I wish this cough would go away. It makes me hurt. Dry, hacky, and makes my stomach and back muscles hurt.
Maury shared this commercial with me. It will never even be considered to air in the US. The site’s in French, but the ad is in English, though you don’t have to speak a word of any language to understand it. It’s almost entirely without words. The ad is from 1992. It’s just too much for the Puritan American audience. But I laughed.
Today began with breakfast followed by a tour of the Sunrise Swap Shop because the morning’s temperature was in the upper 50s, so it was a nice day to do so for a change. We skipped the “dollar store” sections which are full of shit and concentrated on the people selling old crap. Tons of computers older than dirt in obviously poor shape, a large number of records were available (those are the 12″ black CDs if you don’t remember what a record is), and one guy had a large collection of FACTORY-SEALED 8-tracks. I almost bought the Robert Plant one on principal. There was an unusual amount of (overpriced) Panther stuff too.
Swung by Best Buy with Timmy to play with laptops some more. I really need to get one before the end of the month. Time’s a wastin’ on this project. Once I have it, I need to create multiple user accounts (outside sales, purchasing, office staff, and executive), then install OpenOffice and a mail client on all of them and configure everything. I need it for my trade show. I’ll have to keep this one locked up.
Went and picked up this year’s season ticket holder gift which was a tailgate chair. (Like this but for our team). Speaking of Panther chairs, this is awesome. We ran into Vanessa who I’ve not seen in a while and that was a nice surprise. I was going to do ‘photo with the mascot’ but it was the only thing we wanted to do that had a line. Feh.
Afterwards, it was open skate for season ticketholders. They skipped this for the past two years and that rankled me greatly, but it has returned. We were supposed to get 1hr (3pm to 4pm) on the ice. The good news was they let us out there a half-hour early so we got 90 minutes of skating, but the bad news was they didn’t clean the ice first and there was a pick-up hockey game before us, so the ice was shit.
There was no supervision which, in theory is nice, but there were a number of kids throwing snowballs, two playing Frisbee with each other, one kid with a stick and puck, and two others playing with pucks. That made the skating hazardous. We did get to sit on the player home and away benches as well as walk to the locker room door for photos, though the door was locked. It was fun. Afterwards, we were done for the day and I came home. I made dinner — enough for two nights — and I am disappointed in the results. Fail. And it’s on for tomorrow too.