- You know it’s going to be a rough couple of days when the local weather critter announces that critters from the Weather Channel have arrived in town.
- We expect to get anywhere from six to twelve inches of snow over the next day or so. I’m planning on schools to be closed because of a mammoth migration or something.
- As of right now, 50% of the kids don’t have school tomorrow. I’ll probably wake up to find that they’re all staying at home.
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I have a bottle of sweet red wine from Huber’s in the basement that is calling my name, but her hot cousins from Buffalo Trace are having a rave in the liquor cabinet. Not sure who is going to win out.
- For some reason, I spent time today fetching a bathroom vanity for a bathroom we haven’t built yet. As a matter of fact, we won’t be building it for a few years. Irish Woman is either a visionary with a very long view, or I need to worry about hoarding.
- If you’ve read Minivandians, or listened to the audiobook, could you do me a favor and leave a review, either at the Amazon site, or at Audible? Feedback will only make things better.
- Girlie Bear seemed disappointed when I told her that even with school being cancelled tomorrow, she still has to go to bed at a decent hour. I’m such an old meanie.
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Musings
Posted by daddybear71 on February 15, 2015
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Musings
- Irish Woman told me that all she wants for Valentine’s Day is a card and to go out on a date. I took her word for it, but I took along a cyanide pill just in case.
- If something is only important so long as I have to do all the work, then I guess it wasn’t that important.
- If I say something and you pretend to not understand or hear until someone else repeats what I said word for word, then don’t come to me later and ask why I have an attitude problem.
- Why, of course I need to do research on ancient Thracian auxiliary cavalry. I’ve got nothing but time and energy to spare.
- Related question – Any of you guys do Roman reenacting?
- I know that Irish Woman will never be able to poison me through my breakfast, because so long as the dog doesn’t keel over from sniffing / licking it every morning, I’m good.
- No, I have never eaten something I’ve witnessed the dog making physical contact with, but then I don’t watch my breakfast 100% of the time.
- Girlie Bear thought it was hilarious when I told her that I never got into trouble as a private and was a model citizen and soldier.
- That’s my story and I’m sticking with it. Nobody saw anything, and even if they did, I’m not going down alone.
- It’s amazing how libertarian I become around tax time.
Posted by daddybear71 on February 14, 2015
https://daddybearsden.com/2015/02/14/musings-116/
Thought for the Day
Posted by daddybear71 on February 8, 2015
https://daddybearsden.com/2015/02/08/thought-for-the-day-224/
Musings
- It’s never a good thing when you look up at the roof of your home and go “Huh, that doesn’t look right.”
- In related news, a new chimney cap can cost anywhere from $30 to $60, and should require about an hour of my time to replace.
- By the way, did you all know that chimney caps are kept in plumbing at Big Box Hardware Store, not with the roofing materials? Also, did you know that Big Box Hardware Store puts plumbing and roofing in opposite corners in their stores? And that you have to pass through or by the expensive kitchen displays you were trying to avoid to get there?
- Boo is lucky that his mother is of Irish descent, not Hispanic, because he had a La Choncla moment this morning.
- However, I am proud to report that he has mastered the manly arts of growling at females, muttering under his breath, and stomping off when corrected.
- Drinking a bottle of red wine before, during, and after dinner makes you appreciate spell check.
Posted by daddybear71 on February 8, 2015
https://daddybearsden.com/2015/02/08/musings-115/
Musings
- The third time I try to be friendly with you and get rebuffed, I fall back on instinct and become a bit of a jerk. For really unfriendly people, I make it a personal goal to have them leave in a worse mood than me.
- I discovered tonight that the easiest way to get excused from watching people on TV knock down walls is to make up detailed back stories of how they make the money needed to knock down walls so that new walls can be built. I give myself bonus points based on how sick and twisted these stories were.
- Vicious circle – When you get your dog a silicone duck toy, it quacks when she bites down on it, she growls and bites it harder, and it quacks again. Lather, rinse, repeat.
- In health news, I gained weight over Christmas, am officially under medical advisement to stop being such a lazy slob, and have already done most of the things my doctor suggested.
- In related news, my doctor didn’t seem to think it was cute when I told her that dying of stubbornness was a good way to go.
- She got her revenge by insisting that I needed a vitamin B12 shot in my rump, with follow-up shots every month until this summer.
- I’ve had “All Along the Watchtower” running through my head all day. I swear I’m not a Cylon.
- Koshka had a rough day.
- She got to spend half an hour in the truck on the way to the vet.
- She got left at the vet all day.
- She got poked, prodded, shaved, and cut on.
- Now, she’s home, resting comfortably, and Girlie Bear is hand feeding her pieces of Italian meatballs.
Posted by daddybear71 on February 5, 2015
https://daddybearsden.com/2015/02/05/musings-114/
Musings
- A ‘coon skin hat, a 6 year old, and a small dog make for hours of entertainment.
