Playing Catch Up

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.