Like A Cat With The Mange

Went to Sam Goody this evening to return the M*A*S*H mistake. Since I have no receipt, I have to accept a gift card. Whilst the manager is helping others (he has to OK the form) I wander the store looking for stuff I might want. I find nothing, for three reasons; a) I’m particular (some might say peculiar) in my tastes, 2) I live in a small town so we have what amounts to a 3/4 scale store and III) it is 2 days after Christmas so everything is pretty well picked over (the shelves were full of empty patches like a cat with the mange.) Good news is that the gift card is good at SunCoast movie stores too, of which they have one in the Augusta Mall, so it seems like my Saturday has developed a plan. Almost as an afterthought the manager tells me that I can use the gift card online….wait a minute, I don’t have to drive to Augusta at all, I can shop for movies in my underwear! I burned up all but $2.04 of the card’s value by buying M*A*S*H and Ronin just a few minutes ago. 🙂

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What Color Is Your Pee?

Because my old friend the prostate has been bothering me, I went to the Doctor today. He prescribed an antibiotic and analgesic/antispasmodic. The antibiotic probably won’t do much, I’ve taken stronger in the past. Usually after a while my symptoms go away, but always they return weeks or months later. Taking antibiotics either works on the placebo effect on me or whatever happens to cause the flare-ups goes away on its own accord for these instances. The antispasmodic is a new thing, supposedly this will ease the pain/burning. One of the side effects is it may turn your urine blue-green. Cool, can hardly wait for that to happen…

Old Turret Oil

Picked up the Short Shifter kit today. Opened the box, looked at the parts and then closed the box back up. I may wait a while to put it in, as I think I need to change the upper shift boot again. When I replaced the original in September I didn’t push the boot far enough down the shifter shaft leaving it already stretched, with not enough left for the shifting movement, so I think it is torn. Plus, because I didn’t do it back then, I still need to change the turret oil.

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Should Have Gotten The Exorcist

One plan worked, the Miata hasn’t moved.

The other plan partially worked, as I only got one DVD for Christmas, Pulp Fiction. Donna also bought me another from the list, but accidentally purchased “M*A*S*H TV 1st Season” instead of M*A*S*H the movie. She couldn’t get 12 Angry Men so I got a card in my stocking telling me to order it off the net. Also on the list, but not purchased was The Exorcist, she didn’t want to get that for me because it was too scary (for her.) After watching Pulp Fiction just long enough to see the close-up of Uma Thurmond’s face after she accidentally snorts heroin thinking it was coke, she said she wished she had gotten the Exorcist instead….

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No Task Is Too Large…

…for me to ignore a little longer. I have had some pictures that I scanned on my desktop since the middle of October of family that I was going to add to a little webpage, but I can’t bring myself to do any HTMLing. I real quick like a bunny burned all 15 of my Christmas CDs to take to work to share with other people who wanted to listen to some holiday music. The directory ended up being a little over a Gig in size. I need to go through it and pare it down to 700 Meg so I can burn a CD full of MP#s for the car (and next year.) But I can’t get started because they were mostly various artist compilations and the tags all need to be fixed and that task is too daunting. I thought that perhaps I would weed out the garden that is my “Favorites” folder, after all there are 451 links in 35 folders, I can’t need all of them. It’ll be simple I’ll start clicking and delete the dead ones and ones that I don’t use. HA! I started at the bottom with the X-Files folder, it should be a goner as I don’t even watch the reruns anymore, but instead I got lost in that world I enjoyed so much.

Not A Miata Was Stirring

The Miata never left the garage today, kind of like a Sunday for it. I’m shooting for no movement tomorrow too. It will be Christmas day and I hope to be watching the DVDs that were on my Wish List. 🙂 Supposed to be cool and windy anyway. But if it turns sunny in mid-afternoon, you never know.

The Short Shifter kit is in. Unfortunately I had it shipped to my work address and the plant is shutdown for these 2 days for the holidays so it is still on a UPS truck. I’ll get it on Thursday.

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Christmas Eve?

Today I decided to clean up some of the Desktop clutter that has been accumulating for the past couple of months. Out went links to blogs I read, pictures I saved there temporarily until I uploaded them and such. I found a Winamp playlist from my too late to submit for October CD Mix of the Month, entitled Scary Music. I couldn’t just toss it out because it was such a good idea. The music was still stored in a directory on the C: drive in a temporary location. So that is what I spent the afternoon working on, a Halloween themed music CD. Yesterday I wasn’t sure what day it was, but today I was not sure what holiday I was celebrating….
01 – Danny Elfman – This Is Halloween
02 – John Carpenter – Halloween Main Theme
03 – John Carpenter – Halloween II Laurie’s Theme
04 – Sheb Wooley – Purple People Eater
05 – David Seville – Witch Doctor
06 – Misfits – Monster Mash
07 – Rob Zombie – The Munsters Theme
08 – Vic Mizzy – The Addams Family
09 – Ray Parker Jr – Ghostbusters
10 – Oingo Boingo – Dead Man’s Party
11 – Fred Schneider & The Shake Society – Monster In My Pants
12 – Mike Oldfield – Exorcist Theme
13 – Bernard Herrmann – Psycho
14 – Harry Manfredini – Friday The 13th
15 – Lalo Schifrin – Amityville Horror Theme
16 – John Carpenter – The Fog
17 – Don Davis – House On Haunted Hill
18 – Danny Elfman – Into The Woods
19 – Christopher Walken – The Raven