Well…it was a night last night and I was not happy to see the snow on the car this morning…but, it did give me a chance to see how the car is going to be in the snow…seems to be okay but everything seems numb…seems to stick okay and it was cool to slide it a little going out to get the papers…braking and steering seem okay but really light…going to have to calibrate my driving for this one..at least it doesn’t feel dangerous….I did have dreams that included glue, Mars, and paint brushes…and they were really weird…but a little fun…might have something to do today…may have lunch with T and then other plans later…but, right now, the coffee is done and I do need to read the papers…more later…
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Not much news…
Well…with congress out of town, there just isn’t much going on to write about…I have already done one or two on how to break the stalemate in Washington….and I really don’t have the desire to write about that again….there was a pretty good soccer match on this morning with Man U beating Newcastle 4-3…but letting Newcastle score three and having to score one in the last minute of regular time to pull it out? Just a porous defense again by Man U and it is going to bite them…the other good news was the Man City lost so that puts Man U up by 7 points in the table….it’s kind of hard to type in the dark…maybe I should turn some lights on….and get a glass of water…I am so bored that I am going to go back and read the online papers again…maybe there was news since this morning…
December 26th
Well…this used to be my favorite day of the year but it is just Wednesday now…and I am running late from just being so down about being broke…don’t want to do anything….but I did decide to go out and get the papers and have some coffee…maybe that will get me running…who knows…I did have weird dreams last night but I can’t get motivated to write about it…so, I won’t…
Just one more for the day…
Well…it has been a pretty good Tuesday and I am getting ready for cocktail time so I thought I’d come back for one more while I still feel creative…and that is one of the weird things for the day…I shouldn’t have had this much to say with all of things going on right now…I wonder if it is avoidance of the holiday since I don’t celebrate it? Who knows? There was something kind of cool out on the trail that I did want to pass on…you remember that I told you about the solitary christmas tree ornament that I saw on the trail a few days back? Well…today there were almost thirty of them on the same trail with one tree almost completely decorated…that made me smile again and my thoughts instantly went to the motivation and planning that went with the act. Who does this kind of thing? Oh, a bad thought just pierced my smiling…what if someone stole the ornaments from someones display at their house? Crap…I just took something neat and ruined it….crap, again….
Another reason to hate the Kochs…
Well…it there weren’t already enough reasons to hate the Kochs and their right wing craziness, they have outdone themselves with the latest out of the group they control, Americans for Prosperity. In the past few days, they have sent a letter to all of their pet senators they own warning them to vote against any and all hurricane Sandy relief bills that are now coming through the senate…with the threats included that they will spend millions to defeat anyone who doesn’t toe their line. One of the leaders of the Koch group went so far as to call the aid package a “disgrace” and rebuilding the damaged areas is “not a federal government responsibility…we need to suck it up and be responsible for ourselves..” More crap from billionaires who think the only function for the federal government is to do their bidding and make them rich…what a bunch of assholes…geez…
Haven’t done a sports one in a while…
Well…I’m sitting here with an eagle eye on the roast that I’m cooking for the big meal of the day (don’t want it to get over 130 degrees) and thought that I’d say something about sports…wait, better go check to see if I’m missing anything from the BPL…okay, just re-runs so I’ll continue here. First, I am getting used to there not being any NHL this year and I think that may be a problem for the league if they continue this disastrous lock out much further….and, I blame the whole thing on the owners and their greed; thinking only of squeezing more and more money out of the players with no thought to the thousands of people who are the support network for the league and whose livelihood depends on the games being played. Shame on these rich assholes…just more of the same form these folks…the same types who have said they will hurt their employees just to avoid Obamacare…what a bunch of idiots. Hmmmm….oh, the Lions…I think we have another Barry Sanders thing going on with Megatron…the best player in the league being wasted on a team that looks like it has quit…losing 7 in a row? Fire the coach and GM and let’s get rebuilding again so maybe they will be good for the first time in my long lifetime….Hmmm…okay, Man U. What the heck is wrong with these guys? I know they are top of the chart over in the BPL but tying Sunderland? With Rooney, VanPersie, and Chicharito on the team? Another case of a team underperforming for the talent they have…it seems like that is a pattern for the teams I follow….maybe I should stop and they’ll get better? We’ll see tomorrow when Man U plays….
Brave Americans don’t need guns…
Well…with the astounding obtuseness that the right is showing on the issue of gun control, I wish I would have thought of the title for this one myself, but I read it earlier this morning in a comment thread on Daily Kos about the NRA’s comments that the only way to prevent more gun violence is more, and more, and more guns. While I have been a hunter in my past life and a supporter of responsible gun ownership, the absolutist nonsense of the right that there can be no restrictions of any kind on gun ownership is just too far out there for me…and the idea that we are safer when everyone is carrying a gun is just one of the stupidist things I have ever heard. We have placed many restrictions on the rights that are guaranteed in the bill of rights; think of the libel laws that do restrict your first amendment rights, or the evolution of the rights that are contained in the fourth, so I think that some restrictions on the second can and should be done…especially since almost 80% of the gun violence is done by people using guns that were purchased at unrestricted gun shows where no background checks are necessary. I just want to end with this… I do believe in the title of this piece…and I will be one of the brave Americans who will live my life without guns or fear that is stoked by the right to further their own ends…geez…
December 25th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get anything done, again, but I have finally learned to tamp down my guilt about it…I did sleep too much last night with not getting out of bed until after 7 and that is just totally weird….the night was kind of a bust with Netflix being down so I had to watch regular tv in lieu of my marathons that I wanted to do…at least Firefly was on and it gave me something to do….I am thinking about going out to get the paper….I just hate that everything is closed today and there are 20 pct of the country doesn’t celebrate this holiday have to force celebrate it…after all, it is just Tuesday to us….more later…
I just don’t understand it…
Well…I was sitting here bored last night and thought I’d watch a movie to try to alleviate some of it…and, with all of the praise that has been heaped on the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy over the years, I thought I’d give the last one a try since it was on tv and nothing else looked good. I guess I just don’t understand the attraction…yes, the stories appear to be epic and there is a certain scale that is cool to watch, but the stories and the characters left me cold…it appeared to me that it was an exercise in epic film making more than an epic film….it may be that I have never been a fan of Tolkien but I think I know a good movie when I see it but this one was just a time killer without any there there….oh, well…I guess this stuff is a matter of taste…give me “Casablanca” or “Gone with the Wind” or even the somewhat opaque “Blade Runner”…or one of Kubricks best and I am happy…
December 24th
Well…my site has been doing dome weird stuff over the past few days and as you can see, yesterday’s morning post has disappeared somehow and I’m not sure where it went…so, I guess I’ll have to make up for it today…there was one funny thing that happened on the way home from pool yesterday…another Miata driver pulled up beside me and gave me the Miata in the winter nod and thumbs up that I have gotten a couple of times now…and that was pretty cool….it was an okay day yesterday and I won at pool so that was cool…but, it looks like I’ll be staying in from now on until I get some money coming in…at least the next two days…as I texted T a few minutes ago…I have the cocktail materials laid in and I am planning on hibernating for the next two days…I am going to make a beef roast that J and K gave me but that is about it for tomorrow…still having the everything getting stolen dream that I have had over the past few days and I am getting tired of it…not much to do today…I think I will try to get to the cleaning that I have been putting off and, with the post disappearing yesterday, I’ll have to do two more of these today to catch up…