If you’d followed this advice last year, you’d already be way ahead of the market.
Thought for the Day
Posted by daddybear71 on May 8, 2013
https://daddybearsden.com/2013/05/08/thought-for-the-day-193/
Thoughts on the Day
- Not sure what was going on last night, but I dreamt in Korean.
- I speak precisely six words in Korean – Soju, Mekju, Bulgogi, Kimchi, Kamsahamnida, and Anyanghaseyo.
- Yes, I know, some of those are more than one word.
- Not surprisingly, I have no idea what my dream was about, but looking on the bright side, I did wake up with a stress headache.
- Kentucky people need to learn that they can’t out-stubborn me.
- If I say I can’t do what you need without more input from you, and you don’t give me the input, I’m perfectly happy to wait forever before doing what you say you need.
- It took me four hours of work today to be able to report “Nope, can’t be done”.
- Luckily for me, my co-workers agreed to my work-around, so it wasn’t all wasted time.
- The drive home tonight made me miss North Dakota, where there weren’t enough people to piss me off.
- Boo had his latest kindergarten orientation today. Irish Woman got a bunch of paperwork.
- It included the fee and tuition list for next year.
- He’s going into pre-kindergarten, and we’re paying several hundred dollars for books.
- Yeah, I don’t know either.
- Girlie Bear was selected to go to JROTC summer camp this June.
- She leaves on June 6.
- That’s right, she goes off to an Army summer camp on D-Day.
- She was so proud that she got issued ACU’s today.
- Anyone know how you iron those wrinkle factories?
- And what’s up with boots you don’t polish?
- What are you people doing to my Army?
- My basket at the store tonight contained a 100 foot network cable, a roll of duct tape, flashlight batteries, shoe polish, tortilla chips, and a soda.
- The lady who checked me out asked me where the party was going to be.
Posted by daddybear71 on May 8, 2013
https://daddybearsden.com/2013/05/08/thoughts-on-the-day-128/
Today’s Earworm
It’s been one of those days.
Posted by daddybear71 on May 8, 2013
https://daddybearsden.com/2013/05/08/todays-earworm-359/
Thoughts on the Day
- It’s amazing how smoothly things work when everyone does not only what they’re supposed to do, but also what they’ve said they would do.
- If you ask the impossible, don’t be surprised if my plan for fulfilling your request is improbable.
- We got through the end of the year school picnic without Boo doing his Forrest Gump impression. We had a much better time than we did last year.
- It took precisely 3 minutes to upgrade the RAM on the iMac. Irish Woman is quite happy that it doesn’t take five minutes to start iPhoto, and Chrome comes up instantly.
- For the moment, I am The Man.
- Subject to immediate downgrade to The Putz, of course.
- For the moment, I am The Man.
- Note to neighbors: If you don’t like the plans that the owners of the business-zoned vacant lot are thinking of doing with their property in order to make it productive again, then feel free to buy it from them and then do with it as you wish.
- Seriously, until you’re ready to do that, please shut up before the civic-minded local owner decides to say “Screw it” and sells the place to an out-of-state developer who will bluntly tell you where you can shove your opinions.
- Advanced planning and preparations for Boo’s birthday party are underway.
- Apparently the event is going to happen on Saturday.
- I am buying food to feed an army. If I’m eating leftovers from this past about Monday, then Irish Woman is going to have some ‘splaining to do.
- When Irish Woman threw my 40th birthday party, I was eating leftovers for over a week. I eventually ended up putting all of the fresh fruit in the dehydrator because we couldn’t eat it quickly enough.
Posted by daddybear71 on May 7, 2013
https://daddybearsden.com/2013/05/07/thoughts-on-the-day-127/
An Open Letter
Dear Netflix –
Why did you wait until the evening I replaced the piece of garbage Cisco wireless router with an Airport Extreme to hold a “we’re not having an outage, just being slow enough to be irritating” event? I spent an hour messing around with the new router and looking at my basement ceiling thinking “Where can I safely drill a hole for a network cable?” before I thought “Hey, I should see if it’s slow and clunky on Amazon Videos too!”. Much to my relief, Amazon’s video output was fault-free, whereas yours plays for about a minute, goes back to buffering, then goes back to playing for another minute or two.
Do you have people watching my house to see when I do things like this? HOW DO YOU KNOW?
