Rants

Lost

No, not TDTVS, but First Daughter.

I put this movie in the rental queue at the behest of my lovely wife. I’m not exactly sure what prompted her to want this movie (maybe because it starred the future Mrs. Tom Cruise,) which is fine because sometimes I’m not sure where I get the idea to add a movie either. The disc showed up in Saturday’s mail and we decided to watch it that evening. We endured about 25 minutes of it before hitting the eject button.

It went back in the mail to Netflix on Monday. It still hasn’t arrived back at movie central, so tonight I reported it missing. They say they forgive an occasional missing disc, but if you pass a certain level they might cancel your membership. I just hope they don’t think I liked the movie so much that I decided to keep it, I don’t need that kind of reputation.

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Spring? HA!

Today was the first day of spring and it felt more like winter than most of winter did. Average high is 72 and we were at least 20 degrees cooler with overcast skies. The highs for the rest of the week is going to be in the lower 60’s, at least it is supposed to be sunny.

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Stop It

This is so much worse than hearing the theme to Shaft smoothed into background sounds for my Local Forcast on the Weather Channel.

“We Got The Meat” to the tune of the Go-Go’s “We Got The Beat” selling delivery pizza. Or worse still, the Gilligan’s Island theme bastardized to sell shrimp at trendy chain restaurant.

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Realtors Are Mad

A co-worker came up to me the other day and said, “Check this site out, Realtors are mad because they have to pay for this, and it’s out there free now.” Riiight. Check it out for funzies.

Zillow.com Your edge in real estate.

I typed in my address and it said my house was worth $126k. It says that a year ago it was worth $99k. It also says I have 3 bathrooms and 1887 sq. ft., when we only have 2 baths and about 400 square feet less. Plus they show my house about a 1/4 mile away from its actual location.

But at least that explains the $239k starting price on a house about 6 further down the road. They must have checked Zillow.com, which says $193k or a similar service and then jacked up the price to allow for negotiating. I hear that after the open house and a month on the market it is down to listing for $199k.

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Another Sign of Spring

Sprouting out of lawns everywhere are another indication that spring is here – For Sale signs. On our street, in the 1/4 mile to the stop sign, there are 3 houses for sale. Well, technically only two because when the realtor put up their sign at one house, it already had the cute SOLD banner across the top.

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Lemon Coolers

Lemon CoolersEveryday when my wife packs up a lunch for me she includes 4-6 cookies for my morning snack.

My current favorite is Archway Iced Molasses Cookies, but I do rotate between a few different ones, so I don’t get burnt out on them. As a matter of fact this week we are having Oreo’s…

One of my all-time favorite morning snack cookies was Sunshine Co.’s Lemon Coolers. A few years ago they stopped showing up on the grocery store shelves, I figured it was just where I was shopping, but pretty soon it dawned on me you couldn’t get them anywhere. What happened was Sunshine Bakery was bought out by Keebler and those rat-bastard little elves in their hollow tree stopped making ’em.

While getting the links for yesterday’s Girl Scout cookie post, I noticed that one of the bakeries made something called a Lemon Cooler. Hot Dang! I started to formulate a plan to drive around to shopping centers this weekend and cornering the market on Lemon Cooler Girl Scout cookies. Of the four boxes Donna ordered, none were the coolers. As luck would have it though, the woman we bought our four from had a box that someone ordered but didn’t want. We didn’t have the $3.50 on us, but promised to gladly pay her Tuesday for a box today.

I ripped open the box and popped one of the half-moon shaped cookies into my mouth. Mmmm…wait a minute, they’re close, but not the same. Something was missing. I looked at the box and realized what it was, the fat. Right there on the front it says “Reduced Fat.”

Oh, well, on the bright side, I just saved a bunch of money.

Olympic Notebook

What’s up with the blue lines in the snow? I can almost understand the ones that are marking a corridor down the hill, but if you don’t get points off for skiing outside the lines, why bother? And just what purpose do the ones perpendicular to the course serve? The lines are all fuzzy too. This is the Olympics, man, every 4 years, big worldwide audience, couldn’t you get them a little sharper?

Super G? Is there a Regular G?

Giant Slalom, same question? (And is it just me or does the word slalom look misspelled?)

Curling. Enough said.

If Skeleton is the opposite of the Luge, why don’t we have Backwards Bobsledding?

I’m thinking that those women’s ice dancing costumes might be sexy with all that “skin” showing, if they didn’t look like they were designed by the eliminees of Bravo’s show Runway.

Who designed the medals? They look colored CDs on a ribbon. And why does it take 6 people 10 hours to make one?

So far the coolest thing about the Olympics was in the surreal opening ceremony, red-clad in-line skaters with specially designed flame-shooting helmets. I gotta get me one of those. Wait here while I go check Ebay….nope, but it is only a matter of time.

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