I’ll tell ya, this thing still sounds damned good. I think it’s going to make the stack cut.
Aug 262007
Aug 242007
These are but a few of the terms to be found on the tantalizing box in my garage.
The process has begun.
Tommy helped me get it to my house at lunch today. Charles is coming to help me tomorrow with the old entertainment center and television, as well as deploying the new one. I expect to be done (except for little stuff like universal remote control reprogramming) by mid-afternoon. That’s sittin’ right with the new TV, the Xbox 360, and the HD-DVD player. (That’s another first for me; I’ve never waded into a format war before. At $180 to add the HD-DVD player to the Xbox 360, it seemed like a slam-dunk, so I bit.)
The tech will be here Tuesday to get my HD cable and DVR going, in plenty of time to catch LSU and Mississippi State in HD on Thursday night. I’ve already verified that I’ve got HD of the networks coming in now, so I’ll be able to see those tomorrow.
Pumped? Oh yeah, you could say that.
Aug 222007
I went to Costco at lunchtime today with Cheri and Sandra. I was going to get some more work drinks, but I forgot. Instead I bought the tiny, inexpensive digital camera I wished I’d had with me at the mall on Monday, because I had a couple more thoughts that I just couldn’t flesh out with a shitty cell phone camera. I’ll keep them to myself, for now that I have the necessary tool, they might become future posts.
The camera is the size of a deck of cards, and fits just right in my front pocket now that I have no need to carry a pack of Marlboro Lights there. You can’t exactly whip an SLR out to capture the moment, you know? I think I’ll carry this little guy with me everywhere and see what it does for my blogging. I’d guess you can expect equal parts “isn’t this majestic, the way the sunlight hits it?” and “wow, look at that chick’s thong showing!”
Speaking of smoking, I pulled myself off the patch Monday afternoon because I thought it was giving me a headache, and the headache I thought it was giving me was trés unpleasant. Well, it turns out my headache was caused by tension in my neck and shoulders, and had nothing to do with nicotine. But now I’ve been off the patch for 50 hours, and I’m feeling pretty good, and all of the nicotine is gone from one’s body in about 72. So why should I go back on them? I’m thinking I shouldn’t. I’m carrying one with me everywhere just in case, but I’m thinking this quit will go down as nine days of 14-mg patches, and then nothing. I certainly do have a lot of 14-mg patches left. My box of 7-mg patches is unopened; perhaps I’ll return it.
On another note, I think it’s important that we make learning a lifelong activity, don’t you? I’m therefore pleased to report that I have availed myself of an extracurricular educational opportunity. Obviously detecting tremendous potential, Sandra is giving me “strong black woman” lessons. Now I love Sandra to pieces and find her endlessly emulable, so this will be a good thing by definition.
Plus, it makes her laugh nearly uncontrollably, and it’s such a melodious and joyous sound that I think I’ll continue to generate it when I can.
Aug 202007
I went to Madison Square today (willingly). It’s still 100°, and I didn’t get a walk this morning before I went to work, and I need 7500 steps today, and there you go. Melanie was game.
I don’t like malls at all, and I couldn’t tell you the last time I was in that one. It might have been 2005. They’ve remodeled substantially. There used to be an escalator right here:
Now, apparently they just tether you to this thing, located in the same vicinity, and sling you to where you want to be:
The remodel is reasonably pleasant. The floor is brighter, and the furnishings are much more comfortable. And yet, the creeping stench of death is upon Madison Square. I’d guess it’s down to 80% occupied. No sit-down restaurants remain (there were three), though there are three on the perimeter. Oh, and take a look at the noontime photos above. See all those shoppers?
A substantially reconstructed sister property dealt it a good shot of misery, and I think this bazillion-dollar Peoplequarium will probably effectively finish it off when it opens in another several months. It may limp along for another several years as The Mall at the Parkway and University did, but would it be at all surprising if at least one anchor location was vacant as soon as a year from now?
I’d say good riddance, but if they eventually knock it down, who knows what retail monstrosity will grow in its place? You know, if you don’t get the roots…
Aug 192007
I certainly used to love helping my mom too!
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