finally Friday...didn't think it was ever going to get here. What a shitty week...and really no one area you could point to and say, "that's what made this such a shitty week".  Moving forward...I'm looking forward to Sunday...the tentative plan is to hook up with Jerome and Nick and do some serious riding on Sunday afternoon.  I need a few hours ( Read more... )

"My fervent hope is that Obama is good at bringing together smart people with a wide range of experiences in the military and in diplomacy and that they all come up with something new. I will in no way be surprised to see his selections for important posts come from both parties. I hope his example sets the tone for our conversations as citizens ( Read more... )

      This is the last politically (un)inspired entry I'm going to post...at least for a while.  I think, at this point, that anyone that has read my posts knows that I will be voting for McCain/Palin on Tuesday and I won't reiterate all the reasoning behind that.  What has changed since the last post is my view of Obama and his supporters.  I've ( Read more... )

Good day to veg....cold and rainy with our first blast of snow (a nor'easter as it were) due to come in later in the day. Yippee...it's way too early in the year to be digging out the snow shovels and plow and having to buy salt again...ugh. (Them damn Arizona folks have no clue how good they have it)
     I find it utterly amazing how ignorant ( Read more... )

listening to the radio on my way to the job site today, I heard that one of the top aids to the reigning New York State Governor (David Patterson) is being charged with tax evasion for not filing from 2001-2005 and owing HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of dollars.   I'm thinking that tax evasion when you work in the public eye is a) stupid b) ignorant , and ( Read more... )

the aforementioned coin...
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coolest thing...I was emptying my pockets at the end of the day today and putting my change in my bucket, when I noticed an odd looking coin in the mix of quarters, dimes, and pennies. It's a 1941 5 Reichspfennig from Nazi germany...it even has a swastika on the back (front?)...certainly not something you see every day as I'm over 40 and have never ( Read more... )

ok,  the last big trip to Lowes for materials for our latest project, I single-handedly loaded 85 forty pound bags of cement onto carts, labored the three carts out to the truck and had about twenty bags loaded before Cal arrived, then had all but maybe twenty bags left before a Lowes employee showed up to "assist" with the loading. (This is the ( Read more... )

..our house has gone from zero recliners to four recliners in one foul swipe...life is good...

It's official..I have the cutest granddaughter ever created!  Now if we could only find a way to spend a whole lot more time with her, we'd be all set....damn the price of jet fuel anyway.  C'est la vie.   At least I get the occasional "I luh you Popsh" over the phone, which soooo makes life worth living.   In other news, I am now the proud owner ( Read more... )