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Smo-kin!
Mostly the same-old-same-old, but with a twist or two.
Upon leaving the store today, I set off downtown to the Methodist Thrift Shop. I seemed to recall they had a rice cooker for sale there the last time I browsed, and since Drew and I ordered a 20-pound bag of "basmati-type" organic rice, I figured the kid could use the hardware. If it was still there, and if it works.
It was still there, for $5 (a steal, if you've priced rice cookers lately) though I haven't tested it yet.
I also picked up a Sony sound system with a tuner, 3-disk CD player, and twin tape players, but no speakers. The CD part was also advertised as being on the fritz, so the price for the whole shabang was a mere $5.
When I plugged the unit in for the first time, the CD player did not operate, as advertised. About 10 minutes with a screwdriver and some fiddling did something to something, and now the CD player works. The next obstacle was to sort through my electronics junk box to find something I could use to connect speakers to the system (which seeks to clamp bare wires coming from speakers, and I'm all out of those).
Other good news: Lee is doing well at her new job, has gotten paid, and is very likely going to get a cheap fare to Albuquerque and come visit over the Thanksgiving holiday. That'll definitely be nice.
There's work in the hopper. Whoever composed the source document is my current contender for Master Shoehorner of the Year, since the text is split among a series of text boxes, where there is one such box to a page. Formatting is haphazard and all spacing seems to be done by hand. Fortunately, the embedded graphics do not seem to have suffered.
A preliminary review of the latest Bond flick in - was it USA Today? - gives the movie something of a thumbs down. As I happen to like Pierce Brosnan's acting and the James Bond character, I'm not sure any review would keep me away from a Bond movie. The big choice is whether to go see it downtown at Pagosa's own Liberty Theather, or to make the trek to Durango, where both the screen and auditorium are larger (and, likely, so is the price of admission).
Time to go upstairs and start dinner.
Cheers...
Upon leaving the store today, I set off downtown to the Methodist Thrift Shop. I seemed to recall they had a rice cooker for sale there the last time I browsed, and since Drew and I ordered a 20-pound bag of "basmati-type" organic rice, I figured the kid could use the hardware. If it was still there, and if it works.
It was still there, for $5 (a steal, if you've priced rice cookers lately) though I haven't tested it yet.
I also picked up a Sony sound system with a tuner, 3-disk CD player, and twin tape players, but no speakers. The CD part was also advertised as being on the fritz, so the price for the whole shabang was a mere $5.
When I plugged the unit in for the first time, the CD player did not operate, as advertised. About 10 minutes with a screwdriver and some fiddling did something to something, and now the CD player works. The next obstacle was to sort through my electronics junk box to find something I could use to connect speakers to the system (which seeks to clamp bare wires coming from speakers, and I'm all out of those).
Other good news: Lee is doing well at her new job, has gotten paid, and is very likely going to get a cheap fare to Albuquerque and come visit over the Thanksgiving holiday. That'll definitely be nice.
There's work in the hopper. Whoever composed the source document is my current contender for Master Shoehorner of the Year, since the text is split among a series of text boxes, where there is one such box to a page. Formatting is haphazard and all spacing seems to be done by hand. Fortunately, the embedded graphics do not seem to have suffered.
A preliminary review of the latest Bond flick in - was it USA Today? - gives the movie something of a thumbs down. As I happen to like Pierce Brosnan's acting and the James Bond character, I'm not sure any review would keep me away from a Bond movie. The big choice is whether to go see it downtown at Pagosa's own Liberty Theather, or to make the trek to Durango, where both the screen and auditorium are larger (and, likely, so is the price of admission).
Time to go upstairs and start dinner.
Cheers...
Bond
The sharp dialog is back, as are the totally over the top villans. I had heard that the product placement was so intense people were calling it Buy Another Day, but really, I don't think Bollinger is planning on selling too many bottles of 61 just because James Bond likes it. And the people who buy Aston Martins and Jaguars have done so for reasons illustrated, not perpetuated by Bond, for ages. The bigger the screen the better.