- Girlie Bear got taken out to buy a brides maid’s dress this afternoon. I wonder if the dress stores have customer loyalty cards?
- I had a Christian thought at the grocery store today.
- Well, sort of.
- Actually, it was along the line of “Lady, you cut me off with your cart full of junk food one more time, and I’ll sideswipe your cart so hard you’ll see Jesus.”
- To the skinny guy wearing a pink sweater and skinny jeans in the produce area who took offense when I asked him to watch his language because of the presence of old ladies within earshot, I am not a homophobe. I don’t care who you sleep with; you’re just a foul-mouthed twit and I was raised right.
- Stopped at the liquor store for beer and bourbon. The clerk didn’t bat an eye when I remarked that the Eagle Rare was for sipping and the Jim Beam was for cooking.
- The nouveau redneck transplant who was buying a bottle of Blanton’s “because it has the prettiest bottle” had to have it explained to him.
- I was gentle and courteous. I was new here once myself.
- Moonshine weighed in at 40 pounds today when we visited the vet. He’s 18 weeks old. I may have to start going to the vet that services the thoroughbred farms.
- It started snowing last night, and so far we’ve gotten a couple of inches. I have yet to see a snow plow with his blade down.
- I have, however, seen two four-wheel drive SUV’s in the ditch.
- My rear wheel drive pick-up seems to be doing OK, however.
- One of my senators voted to send F-16 fighters and M-1 tanks to Egypt. It’s Mitch McConnell, head of the Republican minority. As of this moment, he has lost my vote. It’s going to take a lot of pro-gun activism on his part to win it back.
- If President Obama shoots a Browning shotgun, and Vice-President Biden says that if you want to have a gun for self-protection, then you should get a shotgun, can we expect that both their personal protection details will be decked out with over-and-under shotguns the next time we see them?
- I know, I’m always the starry-eyed optimist.
- I simply cannot wait for the Cabela’s up the road to open. I want to walk those aisles denuded of ammunition and see all the empty gun racks.
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Thoughts on the Day
Posted by daddybear71 on February 2, 2013
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Thoughts on the Day
- 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.
Posted by daddybear71 on January 31, 2013
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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
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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
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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
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Thoughts on the Day
- People who don’t shoot have no idea how insulting it is when they jokingly say “I don’t want to piss you off. You own/shoot/collect guns, and I don’t want you to shoot me.” Yeah, I’m a big guy with a loud voice. Yes, I have been known to have a temper. But you’d be surprised how calm and dispassionate, even forgiving, I can be when I’m armed.
- If you were waiting for an engraved invitation to get involved and contact your congresspeople, this is pretty much it.
- Had a talk with a co-worker about the new anti-gun legislation. He had no idea that the shotgun he inherited from his father might fall under the classification of “assault weapon”, and that if it does, and the anti-gun bills pass, he wouldn’t be able to pass it on to his daughter when the time comes. I won’t say I made a convert, but I did get him to realize just how asinine gun control laws are.
- He really didn’t care for the New Jersey law that turns a .22 with a tube magazine into an assault weapon, and when I tried to explain “constructive intent” to him and how that had been applied under current gun law, he really got flabbergasted.
- Two questions I’ve asked tonight: “What are you barking about?” And “Why is the kitchen floor sticky?”. I don’t have satisfactory answers to either question.
- Irish Woman and I are such hopeless romantics. Our date tonight was to go to the hardware store to buy a 90 degree attachment for my drill and acquiring drive-through burritos. I splurged on her and bought her a large soda to go with her dinner.
- I can’t wait until Valentine’s Day. We plan on going grocery shopping and getting fried chicken.
- The term “Stockholm Syndrome” should never be used when discussing a relationship.
- I think that if a woman comes into a room, wraps her ice-like tentacles around her warm husband, and holds on just long enough to sap all the warmth from his soul, then she ought to be treated just like any other predator.
Posted by daddybear71 on January 24, 2013
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Musings
- Apparently the list of major players who plan on attending the Eastern Sports and Outdoor Show is dwindling by the day. I wonder what they’ll do when the hall is almost empty and no-one is buying tickets?
- Outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton apparently lost a little of her normally placid public demeanor today when she finally dragged her bloated carcass across the threshold to the Senate Foreign Relations committee’s chamber.
- Here’s a hint, Mrs. Clinton – it matters what happened, even at this late date, because you and your boss are either evil or incompetent. If you’re evil, you knew that an attack was imminent and withheld security forces, thereby feeding our ambassador to a mob, then blamed an American citizen for the actions of a bunch of 12th century goat pimps. If you’re incompetent, then you should have known that something was up, mostly due to Ambassador Stevens telling you that something was about to happen, and did nothing out of willful ignorance, then thought that some idjit’s bad YouTube was to blame and that we’d all buy that story. So which is it?
- You know how I predicted that the 2016 presidential campaign would start soon after the end of the 2012 election? I think today was the opening kickoff. Mrs. Clinton has got to have her eye on that prize, and tried to look professional and compassionate while berating Republican Senators for doing their job. The way that Rand Paul went after her and talked about how he would have canned her loathsome behind had he been in charge leads me to believe that he is giving serious thought to 2016.
- Tonight, I found that one cannot use a 10 inch long cordless drill with a 3 inch long screwdriver attachment on it to screw in 3 inch screws in an 8 inch area. Oh well, I now have an excuse to buy a pocket electric screwdriver.
