Month: May 2009

Is This Considered Outside?

I went out to the edge of the lawn and retrieved the paper. We ate both breakfast and lunch on the porch. Other than that, neither of us have been outside the house. Unless virtual forays via the internet count.

The weather was calling for an 80% chance of rain, so we had planned indoor activities. We watched the first 4 episodes of this season’s Law & Order: Criminal Intent, caught episodes 3 & 4 of this season’s In Plain Sight and the movie, The Changeling. It never did rain. Until the day was 80% over.

Started down, still down.
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For Sale Rent

There is a house just around the corner and down the street that has a sign out front. One of those $1.79 ones from Home Depot that says in big white letters on a red background:

FOR
SALE
BY OWNER

Apparently he hasn’t had much luck selling it, so he has decided to try another option, renting it. Instead of buying a new sign for $1.79 he just taped over the word SALE with some masking tape and wrote the word RENT in magic marker.

 

If you were his tenant imagine how fast this guy will spend money to fix a problem?

Started down, went up, back down, up again, down once more, still down.
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Kamakazie Kricket

I was just out in the garage giving the Emperor a little sponge bath in preparation for tomorrow’s MMC event when I spotted a cricket watching me. I’m not even positive crickets have eyes, but this one sure seemed like it was giving me the once over. There were several large splats on the nose of the car that I was Quick Detailing off and maybe this cricket felt I was being disrespectful of a dead relative or something.

It was no ordinary cricket either, it was big one, about the size my friend Mark might use as bait while fishing for kayak sized catfish. Well, all that staring kind of unnerved me a little, so I slipped off my sneaker and moved slowly that direction to flatten Jiminy out.

In some places it is believed if you kill a cricket it is bad luck, but with the way my luck is running recently, who would notice. I’ve also heard that if kill a cricket it’ll rain, but with the weather we’ve had, and are predicted to have, who would notice.

As I swung my Nike with deadly intent at our giant cricket, it leaped out of the way at the last minute. Did he jump away from me, no, he jumped AT me!

I am proud to say that I didn’t squeal like a little girl as it bounced off my arm, then my chest and then who knows where. I did however flail my arms and upper body around in a pathetic attempt to get away like an uncoordinated spaz who just stepped on a banana peel.

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To Each His Own

While discussing last night’s Season ender of TDTVS around the water cooler in the office today I mentioned that I sort of enjoyed the way it was done and I’m looking forward to next season. The only part I thought was really overdone was the Juliet being sucked into the hole with Sawyer trying to save her. While poking around the net I found a TV writer from USA Today or the Boston Globe that thought that scene was the highlight of the show and Josh Holloway should get an Emmy nod for it.

I would tell you that the whole nuclear bomb to prevent the plane crash in the future bit was when the show jumped the shark, but I’m not sure that term could even apply to LOST. It has been doing that since the pilot episode. Maybe if they didn’t have some harebrained out in left field thing going on, that would be their version of jumping the shark.

Donna and I took the afternoon off to go see the new Star Trek flick. We picked a Thursday afternoon in hopes that we would be some of only a few folks watching. Should have waited until next week, I guess it is still too new, because there was a big crowd, probably 25 people in the theater.

You can tell the people who made this movie are fans of the original because the casting was near perfect and the Nimoy scenes were there for a purpose, not just thrown in as a fan appeasement. Two and a half stars out of 4. Will I go to the theater to see it again? Nope. Will I buy the DVD? Nope. Will I watch it on TV if I stumble on it in a couple years? Probably. My only real complaint is the same one I have about most new movies based on older TV shows or movies (with the exception of the second X-Files movie); because we can, we do, with the special effects.

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Shhhh, LOST is On.

A murderous ex-dead person, psycho doctor with a H-bomb, a love triangle handcuffed together in sub, a giant ancient statue and a mysterious metal box.

This is goin’ to be good.

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National Bike To Work Day…

…is Friday, May 15th. Donna and I won’t be riding to work that day, I have a doctor’s appointment across town, so we are riding tomorrow. Which is OK because it will be smack in the middle of Bike to Work Week and it is pretty near the middle of National Bike Month.

I just hope the roads aren’t crowded tomorrow.

Started down, still down.
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Little Blue Pill

A man goes to an oral surgeon to have a tooth pulled.

The dentist pulls out a freezing needle to give the man a shot.
“No way! No needles! I hate needles!” the patient said.

The dentist starts to hook up the laughing gas & the man objects.
“I can’t do the gas thing. The thought of having the gas mask on is suffocating me!”

The dentist then asks the patient if he has any objection to taking a pill.
“No objection,” the patient says. “I’m fine with pills.”

The dentist then returns and says, “Here’s a Viagra tablet.”
The patient says, “Wow! I didn’t know Viagra worked as a pain killer!”
“It doesn’t,” said the dentist, “but it will give you something to hold onto when I pull your tooth.