When did that happen?

For a few months now I have been unable to watch one of my favorite television shows Bones. So I was very surprised when I managed to watch it a few nights ago and found out that they two key characters appear to have married and had a baby! I can remember episodes when they were talking about how “Bones” wanted to have a baby but that she was thinking about artificial insemination. Now they are living together and have a baby together. The married part I’m not completely clear about- in this day and age it could be that they have not yet taken that step.

I’m thinking that I’m going to have to try to find out if I can watch reruns of the show on the Internet of the show to try to see the episodes that I’ve missed so I can catch up! Geez, you get busy for a few months and then all this interesting stuff happens!

The tuba and the whirligigs

A couple of days ago I was driving down Braddock road during rush hour, and saw a man walking on the sidewalk, facing traffic. He was carrying a tuba, but I could not tell for sure if he was playing the tuba or not. What caught my eye in the first place, though, were the three or four whirligigs that were on the tuba. They were red, white, and blue, and they were spinning around while he was walking.

Now to be honest I have never seen a tuba adorned with whirligigs before, so I thought that was quite an unusual sight to see! The man was not dressed in any type of uniform, so I do not know if he was on his way to or from some type of marching band rehearsal, or if he was on his way to or from a gig of some kind. But seeing him walking down the sidewalk, with the whirligigs just spinning like crazy did pique my curiosity and made me smile. Just a few moments ago I went onto Google and tried to do a search for tubas and whirligigs, but got no results putting them together in the context of whirligigs on a tuba. That was surprising to me – I thought you could find just about anything and everything on Google!

The Internet makes moving so much easier

How many times have you had to move from one house to another in your lifetime? Two, three times? I don’t know about you, but I think that moving from one house to another is a huge pain in the you-know-what! When I was a young child our family moved three times, and to be perfectly honest they didn’t involve the kids in the move at all. They just sent all of us kids away for a week to a friend’s house or to a sleep-over camp and at the end of the sleep-over when our parents picked us up they just took us to our new home. Matter of fact – oh by the way, while you were gone we moved. This is our new house, and this is your new bedroom.

I guess we should be grateful that they came and picked us up! We never would have found them if they had just moved away and left us there! Wouldn’t that have been a nightmare for the camp owners and/or family friends! Anyway, the point being we never saw the work involved in moving, all of the packing and unpacking, none of the negotiations with removal companies, none of the headaches.

Since I’ve grown up and been on my own I have had to move five times. And they were a pain. Especially the first four – prior to the invention of the Internet. I found it very difficult to locate the services that I needed to make the move go smoothly. Thank goodness for the Internet and all of the resources that I’ve been able to use to find the right companies and services that I needed to make the last move as easy as possible. It even helped me find the house that I wanted to buy!

My goosebump song

I think that if someone were to ask me what my all-time favorite song in the world is, I would have to answer that it is “The Impossible Dream” from the musical “Man of LaMancha.” I can remember when I was a pre-teenager my school was taken to a field trip to a theater in the round to see that as a live performance. I’ve seen it a couple more times as live performances, and seen the movie several times as well. At one point in time I had the sound track on an LP, but I don’t have any LPs any more – my ex got all of them as part of the divorce settlement. Every time I hear that song I get goosebumps. What is YOUR goosebumpy favorite song?

That’s just plain wrong

When I go to an automotive service center that specializes in oil changes (I won’t name the chain, but it IS a national chain) that gives out $5.00 coupons online good towards an oil change, the local service center needs to honor that coupon. Last week I took my truck to the local oil change service station and had them perform their oil change. When they rung me up I presented them with the $5.00 coupon. The cashier told me that they had already totaled up my work and it was too late to give them the coupon. Too bad, so sad!

I don’t know about you, but I think that is totally bogus. I don’t know why I just accepted that instead of insisting that they re-ring the sale. Sometimes I’m just too nice. When I went home and told my wife about it, she was very upset that they didn’t give me the credit, and couldn’t believe that I just accepted it. I guess if it happens again I’ll be a little bit more assertive and ask for the supervisor. I’d rather get them upset than get my wife upset with me.