Year: 2008

Thirteen Times A Charm

At first I didn’t want to spend more than $20 for Season 2 of TDTVS, including the shipping. But after about 4 or 5 failures I upped the ante to $24. Still no luck after two days. Here are the selling prices of the 13 auctions I bid in:

$34.00
$30.50
$27.50
$23.01
$26.05
$23.00
$25.51
$25.01
$24.50
$35.00
$31.00
$29.03
$24.49

The last straw was tonight when I made one more attempt. The seller was here in Aiken (might even see about saving the shipping cost), but after putting in a bid that took my total to $24.99, I was informed I was already outbid. Some one already had a maximum bid in that was greater than my offering.

I don’t know what these people are thinking? Why buy used? The damn thing is on sale new at Amazon for $29.99 with free Super Saver shipping!

Not wanting to wait around for a week waiting on the Super Saver shipping I nibbled at their hook for Amazon Prime. By trying it free for a month I get 2-day shipping for free. As soon as I get the DVDs I’ll go ahead and cancel it. No way I do enough business with these guys to warrant $79 a year…

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I Push This Button Every 108 Minutes

I figure if I do, sooner or later I’m going to win an eBay auction for season two of TDTVS.

The Numbers have not, so far, been picked in either the Powerball or Mega Millions games. If they did, would they prove to be cursed?

The Emperor got the day off. But we didn’t stay inside all day. About 2:30 we put on our sunglasses and coats and walked about a mile and a half to a Marble Slab Creamery for some ice cream. When I pulled out my ratty wallet to pay for it my wife suggested that maybe we should walk across the street to the Walmart. I said OK, but we would have to look in the toy section for Mia and Tia. The Movie Moments, of which they are part of, must be on the way out because they weren’t in the toy section, but scattered in a couple of fringe aisle ends throughout the store. No cute Miatas to be found.

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Everything Happens For A Reason

We went out for a bagel for breakfast. Right here in Aiken. The MMC did drive to Saluda for breakfast, all 2 cars of them. I guess we weren’t the only ones who decided not to for go a 60 mile drive in the cold rain to eat when there were places closer to home. We then picked up a few items we missed on yesterday’s grocery shopping trip and spent the rest of the day inside watching the rest of Season 1 of TDTVS.

I was outbid with 7 hours to go on my first attempt on eBay to buy the second season. Eighteen hours left on try number two. I don’t want to pay more than twenty bucks (with shipping) unless I have to.

I’ve been considered buying one of the McFarlane’s action figures Series 1 or Series 2 just for the cool little toss ins. With Hurley you get a replica of the winning lottery ticket. Sun includes a life size recreation of an Oceanic boarding pass and with Kate you get that little model plane from her childhood sweetheart.

Yeah, I got it bad. At least I haven’t bought a T-shirt — yet.

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4 8 15 16 23 42 Part II

We are now half way through Disc 5 of Season 1. Finished up with one of my favorite episodes, Numbers, in which we get some of Hurley’s back story. We find out he won a lot of money playing the lotto with numbers he learned from a fellow “inmate” at a insane asylum (a back story I hope we go back and visit.)

Hurley: They’re cursed. You know that, right? The numbers, they’re cursed.
Rousseau: Numbers are what brought me here. As it appears they brought you. Since that time I’ve lost everything, everyone I cared about. So yes, I suppose you’re right. They are cursed.

Hitchcock Woods in DaguerreotypeWe got off our duffs this afternoon and took a walk in the woods, had to be today, because tomorrow they are calling for a wintery mix. The temperature made it into the middle 50’s and made for a pleasant walk. I took two whole pictures on the walk of a section of the trail that was full Spanish Moss. When I got home and downloaded the images they had a distinct blue tinge. Drat. I had set the white balance to indoors the other day and forgot to set it back. No amount of post processing of the color balance would fix it, so I tossed it through a daguerreotype filter.

We are supposed to go for a drive to Saluda for a breakfast run with the Miata Club early tomorrow morning. There are winter weather advisories for tomorrow from 7AM to 10PM, so the event may not go off. Donna and I are going to get up in the morning check the weather channel, and depending on the radar picture, will either stay home or go for a drive.

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Even A Notebook Wouldn’t Have Helped

It was cold and wet this morning. Work was the usual fun. It was cold this afternoon. Watched Disc 2 of Season 1 tonight.

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Rain?

SnowWe were supposed to be getting rain overnight. This afternoon when I checked the radar I could see the green of precipitation approaching. Mid afternoon we were covered in green. Donna and I canceled our afternoon walk because rain and 40º is not pleasant. When I finally did go look outside around 3 o’clock, it wasn’t raining and the ground was dry. What? I knew there was a word for that phenomenon, but couldn’t come up with it. Google reveals — virga.

Because the temps we supposed to be in the upper thirties overnight there was large speculation we might get snow or sleet or ice. I bet the stores were packed with people buying bread, milk, bottled water and batteries.

While we sat in front of the TV watching Disc 1 of Season 1 we wondered where the rain was, because we can usually hear it come down on the the chimney cap and it had been strangely silent. When we were done with the first four episodes, Donna questioned, “Are we ever going to get any rain?” She opened the front door and discovered the reason we didn’t hear the precipitation. It was too light to be heard, there was an 1/8″ snow on the grass and it was still coming down.

It has already turned to rain and disappeared.

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Here We Go Again

Bad Robot

The Lost Season 1 DVDs came in the mail today.