My Buddy List has drastically shrunk. There's good ol' Ally and good ol' Zoe, and my daughter who won't speak to me, ha ha ha ha, but today's shrinkage suggests my 'buddies' get Online via airplane. AOL, TIME WARNER was the kiss of death.
So now it's free, this AOL. If I'm offered the very latest AOL software I decline on the grounds that it's probably not to benefit me, but to benefit AOL getting even more advertising machinery on board this sinking ship.
Oh well. A new 'Buddy' of mine will show up around March 20 2007. I'm 73, the woman (mother/wife) is 35, and the buddy-to-be is about two months old. Crazy, right? Hey, this is America, "Home of the Brave." And no, it was not caused by invitro fertilization, but by the old-fashioned way. Clue: Two hours or so after swimming 1500 meters the other day, swim training for Masters swim Meets, my blood pressure taken at home read 114/64 - resting pulse. the third number I record, might have been a bit high but that was not typical. If the first figure is 170 or over a doctor will not write a Viagra prescription. So the motive to swim-train puts on some muscle.
To make room for our new Buddy we will need a vehicle with six seats. So for the price of most late model used ("previously owned" in typically evasive American lingo) cars we got a new Mazda MPV3 gorgeous thingum with front wheel drive and a hot four cylinder (good MPGs) transverse engine and transmission with overdrive. Years ago I owned a rotary engine Mazda that I totalled, replaced with another identical, and both were made sloppily. Mazda suffered a class action suit at about that time. Mazda, I figure, is still trying to climb back from their manufacturing nightmares for which I admire them tremendously. All that has to happen now is for 'Buddy's' mother to transform her driving permit into a license. In the meantime she back-seat drives ME. Ha ha ha ha ha.....
Hey, we aren't all going to abandon ship are we?
H e l p ! ! ! gulp gulp gulp gulp...........
Barry xxx
7 comments:
We won't desert you Barry would miss reading your entries ~ keep up the swimming and exercise but don't go over do it ~ Ally x
It's going to take me a while to digest this entry. When I return, however, I will have about 317 questons.
I'm baaack! The 'monster', aka computer, is working again. For tonite, at least. So congratulations are in order?? This make #10? Or did I just dream that number somewhere? Anyway, a toast of vitamins to the Leader(s) of the Pack! Details. (But not too graphic!)
haha...grea entry...and your regular readers aren't goin anywhere..hehe!!
Stevie
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Congrats...and don`t you watch something other than CNN?
penny
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