Weekend Update - June 4th
Weekend Update
These Monday Weekend Updates are becoming a pattern now. I will be back to my normal Sunday posting of the Weekend Update this Sunday.
I saw Sharon Tay on Friday morning. She was filling in as a co-host of the early morning local television news program. That was a nice reward for getting up early on Friday for me. I was surprised when I saw because it was the first time that I could recall seeing her in a suit. Sharon has always been a colorful dresser and seeing her in a more mature outfit was another visual reward for me.
I was surprised to see her on the air because the station usually has another female new reader – reporter handles the fill in assignments. Hopefully, Sharon is moving up in the local station rankings so she can be on the early morning news program everyday.
That would be epic for me and many other men in Southern California. If nothing else, it would be motivation to get out of bed when the alarm goes off the first time in the morning.
When I got into Atlanta and out to my hotel, I had breakfast because I was hungry and tired. I wanted to sleep and I knew I wouldn’t be having any lunch because I knew what was on the agenda for dinner.
I napped and dozed off and on until around 3:30 PM.
I decided to get up and go outside to smoke a cigar I had brought with me. I had three cigars left from when I decided to stop smoking last year. Cigars, since they are only dried tobacco leaves, tend to keep well at the beach. I went outside and enjoyed the cigar immensely; it was breezy and overcast so it was pleasant to be outside.
When I came back inside, I indulged myself with a pint of Haagen Daze chocolate ice cream. I had a tremendous urge to enjoy the ice cream. Unfortunately for me at the moment, it was rock solid, frozen hard. That was fine with me. I let it sit in my room while I showered and shaved. When I was finished, the ice cream was at the perfect consistency to enjoy.
I quickly and without further comment consumed the pint / half liter of ice cream.
Epic. Then, I got dressed and went to dinner.
Skeet on Mischa
I was talking with Doug yesterday and he told me that he was going to stop writing the Skeet on Mischa blog now. He said it was time to move on and do other things with his life.
Graduation from college tends to make a young man change his focus a bit.
I will miss learning about music groups that I would have never heard without the Skeet on Mischa references.
I will also miss the run on sentences and often creative approaches to spelling that frequently appeared in the blog. His last blog, unless there is a farewell tour, was full of the alternative approaches to creative writing as expected.
I do not believe that any writing teacher will miss the blog.
I will miss the Skeet shooters who travel to this blog after their daily doses of music, cinema, and television commentary.
Doug told me that today was the beginning of the farewell tour as it were. He didn’t say how long the tour would last.
Visitors
We had a good month for visits in general. There were 577 visitors to the blog in May. That was a good month for the blog.
We had visitors from Canada [6], Korea, Argentina, Malaysia [2], United Kingdom [3], Senegal, Indonesia [2], Italy [2], Guatemala, India [2], Japan [2], Texas [3], France [2], Netherlands, Latvia, Germany [2], Czech Republic, China, Viet Nam [2], Singapore, Ireland, Australia, and Hong Kong.
This was the first that I can recall having a visitor from Senegal to the blog.
We also had some visitors who stayed around for a while when they stopped bye. We had two visitors stay for 18 minutes; one who stayed for 14.5 minutes; and one who stayed for 10 minutes.
I do appreciate each of you for taking time from your schedules to visit the blog.
The New Stylist
I got my hair cut by the New Stylist on Friday morning. I wanted to look good when I took the Princess and her fiancée and one of her bridesmaids to dinner in Atlanta on Saturday.
The New Stylist was not on time. I had expected that. I did have a nice chat with the receptionist while I waited. The New Stylist said my hair was really seedy and curly and well past due for a cutting.
I thought about pointing out how it was she who went back to Phoenix just before I needed a second cutting. In the end, I decided to not say anything because she was the one with all of those sharp scissors in her hands.
Sometimes, silence is the best policy to follow.
I think she did a good job on my hair. I asked Doug and he thought she did a good job.
I am happy with the outcome so I think the New Stylist will become the Stylist now.
Delta Air Lines
Well, Delta Air Lines is out of bankruptcy now. It was supposed to be the start of a whole new airline with great service and lots of other good ideas.
