Tuesday, 28 December 2004 - 10:14 AM CST

umm i just realized how stupid i am. i thought rance stopped writing this blog in august because i never used the lil arrows on the calender to move to the next month. last night i finally realized that he/whomever still writes this and that i am an idiot. to think that i sat around for months staring at the same page =/ mon dieu!

well, ya'll will be hearing more from me...

xo mel

Tuesday, 28 December 2004 - 10:35 AM CST

VW, can you notify me when rance invites people to his party next time? I've always wanted to meet him. Is he handsome?

And if you are rance, ;) ;) let's hookup baby.

Tuesday, 28 December 2004 - 10:48 AM CST

my sister has a friend who's home from Iraq. our sobering thought for the holidays....Mike used to frequent the tent that got bombed recently all the time when he was stationed in Mosul (thankfully he's not slated to return to Iraq until February '06). want to get even more weireded out? my sister and I met up with him at the Twin Towers, the last time we were there, two months before 9/11. for some reason these things are giving me pause today...

anyhoo, thanks for the link....I'll drop a line to a soldier or two.... hopefully he'll be a Duke fan like me, or even better, a Carolina fan, so we can bash each other's respective teams in spirited correspondence. that's always fun! :)

Tuesday, 28 December 2004 - 12:19 PM CST

Dennys? My invite said "The Sizzler."

Tuesday, 28 December 2004 - 1:01 PM CST

Mine too. It must have been a decoy. Were you the cool guy sitting in the corner booth eating the sirloin tips with mushroom gravy?

Tuesday, 28 December 2004 - 1:43 PM CST

Dammit, my husband and I went to Red Lobster. On the other hand, the Ultimate Feast was swell, as always. Mmmmm, shrimp and crab.

The lady across from us was wearing a gold lame' blouse and was older than God's great-great-great-auntie. Whoever let her dress herself should be taken out by the dumpster and smacked around a little; that's a little too much fashion-forward festive to let loose at one time in the Midwest.

Then the "do not exit unless in case of fire, alarm will sound" buzzer went off behind us, and we checked to see if Mrs. Ancient-of-Days Goldilocks was doing a dine 'n dash in her fetching little white fur moonboots, but she was still contentedly cracking crab and brushing bits of shell off of her (shiny!) shirt. Now that's a classy night out in the trackless wastes of suburbia for you. As diversions go, it was more fun than a "Detour - Snow Drifts On Road" sign.

Ah, for the good old times, when I used to check for updates and new comments here obsessively. I do understand that the obligations of an International Blogger of Mystery eventually had to take precedence. Really, I do. But I miss Vat Chat and bad Latin jokes and glam anecdotes about El Lay slebs and such.

Happy bloggoversary, Rance, where-ever you are.

Tuesday, 28 December 2004 - 1:54 PM CST

So you liked my boots did you?

Tuesday, 28 December 2004 - 2:00 PM CST

Was it the Denny's at 4th and Howard or the other one? I was at the other one.

Tuesday, 28 December 2004 - 2:31 PM CST

Holy moon boots! That's right, it is Rance's one year Anniversary..I can't believe he made it this far..I thought he'd be arrested for indecent exposure while driving a golf cart or something like that by now..

But no, you made it thru a year buddy. Good job! You didn't get arrested (I hope), nor did you look back in regret, wishing that you had peed on your girlfriends car when she left you last New Years...I bet she has her own regrets now, the little tart. Her loss, your gain. Well, I hope you can spend this New Year's in bliss, with a beer in one hand and a sweetheart in the other. And thanks for not closing shop here in Ranceland, we appreciate having a place to come and chat with like minded crazies.

Happy New Year to everybody (that's in case I can't make it back here before then)!! And Happy One Year To The blog!! May it live to be at least 1 year and two months, if not more.

-Bubba

Tuesday, 28 December 2004 - 3:49 PM CST

denny's!!! i thought it said dempsey's. i need to get my eyes checked. this getting old thing has such drawbacks. oh, ginny... i'm always allowed to dress myself, i thought i looked good in gold, i've been told i'm older then dirt, but never old, old, old...

look what you started, vw

kisshugs

nastrovia

Tuesday, 28 December 2004 - 4:09 PM CST

VW, the My Soldier program is a great idea. I wrote to someone until he came home. He said it really meant something to him. People get depressed the longer they stay over there. Showing your support and just having normal interaction really does help morale. My soldier didn't necessarily want to talk about anything serious, he just wanted a nice American to chat with. They get homesick, surrounded by all things foreign. I recommend it, and it was fun, too.

Tuesday, 28 December 2004 - 4:25 PM CST

It was the other one.

Tuesday, 28 December 2004 - 4:25 PM CST

Are you calling me crazy?

Tuesday, 28 December 2004 - 4:39 PM CST

People go to Denny's when they are sober?

Tuesday, 28 December 2004 - 4:47 PM CST

Who said we were sober?

Wednesday, 29 December 2004 - 9:00 AM CST

You guys are lucky, mine said to meet at the local health clinic. I didn't get a meal, but thanks to the nice man that examined me I got a really nice bag full of contraceptives!!

~U~

Wednesday, 29 December 2004 - 9:26 AM CST

could I join you? Are you still there? Ha ha....

Friday, 31 December 2004 - 5:27 PM CST

VW, thanks for making your guest spot so much easier to read than your entry... my eyes still cross every time I try to read it.

Oh, and nice way to promote a good cause.

Monday, 3 January 2005 - 12:48 PM CST

Uhm.... how 'bout let's not. We've gotten along thus far without your contribution. And given what you've just told us, I can't imagine that you would have anything to say that we'd want to hear.

Happy New Year!