Currently Reading: Roadwork by Stephen King
Well, it's been a VERY slow weekend, as the title says. It's been SO slow in fact that I really don't have much of an opinion on anything at the moment. I'm sort of just floating along, enjoying the scenery as it goes by.
Saturday night we went over to my parents' church for their annual A Night On Broadway show. There were some heavy laughs this year, including one very appropriate Elvis appearance.
Other than that, nothing of note has happened really. Oh, sure I could type and type about every little detail but you'd just get bored and move on to another blog so I'll keep it short for a change.
One last thing, it's DAMN hot out there. You been outside lately? It just hits you right as you walk out the door. No exaggeration here, I work up a sweat just walking down the stairs to the truck. That's how hot it is out there.
Hmm, maybe that's why the weekend was so slow. No one had the energy to do anything worth mentioning :-)
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Sunday, August 21, 2005
Wednesday, August 17, 2005
August Still Sucks
Currently Reading: Dunno yet. Something by Stephen King
I think I've mentioned before how August sucks. Here are a few more reasons . . .
Dead Elvis Day. Yes, it's true, here in Memphis folks celebrate Dead Elvis Day. This is the day when, back in 1977, Elvis died. Yee Hah, watch me celebrate.
It's actually a very big deal. Dead Elvis Day comes in the middle of Dead Elvis Week, which studies the life and death of Dead Elvis. The newspaper has recipies that Dead Elvis liked. It often has fashion stories on the clothes that Dead Elvis wore. And at some point you can always expect a sort of, "What would Dead Elvis think?" story.
You'll note, that this celebration is about DEAD Elvis, that is, the Elvis burried at the Dead Elvis Shrine (Graceland). This day is NOT for all those ALIVE Elvi who get caught on tape pumping gas in some rural town in the middle of nowhere. THOSE Elvi don't get to be a part of Dead Elvis Day until they die :-)
Also about this time every year we talk about the final days of WWII. Mostly this means talking about the Japanese and what they did during the war vs what WE did to finish the war. And every year someone from one side or another gets up and starts appologizing or demanding an appology for what happened 60 years ago.
I look at it this way. The Japanese Imperial Army/Navy did some pretty bad things. No doubt about it. What they did in China, Korea, The Philippines, etc., was just plain horrible. It's the kind of things that only happen during a war, at least on that scale.
WE, the US of A, blew up two cities using atomic weapons. That's something they had to deal with for MANY years afterwards, lots of radiation and cancer and so forth. Very brutal. Damn shame we had to do it but we probably ended up saving more lives by doing it that way.
So, on the one hand, brutal army stuff. On the other hand, leveled two cities with atomic bombs. Seems to me we're about even. Time to let it go. No more appologies are needed at this point.
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I think I've mentioned before how August sucks. Here are a few more reasons . . .
Dead Elvis Day. Yes, it's true, here in Memphis folks celebrate Dead Elvis Day. This is the day when, back in 1977, Elvis died. Yee Hah, watch me celebrate.
It's actually a very big deal. Dead Elvis Day comes in the middle of Dead Elvis Week, which studies the life and death of Dead Elvis. The newspaper has recipies that Dead Elvis liked. It often has fashion stories on the clothes that Dead Elvis wore. And at some point you can always expect a sort of, "What would Dead Elvis think?" story.
You'll note, that this celebration is about DEAD Elvis, that is, the Elvis burried at the Dead Elvis Shrine (Graceland). This day is NOT for all those ALIVE Elvi who get caught on tape pumping gas in some rural town in the middle of nowhere. THOSE Elvi don't get to be a part of Dead Elvis Day until they die :-)
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Also about this time every year we talk about the final days of WWII. Mostly this means talking about the Japanese and what they did during the war vs what WE did to finish the war. And every year someone from one side or another gets up and starts appologizing or demanding an appology for what happened 60 years ago.
I look at it this way. The Japanese Imperial Army/Navy did some pretty bad things. No doubt about it. What they did in China, Korea, The Philippines, etc., was just plain horrible. It's the kind of things that only happen during a war, at least on that scale.
WE, the US of A, blew up two cities using atomic weapons. That's something they had to deal with for MANY years afterwards, lots of radiation and cancer and so forth. Very brutal. Damn shame we had to do it but we probably ended up saving more lives by doing it that way.
So, on the one hand, brutal army stuff. On the other hand, leveled two cities with atomic bombs. Seems to me we're about even. Time to let it go. No more appologies are needed at this point.
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Monday, August 15, 2005
Random Rants and Musings
Currently Reading: Bitten by Kelley Armstrong
Tonight's football game between the Eagles and Steelers. I've heard quite a bit about it from the online articles. They like to talk about how this is the "Super Bowl that could have been." That's a nice way of putting it. Me, I'd rather call it, "the game between two teams that got their asses beat by New England last season." Or perhaps you could call it, "CHOKE Bowl". Either one works for me :-)
And what's the deal with T.O.? He's a receiver for the Eagles. Yes, the guy is talented, I'll give you that, but DAMN he just got a contract last season that pays him more money than most of us would see in SEVERAL lifetimes and now he's complaining and wants a new contract, more money, or trade him. Hell if it were me I'd sit his ass out the whole season, don't pay him one dime, maybe even sue him for breach of contract, then cut him loose as a trouble-maker. There are already enough over-inflated egos in the NFL, we really don't need another one.
