- Today shall go down as “The Day Without Caffeine”.
- It’s not as much fun as it sounds.
- If I add one more thing to the pile of stuff that I need to accomplish by noon on Sunday, the pile is going to fall over and bury me.
- I will be baking tomorrow, I think.
- Banana bread and oatmeal raisin cookies.
- That should hold Irish Woman over while I’m out of town next week.
- Apparently there’s going to be some sort of horse race in town this weekend.
- The private aviation area at the airport was packed like the parking garage at NRAAM last weekend.
- I’m interested to see how the 2016 NRAAM competes against all of the Kentucky Derby crowd. There isn’t a spare hotel room or restaurant seat in Louisville right now.
- Irish Woman’s attempts to grow grass in the back yard might not be as futile as I thought.
- My back yard needs to trim its sparse, green beard.
- Our cherry trees are loaded with little green fruit, but it doesn’t look like we’re going to get any peaches this year. The apples and almonds are still undetermined.
- And now, I shall go to sleep. I’ve dozed off twice typing this up, which is a good indicator that it might be better if I just go to bed.
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Musings
Posted by daddybear71 on May 1, 2014
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Thoughts on the Day
- Example of fatherly love – forestalling listening to the latest episode of Hardcore History on World War I, which you have been looking forward to for over a month, so that your daughter may listen to an older episode on the Russian Front in World War II because that’s the time she’s studying in school.
- Speaking of Girlie Bear’s history class, I am proud to say that she unleashed her Cuban immigrant math teacher on her socialist idiot history teacher. Apparently Girlie Bear and some of her friends went to the math teacher to confirm some of the workers’ paradise stories about communism and socialism that the history teacher has been telling, and the nice lady launched into a rapid fire Spanglish tirade about Communism.
- Girlie Bear and I are safely in Indianapolis, and had a wonderful time meeting a bunch of great people at a barbecue tonight. I will try to sort through all the faces later, but it was great to see all of you.
- I had to tell Girlie Bear that she did not need a Zippo lighter after one from the Monster Hunter International Kickstarter was shown at the party.
- Should I be worried that it took me an hour today to realize that the pocket knife I thought I had lost was in just in a different pocket?
Posted by daddybear71 on April 25, 2014
https://daddybearsden.com/2014/04/25/thoughts-on-the-day-232/
Thoughts on the Day
- Trying to arrange a flight out of Louisville for the day after the Kentucky Derby isn’t as much fun as it sounds.
- I’m going to Las Vegas for a conference. I understand it’s a quiet, sleepy town in the Nevada desert, with not much to do after hours.
- Irish Woman says that someone ought to come out with Garanimals for grown men. It would make the world a better place.
- She thinks Banana Republic might fit that bill, but I prefer to pick out my own clothes, thank you very much.
- Apparently it gets under her skin that 99% of my wardrobe is made up of things that are brown, black, khaki, green and gray.
- Green goes with green, no matter the shade, dammit!
- I’ve decided that two people in my life are just not worth the effort it takes to argue with anymore. I’m tired of trying to make intellectual sow’s ears into silk purses.
- Short story development – write a little, erase a little, write a little, reorder a little, think think think think think.
- I never realized how horrible the local radio stations are until the new truck came with an AM/FM radio, and that’s it.
- The new stereo went in today. No more will I have to listen to nothing but Aerosmith, Katy Perry, and Lyle Lovett.
Posted by daddybear71 on April 23, 2014
https://daddybearsden.com/2014/04/23/thoughts-on-the-day-231/
Thoughts on the Day
- I spent my morning watching other people work with a fork lift.
- It wasn’t as exhilarating as it sounds.
- Irish Woman used her lunch break today to spread 800 pounds of top soil around most of our back yard and put grass seed into it.
- She also laid a four-layer plastic ground cloth between a set of raised beds and the new picket fence.
- Let it never be said that my wife doesn’t work her butt off when she’s got a goal.
