Year: 2008

Ain’t No Lack of Consumer Confidence Here

After the usual sunrise, breakfast, walk on the beach thing, Donna and I headed out to help the local retailers have a good Black Friday. We were not alone. At the first place we stopped at, Tanger Outlets 2, they were busy, but not so overcrowded that it wasn’t unpleasant. But by the time we called it quits at the other Tanger Outlet place the parking spots were at a premium. Trying to leave got a little dicey as folks jockeyed for the scarce spots and clear exit paths. We didn’t go particularly early because we weren’t out to to get big ticket items with big ticket discounts and our Christmas shopping is already finished, we just did a little clothes and trinket shopping for ourselves.

Started up, went down, back up, still up.
Miata Top Transitions since 10/24/08: 46

The Glass Ballerina

(49/82) This show was about Sun & Jin, both on island and in flashbacks off, and how they have been deceiving each other in small and large ways. We also check in with the big three and their antics while in captivity. Jack just gets the mental beatings while Sawyer and Kate get, unbelievably (if you can get anymore unbelievable than we’ve gotten so far), enlisted in some sort of chain gang.

Thanksgiving on HHI

This morning we slept in, ate breakfast, stood on the balcony and watched a bunch of dolphins swim by, watched the 4 episodes on Disc 2 of William & Mary and then went for a looong walk on the beach. This afternoon and into the evening we had a small turkey dinner with DTCQ. As usual the mysterious Lisa the Condo Princess was spoken of obliquely, but not seen.

Started up, went down, back up, still up.
Miata Top Transitions since 10/24/08: 44

A Tale of Two Cities

The Season 3 opener is show number 48 of 82 and opens with a seeming normal book club meeting in a suburban home with absolutely no one we know. Yet. There is what seems like an earthquake and when it is over thy run outside, we see a familiar face and when they look up there is a jetliner in the sky breaking into pieces. This is the Others watching the arrival of Oceanic Flight 815 a couple months ago. From here we jump to the present where we see Kate getting put in a dress to dine with Ben, Sawyer in an animal cage and jack in a room with a giant Plexiglas wall. This episode is well structured and we get some fun interaction between our love triangle survivors and their captors, but a lot of time is spent with Jack and this new woman from the Others, Juliet. The flashback concerns Jack and his divorce from Sarah and his mistrust of his father. Somehow Jack has been thrust into the hero leader role on the island, but the more we learn of his past the less sympathetic he becomes.

Happy Thanksgiving

Going away for a couple days to an Internet Free zone, check back Sunday for an exciting blow by blow account….

Started up, still up.
Miata Top Transitions since 10/24/08: 42

Junior Man Onboard

Don’t know if you have been keeping up with this story or not, but apparently the last shuttle mission took a “state of the art” urine-purification system for water recycling up to the International Space Station. They must have bought it at Big Lots because when they got up there it didn’t work right. Apparently there was a hiccup in the centrifuge or something, but now it is fixed.

My question is who is doing the taste testing? Rank has its privileges.

Started down, went up, still up.
Miata Top Transitions since 10/24/08: 42

Live Together, Die Alone

Episode 47 of 82 was the 2 hour Season 2 finale. It was jam packed with the return of Desmond, dynamite explosions, a giant 4-toed foot, even more betrayal from Michael, gun fire, tranquilizer darts, hieroglyphics, extreme magnetism, load annoying sounds, bright spectral skies and a kiss.

It was pretty much Desmond-centric where see how he got to to the island in the first place, his being suckered into pushing the button, how it might actually be his fault Flight 815 crashed there and in the present how he, along with Locke, let the countdown go past zero without pushing the button and then blows up the hatch.

Most of the other on island antics concerned the Fab Four (Jack, Kate, Sawyer & Hurley) & Michael trekking across the island so he can “get his boy back.” He finally does and sails off towards freedom in the Other’s boat given to him for delivering our main characters into imprisonment. Except for Hurley who gets sent back to the survivor’s beach to tell them to stay away. Because it was a two hour show you get 2 pictures.