Thursday, August 23, 2007
Playing with Fire
Dogger had the best time evah at the park today. There is this good old boy that comes up there to shout at his dog ”CHESTER! CHESTER! Use your INDOOR VOICE BOY! RETRACT YOR TEETH NOW SON!” . Poor Chester. That old boy lurves him his dawg, but damn, I don’t think the dawg makes half the noise his daddy does. His daddy also likes to preach! He hates George W. Bush almost, but not quite as much as he loves his dawg. I feel him on that, really, but damn, must he hate on George at the top of his sizable lungs? The old boy doesn’t weigh but about 140 lbs., but I think a good, 75, 80 of that is lung. He can project like a son-of-a-bitch. I hate Shrub too, but damn, ya’ll don’t know! If you arrive at the park and see his car in the lot, it’s a good idea to make sure you come into the park on your phone and stay there, it’s the only way to avoid him and whatever his sermon for the day is.
Anyway, The old boy brought a buddy with him and that buddy was there to play with the dawgs. And he had the energy of a 15 month old puppy. He played tug with whomever would play with him and I’m pretty sure he won! And he wasn’t playing with cocker spaniels and Jack Russell’s either, but wouldn’t that be cute? No, he was playing at various times with Dogger, his buddy’s Shepard mix, an Irish wolf hound mix, a black lab/Honda cross and a very tenacious young golden retriever. So he was pretty much playing tug of war with a tow truck with very competitive teeth.
The dogs loved it! They were sooo happy! And were having the best dog time ever. They were working together, they were co-operating. They were a doggy team. Dogger will be dreaming about it for weeks.
They would get distracted - to be a dog is to be distractible, one of the dogs, a huge black lab/Honda mix , let go when he heard the St. Augs band warming up, another dog fell out because another dog on the other side of the park might have seen a squirrel and Dogger periodically forget what she was doing.
All the while the old boy keep hollering at his friend Don’t let them re-grip! Don’t let them re-grip! I worked with a guy and he lost two fingers that way! Don’t let them re-grip! and his buddy kept saying “That’s all right! I don’t need more than seven or eight to get around!”
I think the old buy needed to stop talking at his friend, he needed to keep his complete attention to playing with the dogs. I mean, the dogs can only stay on task for so long, but while they are? They aren’t playing, you are playing, they are answering the call of the wild. They will hurt you. Especially if you are playing with a number of them. They aren’t playing tug with a soccer ball, they are trying to get their share of the kill. You stick your puny little hand in there at your own risk. If a person is going to play with the big dawgs, they had better come prepared to be the bigger dawg. I’ve “played” with Dogger when she wasn’t and I have the scars to show for it. You always have to keep in mind that while you are smarter, and you brought the toy, they are stronger and they invented the game.
Dogger had the best time evah at the park today. There is this good old boy that comes up there to shout at his dog ”CHESTER! CHESTER! Use your INDOOR VOICE BOY! RETRACT YOR TEETH NOW SON!” . Poor Chester. That old boy lurves him his dawg, but damn, I don’t think the dawg makes half the noise his daddy does. His daddy also likes to preach! He hates George W. Bush almost, but not quite as much as he loves his dawg. I feel him on that, really, but damn, must he hate on George at the top of his sizable lungs? The old boy doesn’t weigh but about 140 lbs., but I think a good, 75, 80 of that is lung. He can project like a son-of-a-bitch. I hate Shrub too, but damn, ya’ll don’t know! If you arrive at the park and see his car in the lot, it’s a good idea to make sure you come into the park on your phone and stay there, it’s the only way to avoid him and whatever his sermon for the day is.
Anyway, The old boy brought a buddy with him and that buddy was there to play with the dawgs. And he had the energy of a 15 month old puppy. He played tug with whomever would play with him and I’m pretty sure he won! And he wasn’t playing with cocker spaniels and Jack Russell’s either, but wouldn’t that be cute? No, he was playing at various times with Dogger, his buddy’s Shepard mix, an Irish wolf hound mix, a black lab/Honda cross and a very tenacious young golden retriever. So he was pretty much playing tug of war with a tow truck with very competitive teeth.
The dogs loved it! They were sooo happy! And were having the best dog time ever. They were working together, they were co-operating. They were a doggy team. Dogger will be dreaming about it for weeks.
They would get distracted - to be a dog is to be distractible, one of the dogs, a huge black lab/Honda mix , let go when he heard the St. Augs band warming up, another dog fell out because another dog on the other side of the park might have seen a squirrel and Dogger periodically forget what she was doing.
All the while the old boy keep hollering at his friend Don’t let them re-grip! Don’t let them re-grip! I worked with a guy and he lost two fingers that way! Don’t let them re-grip! and his buddy kept saying “That’s all right! I don’t need more than seven or eight to get around!”
I think the old buy needed to stop talking at his friend, he needed to keep his complete attention to playing with the dogs. I mean, the dogs can only stay on task for so long, but while they are? They aren’t playing, you are playing, they are answering the call of the wild. They will hurt you. Especially if you are playing with a number of them. They aren’t playing tug with a soccer ball, they are trying to get their share of the kill. You stick your puny little hand in there at your own risk. If a person is going to play with the big dawgs, they had better come prepared to be the bigger dawg. I’ve “played” with Dogger when she wasn’t and I have the scars to show for it. You always have to keep in mind that while you are smarter, and you brought the toy, they are stronger and they invented the game.
