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Little Toy Airplane

I have now burned my through 15 of the 24 episodes in season one of LOST. Number 12 was Kate-centric and dealt with a bank robbery she masterminded to get a little toy airplane out of a safe deposit box. And it isn’t explained at all why this is such a big deal. I do remember that there is a future episode that does, could be this season or even the next one. I still have the plastic replica one that came with her action figure which is long gone.

You can see a photo I took of her McFarlane figure in the Action Figure Gallery. It also includes the other LOST figures I had, plus a couple I would Christmas-fy during the holiday season. You can get a full 6-figure set of the McFarland Series 1 action figures on eBay right now for a mere $210.00.

Red Sox chances of making the Wild Card round in the 2026 playoffs: 51.3%

 

Got It In One

About a year ago, I subscribed to the New York Times Games with a seven-day trial. Santa Fe Sally got me started with Strands and I wanted to try out some of the other games as well. I liked the Strands so much I went back and did every one in the archives, and my count now stands at 785 with a 100% success rate. I’ve been doing the Mini crossword, and now the new Midi crossword as well. I’ve been playing with Connections too, although this one is pretty hard; I’ve done 199 with a 63% success rate.

I also started doing the granddaddy of their games, Wordle. Everyone has their favorite starter word; mine is STAND, and my second word, if nothing in STAND hits, is COVER which has worked out pretty well. I’ve finished 218 with a 95% solve rate; well, last Sunday this happened. –>

Red Sox chances of making the Wild Card round in the 2026 playoffs: 46.6%

 

Down The Dharma Hatch

Since the last post 2 days ago, I have watched 6 7 8 more episodes of LOST. That quote below is from episode 5 (or 6) where some of our castaways move from the beach to a cave where there is shelter and a fresh waterfall.

“If we can’t live together, we’re going to die alone.”

Since the last post 2 days ago, the Red Sox have lost 10-3 and won 17-1. Oh, and they fired manager Alex Cora and five of the staff.

Red Sox chances of making the Wild Card round in the 2026 playoffs: 39.1%

 

LOST Again

LOST Character Poster

I’m not sure how far I’ll make it, but I’ve started to rewatch LOST. Today I watched both of the 2-episode pilots. Two down, 119 to go. The last time I tried this, I don’t think I made it past these first 2 episodes.

If you have several days and want to see what I posted here about my original watching of the whole show, and any subsequent rewatching of the show, hit this link to the tag TDTVS. It is annoying, though, because it comes back with the most recent posts and goes chronologically backwards. I used to have a plugin that made it start at the beginning, but that ship sailed a long time ago.

We missed the show’s whole first season and only got turned on to it towards the end of the second season, so we had to go back, and watch season one on DVDs and then caught season two when those DVDs came out. Here is my favorite post from those early days of LOST, The Lost Weekend.

Red Sox chances of making the Wild Card round in the 2026 playoffs: 43.8%

 

Very Losty

While trolling Netflix for something to watch, I came upon Yellowjackets and I remember there was good buzz about the show when it first came out in 2021. It had a 7.7 IMDb ranking, so I started watching it late Thursday night; I stopped after two episodes. On Friday I did my morning grocery shopping and watched the other 8 episodes of season one. Saturday passed in a blur of all 9 episodes of season 2.

When I say, “Very Losty, I mean like the show LOST. I’m talking about a plane crash, scenes of the past, of being in the wilderness, followed by scenes of the same characters in the future, plus lots of questions about what is going on, and whose answers pose more questions. None of that mattered; I was sucked right in and buzzed through the show in two hazy days on the couch.

Now there is already a third season done, and the fourth series has just started shooting. The show is a Showtime feature, so #3 is available on Paramount+. Should I wait on watching season three until the 4th (and final) season?

I’ve Been Blogging Too Long

It has been 8,108 days since I wrote my first blog post, Happy 2002, on January 1st of that year. That post consisted of 34 words. Since then there have been, not including this one, 6,047 more posts written with a total word count of 1,401,582 words. The average post word count overall is 232. Some posts have had a lot fewer words, including some with no words, just a picture. Others have been so wordy that you might not want to read the whole thing. The shortest post, That Hosting Company VIII cont., was a mere 4 words and the wordiest post, BMW Ultimate Drive for the Susan G. Komen Foundation was 2,374 words.

One of my and my wife’s favorite features on the blog is the “On This Date” widget in the right column. It is set up to throw a link to a couple of posts from the same date as when you are looking at the page. It is kind of fun to get tossed back into the past and see what was going on it 2002 or 2008 or 2014, etc.

Yesterday’s headliner in the past links was Sorry To Leave You In The Lurch that concerned a nail in the Miata’s tire, Netfix movies and the TV show LOST. There were seven links to other places on the web in the post and not a single one lead me to where they were originally when I wrote the post in 2008 or 15 years in the past.

The first 2 are for Netflix movies and I linked to them using a URL shortener TinyURL and the first movie’s text is just called “this movie” while the second one lists the title and it is called The Good German, but send me to a Netflix error page. The last five are basically just screencaps from the show LOST.

When I take these time jumps to the past me and there are links that don’t work for various reasons, no S at the end of HTTP, the site is no longer there, etc., I will usually try and fix them. This time there are seven and that many caused me to write this post, but because I’ve got nothing else to do and even though these new links may fall by the wayside as well in the coming years, I still went ahead and put my Internet Sleuth Hat on. So if you click on Sorry To Leave You In The Lurch you too can be whisked away to 15 years ago and get a peek into my 2008 mind.

P.S. The word count for this post is an above average 423…

Times Miata Driven since 10/28/22: 9