…

Started down, still down.
Miata Top Transitions since 10/24/08: 73

Catch 22

Will you still need Desmond, will you still feed Desmond, when it’s episode sixty-four?

Off island, Desmond is in a monastery, but just as he is getting the hang of it, he gets punched by the brother of the woman he left at the alter to become a monk, he get drunk on the monks wine and gets fired. As he is leaving the monastery he bumps into a beautiful woman who needs a litle help, sparks fly. Her name? Penny.

On island he has this elaborate future vision that involves someone parachuting on the island and Charlie getting an arrow in the throat. He is sure that the person who lands on the island is Penny, his long lost love and to have his vision come true he thinks that all the flashes he sees must be allowed to happen, including the arrow in the throat. In the end he saves Charlie and the parachutist isn’t Penny. Related?

Night Before

In my email today I received a politically incorrect Ghetto version of Clement Moore’s ‘Twas The Night Before Christmas. I decided to reply with a different version and a quick Googling led me to just the right one. Yesterday I had read a very legal version over on The Rambling Photos Of A Life Lived. I know somebody over on Miata.net made up a Miata themed one that I though about posting here, but I’ll probably wait until next Wednesday for that if I do it.

All this got me thinking about how it seems that just about every segment of the population has it’s own variation. Turns out a fellow named Matthew Monroe collected as many as he could find back a couple years ago and came up with 849 (and that doesn’t include the ghetto or Miata versions.) Find your favorite to pass amongst yourselves HERE.

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Miata Top Transitions since 10/24/08: 73

One Of Us

Sixty-three of eighty-two was a Juliet episode where we find out how she gets to the island (via the now blown up submarine) and her failure to accomplish what she was recruited for (fix the fact that the island women die during pregnancy.) She arrives back at the Losties beach and faces an inquisition about her “otherness” which she won’t answer. New mother Claire falls ill and Juliet conveniently knows how to help her. In the final scenes we she that it is too convenient as it is all a set up orchestrated by Ben to help her be accepted, not an “Other”, but as Jack tells her, “You’re one of us.”

Identity Crisis

On our trip down I-95 in Florida on last Thursday I saw a most interesting car. I was in the center of the three lanes when I noticed a small black sedan with dark tinted windows approaching fast. In the center of the grill was a shiny oval badge with a large L in the center. The car was a Lexus. It looked smaller than their smallest cars the IS and as it passed by I didn’t recognize it. Now I’m a car guy, I read practically every major car magazine and check AutoBlog every day, so if Lexus has a car below the IS I would known about it. Once the car was past me I could see the back of the car and right there on the left of the trunk was a chrome Lexus badge, in the center of the rear panel was another oval Lexus logo where they were supposed to be. On the right side of the trunk was the clincher, a chrome IS250. A neighbor used to have an IS250 and this was definitely not one.

I wasn’t real sure what it was, but I had an idea and it was confirmed after I had internet access, it was a Toyota Yaris sedan. Props to the owner for a nearly thoroughly convincing job, he even stayed in the family so to speak. If he had just combined two badges on the back to give the car two letters that weren’t on a known model, like say IC250, I might have actually though I spotted a prototype.

Started down, still down.
Miata Top Transitions since 10/24/08: 73

Left Behind

This was episode fifteen of season three meaning we are about 3/4 of the way through its 22 episodes. It was also episode 62 of 82 meaning we are about three quarters of the way through all 4 seasons.

On island Kate wakes up in the woods handcuffed to Juliet and in their little adventure they are drenched in a downpour, have a wrestling match and fall into a mud puddle while avoiding the smoke monster not once, but twice. Loce has disappeared with the Others and in the end Jack, Kate ans Sayid are reunited and head back to the beach camp. Much to the chagrin of kate and Sayid, Jack insists the they take Juliet along.

The off island flashback shows Kate trying to contact her mother to find out why she turned her into the Feds. She gets unexpected help from another woman, who unbeknown to her was conned by Sawyer and is carrying his child. Unfortunately for Kate, mom loved her abusive husband, so when Kate thought she was protecting her from him by torching the house he lay passed out in, she was really hurting her.

Thanks Axl

Got my letter from the Doctor today. Now I just have to remember to drink it slow.

In spite of my washing the car just 8 days ago, the Emperor got another washing tonight. Had to clean the Florida off him.

There are now two Miatas in the parking lot at work. The Assembly Engineering Supervisor finally pulled the trigger. He really liked the new body style Miatas when they came out in 2005 and has talked about getting one since 2006. Last week he found one he just had to have, a 2006 Grand Touring model in silver with black interior that had 45,000 miles on it.

Started down, went up, back down, up again, down again, still down.
Miata Top Transitions since 10/24/08: 73