“I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face.” – Rodney Dangerfield- I canceled my Entertainment Rewards 30-Day Trial Membership today. Tonight, at the Galaxy Theater, I saw: How bad could this movie be with Gwyneth Paltrow … Read more
A clip of an AIM conversation I had with Robert today… shushaker13: Well, finishing up lunch here, and yammering with mom, too. I have to say, between the time before we fell asleep and driving to Durham today, I had such a feeling of “all is right with the world.” Very peaceful and fulfilled. You … Read more
You know you’re old (again) when you see people you used to work with in the obituaries. We didn’t call him “Suprdave” at work, at least I didn’t, and don’t recall ever hearing anyone else at work call him that. I wonder from what he died. He was only 58. DAVID CAREY BRIDEGUM “SUPRDAVE” PASSED … Read more
You know you’re old when… …you spend 20 minutes on the phone with your mother (when you’ve probably never in your life been on one with her before for longer than 5 minutes), talking about your respective colonoscopies. I had mine on Sept 22nd, she had hers this morning. In the spirit of sharing deeply, … Read more
Neither is the instrumentation panel on my dashboard smashed to bits, nor has the negative terminal on my battery been tampered with at all. Nonetheless, my Check Engine light is no longer illuminated. I repeat. At work today, I noticed that the door leading out to the dock area is being propped open by two … Read more
I spent some time messing with my Rhapsody subscription today. I can see that it’s not really going to “work,” for me, and will definitely be canceling my Trial 14-Day Subscription on or before the 30th. I met Joe for coffee tonight at Helios at 7:30. Leaving my house, I did a “spider check,” of … Read more
Today, in our area, it’s Gay Pride 2005. Not everyone in the world is proud though: PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail-in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard: Each secret can be a regret, hope, funny experience, unseen kindness, fantasy, belief, fear, betrayal, erotic desire, feeling, confession, … Read more
I’ve accepted a free trial (14 days) membership to Simply Audiobooks. Yesterday, I received my first two books. The first one is The Millionaire Next Door by Stanley and Danko. The unabridged version is 7 CDs, and I received the first 4 of them. I’m not sure why the other 3 didn’t come, but think … Read more
Robert dropped me off at the Raleigh Endo Center at about 6:50 AM. While checking in, and verifying all of the information on the forms, I found that they’d made me ten years younger. Bonus. I reluctantly made the correction, signed all kinds of forms, and then sent Robert on his way. Shortly after he … Read more
I woke up to having no RoadRunner service, which pissed me off. I called, and the person ended up diagnosing, “The server is coming back up right now. We must have lost it in the storm last night. Try again in 30 minutes, an hour at the most.” Little did I know then, it would … Read more