Hugs and Kisses
Daddy J. Bear
Posted by daddybear71 on May 7, 2013
https://daddybearsden.com/2013/05/07/an-open-letter-15/
News Roundup
- From the “Irony” Department – The chief of staff of an Air Force effort to reduce cases of sexual assault in the service has been arrested for sexual battery. It would appear that in between hours spent trying to figure out how to get male personnel to stop harassing and assaulting female personnel, this guy likes to get liquored up and assault strange women in parking lots. I’m sure he can look forward to an abbreviated career handing out towels in the gym in Greenland, assuming that he can learn to keep his hands to himself. I’m confused by the issues with sexual assault in the military, to be honest. How hard is it to teach young men to keep their hands and other appendages to themselves? Where are the senior NCO’s? I’m pretty sure the first time some dumbass who decided that a female soldier needed his attention, whether or not she wanted it, was publicly shamed and berated by a Command Sergeant Major, with or without the use of dimensional lumber, the problem in that unit would dry up pretty quickly. Step one should be telling young soldiers to keep their hands to themselves, step two should be a battalion formation to watch a rapist get 40 lashes. General Washington would approve. It’s only cruel and unusual if you don’t do it often enough.
- From the “Socialism at Work” Department – Residents of a San Fransisco neighborhood held a Cinco de Mayo party where they smashed pinatas in the shape of Google commuter busses. Apparently, they feel that the entry of talented, employed, and motivated people in to their decaying neighborhood is a bad thing. Hey, if you want lower-income people to not only be able to, but also want to, live in your area, stop turning it into a high-cost, high-crime, low-opportunity craphole. I’ve seen pictures of middle-class neighborhoods in San Fransisco in the 1950’s and earlier, and they were quite nice. Unfortunately, the adults stopped running that city in the late 1960’s, and now decent people can’t afford to live there unless they make a huge amount of money and are willing to work outside the city. Either quit making things worse, or get out of the way of people who will make it better.
- From the “Unintended Consequences” Department – Democratic leadership appears to be asking Illegal Mayors Against Guns to stop trying to unseat Democrat Senators who voted against gun control legislation last month. It appears that Mikey the First is going after Senators who actually listen to their constituents instead of kowtowing to the President and his ilk. How horrible that Senators should legislate in a manner which reflects the views and wishes of the voters. What comes next, women getting the vote? These dimwits would have gone after people who voted against internment of Japanese civilians in 1942. Here’s hoping that their efforts are unsuccessful.
- From the “Unpossible” Department – A 16 year old in Chicago was shot and killed by police recently when he rode his bicycle along a city street and randomly fired a pistol at pedestrians. After he shot at police who were chasing him, they shot him in what I will have to call a righteous case of self-defense. How a 16 year old was able to get a pistol in a city and state with some of the most draconian gun control laws in the nation is anyone’s guess. Maybe one of us evil gun nuts slipped into Chicago under cover of darkness, intimidated the young choir boy with our evil mind control powers, and threatened to hurt his saintly mother if he didn’t randomly shoot up a crowd of people. Or maybe Tywon bought the gun from Mookie on the street corner and decided to show how much a man he was by shooting at a bunch of defenseless strangers for the fun of it. Mookie, of course, could have gotten the gun from a number of sources, including theft or commerce with other criminals. All that can really be known about this, at the moment, is that a whole bunch of laws meant to keep guns out of the hands of 16 year old criminals did precisely diddly over squat to keep the pistol out of the hands of this particular 16 year old criminal. Remember kids, gun control is what you do instead of something useful.
- From the “First World Problems” Department – A petty fight between vegans and agricultural students at a high school in California is drawing national attention. Apparently, the plant eaters take issue with the ag students raising and caring for farm animals who are eventually slaughtered for meat. Some are apparently handing out flyers around campus that show the rather gruesome aspects of slaughtering and butchering food animals. Of course, as usually happens in these cases, name calling has begun in earnest, with some calling those of us who recognize that we are, in fact, omnivores “carcass crunchers”. Personally, I prefer to be called “Green Eyed Devil”. I bear no ill will toward the leafchewers. Heck, some of my favorite foods eat nothing but plants. I will, however, point out that growing and processing plant-based food can be just as difficult and icky as slaughtering Stumpy the goat. Haven’t these people ever listened to the screams of wheat stalks as they are harvested and put through a thresher? I always feel horrible as I pluck the cherries off of our trees, knowing how hard the mother cherry tree worked to create and nurture her children. And you only know true sadness when you realize how many stoners had to give up their “wake and bake” so that some farmer could plant industrial hemp instead of Northern California wacky weed so that we could have matching artisanal tee shirts and sandals.
- From the “Slow News Day” Department – An artist recently lifted the spirits of the people of Hong Kong by floating an oversized bath toy into the harbor. Apparently Vincent van Daffy believes that the sight of a large yellow rubber duck in the waters off large cities will make people feel whimsical and childlike. He plans to bring his travelling tubby-time exposition to the United States, but does not know exactly where. I will alert Weer’d so that he can start lobbying now.
Posted by daddybear71 on May 7, 2013
https://daddybearsden.com/2013/05/07/news-roundup-188/
Today’s Earworm
This one is for all of y’all who went to Houston for the NRA Annual Meeting and now have to drag your tired selves back to the real world. I feel for you, because I’ve been there. Don’t worry, 2014 is coming.