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Bush to compare the Iraq War to the Vietnam War - Years after the rest of us but not in the same way... OR And the beat goes on...
He thinks Vietnam was successfully. He also compares the Japanese people, post WWII to the Iraqi people today. He is crazy.
Bush to invoke Vietnam in arguing against Iraq pullout
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- As he awaits a crucial progress report on Iraq, President Bush will try to put a twist on comparisons of the war to Vietnam by invoking the historical lessons of that conflict to argue against pulling out.
A recent CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll found that almost two-thirds of Americans -- 64 percent -- now oppose the Iraq war, and 72 percent say that even if Petraeus reports progress, it won't change their opinion.
The poll also found a great deal of skepticism about the report; 53 percent said they do not trust Petraeus to give an accurate assessment of the situation in Iraq.
In addition to his analogy to Vietnam, Bush in Wednesday's speech will invoke other historical comparisons from Asia, including the U.S. defeat and occupation of Japan after World War II and the Korean War in the 1950s, according to the excerpts.
And on and on and on, and the beat goes on...
14 U.S. soldiers die in Iraq helicopter crash
He thinks Vietnam was successfully. He also compares the Japanese people, post WWII to the Iraqi people today. He is crazy.
Bush to invoke Vietnam in arguing against Iraq pullout
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- As he awaits a crucial progress report on Iraq, President Bush will try to put a twist on comparisons of the war to Vietnam by invoking the historical lessons of that conflict to argue against pulling out.
A recent CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll found that almost two-thirds of Americans -- 64 percent -- now oppose the Iraq war, and 72 percent say that even if Petraeus reports progress, it won't change their opinion.
The poll also found a great deal of skepticism about the report; 53 percent said they do not trust Petraeus to give an accurate assessment of the situation in Iraq.
In addition to his analogy to Vietnam, Bush in Wednesday's speech will invoke other historical comparisons from Asia, including the U.S. defeat and occupation of Japan after World War II and the Korean War in the 1950s, according to the excerpts.
And on and on and on, and the beat goes on...
14 U.S. soldiers die in Iraq helicopter crash
It’s in the bag
I decided since I’m on this End Summer Now campaign that I while I can’t really wear anything wool for the time being, that I could at least carry a winter purse. I look for joy where I can find it. Shut up.
And so this forced me to have to look around online for advise and there was a lot of it. Ask Google for Handbag trends for fall 2007 and ye shall receive.
The first link suggested color, lots and lots of color and if that color was patent leather even better. It went on to say if you could score a vividly colored patent leather bag with some exotic skin embossed on it, well more the better.
I have some colorful bags but they are for the wrong season. Colorful for spring 2007 is not the same as colorful for fall 2007. Bag Snobs was even kind enough to make a list
#1: Go Bold with Color!
#2: Geometric Shapes will modernize your wardrobe.
#3: Shine on with patent leather!
#4: Keep last season's metallic.
#5: Go Exotic with ostrich or a lux Valextra croc!
All good advice but I never embraced the whole metallic thing. In my mind those purses say Married to the Mob and suggests you favor large scale use of animal prints and wear big hair. I think it’s a case of the designers laughing at the public.
And so they suggest color, but which colors? You have to be careful with turquoise for example - I went to another site in search of more spoon fed advice. I don’t want to have to wade through a lot of babble, I want them to tell me what to buy and in what color or colors. I know what I like, but I also know that what I like isn’t necessarily something I would really want to be seen with everyday. While making a fashion statement is nice. I would prefer to use a quote whenever possible.
The next site I went to, Artical directory, um, yes, well. Anyway, suggested:
. • Oversized bags in patent leather, pebble-grain leather, clear plastic or patterned
• Medium doctor bags
• Metallic bags in silver, gold and bronze• The medium-size envelope bag or a clutch in metallics or shiny satin
• Faux crocodile or snake-skin handle bags You're a style trendsetter with any of these handbags.
Again pressing for the metallics! And I again had to say no! I went to another site Senora Cartera, who while, lovely no doubt, suggested I spend upwards of $1500! She makes an argument for “investment bags”. I have to argue that they are purses not real estate! I moved on. Jewel tones, muted earth tones - Bright blue is very hot but so are reds, golds, greens and purples. The fashion people suggest you leave your dull brown bag at home and get a bright color, any color and get it in patent leather.
I looked at a few more sites. I learned that Gray is a very big color fashionwise for fall. Gray is the new black, also, boots should have a low heel and be a little below the knee. The ideal purse for the fall would be gray patent leather embossed with snake skin and it should have a handle. Knock yourself out. I ended up with a bright apple green bag, patent leatherlike, a very nice, very cheap find. Senora Cartera wouldn't approve, but, I love Target.
I decided since I’m on this End Summer Now campaign that I while I can’t really wear anything wool for the time being, that I could at least carry a winter purse. I look for joy where I can find it. Shut up.
And so this forced me to have to look around online for advise and there was a lot of it. Ask Google for Handbag trends for fall 2007 and ye shall receive.
The first link suggested color, lots and lots of color and if that color was patent leather even better. It went on to say if you could score a vividly colored patent leather bag with some exotic skin embossed on it, well more the better.
