I Checked The Mail

The Shirt isn’t here yet.

Neither is Season 3.

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Free Willy

A man wakes up the hospital, bandaged from head to foot. The doctor comes in and says, ‘Ah, I see you’ve regained consciousness. Now, you probably won’t remember, but you were in a pile-up on the freeway. You’re going to be okay, you’ll walk again and everything, but… something unfortunate happened. I’m trying to break this gently, but the fact is, your willy was chopped off in the wreck, and we were unable to find it.’

The man groans, but the doctor goes on, ‘You’ve got $9,000 in insurance compensation coming to you, and we have the technology now to build you a new willy that will work as well as your old one did – better in fact! But the thing is, it doesn’t come cheap. It’s $1,000 an inch.’

The man perks up at this.

‘So,’ the doctor says, ‘it’s for you to decide how many inches you want. But it’s something you’d better discuss with your wife. I mean, if you had a five inch one before, and you decide to go for a nine incher, she might be a bit put out. But if you had a nine inch one before, and you decide only to invest in a five incher this time, she might be disappointed. So it’s important that she plays a role in helping you make the decision.’

The man agrees to talk with his wife. The doctor comes back the next day. ‘So,’ says the doctor, ‘have you spoken with your wife?’

‘I have,’ says the man.

‘And has she helped you in making the decision?’

‘She has,’ says the man.

‘And what is it?’ asks the doctor.

‘We’re getting a new kitchen.’

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Super Bowl 4: Kansas City Chiefs 23 – Minnesota Vikings 7
Super Bowl 8: Miami Dolphins 24 – Minnesota Vikings 7
Super Bowl 15: Oakland Raiders 27 – Philadelphia Eagles 10
Super Bowl 16: San Francisco 49ers 26 – Cincinnati Bengals 21
Super Bowl 23: San Francisco 49ers 20 – Cincinnati Bengals 16
Super Bowl 42: New York Giants 17 – New England Patriots 14

Oh, and I bought the shirt.

Washed the car this afternoon and I’m embarrassed to say that with the temperature in the low seventies, when I was done, I just drove it back in to the garage.

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The O’needers

Nothing to watch tonight. We watched Season 1 of Dinner for Five yesterday and we watched Shooter this afternoon, so we are out of red envelopes.

I was checking the local cable’s TV Guide Channel for something to watch. This one program caught my eye. Listed for CNN, AKA: Cable News Network, for 8:00 PM until 10:00 PM — To Be Announced.

Ended up watching That Thing You Do on E!.

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Everything Is Going To Change Hugo

Long time readers will recognize this theme, sort of. I’ve changed the background image to reflect my latest obsession — Lost. If you are viewing this using internet explorer, I pity you. Those glaring white post and header blocks are really 50% tranparent, but IE doesn’t do that well with the opacity tag in CSS. So ordinarily I would tell you to scroll down the sidebar to the Themes section and pick Brian’s Red, which is what the theme was yesterday, but once again for reasons know only to Bill Gates, IE won’t change to that particular theme. One of the other two work just fine. Go get Mozilla or Opera and see the theme as it was meant to be. Or wait a week, I’ll probably change again…

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Now I’ve Gone & Done It

Because I’ve pretty much stopped watching network television all together I was blissfully ignorant of the phenomenon. When the first season came out on DVD and after hearing people at work talk a bit about it, we opted to give it try. Dumped disc one in the Netflix queue. Oh. Man.

I resisted trying to join Season two in mid stride. Donna attempted to watch S2E12, but couldn’t pull it off because of the commercials. We bided our time. Seven months later Season 2 DVDs arrived and we spent a weekend gorging ourselves, watching it all.

When Season 3 hit the airwaves we just ignored it, vowing to only watch the show on DVD. When they did arrive in stores, we went to the local video store, rented and then watched the whole season in one fell swoop, two days, a Friday and Saturday.

I think that is when the banana peel slipped out from under us. We bought Season 1 on DVD to rewatch. When we finished that, we bought Season 2 and watched it again. Season 3 is in the mail to us right now. I’ve created a separate post category for it. There is now even a link category in the sidebar.

But tonight I did something I vowed not to do, I watched it as it was broadcast on ABC. I wonder if there is a support group at Santa Rosa Mental Health Institute for people like me?

The only thing I have going for me right now is I still haven’t bought a shirt.

But my resolve is weakening…

That Damn TeleVision Show

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This Is Awful…

…trying to watch Lost on regular TV.

ABC is showing the third season ender right now, I guess in an effort to get everyone excited for tomorrow’s Episode 1 of Season 4. The commercial blocks are annoying as all get out and to make matters worse they are crawling extra information at the bottom of the screen to explain what is going on to newbies.

To further indoctrinate newcomers, ABC will breakdown the whole first 3 seasons in a clip show that will be shown at 8 PM, just in front of the 9 PM premiere of season four.

Like before, I got tired of failure on eBay bidding for Season 3, so last night I broke down and bought it new. Found it on Buy.com for $28.98 ($38.98 minus $10 for first time Google Checkout buyers.)

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