Don’t buy into that concept just yet.
I flew to Atlanta on Friday night. I paid to fly first class because I wanted the best possible opportunity to rest on the flight. I had no real chance to sleep let alone rest on the flight.
My plane was a Boeing 767 a nice aircraft except for the fact the galley is set off to the side of the plane and not in the middle like it is on the Boeing 777. I was sitting on the aisle on the same side of the plane as the galley.
For the first two and half hours of the four hour flight, the flight attendants could not bring themselves to draw the galley curtain so that would reduce the amount of light in my eyes.
That sucked big time.
Oh, the flight attendants did draw the curtain. But, that was only so they could snack on the uneaten first class meal service. Once their feeding was over, the curtain was open again.
Maybe I am being overly sensitive but I don’t think it is an unreasonable expectation on my part for them to have drawn the curtain to cut down on the light in the passengers’ eyes. Boeing sold the plane with the curtain.
I guess it was asking too much for the flight attendants to consider the passenger’s needs before their own.
The flight back to the Coast on Sunday was better because I had slept the night before. I was reading a Star Wars book by Timothy Zahn so the light didn’t bother me at all.
The meal service was better than Meals, Ready to Eat [MREs]. There were no choices or selections in what you had to eat.
Wait, I take that back. You had a choice of having a meal or not having a meal.
They served a cold turkey sandwich on a bun with lettuce and a tomato slice and a mustard – mayonnaise sauce. I decided to skip the chocolate brownie. The meal going back home was a grilled chicken breast with mashed potatos and French cut green beans. The salad was chopped lettuce with an oil and vinegar dressing. Dessert was an uninspired and plain cheesecake.
Will I fly Delta again?
Yes, it has the most flights from Los Angeles to Atlanta. I can fly cheaper but I have to do the layover and plane change routine and that is no fun for me anymore.
The Cinema Gods Were Angry
The cinema gods were angry with me for my flights.
The film on the outbound flight was ASTRONAUT FARMER with Billy Bob Thornton and Virginia Madsen, I liked her in SIDEWAYS. This film was a bomb like my flight. The film cost an estimated USD $13,000,000 and grossed less than USD$11,000,000. It was not a money maker at the box office.
The other film was WILD HOGS. I am not much of a John Travolta fan so I had no real interest in watching it. I did enjoy the cameo appearance of Paul Tuttle Sr. from Orange County Choppers. The film did well at the box office so it may make some money for the producers and studio that released it.
Dinner with the Princess
We went to Morton’s the Steakhouse in the Buckhead section of Atlanta for our dinner on Saturday night. The Princess lets me go there because I am the one who is paying for the dinner and I also paid to fly there.
She also loves their yummy large crab cakes. The Princess had the chicken dish; she almost always does have it.
Her fiancée stepped up to the dinner plate as it were and redeemed himself from a weak lunch at the Original Tommy’s Hamburgers in December of last year when they came out to California for Christmas. He had a porterhouse steak, not the double porterhouse steak that Doug and his friend Robin can put away in one sitting. Still, it was a good showing for him.
The Princess invited one of her bridesmaids to dinner with us. She has been part of the extended Atlanta group since the Princess left the University of South Carolina and moved to Atlanta. Unfortunately, the Princess could not have her old roommate join us. Her old roommate is now living in New York City.
The bridesmaid had a steak of course and some broccoli. Doug would have been proud of her because he loves broccoli and often has it when we go to Morton’s. The kitchen in Atlanta brought out two heads of broccoli so that was epic.
I had a simple Morton’s salad, a small steak, and a small lobster tail.
We also had two bottles of wine so we felt very good by the end of the meal.
Of course, the Princess, the bridesmaid and I had the Morton’s hot chocolate cake for dessert.
Woman of the Moment
Tomorrow will be the last regularly scheduled appearance of Ryoko Shinohara as the Woman of the Moment. I have three replacements lined up and images downloaded so I am ready to go.
All I need to do is make up my mind who bats next. Right now, Ryoko Shinohara is batting for Team BalancingCheckbooks.
I hope you all had a great weekend.
Be well and stay happy.
