[tcb] Re: What about me?
- From: a riggs <redvan71@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 18:40:04 -0700 (PDT)
So what happened to the Telefunken?
--- Denis Dodson <coocoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> So with all this saddness in the family the real important question
> arises: WHAT ABOUT ME?!
>
> I know some of you think I have it easy, but you would be wrong! I
> forgot the antenna to my Sirius Satellite Radio so I had to listen to
> ordinary radio for my whole trip! Well, until I saw a new slimmed down
> receiver at Walmart (probably made by cold and naked 7 year olds in a
> Korean prison, but hey, the price was right). Then my MP3 player started
> acting up and I had to yell at the girl at Circuit City until they gave
> me a new one.
>
> I won 3 trophies at Paul's shows. I would have won 4 but they gave my
> second "longest distance" one to a guy from Tulsa. Some loophole that he
> actually drove his bus. If I wanted to be picky I could have asked for
> "longest trailered". At least I won more than Everette. By the way, he
> finally gave me the catologue number for the weatherstrip rubber, but I
> wrote it on the back of my ballot and then I dropped it in the ballot
> box...He gave the number to...Ronnie?... I need it, again.
>
> The VOSA show was in a terrific site. Paul needs Allan to teach him to
> drive.
>
> I ate seared fois gras with a raspberry BBQ sauce and chicken fried
> oysters, a delicious roasted chile relleno, (not fried) at Mi Tierra's,
> all kinds of stuff from Central Market...
>
> Speaking of Mi Tierra's, when we had dinner there, Steve's third world
> friends won both the prizes. I think they were totally mystified. Do
> Americans often win inexpensive clothing at dinner?
>
> I found that a person can easily fit two full sized grandfather clocks,
> a heavy wooden dining room table with the leafs removed and five big
> boxes full of glassware in a splitty bus. Try that in a Dodge Caravan. I
> loaded it and five more plastic storage bins, an antique ice box and a
> sewing machine onto the trailer. For the first time the big Toyota knew
> that it had a load.
>
> Jan had earlier asked if we could have sheetrock or something put on the
> walls downstairs, in the theater/my room. I came home to find that
> Travis, my homebuilder worker bee, had taken my instructions to "panel
> in the walls" to mean "strip out the entire room completely, put
> everything I own out onto the driveway under a tarp, and install all new
> wall studs, canister lights in the ceiling, build in surroundsound
> speakers with central junction boxes for all electronic connections
> including telephone and network, re-rout the heat/AC ducting and put
> down an epoxy floor" I nixed the floor idea. I have to feel like I am in
> charge.
>
> But since he had to rip out all the wiring, I have NO TV! I had to watch
> 60 minutes on Jan's little 15''. It made my eyes hurt.
>
> And the refrigerator in the kitchen is DEAD. Muerto. Has been since I
> left. Under warrantee, I get a new one, but not until tomorrow.
>
> Do you know why I can't have one today? 'Cuz nobody loves me, that's why
>
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