- Famous last words – “It’s a no-impact upgrade”.
- I must remember to bring that up in the post-mortem for the unexpected outage.
- My orthopedic weather predictor woke me up out of a dead sleep this morning. Since it was a tad warm, and that twinge always means a change in the weather, I dressed for cold.
- That paid off when it got chillier as the day wore on.
- I figured out how to give Boo a haircut without having the neighbors call the police: have him give me one first.
- Luckily, I’m cutting my hair really short anyway, so trimming it down to even it out was easy.
- Boo was happy all the way through his haircut and I didn’t even nick him with the clippers.
- Not sure if the kids will have school tomorrow. We’ve gotten a couple of inches of snow since dinnertime, and the wind is really howling.
- It’s almost like home.
- I haven’t heard thunder during a snowstorm in a long time.
- We tried our home-canned barbecued pork tonight. The canning process cooked the sugar in the barbecue sauce a bit too much, but it was still tasty. Next time we’ll just can the pulled pork and then sauce it once we heat it up.
- My next experiment will be in canning our own chili beans.
- Thanks to Freiheit when he found great deals for them, I bought two Ruger Airhawk air rifles the other day. They’ll be good for us to practice with in the basement or back yard. I think I may take the scope off of one of them and put the same kind of sights Girlie Bear uses on her competition rifle to make her practice better.
All posts for the month January, 2013
Thoughts on the Day
Posted by daddybear71 on January 31, 2013
https://daddybearsden.com/2013/01/31/thoughts-on-the-day-91/
Thoughts on the Day
- Last night I dreamed about a “Greg The Bunny”/”Firefly” mashup. It was pretty awesome.
- I woke up at 3:50 AM, 5 minutes before the tornado siren a block from the house went off.
- By 4:30 AM, the kids were in the basement, along with all of our things we needed, and Irish Woman and I were upstairs speculating on the odds of the worst part of the storm making it to hour house.
- The difference in our marriage:
- By 5 AM, Irish Woman was in the kitchen making pancakes and eggs for breakfast, because people get hungry.
- By 5 AM, I was unconscious on the couch, because hey, it’s a good time to be asleep.
- Today I found myself getting irritated with computers who did what I told them to do, not what I meant for them to do.
- By the time my latest project plan actually gets to implementation, it’s going to be so shot to hell that it’ll form paper dolls if I unstaple it.
- Sequence for the commute home tonight:
- Almost make it to my car before it starts to rain.
- Drive though rain for about 15 minutes
- Break through the rain and get ahead of the storm for 5 minutes
- Hit a traffic snarl, sit in traffic for 10 minutes, get overtaken by the storm
- Get though traffic, speed through storms edge for 5 minutes, take off ramp from freeway.
- Wait 5 minutes to make right turn off of freeway. Get overtaken by storm.
- Get rained on by the storm for rest of drive home
- Get home just in time to walk through the same rainstorm I almost beat when going out in the first place.
- I will never understand why some people get offended when you ask them a direct, job-related question instead of dancing around a subject that they don’t want to confront.
Posted by daddybear71 on January 30, 2013
https://daddybearsden.com/2013/01/30/thoughts-on-the-day-90/
Today’s Earworm
Posted by daddybear71 on January 30, 2013
https://daddybearsden.com/2013/01/30/todays-earworm-311/
Today’s Earworm
Posted by daddybear71 on January 29, 2013
https://daddybearsden.com/2013/01/29/todays-earworm-310/
Musings
- For those who think that the government will be able to track every firearm in the country through registration, please answer me this: The government has a hard time keeping track of a few hundred thousand human beings, such as foster kids and parolees, that are supposed to be under its supervision and that the majority of society wants to be properly tracked. What makes you think they’ll be able to track 100 million firearms, when a majority of our society don’t want them to do it and will actively try to resist their efforts?
- Irish Woman went to the school, which Boo will be attending next fall, today. It was supposed to be a “meet the teachers” visit, but it included a rather long talk about security at the school. Apparently the school has a pretty sophisticated lockdown system with steel security doors, and they are participating in some sort of program with the state police to check out their other security measures.
- I’m working on doing peer-level performance reviews right now. I need politically correct ways of saying the following:
- Dumber than a bag of hammers
- Useless as tits on a boar hog
- Couldn’t lead wild dogs to raw meat
- Doesn’t produce enough to justify the oxygen wasted
- Shouldn’t be trusted with live ammunition or a root login
- Walks on water and talks to God
- The only reason our company is profitable
- Not paid nearly enough for her efforts
- Note to self on home improvement projects:
- Do not leave the compound mitre saw out in the rain overnight. I hope it works after a few days in front of the dehumidifier.
- I swear I do not hide the tools so that my lovely and oh so forgiving wife cannot do work when I’m not home.
- The tools she was looking for have been under the passenger seat of my truck since the summer, honest.
- If I haven’t used a tool in 5 years, it’s not my fault if I can’t remember its exact position at the moment.
- There are no true 90 degree corners in this house.
- It is better to have to cut off an extra 1/4 inch than to have to make a trip to the lumber yard.
- Home improvement projects should not lead to trips to the emergency room or several sessions of intense marriage counseling.
