Rants

Just wasn’t into blogging last night and tonight is not much better.

4th listening of Dido’s new CD, it is definitely growing on me.

The pictures from last Theme Thursday’s challenge of “Picture Yourself” are up on the Picture Yourself site. This is my 3rd entry over there.

I haven’t scanned any new images in the last two nights. I have been busy cobbling together the November issue of The Driver. (The link is for last month’s, this month’s won’t be up until later this weekend, as I won’t mail them until tomorrow.)

Found this over at missives anonymous, another blog I read regularly – the Postal Gallery Database. I’m not sure what is more pathetic, somebody actually came up with idea/web venture or that I am definitely going to contribute. 🙂

Coincidentally there is a link on the bottom of the Postal Gallery page for another internet lost cause that I have contributed to No More AOL CDs. (The link is for nomreaolcdsnj.com, but wasn’t working when I clicked it.) I used to be on the Biggest Contributor list when I sent them 88 CD last year, but as you can see I’ve dropped of the radar screen. I’ve got about 10 more at work to send now….

For the first time in ages, I actually plunked down money on a CD. “Life for rent” by Dido. Loved every minute of her first CD and from what I had read review-wise this sounded like it would be better. After 2 listens, I’m not sure.

Is there a limit to the amount of man with completely bald heads in a population group? say 1 per 300. I mean the kind that are going bald in spots and decide to shave the whole dome.

Willie, for the longest time, was the one individual that had a shaved head at work. About two months ago Sherman decided to go the smooth pate way. Willie is African-American and Sherman is Caucasian, Willie is 30 and Sherman is 60, Willie works in die casting and Sherman works in shipping (which are on opposite sides of the plant) so they probably have little contact with each other, but with in a week Willie started to let his hair grow on the top and for good measure he started a beard. About a month ago, Andrew white, 40’s, engineer shaved it all off. He never kept it up and let his ring of hair return.

We went out this evening and got a scoop of ice cream and took a stroll around downtown Aiken. We past by a small women’s clothing boutique and there in the window were some bright red and green bra/panty sets next to a sign that proclaimed Holiday Lingerie. The red ones were crotchless! Santa has been a very good boy this year.

We usually buy the cheapest no name brand clothes soap we can. This week because of a store special and a coupon we picked up some Wisk with Stain Dissolving Power. Tonight when I poured some into the cap for dispensing I swear it smelled like some kind of whiskey.

My buddy the service manager at Rader did call yesterday and told me they would get the check out to me that day – I’m not holding my breath.

The Cowboy Up T-shirts were on backorder – so I cancelled it. Maybe I’ll get one for next spring….

New toy arrived via UPS today, a Minolta Diamage Scan Dual III. Dragged out the boxes of slides that have been in the back of the closet since the early 80’s, so now the “fun” begins. I figure I have about 1,200 of them. They don’t look too bad until you scan them to 3300 x 2500, then there is all kinds of junk on them. I guess a brush is in order. I think I’ll also need a small light table too, kind of tough to sort through 40 slides while holding them in one hand and holding one at a time up to a desk lamp.

Like a digital Johnny Appleseed I continue to leave lit bits of myself all over the Internet.

When I posted this photo for a Theme Thursday entry last month, one of the comments was from David at 1,000 Words asking if I’d write more about it. A couple of weeks later I finally did, here is the entry: What is it about the beach that draws us?

Today was an Indian Summer-like day here in western SC, near 80, but breezy. The low-level winds were feathering the edges of the white clouds with a bright blue sky for a background. At our lunchtime walk around the parking lot I brought the camera and snapped a half dozen images. I submitted them to the Enchanted Ceiling web site, both were accepted and you can see ’em here and here.