This afternoon I drove west up into the Rockies for a while. There are signs that say "6% GRADE" which doesn't sound steep but actually is when you're driving it. Also they have runaway truck ramps which are like off-ramps that are covered in sand and end in a big pyramid of barricaes. I, for one, would not mind at all seeing a runaway semi. The ( Read more... )

So it looks like I made it to 33. I'm in Denver right now, I drove out here because I had a fun time here a few years ago and either way, I'm guessing it will be a better New Years Eve than rural Iowa.

A Nebraska state trooper gave me a ticket on my birthday on the way here. While he was lecturing me for going NINETY-TWO on interstate 80, his ( Read more... )

I hope everybody has a good Christmas Eve. I sent a few of you goodies so hopefully they made it in time ( Read more... )

1) Well, as usual when it snows, half the place didn't show up today. Oh the roads are bad, boo-hoo wah-wah. If I owned a company, I'd fire anybody who used weather as an excuse to play hookey. That, and kids. Here's a clue: if you can't balance your professional and family life, don't have a family.

2) I was in Chicago over the weekend. Instead ( Read more... )

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Tonight sucks. It's going to be a long four years.

I have a feeling it's going to be a long sad day.

Voter forms litter roadside in pro-Obamessiah area of FL....Just making extra-sure those pesky voters don't interrupt The One's date with destiny ( Read more... )

1) I haven't posted since the floods in June. Maybe you all thought I was swept away! Actually I was high and dry and okay. Just muddy and sunburned after days of sandbagging. I was just so busy with all the flooding nonsense that I didn't have time for LJ. Then I never got back into it.....
2) ....partly because, after 7 years it is hard to be ( Read more... )

1) Fewer posts recently: After seven years on here, it's hard to keep it fresh & original. Also I'm swamped with my new position, which is a good thing, because it's like a vacation; or maybe an anti-vacation where you're relaxed because you're working hard and accomplishing things. A work vacation. Workation.

2) When beds are illegal, only ( Read more... )

....and prefer a rookie, sloganeering, nonthreatening-ethnic, muslim pacifist to a ball-busting, corrupt, feminist carpetbagger.

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