Post weekend open thread….

Updated on December 9, 2013 By Ken Begg 19 Comments

I hope everyone had a great weekend. Yesterday we got snow, but it didn’t seem that bad until I got on the road. I got NO traction. Trouble braking and when I was stopped at a light (with a ton of cars behind me) my wheels were just spinning when I hit the gas. Wasn’t great. More snow during the day, so I drove home very slowly last night. The roads seemed a lot cleaner today, though. Thanks, road crews!

I got a lot of really great stuff for my 50th birthday, it was the swaggiest birthday ever. Paul and Holly presented me with an ottoman I had on my Amazon list yesterday. It was perfect. Sadly, I left it at their house rather than try to maneuver it to the car with the snow and all. And the price had gone up since I put it on my Amazon list, so I felt kind of bad about that. Still, it’s sweet, and a perfect gift; something I really wanted and will use everyday but may never have been motivated to buy myself.

One of the other gifts I got motivated this week’s MotDs. I liked this set MUCH more than I thought I would. It’s downright terrific.

See anything good this weekend? Or bad? Do something fun? Share below.

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  • Gamera977

    Good to see you had a great birthday Ken. Sorry about the weather but at least you got snow, we ended up with sleet and freezing rain.

    Downloaded a updated version of ‘Wasteland’ which I originally played twenty-five years ago on my Commodore 64. Yeap, sign of getting old when you go back and revisit the past instead of doing new stuff!

    Finally got out my copy of ‘Ginger Snaps’ that I ordered around Halloween and watched it. Good movie, not to the quality of ‘The Howling’ or ‘Dog Soldiers’ but good. Almost seemed more a black comedy to me than horror.

    And pulled out a couple of South Korean Korean War movies and rewatched them again. ‘Tae Gu Guk/Brotherhood of War’ and ‘Frontline’ – great films, they really get across the fact to the Koreans it was largely a civil war with brothers against brothers and neighbor fighting neighbors.

  • The Rev.

    I thought I’d be using our day off (Friday most everything was closed due to ice) to get some work done so I could watch a couple of movies this weekend. Unfortunately I got nothing done Friday as we had no power for about 18 hours. So, I watched nothing this weekend, and did very little that wasn’t work-related. *sigh*

    I’m very jealous of one of Ken’s gifts. Maybe I’ll get it come February when my birthday rolls around.

  • rtpoeman

    Congratulations on the 25th anniversary of your 25th birthday!

  • Gamera977

    You would steal Ken’s new ottoman!?!

    At least swipe his sofa to go with it…

    ;)

  • Ken_Begg

    He’s stealing everyone’s, because he wants to establish…anyone, anyone?

  • Gamera977

    NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! My puns are horrible but even I won’t sink to that level!

  • Sandy Petersen

    Man, Tae Guk Gi is gruesome. Check out 71: Into the Fire. Apparently it is a true story from the early days of the war. I imagine that it “reads” differently to Koreans than Americans, because Korean reviewers mention that they know the end of the story while watching the film, while I did not.

  • Ericb

    They built an empire made of foot rests?

  • SteveWD

    If I ever open a furniture store, it’s gonna be called The Ottoman Empire. That has to have been done already – off to Google.

  • Gamera977

    Ah, I should have known I’d misspell it. Thanks Sandy, I’ll check out 71. BTW ‘My Way’ from the same director as ‘Tae Guk Gi’ is almost as good. It’s about an impressed Korean soldier and a Japanese officer who form a strange friendship after being captured by the Soviets, then the Germans and ending up on the Atlantic Wall during D-Day.

  • SteveWD

    Looks like somebody beat me to it. There’s one in Brooklyn.

  • Rock Baker

    The Ottoman Empire always makes me think of Ernest P. Worrell’s colorful history lesson from ERNEST SCARED STUPID. “There ain’t no trees in Botswana. Un uh. I know, because I AM a Botswainian lumberjack and I ain’t never had a job!”

  • Rock Baker

    I spent the weekend making out Christmas cards, mostly. By drawing an original picture inside each one I can pretend I’m sending my friends actual gifts! I also drew a couple of other presents. I’ll likely do more of the same tonight too.

    I did fit in some episodes I’d taped of What’s My Line? and The Name’s The Same, however. That’s just great stuff!

  • KeithB

    Went to see Frozen and was pleasantly surprised. But the best part was the cartoon before the movie, “Get a Horse!” It started out as a cartoon look from the thirties with Disney doing Mickey’s voice, which I thought was cool, but then they seemed to literally break the fourth wall and it became a 2D/3D tour-de-force. (I saw it in 2D, but it was still awesome.)

  • Gamera977

    You could have even used ‘You OTTO do your furniture shopping here!’ as a slogan…

  • GalaxyJane

    Drill weekend for me, and a three-dayer instead of the one-day Christmas Party drill originally planned, since the stupid shutdown cancelled October and we had to make it up somewhere. I was happy not to be one of the folks out qualifying on the range in the near-freezing rain, since my section had to get their CPR certs up-to-date and manage a cyclic inventory, but overall it was a pretty crap drill anyway. I would happily strangle at least 1 of my NCOs and 2 of my junior enlisted right now, especially after I spent 3 hours Friday night having to be diplomatic to untangle a complete cluster that the NCO entailed by overstepping her authority with one of said enlisted and blowing up a minor kerfluffle into a major incident. The winter storm that everyone else has been dealing with hit us Sunday morning, so getting home Sunday night was exciting, at least until I got south of the freeze line.

    Today, OTOH was pretty good, kids, DH and I played hooky after lunch to watch Christmas movies and make gingerbread, which has greatly improved my mental health status and stress level.

  • LT_Harper

    Just be careful and not trip over that ottoman when you come home to your bratty kid and that hot wife in her capri pants! Say hello to Buddy and Sally, btw! Saw Miami Connection this weekend. Have you ever done a review of this wonderfully incompetent piece of 80s trash?

  • Ken_Begg

    I have not, and it’s so overworked now that I hesitate to think I could add anything to it.

  • The Rev.

    Considering how much you added to Jaws, I’m sure you could come up with some insights on the new big terrible thing.

    I have not seen it yet; I notice it’s been the midnight movie over at the Inwood at least once. I wonder if they’ll start doing monthly showings like they do with The Room and TRHPS.