- I have decided that if I cannot properly sharpen a blade using a stone and some oil, then I do not wish to own that blade.
- Life’s too short to go on a quest for space-age sharpening solutions every time I buy a new knife.
- For the record, there are only a couple of things I own that don’t work with the stone.
- There are worse ways to end the day than by watching a Star Wars cartoon while you make a triple batch of banana bread and do laundry.
Posted by daddybear71 on April 21, 2014
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Thoughts on the Day
- Is it a bad thing to wake up tired and go downhill from there all day?
- An alpaca, which is unhappy about being given a haircut, makes a sound not unlike a wounded rabbit, only louder.
- We made sure to pat Boo down for contraband mammals as we left the farm this morning.
- There are few things less patient than a group of six year old children waiting for an Easter egg hunt to begin.
- If you witness a child in an Easter egg hunt fall and spill his eggs, yelling at your own child to “Get those eggs!” will mark you as a jerk and deserving of derision.
- If, on the other hand, you realize that a young child is leaving an Easter egg hunt empty-handed and go behind the scenes to bring out a dozen more eggs for him, then you get marked as a good person.
- Girlie Bear was assigned the task to watch a World War II documentary or movie as homework.
- Her teacher included “Inglourious Basterds” in the list of suggested titles. I had to explain to Girlie Bear that it was not acceptable for her to watch and why.
- She settled on Ken Burns’ “The War“.
- Maybe waiting until the day before Easter to buy supplies for Easter baskets was a misstep on my part.
Posted by daddybear71 on April 20, 2014
https://daddybearsden.com/2014/04/20/thoughts-on-the-day-229/
Musings
- If you’re holding up a sign that says “Homeless Veteran! Please Help!” and I ask you what your last unit was, the correct answer should not be “Delta Platoon!”.
- At least, not if you want me to give you some money because I’m a soft touch.
- Overheard at the auto parts store: “I’m going to go home, have a couple of Jager bombs, and start painting on my gun.”
- From the discussion, it didn’t sound like he meant using Cerakote on his AR-15. It almost sounded like he was literally going to spray paint an old shotgun.
- I almost handed him my business card and asked for before and after pictures.
- I realized today that I get my best ideas for posts and stories while I’m driving to work. If only I could remember them when I sit down to write.
- Don’t suggest a voice recorder. I’m too busy yelling at the people on the radio. I really shouldn’t listen to call-in shows when I’m trying to drive calmly.
- It’s always fascinating to watch a mother of multiple children finally lose it after they all decide to act like wild animals in public at once.
- The term “Go ahead and tell your daddy! You’ll have to survive that long” came out of her mouth. I wanted to give her a golf clap.
- Boo’s ‘homework’ tonight was to find pictures of words that start with the letter “Q” and cut them out. While brainstorming at the table, I suggested “Québécois”, “quinoa”, and “Brian May”.
- I was overruled.
Posted by daddybear71 on April 17, 2014
https://daddybearsden.com/2014/04/17/musings-43/
Shoutouts
- To our neighbors – We are not crazy. We were just out in a thunderstorm / rain storm playing with a plastic bags, electricity, and a sprinkler.
- It’s supposed to get down near freezing tonight, and we have a freeze/frost warning for tomorrow.
- Halogen spot lights to warm the fruit trees, a sprinkler that will coat the buds and blooms with ice if it gets cold enough, and plastic bags to go over the smaller trees.
- To Ambulance Driver, thank you for helping me realize that a calm face and a soft voice goes a long way sometimes.
- To the Internal Revenue Service and Kentucky Revenue Cabinet – I hope you choke.
- To the feline members of my family – I love you all very much, but if you don’t stop horking on the basement steps, we are going to have to have a meeting to discuss your house privileges.
- To the ass-bite that has made a habit of breaking into Boo’s school – I hope the smack you’re buying with your ill-gotten gains is cut with zinc oxide.
