Monthly Archives: February 2006

XM Radio This Week

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From the weekly mail-o-gram:
This one airs first on 2/27:

Walk The Line Slip Stream Special
X Country® – XM 12 – 11AM ET
Encores: Thur. 7PM ET & Sat. 11AM ET
Walk The Line has been nominated for five Academy Awards. Join the salute to the soundtrack with Shelby Lynne and Waylon Payne.

And on 3/1:

Glenn Miller Day
The 40s – XM 4 – Noon / 5PM / Midnight ET
A foot-stomping extravaganza with words and music of the big bands era with Glenn Miller, plus catch a special concert with the present-day Glenn Miller Orchestra recorded in the XM Performance Theater.

Sunday, 3/5 has the following:

The Doors: Unlocked
The 60s – XM 6 – 2PM ET
The year was 1967. “Light My Fire” was everywhere on the airwaves. The Doors were making a different kind of music. XM 60s on 6, along with Rhino Records, unlock The Doors magic in this audio anthology.

Good stuff.

-k-

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Cell Phones

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My two-year stint with Verizon Wireless having expired, and having far more monthly minutes than SWMBO and I can eat, I’d been shopping around for a lighter-weight plan. I discovered that all the entry-level family plans are priced within a few bucks of each other, and that unless I wanted to go with something like TracFone, who offered some attractive pay-as-you-go rates, I had few other options.

Verizon service has been great; it works in the hills of SW Nebraska, the plains of Kansas, and mountains of southern Virginia.

The bullet has been bitten; they’ve got my business for another 2 years. Included in that is a free Motorola Razr phone upgrade, with no charge for the final vowel dropping. Heckuva deal.

Hi-tech-geek-plowboy chic, that’s me.

-k-

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Not even my Saturn

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Being a Saturn SL2 guy, I never saw my car on an interweb survey:


You Should Drive a Saturn Sky


You’re sleek and smooth, and you need a car to match your hot persona.
Besides, sometimes you want your top up – and sometimes you want it down.

And this isn’t it either

-k-

Punchlines #2

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Darned if a good punchline doesn’t stand on its own. A couple more, posing as content, for your elucidation:

  • No, Tonto, I said posse.
  • A good pig like that, you can’t eat him all at once.

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    Quicken Update

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    There is a Mac Quicken 2006 R4 update available; I just installed it, and with all the “stability” fixes purported to be in there, perhaps it will crash less. Maybe it’ll even suck less. Hope springs eternal. I’ll still fly my “Quicken Sucks” banner until I know for sure.

    -k-

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    Roadside Attractions

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    Road trips are fun. Even on Interstates. Even though there is nothing like taking back roads to search for America, there are sometimes things visible from the Interstate which are worthy of note. This is one of them, from Gaffney SC. The Peachoid, a water tower’s water tower. You will be left to your own imagination in interpreting the imagery presented on the right hand side of the tower. Maybe my mindset is perverse, but I’ve got my ideas on the matter.

    -k-

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    Be it ever so humble …

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    there’s no place like home. The rental car is cleaned out and returned, the voyager is recharging in its permanent at-home spot, and the cat is sleeping on his little bed atop the washer.

    Final statistics: 1404 total miles driven. The average to-date MPG on that ol’ Buick was 24.5 when I turned it in, a gain of .2 MPG for today.

    All’s right with the world.

    -k-

    One More for the road

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    We’re fixin’ to leave Roanoke, and getting an early start rolling up Interstate 81, which I call “The Talledega of the Interstate Highways”. Pass as many 18 wheelers as you can, merge right to keep the 85 MPH tailgater behind you out of your trunk. Repeat.

    -k-

    Same Hotel, Different Name

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    Left Atlanta today; we got away later than planned because of my over-enthusiastic assistance in depleting my nephew’s beer supply, an excellent plate of spaghetti, and a nice warm apple pie. Combine that with a warm soft bed, and we slept in. 400 miles later, we’re in Roanoke VA, still 225 or so miles from home. It’s getting dark, SWMBO’s back is bothering, I’m tired, and hence we’re at the Quality Inn, formerly a Holiday Inn, where we’ve stayed countless times on Martinsville race weekends. So to the bar, to see if the beer still meets my criteria (cold, and within reach), a little bite to eat, and to bed.

    Tomorrow, one more Cracker Barrel breakfast, and home.

    The LeSabre’s to-date mileage is up to a whopping 24.3 MPG.

    -k-