- I’ve never been so happy to see someone get outbid on EBay than tonight when Irish Woman lost out at the last minute on a 1954 Kotex vending machine. No, I do not know what she planned on doing with it.
Posted by daddybear71 on January 28, 2013
https://daddybearsden.com/2013/01/28/musings-3/
A Response From My Senator
Below is the response by Senator Rand Paul to my emails thanking him for his support of Second Amendment rights and opposition to anti-gun legislation:
January 28, 2013
Dear Mr. DaddyBear,
Thank you for contacting me regarding the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn. My thoughts and prayers are with the children, parents, teachers and community as they mourn this tragic loss of life.
After such a senseless act of violence, the power of prayer and the kindness of friends, family, and neighbors near and far provides solace and strength to the community. I hope we can learn more about what warning signs were missed and how we can better prevent tragedies like this from occurring in the future. However, I do not believe we should rush to point fingers or enact reactionary legislation curtailing Second Amendment rights. No amount of gun control will be able to prevent mentally disturbed individuals from committing despicable acts of violence. High-risk individuals will still be able to acquire firearms and other lethal weapons, even with an increase in prevention. Please be assured I will oppose any proposed gun control law which would limit the right to gun ownership by those who are responsible, law-abiding citizens, and that I will continue to defend Americans’ Second Amendment rights in the Senate.
Once more, thank you for sharing your thoughts. Please do not hesitate to contact me if I can be of assistance in the future. I look forward to hearing from you again.
Sincerely,
Rand Paul, MD
United States Senator
Posted by daddybear71 on January 28, 2013
https://daddybearsden.com/2013/01/28/a-response-from-my-senator/
Overheard in the Preschool
The following conversation was relayed to Irish Woman by Boo’s teacher:
Boo – My mommy is going to my new school today and meeting my teachers!
Teacher – Oh really? Which school is that?
Boo – It’s Saint <INSERT OBLIGATORY CATHOLIC SAINT> school, and Jesus is going to be my teacher!
Yeah, that’s my kid, always trying to get the best instructors. It’s better than my comment that you could tell his new school was serious about math, because they nailed our Lord and Savior to a plus sign. That one got me an elbow in the ribs.
Posted by daddybear71 on January 28, 2013
https://daddybearsden.com/2013/01/28/overheard-in-the-preschool/
Today’s Earworm
Posted by daddybear71 on January 27, 2013
https://daddybearsden.com/2013/01/27/todays-earworm-309/
Missing The Point
President Obama is complaining that the Republican majority in the House of Representatives is not willing to compromise on his anti-gun rights agenda, and opines that the Republicans are not listening to public opinion on the matter. He again states that he has a lot of respect for the Second Amendment. He says that he understands the traditions of hunting that most rural families have, but that the realities of how guns are handled in urban settings must trump such things. Surprisingly, he asserts that he has used a gun in the past, and regularly shoots skeet at Camp David.
Mr. President, those things mean precisely diddly over squat to me. Hunting, skeet, and the inability of your urban constituency to raise a generation of people who don’t maim and murder each other at will have nothing to do with my right to keep and bear arms. To be perfectly blunt, my right to keep and bear arms is there so that when someone who holds your office decides to rule rather than govern, then people like me will have the instruments to contest that decision.
My gun rights aren’t for hunting deer or shooting skeet. They’re for hunting dictators and shooting tyrants. Until you learn the difference, the fact that you can knock a clay out of the sky and mourn the death of urban youths at the hands of other urban youths is worth nothing.
To the pro-rights crowd in Congress – Keep it up. If the President is having to turn to his lap dogs in the media and whine, then you must be doing what I and millions of other gun owners have been telling you to do for the past several months. Thank you and please keep up the good work.
Posted by daddybear71 on January 27, 2013
https://daddybearsden.com/2013/01/27/missing-the-point/
Thoughts on the Day
- Today, for the first time in years, I paid someone else to change my oil. I just didn’t feel like it, and I haven’t changed the oil in the truck since July.
- Also paid them to change out the serpentine belt, which I’m pretty sure hadn’t been done since the truck came off the assembly line.
- Yes, I’m a big wimp for not doing it myself, but I exchanged the time to do it at home for money, and then used the time to continue work on Irish Woman’s closet project.
- Note to self – Do not tell your wife that she should suffer as much as you do when you’re doing her projects because it’ll discourage her from coming up with other bright ideas. She won’t appreciate it.
- Also, the correct answer to “How do you like my hair” is not “She put in too much blonde this time.”
- Write this 100 times on the blackboard – “I will not comment on how her new hairstyle resembles the one worn by Michelle Obama.”
- Luckily, I have foreseen a need for just such a day, and have installed a twin bed with a good mattress in the basement.
- Dinner tonight was crab stuffed salmon, shrimp sautéed with lemon, steamed asparagus, salad, and raspberries.
- Either all is forgiven or she’s planning to send me to Valhalla with a good meal in my belly.
- It would appear that Boo was playing in my room today. In order to go to bed, I had to take a light saber, a laser rifle, a Viking helmet, and a SpiderMan glove off the bed.
Posted by daddybear71 on January 26, 2013
https://daddybearsden.com/2013/01/26/thoughts-on-the-day-89/
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