On Sunday we leave for a week of vacation. I’m not sure how much posting will occur while we’re gone. After all, I have tons of books to read and I have to ride my bike and get all comatose on the sand and whip the better-half’s butt in Yahtzee and, in general, eat, drink and be merry.
On the road today, I saw a big ol’ white Buick with the license plate “1 Pequod”. I started laughing. I’m not sure if the old man driving the big ol’ Buick saw me laughing, but I hope he did and knew I appreciated his sense of humor.
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I’m excited to report that the Bravo channel is airing the Olympics. Of course, many of you probably already knew that. But, since I’m unable to watch any local channels I’m quite happy to have found a way to watch the games.
I don’t know why this is but table tennis and badminton are very exciting, aren’t they? I like the fact that a game I’ve played before is an Olympic sport. And, I like knowing that there are rules to badminton. I always thought the point was to hit the shuttlecock as hard as possible so as to dominate and scare your sister.
Speaking of Bad, how cool is it that Ian Thorpe is called “Thorpedo” and he wears that black suit?
I’ve been using MusicMatch Jukebox 8.2 and have actually paid money for it. I have liked it just fine and dandy but now I’m annoyed. I’ve declined upgrading to version 9.0 a dozen times and can’t get the software to quit asking me to upgrade. I’m not paying another $20 bucks to listen to music on my machine at work. So, beginning today, I’m migrating all my playlists back over to Windows Media Player. I’ll continue to purchase music through MusicMatch until they annoy the ever-living out of me with regards to doing that and then I’ll find another service.
Yes, I’ve checked the leave me alone box. I’m also annoyed that it hogs the foreground when I have it open. Maybe that’s why there’s a new upgrade. I say fix the bug but don’t charge me again unless there’s something really nifty.
By Jove, there’s sunlight and blue skies outside my window. What a strange place I’ve found myself in this day.
This afternoon the better-half and I went through boxes of his stuff from the time we cleaned out his mother’s attic. We found an old Lite-Brite (you can see it at night).
After dinner I laid on the floor and created something marvelous…
Charley has dumped 1 1/2″ of water since 11am (when I put a bucket outside). The bulk of the storm will be out of here by midnight. We’re super lucky to have missed the damaging winds.
I really feel for all those people in Florida who weren’t so lucky.
My sister and her husband weathered the hurricane pretty well. Since the storm twisted they ended up seeing more action than planned (they live nearish Orlando).
The storm is headed up the coast. We’re getting rain now, but tonight will be the interesting part for us. We learned several important lessons last year and the first one being don’t get caught unprepared. The car is already in the garage. We’re headed over to the MIL to get furniture off her deck and then we’re getting a new chain for the chain saw.
I now have more to whine about. The company that hosts our DNS is undergoing a distributed denial of service attack. If you can read this, then the attack is over. Much rejoycing will ensue because my email will be back. Oh how I miss my email.
Goodbye Julia Child and thanks for all the food. Our copy of “Mastering the Art of French Cooking” has been used plenty of times. Thanks for making it so easy to do great things in the kitchen.
