Blogging Avoidance

47,001 Reasons

I have a lot of reasons as to why I haven’t written anything real here, the Monday car posts don’t really count, in almost 2 weeks.

Fourteen of those reasons are I decided to rewatch, for possibly the 4th or 5th time, that 20-year old short-lived space western, Firefly.

A quartet of those reasons is I discovered The Brokenwood Mysteries. There are 8 seasons with a total of 36 episodes, but only 4 are available on Prime Video. Like a lot of mystery shows that tickle my fancy, this is one also has a quirky detective whose personality is mirrored in their car. Like Columbo with his old Peugeot 403 convertible and DCI Vera Stanhope with her Land-Rover Defender 90 Tdi. In this show, set in New Zealand, Senior Detective Inspector Mike Shepherd drives a 1971 Holden Kingswood. Come to think of it, all three of them come from the “almost leaving, but before going, turn around and ask another question” school of detectiving.

But, most of those reasons are because nothing exciting has happened to write about, until this morning. When I got in the Mini to run to the store the odometer read 47001.

Run Aground

Up until a couple of days ago I have posted here for nearly a month straight (almost as prolific as I was back in the early days), but now I have missed 2 of the last 4 days. I blame it on the fact that now we have sort of settled down into a routine. Eat 3 meals, mostly here in the AirBnB, check our mail at our new PO Box, go to the Y, and visit Fred Meyers every other day, just like we visited Kroger’s back in Aiken.

The rest of the time is spent binge watch TV shows from Netflix’s Geriatric Section. So far we have watched all 16 episodes of 2 season’s worth of The Kominsky Method with Michael Douglas (75-years old) and Alan Arkin (85). Also, we are in the middle of the 3rd season of Grace and Frankie which is exactly halfway through their 6 season, 68 episode, run so far. This stars Jane Fonda (81), Lilly Tomlin (80), Sam Watterson (79) and Martin Sheen (79).

Hey, Where Ya Been?

I’ve been here, just one part busy, one part watching TV and one part not feeling like writing anything.

Turns out I wasn’t the savior the Red Sox needed. I watched half a game on ESPN then listened to the other half a game and they lost. I listened to a game and they won. I didn’t listen to two games and they won one and lost the other. Since the last time I posted they have played .500 ball, which if that trend continues probably won’t get them in the playoffs, but it may keep them from finishing last.

I have been re-watching some of my favorite Marvel Cinematic Universe flicks. Not because I’m anxiously awaiting the next Avengers movie, but more because everyone is talking about them. There are a ton of lists online how to watch all of them in order to prepare yourself to watch Avengers: Endgame. There are 21 movies released so far and I was surprised to realize that I had copies of more than half of them. Growing up I was a fan of both the Iron Man and Captain America comic books, so I have the movies with those guys in the titles. I was a casual Thor reader too, so I have those three flicks. The first Ant Man movies struck the right cord with me, so I got the second one too. Never knew of the Guardians of the Galaxy but the first movie was fun, so I picked up the second one as well. I haven’t re-watched it yet and I may not because if I recall correctly I didn’t like it as much as the first. But then again, I am a sucker for origin stories and so far I have liked the first movie of the hero’s series more than any of the followups.

Not just watching movies either. I went back and re-binge watched Season 1 of Killing Eve because Season 2 started last Sunday night and I wanted to remember what went on. I also re-binge watched Season 1 of Fleabag because Season 2 is coming to America soon.

Add on top of that, Donna and I spent nearly 32 hours over 4 days this past weekend sitting on the screened porch watching golf on TV. Neither one of us golfs and we don’t watch it any other time of the year, but, because we have actually trod the hallowed grounds of Augusta National, every year for the first week of April we become fans and watch The Masters. Thank heaven for masters.com where you can watch practically the whole tournament commercial free. You just need to select “featured groups” and they follow 2 groups over the whole 18 holes and when they finish you get 2 more groupings.

We also managed to sneak in a couple of short Moss Motoring Challenge trips locally. We snagged 5 on Saturday morning and 3 yesterday afternoon.

Keep It Simple Stupid

I’ve been really having a hard time blogging. There has been plenty of stuff to write about, but I open up a browser check a few websites and then login here to write…and stop. When I verbalized this to my wife yesterday she said, “Why don’t you post a picture and just one sentence?” Well I already try the one picture thing with Instagram, so maybe I need to just write a simple line or two each day to get the ball rolling again. After all that is how this whole thing started, below is post number #1 of The Miata Diaries, the predecessor to Life of Brian.

Happy 2002

Tuesday, January 1, 2002

New Year’s Day. Cold, maybe mid forties. The Miata sits in the garage all day. The farthest I venture is around the block on rollerblades. Donna goes to the store, but uses the MSV.

Tagged: Miatatude

Treading Water


Having a mild case of Seasonal Affective Disorder, just haven’t felt like blogging recently…

In Russia, Photo Manipulates YOU Redux

To commemorate the tenth anniversary of my discovering a website called PhotoFunia and my glee of finding it still up and running here you go: