I need a kickstart this week. Let’s hear some songs that get the blood pumping.
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Today’s Earworm
Posted by daddybear71 on July 29, 2012
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30 Days of Marcus Aurelius – Day 25
But that which is useful is the better. – Meditations, Book III
My Take – Something that is pretty or novel is always fascinating to us primates. Our entire society is coated with a liberal layer of gloss. But over and over again, I walk away from the gadgets and doodads that grab my attention to the things that I can actually use and that are reliable. Yeah, my Mosin is as plain and ugly as a mud fence, and it’s about as novel as a grain of sand, but I can still make the gong ring with it every time I pull the trigger. My cars will never grace an automotive museum, but they get me from here to there. Always take function over form.
Posted by daddybear71 on July 29, 2012
https://daddybearsden.com/2012/07/29/30-days-of-marcus-aurelius-day-25-2/
Today’s Earworm
The news hasn’t exactly been hopeful lately. Shootings, disease, war in parts of the world that my grandfather never even heard of that threaten to draw in our nation, the economy, the drought, the list goes on and on.
Here’s a thought…
Posted by daddybear71 on July 28, 2012
https://daddybearsden.com/2012/07/28/todays-earworm-192/
30 Days of Marcus Aurelius – Day 24
As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion. — Meditations, II
My Take – Time to get up, ladies and gentlemen. Gird your loins and fight your way through what the day throws at you. If you’re lucky, you’ll be able to rest later.
Posted by daddybear71 on July 28, 2012
https://daddybearsden.com/2012/07/28/30-days-of-marcus-aurelius-day-24/
30 Days of Marcus Aurelius – Day 25
Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee. — Meditations, Book VI
Posted by daddybear71 on July 28, 2012
https://daddybearsden.com/2012/07/28/30-days-of-marcus-aurelius-day-25/
News Roundup
- From the “Classy” Department – PETA, which to my surprise is not an acronym for People Eating Tasty Animals, is taking bets on how long Senator Grassley of Iowa will live now that he has come out against a Department of Agriculture newsletter that urged employees to give up meat on Mondays. I might start taking bets on how slowly human beings, as a species, give up meat as an important part of their diet. Don’t get me wrong. I love vegetarians. Some of my favorite dishes are made from vegetarians. Heck, every fall I go out in the woods looking for vegetarians just so I can invite them back to my house so they can live in my freezer.
- From the “Mystery Mammal” Department – A woman in New York is questioning the official explanation for a strange carcass she and some friends came upon during a stroll along the East River. Police say it was a leftover pig from a cookout, while the pictures don’t seem to look much like a pig. After looking at the pictures, I’m not sure what it is, but something tells me that the nice men from the Monster Control Bureau might be involved. I wonder what the PUFF is on the rare North American SchweinHund?
- From the “Shocked Face” Department – The union that represents agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement is asserting that illegal immigrants are now using the recently announced implementation of the yet-to-be-approved-by-Congress Dream Act as a get-out-of-jail-free card. The union claims that agents are being told to release anyone arrested for immigration violations if they claim to have been here since they were a minor, such as saying that they went to school in the United States. I for one am shocked that given the choice of lieing to a federal agent and and walking away or facing prison time and eventually deportation, these men and women are choosing to claim that their parents brought them to this country while they were still suckling babes, even if some of them may have crossed the border last Tuesday.
- From the “Losing Altitude and Air Speed” Department – The U.S. economy grew at a pretty weak rate in the last quarter. Instead of the robust growth that Fearless Leader has been pointing us toward lo these many years, it grew at an anemic 1.5%. Well, at least my 401K is keeping up with GDP, sort of. When asked for comment, the White House responded “Hope and Change! Good times are just around the corner! Who are you going to believe, me or your lieing eyes?”. Is it just me, or does the feeling in the gut you get when you think about the economy like the one you get just as the roller coaster starts to go over into that first big drop?
