Year: 2008

Sunday

One more walk on the beach before loading up the car and we were on the road to Aiken by 8:00 AM. We like to get home so we can eat lunch at the house, plus we need the rest of the afternoon to grocery shop for the coming week and do the laundry without feeling rushed.

We also had time to watch a movie, rake leaves (front yard only) and I washed/vacuumed the sea salt/beach sand off/out of the Emperor.

Now I just have to tweak and re size the photos and edit the text for the condo web page, then type up the MMC meeting minutes from Thursday — tomorrow.

Started up, went down, back up, still up.
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Saturday on HHI

We got up and had breakfast on the balcony (see yesterdays post for the view) and even though the temps were in the lower 60s it still felt warm enough because the sun was right there 20º above the horizon (Donna had to wear her sunglasses.) We then took a nice long stroll on the nearly deserted beach. When it is low tide like that the beach is about 50 yards wide and there were more gulls standing at water’s edge than there were people within eyesight.

Around 9:00AM Donna (Horsman) the Condo Queen came over for our photo safari. She needed pictures of 3 condos for the web page. One was interior updates in the one we were staying at because the living room and dining furniture were new. I had taken them already yesterday before we started strewing our stuff around, so we already had one down. The second one was an ocean front unit on the second floor of the A Building. When Donna opened the door she could see right away we weren’t going to be taking pictures, all the furniture was pushed in to the center of the rooms as it was being repainted. The Queen was displeased because she told him we would be taking pictures today and he said he would be done. Things happen, so we moved onto the third condo. This was a two bed room unit in Admiral’s Row and it is amazing how much bigger it is compared to the single bed room places. It was ready, so I snapped away. We then parted ways and told her we would see her about 5 that afternoon for dinner, my Donna was making sish-ka-bobs for grilling, while DTCQ was making potatoes and a cobbler for dessert.

We watched another disc of An Unsuitable Job For A Woman. Unfortunately this is the last one done, so now I have to find another British mystery show to watch. We then went out and visited the end of a Fall Festival at a local church and before having some lunch. The afternoon was spent watching three episodes of Law & Order between cat naps.

Dinner was wonderful and afterward the three of us took a 3 mile walk around the bike paths in Hilton Head Plantation where Casa Horsman is. DTCQ and I quickly ran over the verbiage changes needed on the site and we made tentative plans to return over Thanksgiving weekend to photograph the one condo, if it is finished…

Started up, went down, back up, still up.
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Nice Day All Around

Even though is was still quite chilly, we put the top down in Williston and as we drove south and east the temperature warmed into a perfect fall day. We got to the condo, checked in and headed right out for an over-stuffed sandwich from Gruby’s New York Deli. After shopping we returned to the condo and settled in. I read and Donna napped.

Because we didn’t have time on Thursday, we watched two episodes of TDTVS with our heat up pizza dinner. It wasn’t until after that when it was fully dark that we took our first walk on the beach. There was a 1/4 moon high in the sky which was enough to relegate the flashlight to quick peeks to make sure we didn’t step on a beached whale or something. Because of the time of the year we saw no one else at all on our short half hour stroll.

Started down, went up, back down, up again, still up.
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The Hunting Party

Jack-centric episode 35 of 83 was almost as bad an episode as yesterday’s was good. The off island flashback felt forced and unbelievable and was there just to show one side of him that related to his on island action. Between those two stories they have turn Jack into a less likable character. Even the lying, cheating, stealing con man Sawyer is more sympathetic.

The 23rd Psalm

Episode 34 of 83 was centered around a new for Season 2 survivor from the tail section, Mr. Ecko. This was one of the better episodes so far. Partly because his back story was so interesting, but also because of how it intertwined to what was happening on the island with the dual themes of religion and drugs.

Couldn’t Do It

We came home from work, packed our bags and packed them in the car because we were heading off to HHI for the weekend right after the MMC monthly meeting. This month we were meeting at Rae’s Coastal Cafe in Augusta and because the food and atmosphere are so good there we always get a big turn out. Tonight was no exception, there were 15 people in attendance. The Club was no the only large party in the place at that hour either, there were two more (with one right behind us), so the normally quiet place was booming. So much so that conversation was only just possible with your immediate neighbor and only by practically shouting.

Large groups equals long wait for service and an extended dining time, crowded restaurant equals too much noise to hold a meeting, so by the time everyone had finished eating, we regrouped outside and had a short meeting it was well past 8:30. We knew we would get to HHI late, but with at least a 3 hour drive from Augusta we were looking a very late night.

Because we were in Georgia and the easiest way to get to where we were going was to go back into South Carolina and pass close by home we chickened out and decided to sleep in our own bed.

Started up, went down, still down.
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Stand Still Already

I’ve changed the background…again. The tartan was kinda cool, but I wanted something a little more in keeping with my current obsession (I’d call this blog that, but Rick beat me to it) Mad Men, so I opted for something from my old pal Jen at Pixel Decor. She has a ton of 50s – 60s backgrounds for personal wallpaper use. For web site use you need permission. Last time I asked she replied (and I may be paraphrasing here), “For your personal blog, of course, feel free.”

I’m assuming that would still stand today, if not, let me know Jen, and I’ll cease and desist. Also if you think it an aberration for to me to grayscale one of the mono chunky patterns and reducing it in size by 25%, yell at me, I can probably take it.

Roger Sterling: I bet there were people in the Bible, walking around complaining about kids today.
Don Draper: Kids today, they?ve got no one to look up to. ?Cause they?re looking up to us.

I have also started to separate my inane and somewhat pointless TDTVS episode recaps into their own posts so the whole episode title equals post title thing will make more sense when I start witting about my real world as opposed to J.J. Abrams’ made up one.

We rode the tandem to work today, so the Emperor stayed in the castle all day. The Royal Dentist visited and the vampire teeth came out until next October.

Started up, still up.
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