- The easiest way to stay under budget when you go to the home improvement center is to not bring your bank card.
- They open at 7 AM, for the record. I won’t lose too much time.
- When a bear smiles at you, you probably ought to check to make sure he’s not just showing you his teeth.
- Hmmm, go to downtown Louisville to rub elbows with a few hundred thousand of my closest friends, or pack a lunch and go to the zoo with Boo. Decisions, decisions.
- For you writers out there, does it feel odd to develop a character and really round them out, even though you’ve already sketched out their grisly, squishy death?
- Geek moment – Trying to explain to someone young why something is the way it is in Unix/Linux, and realizing that they will never understand things like systems with limited RAM or hard drive space.
- The look in Boo’s eyes when he got the practice sword I bought him for his birthday was awesome.
- At the same time, the conversation I had with the Nashville police about how it was made of plastic when I was walking to my truck Saturday night was pretty cool, too.
- I can already see that I’m going to have to buy something for myself. That little guy is fast and strong.
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Musings
Posted by daddybear71 on April 17, 2015
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Musings
- The sound of someone’s voice on the phone when they’ve been told they won a safe and 12 guns is priceless.
- What is it about the sound of a mini-gun or an M-2 machine gun that makes grown men smile and giggle?
- When I grow up, I’m going to own a Ma Deuce and name her “Tinnitus”
- Just for the record, there are no decent places to get a cup of coffee on I-65 between Franklin, Kentucky, and Knob Creek Gun Range. I was considering breaking into my truck’s emergency kit and chewing on the instant coffee.
- I do so love being in a 30 minute traffic back-up because everyone wants to have a good look at the truck that went off the road ON THE OTHER BLOODY SIDE OF THE FREEWAY!
- There are few things in life better than having your little boy run down the driveway to greet you when you get home.
- Today was a good day to have a big cup of dark, thick coffee. Or three.
- At some point, you have to just look at your old, tired push mower and say it’s time to get a new one.
- We’ll look at how much Uncle Sugar wants after we do our taxes tonight and see if there’s any money left for food and lawn implements.
- I must point out, though, that a few gallons of industrial strength herbicide would be cheaper in both time and money.
Posted by daddybear71 on April 13, 2015
https://daddybearsden.com/2015/04/13/musings-130/
Musings
- If you refer to Bradley as a Lieutenant Colonel in 1943, and Patton as a Major General while showing him with three stars on his helmet, then I reserve the right to mock you, both verbally and on the streaming service you use.
- Also, if you’re going to narrate a series of documentaries about Nazi Germany, then it might behoove you to learn how to properly pronounce some basic German words. The German army was not called the Vrrmacht, the Germans did not have a battleship called the Prinz Yugen, and “Bund” is not pronounced as if it were a cake.
- When President Obama came to Louisville to give a speech last week, we had torrential rainstorms, flooding, burning factories, and at least one baby being born in the traffic backup on I-65. When Senator Paul came to Louisville to announce his candidacy for President, we got thunderstorms, heavy rain, and maybe a tornado or two. It would appear that politicians bring the wrath of God onto our heads.
- I was writing a scene today where a military leader has to tell a group of soldiers that they have been given an assignment that was going to suck. I had to go back and rewrite it so that the phrases “opportunity to excel” and “embrace the suck” were not included. I don’t think Romans would have used that exact phrasing.
- Subjects you should not research on a gray, drippy day include warfare on the Eastern Front in World War I and the Roman slave trade.
Posted by daddybear71 on April 7, 2015
https://daddybearsden.com/2015/04/07/musings-128/
Musings
- What a day. I haven’t had this much fun since the day one of my soldiers told me that the rest of the squad was betting him that he couldn’t drink a canteen of diesel fuel and wanted to know if I wanted in on the pool.
- This was the same blunt skull who, when asked by our commanding general if he was OK after she saw the bandage on his head, told her, and I am directly quoting here, “It’s OK, ma’am. Chicks dig scars.”
- He got said head wound because when Sergeant DaddyBear says “Put on your helmet before you put the camouflage spreaders up.”, he means, “Please don’t let the semi-sharp edge of a camo spreader fall on your rather useless brain pan and spray blood all over the side of my track.”
