Wednesday, July 05, 2006

evening

Oddly And Briefly, Productive

This morning we had to be at the immigration office, all the way on the other side of town, for Leigh-Ann to get her biometrics done.  Fingerprints, picture, etc.  It was strangely enough, a good experience.  We gave ourselves LOTS of time to get there since it isn’t an area of town with which we’re familiar.  Her appointment was for 11am and we got there maybe around 10:30am.  I figured we’d have to wait at least until her appointment, but no.  As soon as the security guard let us in the door (no one gets in w/o an appt), Leigh-Ann filled out one form and then immediately was taken into the back room for medical experiments.  She was gone 5-10 minutes, and then we were done.  We didn’t even have time to read the plethora of magazines we brought with us.

After we left the INS (oh wait, we can’t call it that since it’s been swallowed up by “Homeland Security") office, we decided to take a quick trip to a realty school that I’d found online.  They have loan officer classes that are four hours daily, for two weeks.  They estimate that it’s equivalent to three months experience.  It’s a decent price compared to the last program I wrote about that was $15,000, but I’m pretty sure you get what you pay for.  I’ll probably be going to class in a couple of weeks.  If I don’t, it’s a 9am class in August...and I don’t want to be on the freeway with rush hour traffic.  It would, at the very least, double my travel time of about 20-25 minutes.  The return trip would be fine though, as that’s about the time we came back home today.  The freeway was clear on our side and bumper-to-bumper on the other side because of one of the constants around here, an accident.  I think Las Vegas specializes in bad drivers.

On the way home, a stop for pet food and the all important Cookie Yumms, P-nutty flavor.  Crickets loves them, and she’s a dog who tires of having the same treat more than once a week.  She loves Cookie Yumms, as does Phoenix, and they’re okay for Phoenix to have because they don’t contain corn.  Yay.

You’re thinking to yourself, “Now, Flippy couldn’t have possibly done anything more today.” Oh, but I did.  We went to the grocery store too.  We were home by noon and still had to feed the dogs & the birds.  All in all, a productive-ish day.  Now, I’m totally exhausted and won’t be able to do anything for another few days.  Where oh where is my HGH?

Tuesday, July 04, 2006

early evening

I Hate July 4th…And Just Maybe, You

I hate any of you who are setting off illegal fireworks.  Some of you, I’ll hate forever, some of you, just for today.  We’re surrounded by people with too much disposable income and each year I hope they end up with fewer fingers than last year.  If you had to stay at home because you had two dogs who are scared, whiny, and just plain damned annoying, you’d hate you too.  So, Leigh-Ann is downstairs with Dante & Eli (the whiner) reading the Sunday paper and I’m upstairs with Phoenix & Cricket (the other whiner/barker) watching Pimp My Ride and Making the Band 3.

lunch time

Fasts Are Dumb

I’ve always thought protest fasts were stupid.  I thought they were stupid when they were done by prisoners wanting Lucky Charms (or whatever) for breakfast.  I think they’re stupid now when they’re wanting to bring the troops home.  Seriously, who cares if people starve themselves?  I don’t care if I agree with the cause or not, it’s still meaningless to me that celebrities are giving up food for a whole day. 

Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan began a hunger strike on Tuesday – and Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn and other stars are joining her in her “Troops Home Fast” protest.