These Monday Weekend Updates are becoming a pattern now. I will be back to my normal Sunday posting of the Weekend Update this Sunday.
I saw Sharon Tay on Friday morning. She was filling in as a co-host of the early morning local television news program. That was a nice reward for getting up early on Friday for me. I was surprised when I saw because it was the first time that I could recall seeing her in a suit. Sharon has always been a colorful dresser and seeing her in a more mature outfit was another visual reward for me.
I was surprised to see her on the air because the station usually has another female new reader – reporter handles the fill in assignments. Hopefully, Sharon is moving up in the local station rankings so she can be on the early morning news program everyday.
That would be epic for me and many other men in Southern California. If nothing else, it would be motivation to get out of bed when the alarm goes off the first time in the morning.
When I got into Atlanta and out to my hotel, I had breakfast because I was hungry and tired. I wanted to sleep and I knew I wouldn’t be having any lunch because I knew what was on the agenda for dinner.
I napped and dozed off and on until around 3:30 PM.
I decided to get up and go outside to smoke a cigar I had brought with me. I had three cigars left from when I decided to stop smoking last year. Cigars, since they are only dried tobacco leaves, tend to keep well at the beach. I went outside and enjoyed the cigar immensely; it was breezy and overcast so it was pleasant to be outside.
When I came back inside, I indulged myself with a pint of Haagen Daze chocolate ice cream. I had a tremendous urge to enjoy the ice cream. Unfortunately for me at the moment, it was rock solid, frozen hard. That was fine with me. I let it sit in my room while I showered and shaved. When I was finished, the ice cream was at the perfect consistency to enjoy.
I quickly and without further comment consumed the pint / half liter of ice cream.
Epic. Then, I got dressed and went to dinner.
Skeet on Mischa
I was talking with Doug yesterday and he told me that he was going to stop writing the Skeet on Mischa blog now. He said it was time to move on and do other things with his life.
Graduation from college tends to make a young man change his focus a bit.
I will miss learning about music groups that I would have never heard without the Skeet on Mischa references.
I will also miss the run on sentences and often creative approaches to spelling that frequently appeared in the blog. His last blog, unless there is a farewell tour, was full of the alternative approaches to creative writing as expected.
I do not believe that any writing teacher will miss the blog.
I will miss the Skeet shooters who travel to this blog after their daily doses of music, cinema, and television commentary.
Doug told me that today was the beginning of the farewell tour as it were. He didn’t say how long the tour would last.
Visitors
We had a good month for visits in general. There were 577 visitors to the blog in May. That was a good month for the blog.
We had visitors from Canada [6], Korea, Argentina, Malaysia [2], United Kingdom [3], Senegal, Indonesia [2], Italy [2], Guatemala, India [2], Japan [2], Texas [3], France [2], Netherlands, Latvia, Germany [2], Czech Republic, China, Viet Nam [2], Singapore, Ireland, Australia, and Hong Kong.
This was the first that I can recall having a visitor from Senegal to the blog.
We also had some visitors who stayed around for a while when they stopped bye. We had two visitors stay for 18 minutes; one who stayed for 14.5 minutes; and one who stayed for 10 minutes.
I do appreciate each of you for taking time from your schedules to visit the blog.
The New Stylist
I got my hair cut by the New Stylist on Friday morning. I wanted to look good when I took the Princess and her fiancée and one of her bridesmaids to dinner in Atlanta on Saturday.
The New Stylist was not on time. I had expected that. I did have a nice chat with the receptionist while I waited. The New Stylist said my hair was really seedy and curly and well past due for a cutting.
I thought about pointing out how it was she who went back to Phoenix just before I needed a second cutting. In the end, I decided to not say anything because she was the one with all of those sharp scissors in her hands.
Sometimes, silence is the best policy to follow.
I think she did a good job on my hair. I asked Doug and he thought she did a good job.
I am happy with the outcome so I think the New Stylist will become the Stylist now.
Delta Air Lines
Well, Delta Air Lines is out of bankruptcy now. It was supposed to be the start of a whole new airline with great service and lots of other good ideas.
Don’t buy into that concept just yet.