- Honestly, I thought I was a hard drinker when I was a private in Germany. Then I got to Arizona and had to ‘lead’ those rejects. That’s when I learned about real hard drinking.
- I need to start writing down ideas for writing before I take my allergy medicine. When I’m in the shower or on the way to work, I’m writing the Great American Novel. When I take a moment at lunchtime or after dinner to get them down on paper, my head seems to be full of cotton.
- It also doesn’t help that there isn’t room for a laptop and Derby the Wonder Dog to sit in my lap at the same time.
- One good thing about my method for landscaping is that I can solve a lot of problems with post hole mix and a shovel.
- It’s amazing how efficiently the USPS gets a letter to you when you give the sender your correct address.
Posted by daddybear71 on March 27, 2015
https://daddybearsden.com/2015/03/27/musings-126/
Musings
- Head Cold Bingo Game – Watch Futurama. Every time an obscure science or science fiction reference is made, take a shot of green death NyQuil. Continue until the cartoon looks three dimensional, then take a nap.
- I’m currently working my way through my spring head cold. For those of you who are spared this experience, imagine having a steady trickle of warm jello down the back of your throat, while little elves apply pressure to your joints, and your sense of taste takes a vacation to a gutter in Tegucigalpa.
- I better get extra life points for being polite while another adult let their child lose his damned mind in the waiting room this afternoon. Seriously, when did it become unfashionable to teach children to sit quietly when out in public?
- I know I don’t feel well when I refuse to get into an online discussion about science fiction because I just don’t give enough of a damn right now.
- Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Posted by daddybear71 on March 20, 2015
https://daddybearsden.com/2015/03/20/musings-125/
Musings
- You’d think that any day where I could say I used a sledge hammer, a hammer drill, and an angle grinder would go into the “Good Day” category, but that just isn’t going to happen.
- Trying to anchor a new mailbox into the footer used by the old mailbox seemed like a good idea at the time.
- If you use very sandy mortar to make the footer for something, I pray that someday a vengeful god strikes you with a case of Filipino Hundred Year Foot Fungus.
- By the end of the day I was trying to figure out if I could make ANFO out of Weed ‘n’ Feed and two cycle oil.
- To whoever is trying to sell a used copy of Minivandians for $62.85, I want to learn your marketing techniques, especially if you are successful.
- To the 10 of you who have bought the audiobook of Minivandians, I’d really like to hear input from you. Did you enjoy the performance? If you also bought and read the book, did the audiobook bring anything new that you enjoyed? As always, any feedback that can be left at either Amazon or Audible would be greatly appreciated, especially if there was something you think could have been done differently or better.
- A wise man once quipped “In vino, veritas”. I’m hoping that I find the next two chapters I’m outlining somewhere in this bottle of red wine.
Posted by daddybear71 on March 15, 2015
https://daddybearsden.com/2015/03/15/musings-124/
Musings
- My requirements for a set of headphoneshave been updated to include:
- Rugged
- Comfortable
- Decent Sound Quality
- Good range (If wireless)
- Loud enough for an audiobook or podcast to drown out my co-workers.
- I reserved my room for the NRA Annual Meeting in Nashville. I must love Kentucky enough to drive back across the state line to get to my hotel room every night.
- Knowing enough about Nashville and parts of it that are less than savory kept me from staying at a Roach Motel in the bad part of town, no matter how many stars it has.
- You know it’s been a bad day when you spend time designing a bar that would fit into the spare cubicle in your row.
- Two beer kegs, a fridge and ice maker, and several shops for liquor. Would make my life a lot better.
- Went to a town hall meeting with Congressman Massie tonight.
- I never thought my congressman would be more cynical about government than I am.
- Quote of the night “If you like your pension, you can keep your pension.” – Congressman Massie, when talking about the negotiations he is having over his bill to reform congressional retirement plans.
- Congressman Massie suggests that you call your Senators and Representatives if you want your wishes to be heard loud and clear. Snail mail takes up to 3 weeks to get to him. Email gets drowned out in automailers and spam. He says that if he notices that all his staff is doing is answering the phone about a subject, it gets his attention.
- The Congressman talked a lot about how Washington works. I didn’t come away depressed, but I did have to shake my head on many occasions tonight to make sure I wasn’t having a nightmare.
