Year: 2008

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.

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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.

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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.

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The Importance Of Understanding English

Fluctuations Noun; plural

When I got back from Canada last week, I had a bunch of Canadian dollars I needed to exchange so I went to the currency exchange window at the local bank. It was a short line with just one guy in front of me. He was an Asian guy who was trying to exchange yen for dollars, and he was a little irritated!

He asked the teller, “Why it change? Yestoday, I get two huna dolla fo yen. Today I get huna eighty? Why It change?”

The teller shrugged her shoulders and said, “Fluctuations.”

The Asian guy said, “Fluc you white people too!”

Oceanic Airlines

Oceanic AirlinesMark got his Sawyer’s Fish Biscuit T-shirt yesterday and wore in it to work today. I would have been very jealous, but my Season 2 DVDs arrived via UPS today. So tonight Donna and I watched the first disc. I know I’m probably way late for this party, but I just realized that THE NUMBERS (4 8 15 16 23 42) add up to 108, which is the number of minutes between hitting execute on the computer in Dharma’s Swan station.

I think I’m going to get a T-shirt of my own, but with the Oceanic Airlines logo on it as soon as I find just the right one.

If you happen to live in one of these cities: Los Angeles, CA – Tustin, CA – Ames, IA – Miami, FL – New York, NY – Portland, OR – Knoxville, TN – Seoul, South Korea – Sydney, Australia; keep your eyes peeled for the billboards – Oceanic Airlines.

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Whatever Happened To That Post Office Photo Project

Air MailI’ve given it up. I think I’m going to start taking photos of people handing me mail sacks while I sit in my plane instead.

Not really, it has been because the days are too short and too cold, plus all the Post Offices we have left are too far away for day trips. Give us another month or so and we will be back at it. Only 115 to go.

While you wait, don’t forget to look at the already captured photos in my Gallery. And if you would like to see more old timey photos, check out the Library of Congress’ Flickr page.

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Love/Hate Relationship With The Internets

I love the net. It is a vast repository for everything from diamonds to dreck. I mainly like it for the reason that I don’t have to remember stuff anymore. Brain storage space, now at a premium because of age and heavy abuse of mind altering drugs as a teen, does not have to tied up remember that Jon Provost played Timmy Martin on 178 episodes of the TV show Lassie from 1957 to 1964. And things like, “Although it has been the subject of many spoofs and misquotes, the one situation that Timmy never needed saving from in the entire history of the show was falling down a well.” That’s what IMDB is for. If I ever need to know how to change the fuel filter on my car or how many red Miatas were made in 1993, Miata.net will remember it for me. I don’t even have to remember what happens to me anymore, that is what this blog is for.

I hate the net. The main reason for that is spam. It is light at the home address because I rarely use it on the net. It is just the opposite for my work email. Somewhere along the line that address got sold on a CD and I get about a hundred pieces of crud every day. Fortunately it is stopped before it gets to my inbox by a service the company subscribes to called Postini. I check the MMC‘s email and because we have a yahoo.com address 99.9% of what comes in there is the usual replica watches, male enhancement and free gift card junk. My gamil account gets a bunch too, 27 so far today, but 26 were caught by Gooogle’s spam filter.

Today I received 2 emails at my gmail account purportedly from eBay about “Item Number: (300192365929) Zulu – scarce Stanley Baker signed autograph.” Could this be because of my furious bidding for Lost: Season2 DVDs on eBay? Doubt it, my registered eBay email is still the now defunct brian@mr-miata.com… Both emails contained the right letters to my gmail address, but did not include the dots in between the letters. Do you have a “.” in your gmail address? If so, try sending your self a note by leaving out the dot. Worked for me.

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