I have some colorful bags but they are for the wrong season. Colorful for spring 2007 is not the same as colorful for fall 2007. Bag Snobs was even kind enough to make a list
#1: Go Bold with Color!
#2: Geometric Shapes will modernize your wardrobe.
#3: Shine on with patent leather!
#4: Keep last season's metallic.
#5: Go Exotic with ostrich or a lux Valextra croc!
All good advice but I never embraced the whole metallic thing. In my mind those purses say Married to the Mob and suggests you favor large scale use of animal prints and wear big hair. I think it’s a case of the designers laughing at the public.
And so they suggest color, but which colors? You have to be careful with turquoise for example - I went to another site in search of more spoon fed advice. I don’t want to have to wade through a lot of babble, I want them to tell me what to buy and in what color or colors. I know what I like, but I also know that what I like isn’t necessarily something I would really want to be seen with everyday. While making a fashion statement is nice. I would prefer to use a quote whenever possible.
The next site I went to, Artical directory, um, yes, well. Anyway, suggested:
. • Oversized bags in patent leather, pebble-grain leather, clear plastic or patterned
• Medium doctor bags
• Metallic bags in silver, gold and bronze• The medium-size envelope bag or a clutch in metallics or shiny satin
• Faux crocodile or snake-skin handle bags You're a style trendsetter with any of these handbags.
Again pressing for the metallics! And I again had to say no! I went to another site Senora Cartera, who while, lovely no doubt, suggested I spend upwards of $1500! She makes an argument for “investment bags”. I have to argue that they are purses not real estate! I moved on. Jewel tones, muted earth tones - Bright blue is very hot but so are reds, golds, greens and purples. The fashion people suggest you leave your dull brown bag at home and get a bright color, any color and get it in patent leather.
I looked at a few more sites. I learned that Gray is a very big color fashionwise for fall. Gray is the new black, also, boots should have a low heel and be a little below the knee. The ideal purse for the fall would be gray patent leather embossed with snake skin and it should have a handle. Knock yourself out. I ended up with a bright apple green bag, patent leatherlike, a very nice, very cheap find. Senora Cartera wouldn't approve, but, I love Target.
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Brrrr. Damn it.
Okay, out with old, in with the new. I am over summer and it is now time for fall. I bought really a pair of cute black boots over the weekend and that cuteness loses a lot in translation when worn with shorts.
Hot is over. I am now thinking cool thoughts. I am thinking about wool, I am dreaming of corduroy . I am not letting a little things like record heat and drought get in my way. I am thinking positive thought. Polar fleece thoughts.
It isn’t hard to do.
With my cute boots in mind I thought maybe I would go and find them some friends, perhaps some brown friends., perhaps in a nice riding boot style. I also thought I could do this online, Beeeep! No, no, you can not . You can, there are thousands of choices - and while I am sure they are all very wonderful - about nine-tenths are too dom, too granola, too storm trooper, too cowboy, too furry, too shiny, too short, too tall or too drag queen! When I started, I thought “I’ll just look for some nice plain, brown boots. Somewhere between Laura Ingalls and Cat Woman . A happy medium.
What I saw a lot of, the very, very, very expensive boots. I don’t know where they get the leather or the huzpah but the hides must come from designer field mice and then they use gold to tan the leather and then Gwyneth Paltrow licks the leather and then it is made into boots. Very expensive boots. And if Jimmy Choo designs something and calls it "The Prince Boot”, it has eight inch heels and it will costs more than your first car. A good rule would be to avoid any designer you have heard of and not to even look at anything by any designer that was ever mentioned on Sex and the City. You are not Cary Bradshaw”.
And I was thwarted by the heels I saw. I have seen have serious heels, I am not looking to discipline anyone and I do not have a Napoleon Complex. The average boot designer and his consumers have some real issues.
I like to see myself as above average. Moving on.
I got tired of looking online and went back to bricks and mortar.. If anyone was wondering, I know where all the sandals went, we couldn’t find any this weekend. I found them. All of them. The first place I went didn’t even have any fall shoes! It had one pair of men's timberland's and about 657 different kinds of flip flops. I was like “Hello! It’s Back To School Time! Why am I seeing white shoes? Why am I seeing ballet flats!! Hello it’s the end of August! Where are the mukluks?!”
I went through two different elcheapo discount places before I hit Target. I love Target. Target is our friend. Target also has boots.
Target has boots named “Greta” and “Gretchen” and “Greta”. I think their boot designer went to Berlin over the summer and all he saw was the underside of Mistress’ boot. Mistress’ black boot! I already have black boots!
Of course, I went home and checked Target online and there were : my boots. Not too dom, too granola, too storm trooper, cowboy, too furry, too shiny, too short, too tall or too drag queen! Somewhere between Laura Ingalls and Cat Woman . A happy medium.
Okay, out with old, in with the new. I am over summer and it is now time for fall. I bought really a pair of cute black boots over the weekend and that cuteness loses a lot in translation when worn with shorts.
Hot is over. I am now thinking cool thoughts. I am thinking about wool, I am dreaming of corduroy . I am not letting a little things like record heat and drought get in my way. I am thinking positive thought. Polar fleece thoughts.