- “Huh, I’ve never seen it do that before” is not something you want to hear from a vendor while they’re fixing something.
- Apparently, the smell of chicken frying is an aphrodisiac in the South. I had no idea.
- To my amazement, the kitchen renovation that we need to do will probably cost about as much as the down payment on the hunting land I was looking at the other night.
- Tonight, I also learned that countertops go from the affordable, yet tacky, up to holy-crap-my-first-car-didn’t-cost-that-much a square foot, yet tacky.
- When looking at new kitchen stoves, it is not a good thing to have your eyes bug out and clutch at your chest.
Posted by daddybear71 on January 31, 2015
https://daddybearsden.com/2015/01/31/musings-113/
Musings
- When describing a scene from the book I’m outlining to Irish Woman, wherein the female lead saves the male lead’s life, I was told that Irish Woman would have just left my big butt there to die. It’s good that I know these things now.
- Note to celebrities, politicians, and athletes – Coming out of the closet publicly no longer, to me, makes you brave. Coming out of the closet to those who are a close part of your life is brave. Coming out to the rest of us would be brave if you did it in the 1950’s, but nowadays it’s a yawner.
- If I have brought in my own coffee to work and am standing in front of the coffee pot waiting for it to brew, it is not a good idea to say “Excuse me!”, move my pot off the burner and catch a cup full of my coffee in your cup. That will tend to cause you to walk around for the rest of the day with a bloody stump at the end of your arm.
- I have come to the point that I do not mind life sucking, so long as the suck is spread in an even layer over all of the people involved.
Posted by daddybear71 on January 28, 2015
https://daddybearsden.com/2015/01/28/musings-112/
Thought for the Day
Posted by daddybear71 on January 27, 2015
https://daddybearsden.com/2015/01/27/thought-for-the-day-223/
Musings
- I really need to teachall of the animals to just speak English.
- Except for Koshka. Koshka can already make herself understood, and if she doesn’t, she repeats herself at higher and higher volume until she is understood.
- Thing #929183 that will piss me off about a vendor: Don’t link your “My Profile” page, which includes email and cell phone contact information, with the database you use to contact me when there is a problem.
- Thing #929184 that will piss me off about a vendor: Having your support engineer get pissy because she had to send up smoke signals to my co-worker to get in touch with me because your contact database isn’t connected to my profile on your website.
- Note to self – Do not tell your daughter that a Creative Writing class is best described as Advanced Bullshitting.
- Note to self – The appropriate response to “Why do you carry a gun?” is not “Because I’m not a convicted felon. What’s your excuse?”.
- I got my scores for the “Backup Gun” match the other weekend, in which I shot a 5 round .38 Taurus revolver, where most of my competitors were carrying pocket 9’s. My scores weren’t too abysmal, considering my choice of gun, but everyone who shot an automatic with higher capacity shot better than me. Food for thought.
- Apparently, Boo has it all planned out. Once Girlie Bear moves away to college next year, he will move into the basement bedroom, I will move into his room, and Irish Woman will stay in our current bedroom. Not sure what that means for Girlie Bear’s room, but I’m going to claim it right now as my man cave, complete with locking security door and soundproofing.
- Irish Woman is exercising her executive veto on this measure. It appears she has her eye on setting up an office once one of the bedrooms becomes available.
- A lot of our landscaping problems would be fixed rather quickly if I could just get a license to do demolition using explosives. Just saying.
Posted by daddybear71 on January 26, 2015
https://daddybearsden.com/2015/01/26/musings-111/
Musings
- I will remember yesterday morning when Boo is 16 and wants to sleep in. My last day off before going back to the office, and he gets up at 5:19 AM, wanting to talk to us.
- Going back to the office this morning was not the easiest thing I’ve ever done.
- Louisville people surprised me this evening. During a rather heavy, wet snowstorm, they slowed to an appropriate speed on the freeway, yet did not come to a crawl. I didn’t even see any jackasses trying to swerve in and out of traffic or in the ditch. The world must be coming to an end.
- The rough cut of the audiobook for Minivandians is finished. The narrator/producer did an excellent job, and just needs to do a bit of editing and correcting of small things here and there. Look for it to come out next week.
- Work on the second book continues. I’ve written a few short stories, and outlined the last third and about 3/4 of the first third of a longer story arc. My goal is to have it out to alpha and beta readers before I go on vacation in July. I’ll put up a few snippets here and there between now and then.
- If you remember the Chris Kyle raffle that I talked about last year, the drawing was today. I haven’t heard from American Snipers, so my gut tells me that we didn’t win, which means that there won’t be a second drawing for those of you who donated. But over $62,000 was raised through the drawing, all of which went to Mr. Kyle’s family. Thanks to everyone who participated.
Posted by daddybear71 on January 23, 2015
https://daddybearsden.com/2015/01/23/musings-110/
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