I flew to Atlanta on Friday night. I paid to fly first class because I wanted the best possible opportunity to rest on the flight. I had no real chance to sleep let alone rest on the flight.
My plane was a Boeing 767 a nice aircraft except for the fact the galley is set off to the side of the plane and not in the middle like it is on the Boeing 777. I was sitting on the aisle on the same side of the plane as the galley.
For the first two and half hours of the four hour flight, the flight attendants could not bring themselves to draw the galley curtain so that would reduce the amount of light in my eyes.
That sucked big time.
Oh, the flight attendants did draw the curtain. But, that was only so they could snack on the uneaten first class meal service. Once their feeding was over, the curtain was open again.
Maybe I am being overly sensitive but I don’t think it is an unreasonable expectation on my part for them to have drawn the curtain to cut down on the light in the passengers’ eyes. Boeing sold the plane with the curtain.
I guess it was asking too much for the flight attendants to consider the passenger’s needs before their own.
The flight back to the Coast on Sunday was better because I had slept the night before. I was reading a Star Wars book by Timothy Zahn so the light didn’t bother me at all.
The meal service was better than Meals, Ready to Eat [MREs]. There were no choices or selections in what you had to eat.
Wait, I take that back. You had a choice of having a meal or not having a meal.
They served a cold turkey sandwich on a bun with lettuce and a tomato slice and a mustard – mayonnaise sauce. I decided to skip the chocolate brownie. The meal going back home was a grilled chicken breast with mashed potatos and French cut green beans. The salad was chopped lettuce with an oil and vinegar dressing. Dessert was an uninspired and plain cheesecake.
Will I fly Delta again?
Yes, it has the most flights from Los Angeles to Atlanta. I can fly cheaper but I have to do the layover and plane change routine and that is no fun for me anymore.
The Cinema Gods Were Angry
The cinema gods were angry with me for my flights.
The film on the outbound flight was ASTRONAUT FARMER with Billy Bob Thornton and Virginia Madsen, I liked her in SIDEWAYS. This film was a bomb like my flight. The film cost an estimated USD $13,000,000 and grossed less than USD$11,000,000. It was not a money maker at the box office.
The other film was WILD HOGS. I am not much of a John Travolta fan so I had no real interest in watching it. I did enjoy the cameo appearance of Paul Tuttle Sr. from Orange County Choppers. The film did well at the box office so it may make some money for the producers and studio that released it.
Dinner with the Princess
We went to Morton’s the Steakhouse in the Buckhead section of Atlanta for our dinner on Saturday night. The Princess lets me go there because I am the one who is paying for the dinner and I also paid to fly there.
She also loves their yummy large crab cakes. The Princess had the chicken dish; she almost always does have it.
Her fiancée stepped up to the dinner plate as it were and redeemed himself from a weak lunch at the Original Tommy’s Hamburgers in December of last year when they came out to California for Christmas. He had a porterhouse steak, not the double porterhouse steak that Doug and his friend Robin can put away in one sitting. Still, it was a good showing for him.
The Princess invited one of her bridesmaids to dinner with us. She has been part of the extended Atlanta group since the Princess left the University of South Carolina and moved to Atlanta. Unfortunately, the Princess could not have her old roommate join us. Her old roommate is now living in New York City.
The bridesmaid had a steak of course and some broccoli. Doug would have been proud of her because he loves broccoli and often has it when we go to Morton’s. The kitchen in Atlanta brought out two heads of broccoli so that was epic.
I had a simple Morton’s salad, a small steak, and a small lobster tail.
We also had two bottles of wine so we felt very good by the end of the meal.
Of course, the Princess, the bridesmaid and I had the Morton’s hot chocolate cake for dessert.
Woman of the Moment
Tomorrow will be the last regularly scheduled appearance of Ryoko Shinohara as the Woman of the Moment. I have three replacements lined up and images downloaded so I am ready to go.
All I need to do is make up my mind who bats next. Right now, Ryoko Shinohara is batting for Team BalancingCheckbooks.
I hope you all had a great weekend.
Be well and stay happy.
posted by Chuck Reinhardt at 4:17 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home