I Spanked The Monkey

Your Final Quiz Score: 35 right out of a possible 60
The Monkey’s Final Score: 15 right out of 60

You asserted your intellectual superiority brilliantly! The monkey is now left contemplating his own inferiority. Where others have failed to claim the mantel of unequivocal dominance over lesser species, you have truly succeeded! Congratulations on besting the ape and reaffirming the capabilities of the human mind. You have done mankind proud.

You scored in the 84th percentile.
(84% of quiz takers scored worse than you)

Geography
Your score: 10
Monkey’s score: 4
— Quite a sufficient job.
History
Your score: 8
Monkey’s score: 6
— You might have done better.
Science/Technology
Your score: 9
Monkey’s score: 2
— Well done.
Random Trivia
Your score: 8
Monkey’s score: 3
— Good but not great.

Link: Take the Quiz at MonkeyQuiz.com

Weather Watching

I was in the living room on the laptop and Donna was in the back bedroom on the desktop went the first big thunder sounded. She shut off the desktop and said I think I’ll come in with you because there is a line of yellow, orange and red coming this way on radar.

When I shut off the laptop she suggested we go outside and watch the storm roll through. A quick side trip to the kitchen to toss a few strawberries and cool whip into some small bowls and we retired to the screen porch overlooking our backyard.

Ahh, summer in the south, fresh strawberries and nature’s light show…

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TDSHM

That Damn Super Hero Movie

Well it has happened again. As I mentioned the other day we have access to the Starz/Encore families of movie channels and as I feared, I have lost a major chunk of my life to watching a movie too many times. In the span of 36 hours I have seen most of “The Incredibles” three times.

In between all this movie watching I did manage to sneak in watching the FRS beat the Philles 5 to 3 on Saturday afternoon and most of the Bourne Supremacy today.

We actually got out of the house a couple times this weekend too. We took an early morning Miata drive of a couple hours on Saturday before the heat hit. We went out and did the weekly grocery shopping late yesterday afternoon after the heat subsided some. We beat the heat again this morning, but went out on the tandem for about 11 miles of neighborhood and local road cruising instead of Miataing.

Lucius: Honey?
Honey: What?
Lucius: Where’s my super suit?
Honey: What?
Lucius: Where – is – my – super – suit?

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That Was An Interesting Start

Yesterday was Donna’s 4th and final chemo session. I went with her for her first and was going to go to all them, but she rather I just drop her off, come get her afterwards and then spend the afternoon with her. This worked for sessions 2 and 3. It was a good plan because for the first two sessions she didn’t start to feel bad until later in the afternoon. We even went out to eat lunch together those 2 days. But during chemo number 3 she started to feel punkish part way through, so she asked if I’d come with her for the last one. To which I readily agreed.

We went out to eat breakfast at the New Moon as usual, she had a bagel and I got one of their giant muffins. We finish the paper and headed over to the cancer center. The first thing they before anything is take some blood and analyse it to see if it is good enough to be zapped down with the chemo drugs. Her numbers came in great, everything was in the normal range with even one a little high. The numbers might even have been better than the ones that were from before the first session. Donna settled in the recliner, I got comfy in a chair beside her and he nurse got the IV started. First up in the IV is saline to keep her hydrated and then they start an anti-nausea agent before they get to the real juice. Donna has always brought some light snacks to nibble on during the treatments and this morning she ate some watermelon pieces first thing.

Not two minutes after finishing the watermelon Donna reached for the trash can near the chair and threw it right back up. The nurse ran off to get some towels to clean up and I got her a wet paper towel to sooth her forehead. Just about the time we got everything settled back down, Donna grabbed the can again and Mr. bagel joined the watermelon. This, all the while she is getting the anti-nausea medicine in the IV! The nurse went off for a couple more towels and brought back the doctor. The doctor came in and said, “OK, you are not feeling good we’ll postpone the chemo until Monday or Tuesday.” Donna said, “NO WAY! I’m here let’s get the show on the road.” He said, “Maybe it is just nerves. If you want the chemo now, fine.” She said maybe it was nerves, but she really hadn’t been feeling well since Wednesday and now that she had thrown up she felt pretty good.

After that interesting start, things went smoothly for the rest of the session.

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Now We’re Even

A few weeks back Donna sent me out for a small Wendy’s Frosty. They cost 99 cents and with our local 6% sales tax my total was a buck five. I went through the drive up and I didn’t have the nickel, so I gave the cashier a dollar bill and a quarter. She handed me my Frosty and then gave me my 15 cents change. Buy the time I realized I had been cheated out of a nickel, it wasn’t worth going back inside to get it.

Tonight she wanted another Frosty. Back to the drive up I go. Cost was the same as before, $1.05, so I gave the cashier a dollar and then rummaged around in the center console looking for the 5 cents. After watching me struggle for a bit, she finally said, “I’ve a got a nickel, just go ahead.”

Now we’re even.

Back On The Digital Cable Bandwagon Again

It is coming up on July and that means it is time for a month of digital cable for the Bogardus household. July 1st is the first stage of the Tour de France and it is only available on OLN which is only on G Force digital. With the digital upgrade we get both the Encore and Starz movie channels for free and last year I got in trouble because TDPM was running about every other night and I spent way too much time in front of the TV.

This year there are a whole bunch of new channels on the digital spectrum. Just about anywhere else in the country the Horse Channel would be a freebie, but here in horse crazy Aiken you’ve got to pay extra for it. One new one that does look interesting is B-Mania, tomorrow in their Premiere Theater at 8:00AM is Life on Mars . 🙂

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Bye-Bye Vista

Kicked over an envelope that FedEx tucked between the screen door and the front door on my way out to get the newspaper this morning.

Tonight I reinstalled WindowsXP back on the laptop. I’m downloading and installing the 47 “critical” updates that Microsoft has issued since Service Pack 2.

Next I’ll be downloading trial versions of various Mahjong games in search of a nice replacement for the game that came with the Vista Beta.

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