Bought it at Walmart last Saturday. Finally watched it today. Not impressed.
Oh, the Effects were great. Acting was okay. But it just didn’t grab me. Seemed rushed.
Rained damned near all day. Hard. Got to work on the front steps awhile but it started a downpour so I really didn’t get a whole lot moved and in place. Enough to tire me out though!
Rented a digger this past weekend. Had the thing from Friday afternoon to this morning. Got pretty much everything done that I wanted to get done so I really don’t feel too bad about spending $450 to get it done. And it was a lot of fun too.
That’s it. I’m alive. Fed. With SWMBO. Inside and dry.
So I got a lot of “stuff†done inside today. Bummed the Dog out cause we haven’t gone for a walk; but, what can one do? It’s freakin’ WET out!
I hate it. Hate Western WaRshington with a passion. Why? Look outside. Middle of June and it’s 64 degrees and WET outside. Fuck.
So I made beef stew for dinner as a consolation food. And cause I like beef stew. Used Thrive veggies for the, well, veggies. Found a chunk of beef in the freezer that needed to be used in a beef stew. Was pretty good; if I do say so myself.
And I did manage to get the trash burned. Which I like doing while it’s actually raining. Cause, you know, embers. Forest. House. SWMBO’s knickers waving in the breeze.
SWMBO is at her class tonight so she won’t be home until late. (Late for me cause I’m old.) Think I’ll go lay down and read a bit.
It was overcast but fairly nice outside so the Dog and I spent as much time as we could out there. I fixed my Rider-Mower then mowed both the front yards, then the back yard. Moved some dirt into the tires I’m putting up to grow my maters this year. (Will probably stick to 1 beefsteak & 1 cherry tomato plants this year.)
Then we went for a walk, and, wouldn’t you know it, about 1/4 mile down the road it started coming down. Damn! Was a wet walk back. Damn. Too Old for this crap.
Not a whole lot else going on. Which is why we’re back to SSDD around here. Started up X-Plane 10 and flew around awhile. Been listening to all my Enigma albums. Made some type of stir-fry dinner that’s been in the freezer since Moses was a little boy. (Noodles were rubbery. Really rubbery.)
Waiting for the MCARC 10-meter Tuesday Rag Chew @ 1930. SWMBO should be home any moment.
The One Burning Question I have for this evening is: How in the name of all that’s Holy can Amazon charge MORE for the electronic version of a book than they do for the printed (then sent to you) version? Just doesn’t make any sense. Look up “Odd Thomas†on Amazon and you’ll see what I’m talking about. It’s Stupid!
Came up with a follow-up to my big hit “She Tried To Leave But I Have A Digger†that I’m gonna call “Maybe I should Have Planted Her In The Garden Out Back.†Hope it does as well.
Overcast all day, but I felt only a couple of rain drops while the Dog and I were out walking. Good! Finally put new laces in my tennis shoes (to replace those the Dog chewed out one night) and we walked the back 40 for the first time in a week or more. Probably more. He saw a big bird he really wanted; but the bird wasn’t having anything to do with it.
Playing with “YouTube Embed,†a plugin for WordPress to show YouTube video’s (obviously). Locally it works great. Would work great on my self-hosted WordPress site (here). Wouldn’t work on my backup blog at wordpress.com (cause they don’t let you install plug-ins) or Blogger (cause it’s, Blogger). Sure would be a lot easier to use than all that code I have to manually add to posts though. I may install it anyway.
Plugged my backup Movie Drive into the Raspberry Pi that’s hooked to the 4th monitor in my room (I usually use it with the laptop for “radio stuffâ€) and it’s been playing a STTOS marathon since last Saturday (except I pause it when I hit the rack). Just now getting into Season 3. Damn. Use it as background noise during the day (I am alone here, but for the Dog, all day).
Well, it did finally start really raining again. Crap!
SWMBO got home just about the same time as the MCARC 10-meter Tuesday Evening Rag Chew so I was a bit late checking in. Would rather talk to her anyday! I could hear everyone if I used that multi-band fan dipole I built 5 or 6 years ago; but it won’t tune for transmitting. Gonna have to check that out.
