OK, you rugged individualist Reaganistas, which of your favorite quotes did I miss?
What did I miss?
Posted by daddybear71 on February 1, 2012
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Get the boat!
Gotta go, gotta pack and start rowing. If I work hard and travel light, I can be in the Shetlands this time next year for a celebration of my noble ancestors.
Almost 1,000 costumed ‘guizers’ – dressed in winged helmets and sheepskins, descended on the island yesterday.
Their arrival was heralded by the Jarl Squad – who landed on the Shetland Isles in an impressive replica of a Viking longboat.
Anyone know where I can find plans to make a bass boat into a longship? If I start moving soon, I can row it across from Newfoundland this summer and be there in time for next year’s festival.
Posted by daddybear71 on February 1, 2012
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30 Days of Reagan – Day 30
I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead. Thank you, my friends. May God always bless you.
Posted by daddybear71 on February 1, 2012
https://daddybearsden.com/2012/02/01/30-days-of-reagan-day-30/
Week With The Kids – Day 2
Today went well, but it was a lot more work than yesterday.
Got myself up a little early and got everything ready for Boo and Girlie Bear’s day before getting read for work. Boo asked where Mommy was when he got up, but didn’t have any trouble accepting “She’s gone away for a couple of days, and she’ll be back soon”. We’ve prepped him, so this was more of a reminder than anything else.
Work was work, but I was a bit tired all day. I’m fighting off a head cold, and I didn’t sleep well last night. Luckily, today was mostly project planning and clean-up from my work this past weekend.
Dinner was bolognese sauce I put in the crock pot before leaving for work over pasta and whole wheat Italian bread. Boo seemed to like it; he looked like an oompa loompa by the time he was done with his plate. Girlie Bear ate and had a lot of good things to say about school. She’s working hard to keep the good grades she got last quarter.
The crisis of the broken pinball machine was averted when I figured out how to get it out of the error state, which gave me something with which to reward Boo. He just keeps feeding it quarters and trying to work the paddles. Luckily, I own the quarters and the game, so all it costs me is time and electricity.
I’ve gotten the dishes done, done some laundry, got everyone else in bed, and I’m not far behind them. Hopefully a little of Kentucky’s finest in hot water with lemon and honey will help me get some rest.
No sign yet of open rebellion on the part of the kids, but I’m keeping my eye out for any disturbances in domestic tranquility.
Tomorrow will be easier. I’ve got everything laid out already, and dinner will be leftovers from the past few nights. Hopefully things continue to go smoothly.
Posted by daddybear71 on February 1, 2012
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News Roundup
- From the “Not Her Job” Department – First Lady Michelle Obama announced yesterday that Family Medical Leave Act rules are being changed to make it easier for families to care for military patients and still keep their jobs. First, let me say that I think the changes are a good thing. But is it really the place of the president’s spouse to take part in policy discussions and announcements about them? Mrs. Obama has made military families her special project, such as Laura Bush made reading, so I guess she has some reason for being present at the announcement. I’m not naive enough to believe that she has no pull with the president, but is it appropriate for an unelected, unconfirmed spouse to be the point person when things like this are done? I’m especially troubled because the Secretary of Labor was present when Mrs. Obama made the announcement. Isn’t that the job for which we pay cabinet secretaries?
- From the “What?!?!?!” Department – The mayor of Ciuidad Juarez, Mexico, has announced that due to safety concerns, he will henceforth authorize his police officers to take their weapons home when they are off duty. This absolutely blew my mind. Mexico in general, and Juarez in particular, has been in what any objective observer would call a state of revolution for several years, and now they’re letting the cops take their weapons home to protect themselves and their families? Heck, even the hoplophobes in the United States don’t believe that the police should be disarmed when they’re not on duty. I seriously have to wonder what he’s been thinking would happen if he let them arm themselves in the past couple of years. It’s not like the situation could have gotten worse.
- From the “They Do That” Department – A woman with more heart than brain in Boston has gone to animal rescue groups with 71 rats that are the descendants of a pair she bought to save them from being used as Purina Snake Chow. Apparently she’d never heard the term “breeds like rats”.
- From the “They Do That Too” Department – A woman in Wisconsin got a scare recently when she was bitten in the face by a python she had taken from its enclosure. The reptile latched on and refused to let go until its owner removed its fangs from the ladies face. Coincidentally, the group she was a part of was beginning discussion of “The Girl With the Python Cuban Tattoo”. Who ever said that reading groups couldn’t be exciting?
