Nookie

Posted on June 13, 2013 by Just Chuck

I bought a Nook. Actually bought two. On sale this week, the HD+ with 32 Gb is $179. Couldn’t pass that up. I’ve officially quit using my ipad except for this one magazine subscription that I paid for annually up front. No way to cancel it until next year renewal. I’m liking the nook. It does exactly what I need, no more no less. My ipad was filled with apps that I never used. The nook, I’m finding, is a great reader, great social media reader, and with ability to use google apps from the Playstore, I’m all set. One surprise, it came with a Microsoft office lite version for reading documents but with $15 I can get the full blown version. I think I’m going to take that offer.

Why switch from ipad you may ask? I have an ipad 1. Bought it way back in 2009. So you can imagine how slow it is and apps were starting crash regularly. And i just couldn’t bring myself to spending another $750 or so just to read books and magazines and comic books. So the nook is perfect. And the wife got one too.

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Baseball Season Has Started

Posted on June 1, 2013 by Just Chuck

Spent the afternoon at a baseball park watching the Patriots play a double header.  6-2 win in the first game and a 6-6 tie the second.  Cody got to close out the second game pitching.  Unfortunately he came in with bases loaded and score 6-1.  He gave a few hits that unfortunately tied the game but in the 6th inning he shut then down.  Vintage Cody.  His hitting was excellent though.  He had a two run double.

All I can say is thank goodness for summer baseball.  High school baseball was very difficult to watch.  The caliber of play was little league level.


We’ll be at a ballpark every weekend from now until mid august.  We’ll make a trip to Atlanta at the end of june and then another trip to ft Meyers Florida at the end of July.  

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Iron Man 3…

Posted on May 29, 2013 by Just Chuck

I know this movie is making money hand over fist but I’ve also heard that comic book aficionados don’t particularly care for it.  I’m a comic book geek and I thought it was OK but disappointing.

I can see why a lot of true blue comic book geeks would not like it.  It’s blasphemy what they did to the Mandarin.  Just blasphemy.  That is not the Mandarin from the comic books.  Certainly no the Arch-foe that is prominent in the comics.  They were able to weave in Advanced Idea Mechanics (A.I.M.) though A.I.M. isn’t A.I.M. without MODOK leading the bee keepers right? (wink wink).  And they threw in extremis which is pretty recent Iron Man stuff.  I’ll have to go back and reread the issues with extremis to see just how close to the story they stayed.  Maya was definitely the Dr. that came up with the stuff and she did sleep with Stark.  But then who doesn’t.  Iron Patriot is not Iron Patriot without Norman Osbourne, Nuff said.  So it seems like they pulled story lines and characters from different years and created a mashup Iron Man story that rambled.

So as a comic book geek I gotta give it an average 3 star movie.  It’s got some excitement but the villain is disappointing.  The Mandarin is just…. ugh.  Disappointing.  Go see it though.  It’s entertaining if you aren’t aware of the Iron Man history.

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Loss of Identity

Posted on May 29, 2013 by Just Chuck

I misplaced my wallet and now its considered lost.  I know where I saw it last so its in this house somewhere.  But for the life of me I can’t find it.

Panic was my first emotional stage.  Then frustration.  Anger was in there at one point with blame arrows being shot about. I swear its the dog getting back at me for not walking him.  I checked the backyard and under all the furniture just in case.

I’m now in the acceptance phase and spent most of yesterday morning closing accounts. That leaves the dreaded visit to the DMV this morning to get a drivers license replacement *shudder*  I expect to find the wallet once all accounts are closed and DMV has been visited.  That’s ozone ferd.

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Start Me UP

Posted on May 28, 2013 by Just Chuck

I’ve got to ask myself, am I’m really wanting to get back into blogging?

I was blogging before blogging was cool (2004 or 2005, I forget). Had my own website (www.ozoneferd.com). It’s gone, closed down, but for 5 or 6 years I had a nice little journal of my life. Unfortunately I deleted all that history and information along with the blog. I regret that. I’ve started a blog here on blogger at least twice before, deleted them. After a month I quit. Just wasn’t like before when all my friends blogged and we shared information and music and all kinds of things. It was a community. Facebook was the death of blogging in my opinion. By the way I was on Facebook before Facebook was cool, back when Facebook was more like LinkedIn is today. And I had a MySpace account too, though I never really got into the MySpace thing all that much.

So “Ozone Ferd”, what the hell does that mean? In high school it was a nickname bestowed on me by my best friend based on our proclivity to partake in substances that rendered our judgement impaired. These days it’s an easy userid for all the various places I need to provide a userid because no one would ever use it. I’m sure if you google ozoneferd you’ll find a number of sites, flickr, soundcloud, etc. It’s also become a way of life, a mantra. Something unexpected happens to me – that’s ozone ferd.

So there you go, first posting in blog Mark 4.0. I think this is about the 4th time. Oh wait, I did have a tumblr account once too. Maybe this is Ozone Ferd blog Mark 5.0. Anyway will see how long this one last.

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