- I need to install cameras around here just so I know what goes on around here while I’m at work.
- Bluegrass is favoring one of her front paws, and has grass stains on her rump and her forehead. She isn’t cooperating with investigators.
- Quote of the day – “Son, you opened this can of whoop-ass. I’m just here to make sure you take a nice long drink from it.”
- Note to salesman – It does not bode well for your continued relationship with me when you make a point to mention and discuss the amount of caffeine-laden liquid I am consuming.
- How my afternoon went –
- Hmmm, how do you do this? Well, let’s try the easy and safe way.
- Nope that didn’t work. Let’s try the slightly more difficult and a tad more risky method.
- Nope, not that one either. OK, let’s try the overly complicated and insanely dangerous way to do it.
- Well, what do you know, that worked like a champ.
- I can never let anyone who doesn’t absolutely know what they’re doing attempt this. I owe that much to the stock holders.
- Don’t tell me I can’t brace and level something. Given enough creek rock, lumber, and decking screws, I can make anything work.
- Of course I didn’t notice that the sump pump won’t shut itself off automatically when it trips. That would have required being smart and checking it a couple of months before the rainy season.
- Oh well, it’s not the first time I’ve had to get up every four hours to check on machinery.
Thoughts on the Day
Posted by daddybear71 on May 13, 2013
https://daddybearsden.com/2013/05/13/thoughts-on-the-day-131/
Today’s Earworm
BTW, Irish Woman can testify that this is not a song you want your young child to be singing back to you on the way to school. Darn Rock’n’Roll is rotting the youth of America.
Posted by daddybear71 on May 13, 2013
https://daddybearsden.com/2013/05/13/todays-earworm-361/
Thoughts on the Weekend
- Of course there was a construction zone with a backup between me and the birthday cake when I went to pick it up at the last minute yesterday. What fun is there in being sane and calm when you get to the party?
- 15 children, about 15 adults, 15 pizzas, 60 cupcakes, 1 large birthday cake, assorted fruit, and two cases of soda and water means I have leftovers coming out of my ears.
- We did help one father discover something healthy that his son would eat – strawberries. Lots and lots of strawberries.
- Hottest food at the birthday party? Surprisingly, it was bananas.
- Unfortunately, the weather did not cooperate.
- In February, when we booked an outdoor pavilion next to the splash park, we thought it would be hot by now.
- Instead, it was foggy, breezy, and chilly.
- Progress on the new tiered tomato and pepper beds is coming along nicely.
- If the weather cooperates, we should be planting the garden next weekend or the weekend after.
- A few weeks ago, I bought a $500 gift card to my lumber yard so that we could try to stay on budget with our projects.
- It now has $12 on it.
- I’m pretty sure I have all the materials I need to finish the garden beds, but will need to spend more on the fence and other stuff.
- The price of gas here has gone down about 40 cents a gallon since the Kentucky Derby.
- Of course, if you ask the owners of the chain gas stations, that had nothing to do with it.
- I either need to quit working in the yard so much or stop working in the yard at all.
- I hurt in places I had forgotten I even had.
- Man hath no love like a Siamese cat who thinks she might be getting bits of fried chicken.
- Moonshine is officially trained. He slipped out of his collar this morning on the way back to the dog area, and he obediently ran to the gate, sat down, and waited for Bluegrass and me to catch up.
- Now if I can just get him to stop eating everything made out of rubber.
Posted by daddybear71 on May 12, 2013
https://daddybearsden.com/2013/05/12/thoughts-on-the-weekend-27/
Today’s Earworm
Posted by daddybear71 on May 12, 2013
https://daddybearsden.com/2013/05/12/todays-earworm-360/
Blogs Roundup
- Borepatch does an excellent job in explaining that no matter how often or hard they try, the government just can’t keep freely available information from being free to propagate itself to the far corners of the world once it’s let loose.
- Couldn’t have said it better myself, Crush.
- Stephen is one heck of a good man.
- I wish I’d written this.
- Holly Chism has a new book out, “The Last Pendragon“. It’s a real page turner, and I pretty much read it in one sitting. She has a couple of sample chapters up, but the whole book is definitely worth the price of admission. I’m working a real review, but in the mean time, go on over and have a look.
