Fred and Valerie

We went out last night with some friends to celebrate Mrs. S getting a new job. We ended up at Karaoke Night at a restaurant and I sang Enya’s “Orinoco Flow” (with Mr. B and Mr. S), Kelis’s “Milkshake” (with Mr. S), Sir Mix-a-lot’s “Baby Got Back” (by myself), and The Righteous Brothers’ “You’ve Lost that Lovin’ Feelin’” (with Mr. B and Mr. S as a tribute to Mrs. S).

There were MANY highlights throughout the night, including the drunk woman at the bar telling me I was “good” when I sang “Baby Got Back.” Gotta’ love it when drunk people think you’re good. Well, at least I was able to keep up with the song… until I tried to poke a little fun at Mrs. B towards the end. After that, it was hard to stop cracking up long enough to sing.

Some friends of ours decided it would be cool to have a Crab Night where a group of us could get together and dine on some fresh crab. Needless to say, it was a fun night! Here are the “Before” and “After” photos.

Before

After

We were driving towards Waynesboro last night and the whole way we could see billowing smoke in the distance. This is the view from the car just a mile or two away from the interstate.

It turns out that the recently demolished Waynesboro Outlet Village was on fire as part of a training exercise for the fire department.

In the spirit of Count von Count…

Twoooooo Red Tomatoes, AH! AH! AH!

The first of what appears to be many tomatoes to come from our garden!

It has a fairly sizeable split in it because of the weird weather patterns while it was growing. You can find out more about split tomatoes here.

We went to Wal-Mart this evening and saw some pretty funny things, but none of them topped what happened when we left. After making our purchase, Valerie and I were leaving the store. The greeter, who is supposed to welcome people into Wal-Mart, was busy staring at some sort of circular when we began to walk by her. She looked up, facing towards the inside of the store, looked at us, and said, “Welcome to Wal-Mart.”

We were laughing well after we had gotten in the car.

Seen on a Dodge Stratus. I really don’t know what was “just for show.”

We went to go see “Miami Vice” at the movie theater last night and had quite an interesting experience. The first sign of things to come was “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby” being sold out when we went to buy tickets. It was then that we decided to see “Miami Vice” because it had gotten some decent reviews at Metacritic.

We took our seats in the theater and the ads/trailers started. It was clear that something was wrong with the display setup because the picture was squeezed along its width and too tall for the screen. The effect was that everything was too thin and the top and bottom parts of the picture were not viewable. Our friend asked about the picture and was assured that it would be fine once the movie started. Yeah, right. It wasn’t until 10-15 minutes into the movie that the picture was fixed. In the meantime, we got to see Land Rovers that looked like Smart Cars. It certainly qualified as unintentional comedy.

Finally, we were able to watch the movie and really get into things. Then a baby started wimpering. Not a kid. Not a child. A baby. And the stupid parents weren’t smart enough to take the baby out of the theater. Eventually, the baby quieted, but then it started back up again not long after that. I got a look at parent and baby standing up in the back of the theater and it was clear that the baby wasn’t much more than a year old, if that. Two questions came to mind: How selfish does a parent have to be that they’ll take a one-year-old to “see” a movie like “Miami Vice” and not leave the theater when the baby starts wimpering and crying? And how stupid is the movie theater who allowed a one-year-old into the theater? Seriously, why is a one-year-old even allowed in the building? After last night, I firmly believe movie theaters should institute restrictions like theme parks and not allow children who can’t walk on their own into the theater. Anybody that young has no place in a movie theater; especially in an R-rated movie.

With temperatures in the mid-90s again today, the heat wave along the East Coast is still in full effect. The “feels like” temperature is well over 100, as it has been since Tuesday. Fortunately, it looks like it’s going to be cooler this weekend, with temperatures in the high 80s.

I’m scared to see what our next electric bill is going to be…