It isn’t hard to do.
With my cute boots in mind I thought maybe I would go and find them some friends, perhaps some brown friends., perhaps in a nice riding boot style. I also thought I could do this online, Beeeep! No, no, you can not . You can, there are thousands of choices - and while I am sure they are all very wonderful - about nine-tenths are too dom, too granola, too storm trooper, too cowboy, too furry, too shiny, too short, too tall or too drag queen! When I started, I thought “I’ll just look for some nice plain, brown boots. Somewhere between Laura Ingalls and Cat Woman . A happy medium.
What I saw a lot of, the very, very, very expensive boots. I don’t know where they get the leather or the huzpah but the hides must come from designer field mice and then they use gold to tan the leather and then Gwyneth Paltrow licks the leather and then it is made into boots. Very expensive boots. And if Jimmy Choo designs something and calls it "The Prince Boot”, it has eight inch heels and it will costs more than your first car. A good rule would be to avoid any designer you have heard of and not to even look at anything by any designer that was ever mentioned on Sex and the City. You are not Cary Bradshaw”.
And I was thwarted by the heels I saw. I have seen have serious heels, I am not looking to discipline anyone and I do not have a Napoleon Complex. The average boot designer and his consumers have some real issues.
I like to see myself as above average. Moving on.
I got tired of looking online and went back to bricks and mortar.. If anyone was wondering, I know where all the sandals went, we couldn’t find any this weekend. I found them. All of them. The first place I went didn’t even have any fall shoes! It had one pair of men's timberland's and about 657 different kinds of flip flops. I was like “Hello! It’s Back To School Time! Why am I seeing white shoes? Why am I seeing ballet flats!! Hello it’s the end of August! Where are the mukluks?!”
I went through two different elcheapo discount places before I hit Target. I love Target. Target is our friend. Target also has boots.
Target has boots named “Greta” and “Gretchen” and “Greta”. I think their boot designer went to Berlin over the summer and all he saw was the underside of Mistress’ boot. Mistress’ black boot! I already have black boots!
Of course, I went home and checked Target online and there were : my boots. Not too dom, too granola, too storm trooper, cowboy, too furry, too shiny, too short, too tall or too drag queen! Somewhere between Laura Ingalls and Cat Woman . A happy medium.
Monday, August 20, 2007
Pray for them
(CNN) -- Hurricane Dean burgeoned into a Category 5 storm -- capable of inflicting catastrophic damage when it makes landfall early Tuesday.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon, who was in Canada for a trilateral meeting with President Bush and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, announced he would cut short his visit and return home Tuesday to deal with the storm.
Mexico's state-run oil company, Petroleos de Mexico, said it was abandoning its offshore rigs in Dean's path and evacuating more than 14,000 workers, Stopping production at the Campeche Sound's 407 oil wells will result in a loss of 2.7 million barrels of oil and 2.6 billion cubic feet of natural gas a day, Pemex said, according to AP.
Notice the Mexican president cut short his actually important non-vacation activity to return to Mexico to deal with the storm - before it even made landfall. You know Shrub called him a pussy for that. The pirates on my corner went from $2.66 when I came home from work at 4:40 to $2.79 by 8pm. I'm so glad I filled my tank with $2.52 this weekend.
(CNN) -- Hurricane Dean burgeoned into a Category 5 storm -- capable of inflicting catastrophic damage when it makes landfall early Tuesday.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon, who was in Canada for a trilateral meeting with President Bush and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, announced he would cut short his visit and return home Tuesday to deal with the storm.
Mexico's state-run oil company, Petroleos de Mexico, said it was abandoning its offshore rigs in Dean's path and evacuating more than 14,000 workers, Stopping production at the Campeche Sound's 407 oil wells will result in a loss of 2.7 million barrels of oil and 2.6 billion cubic feet of natural gas a day, Pemex said, according to AP.
Notice the Mexican president cut short his actually important non-vacation activity to return to Mexico to deal with the storm - before it even made landfall. You know Shrub called him a pussy for that. The pirates on my corner went from $2.66 when I came home from work at 4:40 to $2.79 by 8pm. I'm so glad I filled my tank with $2.52 this weekend.
More of everything
The fam is in town so I didn’t have quite as much time as I would normally - Hours and hours, let me tell you! All day Saturday and Sunday, slogging away at the grindstone, working on this Monday entry. Ya’ll have no idea.
That’s all bull shit, but I’m racing the clock a little more than normal.
First off, can anyone tell me what makes a ski jacket a snowboarding coat? Because they look like a regular coat. Do they have special pockets to store your weed? Help me out. Am I too old to have a snowboarding coat?
Okay. On Friday Broskey and I attended a Moveon.Org gathering to announce what the cost of the war as been to North Carolina, more specifically, the 13th congressional district. I don’t think I live in the 13th and Broskey doesn’t either, but you know we came, we saw we took the hand outs.
Right after we got to Marquette Moveon.Org did a similar event except they had it printed up as an ad in the local paper. Better plan, I think, going directly to the press instead of having to hope the press comes to you. But I wasn’t in charge, was I? Good thing too.
The cost of the war to NC tax payers alone is $12.34 billion, tax papers in the 13th district have shelled out $981 million.