- It is amazing how quickly the list of possible root causes for a problem starts to shorten when you convince your co-workers that repeatedly attempting to do the thing that is failing without changing anything is not going to help you find out what the problem is.
- I swear, I must spend half of my recreational time walking around the house turning off lights.
- After looking at the local stores and the on-line retailers this evening, I’m really glad I bought all that .22 last summer.
- I have been advised that I should not teach Boo to recite Monte Python routines. I never get to have any fun.
- I am this close to offering to store ammunition, magazines, and weapons for people in occupied states so that they don’t have to sell them off or turn them in while the NRA and SAF work their cases through the courts.
Posted by daddybear71 on January 23, 2013
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Thoughts on the Weekend
- Apparently a fun time was had by all at the dance. Girlie Bear and the young man who accompanied her both seemed quite whooped when I picked them up.
- Getting up at 6 AM was rather difficult for Girlie Bear this morning. Hopefully she learns at an early age she can’t rise and shine if she’s out to all hours of the night.
- I began construction of the new bathroom closet this afternoon.
- I’m about halfway done in constructing components.
- I hope to be at the “trim and paint” stage by next weekend.
- Ran out of time, light, and lumber. Oh well, I had to go to the lumber yard anyway.
- Going to a pet store in a bad neighborhood is not worth the time saved by lining up errands with the trip across town to take Girlie Bear to visit her mother.
- Holding a 40 pound bag of dog food in my left hand while walking to my truck so that my right hand is free for emergencies means I shouldn’t have gone there to buy dog food in the first place.
- For breakfast this morning, Irish Woman made biscuits and gravy with hash browns. Dinner was chicken and dumplings. Dessert was yellow cake with homemade caramel fudge icing.
- I think she’s trying to fatten me up for the kill.
- I will, however, die happy.
- Temperatures this weekend were about 60 degrees. The weatherlady is saying it’s supposed to be in the teens in the next couple of days. My bones say she’s right.
- Every time I move, it sounds like someone stepping on a bag of corn flakes.
- Irish Woman explained her plans for the garden to me today. Looks like I’m building more beds and digging out more clay.
- Oh well, at least she told me in January. Last year I got the briefing in April.
Posted by daddybear71 on January 21, 2013
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Thoughts on the Day
- It may have been very frustrating, but there was also a bit of joy in telling a vendor “I did what you said would fix the problem, and it’s still happening. What else you got?”.
- Hint to vendors: “Ummmm, download all the logs, copy the entire operating system into a compressed archive file, and upload all of that to our website.” is not a step in the right direction the third time I do it.
- I need to remember to take my lunch to work.
- It’s 20 minutes one way to my car and another 10 minutes to any restaurant, so going out for a one hour lunch break is kind of silly.
- Microwave popcorn, cheese and peanut butter crackers, and a sports drink aren’t exactly filling and nutritious.
- Irish Woman and I ‘compromised’ on her ‘vision’ for the bathroom closet.
- Irish Woman had a ‘vision’, and we all know that when Irish women start having visions, things start crawling out of a portal to hell.
- By ‘compromised’, I mean that I demonstrated that what she wanted done was not possible while living under the laws of physics in this universe, and she accepted that I’m a big meanie who never lets her do a project on her own and I can just do it the way I want it.
- OK, that was unfair. We compromised by finding a happy medium. She agreed to be rational and admit that I am not a master craftsman, that I do not have a staff of talented people to do the job with me, and that our outbuilding is not full of exotic hardwood lumber and a wood shop. I agreed that her basic needs needed to be met, and that I couldn’t make it look like something Soviet engineers would have built in the 1930’s.
- I have now bent her vision to fit on graph paper with measurements and lumber. Hopefully I’m in the ball park.
- Preparations are feverishly underway for Girlie Bear’s dance tomorrow night.
- Think “Keystone Cops”, but with more nail polish.
Posted by daddybear71 on January 19, 2013
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Thoughts on the Day
- The new washer is in.
- It’s not fancy, but it does the job.
- I am absolutely amazed at the amount of laundry we pile up in just a few days.
- I am going to hunt down the guy who plumbed this house and hurt him.
- On the bright side, I now know that the floor of my laundry room tilts away from the old sump pump but toward the new one.
- I have permission to replumb the house with either copper or PEX. I think that will be the next big project after the bathroom is done.
- I was supposed to work from home today, but after spending hours spent unhooking the old washer, assisting the delivery guys, hooking up the new washer, running across the basement to shut off the main water valve for the house, fixing the leaking cold water pipe to the washer, finishing hooking up the washer, turning on the water to the house after saying a prayer, and then doing a test load of wash while standing in the basement to make sure nothing else burst out in frigid water, I just wasn’t feeling it.
- I have been extending invitations to relocate to Kentucky to everyone in occupied territory that I can find. I think some of them might even be considering it.
- Dinner tonight was scrambled eggs with ham, onions, mushrooms, and cheese. This was accompanied by fresh biscuits with Irish Woman’s homemade strawberry margarita jam and sliced fruit.
- Breakfast for dinner just sounded good.
- I did, however, forget to make coffee.
- Everyone is safe.
- Overheard at the dinner table – “Kids, if anyone ever asks you if we have guns in our house, the correct answer is “None of your damn business!” and I promise you will not be punished for saying it.”
- Sent another round of emails off to my Senators and Representative. Tomorrow I call their offices to express my opinion and ask them to oppose the new anti-gun legislation.
- Delta Force has nothing on my dogs when they are getting into position to steal popcorn from Boo.
Posted by daddybear71 on January 16, 2013
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