Clovis Chitwood Heavy Industries

Ninety five counties, two thousand miles

clovischitwood — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:46:34 +0000

Something that I never got around to posting is that I found a route through all ninety five counties. it’s just under two thousand miles, or sixty hours of driving. Thats mostly on two lanes, very little interstate. Who’s coming with me?

One down, nine hundred ninety nine to go.

clovischitwood — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:30:27 +0000

I just finished The Arthurian Chronicles. That only took a month. At this rate I will hit the one thousand mark in eighty three years. I think I need vm pick up the speed.

Actually I have another couple I should finish this week, but this may take a little longer than I thought.

Cinegeek Links

clovischitwood — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:31:42 +0000

Here’s a link straight to the podcast page:

http://cinegeek.com/?cat=28

This week’s podcast is up!

Here’s a link to my last review:

http://cinegeek.com/?p=95

It’s for the DVD of Genesis’s 2007 free Show in Rome

I should have one up for Smart People, a romantic comedy, up by Tuesday.

My Apologies

clovischitwood — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:10:44 +0000

Yeah well, I could try to make excuses about the inactivity here but I’d just have to make stuff up so I’ll just apologize instead.

I’m sorry.

Posting will still probably be light for awhile as I’m currently sans internet at Clovis Chitwood Heavy Industries World Headquarters and probably will be for at least the next week or two. Well that’s not technically true. I’ve got some access with my phone, but posting from it is not very fun.

New review up at Cinegeek and another one on the way. We recorded podcast number nine last night too. I’ll post again when I see that it’s gone up.

Anyway just wanted to break the silence.

She’s gone…

clovischitwood — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:14:31 +0000

I have a post about the weekend on google docs. I cant figure out how to get it from there to here just using my phone.

Long story short the weekend rocked. Dark Knight is wonderfull. West World was amazing. The Roller Girls were as much fun as always.

But it all seems a million years ago now.

This morning Grandma died.

Like Forrest said “thats all i got to say about that”

Picture Time!

clovischitwood — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:20:48 +0000

Crossing the bridge from Cinncinatti back into Covington

Su’s are pretty..

I’m a sucker for perspective shots.

See I told you I don’t look anything like my brother.

Ok, ok I’ll stop now.

Third Monday

clovischitwood — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:06:18 +0000

I think I just wasted two and a half hours.

Google maps doesn’t show county lines. Or at least I haven’t figured out how to make it show the county lines, but AAA’s trip planner does. So I just spent two and a half hours trying to plot a course through all of Tennessee’s counties. Six pages of handwritten notes later (using a Pilot Varsity disposable fountain pen, it’s actually quite nice, very light) I figure I’m about two thirds of the way through, maybe a little more. The thing is though, I stared in Johnson county, what did I do that for? It would be a five or six hour trip just to start. Tennessee is a long state. I’m starting to think maybe it would be easier just to drive the Grand Canyon and back or something. Well actually that doesn’t really require any thought at all. I’ve forgetting the whole point. It’s supposed to be a challenge. Something that will take as much time to plan as to execute. I think I need a big map, some pins and thread. Google’s maps drag and drop feature would help if I already kind of had the trip roughly mapped out, but it has a limit on the number of distinct points you can have on a trip.

I didn’t walk today, but I did do another three quarters of a mile yesterday. I don’t think I’ll get a chance Thursday or Friday. I’ll have to try and do something over the weekend. I’ve also downloaded the audio version of some books from Gutenberg.org. If I can remember to bring some earbuds with me I’ll start to listen to some of them when I walk.

I’ve almost finished the Arthurian Chronicles. It’s a much different story than I expected. It’s got some of the fantasy elements, like Merlin’s prophecies and Uther doing his shape shifting thing, but it’s not the Sword in the Stone, search for the Holy Grail, Lady in the Water story, or at least it hasn’t come up yet, on the other hand Arthur has conquered all of Britain, Denmark, France, Norway and is about to march on Rome.

