Rants

If you have been reading here this week you know we had an ice storm here Sunday/Monday. I bet almost 75% of the people in the area lost power. Some for only a little while others are still without. Our power was only off until Tuesday evening, but cable didn’t come back on until Thursday night, we were lucky.

I didn’t see this, but my wife read it to from this morning’s paper. We have what they call Rants & Raves where people call or email in their bouquets or brickbats. I’m sure a lot of places do this now a days, sells papers. One person wrote in to complain that the cable company was lax in their responsibility because they were still without cable and they were going to cancel. Don’t you think that maybe the cable company volunteered their bucket trucks to help out the power guys restore electricity to houses and that might be a little bit more important than somebody getting to watch QVC or Jerry Springer.

This morning’s paper reported that NASA had lost contact with the Spirit rover:

“Since Wednesday, its 19th day on Mars, the Spirit had sent back to Earth only meaningless radio noise or simple beeps acknowledging receipt of commands. Among the possible causes: a corruption of its software or computer memory.”

I find it suspicious, first the British probe Beagle fails to report in and now this…is it a simple “Windows Mars Edition” bug in the rover or could the Martians be sabotaging our attempts at fact finding?

Back in December I chronicled a major event in my life, the purchase of new underwear, twice. You get what you pay for. When you spend $10 for 5 pairs of underwear you, get underwear worth $2. In the short span of perhaps 4 washings the briefs from Target are coming apart. In 3 of the 5, the elastic in the waistband is coming un-sewn. In all the color is fading fast. While we were on Hilton Head Island this weekend, Donna and I did a little outlet mall shopping and one of the stores we ventured into was a Jockey store. They had some nice briefs that were 3 for $11. After taking a pair out of the pack, I could see that I was definitely a size large in their world. I snagged a couple boxes. Donna was over digging through the store’s clearance table and when I showed her my picks she said, put them back. Huh!?! On the table she was looking at were two of the very same things I had in my hand, but priced at $3.99. Niiice.
P.S. If you click on that briefs link, what you will see is exactly what I look like in them. 🙂 (Well, maybe, wished I looked like. Whater ever you do, don’t press the “Detail” button.)

They pull me back in. Tonight’s West Wing was one of the better ones in a long time. It was totally unbelievable that a President would do what was done tonight, but then again, isn’t someone about to announce a trip to Mars?

Got a call this afternoon from one of Liz Goddard’s flunkies, next week’s session of county court has been postponed. I don’t have jury duty, so now I have to come up with something else to write about.

And because my session was postponed, I’m off the hook until the next time my name gets drawn. Because jury notices go out all the time the people who are supposed to be there the week after next will get to hear the cases I might have heard next week. If all goes according to this schedule, I should get another call to duty sometime in the year 2019.

We watched this movie tonight and afterwards my wife said to me, “Your taste in movies sucks.” You know, I kind of have to agree.

This makes watching Anger Management all the more pressing. I didn’t pick that movie, it was thrust upon me. One of the workplace DVD swap club members bought this movie and when he added it to his list he asked if I was interested, I said no and made sure to put a No in that column of the spreadsheet. A week ago when he brought it in to give to someone else, he commented on how it was a good movie and I should see it. I reminded him of my No and helpfully explained that I didn’t like Adam Sandler and Jack Nicholson is not funny (in comedies) to me. Today when he got the movie back, he came and offered it to me. Again. Sensing the only way to get some closure on this issue was to take the movie, so I took it. Don’t worry I’ll let you know what I, and of course my wife, think of it.