Monday, February 25, 2008

Trip to Disneyland!

I don't like the real thing. Mrs. Dorky Musician and I went there with her parents and our only daughter at the time. There were way too many people for it to be a comfortable, fun trip. I prefer to either be surrounded by people I know and care about, or just being alone. Alone includes being with my family, or wandering around the pond or in the garage seeing if I can find enough staples and scrap wood to throw something together or cutting the grass.

Disneyland is supposed to be a fun place that everyone loves to go to. Somehow, the concept is lost on me. I have my own personal Disneyland. It's called Sam's Club. My Disney World is Walmart... I know, sacrilege... Walmart is supposed to be the great evil of our time along with Global Warming and Creation Science! Shame on me!

Mrs. Dorky Musician and I made a trip to Sam's Club this weekend as I needed an upgrade for my computer to fix a video problem I have been having. I expected to find the replacement video card at Best Buy, but we haven't been to Sam's Club in a while. I quickly disappeared into the DVD aisles then to the tools and power equipment department. It's like being a kid in a candy shop!

They have a nice mobile, stainless steel workbench that would be perfect for cleaning guns and other tasks. I also found a folding folding table! It's a table with folding legs that folds in half and has a carry handle. I thought it would make a perfect bench for shooting off of when in my back yard or other places that aren't the range. They have educational DVD collections on an end cap covering much of God's creation. They always have so many things that we usually spend more money than we should when we go. Lynn doesn't like taking me to Sam's Club or Walmart. I usually add some $5 DVDs.

I wrote all this to say that, even though I have been to two Walmarts a Sam's Club and a Best Buy, I have yet to find "Into The West" DVDs a friend convinced me I needed to watch.

5 comments:

Annie said...

One question:
What's the difference between an ordinary "folding table", and the "folding folding table" that you mentioned? Does it fold twice?

Sorry about your movie. No, you can't have mine.
:p

John Brainard said...

Did I forget the link? Darn!

http://www.lifetime.com/tableschairs/foldinhalftables.aspx

Very handy if you ask me.

John Brainard said...

So I went to put the link in my entry to spare my other reader the confusion. To my surprise, I had already put the link in there... Methinks my blond readers are unaware that underlined text usually indicates that it's a link to something. :p

Annie said...

No no no!!
What is a "folding FOLDING table"?
Why is the word "folding in there twice? Does it do some kind of tricky folded fold once it's folding has been folded? What's up with that?

John Brainard said...

Yes yes yes!

It is a table the folds in half. The legs fold up underneath it like a standard folding table, but it also folds in half with a convenient carrying handle. I wish I had bought it, but we were planning on spending more money elsewhere. Hopefully they'll still have them when I go back later.