I saw the Wolverine movie for nothing

Explanation:
My Friendly Local Comic Book Store has been running a promotion all summer long that if you brought in ticket stubs from a list of 7 or 8 movies you could get in a drawing for a chance at 2 movie tickets a week for a year.  One of the movies was Wolverine, which I didn't particularly want to see. But I saw it anyway for the chance at the tickets.
They held the drawing this evening, and I didn't win.
Oddly, however, it still cheered me up to clap for the guy who did win, although probably not as much as winning around $1200 worth of movie tickets would have!

I hate bloggers who don't blog for weeks at a time.

It's really inconsiderate! Here I am, all eager to see what new amusement they're going to provide me for free, and they haven't done anything! Therottabealaw! Although, we have a lot of laws already, come to think of it, and I hear somebody in New York wants to ban restaurants from cooking with salt, which doesn't sound very practical to me, although I would certainly appreciate the option of at least one truly low-sodium dish on a restaurant menu. But that's a case where I'd say there didn't ottabealaw and so far there isn't, so I guess it's all to the good, except for seekers of low-sodium meals, who are mostly forced to cook their own meals, but that's cheaper and healthier anyway, so what's the big deal? (Funny/gruesome typo: I first wrote: 'mostly forced to cook themselves', which evokes some rather disturbing images, no?) It reminds one of the fabled auto-cannibals of Lemuria, the car-eating cars that are said to have evolved 500 million years ago on that lost continent from a colony of defective self-reproducing robots left here as junk by visiting aliens from outer space. The eventual extermination of the auto-cannibals was indirectly triggered by the time-travelling antics of the well known Young Man (well, little-known, really), in a brief episode regrettably left out of Wells's account in The Time Machine. How Wells came to know of it at all is an amusing story which may one day come to light if we're all lucky.

One-a-Day

...plus Iron! Which always puzzled me: why would they put iron in your vitamins? I always figured the iron they advertise in your vitamins and breakfast cereal must be something different from regular old iron metal but seemingly it's the same. And they put silicon dioxide, aka sand, in my instant soup! Or at least they used to. I haven't had instant soup in many years so I don't know if they still put sand in it. My feeling is that if I wanted sand in my instant soup, I can always go to the beach to eat it and the sand will get into it whether I want it or not, but otherwise, I'd just as soon they leave the sand, and the iron filings or whatever, out of the food. I guess they must do it for the sake of people who don't live just a few blocks from the beach, but even so, the people who strongly desire sand in their instant soup are surely few and far between. But maybe I'm the strange one, and sand-eating is wildly popular amongst the general public, although if it is I've never heard about it; just one more way in which I'm badly out of touch with popular culture, I guess. I really have to start paying better attention to the world.

So what's it all about?

Ten years behind the cutting edge of technology, Dave starts blogging. This will (probably) be a collection of fiction snippets, with (possibly) occasional comments about the actual world. Goal: at least one post a day, of at least two hundred words. So, here I go, free associating for ten minutes on a random word:

The random word generator gave me: "peanut". Which turns to be neither a pea nor a nut, but is apparently actually a bean, or so I hear, which is a little odd since most other beans aren't roasted, dried and salted and sold in big jars in the supermarket, as least as far as I know. I don't know what the Ancient Atlanteans, or the aardvarks, thought about peanuts, although since aardvarks eat insects and Atlanteans never existed the answer is probably "nothing." But you never know; perhaps the Atlanteans bred a special breed of vegetarian aardvark that satisfied its protein requirement with peanuts, for the sole purpose of eliminating the dreaded bean from their continent. Unfortunately, it must have been a failure because Atlantis still sank beneath the waves, which clearly would never have happened had peanuts been successfully eliminated. The intervention of the Dark Lord into Atlantis was essentially pointless, despite what the pseudo-history books say, which tells us something about the relative significance of wizards and lowly beans. Of course, the story got all confused in the post-Cataclysmic age, and peanut-eating barbarians from the North were credited in popular lore with the downfall of Atlantis, when really their eating habits probably delayed its fall by several decades. Man this autosave feature is really annoying.