I was supposed to finally get my door installed today, but was informed by the installer that it was not going to happen, because of the shitty work done by the dude who installed my temporary door. That’s it for Lowe’s. No more install from them. Oh, I may get the occasional bag of fertilizer. Maybe even an appliance, but no more remodeling type jobs. They’re done.

We accompanied the youngins over to Ginza last night. The restaurant was rewarded earlier in the week by Zagat, but that didn't cause a horde of people to show up. We sat at the table where you had to take your shoes off, commonly referred to as the "pee-pee socks" area, because of a past incident.

The dinner started off on sort of a wrong foot when someone said "Thank you, sir." to our server, who I'm sure was a female. The look of horror on my face must have said it all. Anyhow, I had the usual yakatori and shrimp/chicken happy hibachi combo. I'm not much of a sushi fan, but when the big sushi boat comes floating out, well, you gotta have some. Man, it was really good.

The other note is that today's kids (at least at our table) have no idea about that old Norelco Christmas commercial. The one where Santa goes zooming along the snow atop a razor, while leaving tracks in the snow. You know, the "Noelco" one. That's kinda sad.

Meal of Links

Looks like the genital gluer got stuck with a large fine.

Somali pirates attacked a cruise ship. Maybe they thought Kathie Lee was entertaining on board.

It used to be "Bad Santa". This year, it's "Bad Frosty".

Exercise Yard

Talk about long losing streaks. The All-Blacks have beat Wales for 52 straight years. And I thought our teams sucked.

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57 Across: Early Diana Rigg role (8 letters) Answer: Emma Peel