While wasting time after dinner and finishing listening to Thistle & Shamrock on the local NPR station, I flipped on the TV muted and did some surfing. Paused on CNN for a bit and read the scroll, “Ebay halts sales of Challenger debris.” read one. Holy shit! What kind of people were selling/buying this stuff? Have we gotten this low in our quest for making money and getting rich?
Finally got a sunny day that the temperature made it to the upper 50s, it seems like it has been forever. We dropped the convertible top this afternoon and went for a drive. We were minding our own business, motoring along a two-lane road at 45 (that had a posted speed limit of 40) when a full-size pickup approached from behind, closing fast. After a few seconds of filling my mirror trying to intimidate me into increasing my speed or something, he passed me. Less than a 1/4 mile later he turned left into his driveway. Sorry I got in your way pal.
The other week Kmart announce the closing of hundreds of stores. The one in my little town is one of those. I am saddened by this mainly because I have sworn never to visit Wal-Mart and the K was where we went whenever we needed any of the type of stuff carried in discount department stores. Tonight we went into Kmart for something and the place was packed, there was a bigger crowd on hand than the weekend before Christmas. A big STORE CLOSING banner was hung over the entrance. ALL SALES FINAL posters covered the windows. Hastily printed 8-1/2 x 11 pieces of paper on the entrance doors proclaim, “Now hiring temporary help.” Inside everything was marked down 10%, just the beginning. I said, “Let’s wait until it is marked down 60%.” and we left.
My one and only registered domain is for the Barndoor Fan Club. It started as a lark on Geocities. After a while there I decided to go ahead and register the domain using Yahoo Domains. Then later I graduated it to a different web host because I kept bumping into Geocities bandwidth allowance for free sites. The domain expires on February 15, 2003, so I figured I would renew through my current web host and keep it all in the family. I contacted them on January 15th and authorized them to transfer and register the name for 2 years for me. 3 days later, my charge card was billed. A week later I did a whois and it still listed Yahoo domains as the tech contact and the expiration date was only 2004. A couple of emails later it is still the same. I guess tomorrow I will have to call on the phone…
This morning while lounging in bed awaiting sufficient motivation to get up and get on with Sunday I learned just how much of a loser I am. Watched a rerun of Sportsnight on Comedy Central (no, not the indicator.) When it was over I switched over to the Weather Channel to see if it was going to warm enough to wash the car today (this is not it either, but we are getting warmer.) The first 30 seconds or so of the anchors spiel was accompanied by the blocky Weekend Now logo instead of their smiling faces. With just their voices going I thought to myself, “Oh, that’s Bill Keneely and Kelly Cass.” And sure enough, when they showed the faces, that’s who they were. Pretty sad, huh?
I know I was probably a little naive to think that they printed up those World champ T-shirts in the final 2 minutes of the game, but come on HSN. Today, if you wanted, you could purchase hats, shirts, pennants, etc. that proclaim the Bucs or Raiders as Super Bowl Winners. The game wasn’t for another 24 hours. I checked and if your chosen team loses, they will not ship the items and not charge your credit card. Nice of them…
My first BlogFodder and it sounds like a question from some sort of physc test. Would you go back to the Dallas Book Repository and tap Lee Harvey on the shoulder? Would you prevent Hilter’s birth if you could? Would you go back and talk Judas out of ratting out Jesus? Would you go back and ask Betty Sue to the prom instead of chickening out? How pathetic are you? But I guess it is a matter of degrees isn’t it? I mean, I do hit the backspace key to go back a letter or two to correct a spelling….so why not something else, just a little more monumental?