A Lack Of Love Is Not Hate, Just Indifference

Today I had, as part of my rounds, a visit with my buddy Paul Francis. His television was tuned in to TVLand and at the time The Andy Griffith Show was on. He was enjoying it, but I don't care for it. He asked me why and I didn't have much good of an answer. The fact that the show had already ended and all the cast had moved on to other shows by the time I was watching TV meant little to him, as he's younger than me...

But really, it's a cultural thing. Mayberry is a romantization of what life was really like in the small towns in this part of the South. Bits and pieces of Mayberry still exist, tho' not anywhere near the same concentration as what you'd see on the show. Mayberry is a state of mind, a "merry old America" that haunts the present, and curses its very real problems.

Meanwhile, I see that the man hired to replace Lane Kiffin as the Head Coach of the University of Tennessee football team...looks and sounds like Gomer Pyle warmed over.

You Vols love Mayberry too much for your own good. But just because I don't love it, doesn't give you license to think I hate it. I had other things to love in my time.

By Popular Demand--For All Facebook Users

When you get one of those hated Status updates on Facebook that go...
"Doofus McDorkin has just reached Level 27 in TiddlyFinks" yadda yadda yadda
You'll also see a little line underneath that reads:
"(time of day of post) via TiddlyFinks." That word or phrase after "via" is a link to the Application's home page. If you go there, there will be another link in the upper LEFT corner of the screen for "Block Application". Click that, and Facebook will give you an "are you sure?" window. Click "BLOCK" and it will tell you it has done so. Then you never see anything from that Application on your feeds ever again.

Semi-Random Stuff

*) We suffered Epic Fail in an attempt (completely Dad's idea) to make waffles for dinner. He lost the instructions/recipie; he got a Fannie Farmer recipie that was made for PRE-ELECTRIC means of waffle-making; the waffle iron hadn't been used in months and Dad hadn't cleaned or re-oiled it...and the result was chunks of half-burnt, half-still gooey stuff. It was partly his fault, and partly my fault, but I was much more angry about it.

*) RetroTV keeps showing episodes of the old Battlestar Galactica either out of sequence or just looping the same ones over and over. More than a year ago, I wanted to see the second part of "Lost Planet of the Gods", and perhaps "The Long Patrol". Either I keep missing them or they just don't have them to show. Tonight's show was "Murder on the Rising Star"...which I've seen enough times, along with "War of the Gods" (as great as that one is), "Living Legend" (ditto), "Experiment In Terra" (which was an unfortunate wasted opportunity), and "The Young Lords" (ugh).

* The swap meet at the HobbyTown for gamers wasn't very good to me. I only sold five pieces for $5...and the guy with the MechWarrior pieces I bought last time didn't show. As a consolation I got a couple Comanche gunships at the Tuesday Morning in North Peters for my Heavy Gear/MechWarrior force.