Note to self – Pay attention while drilling pilot holes. Also, when bending to the side, your perception of what is and what is not a straight line may become skewed.
Picture of the Day
Posted by daddybear71 on November 25, 2012
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30 Days of Generals and Admirals – Day 21
I can anticipate no greater calamity for the country than a dissolution of the Union. — Robert E. Lee
My Take – Lee was a patriot. He devoted his life to the service of his country and his state. When his loyalty to his state came into conflict with his loyalty to the Constitution, it must have been wrenching. I’ve read that the question as to whether he would stay with the Union or help in its rending kept him up day and night. Ultimately, Lee chose his duty to his family and his state over his oath to the nation. He foresaw the calamity that was coming, and I fear that his words mean as much now as they did then.
Our nation is stretched to the breaking point in so many ways. Our coffers are empty and rotten. Our people are divided. Our executive and legislature merely pick at the bones of the last centuries prosperity and squabble like vultures over a corpse. Our elections have become spiteful and counterproductive. Even our courts, the last hope for keeping that which is right and dropping that which is wrong, have become political tools that protect one party or the other.
Something must change, but the way in which that change may come frightens me. My hope is that we will learn from the mistakes of our history rather than repeat them.
Posted by daddybear71 on November 25, 2012
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Today’s Earworm
Disney / Pixar is using this as the background music in the trailer for their upcoming film “Planes”. I guess I’m officially old, because I remember dancing to this in a club and people being scandalized by this song.
Posted by daddybear71 on November 25, 2012
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Thoughts on the Day
- The wood shed is coming along nicely. I have the frame built and the floor on. Tomorrow I finish everything but the doors.
- Shopping list for the shed:
- 6 x 8 foot 4×4 posts
- 4 x 10 foot 2×4’s
- 2 x 8 foot 2×4’s
- 31 x 8 foot 2×6’s
- 5 bags of gravel for drainage under the shed
- Decking screws
- Lag screws
- 6 pack of beer
- 3 bandaids
- 1 pair of tweezers
- I got all that on one cart in Lowe’s. It took every ounce of oomph I had to get it moving once I was loaded up, but I did it.
- Should I have done it in two trips? Probably. But why not take the opportunity to practice my Sisyphus imitation?
- That may not sound like much, but I could have bought an M-1 Garand at CMP for what I spent on lumber today.
- Being responsible sucks
- The number for the day is 27. That’s the number of trips it took from my truck to the back of the property to get everything back where I needed it.
- Girlie Bear had gone to the mall by the time I got home from the lumber yard and Irish Woman was packing up to go visit her aunt.
- There’s something kind of nice to come into the house after working outside all day and smell turkey and stuffing cooking.
- Boo term of the day – “popcorn store” – noun – The place where mom and dad take him to eat popcorn in the dark while someone plays a movie on the wall.
- We’re watching “Brave”, and I have to say that I object to the manner in which it portrays grumpy male bears.
Posted by daddybear71 on November 24, 2012
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30 Days of Generals and Admirals – Day 20
It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it. — Robert E. Lee
My Take – Let’s face it, I go out to Fort Knox to help with training because it’s fun. Yes, it’s a good cause, and I hope that I’m doing my part to help the soldiers accomplish their mission and come home safe, but it’s a heck of a good time. Our culture does an excellent job pointing out the cool and glorious part of war. But whether I’m watching the latest Hollywood blockbuster or playing Jihad Joe in the wilds of Kentuckistan, I have to remember that there is another side to that coin. War can shatter bodies, minds, and souls. One need only to read a diary from the Civil War, watch footage from Vietnam, or read the blogs of soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan to see the cost of sending young men and women out to enforce our national will. We must balance the desire for glory and history with the knowledge of what the pursuit of these things will lead to.
Posted by daddybear71 on November 24, 2012
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Today’s Earworm
Posted by daddybear71 on November 24, 2012
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Thoughts on the Day
Actually, two days.
- My turkey with nipples was a big hit. I’m worried what the crowd we enjoy Thanksgiving with will ask for next year.
- On Wednesday night, I was the designated driver, drank three whole cans of ginger ale, and woke up with a hangover the next day. Thursday I drank three large glasses of red wine and a bourbon and coke, then woke up feeling fine this morning. Not sure what’s going on there.
- Moonshine spent all day yesterday walking around the house trying to figure out where that wonderful aroma was coming from. The older dogs just sat and watched, knowing that eventually, turkey would be theirs. Wisdom does come with age.
- One of the little pleasures in life is sitting in a garage, smoking cigars, sipping whiskey, and comparing guns.
- The day after Thanksgiving is an excellent time to stock up on pumpkin and fresh cranberries.
- Tomorrow I begin work on a new wood shed. Whoopie.
- Need to get the new shed built because we’re a bit low on firewood, and I don’t want to get a bunch more and then have to move it out of the old place.
- Did I get this work done during the warm part of the year? Of course I didn’t. That would be intelligent.
- One of Irish Woman’s nieces brought her boyfriend over to the family gathering today. If the young man can survive the interrogation he got from the uncles and older cousins today, he might be worth something.
- I never thought I’d be glad to get gas for $2.96 a gallon, but today I was.
- Tomorrow is Thanksgiving II: The Reckoning. I promise to not violate this turkey like I did the last one.
Posted by daddybear71 on November 24, 2012
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30 Days of Generals and Admirals – Day 19
Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it. – Pericles
My Take – If we want it, we have to be willing to defend it. If we give up, then our freedoms slip away forever. But the most effective way to defend our freedoms does not include lawyers or weapons. It is when we exercise those freedoms that we defend them. Politicians can easily strip us of things we don’t use very often, but when they try to take something that is commonly used by most people they will be tossed out on their ear if they’re lucky.
Posted by daddybear71 on November 23, 2012
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Today’s Earworm
This one’s for all the leftovers!
Posted by daddybear71 on November 23, 2012
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Picture of the Day
Yeah, we’re a classy bunch, aren’t we? It’s amazing what a difference an onion cut in half and a couple pieces of summer sausage can make.
Posted by daddybear71 on November 22, 2012
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