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Goodbye Red Envelope, Hello Redbox

Sunday, January 8, 2012

Our Netflix account has been on hold for a while…and we have not missed it at all. We were certainly not getting our moneys worth from the $8.55 a month we were paying them because we barely watched a movie a week.

🙂 BTR & D2! found [Unknown Cache] Right of Way QR
We walked over from Right of Way Medical after we couldn’t find it first off. We just followed the RoW and it led us on a looping path to near GZ, but it didn’t seem *too* long because we took turns kicking a half dead exercise ball that we stumbled on behind Hitchcock Rehab/Family Y.

We made the find rather quickly here. Thanks to the previous finders who left behind a buck and some change, which we took, and who left behind a band aid, which we didn’t take, but will certainly be useful to someone in the future with all the thorns surrounding the hide. TFTH

A few weeks ago I opened up an account on Redbox thinking that, that might be an option. At a buck (actually $1.30) a night, the price is right, about 5 bucks for those same 4 rentals a month. But that buck a night counts for every night you keep it, so there is a big incentive to watch it now, instead of leaving it on the coffee table while we wait for a good time. There is one right in the entry at our favorite store, so it is convenient. But we have yet to try it.

🙂 BTR & D2! found [Traditional Cache] Right of Way Medical
After finding Right of Way QR we came back for another try on this one. I made the find, but truth be told, I got lucky. We left a small necklace and took a quarter. With that 25 cents and the buck we got at RoW QR we had now completely paid for the Crazy Stupid Love DVD we rented just a little while earlier this morning at the Redbox in front of Walgreens…TFTC

Until now.

Chalk Cliffs

Saturday, January 7, 2012

Title Block

Friday, January 6, 2012

Finally feel like writing something, but I can’t think of title…

We drove the Miata to work on Thursday because we *could* ride home with the top down. But we didn’t drive it today even though it was warmer than yesterday. We rode the tandem.

I found a fool proof method on how to get your wife to agree to let you buy a new computer: While she is in the middle of shuffling the contents around in the kitchen cabinets (for who knows what reason other than to confuse me) just walk in and ask if you can spend $425. Well, that and the fact that I have been moaning about it’s slowness for a couple years (it was purchased just shy of 9 years ago.)

Like the plethora of fragrance commercials that show up on TV before Christmas, you can tell it is January because of all the ads for diet plans and gym memberships.

Which leads us to: “A gym is not designed to make you feel instantly better about yourself. If a gym wanted to make you feel instantly better about yourself, it would be a bar.” which is Rule #1 for Conquering the Gym, go read the other 26.

Started up, went down, still down.
Miata Top Tran?si?tions since 10/24/08: 1098

Trophy

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

We have driven the Miata to work the last couple of days and it is all because of the weather. No, it has not been warm enough to ride with the top down, just the opposite, it has been in the 20’s for morning lows. We took the Emperor because he spent the night in the heated garage so it was nice and warm inside to start the drive, unlike the Purple Popsicle would have been.

Started up, still up.
Miata Top Tran?si?tions since 10/24/08: 1097

Welcome to South Carolina

Monday, January 2, 2012

US 301, before I-95, was a pretty main north/south route, but since, not so much. But if you do decide to get off the Interstate and travel 301 through South Carolina into Georgia when you get across the Savannah River there you will find one of the last remaining state Welcome Centers not on an Interstate. Coming north from Georgia, you will be welcomed to the Palmetto State by this odd little representation of the South Carolina flag and 50 yards later our abandoned counterpart to the remaining Georgia Welcome Center.

— my favorite comment spam from the last week or so —
My brother rec?om?mended I would sim?i?lar to this web site. He was appro?pri?ate. This truly built my day. You are able to not con?sider just how much time I had spent want?ing for this.

Started down, went up, back down, up again, still up.
Miata Top Tran?si?tions since 10/24/08: 1097