Posted by daddybear71 on March 10, 2015
https://daddybearsden.com/2015/03/10/musings-123/
Musings
- It is a good sign, when doing research, when you go to find a highlighter while reading the introductory chapter of a new book.
- There are few things about modern civilization that are worth more than anesthesia and a gentle ophthalmologist.
- Boo seems to be disappointed that I will not need a pirate’s eye patch.
- Apparently telling the nurse the exact address of my pharmacy does not necessarily preclude her from calling a prescription into the pharmacy 8 miles further down the road.
- After today’s snow day, Girlie Bear will be going to school into June. At this rate, our vacation over the Independence Day weekend may be in danger.
- I swear that I am going to find the spell to raise the dead, then bring back Johnny Cash, Johnny Paycheck, and Hank Williams, and send them all to whoop the ass of the program manager who thinks that Garth Brooks is classic country. For bonus, I’m going to have Minnie Pearl come back and make him a nice meal so she can sit him down and give him the ass chewing that only a Southern woman can deliver.
- Here’s a hint – If your ‘country’ has a guitar solo or synthesizers that sounds like it would have been played on a Top 40 station in 1985, then you need to take off those boots and hat, pilgrim.
- Meteorologists – If you’re broadcasting on a local television station, I don’t give a damn about what the weather looks like 200 miles away from here, unless that weather is going to be here in the next 24 hours. Try zooming into the local area so that I can see a 50 by 50 mile area for most of your weather report. It might actually be useful. Also, putting a couple of landmarks on your 17 color, computer enhanced, predictive satellite picture wouldn’t hurt either. Or maybe, you could just put up a piece of plexiglass and draw on it with a grease pencil, which would give me about the same amount of useful information.
Posted by daddybear71 on March 4, 2015
https://daddybearsden.com/2015/03/04/musings-121/
Musings
- It takes a particularly evil woman to use up just enough hot water that it runs out while her husband is taking a shower, but leave enough that he gets all sudsed up before it runs out.
- We’re not even going to talk about a wife drying her hair while he’s in the shower and laughing maniacally.
- Saying the phrase “Get your bangs out of your face or I’ll get my KaBar out and cut them off myself.” might not be the most supportive thing I’ve ever said to my daughter.
- I wanted to buy a sound bar speaker system for the living room and a chest freezer for the basement. Irish Woman wanted to buy an upright freezer for the basement. The options are almost equal in cost. We compromised and bought an upright freezer for the basement.
- Is it wrong that there is a high-end fish restaurant right next to the aquarium? I chickened out and took Irish Woman and Boo to the grilled cheese cafe instead.
- Today, I paid for a brand new Glock 19, complete with custom made leather holster. Unfortunately, it’s not going to be delivered until Friday, has Frigidaire on the front of it, and it will sit in my basement for the next decade or so.
- If you don’t want to answer my question, don’t ask me if you can help me when you see me wandering around your plumbing department.
- Last night, Irish Woman and I went out on a date. That is, we went grocery shopping and then grabbed a quick meal at the little Chinese restaurant up the street.
- I’m such a romantic devil.
Posted by daddybear71 on March 1, 2015
https://daddybearsden.com/2015/03/01/musings-120/
Musings
- We got between 8 and 9 inches of snow yesterday, and school was closed today, too. The Governor is asking everyone to stay off the roads unless absolutely necessary, and I’m inclined to oblige him. Too many Kentucky people out there testing the laws of physics.
- Here’s a hint to other parents out there: If the school system is taking away two of the extra days that are built into Spring Break to make up for snow days, posting that you will not be bringing your kids to school those days is going to make it hard to get the absences excused.
- You know you’re an adult when you make the executive decision to see how much of the snow gets blown off the driveway overnight rather than go out to shovel after dinner.
- If your father can tell that your radio is tuned half a megahertz off of your obnoxious teenage girl station, then maybe you need to work the volume knob too.
- It must have been colder during the drive to work this morning than I thought. The truck nutz on the pickup in front of me were all shriveled and blue.
Posted by daddybear71 on February 17, 2015
https://daddybearsden.com/2015/02/17/musings-118/
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