January 28, 1986
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Today in History
January 28, 1986
Posted by daddybear71 on January 28, 2016
https://daddybearsden.com/2016/01/28/today-in-history-13/
Musings
- Boo got in trouble at school today for offering one of his buddies $15 if he would push the button to open the handicapped door as they were going into the chapel.
- So, that happened.
- Where do they come up with this?
- When trying out a new jam cake recipe, it is probably a good idea to make a single batch before trying to make a double batch.
- In other news, a jam cake made with homemade apple butter is pretty much the equivalent to an applesauce spice cake.
- With caramel fudge icing
- I had to remind Girlie Bear tonight that “Please make coffee in the morning.” does not mean make herself a single cup of coffee and leave her poor old father high and dry.
- I’m listening to the 1981 Star Wars radio drama. It’s interesting, and they went more in-depth on certain aspects of the story than you get in the movies. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.
- They do, however, linger a lot more on the burgeoning… infatuation between Luke and Leia. In retrospect, it’s even creepier than the movies.
- Did it ever occur to anyone in the Rebel Alliance that R2D2 had not only brought the plans for the Death Star, but had also been roaming the Imperial network for a while?
- Also, did nobody in the entirety of the Alliance ever look at Luke and say “Skywalker? Hey, I remember your father. He was all over the vid screens during the war. Good man. Shame about how he turned out.”
- I’m alpha reading for someone while I wait on beta readers. I’ve said “I wish I’d written that” so often it’s becoming a mantra.
- When we have met multiple times over multiple months, exchanged emails, and spoken about a thing several times in passing, use of the “First time I heard of it” defense when I try to actually do the thing causes your co-worker to have a blood pressure event.
Posted by daddybear71 on January 26, 2016
https://daddybearsden.com/2016/01/26/musings-179/
Today’s Earworm
Mild language warning on this one.
Posted by daddybear71 on January 23, 2016
https://daddybearsden.com/2016/01/23/todays-earworm-695/
Sneak Peek
“Escort Duty” should be available for pre-order in a couple of weeks. While I get final comments and do one last read through and edit, here are the hard-copy and ebook covers.
Ebook
Hard Copy
Posted by daddybear71 on January 22, 2016
https://daddybearsden.com/2016/01/22/sneak-peek-2/
You Make The Call
Which of the following was the most indulgent thing I did today while the kids had a snow day and I worked from home:
- Giving in and letting Boo watch a movie after breakfast
- Making hot apple cider and hot chocolate for the kids to enjoy after they came in from playing outside
- Baking a dark chocolate cake with chocolate chips for dessert
- Purchasing the NPR “Star Wars” radio play for Boo to listen to
- Offering to pay for the kids’ tickets for an hour at the trampoline gym tomorrow while they have their second snow day so that Irish Woman doesn’t axe murder me as a consequence of my childrens’ behavior
Posted by daddybear71 on January 20, 2016
https://daddybearsden.com/2016/01/20/you-make-the-call-3/
Cynical Musings
- The technology world is full of people who want to be artisans and craftsmen. Unfortunately, what we need are more mechanics and janitors.
- It is rather difficult to do research for one book while the characters from another book are yelling in your ear. There may be a slight deviation from my planned order of publication.
- Death by Powerpoint is preferable to Death by Project Planning.
- Either the truck in front of me on the drive home was brining the road in anticipation of snow tonight, or someone just cleaned out a septic tank.
- Did you ever notice that very few of the people who say “I would have joined the military, but I can’t imagine being told what to do all the time.” are self-employed?
- For the record, I do not care why you didn’t join the military, because I don’t care if you joined the military.
Posted by daddybear71 on January 20, 2016
https://daddybearsden.com/2016/01/20/cynical-musings-3/
Good Man Gone
One of the odd things about this new-fangled world we live in is that we have the ability to sorta get to know someone and like them without having much, if any interaction with them, much less meet them face to face. There are a lot of people who I know from a few comments and a whole lot of writing, and who I would love to sit down and share a meal with.
Zach Hill, author of the Minimum Wage Historian page, has been on that list for a long time.
Friday, Larry Correia, who had the pleasure of knowing him in real life, announced that Hill had passed away. He leaves behind a young wife, his family, and a long line of friends and people who liked his writing and thinking.
I can’t eulogize Zach the way that Larry and others have done, but I can say that I regret not meeting him and I will miss the smiles and nods his writing brought to me.
Zach’s friends have set up a donation site for Zach’s family, and I’ve chipped in a few dukats. If you have it to spare, I’m sure any donation would be appreciated.
Posted by daddybear71 on January 18, 2016
https://daddybearsden.com/2016/01/18/good-man-gone-2/
Today’s Earworm
Posted by daddybear71 on January 18, 2016
https://daddybearsden.com/2016/01/18/todays-earworm-694/
This Again?
The price of liberty is eternal vigilance. — Thomas Jefferson
Thanks to Tam, we find out that the Obama administration and their minions in Congress are trying to get a bill passed, which mirrors the the efforts the State Department made last year to make publishing information about weapons a violation of ITAR. This would make the publication of things like reviews, specifications, and manufacturing / maintenance data a crime.
If they can’t find one way, they’ll find another, it appears. Yeah, the quote above has become a cliche, but it rings true today. If they can’t get their way through Congress, they’ll do it via executive orders. If they can’t get it that way, they’ll do it through regulations. If that is thwarted, they’ll go back to Congress.
Around and around she goes; where she stops, nobody knows.
Please, reach out to your Senator as soon as you can. Tell them what you want them to do about this bill, and what you expect of them when it comes to your rights.
Please, join and support a group that fights for your rights, and get involved.
They’re not going to quit. Neither should we.
Posted by daddybear71 on January 14, 2016
https://daddybearsden.com/2016/01/14/this-again/
Cynical Musings
- Last night, the President and First Lady invited a few bleeding-heart meat puppets, a gun-grabbing parasite, and an empty chair, which apparently symbolized the President’s father’s involvement in his formative years, to listen to him give an inconsequential speech.
- With all due respect to Governor Hailey, the ‘siren call” of anger is attractive because a lot of us are tired of picking Jack Johnson or John Jackson, and a little bomb throwing makes for a little hope that things might go a different way. Not saying I want Donald Trump in the Oval Office, but I do want someone who’s willing to punch the opposition in the nose.
- I better get points for refraining from telling a person I talked with today that their mama needed to be slapped for not being diligent about birth control.
- If you’re buying $600 worth of lottery tickets and putting it on a credit card, please don’t get pissy when you hear my eyeballs roll into the back of my head.
- Taking the ‘winnings’ from your scratch-off ticket to buy a Powerball chance is not ‘reinvesting’.
- The news says that 27 cents of every dollar spent on the Kentucky lottery goes to the state for scholarships. By the time overhead, administrative costs,
theftmagical disappearing money, and the governor’s criminal defense fund take their cuts, 8 cents goes to scholarships. Don’t you feel better?
Posted by daddybear71 on January 13, 2016
https://daddybearsden.com/2016/01/13/cynical-musings-2/
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