And that was 13 years ago! I’m sorry to have been away so long. Between the rain and the holidays, the routine around here was knocked into a cocked hat last week. I don’t have a lot of time today, either, but I thought I’d better get things moving again. This comic from 2003 seems appropriate to the task.
160 responses to “Out of Control”
Have a blessed and happy new year, fellow inhabitants of this village!
Jackie, I am in Ottawa, Ontario which is east of the middle of the country. It is about 2 hours NW of Montreal and 5 hours NE of Toronto. Most places in NH, VT or NY would be 10-12 hours away from me.
Ha! Got in the first greeting of the year!
I might usually be snacking at this hour, but with Tuesday’s severe dental surgery, I can’t manage anything solid at all, and the liquids allowed are all non-ethanolic since I’m on a prescription painkiller. It is noted that ibuprofen works more reliably and longer than the prescription, but the ibuprofen also takes at least 45 minutes to kick in. You might surmise, correctly, that I am having [in the favorite phrase of the medical world] “some discomfort”. Wonder how long it will hurt? So do I.
Debbe 😉 First time I saw this, I thought, “Billy Joel will need a stepladder to get anywhere with Christie Brinkley.” He musta got one, ’cause they got married. Or maybe he just stood on a stack of $100 bills, instead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCuMWrfXG4E
Happy New Year’s Day morning, Villagers…..
Why, thank you Miss Charlotte for your kind remarks…and you are so right, there are so many to list, pop-ins, daily posters like me 🙂 It’s nice to see Lost A__Z back, (missing the 8 key on board).
Left work early, cashed paycheck, and got the heck out of town. Traffic was crazy. Today I will venture into $ General….out of cat liter….got to have cat liter and I’m picky about my cat liter…it has to be unscented, and diet Dews…both a necessity in my daily life.
Going in to check on my girls, the Boss stopped in and said to take a day off, which day did I want off….I chose Sunday. I’m really not liking working “all by myself”…..
Ya’ll have a blessed day.
Hope Steve’s moving goes uneventful……
GR 😉 not only did he marry her, but they have a daughter who is following in her father’s footsteps….
….then there’s a river…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSq4B_zHqPM
….just wonder how one would destat this cat 🙂
http://cheezburger.com/8597871104
Ghost Rider 6:
I’m not a fanboy of Star Wars (or Trek), either. Not my kind of amusement.
Do you recall when I said a couple of years that “Gravity” was one of the worst movies ever made, and I then mentioned later that “2001: A Space Odyssey” was far superior?
Our son and daughter-in-law were home for Christmas, and they gave me a DVD of “2001.”
I haven’t seen it for a number of years, and it was even better than I had remembered.
It’s even more astounding when one considers that it was made before CG effects.
Boldog 2016
Rick, here’s another vote to agree with you. 2001 and Kubrick blow all the later come alongs out of the galaxy. Which is why this stupid phone is named Hal.
The satire with the send up of Start rekindle is better than all the sequels. Galaxy Quest is still favorite.
Happy New Year All!!!
Did anyone notice… Either or Wed. or yesterday, for a short length of time, there was a new page in this blog? I checked in at lunch time but later that evening it was gone! And this one was back up.
At least we were not locked out of the Village…
Want to feel old?
http://xkcd.com/1624/
Ghost: “Open the pod bay doors, Siri.”
Siri: “Hey HAL…open the pod bay doors already!”
(A true story)
Ghost Sweetie, it’s not so much been the number of people, as Christmas was just family, but schedules have been weird and yes, I have been tired. I’ve been here, just not saying much.
I hope all in our Village have a wonderful 2016!
Nonny Mouse, Galaxy Quest is indeed a great movie! We have a short list of “watch over and over” movies, and GQ is there, along with Clue, Young Frankenstein, and Real Genius. Oddly enough, so is True Lies. Arnie and Jamie Lee Curtis were really good together in that one. 🙂
A Happy and Blessed New Year to everyone! God bless us every one.
Star Trek and I spelled it right and Hal changed it. Got up about 5 and doing laundry. Going back to bed. Threw my Jammie in reds in laundry. Plenty of clean ones now so I am clothed.
Yes, True Lies is the only one of his movies I really like. And the Queen of Scream? Superb! The stripper dance scene is fantastic. Normally she is annoying. So Sand, you and Loon do that stuff?
Rick in Shermantown, OH. You can thank Douglas Trumbull for the special effects in 2001. Great model work there, also in Close Encounters and the original Battlestar Galactica. One of the old school special effects masters.
And the three original Star Wars movies were made before CGI also. Any CGI in those now was added by Lucas before rereleases to theaters or home video.
I still miss Ray Harryhausen and he hadn’t made a movie since 1981.
Here’s info on Trumbull: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Trumbull
Wow! Read the Tree of Life summary info from critics and awards o.inatikns. and I never heard of it. Trumbull is amazinv.
Oh and Blade Runner!
“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time…like tears in rain. Time to die.”
As though it wasn’t bad enough we had to endure the events of 2015, the TV “news” channels seem compelled to rehash them (ad infinitum and ad nauseam) for us. What is it about “New Year” that they do not understand?
For those of us who do understand, “Happy New Year”. And let the (football) games begin! 🙂
TIP BlogSpot: Apparently a repeat from 2010, but I don’t remember it. Reminds me of an online photo [cannot remember the source]: Two presumably unclad people, sheets pulled up but shoulders bare, sticky-note on her forehead, ‘Edna’. [Not the name, cannot remember that either.]
http://thatispriceless.blogspot.com/ Peace, emb