Month: May 2010

Happy Memorial Day

As we passed through Saluda on our way to Hendersonville on Friday there were several people plaing a passel of tiny American flags in front of a building. Donna said that we should stop on the way home on Saturday and get a picture. Fortunately for us the rain had slowed when we got to Saluda so that we could hop out of the car and get a few photos. On the county library front lawn there were 5485 flags, each one honoring a service member who had lost their lives in the middle east since 2002. Pretty sobering sight (and site.) What is more depressing is that on the left hand lawn there is an area that was empty of flags that someday might get filled in.

Click on the photo above and go to a small gallery of the other photos I took.

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Bad News Bear

We visited my sister and her husband in Hendersonville, NC yesterday afternoon and today. This morning Donna and I did a little geocaching around the Blue Ridge Community College campus. It was nice modern campus that obviously placed more emphasis on academics than on athletics comparing the buildings that house classrooms and the baseball field.

There was a cache called Bad News Bears here.

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108 Thousand Button Pushes

One hundred and eight was sort of an adjunct to TDTVS’s famous numbers (4 8 15 16 23 42) because that is what they added up to and that is how many minutes you had between entering them into a computer terminal before bad things happened. 108,000 is probably how many times the number and execute buttons were pushed by Desmond during his little over three years down in the Swan Station hatch when he was doing the entering.

I wonder what I should do with my eight LOST links in the left sidebar now that the show is over, delete them? Yeah, probably. So what would be a proper mourning period before moving them? Simple, 108 days. Guess I’ll add a countdown for it…

One hundred and eight thousand is the number of miles the Emperor had traveled when we got almost to work this morning.

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Hamsters Got Soul

The KIA Soul is one of those “cute” little cars targeted towards the younger set and their ads for have it have been interesting. I personally think the car is ugly and I’m not a big fan of Hip-Hop music, but I’m smiling now having just watched this latest one.

It hits the all the right notes (pun sort of intended.)

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Lipid Panel

I must have missed one of these cholesterol updates because the last one I can find is dated December 15, 2008…

  Chol HDL LDL Trig
Goal <200 >31 <100 30-150
05/18/10 151 38 91 109
12/15/08 167 41 92 171
03/21/08 164 37 104 115
12/12/07 175 38 104 165
07/17/07 185 36 117 162
03/05/07 195 39 123 167
09/19/06 167 37 103 135
04/06/06 168 37 106 126
12/08/05 182 35 120 137
07/28/05 177 30 113 169
06/17/05 164 31 85 238
05/06/05 174 27 108 194
01/10/05 176 33 110 167
09/21/04 209 24 131 271

Turned on ABC at 9:00PM and Dancing with the Stars was on, hey, where’s TDTVS? Oh, yeah, that’s right, it’s over.

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Frequent Flyer Magazines, Round 3

About a month ago I got a letter from (I think) US Air to let me know that I shouldn’t let my 4,213 air miles go to waste. I should buy some magazines. I have no clue if these things are really endorsed by the airlines (probably not), but I do know that I actually have 12,106 that will be forfeited by June 29th if I don’t pay them $100 (probably not.)

So I did what I usually do when I get one of thee offers, I subscribed to a couple magazines: Sports Illustrated and Entertainment Weekly. This makes 3 weekly magazines we get now as the Time subscription from the last similar offer doesn’t run out until August.

Just the other day got one of the same style offers from Delta, but she had over 6,000 miles (just where had she been without me?) So now we will add a fourth weekly magazine to our coffee table with 6 months of People. We will also get another year of Time, a year of Sunset, a year of Money and 2 years of Travel + Leisure.

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The End

Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or surprise, the end
I’ll never look into your eyes…again
Jim Morrison

It all comes to an end tonight at 11:30PM and quite frankly I think I will be glad it is over. What started as a survival story on a mysterious island has morphed into a battle between good and evil to control the island that no one can find.

Millions of people want answers to the thousands of unanswered questions and mysteries, but I for one don’t care if I find out what happened to Rose, Bernard and Vincent the dog or any of the others.

How will it end? Will we merge the the island time lines with the alt LA universe? My guess is it will be a variation of the first scene of last season’s finale; Jack (the new Jacob) will be sitting on the beach and John Locke (the new MIB) will approach and say, “You know how much I want to kill you?” They will stare out to sea and see a boat approaching. Locke will ask Jack, “You brought them here didn’t you?” The camera zooms in until you see the transom. It reads, “S.S.Minnow” Fade to black.

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