Try it again
Ok, depending on what time of day you check this, it will look incomplete as I wil be saving as I go to not lose stuff this time around. Wow it’s taken me 2 days to get the time to continue this. Let’s see if I can recreate my train of thought from Monday.
Over the weekend, Alison and I were driving along and pulled up behind a Cadillac Cimarron. I said to her “There is one of the biggest jokes every in the automobile industry….” The Cimmaron was Cadillac’s attempt to get into the low cost, compact car market. They basically took a Chevy Cavalier, put different headlights, taillights and badging on it. It was a total joke. The particular Cimmarron we were behind was beat up, the paint was faded and was in overall dilapatated condition. The signature mark for this vehicle was the big, stick on block letters on the rear passenger window that said “EVERGLADES PEST CONTROL” The driver of the vehicle was a middle aged woman with a big straw hat and large black sunglasses. The dashboard of the vehicle was covered with various adornments. What a piece of junk.
Over the weekend Ali and finished watching the 3 original Star Wars flicks. It was cool watching it on the big screen with the surround sound cranked up. However watching the originals after viewing the new threesome gives you a different perspective on things. Here are a few things that stuck out.
In the first movie when Obi-Wan and Darth have their battle it seems much more anti-climactic. After seeing their long history portrayed in the new movies, you would have expected much more out of this battle. Nevermind that compared to the new movies, Obi-Wan and Darth look like they are fighting underwater, there is just very little emotion or dialogue that you would expect. It’s sort of like oh there is Obi-Wan who I haven’t seen in 25 or 30 years, the guy that cut off my legs, the guy that taught me how to be a Jedi, let’s fight.
Princess Leia was hot. In Return of the Jedi she is in some super skimpy outfits that showed off a top notch body that I didn’t quite remember. Mark Hamill’s transformation from a good looking guy in the first movie to a weird looking freak 6 years later is more than a bit disturbing. He also is just a tiny guy. The scenes where he is with Vader he looks child-like in comparison. I also didn’t quite understand how Darth Vader in the final movie, in the final battle was kicking ass, having little problem with Luke and then with a snap of the fingers when he reads Luke’s mind about Leia, Luke gets his second wind and drives Vader back. Then Vader collapses onto his knees and Luke cuts off his robotic hand. Somehow losing the robotic hand has put Vader on death’s door. That didn’t make sense then and makes less sense now. However it still gave me chills when Vader picked up the emperor and threw him down the hole. Of course again it made little sense the emperor, with sparks flying out of his hands, would not be able to use the dark side of the force to thwart Vader before he throws him down the shaft.
I found it quite interesting that in the last scene where the ghosts of Yoda, Obi-Wan and a younger Annikan Skywalker appear, they erased the original Annikan and pasted in the new kid from the new movies. Kind of freaky.
On Sunday, instead of doing our 4 mile walk to the convenience store that was so miserable the week before, we decided to visit the track at the middle school that is less than 3 miles from our house. We walked a few laps and then ran a mile straight. I didn’t expect Ali to be able to do a mile off the bat but she did. It was very humid and warm so we worked up a good sweat very quick. The pace was slower than I would run on my own so I didn’t feel too bad. It was cool being able to time laps and have a definitive measurement of what you accomplished. I think we will continue with it as long as my knee problems don’t flare back up. After we ran we headed over to the local golf course practice green and let Ali try out her 10 year old putter I got off ebay for her. She did very well. With a few lessons and practice I think Ali could be a pretty solid golfer, something I’ll never be.
I saw that Tyson lost AGAIN and this time he is retiring. I don’t get it. Even though he is older he looked to still be in rip em up shape. I remember in his early days, it didn’t matter how big the guy was, once the big oaf got hit by a few of Mike’s sledgehammers you could see the fear in his eyes and then shortly there after Tyson would beat him into submission. It was gripping stuff in a gladiator type of way. You got the feeling you could put a grizzly bear in there and Tyson would kick its ass. Even though throughout the years he has proven himself to be a first class thug, a convicted rapist and just an all around asshole, there is still part of me that feels sad for the guy. It’s sad to see him lay down like a dog after once being the ultimate power puncher. Hopefully he stays retired, I don’t need any more pathetic performances to water down my memories of when he was a human buzzsaw.
Michale Jackson was found innocent of all charges. I had heard before that it was expected he would be acquitted so I wasn’t all that taken back or outraged as many people I talked to were. I saw the Martin Bashir piece so I got a good taste of just how eccentric and weird this guy is. However I also am very aware of the depths of human behavior and the idea that many people have no problems making up events in order to make huge personal profits is a reality. Michael is a huge, easy target with infinitely deep pockets. To be honest I have no idea and no real basis to say he was guilty or innocent. I do know it’s creepy to me but creepy doesn’t necessarily mean he molested children. Evidently the jury agreed. I expect Mikey to move out of the country in short order.
On Monday night I woke up Ali and myself from talking (yelling) in my sleep. I blurted out “Get your ass on the ground!” If I remember it correctly I was in some sort of security role, this guy was giving me attitude and I snapped.
This time next week I’ll be in Vegas, hopefully happy with my early returns from my craps playing. I will have already seen the Cirque De Soleil show the night before.
I just noticed I crossed the 10,000 view mark on the blog. It took 2 and a half years but the hits have been steadily increasing over time. I am always amazed when I am contacted by people I never knew that stumbled across the site and come back to read on a regular basis. It’s a cool thing.
Todays one liner (this one I came up with and used in an email to the VP of GE Capital when I was angered about layoffs and general BS that was going on)
“You can put sugar on shit, it’s still shit…”
That email earned me a discussion with our local manager who advised me against this sort of behavior.