Or they might get the same thought I had about the plot for a new reality based TV show. Of course Thy might not get that idea from this story, Chimps May Have Closer Links to Humans the way it was titled on Yahoo, but the headline I read in the Augusta Chronicle was, “Researchers put chimps in human family.”
Hot damn, a semi nice day! Top down on the way to work, up while there and down again after. Got a skate in after getting home and even went for an evening drive at dark. Amazing what a little outdoor fun can have on a person’s attitude. Blues, what blues? Every car that I caught on the way out of town turned off before they became a hindrance making for a very pleasant drive on one of our favorite roads. Things got exciting for a minute or so though, DEER! One dashed in front of the car causing me to brake hard, missed by about 10 yards. 5 seconds either way for either one of us and it could have been bad. Just after returning to near normal speed, car and heart, the brights illuminate another set of eyes to our left. This one stood 5 feet off the road and just watched us pass.
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Started up, went down, went up, back down, still down.
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Everybody Loves Raymond used to be a must watch on Monday night. This season I just never picked it back up. Tonight I decided to watch the season ender. Robert was getting married and because it was so much TV they couldn’t get it all in 30 minutes. Tonight’s episode ran for a whole 45 minutes. It was painful to watch. It seemed pretty much like they used that extra 15 minutes to show commercials. On top of that there was some fat in the actual show that could have been trimmed.
Another gray day. No depressing movie for tonight, just a depressing baseball game. Red Sox are playing the Yankees and coming into the game tied for first place in the division and the Yankees scored 5 in the first and so far 2 in the 8th making 7 to 1. The Sox are bringing in another pitcher and I’m turning it off.
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Started up, still up.
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Went out to grocery shop – top up. Went out for an evening drive – top up. After supper Donna wanted to go get an ice cream cone. Last Sunday when we headed into downtown Aiken, it was looking like a ghost town, but the ice cream shop was open. Tonight that’s where we went and we were an hour too late, they were closed. We took the umbrella and strolled through the empty streets and looked in shop windows. On the drive home the skies opened up, man we are glad we have a garage.
It will be amazing if I can get out of bed tomorrow, it is so depressing here now. The on and off rain that started Thursday is slated to continue until at least that day this week. Today was the third day in a row for a downer of a movie, White Oleander was on tap for this evening. I’ve got to go move a couple comedies up to the top of my Netflix rental queue.
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Started up, still up.
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Still no mug from Cafe Press. No Thumb Drive from Wolverine. both supposedly shipped from California via the USPS. Next time I order I’ll pay extra to go UPS, this way even if it takes a long time at least I can follow along.
Managed one little trip out in the car today. Minor running around errands. The top stayed up because of the off and on rain all day. Worked out that the lull we went out in lasted for the duration, so we could have had the top down, sigh. The thunder is rumbling right now, the radio station I am listening to has had a few weird pauses and I’ve been booted off line a couple of times in the last half hour. The signs are there, I shouldn’t even have the PC on, but the blogging must go on.
Never did watch Last Man Standing, but instead watched Reign of Fire. I like sci-fi, I like dragon movies, but this sucker shoulda never been made. All through it, I couldn’t but think that the millions spent to make this movie would have been better used to feed a mid-sized African nation for a week. I’ve never seen Battlefield Earth in it’s entirety, just a few snippets on the cable, everyone said that movie was so dark it stank, well this thing makes BE look like the Music Man. Just a couple of days ago I was on a good movie roll, seems to have gone 180 on me…
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