Month: November 2008

Deck The Halls

I know lots of places started decorating for Christmas before Thanksgiving, like whoever made the Sand Man at HHI. When we went for our morning walk on Thanksgiving morning this was already proudly standing on the beach. We waited until today. Our massive 4-1/2? antedate illuminate coniferous falsiful was erected by the door and Donna spent a couple hours trying to put 7′ worth of ornaments on the much smaller tree. The mantle was decorated and thousands of Christmas themed knickknacks were scattered around the house. I would have put out the flag and the Santa mailbox cover, but it has been raining all day.

We also moved into the “Winter Bedroom” on the other side of the house. The plan this year was to have two beds, so I didn’t have to disassemble the one and move everything to the other room, but I never did finish the foot board and we never bought the extra queen mattress set or frame, so take down, move, put up I did.

Started up, still up.
Miata Top Transitions since 10/24/08: 48

Home Again, Home Again, Jiggidy-Jig!

Because it is the weekend there is no TDTVS and we didn’t have any red envelopes to watch, so we watched the last three episodes of Firefly; The Message, Heart of Gold & Objects in Space. I got to get me one of those Jayne Cobb hats. Winter is coming ya know.

Jayne: How’s it sit? Pretty cunning, don’t you think?

Skipped the sunrise this morning, weren’t one. Skipped the walk on the beach, raining too hard. Matter of fact, it was going to be raining for the foreseeable future, so we skipped breakfast too. Emptied the trash, packed our bags, loaded up the trunk and started for home.

We did stop in Bluffton for a bagel breakfast. When we gassed up at the crossing off I-95 and SC336 the rain had stopped and the skies didn’t look too dark or gray, so we put the top down. Made it all the way to Varnville (about 39 miles) before the rain returned and we returned to the top up condition. Rained the rest of the way home and I think it has been raining here in Aiken all day.

Started up, went down, back up, still up.
Miata Top Transitions since 10/24/08: 48

Further Instructions

Episode 50 of 82 is Locke centric and a return to more of a Season 2 style with nice writing that wraps the present on-island happenings with the off-island flashbacks. Plus we get zero coverage of the weirdness that is occurring on the ?Other? side of the island with Jack, Kate and Sawyer.

When Locke wakes up in the jungle after the hatch implosion he now doesn’t know what to do, when he found the hatch initially he felt it was his destiny to save the world by pushing the button every 108 minutes. Then anther hatch was uncovered and it seemed to reveal that pushing the button was all a psychological experiment and really meant nothing. But when he devised a way to prevent the button from being pushed, something very powerful event did occur and the hatch was destroyed. For guidance he builds a sweat lodge where he is visited by the dead Boone and is pushed around the Sindey, Australia airport in his old wheelchair until he figures out he has to clean up his mess, i.e. rescue Mr. Eko who was also inside the hatch and consequently tossed about the island somewhere and has been captured by another of the island’s polar bears.

Ain’t No Lack of Consumer Confidence Here

After the usual sunrise, breakfast, walk on the beach thing, Donna and I headed out to help the local retailers have a good Black Friday. We were not alone. At the first place we stopped at, Tanger Outlets 2, they were busy, but not so overcrowded that it wasn’t unpleasant. But by the time we called it quits at the other Tanger Outlet place the parking spots were at a premium. Trying to leave got a little dicey as folks jockeyed for the scarce spots and clear exit paths. We didn’t go particularly early because we weren’t out to to get big ticket items with big ticket discounts and our Christmas shopping is already finished, we just did a little clothes and trinket shopping for ourselves.

Started up, went down, back up, still up.
Miata Top Transitions since 10/24/08: 46

The Glass Ballerina

(49/82) This show was about Sun & Jin, both on island and in flashbacks off, and how they have been deceiving each other in small and large ways. We also check in with the big three and their antics while in captivity. Jack just gets the mental beatings while Sawyer and Kate get, unbelievably (if you can get anymore unbelievable than we’ve gotten so far), enlisted in some sort of chain gang.

Thanksgiving on HHI

This morning we slept in, ate breakfast, stood on the balcony and watched a bunch of dolphins swim by, watched the 4 episodes on Disc 2 of William & Mary and then went for a looong walk on the beach. This afternoon and into the evening we had a small turkey dinner with DTCQ. As usual the mysterious Lisa the Condo Princess was spoken of obliquely, but not seen.

Started up, went down, back up, still up.
Miata Top Transitions since 10/24/08: 44

A Tale of Two Cities

The Season 3 opener is show number 48 of 82 and opens with a seeming normal book club meeting in a suburban home with absolutely no one we know. Yet. There is what seems like an earthquake and when it is over thy run outside, we see a familiar face and when they look up there is a jetliner in the sky breaking into pieces. This is the Others watching the arrival of Oceanic Flight 815 a couple months ago. From here we jump to the present where we see Kate getting put in a dress to dine with Ben, Sawyer in an animal cage and jack in a room with a giant Plexiglas wall. This episode is well structured and we get some fun interaction between our love triangle survivors and their captors, but a lot of time is spent with Jack and this new woman from the Others, Juliet. The flashback concerns Jack and his divorce from Sarah and his mistrust of his father. Somehow Jack has been thrust into the hero leader role on the island, but the more we learn of his past the less sympathetic he becomes.