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| Tuesday, October 20th, 2009 | | 10:32 am |
Sort of tired, but...
Got a call from a friend who is the Judge of Elections at my polling place! He asked me to work the election as a Clerk for the day! It's not the $100, which *is* needed. It's not the 6:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. working day. It's that I will be taking part of something that is a vitally important facet of American citizenship, and I'm very, very excited. Spouse said, "What about the requirement that you have to be over 70?" Hahahahahahahahaa. : P I have always wanted to volunteer, but never could because it would mean taking off the one night a week that the library was open, and I would never have coverage (yeah, the person hired to work evenings "can't"). So taking a personal day would mean closing the library. Actually, that's not too bad an idea - but that's me talking who is not working there at the moment. November 3rd! Don't forget to vote you Pennsylvanians! | | Saturday, October 17th, 2009 | | 6:10 pm |
| | Thursday, October 15th, 2009 | | 10:10 am |
Snowing!
It's Snowing! Just a few minutes ago it was raining heavily, and now it's snow! Yata! | | Monday, October 12th, 2009 | | 8:31 pm |
Footloose
Well, the same year that I missed Footloose when it came out in the theaters... I also missed Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo. I started looking through the list of movies, but though I recognized titles - I didn't see any of them. Stopped halfway through the b's. | | Tuesday, October 6th, 2009 | | 9:31 am |
| | Saturday, September 26th, 2009 | | 11:52 am |
| | Monday, September 21st, 2009 | | 10:14 am |
| | 10:09 am |
phones and things
Just wanted to let people know, we're voluntarily having the cell phones suspended for a while. We'll get them back when I am working full time again. So you have to call us on our land line. Actually, I'm feeling rather optimistic. We've paid the cell company, so we're all paid up on that. | | Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 | | 1:36 pm |
Into the Forge by Dennis L. McKiernan (Bestselling Author!)
 Into the Forge by Dennis L. McKiernanWell... this book was ... It had...Bad writing. Bad, bad writing, no biscuit for you, Bestselling Author! Aside from the massive quantities of derivative plot (has everyone read Tolkien?) there were words that were used incorrectly, writhing unending sentences, and garbage bags full of overwriting and overexplaining.Why did I keep reading it? Partially, because I was looking for the next BAD bit. Honestly, if this man had retained a decent editor, or someone to quieten down his purple prose, he might have had something. View all my reviews >> | | Friday, September 11th, 2009 | | 8:58 pm |
What I remember...
most? Is that we were threatened with being "insubordinate" if we discussed the terrorists, the world trade center, anything to do with it, or allowed our children to know anything about it in any way. Instead of dealing with this as a community or a teachable moment, we were told that it did not happen and it was a firing offense to discuss it. One teacher lost her sister at the WTC. I was so worried about my sister, who worked in the Pentagon at the time, and so many of our Otakon staff. We couldn't reach them, and people were crazy on the internet trying to find something out. And then people started mocking the president. Who heaven knows I do not like, and never voted for. But how the *heck* did they expect him to react? Jump up and make a scene and scare the preschoolers? It was a political joy ride. And then the hate crimes started. And people called me a traitor because I said that Muslims were not our enemy, neither was Islam. And Italians had their businesses fire bombed because "they looked Arab". And dissent was shouted down, and those who spoke against the hate were told that this was America, love it or leave it, and that we should shut up and support hastily and poorly planned last minute bits and pieces to "safeguard our nation". So... that's what I remember today. And no, I don't want it to ever happen again. | | Tuesday, September 8th, 2009 | | 4:55 pm |
Scalloped potatoes
that's what is for supper. Homemade. With a half rack of ribs that was in the freezer. And the Eldar Spawn will make us a salad to go with it. Spouse returns from a shoot in Joplin MO tonight at 11:30. Oh, and the Eldar Spawn now has her *permit* and is driving very well, thank you, | | Saturday, September 5th, 2009 | | 4:04 pm |
Furlough
I have been "furloughed" for an indefinite period of time - got the letter today. What does this mean? It means I've been laid off. The good thing is that this means I can ask some very important people in the agency to act as recommendations for me. The bad thing is, of course, that I have no health insurance as of the last of September. The state senators and representatives are receiving *their* pay checks, *and* have a benefits package. Just pointing that out. | | Friday, August 28th, 2009 | | 5:28 pm |
Provinces...
This will be my third Canadian Province (I think it's only three) Nova Scotia and Ontario being the others. | | 4:06 pm |
well...
