Well now, it certainly didn't take long for fall to fall did it? I don't know what it's like where you are but here, for the past 2 days it's been nothing but overcast, rain, fog and cold. Now, we're not talking frigid, ice-cold, break out the sky jackets cold, but cold enough. This is more of a November cold and that ugly rainy cold that just sinks down into you deep and leaves you cold long after you've gone back inside.
Still, it's a welcome change from the sweltering heat and it's some much needed water for these parts. We had a dry summer and lost a lot of evergreen trees because of it. Around the apartment complex you can see the big, bare patches where one of the trees failed to make it through the summer and had to be dug out. Maybe they should have run the sprinklers a little more often.
As I mentioned before, CC is out of town until Thursday. Be glad to get her back, that's for sure. Apart from the obvious reasons, there's all the little reasons too, like all the little things she does that I now have to do. No, the apartment isn't falling apart and there aren't any huge piles of garbage hidden anywhere. And for that matter, the bugs haven't taken over the place either. I can manage to keep things going on my own, it just takes a whole lot more work, that's all.
CC and I are on a big Hot Fuzz kick at the moment. Hot Fuzz is a British movie about a cop from London who gets sent out to the country because, well because he's too good and he's making the other cops look bad. It's a comedy by the guys who did Sean of the Dead a few years back. Great stuff. If you get a chance, check them both out. They're on DVD.Anyway, while I was out wandering yesterday I came across some t-shirts. They didn't have our size so I ordered them online. Then CC found some BETTER t-shirts so I canceled my order and got the ones that she found. We also bid on a few things at eBay including a movie poster and some books.
Mostly this happened because I suggested, last week, that she show the movie to her brother. We figured given his sense of humor he'd really love it and we were right. So while our Hot Fuzz fixation was probably leveling off and sliding back down when CC left for Manila, it got kicked right back up again when she showed it to her brother.
We start the World Series tonight! The Sox and the Rockies. Should be a good series. Or not. Never can tell with the World Series. These guys only played each other a few times during the regular season, not nearly enough to predict how THIS series is going to go. Yes, sports writers will try to convince you that one team will win over the other but they're just guessing. Fortunately for them they've got a 50/50 chance of being right and even if it's CLOSE at the end, they'll look reasonably smart. I'm cheering for the Sox.Can you believe basketball and hockey are starting up already? The newspaper here is filled with stories about the Memphis Grizzlies and how they're not going to suck NEARLY as much as they sucked last year. Yeah right. I look over the roster and all I can see is one massive amount of suckiness. Looks like they tried to build a team on the cheap and you know how that always turns out. If you're not going to pay for decent talent, you're going to get your butt whipped, which will probably happen again for them this year. Normally I wouldn't mind this sort of thing but in Memphis, if a local sports team sucks, that's all they talk about in the newspaper and on TV. When will the team not suck so much?
Guess that's just another sign of fall. Have to take the bad with the good :-)
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