Rants

Phone conversation with my sister the other day: We (she and her husband) are giving out Gift Certificates this year, where would you like yours from? You can give me a GC to Amazon.com she continues, you can even email it to me.

I know I really shouldn’t be bothered by this, it is only a few steps further down that slippery slope from the trading of “Wish Lists” that we have practiced these last years, but still somehow it feels like we have crossed a line to me. Why bother. The past few years I have suggested donating to charities in each other’s names, after all none of us needs anything, but I have not been met with enthusiasm. Next year I’m not asking permission, I’m just asking what charity. It’ll be that or nothing. You want something from Amazon or Sports Authority, go buy it.

Monday – Always wondered what all those seagulls were saying… Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine!

Tuesday – The busted piece is still sitting by the PC here. You can’t see that it is missing and Donna ain’t bitching, so I ain’t fixing. (I’m not a complete idiot, I’ll put the piece in a draw in the garage just in case we do decide to fix it.)

Wednesday – There has been a lull in the searching for a litter bag for the new car. Probably crank it up again on Saturday when we are out shopping for other things.

Thursday – Finally posted that fellow’s picture. Top left sunset photo.

Friday – I have nothing to rant about, in spite of a trip to the DMV (it went smoothly), so I am reduced to this lame idea of updating the rest of the weeks posts. What happens tomorrow if nothing happens tomorrow?

With the purchase of a new Miata (actually, it is with the selling of the old) I no longer have barndoors. I am mulling over what to do about the Barndoor Fan Club that I have dabbled with for the past 4 years. I want to give it up, but I hate to see it fade into Internet obscurity (it’s already there) oblivion. I would like for some one to take over, but who. Plus, my Blogdom resides there, so I will have to relocate, ay!

Someone sent me some pictures for posting last Thursday, a couple of nice shots of his Miata in various situations, usually I post them the same day or at the latest the next day. It is a week later, and I still haven’t posted them. I feel bad, but not bad enough to actually do anything about it. Maybe tomorrow…

I have looked high (internet) & low (local Wal-Mart) and I cannot find a simple litter bag for our new car. We want one just like we had in the old car just in tan. It was a small thing, maybe 6″ x 9″. All I can find when I search the net is the Lewis and Clark bag and it is like 12 x 18, yikes, it must be for SUVs. It would overpower the Miata interior. All I can find in the local stores is stuff in black and sized somewhere in-between the above two (which is still too big even if it was the right color.

I’m going to track one down, don’t worry, I’m on it like a dog on a bone.

We bought a new toaster oven on Sunday. We were on the way to the airport to pick up Donna’s mom and needed to kill some time, so we went into a new Wal-Mart in North Augusta. It has only been open a few months and it still has that newness about it that makes shopping there a lot less of a hassle than at an established store. We picked out a nice round shaped unit that we thought would look cool in our newly painted 50’s kitchen. When we got it home and unpacked it there was a piece of the black plastic on the bottom broken off. The box wasn’t even damaged, did it get broke at final packing and they just stuffed in the box? It is really non functional and in such a place that it doesn’t show, so we will live with it. That is much easier than boxing it back up and driving over there to swap it out. We just can’t have nice things….

Borrowed the Finding Nemo DVD from a co-worker before Thanksgiving. When I mentioned it at Donna’s sister’s house on Turkey Day, her Mom said wait until I get back before watching that, as I would like to see it too. Mom came back yesterday, so as we sometimes do, we watched a movie with supper. Of the three of us, I was the only one who found irony in the menu – we were having baked flounder.

We got a new washer and dryer on Saturday. $500 at Home Depot. Free delivery and take away they said. When the driver showed up with our new items he asked, “Did they tell you about the $10 charge for take away?” Nope, I guess we’ll just put them in the street. (We live in the City of Aiken and Thursday is trash day and they will haul away anything you put in the street.) When the driver asked what we wanted for them ,we said nothing, we just want them gone. He said he knew someone who might take them and he would come back and get them after he did his other deliveries. About 5 o’clock he called and said He’d get them on Sunday morning. It is nearly 7:00 PM and they are still out there. Guess I’ll just drag them into the street tomorrow….