Busy Monday

MOVIE REVIEWS! That is right, reviews. As in more than one. But less than three.

1. Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash - kind of alarming really. What happens at peak oil? Are we there yet? Are we ignoring it? How much longer can the party last? Who knows. Maybe we are at peak oil now. The film goes into the history of oil, and how in less than 100 years the USA has pretty much been pumped dry. They show the former oil boom tons in Texas, now populated by more rusting machinery than people. And they interview people that live there and remember the boom saying how everyone said the oil would never run out. Only it did. The UK has almost pumped the North Sea reserves dry. Some fields in Venezuela are dry. Pretty much the only place that has not hit peak in the Middle East - but you have to believe them when they say so. Saudi Arabia has reported the same reserves for many years now.

Tears Of The Sun - Civil war breaks out in Congo. Some US Navy Seals are ordered to go to a mission and get the foreign nationals out. But the doctor woman will not leave without the refugees that are in the mission. The Seal team leader has to decide what to do. Leave the people there to die, or try to help them.

And thus, the movie reviews are concluded. For now.

What an ACTION PACKED WEEK I have in store! I got so much going on that I will be busy every day! I am having to take some time off the sideline job to get it all done.

Today I have to drive to the Keys. Yea I know - you pitty me. What a horrible thing to have to do. Ill bring back a photo of the 7 mile bridge. I am going to be 17 miles from Key West to look at a boat. A 22 foot power cat. I really do not know what to expect from this boat. She will have to be really clean to compete with the 19 foot power cat. Then on the way back I have to complete a spy mission to a food and beer place. It seems that the place is popular with the locals, and off the main road so the tourists do not know about it. Then return home. Oh yea and I might go to Sloppy Joe's for a beer. Why the hell not. I will be 17 miles from the place. But parking in Old Town Key West is a pain in the ass. So I may not go.

FUN QUEEN FACT! This will be the last fun fact. I think the Queen ends her visit today. Horses and custom-built, chauffered Rolls Royces and Bentleys are fine for outings but it wasn't always so. Queen Elizabeth learned how to drive in 1945 when she joined the Army. Speaking of transportation, the queen also ventured into the London subway. In May 1939, she and her governess Marion Crawford along with Princess Margaret dared to take the Tube.

New Relationships

I think I may be in love. I like my current girl OK, but she is getting old. She treats me all right, never really letting me down and all. I hope we can still be friends. But I saw a new girl today. And she is HOTTT. With three Ts.

And here she is. This is the view looking at her bow. She is living with some other dude now, but he is also moving on to a larger bodied companion. He likes em big I suppose - while I am more into the slim and trim look.

Right now we are just flirting. I did go over to see her today, as you can see by the picture I took. We talked a bit and stuff. Ill keep everyone updated about how this works out.

And now......HOW TO OPEN A BEER BOTTLE WITHOUT USING A BOTTLE OPENER! Everyone knows that all the good beers come in non screw off tops. Well not ALL the good beer - Sierra Nevada beer comes with a twist off top. I think Dogfish Head Brewery also uses twist off tops. Sierra Nevada and Dogfish Head make some ass kicking beers. Very good stuff there.

But what do you do when you get a pop off top, and you do not have a bottle opener handy?

First off - and this is VERY important - DO NOT PANIC! Everything will be OK. Soon that top will be off and you will be less thirsty.

Look around for something hard with an edge or corner or ledge or something. Examples include a window sill, a table edge, a flat part of a boat trailer, the top edge of your car door, an anvil, or anything else with a hard flat edge to it.

Now for the fun part. Rest the beer bottle cap edge on the hard object. You probably have to angle the bottle slightly. The edge of the bottle cap should "hook" the edge of the hard object edge. Now make a fist. While holding the bottle in one hand, strike the top of the bottle cap with your closed fist. You have to strike it like you mean it, but not too hard. A medium force blow will do it.

At this point, the cap should be off and your beer should be open. If the cap is still there, you did not hit it hard enough OR the object you picked to use is not hard enough. If the beer foams too much, it may be too warm OR you hit the cap too hard. If the bottle chips or breaks - you hit it way too hard.

With practice, you can quickly open a beer without causing too much foam or breaking the bottle - even if you are a mile away from a "bottle opener".

NOTE - do not try this method on antique wood furniture. If you are using a car door, it is not recommended that you use a new car or a car you give a shit about the paint on.

FUN QUEEN FACT! Did you know the Queen never farts? Yup, that is right! Never. How is this possible?? Back in the 1970s she made a Royal Decree saying so!
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Stuff On Saturday

You may have noticed I turned off autostart on the Iguana Music.

MOVIE REVIEW! The Good Shepherd.

This is a cold war CIA thriller. And it has all the elements a cold war era CIA thriller should have. The Skull and Bones Society. Russians. Spies. Germans. WWII. British OSS. The Bay Of Pigs. Castro. Cuba. All that Cold War pissing contest stuff.

But - not really my kind of thing. The "action" is kind of slow. Just like in real life. Spies are not like James Bond - they tend to live much more low key lives. And intelligence gathering is also fairly dull.

I found the movie to be somewhat dull. And the movie is long. Ill give it three tail whips, and that is only because the story is good. But the pace is just too slow.

I do not plan to go to the Air and Sea show. I concluded that it is just going to be too crazy out on the water. It is going to be a nice day out on the water - but there are going to be a lot of people out. A large percentage of them will be idiots. I just do not want to deal with it.

FUN QUEEN FACT!

Did you know the Queen can help you remember Morse Code for the letter "Q"? Well she can! And here is how.

THIS is the letter Q in audio format.

Written it looks like this - - . -

Long long short long. Or "dah dah dit dah".

BUT it kind of sounds like "QUEEN QUEEN the QUEEN". The words in all caps are the "longs". So when you hear "dah dah dit dah" think QUEEN QUEEN the QUEEN and then the letter Q pops out. See how easy that was? Now you know one letter in Morse. The rest of them are just as easy to learn.