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Good Thing, Bad Thing

Good Thing – Your wife turns over in her sleep, and reaches out to gently touch your face.

Bad Thing – While doing so, she pokes you in the right eye with her finger nail.

 

Good Thing – Having a playful water fight in the kitchen with your wife after you say something stupid.

Bad Thing – Slipping on the wet floor, thereby wrenching your back and twisting your knee.

 

Good Thing – Your loving wife checks to make sure you’re OK when you’ve wrenched your back and twisted your knee.

Bad Thing – She uses your relative immobility to give you one final dousing before leaving the kitchen and walking off in victory.

by daddybear71 on February 9, 2014  •  Permalink
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Musings

  • I’d like to say that I was a world shaker and a life taker at the pistol match on Saturday, but I was taught not to lie.
    • The best thing I can say is that I didn’t get disqualified, which is something, I guess.
  • You know things aren’t going to go well for you when one of the first things that happens in a course of fire is your magazine falling out the bottom of your gun.
    • It happened twice on the same magazine.  That magazine is now a modern art piece in the bottom of a trash barrel.
  • If you are ever held as a hostage and human shield and you see me coming around the corner armed with a 1911, I’m pretty sure your best bet for survival will be Stockholm Syndrome.
  • Old, bad habits are hard to break, especially when you’re frustrated and in a hurry.
  • Freiheit and I tried out the Chipmunk pistol that I won back in December.  It points easily, is pretty darn accurate at close range, but I can’t see where I would ever use it unless I was looking for a challenge while squirrel hunting.
  • Irish Woman and I watched the opening ceremony for the Olympics the other night.
    • Someone needs to tell the athletes that there are literally hundreds of professional grade cameras surrounding them at the ceremony, so they can put away their cameras and cell phones and march with a little dignity while the world watches.
    • Someone needs to tell the American athletes that mugging for the camera is not why they’re there.  They were one step short of throwing gang signs.
    • Whoever picked out those sweaters our athletes were wearing needs to undergo some tests for color blindness, psychiatric issues, and drug use.
  • I bought Boo his first cap pistol today.  It came with a gun belt and holster.  He’s been working on his draw and doing dry fire drills ever since we got home.
    • It’s a blued, break-open, actual metal model with mother-of-pearl handles.  When he’s done with it, I’m going to put it away for his son.
    • We already started having talks about pointing it at people and cats, and I haven’t bought any caps yet.  Those will come when he can play with it outside.
by daddybear71 on February 9, 2014  •  Permalink
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Today’s Earworm

The Winter Olympics are going on and yesterday was John Williams’ birthday.  This seemed appropriate.

 

by daddybear71 on February 9, 2014  •  Permalink
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Movie Quotes – Day 40

Doc Holliday: What did you ever want?
Wyatt Earp: Just to live a normal life.
Doc Holliday: There’s no normal life, Wyatt, it’s just life. Get on with it.

— Tombstone

You have your dreams. You have your plans. You have your life. No-one guarantees that those three things will ever intersect. The mark of a true adult is how you deal with what happens when life diverges sharply from what you want. A very wise old man told me a long time ago that you can either live through what life throws at you, or you can die. Just about everything in life boils down to that.

by daddybear71 on February 9, 2014  •  Permalink
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Movie Quotes – Day 39

 Have you ever considered any real freedoms? Freedoms from the opinion of others… even the opinions of yourself?  — Apocalypse Now

There are a few people whose opinion matters to me.  I try to never do anything that would make them ashamed of me.  Most of all, I have to find a way through life that keeps me from being ashamed of myself.  Freedom does not come from not caring about the opinions of others, or even about your own.  Freedom comes from recognizing which opinions matter, and disregarding those that don’t.  And with that freedom comes the responsibility to act in a way that earns their respect.

by daddybear71 on February 8, 2014  •  Permalink
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Today’s Earworm

 

It’s that time of year when we all just kind of want to climb under a rock until the sun comes out in April.  I needed this.

by daddybear71 on February 7, 2014  •  Permalink
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Movie Quotes – Day 38

Let us pretend that you are a loving daughter, and I am a good father. — Gladiator

Being a father has been the scariest thing I’ve ever done. I’ve been doing it for over two decades, and for a big chunk of that time, I sucked at it. It took living without my kids for several months for me to figure out that I was a selfish twit, and that I needed to figure out what was really important. Luckily for me, I was able to get a job within a few hours of Little Bear and Girlie Bear, which allowed me to reconnect and relearn how to be a parent. It’s a chance I didn’t really deserve, but it’s one for which I am eternally grateful.

by daddybear71 on February 7, 2014  •  Permalink
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Lessons from Rome

I’ve been re-listening to Mike Duncan’s “The History of Rome” podcast, and it’s interesting to see how a lot of the issues that plague modern countries and leaders happened back then, both during the Republic and the Empire. Here are a few of my thoughts:

  • Keep your friends close and your enemies in a small iron box.
  • If you’re going to be just and merciful, be just and merciful.  If you’re going to be bloodthirsty, be bloodthirsty.  Trying to be both will just get you shanked.
  • It is better to be loved than feared, but it is better to be feared than to be murdered and thrown in a river.
  • Friends and supporters that are there for you because you pay them off will make extremely difficult enemies when you can’t afford them anymore.
  • There are enough problems in the world.  Don’t go poking your neighbors in the eye out of boredom.
  • The children and grandchildren of very successful people should be watched with a jaundiced eye.
  • Giving power to someone before they’ve established a track record that says they can handle it is a very bad thing.
by daddybear71 on February 6, 2014  •  Permalink
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Thoughts on the Day

  • Losing power while you’re writing your movie quote and thoughts on the day posts is a big drag.
  • If I’m going to be cooped up in the house with the kids, I’m making comfort food.
    • Applesauce spice cake in the morning
    • Tuna-noodle casserole in the afternoon
  • Boo’s school got clueful this morning and didn’t make everyone line up for car pool.
    • Rather than have people get stuck because they stopped on the slight incline to get in the driveway, they just took people as they came.
  • Note to self – It is difficult to split large pieces of ash and oak into kindling using a hatchet.
    • I don’t want to think about how many dinette sets and baseball bats worth of wood we’ve turned into heat and ash this winter.
  • Our neighbor lost a big tree, but otherwise, we seem to be OK with the ice.
    • Can’t say the same for the rest of Louisville.  Something tells me there’s going to be a lot of the “Free Firewood!” ads come spring.
  • Tonight, I’m feeling tired and a little achy.  I’m hoping this is something that either clears up by tomorrow morning or something that knocks me on my butt for a week.  It’s those “You’re just sick enough to feel like crud all weekend” illnesses that piss me off.
  • Apparently, Moonshine had quite a day.
    • One good thing I can say is that he has a varied diet of cardboard, crayons, and squeaky toys.
by daddybear71 on February 6, 2014  •  Permalink
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Movie Quotes – Day 37

There will be no rescue, no intervention for us. We can only save ourselves. — Hotel Rwanda

In the end, you can only depend on yourself. No man is an island, but no man is never isolated. Learn to rely on yourself, on your skills and resources, and you will not only be better to yourself, but also be a better person to others.

by daddybear71 on February 6, 2014  •  Permalink
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