For our $981 million we could have funded:
- Healthcare for 202, 837 adults or 451,685 children
- 20, 898 more elementary school teachers
- 212, 865 more college scholarships
-9,293 more units of affordable housing
-25, 832 more cops ( my question, in Raleigh alone or state wide? Is this nation wide?)
-14, 311 port container inspectors for North Carolina
Okay. Costs by congressional districts:
1st - $679 million
2nd - $872 million
3rd - $96 million
4th - $1.29 billion
5th - $950 million
6th - $1.04 billion
7th - $813 million
8th - $917 million
9th - $1.32 billion
10th - $900 million
11th - $830 million
12th - $855 million
13th - $981 million
I checked and I live in the 2nd congressional district, I want my damn money back.
The fam is in town so I didn’t have quite as much time as I would normally - Hours and hours, let me tell you! All day Saturday and Sunday, slogging away at the grindstone, working on this Monday entry. Ya’ll have no idea.
That’s all bull shit, but I’m racing the clock a little more than normal.
First off, can anyone tell me what makes a ski jacket a snowboarding coat? Because they look like a regular coat. Do they have special pockets to store your weed? Help me out. Am I too old to have a snowboarding coat?
Okay. On Friday Broskey and I attended a Moveon.Org gathering to announce what the cost of the war as been to North Carolina, more specifically, the 13th congressional district. I don’t think I live in the 13th and Broskey doesn’t either, but you know we came, we saw we took the hand outs.
Right after we got to Marquette Moveon.Org did a similar event except they had it printed up as an ad in the local paper. Better plan, I think, going directly to the press instead of having to hope the press comes to you. But I wasn’t in charge, was I? Good thing too.
The cost of the war to NC tax payers alone is $12.34 billion, tax papers in the 13th district have shelled out $981 million.
For our $981 million we could have funded:
- Healthcare for 202, 837 adults or 451,685 children
- 20, 898 more elementary school teachers
- 212, 865 more college scholarships
-9,293 more units of affordable housing
-25, 832 more cops ( my question, in Raleigh alone or state wide? Is this nation wide?)
-14, 311 port container inspectors for North Carolina
Okay. Costs by congressional districts:
1st - $679 million
2nd - $872 million
3rd - $96 million
4th - $1.29 billion
5th - $950 million
6th - $1.04 billion
7th - $813 million
8th - $917 million
9th - $1.32 billion
10th - $900 million
11th - $830 million
12th - $855 million
13th - $981 million
I checked and I live in the 2nd congressional district, I want my damn money back.
Sunday, August 19, 2007
Saturday, August 18, 2007
Friday, August 17, 2007
Tick, Tock
I turned the computer on and went to the other room to, um, do something useful - not at all like watching TV or anything like that, and a while later I went back to the computer and I couldn't get the screen saver to move. it just stood there not spinning at me. I tapped the keyboards a couple of times and moved the mouse around an gradually my ISP start page appeared. I didn't want to look. How many times did IE load? Take a guess, a wild guess, now keep in mind it wasn't nearly as bad as it has been in the past - and it's not a virus. I have Norton and I run a couple of different anti-spyware programs too.
My old computer did this to me as well. I think it's just meanness. 24, I came in and there were twenty-four IE's unhappily running simultaneously. It doesn't always do this, but every third or fourth time, it goes nuts. It's also not always 24, some times its 6 or 53 once it was a whopping 70 something.
I thought it was because it got bored waiting for me to do something, you know I would turn it on and go about my business and lose track of time or forget it was on in the first place and I would go in there and it would be having a tantrum. Fine. I decided to sit with it while it powered up, you know keep it company and lo and behold it did it again. The little IE's just multiplied in front of me. I would go to stop it and while I was trying to close the group, four more would appear. Hateful, hateful, hateful. I finally learned to stop validating it. I don't give it the satisfaction of making me lose my temper. I just say fine, turn it off, usually takes a few moments, but it will power off... and then I turn it on again and usually it will behave. But I hate that, I want to work because it wants to not because I forcibly shut it down. But to be honest, there are times I would beat it like a rented mule if I could figure out where to administer the beating.
A little bird told me that Best Buy was going to have killer sales on lap tops in October-November. Computer is on notice! Computer is going to have to do time studies, fifteen weeks worth because it will suffer more than I did! I will be monitoring it's email and Internet use. Damn it.
Okay.
I want to say that 30 Rock is on and it is too dark to be out mowing the yard. I hate that. A few weeks ago, 30 Rock was on and I couldn't watch it because I was mowing the drug dealers yard. And did you know that the college kids are all ready coming back to campus? They just left campus! It's just so wrong.
It's still August and you can not find a sprinkler, you can find Fall - Halloween decorations and Winter - snow shovels, but they are totally skipping Hurricane! The stores should be full of bottled water, nasty white bread, plastic tarps, cheap styrofoam coolers and flashlights that only work once. And sprinkers! I should still be able to buy a sprinkler!
My plants are drying out, Dean is out there, the leaves are falling and I'm parka shopping. I hate Valentines Day.
I turned the computer on and went to the other room to, um, do something useful - not at all like watching TV or anything like that, and a while later I went back to the computer and I couldn't get the screen saver to move. it just stood there not spinning at me. I tapped the keyboards a couple of times and moved the mouse around an gradually my ISP start page appeared. I didn't want to look. How many times did IE load? Take a guess, a wild guess, now keep in mind it wasn't nearly as bad as it has been in the past - and it's not a virus. I have Norton and I run a couple of different anti-spyware programs too.
