I'm going to open today's diary with a story that sets the tone for my whole weekend. Saturday around 3:45 and I'm in the laundry mat. I just put my clothes in the dryer and I was getting hungry, skipping breakfast never really works out. The laundry mat has a snack machine so I walked over and weighed my snack options out very carefully. Little mini cookies seem like the smart snacker's choice so I decide to go for it. I insert my 75 cents, push C5 and wait for the snack to fall. Except nothing falls - the 'wire spin thing' just twists around and releases a snack that wasn't there. Turns out, the cookies were in C3, one spot over. Faced with the embarrassment of telling the attendant about my stupid mistake, I just put my head down, sighed and put in another 75 cents.

Snack Machine 1,

Bob 0
What can you do? And now without further adieu, Master Storyteller Bob Borden presents, today's diary: Friday night I got home and watched a film my friend Jay lent me, Donnie Darko. I was watching it and a character had one of those spooky/ghostly/other worldly voices. It scared the crap out of me and I turned it off. I don't mind a scary movie but when people start talking like that, it freaks me out. That's why I won't watch The Exorcist.

Saturday I woke up around 10:30. It was such a lovely day to go for a drive. But my car wasn't ready (I should be able to pick it up today) so I had to live vicariously through the cars driving by my building. It wasn't the same. Junior's (transmission guy) waiting on another part -- I don't mind the delay because somehow I can justify that with getting my money's worth. That's a BIG justification. With it being daylight, I thought I'd give Donnie Darko another shot. It was ok; a sleeper of a film, kind of interesting but I don't need to see it again -- it's always good to see Patrick Swayze working.

Saturday, I looked in on Tiffany's cats and walked around Blockbuster. I hate Blockbuster. I joined again last week when my car broke down and I needed something to get my mind off of things. I gave them the card that they just assigned to me, checked out some movies, got home and noticed on the receipt that they rented me the films under some other guy's name! Had I been a lesser person I could have screwed that guy over good by not returning them. I may not go back to Blockbuster. Anyway, I was going to rent Five Easy Pieces but then I thought, I'll just catch something on the tube. Sure enough, I get home and Road to Perdition is playing. That's one I haven't seen - it was pretty good!

Sunday I woke up around 10:00 and discovered that my Tivo really bit me on the ass! The damn thing recorded a Pay Per View movie! I didn't know it could do that! It recorded Raising Victor Vargas - I saw that in the theaters and didn't care for it then! Bad Tivo, BAD TIVO! Football came on; I watched and cleaned my apartment. I miss not having wheels.

So that's today's diary. Not very interesting but I didn't have a very interesting weekend.

Have a great day. Cop Land is the best film Sylvester Stallone has done since Rocky. And yes, I am including Cobra in that statement, ha ha.

It's BOBtoberfest!!

Stay beautiful,

Bob