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The Iceman Cometh Part Deaux

As I blog I am waiting for the power to flicker and die. In a strange twist of fate, almost exactly a year later we are having another ice storm. At least for this one, it was not led up to by several days of below freezing temperatures, and we have so far been saved by temps today at 33 or 34. This afternoon before we made a Home Depot run I had to knock off about 1/4 of ice from the awning covering the MSV. The roads were still all wet, but if there were overpasses around I bet they would have been frozen.

Tonight it will get below freezing, it will just depend on how much more rain we get whether or not there is any more ice build up. Sometime tomorrow it will get above freezing again and stay there (just barely) until Monday night. Maybe last year’s storm has helped us as well. In 2004 the amount of downed trees and tree limbs was astronomical, that natural pruning has perhaps prevented a lot of downed power lines this year.

Started up, still up.
Miata Top Transitions since 01/01/05: 17

Buying Love

The Beatles sang, “Money Can’t Buy You Love'” but they were wrong.

It’s on sale at the United States Post Office right here in Aiken, only $7.40, so I bought two:

Buying Love

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The furthest I have ventured out today is 3 steps out of the garage. I helped Donna bring in her early morning purchases from Publix. That means, you guessed it, the Miata hasn’t moved.

I watched a little football today and NFL coverage sure has changed. They have these overhead cameras that give some interesting angles on the play. Heck the last time I was watching any football with regularity, the Reverse Angle (Hey! Why don’t we put a camera on the other side of the field!) shot was a big deal. And maybe because of the overhead shots and digital cameras the game looked about like a EA Sport’s Madden Football 2005 video game. The Bud Light commercial with the monkey in the zoo was clever, but my favorite was for Bud Heavy, where the ref is taking all sorts of abuse on the sidelines and they cut away to his training regimen, his wife nagging him at 110db at home. Robert DeNiro did an Amex commercial, I guess next will be some 7 minute internet spots like Seinfeld did, “DeNiro and Green Lantern.”

Real Rhapsody has a few things figured out. I can’t just rip music from the sound card. I tried piping the output back into the input but into the line in jack makes a horrible feedback and the microphone is too sensitive so you get a lot of distortion. Even if any one of these schemes worked I would have had to manually separate the songs and then add the title & artist to the file name/tag, what a pain. So for now I’m just listening to a few old albums that I used to have on vinyl that I never replaced as CDs and a couple of what they call radio stations. The Celtic, Ska and Reggae channels are pretty good. Not enough to pay $10 a month for though.

Started up, still up.
Miata Top Transitions since 01/01/05: 15

What Post Office Galleries?

Tomorrow’s Thursday Challenge theme is SHADOW. I procrastinated until today to do my picture and wouldn’t you know it, it was a cloudy day – no shadows. I tried a couple of indoor still life things, but the sucked. I looked through my existing pictures and found one to use though. It is from a series of Post Office pictures I took last year, I’ve got a whole gallery full of PO pictures, but wait, where is the link? It was on PLOG and somehow in the move it got lost in the shuffle. Well I fixed it tonight, so if you haven’t seen them before, take a look. Just click on the little linkie thingie to the right: me>Galleries>Post Offices.

Started up, still up.
Miata Top Transitions since 01/01/05: 15

Bambi Goes Hunting

Calvin & Hobbes has to be my all-time favorite comic strip. I really hated that Bill Watterson stopped doing original strips a few years back, but I can definately sympathize with getting burnt out on something) and wanting to stop. Fortunately uComics.com is keeping the spirit of C & H alive by publishing the strip each day eleven years after they were originally printed in the paper. Every Monday when I come in to work I download the Sunday strip and post it outside on my cubical wall. This last Sunday’s is one of my favorites:

Calvin & Hobbes

The Wizard of OZ (2005)

Not wanting to rest on our laurels after our smashing success of casting a current remake of Casablanca, we plunged right into another classic movie that we would have remade today, The Wizard of OZ.

Role Actor 1939 Actor
Dorothy Gale Lindsay Lohan Judy Garland
The Wizard of Oz Robin Williams Frank Morgan
The Scarecrow Jim Carey Ray Bolger
The Cowardly Lion Brad Garrett Bert Lahr
The Tin Man Don Cheadle Jack Haley
The Good Witch Charlize Theron Billie Burke
The Wicked Witch Sarah Jessica Parker Margaret Hamilton
Uncle Henry Robert Redford Charley Grapewin
Auntie Em Susan Sarandon Clara Blandick
Mayor of Munchkin City Danny Devito Charles Becker

Getting There

Last night I imported all the entries from the other three retired blogs. Don’t know whether or not I want to just leave the old ones up in archive form or just kill them and leave behind a custom 404 page…

I finally got around to doing the search template today, so when searching it looks like you are at a site that cares about cohesive style. I’m still tweaking the look of everything to get it just so, most might not notice because everything is basically functional. The archive navigation needs work, both date and category-wise.