August sucks. Too damn hot and humid. We need to think about getting central air for the entire southern half of the US. I mean OUTDOOR central air. I REALLY hate it when I start sweating just walking down the stairs to the truck.
Why do we hate the French? Here's yet another example. They're crowding the beaches now, while on their one month vacations, and are complaining about how the temperatures have SOARED all the way up to 86 degrees. Hell it was at least that hot in the apartment yesterday.
This business with adware and spyware really is annoying the hell out of me. CC and I had to make another rescue call yesterday to my parents. They'd picked up another one of those "adware scanners". I mean the bogus ones not the real ones. It's the adware scanner type that pretends it's actually doing it's job but really it's just screwing up everything and clogging up your machine. Makes you want to find the people who write these programs and string em up by their toes. Then, just for fun, find the people who actually install these programs in pop-up windows on their site and have them stand UNDER the programmers so that anything that leaks out of the programmer falls directly onto the distributor. That's fair right?
My wife is a pretty damn good cook, for those of you who didn't know. Sunday she started off by making this really great apple dessert thing. It was sort of like an apple pizza which used pie crust for the crust, apples and spices for the topping. Tasted great. It's mostly gone already.
Then for dinner we had these really great ribs. They were marinated in plum sauce and a whole mess of Chinese spices. Damn good stuff there.
Saturday, farmer's market, 8 am. We were walking around a bit and I ask CC what she was hoping to buy that morning. She says she's looking for plums. I tell her, straight face, I'm out here at 8 am on a Saturday. We're getting more than just plums :-)
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Tonight's football game between the Eagles and Steelers. I've heard quite a bit about it from the online articles. They like to talk about how this is the "Super Bowl that could have been." That's a nice way of putting it. Me, I'd rather call it, "the game between two teams that got their asses beat by New England last season." Or perhaps you could call it, "CHOKE Bowl". Either one works for me :-)
And what's the deal with T.O.? He's a receiver for the Eagles. Yes, the guy is talented, I'll give you that, but DAMN he just got a contract last season that pays him more money than most of us would see in SEVERAL lifetimes and now he's complaining and wants a new contract, more money, or trade him. Hell if it were me I'd sit his ass out the whole season, don't pay him one dime, maybe even sue him for breach of contract, then cut him loose as a trouble-maker. There are already enough over-inflated egos in the NFL, we really don't need another one.
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August sucks. Too damn hot and humid. We need to think about getting central air for the entire southern half of the US. I mean OUTDOOR central air. I REALLY hate it when I start sweating just walking down the stairs to the truck.
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Why do we hate the French? Here's yet another example. They're crowding the beaches now, while on their one month vacations, and are complaining about how the temperatures have SOARED all the way up to 86 degrees. Hell it was at least that hot in the apartment yesterday.
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This business with adware and spyware really is annoying the hell out of me. CC and I had to make another rescue call yesterday to my parents. They'd picked up another one of those "adware scanners". I mean the bogus ones not the real ones. It's the adware scanner type that pretends it's actually doing it's job but really it's just screwing up everything and clogging up your machine. Makes you want to find the people who write these programs and string em up by their toes. Then, just for fun, find the people who actually install these programs in pop-up windows on their site and have them stand UNDER the programmers so that anything that leaks out of the programmer falls directly onto the distributor. That's fair right?
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My wife is a pretty damn good cook, for those of you who didn't know. Sunday she started off by making this really great apple dessert thing. It was sort of like an apple pizza which used pie crust for the crust, apples and spices for the topping. Tasted great. It's mostly gone already.
Then for dinner we had these really great ribs. They were marinated in plum sauce and a whole mess of Chinese spices. Damn good stuff there.
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Saturday, farmer's market, 8 am. We were walking around a bit and I ask CC what she was hoping to buy that morning. She says she's looking for plums. I tell her, straight face, I'm out here at 8 am on a Saturday. We're getting more than just plums :-)
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Friday, August 12, 2005
Nearing Summer's End
Currently Reading: Mars by Ben Bova
So, here we are, fast approaching mid-August and I'm still waiting for the really great summer movies we were promised. Something tells me I may end up waiting until NEXT summer. I'm not going to hold my breath.
That reminds me, the newest must-see shows will be arriving on network TV in a few weeks. Unfortunately there's a problem there too. There isn't much that really stands out and makes me want to rush over to watch. Yes, it'll be nice to have fresh episodes of House and CSI. And who knows, maybe some of these new shows that look entirely predictable will actually offer a few surprises. No one expected Medium over on NBC to be anything other than a Profiler clone and yet it was actually very entertaining.
