What’s not to love about Robert Duvall? He’s a man’s man, but unlike Al Pacino, you get the sense that Robert Duvall would not be looking to screw you at every turn. He’s got a great direct manor and a hell of a voice. Tommy Lee Jones too. Great voice. Not that he would want to use it to speaks to the likes of you and me, but it is a good one. And he seems like the decent sort, even if he is a reticent bastard.
Those two are the main reason why I like to watch “Lonesome Dove” which sounds more like a romance novel than a western. They are good and good together, plus cattle drive! So it was with some reluctance that I pulled myself away last night. If I were going to get to bed early, as I intended to do, it would mean not watching all of “Lonesome Dove.”
So I crawled into bed and shut off the lights, only to be awoken an hour and a half later by some damn kid coming home and slamming doors and such. It would have been fine had I been able to roll over and go back to sleep. Not so, as I began to analyze and hypothesize and all sorts of things a person should not do near midnight. In the end, melatonin is our friend and sleep was mine again.
Until 2:30, when the CO2 sensor started beeping. Is there any more annoying sound in all of creation? If there is, I know nothing about it.
Beep! Beep!
Punch the button.
Beep! Beep!
Right when you get back to sleep. I looked, where else? in the cheese drawer for a 9 volt battery. None. Maybe if I punch the button again?
Beep! Beep!
No dice. Let me tell you friends, Ingles at 3:30 am is an interesting place. Fortunately 9 volt batteries are right near the door. If they had half a brain, they would mark those suckers up to $25 between midnight and 6 am. I bought two, because I am not going back out again tonight.
ours started beeping a couple weeks ago. in retaliation for this insolence, we gutted the little bastard and left its innards out on the kitchen counter as a totem to all the other mechanical devices in the house.
Had I been able to remove it without damaging the surrounding drywall, I would have eviscerated the sucker.