Saturday, February 12, 2005

early evening

Okay, Since When Is 40 A Senior Citizen?

I’m not sure whether to feel awful that Sunset magazine thinks I’m a senior citizen at the ripe old age of 40, or to be grateful for the terrific price.  I like the little smiley face they gave me to indicate that I wanted to take advantage of their offer for really old people. 

On the bright side, I got a couple of checks yesterday too, which always makes me happy.  Although, the LinkShare check for “ten-hundred zero” freaks me out a little.  I’m glad the numbers on the check are correct because while ten hundred zeroes is a lot of zeroes, it isn’t really any money.

Today was fun.  I had lunch with two of my brothers, my sister-in-law and my brother’s friend Irving.  We talked about ghosts, psychic healing, matzo ball soup, Burning Man, strip clubs, death, drugs, palm reading, and acupuncture.  I’m not used to being out so long (8 hours) because the dogs only have six hour bladders.  But it took us too long to get ready and Leigh-Ann had to stay home.  She got to force feed poor sick Chelsea (the cat we’ve had for five weeks stopped eating and has a hepatic liver (?)), take the dogs out and play with the saws outside.  At least I brought her Samurai Sam’s and a peppermint mocha to make up for it all.  Besides, she could probably occasionally use a break from me.

Man, my writing is suffering with my lack of sleep.  My apologies for the disjointed thoughts and poor sentence structure.

Friday, February 11, 2005

early evening

The House, It Was Appraised

Holy moly, when I say appraised, I mean appraised.  Every inch of the place.  Had I known, I would’ve sucked up a few more dust bunnies, instead of just trying to make the place presentable.  But no, the guy went into our CLOSET.  The closet, where you should be able to hide things.  The good news is that it’s over and hopefully the refinancing shall commence in a quick and easy fashion.  Then, new businesses, new ideas and bill paying shall commence.  I don’t even feel like blowing any of the money on anything silly.  Sure, one more Wranglers game, but that’s only because we want to take my parents and give them a better view than the last game.  When you have good seats, it makes even the lesser games good.  When you can see faces smashed into the glass right there in front of you, that’s some good fun.  I slept all of maybe 2-3 hours last night, so I’m sorry that I can’t even approach entertaining tonight.  We need to get up semi-early tomorrow morning to meet my brothers (one is here for a chiropractic seminar) for lunch on the Strip.  I’m so very very seepy…

terribly early in the morning

This is a test of the emergency post-in-the-future system

It is now the year 2005, the Rooster. 

Thursday, February 10, 2005

evening

Idiot of the Day - Wanita Renea Young

Nice job, lady.  Two teenage girls try to do something nice for you (and the other neighbors) by baking cookies, and you take them to court because they frightened you?  The cookies said “Have a great night” and were signed with their first initials: “Love, The T and L Club.” Okay, I can even understand being scared because you didn’t know who was at the door.  It was a nice idea by the girls, but like lots of teens, they didn’t think it all the way through.  But taking them to court?  After you knew their intentions were good and after they offered to pay your medical bills?  What did you expect to get out of them, their allowance?  Their MP3 players?

From the Denver Post, the story of the Evil Cookie Giving Teens.

Wednesday, February 09, 2005

evening

Idiot of the Day - White House and Jeff Gannon, or is it M4M James Guckert?

When will this farce of a government end?  So, what’s the count now?  Three reporters (so far!) paid off to spout the White House line, plus this loser who was constantly making inappropriate comments and asking partisan questions at press conferences.  Also, how much did he have to do with outing Valerie Plame, the undercover CIA agent?

And as a Nevadan, I can’t tell you how much it pisses me off to read about the federal government wanting to change yet ANOTHER law, so things will go in their favor.  In 1998, a law was passed to allow Nevada to spend the proceeds of federal land sales in Nevada.  The money was to be used for Nevada schools, to protect habitat, and to build parks and nature trails.  Now that the land is so valuable here, the administration wants to change the law, so they can take 70% (700 Millon Dollars) of the money for the deficit.  Isn’t it bad enough that they want to store nuclear waste here?  They’ll probably start another war and somehow decide that the BLM sales profits go towards our troops.  No one can argue with the “for our troops” crap.  You slap “for the troops” or a flag or some red, white & blue on something, we all must cave.  “Oh, it’s for the troops you say?  Oh, anything for the men and women in service.”

Bush lied to get us into a war, lied about how much said war would cost, lied about how much the Medicare prescription program would cost, paid off reporters (et al, I’m sure) and there are still people supporting him.  Why?  How?