- From the “Invasive Species” Department – Scientists are reporting that the number of mammals in the Florida Everglades is shrinking, and they blame the thriving Burmese Python population in the area. I believe that Florida has opened a snake hunting season, but it may take more than that to get a handle on this. Maybe if snake skin holsters, belts, jackets, and belts come into fashion, we can start to draw down their numbers. If we can find an extract in pythons that makes one body part or another grow, they’d be wiped out.
- From the “Stanky” Department – Authorities in California are reporting that a bumper crop of skunks is coming to Sacramento in order to mate. Remember kids, if you disturb a skunk in the middle of mating, they can get a little testy, so a little discretion might be in order. Experts suggest that homeowners make sure that things that will draw amorous skunks to their property be cleared off. These can include little dinners for two, tiny bottles of champagne, and of course, Barry White music played on speakers in the yard.
Posted by daddybear71 on January 31, 2012
https://daddybearsden.com/2012/01/31/news-roundup-28/
Today’s Earworm
This one has a lot I can relate to. Raised by an unrepentant hippie in the Country/Western heavy Dakotas.
Posted by daddybear71 on January 31, 2012
https://daddybearsden.com/2012/01/31/todays-earworm-60/
30 Days of Reagan – Day 29
The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights. We will never be an aggressor. We maintain our strength in order to deter and defend against aggression — to preserve freedom and peace.
My Take – Our defense policy ought to pretty much state “We’re not afraid to come home covered in blood, so long as most of it’s not ours.”. Our defenses should be strong enough and our responses to provocation and attack ruthless enough that anyone who considers harming a hair on the head of any American does it knowing that the world is about to fall in on them.
Posted by daddybear71 on January 31, 2012
https://daddybearsden.com/2012/01/31/30-days-of-reagan-day-29/
Aw Crap!
Looks like there won’t be any pictures of Ma Deuce, Civil War cannon, and shopping at the best gun show I’ve ever been to this spring. Knob Creek has announced that due to flooding and damage to the bridge to the range, they are canceling their spring machine gun shoot.
We’ve been getting a lot of rain here in IndiUcky, and the creek gets over their bridge every so often. Basically, the Ohio River backs up into its tributaries when there’s a lot of rain in the area, and KCR’s bridge is only a couple of miles from where the creek empties into the river. Apparently this time their bridge got damaged badly enough that they don’t want to plan on having it fixed by April. When they open back up, I’ll go back out and get the straight skinny on what happened.
Hopefully they get this taken care of soon. I want to go out and see how that new ’03 does and my Mosin is starting to feel unloved, and KCR is a small business. Taking weeks or months off with no business and having such a large event cancelled can’t be good for their bottom line.
Posted by daddybear71 on January 31, 2012
https://daddybearsden.com/2012/01/31/aw-crap/
Thoughts?
The 30 Days of Reagan are winding down. What do you all think? Keep doing blocks of quotes from notable people or let it go before it gets stale?
Posted by daddybear71 on January 31, 2012
https://daddybearsden.com/2012/01/31/thoughts-2/
Week With the Kids – Day 1
Today will probably be remembered as the easiest day.
I worked until late last night, and then worked for a couple of hours again in the wee hours of the morning. I got the kids off to school, went to a couple of appointments, and basically just puttered around the house for the rest of the day.
Dinner was chicken fajita quesadillas with a salad and fruit. Both kids ate heartily. Supplies look good for the rest of the week. Dinner tomorrow night will be spaghetti with sauce I’ve already made and thrown in the crock pot. I’ll just put the crock in its cradle in the morning and make the pasta when I get home from work.
Girlie Bear has been a godsend. She’s good at doing the big sister thing by making sure Boo doesn’t hurt himself or anyone else while I cook or clean up. She’s currently putting the finishing touches on homework before she heads off to bed.
Boo had a “very active and happy” day at school, and he nodded off at 7:30 or so. I put him to bed and he didn’t protest at all. Before dinner, he continued to be both happy and active, and my living room looks like a bomb went off, but it’s mostly just toys and such that I can pick up before going to bed.
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Irish Woman made it to Iowa with no issues, which is good. Last week the first group of her co-workers to go for this training had to return to Chicago after take off when the airplane cabin started filling with smoke. Luckily her trip has been boring so far. She has called a couple of times to talk to Boo, and he seems to be accepting Mommy being away. We’ll see how he does in a couple of days.
Our one crisis so far has been that the pinball machine doesn’t seem to want to work properly. When I turn it on, it goes into some weird error state. Irish Woman knows how to make it work, and I’ll figure it out. We use pinball as a reward for good behavior, and I had to resort to letting Boo watch Star Wars after dinner instead. Note the light saber in the photo above.
So far, so good.
Posted by daddybear71 on January 31, 2012
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