So much for blogging weekly. I kept it up for 13 weeks. I'm sure that's longer than anybody that knows me would have expected. I didn't realize how long it had been until I counted the posted blogs. Thirteen seems to be a theme.
I posted my first blog on my 55th birthday, and last blogged on July 20th. I started writing this on 10/11/2012 and had planned on posting it October 12. That would have been the 12th week since I posted last. Now, two weeks after that, I have gone 13 weeks without posting a blog. Like I said, a theme.
I had also tried to get my Friday blogs finished Thursday night and set them to publish at 4:45 PM Central Time, which is coincidentally when my work day officially ends. Of course I never blog on company time.
But now it's 7:16 PM on Friday 10/26/2012, and I just want to post something while it's still Friday.
Since a blog is supposed to be a log, and since I'm really doing this to try to teach myself discipline (after 55 years, wish me luck) I think I'm going to try making daily (going forward) entries that I can clean up on Thursday night. With that in mind, here's what I put down earlier in the week:
Sunday, 10/20/2012, 6:45 PM
Earlier this evening I was buying beer at a WalMart in Denham Springs, Louisiana. Ignoring the obvious questions that statement should raise, I will give the image a few seconds to form in your mind, then continue. There.
I had plenty of time to look around while standing in the "speedy check-out" line, it was a WalMart, after all, and will leave most of those observations unarticulated. I did, however, notice that Dark Shadows is out on DVD. (In time for Hallowe'en, I presume.) In what looked like a double box with Beetlejuice. As I sped past the display I found time to read the fine print, and noticed that the box purported to contain the DVD of Dark Shadows and "vudu" (?) of Beetlejuice. I presume that "vudu" (if I read the stylized logo correctly) is some proprietary digital download format that I haven't encountered yet. I also noted that the "digital movie offer" expired October 2. Just sayin'. (Now that I think about it, perhaps I didn't do enough research as I sped past the rack. I'm not certain it said 2012. I could be doing WalMart a disservice.)
At any rate that reminded me that I said quite a while back I would clean up my original blog about the movie. I didn't and I won't, but I may have to fork out 20 bucks to WalMart and watch it again.
Wednesday, 10/24/2012, 10:22 PM
I went back (to a different WalMart) and checked. It's good through 2017. I'm not a huge Beetlejuice fan, and you have to set up a Vudu account, so I bought just the Dark Shadows DVD for the same price.
Friday, 10/26/2012, 7:23 PM
Okay, I can NOT believe it was just two days ago that I went to WalMart. Somethin' ain't right. Oh well.
I may try to actually have something interesting next week. At the moment I feel like skating on thin ice. We'll see if I can keep that feeling for a week. This one feels to me like a waste of time, but at least nobody's actually reading it.
But, I can retire in 842 days, so you kids get off of my lawn.