My old computer did this to me as well. I think it's just meanness. 24, I came in and there were twenty-four IE's unhappily running simultaneously. It doesn't always do this, but every third or fourth time, it goes nuts. It's also not always 24, some times its 6 or 53 once it was a whopping 70 something.
I thought it was because it got bored waiting for me to do something, you know I would turn it on and go about my business and lose track of time or forget it was on in the first place and I would go in there and it would be having a tantrum. Fine. I decided to sit with it while it powered up, you know keep it company and lo and behold it did it again. The little IE's just multiplied in front of me. I would go to stop it and while I was trying to close the group, four more would appear. Hateful, hateful, hateful. I finally learned to stop validating it. I don't give it the satisfaction of making me lose my temper. I just say fine, turn it off, usually takes a few moments, but it will power off... and then I turn it on again and usually it will behave. But I hate that, I want to work because it wants to not because I forcibly shut it down. But to be honest, there are times I would beat it like a rented mule if I could figure out where to administer the beating.
A little bird told me that Best Buy was going to have killer sales on lap tops in October-November. Computer is on notice! Computer is going to have to do time studies, fifteen weeks worth because it will suffer more than I did! I will be monitoring it's email and Internet use. Damn it.
Okay.
I want to say that 30 Rock is on and it is too dark to be out mowing the yard. I hate that. A few weeks ago, 30 Rock was on and I couldn't watch it because I was mowing the drug dealers yard. And did you know that the college kids are all ready coming back to campus? They just left campus! It's just so wrong.
It's still August and you can not find a sprinkler, you can find Fall - Halloween decorations and Winter - snow shovels, but they are totally skipping Hurricane! The stores should be full of bottled water, nasty white bread, plastic tarps, cheap styrofoam coolers and flashlights that only work once. And sprinkers! I should still be able to buy a sprinkler!
My plants are drying out, Dean is out there, the leaves are falling and I'm parka shopping. I hate Valentines Day.
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Randomness
Remember when bottles were glass? Remember how heavy they were? remember collecting money by recycling them? And then everything went plastic, that cheap bubble -y plastic, not the sleek plastic everything is now, the faux glass. You pay extra for plastic that looks like glass. Sprite has always been good at that. A Sprite bottle looks like a sprite bottle. It's the dimples.
it doesn't matter how glassy the plastic is formed to, you can drop it from the counter and it still isn't going to shatter. You aren't going to break it. You also don't see as much broken glass around either. Pretty much the only thing that still comes in glass are beer bottles and the odd condiment. I remember when just about the only plastic you would have around the house was your shampoo bottles. There isn't as much sea glass anymore either. There used to be a lot of people who did thing's things, with sea glass. I wonder if they had to start making there own. Perhaps there are even sea glass farms out there.That would be a good gig. Work though your aggression by smashing glass, feel green by using the broken glass, make green by selling the glass. I mean, it wouldn't happen over night, sea glass takes time, but nothing is perfect. You might spend a lot of time watching glass dull.
I got to thinking about the wonders of plastic and the dearth of glass because The Kitty launched a plastic bottle off the counter and instead of shattering it just bounced. I wonder if The Kitty would be so excited by throwing things off shelves if he got to experience the unjoys of smashing those things. I would think, that as a cat, The Kitty would be unthrilled by the prospect of all the fluids that would be a side effect of the smashing. He doesn't always like the sound of what he just launched bouncing when it hits the grown, he would really hate the sound of crashing. When he has successfully smashed things he didn't like it. The smashing got my attention but it didn't often lead to his getting fed - his ultimate goal. I would have to clean up whatever he smashed and that did not lead to his getting fed. I think he saw the cause and effect of launching things that break verses things that bounce. Bouncing = Food, Smashing = Not Food.
Another thing. Why can't online driving directions be more personalized? All they would have to do is ask you questions about where you are going. I had to look up directions the other day. I wasn't going far, I was just going somewhere I hadn't been before. I got there and I was like "I know where I am! Why did they send me here this way? I didn't need to get on the expressway to get here! I got lost for nothing". It's true. I even went to different sources to get directions because with online directions you are usually lucky if what they give you is only slightly wrong and they only get confused about right and left on some of the turns. Two different sources failed to give me the most direct path to get there.
If they had only asked me questions. You know like "Do you like pizza?, have you tried LILLY's?", how about art films? remember where you saw whatever art film you saw? Yeah. Right there", or even "That place you used to go sometimes, and you always said you would go back but you didn't? Like a block up from there". I hate that. I drove around like an idiot, worse than that a tourist and they could have just told me where I was going was where I had been.