I do have one hope. It's a bit of a combo hope though. No more Law & Order shows, no more CSI shows. We're going to end up scraping the bottom of the barrel pretty soon at this rate. Ok, we have CSI in Las Vegas. Great idea setting it in Sin City as it were. And then CSI: Miami. Good enough reason to show women in bikinis. Ok, works for me too. The next step? CSI: New York? Yes, another cop show set in NYC. Just what we need. Honestly, it takes out of CSI everything you thought was original and that set it apart from the other cop shows.
How about, instead of NYC, CSI: Seattle? CSI: Portland? No, wait, those might end up a little too much like Twin Peaks. Then again, would that really be such a bad thing? Or, hey just for fun, go to the anti-Vegas cities. CSI: Fargo! Or maybe more ethnic, CSI: El Paso! CSI: Memphis! CSI: Detroit! CSI: San Francisco! That last one could be interesting as they try and deal with the overwhelming politically correct rules of Bay City life. Imagine Grissom trying to get something as basic as the gender of the victim only to run into someone who isn't big on assigning gender roles. Or even better, they can have trans-gender suspects and victims.
As for the Law & Order group, what's next? Will they start branching out too? Should we expect Law & Order: Long Island! or Law & Order: Queens! Then again, maybe they'll branch out further than that. Law & Order: Jersey! Law & Order: Buffalo!
Ok, get the point? Too bad TV executives don't read my blog. Might save them a whole lot of money.
Where are the books that were due out this summer? I'm still waiting on them. One in particular is the third book in the Ring series. You remember The Ring don't you? Dead girl in the well, video tape brings her back. The third book was supposed to be translated and published this summer. I'm still waiting, wondering just where the author was planning to take the story. If you haven't read the book, and you like horror, it's worth a look. The dead girl isn't nearly as psycho as in the movies which makes things a whole lot more interesting.
Guess I keep waiting.
Hey, it's the weekend! Been waiting forever for it to get here! No, actually just been waiting 5 days but it sure SEEMS like forever. Lots of shopping head of us this weekend though mostly it's for house stuff. We're running out of damn near everything in the kitchen. So natrually once we've finished shopping CC and I will look at each other and say, "there's nothing to eat in here."
Same as always :-)
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So, here we are, fast approaching mid-August and I'm still waiting for the really great summer movies we were promised. Something tells me I may end up waiting until NEXT summer. I'm not going to hold my breath.
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That reminds me, the newest must-see shows will be arriving on network TV in a few weeks. Unfortunately there's a problem there too. There isn't much that really stands out and makes me want to rush over to watch. Yes, it'll be nice to have fresh episodes of House and CSI. And who knows, maybe some of these new shows that look entirely predictable will actually offer a few surprises. No one expected Medium over on NBC to be anything other than a Profiler clone and yet it was actually very entertaining.
I do have one hope. It's a bit of a combo hope though. No more Law & Order shows, no more CSI shows. We're going to end up scraping the bottom of the barrel pretty soon at this rate. Ok, we have CSI in Las Vegas. Great idea setting it in Sin City as it were. And then CSI: Miami. Good enough reason to show women in bikinis. Ok, works for me too. The next step? CSI: New York?
How about, instead of NYC, CSI: Seattle? CSI: Portland? No, wait, those might end up a little too much like Twin Peaks. Then again, would that really be such a bad thing? Or, hey just for fun, go to the anti-Vegas cities. CSI: Fargo! Or maybe more ethnic, CSI: El Paso! CSI: Memphis! CSI: Detroit! CSI: San Francisco! That last one could be interesting as they try and deal with the overwhelming politically correct rules of Bay City life. Imagine Grissom trying to get something as basic as the gender of the victim only to run into someone who isn't big on assigning gender roles. Or even better, they can have trans-gender suspects and victims.
As for the Law & Order group, what's next? Will they start branching out too? Should we expect Law & Order: Long Island! or Law & Order: Queens! Then again, maybe they'll branch out further than that. Law & Order: Jersey! Law & Order: Buffalo!
Ok, get the point? Too bad TV executives don't read my blog. Might save them a whole lot of money.
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Where are the books that were due out this summer? I'm still waiting on them. One in particular is the third book in the Ring series. You remember The Ring don't you? Dead girl in the well, video tape brings her back. The third book was supposed to be translated and published this summer. I'm still waiting, wondering just where the author was planning to take the story. If you haven't read the book, and you like horror, it's worth a look. The dead girl isn't nearly as psycho as in the movies which makes things a whole lot more interesting.
Guess I keep waiting.
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Hey, it's the weekend! Been waiting forever for it to get here! No, actually just been waiting 5 days but it sure SEEMS like forever. Lots of shopping head of us this weekend though mostly it's for house stuff. We're running out of damn near everything in the kitchen. So natrually once we've finished shopping CC and I will look at each other and say, "there's nothing to eat in here."
Same as always :-)
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Wednesday, August 10, 2005
Followup
Currently Reading: Mars by Ben Bova
The dogs are now clean. The bathroom, however, is VERY dirty.
And no more thumping from downstairs.
God in his heaven, all's right with the world :-)
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The dogs are now clean. The bathroom, however, is VERY dirty.
And no more thumping from downstairs.
God in his heaven, all's right with the world :-)
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