Posted by daddybear71 on May 7, 2013
https://daddybearsden.com/2013/05/07/todays-earworm-358/
Thoughts on the Day
- In some circumstances, “Just one more thing” is a good phrase to hear on a Monday morning.
- Today wasn’t it.
- I was going to write “Break it all over again” as my back-out plan for something I was trying to fix at work, but my better judgement won out in the end.
- A couple of years ago, when I got re-certified in CPR, I was told to only give compressions.
- I had always been taught some variation on “Two breaths, compressions for x repetitions, then two breaths.”
- I figured they were the experts, so whatever.
- Today I got recertified, and they are back to breaths and compressions, if you feel comfortable giving breaths.
- Didn’t know that proper technique came down to a mood.
- The first aid instructor was talking about tourniquets because of their use after the Boston Marathon bombing. That kind of surprised me, but shouldn’t have.
- Most of our first aid class involved lecture and scenarios presented by DVD. If anything ever screamed out “computer based training followed by an hour or so of Q&A”, this is it.
- The first man to come up with a non-toxic, non-itchy attic insulation will be a billionaire in about 15 minutes.
- I’ve reached the point where it makes more sense to throw extra building supplies in the garage than it does to take them back for a refund.
- They’ll get used eventually, so why waste the gas?
- Irish Woman seems to be having trouble being on a conference call from home when the dog is barking and whining at the cat and the cat is hissing and spitting and yowling at the dog.
- I will have to work with her on her multitasking.
- I am proud of myself. When someone I know was whining about us not getting more involved in Syria, I didn’t call them a twit.
- I did, however, tell them that only a damn fool would get involved in a civil war between two groups that dislike us.
- I mean, I can’t be all sweetness and light. I have a reputation to protect.
Posted by daddybear71 on May 6, 2013
https://daddybearsden.com/2013/05/06/thoughts-on-the-day-126/
Thoughts on the Weekend
- Girlie Bear went with her JROTC class to clean up Churchill Downs after the Oaks and Kentucky Derby.
- Talk about scared straight. After cleaning up the detritus of a few thousand drunk, rowdy, over-fed, and over-sexed bluntskulls may have turned her off of partying for life.
- She wasn’t half as excited to go on Sunday morning as she was on Friday night.
- Moving half a ton of concrete and limestone is easier if you do it a hundred pounds at a time, but you’re still sore and tired afterward.
- Of course it was raining all weekend. Doesn’t everyone build garden beds and retaining walls in the rain?
- It’s the first week of May, and I’m still heating up the house using the fireplace.
- Apparently my bet on the brown horse in the Derby won again. I really ought to actually put down some money one of these years.
- I think Irish Woman has it figured out. She points me to a product she wants, I go to Amazon and order it, and it magically appears on her front step in two days.
- It must be love. I turned my back on Irish Woman while she was using a shovel and was annoyed with me, and I never feared for my life.
- I can’t wait for the NRA convention next year. I miss my tribe, and it sounds like everyone is having a grand time handling hardware, meeting new people, and laughing at hippies.
- Louisville people: There is no reason to drive in either a suicidal or homicidal manner just because the sky gods chose to bless us with rain for the past day or so.
- I like living in the future.
- I can upgrade Irish Woman’s iMac from 1gb to 4gb of ram (quadruple what she has).
- If I wait until my warranty is up in December, I can upgrade my Macbook from 2gb to 8gb of RAM, and if I upgrade the OS, to 16gb.
- Irish Woman’s move from 4gb will cost $80, a move to 8gb on my Macbook will cost $62, and the 16gb upgrade will cost between $150 and $200.
- For someone whose first SERVER had 128mb of RAM, which was an upgrade from 64mb that cost my employer an extra $5000, this is head spinning information.
Posted by daddybear71 on May 5, 2013
https://daddybearsden.com/2013/05/05/thoughts-on-the-weekend-26/
Thought for the Day
This an excerpt from “Ghosts of the Ostfront”, a series of podcasts by Dan Carlin.
If someone pointed a gun, figuratively or literally, at the head of your child, would you be able to stand up and say “No, I won’t put those people on trains!”? As much as people say we have to role play defensive violence in our minds so that we know what we are morally and psychologically capable of when we need to defend ourselves or our loved ones, we also need to mentally role play our reactions to creeping totalitarianism or how we would react to societal threats to our loved ones if we don’t get in line.
Like Mr. Carlin, I’d like to think that I would have the ability to stand up for what’s right, but no-one’s pointing a Tokarev or a Luger at Girlie Bear’s head right now. I think the correct answer is to not let things get to that point in the first place, because the only way to win that particular game is to not play at all.
Posted by daddybear71 on May 5, 2013
https://daddybearsden.com/2013/05/05/thought-for-the-day-191/
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