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This a picture from Salt Lake City in 2001. It’s a beautiful place. Got rid of the piano today, gave it to a friend so she doesn’t have to get up at 4am to practice at school anymore. The only thing I asked was, I didn’t have to help. It’s gone. It’s strange we now have this window that we’ve never been able to look through before and a huge open space.
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Over the longest while, I’ve noticed something very strange about myself. –Warning: Too much information may follow– When I go to the bathroom, (number 2) I yawn. Uncontrollable yawns. So much yawning, water pours out of my eyes where I can even read. Before I start, no yawning. After I’m done, no yawning. One of the many strange things about myself.
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When it’s 4 degrees at midday, Matt Damon still warms my heart. Hot, brilliant, and completely stirring. At what point do you have to take down the Christmas lights. The snow makes them look so nice. Is this what people who leave them up all year think? “Wow, those lights that have almost fallen off the house and that are one third burnt out look so pretty against the dirt background when it’s 85 degrees out.” Actually some people can pull it off but come on, not the icicle lights people. I have just realized that with even all the years we’ve spent in New York, I have never had a white Christmas. The one Christmas of 2006 we did spend here, there was no snow on the ground. Every other one did.
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I used to love watching Ultraman and Space Giants when I got home from school when I was a kid. I love a good Godzilla Fest to this day or any Japanese monster movie. Ultraman, who got his super powers from the sun would battle monsters until they almost beat him, fly back into the sun and come back refreshed to annihilate the monster or villain. It seems there have been several incarnations of Ultraman over the years but here is the one from the American version of the original series. I would say that this is a classic Ultraman fight except it doesn’t seem he had to fly back to the sun to recharge.
Rodak was the evil alien, who along with his henchmen, The Lugo men, and an endless supply of monsters tried countless times to take over or destroy the Earth. Methuselah created The Space Giants to combat this threat. Goldar, a 50 foot robot that had many powers and could turn into a rocket was married to normal size Silvar who could also turn into a rocket. They wanted a child and she said you ain’t sticking that thing in here so they asked Methuselah to create them a son so he made Gam, a boy who also could turn into a rocket who was best friends with normal kid Mekko. When the Earth was in danger, Mekko summoned The Space Giants.
Goldar pulls some WWE on a monster.
Here is Goldar, Silvar, Gam, and Methuselah. I assume they shrunk Goldar down to human size for this publicity picture. The Space Giants intro was a lot better than the Ultraman intro…I don’t remember ever playing Ultraman with my friends but we used to play Space Giants a lot. I always wanted to be Silvar (any wonder?) mainly because the way she turned into a robot was the coolest. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it. Prisoner Cell Block H came along much later in kidhood, maybe high school. Me and my mom had a secret addiction to this Australian night time soap opera featuring cussing, fighting, lesbians, extortion, and the like. Haven’t seen it since but today I ran across it on YouTube.
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We’ve had about 15 inches of snow the past few days topped off with a lot of sleet which makes it very heavy. The snow does make the Christmas lights look pretty though. I finished my Christmas shopping Friday in a frenzy after work, got them wrapped and packaged to be shipped, and got up Saturday to mail them before work. I had to park forever away from the post office and wait in a huge line but was quite entertained by the girl next to me as we made fun of the lady who was all mad as hell at the front of the line exclaiming, “I’m not filling this out, I just filled one out”. –”If you don’t fill it out, we can’t mail it”– She filled it out. She was so mad it was funny. She tried to do the, I’m stomping out of here thing, but she dropped her purse all over the floor on the way out which made it even funnier. We sold our last Christmas Tree Saturday just before the hardest of the snow hit and that puts an end to that. And I talked to my mom today. She’s written 40 of her Christmas cards and only has about 30 more to go. I don’t even know 70 people, much less 70 people’s address. She said they’ve already received about 50…
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It’s Christmas time and I just watched Frosty The Snowman. Strange I never realized it was made in 1951. I guess I thought it was made when I was a kid, maybe all kids think that. I’m now watching the 1992 Jonathan Winters, Jan Hooks, Andrea Martin, Brian Doyle-Murray, and John Goodman’s Frosty Returns. It basically sucks but the villain’s cat that just doesn’t give a crap is pretty funny. As you see, I took some time today to put some lights on the front of the house. Super huge lights that really have small lights inside of them, so retro I love them. I’ve heard the tree may or may not get put up tomorrow. It may be a busy day. Update: The original Frosty was actually from 1969 but I know I saw 1951 on the credits so I backed up the trusty DVR and it is actually based on the 1951 song, Frosty The Snowman, ahhh…
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What used to be a four story building, Brandywine school is now a twenty foot pile of asbestos filled rubble waiting to be hauled away.
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My GIANT HUGE 80′s glasses. There comes a time when you can’t close your drawers so you gotta go through them and clean them out. I found about 10 pairs here and there. These are my biggest I think and I don’t know why I’ve kept all of them but I didn’t throw them away today either. I think I even have safety glasses that aren’t this big. There is a large vacant lot down the street that was formerly home to a dilapidated vacant shopping center, (Big N Department Store, anyone know anything about it?) a huge eyesore for the neighborhood. Before that, it was a small part of the headquarters for American Locomotive Company, or ALCO in the first part of the century. The site was a brownfield but was cleaned up two years ago. I’m so excited, it was announced today that Price Chopper will build a new six story headquarters there which will join a new YMCA, and a new graduate school for Union College. This is in addition to the huge river front redevelopment of the rest of the ALCO property across the street from this.
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Just walking down the street this morning and it dawned on me that this may be one of the best advertising gigs ever. You pay a store for the privilege of placing their names and logo hundreds of times down the street. I also saw bags for Hannaford, Wal-Mart, and Aubuchon Hardware in addition to bags I’ve seen for K-Mart, BJ’s, and Sears. Maybe fall political candidates should give out free leaf bags with their name on them. Vote for… Hey, even if you don’t like the person, it’s a free bag. Would I put out a ‘Vote For Pat Robertson’ bag? Hey, it’s a free bag. Saves me 45 cents…Pat Robertson endorsed Rudy Giuliani last week. That scares me. I actually think it’s a trick of some sort, but again, I digress.
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Beautiful trip through the Vermont mountains yesterday but the leaves were a little past peak. We came back through New York and hit the village of Whitehall. If we do decide to retire here in the rustbelt, (ain’t happening) Whitehall, NY may just be the place. It’s right on top of the Champlain Canal at lock 12 with old beautiful downtown buildings right on the water. It’s home to The Sasquatch Festival every year because of numerous sightings of Bigfoot. Although gas is about $3.09 around here, we saw it for as much as $3.29. Of course, it hadn’t even past three dollars in Vermont.
Sasquatch and myself; beautiful winding road through the Vermont mountains; Me and Duncan in Whitehall; Bowling in Rutland; The house we will retire in in Whitehall if we do retire there; downtown Whitehall; downtown Whitehall. |
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