- Carteach reminds me that I need to get Girlie Bear and me into an Appleseed clinic.
- NancyR is holding an event to get young shooters and their families into shooting. It’s an excellent idea. I’ll have to see what I can do to steal the idea from her.
Posted by daddybear71 on May 11, 2013
https://daddybearsden.com/2013/05/11/blogs-roundup-29/
Quote of the Day
A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything. — Malcolm X
Posted by daddybear71 on May 11, 2013
https://daddybearsden.com/2013/05/11/quote-of-the-day-105/
Thoughts on the Day
- Irish Woman commented tonight on how Moonshine has had an attitude with her lately. I commented that if she had me castrated like she did the dog, then I’d be a bit ornery too.
- I’m so proud of my wife. While she was checking out at the grocery store, a man decided to stop cussing out his wife in some foreign tongue long enough to start cussing out my wife in that foreign tongue. She decided to give him a small piece of her mind. Quoth the Irish Woman – “Here in Kentucky, when our husbands act like that, we call them assholes. Welcome to America!”.
- You know, when you call a pizza place and try to order 15 pizzas to be picked up the next day, you shouldn’t be given attitude over it.
- Luckily for me, I live in one of those rare localities that has more than one pizza restaurant in it.
- If my back yard gets any swampier, I’m going to have to start checking for pythons and alligators.
- Moonshine ate the end of our new garden hose today. I momentarily thought about using his hide to patch it.
Posted by daddybear71 on May 10, 2013
https://daddybearsden.com/2013/05/10/thoughts-on-the-day-130/
News Roundup
- From the “Eye In The Sky” Department – The ACLU is suing the LAPD again, but this time it doesn’t have to do with nightsticks, flashlights, and car chases. In this case, the ACLU wants to know the process by which the police put the automobiles of citizens into a list of targets for its “Automatic License Plate Reader” system. What basically happens is that cameras connected to computers are placed on objects such as traffic lights and street signs, and they automatically examine every license plate that goes by them. If the license plate is on a “hot list” of targets, data such as time and location are recorded for later retrieval by the police. Police say that the system is essential in situations such as an AMBER alert for missing children, but won’t say what the criteria is for putting someone on the list, how police decide to take them off, and what non-police oversight is exercised on the system. Police also say they use the system to track the movements of convicted sex offenders, even though they may not be under investigation for any current crime. As disgusting as I find sex offenders, I have an issue with the state spending money to create a system that can not only track sex offenders, but could also be easily abused to track the whereabouts of any citizen they decide they need to keep tabs on. There may be benefits to such a system in an emergency, but it shouldn’t be a dragnet. Unless there are controls in place to minimize abuse, then it shouldn’t be used, and the controls should be transparent to the rest of us.
- From the “Mutton, Honey” Department – A university in Canada is trying to sell off 300 head of sheep from its research facility in one lot. Apparently, the cost of maintaining the herd is too much for the school after budget cuts, and they want the herd to stay intact. Well, they want to sell them all at once. Staying intact probably isn’t going to happen, because about two hours after I bought 300 sheep, a good number of them would be working their way through a facility to separate their fuzzy bits from their edible bits. Too bad it’s such a pain to move livestock across the border, because I haven’t had good lamb in a long time. Remember kids, Easter lambs make good Memorial Day dinners.
- From the “Butt Above the Grass” Department – A cemetery in Massachusetts has rejected a headstone inscription that included profanity. It seems that using a four letter word on your grave marker might offend someone in the grave yard. Profanity in public is frowned upon in our Puritan society. This is why I learned to swear in multiple languages. It’s amazing how you can mutter to yourself in Russian or Serb, and no-one calls HR. Plus, let’s be honest, English is probably lucky to be in the top 10 list of languages when it comes to swearing. Some languages make it an art form. Who would do a better job cussing someone out, an Italian from Boston or her cousin from Naples?
