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Monthly Archives: July 2013
2003: Ten Years of Marriage (plus a few days)
Saturday was an extremely busy, busy day for the two of us. Not quite the crazy one we experienced a decade earlier…Somara and her parents didn’t have a fender bender with an uninsured driver. We got up early to take … Continue reading
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Thanks for all the good wishes and messages
It was a nice several days off to celebrate our 10th anniversary and my 45th birthday. I have a ton of posts to put up. I jointly decided to take it easy along with the errands I had to get completed. … Continue reading
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Happy (Belated) Birthday to Christina
My fellow Leo and friend of the last 20 years via Dynamic Graphics celebrated this Saturday. We even got to talk on the phone for a little bit! This year I managed to keep up the lion-themed gifts with some … Continue reading
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Good news about two of our cats
I closed the poll several days ago since the traffic had mostly evaporated and Isis seemed to be the clear winner. Even with just a 50% vote, there were enough implied votes for the name despite those people not getting … Continue reading
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Happy 73rd Birthday Bugs Bunny
Bugs hides his age well because he has always had gray hair! It’s great to see Bugs and the gang having new adventures on TV even if you need cable to see them, CN hasn’t assembled a proper DVD set for The … Continue reading
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The Homer is a reality!
Somebody built the car Homer designed and destroyed his half-brother’s business with! It’s a pretty approximation from what I remember of the episode. There’s a movie of the vehicle doing donuts too. Mmm…do-nuts. Next thing up for the car is … Continue reading
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2003: Ten years ago was a long, long flight to Las Vegas
I re-read what I posted five years ago and I would stand by most of it. These days I am definitely re-experiencing the fatigue of that great day. I could use a nap since I have difficulty sleeping in. I … Continue reading
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R.I.P.D.: Don’t Bother
Short version…this movie was made 16 years ago, was equally crappy and called Men in Black. The twist? These heroes hunt malevolent dead spirits instead of aliens. Not very original there neither, SyFy when it was SciFi had something similar called G v. … Continue reading
Another defense of the Eagles from the AV Club, right on
My reconciliation with Classic Rock began roughly 10 years ago when I bought the remastered boxed set of The Eagles 1972-1980 catalog. After The Long Run, there really isn’t any point why Frey and Henley should keep flogging a dead horse … Continue reading
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Hello Alamo Lakeline!
Last night we saw The Host (the Korean movie, not the flick written by the Twitard author) at the new and largest Alamo Drafthouse Theater on record. It’s only two miles north of the old Lake Creek. Now there’s 10 screens, … Continue reading
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RIP Mel Smith
He was best remembered in America as the albino assistant to Count Rugen in The Princess Bride but Mel was a bigger, more well-known talent in the UK. He often worked with Rowan Atkinson, directed movies (The Tall Guy with Jeff Goldblum) and … Continue reading
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Farewell Alamo Lake Creek
Today is (or was) the last day for the Alamo Drafthouse’s third (or was it fourth) location in Austin. It was originally the first franchise, meaning it wasn’t owned/operated by Alamo’s founders Tim and Carrie League, so the menu had … Continue reading
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The Way, Way Back: Worth Seeing
The majority of coming-of-age movies are either really great because they nail the emotional element about the transition, or they’re incredibly lame, contrived, cliché and are a marketing vehicle for Disney’s latest tweener slave. Fortunately, Way is in the former category for … Continue reading
NHL re-alignment is done
On the upside, at least they got everything worked out to let the NHL players participate in the Olympics. Since the Winter Games will be in Russia, Canada won’t receive a mulligan this time, namely the whiney Cindy Crosby. Now … Continue reading
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Tests came back positive and I am vindicated!
I had my blood drawn and whizzed in a jar a couple weeks ago because it had been over 90 days since the physical. If you recall, both contained bad trends: possible kidney failure and type two diabetes. The latter I … Continue reading
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