Ginger chews and nasty bathrooms

Last night after work I dropped into ‘World Market’ to look around. Sure enough I found myself some more ginger chews. Different brand but pretty much the exact same stuff. These come in a spiffy green tin. I ended up buying three of them. That should keep me busy for a little while.

I also checked out the wine selection while I was there. World Market has a great selection of exotic wine. I picked up a bottle of ‘crushpad’; a red wine I have had before. It has some nice cherry overtones to it. I also picked up a bottle of some red wine that was simply called ‘red’. It came in a cool little jug bottle. I tried some last night and it turned out to be pretty tasty despite the screw-off cap. The bottle claimed it had cherry and blueberry tones to it but I did not taste it. It was just a nice red wine that was not too heavy and not too light. I think it was a mix of shiraz and zinfandel with a bit of cabernet.

I need to hurry up and finish my outdoor shower this weekend. I came home last night and a couple of tiles had popped out of my nasty shower disgorging the crap in the walls behind it into my tub. Once one tile comes out the others start falling like dominoes. It’s high time that entire bathroom was ripped out and rebuild. Because the shower has to last just a little bit longer I ran out into the garage and grabbed a board and screwed it to the bathroom wall to keep more tiles and the crap behind it from falling out. It just about the most redneck white-trash looking thing ever. A big board bolted to a nasty bathroom wall. However it will last for a little while and once my outdoor shower is built I can start ripping the entire thing out. It’s going to be a disgusting job but it needs to be done.

I went for a bike ride around town last night. My weird high handlebars gathered a few odd looks but I am used to off looks. The weather was really nice and I pedaled around river walk. Some guy was fishing with a net. He seemed to be pretty good at it he would gather up the net spin around a couple of times and then cast it into the air. While airborne the net would blossom into a perfect circle and splash down into the water. I was curious to see if he had caught anything but I just rode on by.

I rode into town and checked out the new coffee shop they had put in. I am not sure if it’s a ‘real’ coffee shop or another cheesy Christian clone they try to sneak by. It was closed so I peeked in the window. They had a lot of books inside and they had some hip chairs and all in all it had a cool funky atmosphere. Seems to me it would be a neat place to drop in if it did not have stupid hours. 9:30-5:30 is simply the most ridicules hours for a coffee shop. It opens too late for any morning people to get any coffee and it closes too early for any sort of interesting night life. I predict a quick demise.

I rode home and watched the season’s premier of ‘ghost hunters’. It was a pretty good episode and the building they were in was fairly creepy. The thing running by they caught on the thermal camera was interesting as well. However once again they caught another 3 foot tall ghost. Every ghost they seem to catch seems to be about 3 feet tall. Either scifi is hiring some midget to run around and be captured on film or the ghost hunters are truly gathering some weird evidence about ghosts. Or what we think are ghosts.

I might take an early lunch today. Get myself some crab ragoons and MSG.






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