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I've been fighting off this nasal funk for the past few days. Inadvertantly got lots of lake water up my nose while swimming at Smith Lake last Saturday, and that didn't help. Yummy. Much joy. I swear I could taste lake water every time I breathed for two days. That can't be a healthy thing.
It's been a busy couple of weeks since we returned from vacation. Life always seems busier after a trip, but I guess it's just because you spend enough days relaxin' that you're not ready for the busy-ness of the real world when you get back. Oh, well. Busy isn't all bad.
I turned 35 this month. I don't feel any older, but there's something about being halfway to 70 which is humbling. Losing hair, gaining weight... Maybe I'll just shave my head and get my ears pierced...LOL. I ought a cheap Wal-mart road bike in defiance of my age this week. Still, it's an all aluminum-frame, aluminum rims...pretty lightweight, far less rolling resistance on the asphalt than the knobby tires of a mountain bike. I'm still determined (need to use that word more effectively) to get in shape, and I have already ridden it more in the past week than I've ridden my high-end mountain bike in the past year. Feels good to do that...
...
Isn't it weird how fast TV shows are coming out on DVD? Who needs Tivo? Okay, most shows are like $40 a season, but if it's good enough a show, it'd be worth it. I want to pick up "House", seasons one and two (on a side note, that's "House," not "Full House" (LOL)...I'm hoping clarification of that will end some of the quirky looks I get when I say that).
It took like 10 years for the first Star Wars to ever come to VHS back in "the day." Now you can almost pick up movies on DVD while their still showing in dollar theaters; you can pick up TV shows of the previous season before the next season even premieres. Heck, you can forego the whole DVD thing and download the shows to iTunes.
I guess immediate gratification drives much of our consumerism.
It's like that scene in Spaceballs where they're watching themselves on TV and Col. Sanders talks about how they're selling the movies before they're even finished:
Dark Helmet: What the hell am I looking at? When does this happen in the movie?
Colonel Sandurz: Now. You're looking at now sir. Everything that happens now, is happening now.
Dark Helmet: What happened to then?
Colonel Sandurz: We passed then.
Dark Helmet: When?
Colonel Sandurz: Just now. We're at now, now.
Dark Helmet: Go back to then!
Colonel Sandurz: When?
Dark Helmet: Now.
Colonel Sandurz: Now?
Dark Helmet: Now!
Colonel Sandurz: I can't.
Dark Helmet: Why?
Colonel Sandurz: We missed it.
Dark Helmet: When?
Colonel Sandurz: Just now.
Dark Helmet: When will then be now?
Colonel Sandurz: Soon.
Dark Helmet: How soon?
Video Operator: Sir!
[Dark Helmet has becomed far too confused and everyone now ignores him even though he's center screen]
Dark Helmet: What?
Video Operator: We've identified their location.
Dark Helmet: Where?
(source: IMDB)
It's been a busy couple of weeks since we returned from vacation. Life always seems busier after a trip, but I guess it's just because you spend enough days relaxin' that you're not ready for the busy-ness of the real world when you get back. Oh, well. Busy isn't all bad.
I turned 35 this month. I don't feel any older, but there's something about being halfway to 70 which is humbling. Losing hair, gaining weight... Maybe I'll just shave my head and get my ears pierced...LOL. I ought a cheap Wal-mart road bike in defiance of my age this week. Still, it's an all aluminum-frame, aluminum rims...pretty lightweight, far less rolling resistance on the asphalt than the knobby tires of a mountain bike. I'm still determined (need to use that word more effectively) to get in shape, and I have already ridden it more in the past week than I've ridden my high-end mountain bike in the past year. Feels good to do that...
...
Isn't it weird how fast TV shows are coming out on DVD? Who needs Tivo? Okay, most shows are like $40 a season, but if it's good enough a show, it'd be worth it. I want to pick up "House", seasons one and two (on a side note, that's "House," not "Full House" (LOL)...I'm hoping clarification of that will end some of the quirky looks I get when I say that).
It took like 10 years for the first Star Wars to ever come to VHS back in "the day." Now you can almost pick up movies on DVD while their still showing in dollar theaters; you can pick up TV shows of the previous season before the next season even premieres. Heck, you can forego the whole DVD thing and download the shows to iTunes.
I guess immediate gratification drives much of our consumerism.
It's like that scene in Spaceballs where they're watching themselves on TV and Col. Sanders talks about how they're selling the movies before they're even finished:
Dark Helmet: What the hell am I looking at? When does this happen in the movie?
Colonel Sandurz: Now. You're looking at now sir. Everything that happens now, is happening now.
Dark Helmet: What happened to then?
Colonel Sandurz: We passed then.
Dark Helmet: When?
Colonel Sandurz: Just now. We're at now, now.
Dark Helmet: Go back to then!
Colonel Sandurz: When?
Dark Helmet: Now.
Colonel Sandurz: Now?
Dark Helmet: Now!
Colonel Sandurz: I can't.
Dark Helmet: Why?
Colonel Sandurz: We missed it.
Dark Helmet: When?
Colonel Sandurz: Just now.
Dark Helmet: When will then be now?
Colonel Sandurz: Soon.
Dark Helmet: How soon?
Video Operator: Sir!
[Dark Helmet has becomed far too confused and everyone now ignores him even though he's center screen]
Dark Helmet: What?
Video Operator: We've identified their location.
Dark Helmet: Where?
(source: IMDB)
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