Brought the Jetta back to the dealership today, terminating the lease a couple of weeks early… it’s already paid for and some might thing it foolish to not keep it around the last couple of weeks, but having three cars on my insurance cranked it up a bunch of money. Not to mention that it was already low on gas – why bother filling it? Having a 6-speed has been fun but it is a VR6 and gas is rather pricy. Not to mention that I had the inspection this week… why wait? Besides, the dealership was happy to have it back, anyway: the thing had under 17,500 miles (after 36 months) and was in good shape, aside from the scratch on the passenger wheel well, complete with an entire log of maintenance records. Someone that works for that dealership is going to be happy to get that car at wholesale!
Sunday Night Baseball on ESPN? Yeah, it was, but it didn’t finish until it was Monday Morning Baseball. Am I surprised? Not after the marathon the Yankees and Red Sox played on Friday, setting the record for the longest 9-inning game ever.
This questions has been flung at me a lot lately. You see, my new MINI Cooper came in a couple of weeks ago and I just picked it up today. The problem with that is that the lease on my Jetta isn’t over yet. And yep, I’ve still got my Wrangler.
I’ve often described Connecticut as the wasteland between New York City and Boston. As each respective metropolis grew, the land between them has shrunk leaving and divided between the two critical masses. Consequently, the culture of CT has often been tied to one of the two cities, depending on which part of the state you live in. As well and has lost its own identity in the process…
CNN.com: Suspect confesses to killing JonBenet Ramsey
There’s a whole lotta people in the world currently chewing on they own shoe, having addimantly accused JonBenet’s parents for her murder for over a decade.
Guess it’s time to spout off a bit about the foiled terror plot, seeing as it’s been all over the place over the last 24 hours. Continue reading Props to the UK→
Don’t get too excited… she’s still fucking. Well, fucking up stuff. She fucks up this here article by trying to say that she’s “very shy,” that she “has had sex with only two men during her lifetime,” and she “relates to the late Princess Diana, who was hounded by photographers.”
Hey honey: shy people don’t flaunt their million-dollar-worth fun bags in front of cameras and then complain that they have photographers following them, ya horse’s ass.
Apple Stores are now offline. Flickr is filled with Apple banners (most of them joking about Vista). I’m logged into two read-only IRC channels on two different IRC servers… what does this mean?
The Jobs Distortion Field is beginning to charge itself and build down in California. Yippie. An Apple religious revival. Whoo!
Thankfully, I’m in meetings from 10-11 this morning, so I should be immune :)
Workout Guy: Yeah, well, I’ve got a performance problem… wait… [looks down] does this thing work? Yeah, so I’ve got this performance problem… and I told her that… we gave it some time, but now too many balls have dropped and I’ve this exposure problem…
–In a gym locker room
Done in the spirit of Overheard in New York. Not nearly as “exact” as their quotes, but, jeesh… made me wonder if a conversation about some kinda rash was about to begin.
Even so, while I was listening to it, I kept wondering what Jack and Chrissy would think of it.
As you may or may not have heard, there is a tanker in the Pacific Ocean that is slowly sinking… the crew has been rescued, which is really good news. Last I heard, the tanker looked like it would be going in the drink. A tanker that is full of cargo. Full of cars, in fact. Full of brand new cars. While my Mini in route from England to California… via a boat. Riiiiight.
A large bucket of popcorn and two sodas: damned if I know… $15, maybe?
Listening to Kevin Smith tell [critic] Joel Siegel that he acted like a newbie, by walking out on a screening of his latest movie, when Siegel doesn’t even know it’s Smith talking: priceless.
It’s simply amazing to me that a President getting caught swearing on an unexpectedly active microphone is getting more press than the mini-war that he was talking about in the first place. And that he didn’t sound like a moron while speaking without a teleprompter… true, it was more like a layman than a head of state, but in it’s own way it sorta humanizes the office. I dunno if that’s good or bad; you usually only see these guys in a didactic manner. Who knows how these guys act in the West Wing?
Even though I’m no mind reader, I have a pretty good idea the same pointed word was thought by nearly every member of the administration once this story broke:
Was at the Bellevue mall today… found myself in the Mariner’s Team Store, in front of the clearance rack. Did you know that last year, when it looked like the M’s were wearing black they were actually wearing a dark, dark navy blue? I find that ironic since everyone thinks that Yankee pinstripes are navy and they’re actually black. The jersey was marked down 40%… no name or number which made it cheaper so I bought it. I sorta wanted an Ichiro/51 on the back but that was a bunch more cash; I settled.
People that know me outside of this blog just shit themselves. You see, I’ve got a lot of baseball jerseys… hockey too, but that doesn’t matter in the summer. I’ve got one from the Bridgeport Bluefish but the rest are Yankees jerseys. All twelve of them. I’ve never worn any other MLB jersey. Ever. I’m a Yankees fan and we take things like that very seriously.
So why would I buy an M’s jersey now? While the M’s are in last place??? The day before a three game stint in Yankee Stadium?!?!?!
Simple: Boston is playing at Safeco this coming weekend. And yes…