Posted by daddybear71 on April 14, 2014
https://daddybearsden.com/2014/04/14/shoutouts-12/
Thoughts on the Day
- It is rarely a good thing to see a police helicopter with its spotlight pointed at the neighborhood you are about to drive through.
- My accomplishments today:
- Stained the 1/2+ of the new fence that was left to do.
- Moved the new cast iron outdoors fireplace. Twice.
- Powerwashed two old garden beds to that they may be stained tomorrow.
- Powerwashed the old driveway in front of the main bank of garden beds.
- Is it bad when the funk on the concrete comes off in layers?
- Irish Woman’s accomplishments today:
- Powerwashed the old fence so that it may be stained tomorrow.
- Powerwashed the back patio so that it may be sealed tomorrow.
- Powerwashed the old driveway down to where I picked it up, an area about 20 feet wide and 35-40 feet long. Downhill.
- Trimmed ornamental grass in one of the flowerbeds and cleaned up the mess.
- Cleaned up the mess from last weekend’s attempt to clean the crabgrass out of the bed we want to plant the new blueberry bushes in.
- When your wife asks, repeatedly, if you want some sunblock, maybe you should take the hint.
- I did not get new freckles today. That’s just drops and sprays of cedar stain. I understand that they will fade with time.
- We made a fire in the outdoor fireplace and toasted marshmallows tonight. Dessert tastes better when it’s made over a fire.
Posted by daddybear71 on April 12, 2014
https://daddybearsden.com/2014/04/12/thoughts-on-the-day-228/
Thoughts on the Day
- My day included watching machine guns go off, talking to a few hundred people and trying to convince them to buy raffle tickets for the FNRA, and briefly meeting one of my favorite authors.
- This was a good day.
- If your jeans are so tight that I can read your pulse from 10 yards away, maybe you need to ease up a little.
- If the only thing that an older woman from Tennessee will say about you, to your face, is “Bless your heart”, you might want to start doing a little introspection to figure out how you messed up your life so bad.
- One of the guys I was working with today at Knob Creek took a moment to walk around and get some stuff. He found:
- CCI Large Rifle primers for $30 per 1000
- Winchester Large Pistol primers for $32 per 1000
- 550 cartridge packs of Federal .22 LR for $62
- Wolf Gold brass cased .223 for $300/1000
- PMC .223 for $390/1000
- I would have gone to the Ares Arms booth to shake their hands and buy something to help support them, but the mob of people with the same idea was too big.
- It is a good feeling when someone tallies up the raffle tickets you’ve been selling and figures out that you’ve broken even on two raffles and are almost there with one more and your group still has two days left to sell them.
- It’s especially good when you realize that those two days will have thousands of people drifting past your booth, and a good percentage of them will want to win some guns.
- It occurred to me that the FNRA could make a boatload of money if instead of raffling off guns, they instead raffled off a few thousand .22 Long Rifle rounds.
Posted by daddybear71 on April 11, 2014
https://daddybearsden.com/2014/04/11/thoughts-on-the-day-227/
Thoughts on the Day
- What is good in life? To come to work, to sit at your desk, and to hear the lamentation of the Kentucky fans.
- You can bluster at me all you want, but if it’s your people that are the reason we’re standing around for two hours, I’m not going to feel bad for you.
- There are parts of every job that you are shocked they have to pay people to get done. Today, I did not do those parts of my job.
- Paul McCartney is going to be playing a concert in Louisville soon. I am a lifelong fan of his. I would dearly like to go to this concert. However, two tickets, parking, and dinner for Irish Woman and me would cost almost as much as two car payments.
- Damn all those years of learning from bad decisions and my sense of personal responsibility!
- Irish Woman didn’t fall for it when I tried to cover not telling her about tonight’s Friends of the NRA meeting by inviting her to dinner at the same restaurant as the meeting.
Posted by daddybear71 on April 8, 2014
https://daddybearsden.com/2014/04/08/thoughts-on-the-day-226/
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