- From the “Oopsie” Department – The National Health Service in Britain has had 750 “never” incidents in the past four years. These incidents, such as doctors leaving instruments inside a patient or operating on the wrong body part, are ones that should “never” happen. One of the more shocking was a rather high number of cases where a feeding tube was inserted into the patient’s lungs, which I can’t imagine is a very healthy thing at all. I wonder how the statistics for American hospitals looks? By the way, it is never a good idea to read a book on methods for improving hospital and medical safety just before going in for inpatient surgery. Irish Woman worked for a company that worked on digitization of medical records and radiology a few years ago, and they handed out just such a book to their employees, and I gave it a read. It was absolutely fascinating, but not a good thing to have on your mind when you’re putting on the backwards gown and a surgical beret.
- From the “Fake Firewater” Department – Officials in Russia recently raided a warehouse that contained 300,000 bottles of counterfeit vodka, cognac, and wine. Instead of name brand hooch, the bottles were filled with what amounted to moonshine. Food purity and false labeling are one of the few areas where I believe that a little government oversight, within reason, is not a bad thing. Imagine buying what you think is a good bottle of cognac, then waking up blind because it contained methanol. For the most part, I stayed away from alcohol when I was in Russia, with the exception of the occasional tipple at the Liberty Bar in the embassy. It was the height of the Yeltsin period, there were daily reports of tainted vodka or whatever in the newspapers, and let’s be honest, I’m not the sharpest tack in the box when I start drinking. Trust me, you don’t want the inhibitions that keep me wrapped up nice and neat to peel away like a belly dancer doing the dance of 1000 veils. It’s not pretty, and it causes me to have to apologize to scores of people.
- From the “Thumb in the Eye” Department – The final piece of One World Trade Center has been put in place, making the skyscraper officially 1776 feet in height. It’s been over 11 years since 9/11, and while the skyline on Manhattan will never be the same, this building helps to fill the gap. I think it should be looked at as a big middle finger pointed toward the Middle East. All it’s missing is a head on a pike at its pinnacle.
- From the “Justice” Department – A man who ran from a traffic stop in Florida the other night was arrested at a local hospital after he went there seeking treatment for wounds he got when he was attacked by an alligator. Apparently as Mookie was giving the boys in blue a slip, a reptilian citizen decided to intervene and took a chunk out of his face, arm, and armpit. No word yet on whether the alligator will be rewarded for doing his civic duty, but I for one hope that he gets his due, hopefully in the form of a certificate and a flock of plump chickens.
Posted by daddybear71 on May 10, 2013
https://daddybearsden.com/2013/05/10/news-roundup-189/
Thoughts on the Day
- At the doctor’s office today, the tongue depressors tasted like snozberries.
- Whoever thought to flavor doctor’s instruments for kids should be given a Nobel Prize.
- The President has one he’s not using. I’m sure he could be persuaded to part with it.
- Whoever thought to flavor doctor’s instruments for kids should be given a Nobel Prize.
- The doctor was shocked at the difference between how Boo is now compared to how he was when we first went to her practice 18 months ago.
- Intense speech and occupational therapy, along with full-time preschool in an environment that’s designed for kids with learning problems, has cleared up just about all of his issues.
- It weren’t cheap, but it were worth it.
- My project-management skills were tested today, but were not found wanting.
- Go ahead, throw murky, almost unintelligible tasks at me, including things that I’ve never done before, and to be honest scare the daylights out of me, and I will have them scheduled in time to get out to my truck before it starts raining.
- Fastest project plan and change control in the west.
- The Louisville Friends of the NRA banquet is going to happen on September 7.
- More details to follow, but if anyone wants banquet tickets or tickets for the AR-15 we’re holding a drawing for in June, let me know.
- Quoth the Irish Woman – “Don’t you already have an AR-15?”
- My reply was “You can never have too many!”
- To the guy who yelled “NRA sucks!” at me when you saw the sticker on my truck’s rear window during a traffic light tonight, I will always treasure the look on your face when I replied with “I wish your mom had!”.
Posted by daddybear71 on May 9, 2013
https://daddybearsden.com/2013/05/09/thoughts-on-the-day-129/
Thought for the Day
If you’d followed this advice last year, you’d already be way ahead of the market.
Posted by daddybear71 on May 8, 2013
https://daddybearsden.com/2013/05/08/thought-for-the-day-193/
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