- From the “Gun Free Zone” Department – Three men are under arrest after driving into a Jewish summer camp, causing property damage, and threatening campers and staff. This goes to show a difference between American Jews and Israelis. Something tells me that driving your truck into a kibbutz in Israel, causing damage, and threatening to kill its inhabitants wouldn’t end well for these guys. I believe the police report would have included the phrase “nice grouping”.
- From the “Play Stupid Games” Department – The head of the insurance agency that insures Pennsylvania State University is moving to keep his company from having to pay off on any claims against PSU for the damage done by its failure to report Jerry Sandusky to authorities. I think this makes sense. The university didn’t tell their insurer they were shielding a serial child molester, so the insurer shouldn’t be responsible for paying out the expected hundreds of millions of dollars in fines and settlements. Hopefully PSU has to sell off their football stadium to pay for this. It’s not like they’ll be putting it to much good use for a long time.
- From the “Riverine Submarine” Department – Researchers in Canada believe that they have found a sunken German U-Boat sunken in a river more than 60 miles from the ocean. German officials are asking that if indeed it is a submarine from World War II that it be left alone as a war grave. I look forward to finding out if this is indeed a sb, and if so, which one it is. Of course, we may never know how it ended up where it is, but I’m sure a B movie from Hollywood is already in the works. Also, wouldn’t “Riverine Submarine” make a great name for a psychedelic band?
- From the “Stairway to Heaven” Department – Workers at a BART station in San Francisco had to call in a hazmat team recently when they discovered that a large pile of human feces was gumming up the works on an escalator they were working on. Apparently this is a common problem in BART stations, as homeless people use them as sleeping areas and toilets after the stations are closed down for the night. For those of you playing at home, this is going on the board as reason number 81204571 that I will not move back to the Bay Area. Imagine the poor bastard who has to put on the white vinyl suit a couple of times a week to go in and clean up yet another pile of night soil that’s been sitting in the summer heat and San Francisco damp.
Posted by daddybear71 on July 27, 2012
https://daddybearsden.com/2012/07/27/news-roundup-142/
Quote of the Day
I’m not attacking you, but what the f@#k!? — DaddyBear, once again displaying his massive reserves of people skills.
Update – Edited to remove the inadvertent dead email link in my somewhat edited expletive. Sorry about that.
Posted by daddybear71 on July 27, 2012
https://daddybearsden.com/2012/07/27/quote-of-the-day-84/
30 Days of Marcus Aurelius – Day 23
You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last. — Mediations, Book II
My Take – Anything you do might be the thing that makes your reputation. Maybe it will be that the impression will be good, maybe it will be less than flattering. The problem is that you never know. The only way you can be sure is to do everything as if it was the one thing that everyone will remember forever.
Posted by daddybear71 on July 27, 2012
https://daddybearsden.com/2012/07/27/30-days-of-marcus-aurelius-day-23/
Today’s Earworm
Posted by daddybear71 on July 27, 2012
https://daddybearsden.com/2012/07/27/todays-earworm-191/
Thoughts on the Day
- If you’re a health care provider, don’t open a discussion with “Well, I guess we won’t have to cut that <insert appendage> after all.” in a deadpan way if that’s the worst case scenario for the reason your patient is seeing you. Especially if you meant it as a joke.
- I need to restock my larder at work. I’m down to a packet of tuna in spring water, a couple packets of graham crackers, and some breath mints. Remarkably, I wasn’t quite that hungry.
- When things go wrong and you’re working alone, it feels really good when your co-workers actually answer their phones after work hours.
- Apparently all hell is going to break loose around here weather wise tonight. I for one welcome a visit from Thor the thunder god. At this point in the summer, I would welcome an invasion of ice giants.
- BooBoo has a new fascination with firearms. He picked out a stainless pistol in the last sporting goods store flyer, and has announced that he wants a ray gun. I swear I had nothing to do with it.
- Efforts to convince Koshka that she does not, in fact, like Italian food have so far been fruitful this evening.
- I hear rumors that one of my gun stores has Russian SKS’s in stock. I think I may be wandering down there this weekend.
Posted by daddybear71 on July 26, 2012
https://daddybearsden.com/2012/07/26/thoughts-on-the-day-40/
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