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Thoughts on the Day

  • The weather refused to cooperate today too.  Oh well, it was decided that I needed to swap out some 2×8 for 2×12 anyway.  I’ll work on the porch next weekend.
  • We celebrated Labor Day by laboring.
    • Nothing like a dreary day to do all of the inside work you’ve been neglecting.
    • I love the smell of pine cleaners and oil soap on hardwood floors.
    • Irish Woman cleaned out all of the old toys in Boo’s room cleaned it from floor to ceiling.
      • I give it a day before it looks like a bomb went off.
    • The trash man is going to curse our name.  Irish Woman was on a tear.
  • Boo convinced me to buy two large bones for the dogs.  He is now their favorite human being.
    • How long do you think a pig femur will last when chewed on by a large dog?
      • If you said one hour, you get a cookie.  I was surprised too.
  • Girlie Bear and I started watching “Star Trek: Enterprise” this weekend.  Three episodes in and we’re interested.
    • Captain Archer needs a heavier boom to lower on his subordinates.  Doesn’t that ship have an airlock?
    • The security on their sidearms sucks.  It appears that just about anyone can get a pistol from the armory and their holsters have absolutely no retention.
    • Apparently the future never learned about night vision or weapon lights either.
    • I haven’t watched any Star Trek regularly since about the third season of TNG.  Watched maybe one or two episodes apiece of DS9 and Voyager.  I’m just getting caught up.
  • Apparently Godzilla has arisen and is tearing the Gulf of Mexico oil platforms apart.  Gas went up 30 cents from last weekend.
  • Girlie Bear has learned how to do laundry without turning her blue jeans white or her whites blue.  I have waited years for this day of freedom.

3 Comments

  1. Bear's avatar

    Enterprise had its moments. Unfortunately, one of those moments was the episode when Archer thought it would be a good idea to kill and butcher a crewman so they could scoop his brain out for a medical procedure for another crewman (no, the victim did _not_ volunteer to sacrifice himself… and it’s actually worse than my quickie description makes it sound).

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  2. Jake's avatar

    I knew there were going to be issues when they started the whole series with that “temporal cold war” drek. While the series certainly had some good moments (the first encounter with the Ferengi, the Vulcan/Andorian conflict, the first contact learning curve, etc.), the wasted potential is enough to make a grown man weep.

    And they really needed to stay the frak away from any hint of time travel. Making it a central plot point of the whole bloody series was just a horrible mistake.

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    • daddybear71's avatar

      I’m going to watch it over the winter and see if it keeps my attention. But yeah, using a crutch like that in the first episode was a groaner.

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