Remember when bottles were glass? Remember how heavy they were? remember collecting money by recycling them? And then everything went plastic, that cheap bubble -y plastic, not the sleek plastic everything is now, the faux glass. You pay extra for plastic that looks like glass. Sprite has always been good at that. A Sprite bottle looks like a sprite bottle. It's the dimples.
it doesn't matter how glassy the plastic is formed to, you can drop it from the counter and it still isn't going to shatter. You aren't going to break it. You also don't see as much broken glass around either. Pretty much the only thing that still comes in glass are beer bottles and the odd condiment. I remember when just about the only plastic you would have around the house was your shampoo bottles. There isn't as much sea glass anymore either. There used to be a lot of people who did thing's things, with sea glass. I wonder if they had to start making there own. Perhaps there are even sea glass farms out there.That would be a good gig. Work though your aggression by smashing glass, feel green by using the broken glass, make green by selling the glass. I mean, it wouldn't happen over night, sea glass takes time, but nothing is perfect. You might spend a lot of time watching glass dull.
I got to thinking about the wonders of plastic and the dearth of glass because The Kitty launched a plastic bottle off the counter and instead of shattering it just bounced. I wonder if The Kitty would be so excited by throwing things off shelves if he got to experience the unjoys of smashing those things. I would think, that as a cat, The Kitty would be unthrilled by the prospect of all the fluids that would be a side effect of the smashing. He doesn't always like the sound of what he just launched bouncing when it hits the grown, he would really hate the sound of crashing. When he has successfully smashed things he didn't like it. The smashing got my attention but it didn't often lead to his getting fed - his ultimate goal. I would have to clean up whatever he smashed and that did not lead to his getting fed. I think he saw the cause and effect of launching things that break verses things that bounce. Bouncing = Food, Smashing = Not Food.
Another thing. Why can't online driving directions be more personalized? All they would have to do is ask you questions about where you are going. I had to look up directions the other day. I wasn't going far, I was just going somewhere I hadn't been before. I got there and I was like "I know where I am! Why did they send me here this way? I didn't need to get on the expressway to get here! I got lost for nothing". It's true. I even went to different sources to get directions because with online directions you are usually lucky if what they give you is only slightly wrong and they only get confused about right and left on some of the turns. Two different sources failed to give me the most direct path to get there.
If they had only asked me questions. You know like "Do you like pizza?, have you tried LILLY's?", how about art films? remember where you saw whatever art film you saw? Yeah. Right there", or even "That place you used to go sometimes, and you always said you would go back but you didn't? Like a block up from there". I hate that. I drove around like an idiot, worse than that a tourist and they could have just told me where I was going was where I had been.
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
The Inevitable Emmy entry
You thought you have escaped this when I was on vacation when the nominations came out, you thought you were safe. Ha. I can still magically have opinions about TV shows I do not watch and Actors I don't even recognize, even weeks after the nominations are announced.
Outstanding Lead Actor In A Comedy Series
Ricky Gervais - Extras
Tony Shalhoub - Monk
Steve Carell - The Office
Alec Baldwin - 30 Rock
Charlie Sheen - Two And A Half Men
Ricky Gervais is over, he was funny but now he's just British and as much as audiences love brits, it's more like puppy love and we have moved on. Tony Shaloub already has a couple of these and while I like Monk, Shalhoub isn't really doing any heavy lifting over there. I am the only person in America who does not think Steve Carell and The Office is Hi-larious. Charlie Sheen is funny, but I want Alec Baldwin to win - it has nothing whatsoever to do with the fact that I find his ex to be tiresome.
Outstanding Lead Actor In A Drama Series
James Spader - Boston Legal
Hugh Laurie - House
Denis Leary - Rescue Me
James Gandolfini - The Sopranos
Kiefer Sutherland - 24
Denis Leary is brilliant and Hugh Laurie should have won the last two years, but for reals, like anyone has a chance against The Sopranos. Right.
Outstanding Lead Actress In A Comedy Series
Felicity Huffman - Desperate Housewives
Julia Louis-Dreyfus - The New Adventures Of Old Christine
Tina Fey - 30 Rock
America Ferrera - Ugly Betty
Mary-Louise Parker - Weeds
I wuv Tina Fey. I want her to win and I want her to market a line of glasses which I would wear despite the fact that they may not flatter me. If it says "Tina Fey" on it, I want it. But I'm pretty sure it's going to Mary-Louise Parker because she's a movie star. it's like the Tony awards, always bet on the slumming movie star.
Outstanding Lead Actress In A Drama Series
Sally Field - Brothers & Sisters
Kyra Sedgwick - The Closer
Mariska Hargitay - Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Patricia Arquette - Medium
Minnie Driver - The Riches
Edie Falco - The Sopranos
I hate Minnie Driver. And again, like any one has a chance againts anyone from The Sopranos.
Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Comedy Series
Kevin Dillon - Entourage
Jeremy Piven - Entourage
Neil Patrick Harris - How I Met Your Mother
Rainn Wilson - The Office
Jon Cryer - Two And A Half Men
A Kevin Dillon win would make me happy, but it' going to be Neil Patrick Harris, just watch. Or the guy from The Office.
Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Drama Series
William Shatner - Boston Legal
T.R. Knight -Grey's Anatomy
Masi Oka - Heros
Michael Emerson - Lost
Terry O’Quinn - Lost
Michael Imperioli - The Sopranos
T.R Knight because he was "victimized". But again, no chance against The Sopranos, no matter how many mean words are hurled at you.
Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Comedy Series
Jaime Pressly - My Name is Earl
Jenna Fischer - The Office
Holland Taylor - Two and a Half Men
Conchata Ferrell - Two and a Half Men
Vanessa Williams - Ugly Betty
Elizabeth Perkins - Weeds
Jaime Pressly is my homegirl. Kind of.
Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Drama Series
Rachel Griffiths - Brothers and Sisters
Katherine Heigl - Grey's Anatomy
Chandra Wilson - Grey's Anatomy
Sandra Oh - Grey's Anatomy
Aida Turturro - The Sopranos
Lorraine Bracco - The Sopranos
I don't care if the entire female cast of Grey's Anatomy is nominated, The Sopranos will win OR, the three from GA and the two from TS will cancel each other out and Rachel Griffiths will get it.
Outstanding Comedy Series
Entourage
The Office
30 Rock
Two And A Half Men
Ugly Betty
30 Rock! 30 Rock! 30 Rock!
Outstanding Drama Series
Boston Legal
Grey’s Anatomy
Heroes
House
The Sopranos
Puhleese.
Outstanding Variety, Music Or Comedy Series
The Colbert Report
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
Late Night With Conan O’Brien
Late Show With David Letterman
Real Time With Bill Maher
I want TDS and TCR to both win. But, if one can, it must be The Daily Show
You thought you have escaped this when I was on vacation when the nominations came out, you thought you were safe. Ha. I can still magically have opinions about TV shows I do not watch and Actors I don't even recognize, even weeks after the nominations are announced.
Outstanding Lead Actor In A Comedy Series
Ricky Gervais - Extras
Tony Shalhoub - Monk
Steve Carell - The Office
Alec Baldwin - 30 Rock
Charlie Sheen - Two And A Half Men
Ricky Gervais is over, he was funny but now he's just British and as much as audiences love brits, it's more like puppy love and we have moved on. Tony Shaloub already has a couple of these and while I like Monk, Shalhoub isn't really doing any heavy lifting over there. I am the only person in America who does not think Steve Carell and The Office is Hi-larious. Charlie Sheen is funny, but I want Alec Baldwin to win - it has nothing whatsoever to do with the fact that I find his ex to be tiresome.
Outstanding Lead Actor In A Drama Series
James Spader - Boston Legal
Hugh Laurie - House
Denis Leary - Rescue Me
James Gandolfini - The Sopranos
Kiefer Sutherland - 24
Denis Leary is brilliant and Hugh Laurie should have won the last two years, but for reals, like anyone has a chance against The Sopranos. Right.
Outstanding Lead Actress In A Comedy Series
Felicity Huffman - Desperate Housewives
Julia Louis-Dreyfus - The New Adventures Of Old Christine
Tina Fey - 30 Rock
America Ferrera - Ugly Betty
Mary-Louise Parker - Weeds
I wuv Tina Fey. I want her to win and I want her to market a line of glasses which I would wear despite the fact that they may not flatter me. If it says "Tina Fey" on it, I want it. But I'm pretty sure it's going to Mary-Louise Parker because she's a movie star. it's like the Tony awards, always bet on the slumming movie star.
Outstanding Lead Actress In A Drama Series
Sally Field - Brothers & Sisters
Kyra Sedgwick - The Closer
Mariska Hargitay - Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Patricia Arquette - Medium
Minnie Driver - The Riches
Edie Falco - The Sopranos
I hate Minnie Driver. And again, like any one has a chance againts anyone from The Sopranos.
Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Comedy Series
Kevin Dillon - Entourage
Jeremy Piven - Entourage
Neil Patrick Harris - How I Met Your Mother
Rainn Wilson - The Office
Jon Cryer - Two And A Half Men
A Kevin Dillon win would make me happy, but it' going to be Neil Patrick Harris, just watch. Or the guy from The Office.
Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Drama Series
William Shatner - Boston Legal
T.R. Knight -Grey's Anatomy
Masi Oka - Heros
Michael Emerson - Lost
Terry O’Quinn - Lost
Michael Imperioli - The Sopranos
T.R Knight because he was "victimized". But again, no chance against The Sopranos, no matter how many mean words are hurled at you.
Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Comedy Series
Jaime Pressly - My Name is Earl
Jenna Fischer - The Office
Holland Taylor - Two and a Half Men
Conchata Ferrell - Two and a Half Men
Vanessa Williams - Ugly Betty
Elizabeth Perkins - Weeds
Jaime Pressly is my homegirl. Kind of.
Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Drama Series
Rachel Griffiths - Brothers and Sisters
Katherine Heigl - Grey's Anatomy
Chandra Wilson - Grey's Anatomy
Sandra Oh - Grey's Anatomy
Aida Turturro - The Sopranos
Lorraine Bracco - The Sopranos
I don't care if the entire female cast of Grey's Anatomy is nominated, The Sopranos will win OR, the three from GA and the two from TS will cancel each other out and Rachel Griffiths will get it.
Outstanding Comedy Series
Entourage
The Office
30 Rock
Two And A Half Men
Ugly Betty
30 Rock! 30 Rock! 30 Rock!
Outstanding Drama Series
Boston Legal
Grey’s Anatomy
Heroes
House
The Sopranos
Puhleese.
Outstanding Variety, Music Or Comedy Series
The Colbert Report
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
Late Night With Conan O’Brien
Late Show With David Letterman
Real Time With Bill Maher
I want TDS and TCR to both win. But, if one can, it must be The Daily Show
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
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