Rants

Christmas In November

On this morning’s errands I tired of constant classical music from my MP# player, so I ventured onto the radio dial. One of the local stations was having a continuous Christmas music weekend. There are almost 3 weeks until Thanksgiving already! It was only a matter of time I suppose, we are now used to seeing Christmas merchandise make limited appearances on store shelves along side the Halloween decorations. There is already a “holiday movie” playing at theaters near you, Elf.

Making matters worse is that today I compiled and burned a Christmas Music CD for a swap…

Weeklong Day

Let us tell today’s story by recapping all the posts this week so far by making some corrections and/or observations.

Friday, November 07, 2003 – Lunchtime Fun
At lunch today Bob Smyth was the last person to get his salad delivered to the table. This led to him recounting a meal out with friends in the past where he never actually got his meal. This led to, you guessed it, he didn’t get his hamburger today.

Thursday, November 06, 2003 – Hey That’s Wet
The interior of the car got soaked today. Read about it here and then come back.

Wednesday, November 05, 2003 – OCM Phobia
While watching the Weather Channel to get the forecast for today I realized that I was wrong about the name of the On-Camera Meterologist. It is Hillary Andrews not Alexandra Steele. Hillary is so new she doesn’t have a bio page over on their site yet, so I can’t link a picture. While watching Hillary do the forecast for the northeast Donna came in and changed the channel to a local station saying that their weather would be more accurate.

Tuesday, November 04, 2003 – Maybe I Need To Write This One First
True to form, I wrote the Diaries story first tonight and now I’m resorting to this cheap trick to generate a post.

Monday, November 03, 2003 – This May Be It
There was a TV in Salsa’s, our lunchtime restaurant, today. To be fair it was aimed at the bar and not the regular seating area.

Lunchtime Fun

I haven’t ranted about Popeye’s for a while (almost 2 years) so either I have gotten used to the crappy service or I’ve stop going and just don’t remember. Today we went for lunch there and there were only two people in front of us. Didn’t think it would take too long, but boy was I wrong. Customer #1 finished up in a jiffy, but No.2 was a little old lady. She couldn’t hear to well and probably wished for a translator as the counter person spoke mostly blacklish. If I hadn’t lived in the south so long, I would probably also had trouble understanding her. After waiting on those two people, the counter person went over to help dish out food. Donna and I stood at the register for the next 5 minutes watching her fill orders for these people and the drive-up ones too. All the while she never looked back to even acknowledge us. Finally we just turned and left. I guess maybe she was waiting for a longer line to form so as to make it worth her while to come over there.

We went up the street a hundred yards to Burger King. tired of getting burgers that have been sitting in the rack too long, we have a plan. When we order we always tell them to hold the mayo, this ensures that we get a freshly made sandwich. It has worked pretty good up until today. The sandwich was freshly made, but it was made with a patty that had been sitting around, it was just barely hot enough. Not only that, along with holding the mayo they skimped on the catsup making for a very dry meal. The only thing that remotely saved our lunch was that we had to wait a bit and got fries right out of the bubbling hot oil – mmmm.

Hey That’s Wet

Tonight was the Master’s Miata Club meeting. It was unusually warm for a November evening and we had the top down and comfortable is just T-shirts. We were inside Vinny’s Pizzeria for about an hour and a half and when we came back out, condensation had formed all over the interior of the car. Fortunately I keep some paper towels in the trunk, so we could dry off the seats before plopping back down in them.

OCM Phobia

I can’t prove it, but I think Donna feels threatened by Alexandra Steele. She is an On-Camera Meterologist at he Weather Channel and seems relatively new. I think she is on mostly weekends, but has occasionally showed up in the mornings. Whenever Alexandra Steele comes on Donna picks that time to change the channel. I know it might be coincidence, but my Man’s Intuition tells me otherwise.

While Alexandra is an attractive woman, Donna has nothing to fear from her. Now, Kristina Abernathy or Sharon Resultan, that’s a different story.

This May Be It

This may be the rant I’ve had fluttering around inside my head for the last few days. I could have sworn I used it before, but a search of my site reveals nothing like it. I may have actually verbally ranted to someone and that is why it seems familiar.

I don’t need a TV to eat my meal. Really. I must be in the minority though, as it seems like every restaurant I have eaten in, in the last month has had multiple boob tubes hanging all around. Outback, Tony Roma’s and Krystal to name some chains. Vinny’s Pizzeria, Ferrando’s Italian Restaurant and Acropolis to name some local places. The only places I’ve been that didn’t have any were Burger King and Popeye’s. Can they be far behind?

Two Words

Average Joe

I can understand good looking shallow people falling for this Reality TV chance at stardom/love/money ploy, but now they’ve gone too far, the corruption of “normal” looking people. God save the human race.