Year: 2010

At The Car Wash

Last night we cleaned house, the outside anyway. I blew off the roof and deck, Donna mowed the front and back yards and I used the blower to clean our driveway.

When we got home tonight you could barely tell I had cleaned the driveway, enough oak pollen clusters had fallen to leave a sparse coating the whole front yard. Oh, well, I was still going to wash the car, had to because the MMC has a breakfast event tomorrow and we couldn’t very well show up in the pigsty the Emperor was. Plus I have that awning-carport thing that will at least keep the stuff off the car *while* I’m washing it.

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Dirty Car

The Emperor is filthy. Tree sap from parking in the wrong spot somewhere, pine pollen, dead bugs and mud from an aborted geocache attempt cover the exterior. The inside isn’t much better, pine pollen there too, plenty of dirt and debris in the mats, plus some stray M & M Minis under the seats.

I need to wait though and get the driveway cleaned off first. Adding water to it’s current coating of pine pollen (surprise), oak pollen clusters and dogwood blossom petals would create an awful soup.

I need to wait on cleaning the driveway until I blow off the roof, which is covered in, well, you can guess.

Ahhh, spring.

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The Media Marketing Has Really Kicked In

While channel surfing this evening I flipped through 3 straight stations that were playing Iron Man 2 commercials. One of which was actually a car ad (admittedly, I think if Iron Man were a Transformer he probably would change into an Audi R8 V10 convertible.)

As much as I loved the first movie and the trailers look good for number 2, they do look a little over the top in places. I am starting to get the feeling this franchise might be going the way of TDPM.

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HD On Cable

Back in August a bolt of lightning fried our tube TV so we bought a one of those new fangled flat screens. I let it find all the channels and was happy as a clam. Then 3 weeks later I had to reset the TV and when I ran the channel find function this time I let it look for digital channels. It found some, the Music Choice channels that came with the digital package, nothing with a picture though.

I was home sick with some flu stuff today and thought I would tune into Soundscapes, the New Age Music Choice channel to help in starting a nap while on the couch. It wasn’t there. I remember wondering if the cable company knew that folks with digital TV were getting that music for free. Maybe they did and decided to cut it off.

For the heck of it I ran the channel setup again. It found the music channels. They were occupying the recently, with no notice, vacated ESPN Classic channel spot at 34. Not only that it turned up the HD broadcasts of the 6 local TV broadcasters. Now I won’t have to unplug the cable and plug up the $20 rabbit ears I bought so I can watch TDTVS in full widescreen HD glory. Then plug the cable back in after the show is over.

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106,000 Patrons

Once a year Donna and become golf fans, we watch the Master’s on TV. I guess because we have been there in person…

On our way home from Georgetown this morning we made two quick caching stops to pick up the last DeLorme pages we needed for the eastern part of the state. And just outside the town of Eutawville (YOO • tah • vil) the Emperor passed the 106,00 mile mark.

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Spellcheck Anyone?

Sign on the wall outside a Breakers, a convenience store, near Marion, SC.

Four for four on Friday. Thirteen for 14 with one change of heart on Saturday and we can cross off 4 more counties and four more DeLorme pages.

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LOB Now Turbocharged

This “button” has been sitting here in the upper right corner of my WordPress admin page for the longest time. Tonight I clicked it and it installed something called Google Gears. I’m not sure if it is supposed to speed up the blog for me or you, but I do know if it keeps asking to connect to the Google mothership it is coming out.

The trunk on the Miata looks like someone dusted for prints using yellow instead of black powder,there are yellow tire tracks on my garage floor when I back out in the morning and Tiger Woods’ Green Jacket is now a neon lime green. Pine pollen season and the Masters are in town.

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