Tomorrow when you look up and notice that the flags are flying at half mast, who will it be for?
The Good – Gerald Ford
The Bad – Saddam Hussein
Or
The Ugly – James Brown
Regular readers know that while at work, Donna and I walk a couple laps around the parking lot at morning break, lunch and then again at afternoon break. Today on lap one in the morning I noticed a couple of what I thought were run over Tupperware containers. On lap two I had another glance and realized they weren’t Tupperware, but I wasn’t sure what they were, so we went over to check the things out. Whoa, now that is interesting, they look like jellyfish without tentacles that have washed up on the beach. I kicked one over with my foot and that is when I recognized exactly what they were.
I’ve taken the 54 images of The Emperor that are in the online galleries here and made a nice little screensaver out of them. Its what all the cool cats will have on their PCs for 2007. Don’t be left out, download your copy today.
The Emperor’s New Screensaver (3 Meg)
Or Good Money After Bad?
Took $20 of my Christmas money and bought another ticket in the Miata raffle at that museum in Washington state. My first two tickets purchased 2 weeks ago were numbered 2155 & 2156. The third ticket arrived in the mail yesterday and is numbered 2369. That means they only had 131 tickets left as of last Wednesday, probably down to just a few left with only 4 days left until they pick a winner. If you want a chance at winning, better hurry and call them at 360-533-5862.
My odds of winning this new Miata, er, MX-5, are 1 in 833 or about the same as hitting a 12-Way Box (whatever that is) on the local Pick 4 Lottery, to put in plain language, pretty slim. But a man’s gotta hope.
We went out briefly today to run a couple errands, one of which was to burn up Donna’s gift card at Target. She wanted to buy some ribbon and other Christmas stuff at half off. As we made our way to the back of the store where all the holiday stuff was we passed by the greeting card area where an associate was busy putting out the Valentine’s Day cards.
A stop at Kroger to pick up a couple of prescriptions took us by the seasonal aisle. The Christmas stuff was piled into shopping carts with hand lettered signs proclaiming 50% off while unopened cases of heart shaped boxes of chocolates stood by ready to take their places on the empty shelves.
While watching TV this evening we saw a commercial for a Hugh Grant / Drew Barrymore movie that will be opening February 14th.
I’m glad we got that whole Christmas thing out of the way.
Please accept — with no obligation, implied or implicit — my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, non-addictive, gender neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable tradition of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your preference. In addition, please enjoy a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2007.
Both Donna and I have developed a case of the sniffle, runny nose, sneezing thing. Boy are we fun to be around…