It's morning somewhere

What have I been doing?

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My old television was too old for the digital converter, or I couldn't figure out a way to get it hooked up, anyway. When analog tv discontinued, that ended my television viewing. I bought a new digital TV a couple months ago, nothing majorly terrific.. just a 19inch flat screen. I hooked it up, and...nothing. It turned out that I needed an antanna. I ordered one over the Internet, and left it in its box for a couple weeks. Finally, last Saturday, I hooked up the new TV with the antanna. It was pretty frustrating, at first, but I finally realized I needed to run the "scan" feature, and now, I have 8 channels.

While I didn't have TV, I spent some time reading, and watching videos. I thought up a couple stories, but didn't fully type them, until today. I've posted them at The Practical Press. I still have a couple more that need to be finished. I guess I'll work on them, soon...but meanwhile, there are a lot of commercials I need to catch up on!

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Last year, I bought a portable air conditioner. I put it in storage. I wrote out a list of things to do, on Friday. Get the AC was one of the things to do. Weekend's over. Did I get the AC? Nope. The fan is working overtime, and would appreciate it if I did.

What did I do? Well, I cleaned out both cars, which was one horrendous chore. It's done, now, until next time.

I also finished a story. I've written several different story lines, but hadn't finished any. The actual note on the list was finish story, so it didn't matter which one. Another Camping Story has been posted at The Practical Press.

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has been posted at Kenneth Quinnell's The Practical Press, called Thomas and Tux.

Also, I've been following a story, Hawaiian Christmas Carol, as each chapter arrives. It is being written by my friend, Cosa Nostradamus, at Blog Me No Blogs.

I just added a post, with pictures!! at the other blog. The rental, the new car (old, but new to me!) and a gripe of sorts.

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Another one posted at Kenneth Quinnell's Practical Press.

Did you ever wonder how Super Heroes became Super Heroes? Super Hero Tryout.

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Hotel Workshop has been posted at Kenneth Quinnell's The Practical Press. I wonder where that idea came from?

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I managed to finish another short story. It's posted at Kenneth Quinnel's Practical Press.

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Saturday morning, I called my mother. She said she'd tried to call me, but only got the ring, ring, ring of an unanswered phone. She guessed I was online. I had been.

I was reading the articles about Ebola, and Dr. Jonah Kule who'd just recently died during the Ebola outbreak in Uganda. He'd gone to medical school and came back to his village to help his tribesmen. Such a sad story, and what a horrible disease: What is Ebola?

When I told her what I had been reading about, my mother said, "I'm so glad I live here". I had to agree.
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It's been a nasty, rainy, icy weekend. I went out and cleared the ice from my car, Saturday morning. By the afternoon, it was covered again. I cleared it. Sunday morning, I went out, early, and cleaned the car again. I had to kick the door to get it open. This afternoon, I had to clean it again. Tonight, I went out and cleaned it, once more. It seemed to start dripping icy rain every time I cleaned the car. All day long, I heard scrape, scrape, scrape from the neighbors trying to get their cars clean.

I had plenty of time to finish this story,Writing x Three, and post it to The Practical Press. I had fun with it.

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Taking a leaf from the fabulous Fixer, at Alternate Brain,...I finally posted another short story, Alien Charm, at The Practical Press.

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Dodgeball - a true underdog story.
I wasn't expecting a lot when I started watching this movie. I thought it would be funny, ha ha, but I wasn't expecting great hilarity. Boy, oh boy, was I in for a treat! All sorts of twists and turns in this movie. It's almost as good as Harold and Kumar go to White Castle. Well, how do you like that!?! I see Harold and Kumar's new movie is supposed to be out in 2008. Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay.

So, White Goodman wants to take over Peter LaFleur's Average Joe Gym, to make parking space for his own swanky fitness center. Because LaFleur's loan on his gym has gone in arrears, Goodman buys the debt from the bank. There happens to be a very pretty girl working for the bank, handling the paperwork, etc. Goodman tries to catch her interest.

LaFleur has 30 days to get the $50,000. owed. His customers (my favorite is the pirate, Steve) try to help him figure a way to do it. One finally notices the advertisement for the Dodgeball Tournament in Vegas (winning team gets $50,000.) All they have to do is beat a local team as qualifier. They play a girls' team...and lose. But, because one of the girls had tested positive for steroids, the Average Joes end up winning.

In learning how to play dodgeball, they watch a film about the sport. That film is mighty funny. Patches O'houlihan teaches some of the basics to Jimmy -I think that was the kid's name- (who was painting his fence, when a voice asked him if he wanted to play dodgeball). Anyway, Jimmy ends up in an opium den, where he learns that that was where dodgeball was created. At the end of the film, Jimmy learns that dodgeball is a great sport. You can pick on people smaller and weaker than you.

Meanwhile, Goodman builds a team, too. He has all sorts of hulking goons from his fitness center. His team, the Purple Cobras, doesn't play a local team, instead, he explains to LaFleur's team, he bought their way in. Patches O'houlihan, in wheelchair, shows up and tells LaFleur that he would coach the Average Joes.

Goodman has pissed off the bankgirl by getting her fired. She joins LaFleur's team. The team is ready to learn. Ohoulihan says, "If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball," and starts throwing wrenches at them. Of course, they're not yet a good team, so they have to learn to dodge. I have to agree with Patches; a wrench thrown at you should help those quick reflexes...Heh...another training method was to dodge busy traffic.

In vegas, one of the team members had ordered new uniforms for them all. The uniforms that arrived were leather and chain attire. Not what the guy ordered... but, they had to put on the uniforms to play... and they did. They lucked out and managed to win the first game. As they were leaving, they ran into the team that had gotten their uniforms. A trade was performed.

After each team beating several other teams, the Average Joes and the Purple Cobras are the last competitors. Lance Armstrong makes a cameo appearance. Chuck Norris's vote makes a difference. William Shatner gives out the trophy. I highly recommend this movie. Funny stuff!

I've not been available to work on the computer, recently. Other things had higher priority. Doctor Office Event. Oh, yeah. The picture has nothing to do with the post, I just felt like placing it there:)

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...New story posted at The Practical Press. If you decide to read it, be prepared to be appalled.

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