Christmas Eve

Tuesday we went to the local Movie Gallery to rent some flicks for watching over this 4 day weekend. We picked out 5: Kabluey, In Bruges, This Christmas, Adrift in Manhattan and Bonneville. We were off early today and TNT was showing The Bourne Supremacy, the second in the trilogy, so we watched it and then instead of watching one of our 5 rentals we dug into our own collection and watched the third installment, The Bourne Ultimatum.

Tomorrow for your Christmas gift from me to you, I’ll post a picture of my right knee. Plus I still owe a post on why we stay in Bed & Breakfasts and for Friday, December 12th from our Florida trip.

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Greatest Hits

Sixty-eight of eighty-two is Charlie-centric and the title comes something he is told by a newcomer to the island (parachuted on after her helicopter crashes.) Naomi tells him that his old band put out a Greatest Hits album after he “died” in the crash of Flight 815. It also comes from a list he makes of the 5 greatest things that have happened to him so far after he volunteers for a possible suicide mission to shut off a jammer in an underwater Dharma station.

Somebody Stole My Santa Claus Suit

Randy over on A Voice Wandering In The City asked what your favorite “unusual” Christmas song is and here is mine, Somebody Stole My Santa Claus Suit by the Christmas Jug Band.

Somebody stole my Santa Claus suit.
Somebody ripped off my beard, hat and boots.
Some little fatso is all dressed in red.
He even had the gall to swipe the pillow off my bed.
Now what’s my kids going to think,
If Santas a no-show, well boy, they’ll raise a stink.
But, deck the halls and what the hell,
I still got my jingle bell.
So sucker you can keep the suit,
‘Cause frankly, I don’t give hoot.

Somebody stole my Santa Claus suit.
Somebody ripped off my beard, hat and boots.
Some little fatso is all dressed in red.
He even had the gall to swipe the pillow off my bed.
Now what’s my kids going to think,
If Santas a no-show, well boy, they’ll raise a stink.
But, deck the halls and what the hell,
I still got my jingle bell.
So sucker you can keep the suit,
‘Cause frankly, I don’t give hoot.

But, where oh where is my Santa Claus suit?
That get-up set me back a bundle of loot.
The beard alone was four ninety-eight.
The box it came in was an antique orange crate.
Some body took the whole shabang.
If I find that rolly-polly mother, he’s going to hang.
But gee, I guess that’s no way to be.
He might do some good with it and all, thanks to me.
So sucker you can keep the suit,
‘Cause frankly, I don’t give hoot.

MP3

Good Thing It Was Last Monday

Even if you have forgotten about my cholesterol, my doctor hasn’t. As you can see from the most recent numbers I’m pretty much OK.

  Chol HDL LDL Trig
Goal <200 >31 <100 30-150
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

But it sure was a good thing they took blood early last Monday before last week’s high fat, high calorie snack overloading (which by the way has continued unabated these last two days) because I would be willing to bet my current numbers are a lot higher.

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The Man Behind The Curtain

(67/82) Except for the first couple of minutes where we witness a mother dying in childbirth, this episode takes place entirely on island. In flashbacks we meet a young Ben in his early days as a member of the Dharma Initiative. As with nearly all our main characters, Ben has daddy issues, so much so that he arranges to be the one to actually kill him when the original inhabitants of the island rise up and purge Dharma from their home. In current island time Ben takes Locke to an old cabin in the woods that is home to the only person that Ben answers to, the mysterious Jacob. At first Locke can’t see anyone, but he hears him and then gets a flash of a person in the previously silent and empty chair.

Skynet Precursor?

The engineer in the cube across from me is working on something for the company’s web site that will allow customers to specially configure the valve they want. Right now you can buy stock valves from the site, but you have to know what you want, this new way will walk you through getting the right product for the right application. Internally this thing is referred to as the configurator, I’m sure marketing will coin some fancier term for it later. He is working with an outside vendor that is doing all the programing and they are not too prompt with their updates and corrections.

This morning I heard him discussing his woes dealing with the programmers and the configurator with another engineer in NJ, when I heard him say, “It never gives you the same answer twice.” Maybe this program has a mind of its own and it gives a different answer depending on its mood.

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The Brig

Number 66 of 82 is Locke-centric that involve short range flashbacks that don’t involve leaving the island. Ben tells Locke that to be really free he needs to kill his father, but he can’t. Fortunately, the Others have files on every 815 survivor and it just so happens that there is someone who has a motive to do the job for Locke. Turns out Lockes’s father is the very same man who conned Sawyer’s parents when he was a kid leading to their murder suicide.