Just for
posterity: I passed my driver’s license exam at 11:50a.m on 05/07/93 at test
site “MSWI” (Loomis Road) with a total of 9 points off.
AND
on 12:57 PM on May 28, 2006 I purchased an XM
Satellite Radio from Best Buy.
AND
on
February 28th, 1980 S. Pat Meir, SSSF presented me with the “Sweet
Smell of Success” (inc a grape smelly sticker) certificate announcing that I
knew “all his ABC’s visually!” J
(on June
6th of that year she’d give me a similar certificate for general
“good work in kindergarten”
Not that the super-lame stuff is out of the way, let us proceed with the merely-lame.
Several
weeks into the new fall season, I think our consensus is that Animal Practice,
while amusing, is far from LOL and fails to live up to its potential. I don’t
see it sticking around long-term without significant shifts in direction.
Matthew
Perry’s new sitcom, “Go On”, on the other hand, is a keeper. It needs to
develop and fine tune some things, and it remains to be seen how long the
rather limited ‘group therapy’ angle can work, but it is a) well written b)
well acted by all involved and c) actually, if only occasionally, LOL funny.
My
reading has been severely curtailed recently, although I’m at a loss to explain
why. My Nook e-reader deleted my library two months ago, and while I restored
it from a backup the loss of my ‘shelves’ and whatnot were a crushing blow.
Combine that with a switch of shifts at work and an uptick in my writing time
and I find my desire to read is next to nil. I have to kick it back into gear
to crack the long-desired century mark.
I did however;
finish reading the Stephen King/Stewart O’Nan tale “A Face in the Crowd”. It’s
a short story, so it doesn’t qualify for my reading list, but I thought it
entertaining and admired the quick way it introduced you to the characters and
got you into the action, something I’ve noticed seems to have been fined tuned
by the late great Rod Serling. I rate the story an ‘A’.
I’m
inordinately pleased to see, on a used book I purchased on Ebay, a sales
sticker reading “Zayre”. There was a Zayre store on S. 27th when I
was growing up. It occupied the former site of Treasure Island, aka the current
location of Pic ‘n Save and as I recall there was a dry cleaning shop inside
Zayre just as you were exiting the store. Anyway, my Mom worked at both
Treasure Island and Zayre’s, and the sight of this sticker made me happy. Of
note: the book , “West to Cambodia” by S.L. A. Marshall, retailed for $3.50,
but it was on sale at Zayre for $2.80.
[I
believe I read the book sometime in the early ’90’s, but may read it again]
Some
songs that are among my faves lately (and that haven’t been mentioned before), I Won’t Give Up by Jason Mraz, As Long as You Love Me by Justin Beiber,
Taylor Swift’s We are Never Getting Back
Together and Fun.’s latest release, Some
Nights.
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