I started the process to cancel my Sprint account, somebody from accounts is supposed to contact me, but I’ve not heard anything. I guess the dimwits are trying to call my datacard. I probably have to break down and call them myself. Arrg, don’t they understand that I’m a social reject and don’t like to dealing with people? Make it easy on yourself and me, just use email, but nooo, everythings got to be done over the phone.

This should be a cool weekend, Dark Knight Friday night, then RollerGirls on Saturday and then the private showing at the Belcourt Midnight Saturday. I think it’s going to be West World but I may be remembering it wrong.

Till next time,

Roadtrips

clovischitwood — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 03:32:37 +0000

I was going to go to bed but saw that I needed to run a load of laundry so I’m back. Yesterday there was a post at ar15.com asking how many states have you been to. Of course this kind of poll is probably heavily weighted because people who have no interest in travel probably aren’t even going to look at the post, but over thirty percent of the respondents had visited at least thirty states. One poster claimed to have spent at least three months in every state. Wow. It got me thinking the 48 state trip. I googled it and it appears that there are a couple of routes that are under seven thousand miles. One group that is under way currently is planning on doing it in 5 days on 135 gallons of diesel in a TDI Beetle. That’s fifty two miles to the gallon. I’m not that ambitious yet. For one I don’t think I know anybody crazy enough to try it with me, but I got to thinking about a trip that might be doable in a couple of days, and that I might actually be able to pull off solo. How long would it take me to visit every county in Tennessee. Maybe there’s a doc in there? Maybe a very boring doc. Anyway I guess it’s time to go play with Google maps for awhile. Or at least till the laundry gets done.

Monday, Monday

clovischitwood — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 03:11:18 +0000

I feel like I ought to talk about Hell Boy II, but I don’t feel like it. Maybe later. I will say I liked it, quite a bit. I think I enjoyed the first one more, but definitely worth ten bucks. So what do I want to talk about.

How about books? Art Garfunkel has read 1023 books since June 1968. What’s interesting is that he’s kept track. Go back and click his name, all 1023 are listed. He’s probably read more since, the list only goes through 2007. I’m pretty sure I’ve read at least that many, I’m pretty sure that until recently I’ve owned at least that many. I’ve been trying to cull the collection down. 189 down so far. It’s funny when you actually start to quantify something. I originally guesstimated I had around 2K books. When I started to actually box them up I realized that I had probably closer to a thousand.

Anyway I’ve not been reading much lately,so when I read about Art’s 1000 books it got me thinking. How long would it take me to read my next thousand books? So I visited Gutenberg.org and downloaded a few things I have been meaning to read for twenty years and I started. I’m reading the Arthurian Chronicles now. Think I’ll knock down Beowulf for number two, Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations is on the list along with Nietsche. I don’t know how many times I’ve started Beyond Good and Evil or Thus Spake Zarathustra more often than Ulysses which maybe I’ll be brave enough to try and tackle again after I’ve built some momentum.

Speaking of momentum, I did something extremely out of character today. I did not want to do it. I kept thinking of a million little reasons and excuses not to to it today. On the way several little pains that I had not noticed all day kept cropping up. It was like my body was in rebellion. Which is weird because I was doing this for it, but it was acting like a two year old throwing a tantrum (notice the disassociation, it’s official I am crazy). Anyway against all my better instincts at fifteen after five I arrived at the Charlie Daniels Park in Mt.Juliet. I managed to walk three quarters of a mile in thirty minutes. Pitiful, but a start. Let’s see if I can repeat it tomorrow. My sister Amy is training for a marathon, maybe I’ll see if I can do a decimaraton.

On a final note thanks to the1spot on YouTube, for posting the latest episode of Top Gear. If you want to see it better hurry up. The BBC usually has YouTube take the episodes down in a day or so. Wow, it’s the 41st most viewed something or another today.

Where the Deer and the Antelope Play

clovischitwood — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:55:40 +0000

and

I love that stetch of Colorado between the Kansas line and Denver, especially at dusk.

I think I may have shared this one before, oh well look at it again.