Nope, didn’t go geocaching today. Nor yesterday either for that matter. The F in this case stands for finish, not find. We started to watch a movie from 2001 called Happy Accidents that stars Marisa Tomei and Vincent D’Onofrio, but stopped after 15 minutes. It seems like we are on a streak here with not finishing movies. In the last six weeks we have received 16 discs from Netflix and we have DNF’d 6 of them or almost 38%. The ratio is even worse because there were 6 discs of West Wing which are golden to us, so if we forget about WW the ratio jumps to 60%!
The search for good movies for us is kind of like geocaching. The stars of the movie are the coordinates and the blurb on the Netflix page is the cache description. Roger Ebert’s Review is the hint and all those reviews on the Netflix movie page equate to the logs of fellow geocachers. With all that information, finding a good movie should be easy, but sometimes you just can’t see it.
The car has sat in the garage all day because we rode the tandem around town early this morning paying 3 bills and saving $1.32, so I was going to title this post “The Emperor’s Day Off”, but there is now a possibility that we may have to make a run to the store for some essentials that were missed the other day when we did our weekly grocery shopping.
Miata Top Transitions since 10/24/08: 292
I put Netflix on hold for the summer. It’s getting ready to go off hold (only last 3 months) and I’m debating whether to cancel or let it start back…
I know this is just a slump and we’ll break out of it. Over the last 2-1/2 years our DNF ratio is 17.7%. I don’t consider that too bad because my movie picking is much more adventurous when it comes to Netflix as compared to the video store. In the video store I see the money coming out of my wallet whereas Netflix goes on a charge card and my wife does the bill paying. 🙂