I caught a commercial last night for the new movie Borat which had quotes from reviewers, praising the various qualities of the movie. They save their best praise for last in these things, and the reviewer was quoted as calling the movie an “instant comedy classic”. “Instant classic” is an oxymoron, right? Inappropriate hyperbole is…
In one of those eerie coincidences that takes place every now and then, my iPod, playing in shuffle-mode just started playing GnR’s “November Rain”. It is neither cold, nor raining here. But it is November 1st. Two One out of three ain’t bad.
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, I have stepped into the 21st century. That’s right, you are looking at the latest owner of a TiVo device. It is all setup and working and in the few minutes I’ve had to test it (pause live TV, etc.) it is working just as advertised. Not only that,…
The DirecTV service people got her at about 9:40 AM. They were great. They too suspected it was kids who pulled the dish and pole out of the ground. They said that technically, vandalism isn’t covered by the insurance, but they said as long as they didn’t have to dig or replace the pole, they…
I didn’t have the greatest night’s sleep last night for the first time in quite a while. I had “fever dreams”, even thought I have no fever and am not in any way sick. I just kept waking up from the same set of strange dreams throughout the night, and though I went to bed…
When there is no TV, it would appear the thing to do is to be on the phone. In the course of the last two hours or so, I’ve had four phone calls. First, I spoke to jen_ashlock who told me all about their trip upstate. Next, I talked to Doug. We hadn’t talked in…
Here is the situation: 3 urinals are set in a wall. A person occupies the leftmost and rightmost urinal, making the middle one the only that is available. Naturally, that’s the one you use. Now add to this situation the fact that the guy on the left and right of you are having an in-depth,…
On Friday I was wondering what to do with my long Veteran’s Day weekend. It looks as though I will be heading up to Nanuet to visit Norm and Vicky for the weekend. Our agents have met and various contract issues have been hammered out, and that cleared the way for a weekend visit. It…
It was light out crossing the Potomac on the train this morning and so I guess that means we really did “fall back” an hour this weekend. I’m not sure however. My phone still says it’s 8:40 AM, even though the time on it is sync’d with my local T-Mobile network. Perhaps T-Mobile decided to…