December 16, 2009
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- Have you ever stalked the mailman before? Well the answer to that question should be NO, but the funny thing is that I “kinda” did that. Me and my wife was driving to the post office to drop off some mail, but we noticed the mailman’s vehicle parked at the local mailbox and decided to stop next to it, so that we can just directly hand our mail over to that person. The thing is that the mailman was going to leave already, so we decided to drive to the next mailbox and wait over there instead. However silly me, I drove right past the next mailbox and instead stopped at the one following that. So I popped a U-Turn to go back to the mailbox I missed, but the mailman’s vehicle drove right past that one and did not stop. At that point my wife was thinking “hey, he skipped a mailbox,” but I was thinking “crap, he probably thinks we’re stalking him and trying to steal his mail, so he’s trying to avoid us.” It is the Christmas season, and there have been reports of people stealing the X-Mas gifts that the mailmen are delivering for people. Thinking that the mailman probably thinks I’m some kind of stalking thief, I did not want to bother dropping off our mail to that person anymore. However out of curiosity I popped another U-turn to drive by where the mailman is, and sure enough he came back to the mailbox he purposely skipped to avoid us. As we drove by I was joking “oh no, he’s probably writing down our license plate number, to report us as possible mail thieves.” Then we just drove to the post office. lol
- Being that this is the season where the “Oscar bait” films are being released, there are now a great amount of quality movies that I need to see by the end of the year. Movies like “Brothers,” “Up in the Air,” “Serious Moonlight,” “The Princess and the Frog,” “Invictus,” “The Lovely Bones,” “A Single Man,” “Avatar,” “Crazy Heart,” “Nine,” “The Young Victoria,” “It’s Complicated,” “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus,” and “Sherlock Holmes.” The problem here is that several of these movies are in “limited release,” which means that in many cases they are not locally available for me to watch. I have to drive as much as 40 miles for some of these films, and it’s because they are literally just leaving their mark as a movie released in 2009 for Oscar consideration. Once that’s out of the way, the studios can spend the money early next year (or after the Oscars has been shown) for a wider release. Sure I can just wait for the wider release, but being that I consider myself a movie buff, I’d like to see them as soon as possible. Along with that list above, there are still movies from November that I have yet to see as well. Good time to be a movie fan, but damn that’s a lot of movies to see in just a few week’s time.
- For my regular blog readers out there, I’m sure you’ve noticed the lack of updates lately. The truth is that I’ve been really really lazy in writing my blogs this past week (or two… or three), and have more or less been “cheating” by posting a temporary private post to be edited at a later time for public viewing (that’s my OCD not wanting to break the pattern of a blog post a day). I want to go back to my regular blog posting habit soon, but I honestly can’t give any promises right now….
