Scooter Chronicles

OK, so they set up the price so that it felt like stealing.

Marcia, Nigel, and I headed over to the local Target to look for certain things. One was to look at least at the prices of their baby food. As it happened we hit a sale. Nigel has been using Enfamil’s Nutramigen, the most expensive baby formula on the market. It was the suggestion of the pedatrician given the reactions Nigel had to other formulas. (I have mentioned this a couple of times on my site.) Anyway, Marcia and I usually hoot and hollar when we buy a can of it (which has only enough servings for one day) for $7.29. Today at Target they were selling two cans for $9!!

Needless to say we almost wiped out their stock on the shelves....

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A few nights ago I finished reading the short story collection “In the Forest of Forgetting” by Theodora Goss.

Here is a run down on the stories included:

“The Rose in Twelve Petals”
“Professor Berkowitz Stands on the Threshold”
“The Rapid Advance of Sorrow”
“Lily, With Clouds”
“Miss Emily Gray”
“In the Forest of Forgetting”
“Sleeping With Bears”
“Letters From Budapest”
“The Wings of Meister Wilhelm”
“Conrad”
“A Statement in the Case”...

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I was home the last two days because Marcia was sick. Not a migraine, but a bad cold. Yesterday afternoon I took her to see her doctor and was told that he had a 102 degree fever at the time.

I think she pushed it on Tuesday when she started feeling better in the early afternoon, so I made the point of having her rest yesterday. She doesn’t plan on doing much at all today (other than taking care of Nigel that is), so hopefully she will continue to feel better.

Last night Marcia and I watched “The I Inside” starring Ryan Phillippe.

This was one of the most interesting movies I have seen in a while, though it’s not groundbreaking or anything. Phillippe plays Simon Cable who wakes up on July 29, 2002 in St. Jude Hospital after being in a car accident. However, he doesn’t remember the last two years. The last day he remembers is July 29, 2000 just before he was in another (or the first) car accident. He soon finds out that he was at the same hospital for the first accident, and both times needed to be resuscitated. But when he is taken for an MRI and someone strange walks in to administer...

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Like I did BEFORE, I am opening the blog to reader questions. I stole this idea from Roger, and is also in the midst of getting ready to answer questions in his Autumnal Equinox Edition of “Ask Roger”.

I had fun doing this the last time, and with my posts being less frequent lately I thought I could do something to liven it up around here. So just post your questions as comments for this post. Or you can EMAIL them to me.

[UPDATE:] I will post my answers this weekend.

It’s called BookMooch.Com and I recently signed up. It is similar to LaLa.Com (the CD trading web site) which I have touted before, but obviously with books. What makes this site a bit better is that you choose which books are requested. I think LaLa has their program send out a big request to everyone when it is time for you to receive one. But with BookMooch, you send out the requests personally. Also, if there is more then one member with the book that you want to “mooch”, you get to decide what member to ask. This way if you are picky about getting one in good condition, you can look over the conditions listed (though I would say that only...

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WOO HOO!!

For the first time since 1987, the Detroit Tigers have CLINCHED a playoff spot (and I was THERE back in ’87 to see the Tigers clinch)!

Magglio Ordoñez and Brandon Inge share some champange.

I don’t expect them to win the World Series. Heck, I don’t even expect them to win the AL Pennant. But it’s great to know that only three years after losing an AL record 119 games that the Tigers will be playing ball again in October.

Though...

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More pictures to post. Over the last week Marcia and Nigel had been going up to see new cousin Emily (though mostly to help Paula). During that time Ryan and Nigel have been playing together.

Nigel was also playing with the clean laundry that needed to be folded.

There was also a toy that Ryan let Nigel play with that he really enjoy.

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I have tried a few new beers in the last couple of months. (Yeah, I am falling behind here.)

Chapeau Kriek is from the Belgium brewer De Troch. This was a GIFT from my Mother-In-Law for my birthday. A couple of years in a row she had bought me a half case of Belle-Vue Kriek, but the store that she bought it from didn’t have it this year. The owner suggested this as a replacement. Very good choice. There are differences, but it’s still a Belgian brewed cherry lambic which was very good.

Weyerbacher Heresy is their...

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No matter how cool it has gotten outside the past two weeks, it is still always stuffy in a second floor apartment. Even those cool nights, there has been no breeze and eventually we revert to the air conditioning. But tonight the windows are open and there is a beautifully cool breeze blowing through! This is one of the many reasons I love autumn so much. (Especially after a really hot and humid summer.)