I have not been on the Intarwebs for most of the week, and have been trying to catch up. Will not get to things like bulletin boards - not with all the other stuff I need to look at. And the spouse and I will not be online for the next week. We have been married for 20 years. We are going on a cruise to celebrate, and to give us the chance to write up character backgrounds for Bruce's next game. And read. The spawn start school on Monday, and my Mom will be here to watch them for the week. So... if you do not hear from me for a while, that is why. | | Monday, August 24th, 2009 | | 10:26 am |
It's been a long weekend, but enjoyable. Did not hit much during The Summer Shoot, but got some healthy sunlight. Played Race for the Galaxy three times, and lost all three times, but I love that game! Played a nifty ship game, and would like to play it again... Now to do the dishes! Kansas is posing like a lion atop the coffee table. | | Friday, August 21st, 2009 | | 9:49 am |
Old Bad Haiku - from the Harrisburg East Holiday Inn
We quibble, qibble, Cutting costs while others spend We MUST have a band? We spend too much now. How far can we go today? Sky is the limit! The pool is flooding, Our room is flowing with words, Drowning in drivel. A forest of arms Let me talk! Hear me out, please! Waving thoughts away. Members starve for food. They kill each other for food. Members are now fed. Maile reporting How much does the con suite cost? Errormark must die! So how do we get Around the con suite problem? With a Washu door! Thirty-five “em-em” “Be forever Yamato” Wouldn’t that look cool? Matt and Christopher Are at Anime Central Springtime loneliness. Missing Chris & Matt No wry comments – dry as dust. “Fly me to the Moon!” The Moon waits for us. How to get there we look for. By watching Rei spin. Neal just found out Manga Max is still around Oops-oops-oops-oops-oops. I just wanted to Write a haiku that ends with “Holy Fucking Shit!” You filthy pervert! How dare you use such language! You son of a bitch! Offensive language Sounds better in Nihongo Bakayaro yo! Zakkenayo! Kuso o tabete yo! That does sound better… Paper airplanes fly Over the heads of Otaku. The meeting drags on. They try to fly far Out of control! They spin far Hitting James in head. | | Thursday, August 20th, 2009 | | 9:00 am |
If you live in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania...
Please contact your state senator and state representative and ask them to flat fund the education budget for this year. No increase. No special requests. Just flat fund the education budget. The cuts that people are trying to make are short sighted, "penny wise and pound foolish", and will affect everyone negatively. Particularly those smart enough to use the state library system. Check here to find out whom you would need to contact (it helps to know your zip code +4): http://www.legis.state.pa.us/index.cfm | | Monday, August 17th, 2009 | | 5:34 pm |
Monday
First day of vacation. drove the Eldar Spawn and two friends to Rails to Trails trailhead. picked the Eldar Spawn and two friends up from trailhead. mowed the lawn. called the bank about the form to dispute the payment made (apparently) by my card to a tour company who specializes in trips to Turkey. Just needed reassurance about some information that needed to go on the form. So that's ready, and as soon as they receive the form they will be putting that money Back in my account. watched the children play hide and go seek around the house (counting "one thousand banana, two thousand banana") Clearned (that's cleared out and cleaned) the area next to my computer station in the living room. It is much neater. Also brought my "to do" basket up from the study and went through that. So... working still on the study, and also have haiku to post later. | | Sunday, August 16th, 2009 | | 12:23 pm |
Peach Crisp
I am baking a peach crisp at the moment, made from fresh local peaches, covered with a topping of brown sugar, flour, oatmeal, cinnamon, nutmeg, and butter. It's a quick dish, and I'm baking it to take to a picnic, rather than buying something at the store. It's been a busy week. And I'm a little tired still. We chose not to go to church this morning - up until 2 a.m. with the gaming group doing our best to rid the world of the vile un-dead. The picnic is with a church group, but I'm not seeing a flaw with this. We're responsible, and attend regularly and set a good example for the spawn. For the next five weeks I will be on vacation from work. I had one more half pay week left from the summer, then three full pay weeks, then I'll have a half pay week left of vacation to use. We are ... on hiatus at work. The library is closed because of the budget issues that the government of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is having. I could post here about the importance of libraries to people who don't have much of anything else to educate themselves with, or the need for quality pre-school to prevent a new crop of lower income kids from ending up on the wrong path. I don't think it's a bad investment. Just as it's not a bad investment to put money into the infrastructure of our country, into preventing health issues from costing us even more in the future, or searching for a cure for AIDS or cancer or other crippling or life threatening diseases. Well, the crisp is done. Please consider writing your state congressmen or senators if you live and vote in Pennsylvania and ask them to Flat Line the budget for Education instead of making the deep cuts that would make us pay so much more in the end. | | Wednesday, August 12th, 2009 | | 10:21 pm |
Something to think of.. no, really.
This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the U.S. Department of Energy. I then took a shower in the clean water provided by a municipal water utility. After that, I turned on the TV to one of the FCC-regulated channels to see what the National Weather Service of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration determined the weather was going to be like, using satellites designed, built, and launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. I watched this while eating my breakfast of U.S. Department of Agriculture-inspected food and taking the drugs which have been determined as safe by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. At the appropriate time, as regulated by the U.S. Congress and kept accurate by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the U.S. Naval Observatory, I get into my National Highway Traffic Safety Administration-approved automobile and set out to work on the roads build by the local, state, and federal Departments of Transportation, possibly stopping to purchase additional fuel of a quality level determined by the Environmental Protection Agency, using legal tender issued by the Federal Reserve Bank. On the way out the door I deposit any mail I have to be sent out via the U.S. Postal Service and drop the kids off at the public school. After spending another day not being maimed or killed at work thanks to the workplace regulations imposed by the Department of Labor and the Occupational Safety and Health administration, enjoying another two meals which again do not kill me because of the USDA, I drive my NHTSA car back home on the DOT roads, to my house which has not burned down in my absence because of the state and local building codes and Fire Marshal's inspection, and which has not been plundered of all its valuables thanks to the local police department. And then I log on to the internet -- which was developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration -- and post on Freerepublic.com and Fox News forums about how SOCIALISM in medicine is BAD because the government can't do anything right. |
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