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How the Mighty Have Fallen

Mickey D'sLadies and Gentlemen, Bob Dylan is playing in Lake Olmstead Stadium right now. Yep, the real Bob Dylan is playing tonight in a Class “A” Minor League Baseball Stadium in Augusta, GA. But he hasn’t fallen far enough for me, maybe I’d pay an Andrew Jackson, but they want 48.50 for a ticket. I never was much of a Dylan fan, the only CD of his I own is “Blood on the Tracks.” I’d probably be more interested in hearing one of his opening acts, Junior Brown. I love his Surf Medley…

Washed the Miata this evening in preparation for Saturday’s Bug Splat Rally. Didn’t get done until it was too dark to take a photo of the shiny car, but I did manage to take a picture in the McDonald’s parking lot where we went for one of those fabulous $1 sundaes.

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Bloody Pirates

The DescentThe image you see here is from the opening credits of the movie The Descent which finished last weekend 8th on the box office money list taking in $4.62 million. It didn’t get any help from me because I have a copy of the DVD in the laptop right now. I may or may not finish watching it, I just shut it off about halfway thru after one of the women spelunkers fell down a hole and suffered a compound leg fracture. Last night Donna and I watched a slightly muddy copy of The Break-Up with Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston. I don’t think this movie is still in theaters, but you can’t rent it yet. These movies were borrowed from someone at work who bought them at a local flea market.

Matter of fact a co-worker (Hi, Mark!) said his son bought Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest the Saturday after the movie was released in theaters. Bloody pirates.

Jack Sparrow: The only rules that really matter are these: what a man can do and what a man can’t do. For instance, you can accept that your father was a pirate and a good man or you can’t. But pirate is in your blood, boy, so you’ll have to square with that some day. And me, for example, I can let you drown, but I can’t bring this ship into Tortuga all by me onesies, savvy? So, can you sail under the command of a pirate, or can you not?

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Back To School

Goody'sToday was the first day back to school for the kiddies here in Aiken County. I hate this time of year. Not just because of the psychological damage done by having to go Back-To-School clothes shopping with my mom as a wee lad either. It is mostly because of the increased traffic on the roads to and from work. Blurry eyed moms delivering their kids to school in the morning frighten me (with good reason) and the harried parents picking them up after school are no picnic either.

Went out late this evening to do a little shopping, Donna needed some new slippers, I needed some bananas for breakfast and we both needed a chocolate shake from Brusters.

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The Wedding Photographers

The Wedding PhotographersIt rained. A lot. It rained hard from early morning ’til midday, cancelling our plans for walking or rollerblading.

It didn’t cancel plans for the MMC’s Pool Party. Mainly because the food was already bought and side dishes were already made and lucky for us the people who have the pool also have a house where we could eat said food. The rain finally quit, but the unseasonal cool temperatures kept all but 3 out of the pool. Most stayed on the porch playing Scrabble or just yakking away.

This evening’s wedding of a co-worker was indoors so it didn’t matter whether it was still raining, but it wasn’t. After overeating grilled hot dogs, hamburgers and desserts at lunch, the thought of another food extravaganza quite literally turned our stomachs, so we skipped the reception and went to Chick-Fil-A for dinner. As luck would have it we saw a couple people we knew in the restaurant and when they asked about our natty attire, we replied, “We always dress up on Saturday night and go out to Chick-Fil-A for dinner.”

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Margarita Shrimp Kabobs

Applebee'sSo, the four of us went to lunch at Applebee’s today. Adam, the guest of “honor,” ordered the Honey BBQ Chicken Sandwich with fries, Bob ordered the Zesty Ranch Chicken Sandwich with fries, Les ordered the 100% Angus Bacon Cheeseburger with fries and I ordered the Margarita Shrimp Kabobs over rice with broccoli.

When my wife asked me what we had for lunch I said, “They all had burgers & fries and I got shrimp & broccoli.” She replied, “So who’s the gay one of that bunch.” Ouch.

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Tunnel of Heat

Shift TurretThe 2 rubber shifter boots for the Emperor came on a big brown truck today. I was going to wait until Saturday, but I just couldn’t stand it. It only took 45 minutes to do the swap. Now we’ll see how well it knocks down the heat near the center console.

Tomorrow is Friday and it is summer helper Adam’s last day. As is usual we (me, the boss and the boss’s boss) will take him out to lunch, we’ll probably head over to the local Applebee’s. Any excuse to eat on the boss’s boss’s American Express card. I hope come Monday I’ll be able to stand the quiet. 🙂

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Exit Only. Do Not Enter.

Exit OnlyWell, it worked, I’m going to blog about it. Augment the buzz if you will.

Watching the evening news Monday night I caught a bit of a story about NBC’s new show for fall, Studio 60 from West Wing producer Alan Sorkin. Part of building some pre-release hype they have decided to make DVDs of the pilot episode and you can rent them on Netflix. The interweb was all excited a week ago because somehow the pilot in 5 parts had mysteriously appeared on YouTube. It seems that just in time for the Netflix release, they were pulled for copyright infringement. Aaaah, marketing.

Anyway, on to the show. Typical Sorkin stuff; smart, witty and overlapping dialog. But for some reason it just didn’t connect, and maybe this is just me, but it seems like I’ve seen this all before. And maybe I have. Take one part West Wing and one part Sportsnight, stir gently…

It’ll be on Monday’s at 10:00 PM starting in September and as much as I would like to watch, I probably won’t. If anything, maybe I’ll rent the DVD’s next fall, ALA my current watching of “Lost.”

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