Well, hey.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T89y01dZc1c

They are allowed to say this stuff now that the repubs aren't in power! Yay. Be careful what you wish for.

Ha ha ha ha

http://hotair.com/archives/2006/11/19/video-snl-on-islamophobia/

Dear me. What is creating Islamophobia?

New Dog

I have started saving $20 a week, for credenzas, gazebos, umbrellas, vacations and a PUPPY.

And carpeting. (I hate to be practical.)

We are planning a family vacation in, I think it's called - "The Outer Banks"? in NC in 2008. Very much looking forward to that. Thank you, Julie for thinking of it. The very idea! We are all such a bunch of morons, that it will be non-stop ROFL from beginning to end. God only knows what circumstances we will have to extricate ourselves out of. And into. Buhahahaha. Not to mention all the falling down, and getting up. I think some of our new grandsons will be involved in the falling down (and getting up - hopefully).

Remember Marietta? Mom's Weekend? We were imbeciles(sp?). I never laughed so much. Thank you, all of you, that were there. This is what I remember.

Oh, OK, and Chatauqua?

Anyhoo.

I'm worried about Einsten, because he's 8 years old, and getting grey. This dog here, was supposed to outlive me. I got him the year I turned 50, and I thought it would be my last dog, and maybe he will be. But now maybe he won't. What to do. I'm living too long.

I have to get a puppy in 2009. No matter what. For a backup.

Sob.

But I don't need any backup cats! They just seem to come....

Armageddon

Ok, the 6th Angel of Revelations has broken the seal.
We are well on our way. I need to get back into the bosom of Holy Mother Church - it is so warm and comforting there. So that means Confession next Saturday. No matter what.

P.S. I just finished watching the remake of "The Omen".

Besides that, it made me think. Today I tried to clean the yellow hand mirror - 50+ years of dirt on that thingy. Found in my mother's stuff. It was the only mirror in the house when I was 5 (to 7), so when I was 5 (to 7)I brushed my teeth and looked for eye boogers in it. When I was 5 (to 7). I looked into it today and saw an old woman. Is that possible? Whatever. If I look into it long enough, will that 5 year old look back?

All of you in the circle will be receiving my update of "Story of Life". I think it's time.

Bah. All here is covered in snow. Of all the places I never wanted to live in, this is Number 1.
What a depressing thing.

And so it goes. And goes. And goes. Until it stops.

Here is our work dog - scary looking is he not?

Oh no! It's starting again.

Global Warming

I am in a blizzard here, at my Important Job, where I came to do Important Stuff. I may not be able to get home again for the rest of my life. So it's been nice, knowing you all. Please feed my dog occasionally.

Some weather scientists are rebelling against the Inconvenient Truth:

http://www.jamesspann.com/blog.htm

Well, well. Some “climate expert” on “The Weather Channel” wants to take away AMS certification from those of us who believe the recent “global warming” is a natural process. So much for “tolerance”, huh?

I have been in operational meteorology since 1978, and I know dozens and dozens of broadcast meteorologists all over the country. Our big job: look at a large volume of raw data and come up with a public weather forecast for the next seven days. I do not know of a single TV meteorologist who buys into the man-made global warming hype. I know there must be a few out there, but I can’t find them. Here are the basic facts you need to know:

*Billions of dollars of grant money is flowing into the pockets of those on the man-made global warming bandwagon. No man-made global warming, the money dries up. This is big money, make no mistake about it. Always follow the money trail and it tells a story. Even the lady at “The Weather Channel” probably gets paid good money for a prime time show on climate change. No man-made global warming, no show, and no salary. Nothing wrong with making money at all, but when money becomes the motivation for a scientific conclusion, then we have a problem. For many, global warming is a big cash grab.

*The climate of this planet has been changing since God put the planet here. It will always change, and the warming in the last 10 years is not much difference than the warming we saw in the 1930s and other decades. And, lets not forget we are at the end of the ice age in which ice covered most of North America and Northern Europe.

If you don’t like to listen to me, find another meteorologist with no tie to grant money for research on the subject. I would not listen to anyone that is a politician, a journalist, or someone in science who is generating revenue from this issue.

In fact, I encourage you to listen to WeatherBrains episode number 12, featuring Alabama State Climatologist John Christy, and WeatherBrains episode number 17, featuring Dr. William Gray of Colorado State University, one of the most brilliant minds in our science.

WeatherBrains, by the way, is our weekly 30 minute netcast.

I have nothing against “The Weather Channel”, but they have crossed the line into a political and cultural region where I simply won’t go.

Situation Normal

In my self centered post of yesterday I forgot to advise about Bob's surgery. Well, it went finely. No, that's not the right word - sounds like it took a long time. (finally) Not that it didn't take a long time, because it did - but that's not the intent of the sentence. The word I want is the opposite of "bad", but I can't say 'it went good' , that would be wrong. Not wrong in the sense that it went bad, because it did NOT go 'bad' , but wrong grammatically is what I think I'm saying. OK, I no longer know WHAT I'm saying.

Put away your decoder rings for the above encrypted message.

Bob is alive and well and home from the hospital. Why couldn't I just have said that.

Rowrrr

What?

The dems have passed legislation to check all cargo containers on boats and airplanes. But this is what I wanted!



Now I'm confused.



I don't like being confused. But I'm getting used to it.



Snow alert here for tomorrow morning so I must gear up, take my life in my hands, and get up at an ungodly hour so that I can get to my IMPORTANT job where I do important STUFF. Where I did NOT get a Christmas bonus this year, because my boss remembered it momentarily then promptly forgot all about it.



Not that I care.



Maybe I WON'T give them 4 weeks notice when Plan A kicks in. Maybe I won't. Maybe I will just say, "See ya! Wouldn't want to be ya!" and then disconnect all my phones. Buhahahaha. How fun.



There are some things they just will not figure out how to do. I don't even know how to do them sometimes.



Well, anyway these are the thoughts that keep me going.



71 days until Spring.

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The Many Uses of WD-40

I found this tonight - I have actually done some of this stuff. I am going to arm myself with a new can of it and save the world.



http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/household/wd-40.asp



In other news:



All the grandsons around here got very sick right after New Year's Day. So Liz had to call off on her first day back at work from maternity leave! Wow. It's the Irish luck side of the family (either all good, or all bad - guess which we have?) I blame Bob. I only had one Irish great-great-something on my side. His mother's side is loaded with it.



Bob will be having surgery on Monday. I have taken off work, but they probably will forget and wonder where I am, and will be mad at me. But they still won't fire me, I bet. Sigh.



The surgery is supposed to help his cancer condition, supposedly done as an out patient, go home the same day, blah, blah. Yeah - right. Already the pre-op yesterday turned into a carnival with a resident telling him he had to go on a heparin (eeek) drip and have injections of some other blood thinner in the abdomen, and get an OK from a cardiologist - I don't know what's up with that, I figure it's because he hasn't been taking his Lasix.



Heparin? Before surgery??? The doctor told him he had to go OFF his blood thinners 8 days before surgery! Here we go, on the Good Ship Lollypop again.



Julie took him to the pre-op yesterday and to the cardiologist today. I have to talk to her; Bob was very confused last night - he told me that the reason he has been on the blood thinners all this time is to THICKEN his blood. God give me strength. So he doesn't know what's up.



The cardiologist today pooh-poohed all of that. It's back to stopping the thinners 8 days before surgery again. Who's right? Who's wrong? Why haven't I left on that cruise yet? just kidding



Maybe we should cancel the whole thing.

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