- Problem – Seven year old boy is bored and it is hot out.
- Solution – Turn on garden hose, give to seven year old, and tell him to stay in the back yard.
- Problem – Seven year old is now filthy with the mud he made playing with the hose and claims to be bored again.
- Solution – Get old can of cheap shaving cream and show him how he can sculpt, paint, and draw with it.
- Problem – Seven year old boy is covered from head to toe in shaving cream.
- Solution – Hose him off with the already unwound garden hose, then allow to air dry.
- Dear bike riders – When going down narrow country roads in a large group, it is incumbent upon you all to stay on your side of the double yellow line, especially in blind curves.
- Labrador retrievers are supposed to be water dogs. Why do mine cry so much when being given a bath?
- For dinner tonight, Boo and I got sandwiches and headed over to a local park. I didn’t feel like cooking, and he didn’t feel like eating my cooking, so it was a win-win.
- Boo was more interested in the M-60 tank on display than he was the UH-1 helicopter. I wonder what that means for the future.
- After we ate and looked at the machinery, Boo played on the playground for a while. Something struck me while I sat and watched. You see, Louisville has its issues with race and class, but that wasn’t evident today. The parking lot had Lexus and Mercedes, as well as Ford and Kia. The people using the park had ancestors from all over the globe, and were of ages from a couple months old to at least their sixties. The children played and chased each other, the adult men were playing cornhole and washers, and the women were all talking with one another. Nobody seemed to shun anyone, nor did I see any anger or resentment. Yeah, we have our issues, but if tonight was at all representative of how things stand, we’re not nearly as bad off as we sometimes believe.
Musings
Posted by daddybear71 on June 6, 2015
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Musings
- Project Management Quantum Theory – We have to go through the process in order to define the process, but the process must be in place before we do it.
- Project Management Calculus – As the length of time it takes to do a task approaches zero and the simplicity of it approaches infinity, the processes and paperwork needed to do it will also approach infinity.
- You know that old saw about not pissing off writers because they’ll work you into their novel and then kill you off? I tried that the other night, and it was strangely satisfying.
- Girlie Bear didn’t understand why I made her do a lay-out of all the things she needed to take to JROTC camp. That is, until I discovered that she planned on taking exactly two pairs of socks and three tee shirts, and explained her error to her.
- She did, however, remember to pack her new bathing suit and oh-so fashionable tiger-striped shower shoes.
- Did I mention that the last time she went to this camp, I went to Fort Knox and bought her extras of both and they were sitting in the bottom of one of her dresser drawers?
- Apparently the most important thing I could do to help her get ready was make a double batch of banana bread.
- Taking a blond-haired, blue-eyed seven year old boy with an outgoing personality to a JROTC parents meeting, where there were multiple teenage girls, sounded like a good idea at the time, but I’m pretty sure Boo came home with at least a few new friends.
- Show of hands – Who would like to see a series of restaurant reviews geared toward people coming to the 2016 NRAAM in Louisville?
Posted by daddybear71 on June 5, 2015
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Today’s Earworm
This one is inspired by Matthew, who put it into my head when he saw a variant of the following picture:
Posted by daddybear71 on June 3, 2015
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Today’s Earworm
This one is a long distance dedication to Maulana Fazlur Rehman, a Pakistani politician who blames all of his countries ills on women wearing jeans and believes that their military should halt operations against the Taliban and commence operations against ladies showing off their curves. We’ll call it the Jordache Jihad.
Posted by daddybear71 on June 1, 2015
https://daddybearsden.com/2015/06/01/todays-earworm-638/
Musings
- Yet again, I have failed the “enough caffeine to be alert on the way home from work” versus “Too much caffeine to fall asleep once I get home” balancing act.
- Never underestimate the ability of other people to make a series of very simple things incalculably complicated.
- Note to self – Next time you come home at 11 PM from work and the screen doors are locked, preventing you from coming in that way, call your wife and deal with waking her up to let you in. The alternative is to have to announce yourself in a strong, clear manner as you walk up the basement steps after scaring hell out of your wife, who sleeps next to a gun safe, when you come in the basement door and the dogs start barking at you.
- Irish Woman and Boo picked the first two or three ripe blueberries off of our bushes today. It’s taken 15 years and several generations of bushes to do it, but we’re finally growing blueberries. Now if I can just get those verdammte grape vines to do something other than tear up a picket fence, I’ll be in business.
- Today was cool enough to shut off the air conditioner and open up the house. I took a look at my electricity bill the other day, and I wholeheartedly support this current trend in weather.
Posted by daddybear71 on June 1, 2015
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Remembering The Other’s Humanity
This morning, I read the news that Beau Biden, son of Vice President Biden, died yesterday from brain cancer. The younger Biden was a lawyer, an officer in the National Guard, and served his state of Delaware as Attorney General. It appears that he dedicated his life to serving his state and country, no matter what his politics were, and I respect that.
We have become polarized, almost balkanized, when it comes to politics in America. We aren’t at the point where vitriol easily gives way to violence, but frequent attacks, both ideological and personal, come from both sides.
But when something like this happens to someone on the other side, we need to take a moment to think about the pain the Vice President and his family are going through now, not the differences we have with him. We need to remember that but for the grace of God, it could be any one of us burying our child, our spouse, our parent.
No matter what our differences, we are still human beings, created in the beauty and love of a forgiving maker, and we owe it to each other and to ourselves to remember that.
Please join me in keeping the Vice President, his son, and their family in our thoughts and prayers in the days to come. The time for politics and arguing will come, but right now, we need to be more than what we have become.
Posted by daddybear71 on May 31, 2015
https://daddybearsden.com/2015/05/31/remembering-the-others-humanity/
Today’s Earworm
Posted by daddybear71 on May 29, 2015
https://daddybearsden.com/2015/05/29/todays-earworm-637/
Musings
- If you want to know what it’s like to listen to howler monkeys hoot at each other from one tree to the next, watch kindergarten boys yell to each other from their parents’ cars during morning carpool.
- When the only thing keeping me from walking away from your business is the $100 deposit I put on something with you, you have a problem.
- Dear Kentucky and Indiana drivers – If you do not know how to drive or your rusted out shitbox cannot handle the trip across the Ohio River, don’t attempt to drive across the bridge. Having break downs and accidents on the only bridge for 20 miles tends to cut into everyone else’s day.
- Goosing my wife and laughing when she squeaked loudly, while in the produce area of SuperDuperMegaMart, was the most romantic thing I’ve done all week.
- Telling me to “use my words” when I just used a rather complex grammatical construct to tell you something is counterproductive.
- In related news, cussing under my breath in several Slavic and Germanic languages after being told to “use my words” is also counterproductive.
- When things are so hectic that you have to share an on-line calendar, hold project planning meetings, and are considering making a Gannt Chart, all for your family activities over a weekend, it’s time to scale things back a tad.
- Ahhh, the sweet sounds of a home at the end of the day. The gentle sound of the children sleeping, the snoring of the dogs, the thuds and bangs as Irish Woman re-arranges something in the bedroom, the sound of water running in the kitchen after I turn on the….. wait, water running?
Posted by daddybear71 on May 29, 2015
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Today’s Earworm
Posted by daddybear71 on May 26, 2015
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Today’s Earworm
Posted by daddybear71 on May 25, 2015
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