We have been watching Hitchcock on TCM channel today. North by Northwest then Psycho and now The Birds. The Birds creeps me out! It is almost over.
Just for you Holly, a quick shot with Photobooth - this should cheer you up, or scare the mice away! It will probably be gone by Monday.
Wow, your camera must be old! I've never had one take 4 batteries! Never!
Wow, your camera must be old! I've never had one take 4 batteries! Never!
A Tail's Tale
I am on my quest for tails, and I have an educational tale to tell.
As you may recall from our last episode, Ian did not want any plain tuxedo. Ian phoned Cruiseline Formal, and asked about tails for a Disney Cruise. After clearing up the misunderstanding that he did not want to rent a Mickey Mouse tail, but instead was interested in a formal set of tuxedo tails, they told him they don't have any.
So, that brings us to today's episode... (go get your mug of Ovaltine).
I started phoning around rental places in Chicago. Men's Wearhouse has some very nice selection of tails on their web site, but no prices. I phoned a local outlet to make inquiries. After once again clarifying that when I said tails I was referring to a tuxedo, I and told that the price for a 7-day rental was $139, for the 14 days would be about $209 and for longer than that was $270. For the 2 of us that comes out to $540.
Given a choice of $540 for 2 sets of tails or sack cloth, we'll be appearing at dinner in sack cloth.
So, I decided to phone another rental place, this time a local Chicago chain and not a national chain.
The guy who answered the phone was very nice, and when I said, I'm interested in renting tails, immediately understood that I meant a tuxedo (this was a good sign).
He said that it would be about $99 to rent the tails for 1 week and then a bit more for 2 weeks. I told him it was a 15 night cruise, so I would need them longer than 2 weeks, he said (now imagine a Chicago accent), "Don't worry, we'll work something out."
This seemed much better, and much more in line with what I had in mind. He told me that, I should plan on coming in in April.
So, things have brightened up a bit. I'm going to call another local place during the week (no Sunday hours), to see what their pricing is like.
I guess in this case, it pays to go with a local place.
Opinions on Digital Cameras and Memory Cards
I saw some postings on this and am just going to chime in with my opinion here.
I personally do not recommend getting a mammoth 4GB memory card or anything like that. Here's my reasoning why, in my opinion, it is putting all of one's proverbial eggs in one basket (these are the views of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of other on the thread, the DIS, Disney, or this television station).
I have had memory cards go bad on me and become corrupted. While it may be a pain to swap out cards, my feeling are that if anything goes bad, I only lose the photos on that card and not everything.
Opinions on Laptops
I have been on Macs since 1995. Not a good source for opinions. I work on Windows at work.
I did have a Dell laptop at home for a while (hated it) until someone in this house who shall go unnamed, was taking a pot down from the ceiling pot rack and dropped a 3 quart Caphalon saucepan on it's screen. The Dell is now used to prop open doors, and also works great as a weight on the lid of my scanner when I need something heavy to press down a book being scanned.
It is now a Mac only house (that is until Mrs Bennett arrives), although I do also run Windows XP on my iMac under Parallels which is how I create the Windows runtime version of Mouse Manager.
So I openly admit that I am not a person to be proffering recommendations (sort of like fishing in polluted waters).
(The views expressed in this posting are the views of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of other on the thread, the DIS, Disney, this television station, or for that matter planet earth).
Ian,
Your Tale on a tail got me thinking. I had just bought a tux on E-Bay for $82 but didn't find any tails with this dealer. Soooo, I looked again and found a seller on E-Bay that has it all, tails in just about any color and size you want , new and used.Price seems to run from about $100 to $150 (plus shipping). It might be cheaper to buy from this guy rather than rent if you can buy off the rack. The dealer name is "The Tuxxman" or just do an E-Bay search for "Tuxedo, tails" and that should get you there.
Doug
We've purchased a Mickey vest and tie from the Tuxxman. He is great to deal with!!!
I've sent this to my DD and another friend. Thanks. Love the tattoo story as well!
Great! We can reminisce about the good (a new dinner menu every night), and the bad (the awful stage performer from Las Vegas who did impersonations).
I can just hear him. I'm sorry but because of a nun in 3rd grade... I can't do mustard...
of course, I expect you too....but don't touch my chocolate
We're off to the rainy track
Oh well, it could be worse, it could be an Earthquake!!!!
Marr, we are going to Sac RPM, THANK YOUthey are fitting the kids in at 1pm, since they have experience they will waive the class.
Call me when you wake up I'm not going to wake you with this wonderful news.
LOVE YA MEAN IT....I'll explain that one later, but some of you may know about that already????
Nan
HAPPY DAY!!! 
Thought I was going nutso!
