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R.I.P.D.
Just saw it this evening.
Entertaining and fun, good effects and whatnot, but …
Listen … what if it had been a John Carpenter production, starting Kurt Russell instead of Beau Bridges?! Don’t get me wrong; I liked the movie and will always be a fan of Bridges, but R.I.P.D. really could have been a seriously over the top cult sort of hit if it had ( Read more... ) -
So I'm driving home from work ...
Before I write this, allow me to make one thing completely clear: I dislike anything that even whiffs of entrapment. I acknowledge that William Claude Dunkenfield had a point about one being unable to cheat an honest man ... if only because a truly honest man rarely places himself in a position of being cheated ... and that all one has to do to ( Read more... ) -
Bored at work
I watched the second hand on the clock slow down.
I concentrated, staring, and it slowed down even more. I counted under my breath and smiled. It was taking a good ninety seconds for just one second to tick off.
The secret was realizing that boredom was an actual physical condition. Not an emotional or mental state, but a physical one. During ( Read more... ) -
Skype?
Do any of you happen to 'Skype,' at all ( Read more... ) -
Well, that was fairly icky
I'm getting partials made. I lost some teeth in the military ... well, okay, I lost the entirety of my lower left side of teeth ... and I've finally decided to get a partial denture ( Read more... ) -
Steamboat Billy
I indulged in roasted garlic this week, much to my dearest wife’s dismay. As some of you might remember, roasted garlic affects me much the same way that helium affects balloons, with the degusting end result being my end gusting in a most de-style.
In-between trips out to the porch (giving the wife and cats a break), an odd memory sprang to mind ( Read more... ) -
See? I’m still alive.
Sorry I haven’t been writing, but life has become … interesting. (And that’s “interesting” by Sailor Jim standards, too.)
My diet has been radically changed in an attempt to better control my diabetes and I’m now living on around 1500 calories a day … 1500 pretty screwed up calories a day. The only meal that hasn’t been overhauled is breakfast, ( Read more... ) -
Errr … is that natural?
Okay, I know that my memory isn’t what it used to be, but I do have pretty good memories of snow storms. I lived in Los Alamos, NM, as a teen (where three feet of snow in a night wasn’t uncommon during the winter) and was stationed in Charlevoix, MI, during my career (where three feet of snow in a night wasn’t uncommon during the summer).
Okay.
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That Government Worker Frame of Mind
Okay, so we’re facing a blizzard and my supervisor comes around to pass the word about coming in the next morning. It was at this point that I discovered that I’ve become a true government worker.
What he said was, “If you do not hear from me by seven, don’t bother coming in.”
What I heard was, “If you turn your phone off before going to bed, you ( Read more... ) -
“Say … what cha looking at, Pop?”
First off, I’m fine and so is Brainless. So don’t worry about either of us.
So, I didn’t have enough time for lunch today and had to buy something, instead of going home. I decided to hit a fish and chips sort of place near work. I bought a two piece lunch and a Diet Pepsi.
Come 1500, I was sick to my stomach and trying hard not to barf. (As a ( Read more... )