Rants

I needed breakfast cereal for this week, so Donna sent me off to pick out a box while she shopped in the fresh veggie area. This is a favored strategy of hers because she knows it can take 10 minutes for me to select a cereal. I mainly eat 2 different kinds, Peanut Butter Captain Crunch or Frosted Mini Wheats, but I like to look at all of them and see if there is something new out or perhaps there is a good free giveaway associated with a kind of cereal.Today I found on boxes of Oatmeal Crisp w/Raisins an offer of a free DVD. I was hooked. The box mentioned 4 TV shows that would be on the DVD, King of Queens, Barney Miller, Mad About You and the Donna Reed Show. I didn’t read the fine print, each DVD was a particular show, Collect All 4! I got one that had a single Mad About You episode. That’s OK, I liked that show. Donna and I watched it with lunch. They chose to include the episode entitled, “Coming Home” about the day Paul and Jamie bring home their new baby girl, Mabel and both of us were disappointed. That is about the time we stopped watching the show, both of us thought is was best when about just a couple and their lives, we felt that the baby thing was just a stunt to prop up the show for another year. Oh well.

One of the linkees off of the Miata Diaries site (the neurotic fishbowl) is having another CD Swap, called Burn-It. I’ve done the last 3, but this time I don’t think I’ll play.

In the earlier ones you were placed in a group of 4 people, so you sent out a CD to the other three and theoretically you would get 3 CDs back. Invariably, one person would lame out and not do it. So I would send out 3 and get 2 back. Disappointing. Last time Kymberlie decreed that in order to see who was or was not sending out discs that every person who participated should send her a CD as verification. This worked, as in my group I received back three CDs, one from every other member. Trouble is I had to mail one to Kymberlie, so I still sort of got short changed, I mailed out 4 CDs and got back 3…

Today it was positively spring-like, so after work we decided to take an hour or so walk in Hitchcock Woods right after work. As we started the cross country team from the local high school had run the 2 miles over from the school to do a couple laps of the first little loop by the entrance that we use. After we got a little deeper in, as usual, we had the quiet of the woods mainly to ourselves. We did see one fellow walking with a couple of his dogs , but our loops didn’t really intersect. About a 200 yards from exiting the woods we saw a woman walking her dog and talking on her cell phone. Jeez. No place is sacred. Just what is it that some folks? If you are going to be having a phone conversation why don’t you just left your dog run around in your backyard? Then you can watch Dr. Phil and talk.

Besides, depending on how you interpret the rules, maybe you shouldn?t even have a cell phone in there:
7) Leave radios and all audio equipment at home so the solitude of the forest may be enjoyed by all.

This evening after work Donna and I had our yearly eye exams. Part of the comprehensive exam is to have some drops put in your eyes to dilate your pupils. After they get them cranked wide open the doctor comes in and shines a 10,000,000 candle power light in both eyes several times from several different angles. Not the funest thing in the world and while not physically painful it is mentally.

New this time is a camera that takes a snapshot of the inside of your eye. It is a Cannon 10D on the back of some machine that of course flashes another very bright light into your wide open eyeball. You can then check out what the doctor sees when he looks in there. Cool. They will take a picture every year and then the computer can compare the images and spot stuff so small that the doctor might miss.

It has been 3 hours since I got the drops and my pupils still look like saucers. And boy does that make the PC monitor bright.