Well its been awhile been under the weather. Seems I get sick a lot easier than my younger days. We just came in from delivering the Christmas cookies to our neighbors and friends. An annual event that has downsized over the years. Years ago, it was a major event that my wife would under take. Plates piled high with every imaginable cookie of the season. Than trudging out into the show, (we lived in the mountains back than there was snow!!) to deliver plates full on Christmas morning.

Well things have been simplified. The 8 pound plates are now 1 pounders. The cookies, instead of weeks are now made in hours. And we walk to friends and neighbors no snow nowadays.

the boy has already fallen asleep in his bed so we'll be up early for sure in the morning. Its strange how we parents pick the most exciting night of the year to send our children to bed early.

Well I caught A Christmas Carol earlier today. Ended the same as usual, never changes. Its to bad more of us our not visited by 3 ghost of Christmas. Its funny, as we prepare to celebrate this holiday its also this holiday that has caused so much tension over the years. Back in my church days at some point the Priest would say "the chosen religion" Could our religious arrogance be our problem? Were not able to wish holiday greetings on people for fear we may insult them.

So I think the worlds New Year Resolution should be that there are more than one God. There can be many. No one is wrong in their belief systems. You are all the chosen religions. Now just get along.

I myself find it ironic that we celebrate the birth of Christ more than his death. Yet his death mean't so much more. Oh well, some day I'll figure it out.

Now lets tie up some loose ends:

The fish are doing great!! I think we have the right combination. We've added a couple more goobers to the mix. We also added 2 Otto's but they died within 24 hours. I think we need a new pet shop. The water was tested completely and passed. Almost perfect, the Ph was just slightly low but still in range. Kitty (betta ) has taken up residency inside the pirate ship. He sits as the air bubbles massage him. All the other fish are acting much more like fish than they had been.

Strings:

I've decided strings have no gravitational effect at all. I'm sure that will cause some arguments. Also while on it I'm thinking strings are not effected by gravity either. Makes it easier to escape them big nasty black holes. I'm thinking gravity mass that sort of thing probably does not happen until at least 2 strings join together.

Anyways, Merry Christmas or whatever you celebrate...............................

Another fun one

More Walton moments

You know, I just figured out that I'm not the brightest bulb in the chandelier. Back in those days when we were going to bed early on Christmas eve, it just occurred to me that when I was younger I always thought that Christmas fell on Sunday and Christmas eve was Saturday. It never even crossed my mind that Christmas would be on any other day! I'm actually a bit dim.

Anyways, There we were all dressed up in our holiday best sitting at the dining room table Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, Grand parents surrounding two tables placed end to end filled with food. You've seen this situation. Pass the olives, while dishing them out their space has been taken up by the mashed potatoes. So you're stuck trying to figure out where the mash potatoes came from before somebody fills in the mash potato space with cranberries. Why its a wonder us dim people didn't starve to death trying to keep up with the ever changing table.

And we ate. And ate and ate. And just about the time we thought we had eaten enough, Grandmother would sat "eat, there is plenty" So we ate more. Finally, as if some magcal moment had arrived we were excused from eating. Never could figure out what the trigger mechanism ( see I can type fancy stuff when I want ) was, but even though the table was still buried in food, someone would release all us kids to go off and play. The adult males would migrate out to the living room where Uncle Ray would whip up some Manhattans, or whatever the drink was with cherries. Sit back, and regale each other with stories of event happenings since the last big family get together. Adult women gathered in the kitchen figuring out where all the food would go. The turkey/ham/roast beast usually ended out on the back porch. Hey, its winter in Chicago the back porch was plenty cold. And besides, in a very short time ( at least to me ) it was going to be time to eat again!

Than came the traditional Christmas play put on in the basement by all the children. I can't remember who would organize this insanity but it happened every year. Well planned and put together, well at the time it seemed that way. we all played out our parts to the best of our given abilities. The youngest always playing the role of baby Jesus.

But one of my warmest memories of the time has nothing to do with the eating, drinking, plays, or general merry making. No, its walking with my Grandfather in the cold Chicago winter night as he went out to stoke the coals in the other buildings of the neighborhood while all the other families celebrated Christmas in their warm homes.

Good night John boy.................

Just for fun

we're watching the Grinch. I've lost track how many times I've seen the Grinch. Probably as many as the Wizard of Oz. Most of the decorations are setup now. Still have a few lights for windows to do.

My Christmas tradition has been every year I watch A Christmas Carol. None of these new ones you see, nope its the old black and white one with the messed up sound. Not sure who all were in it and I'm sure they are all dead now, but I do enjoy watching it.

In my travels, did I mention I've hitch hiked from coast to coast 5 times? more on that another time. Anyways in my travels I spent several Christmases alone. Some how I always managed to catch this version of A Christmas Carol no matter where or how I was. It became my private Christmas tradition and somehow no matter where I was I took comfort in it.

Coming from a large family it was difficult to watch as others celebrated perhaps my favorite holiday while I sat out in the cold. Some day, I'd like to see all of the family together for Christmas one last time. My brothers been dead for some time and Dad just passed away last March. He wasn't well liked by the family he had his moments. But for me, years away from the family allowed me to clear some things in my head. Although I know there probably a lot more baggage up there. So it would be nice to do Christmas with the entire family nephews nieces, the whole 9 yards before the family grows any smaller.

Ian's fully engaged finally into Christmas. He wanders around singing the carols and pointing out everything he wants for Christmas. The fun part of playing with autistic kids is when that spark finally catches its more like a lightning bolt.

Well the Who have figured out what Christmas is really about, and the Grinch's heart has begun to grow. So I think I'll turn back and join the Who's in a traditional carol.

Hey, don't let these soft moments confuse you, I'm still the most unpolitical correct person I know!

Algae has returned with vengeance, more on the next post....................

If you don't like it go join a terrorist group!

I was reading on a forum this morning where some a-hole was complaining about people celebrating Christmas.Forget a-hole lets say what we really mean. This asshole thinks that because his religious beliefs do not cover Christmas than the rest of us should not be allowed to celebrate.

Oh the poor baby. We the people need to wake up. I don't give a rats ass if your religious beliefs are the same as mine or different. Thats why you shit heads have been killing each other for thousands of years.

You have no fucking tolerances. You don't see me bitching about your holidays. In fact, along with our Christmas decorations we also have one of those candle thingys in the window. I'd do something for the Muslims but I can't see hanging dead mutilated bodies in the window. Doesn't mean I don't respect your religion. Check with me on Halloween it might work then.

You low life s with no tolerances should all band together and set off your stupid suicide bombs while singing praise to whatever top dog you believe in. All of you can goto where ever you believe you go after you have killed 30 or so innocent children, women and fathers just because they don't believe in your religion.

Than those of us who do tolerate can live in peace. Merry Christmas

There is a little Christmas tree on my desk. Funny 6 feet over is our family tree standing 7.5 feet tall. It's funny how we do things. I've been known over the past years to go a bit over board when it comes to Christmas. I finally figured out why. Here is my Walton moment:

When we were growing up there were 8 of us brothers and sisters in a small 3 bedroom single level home. Christmas day was always a trip to my Grandparents house for a giant Christmas feast. So it took almost an act of God to get the whole family out the door on time. There were times when we took 2 vehicles to get there.

So it came a tradition out of necessity for all of us to goto bed on Christmas Eve early so that Santa could get to our house early to allow us all to open gifts on Christmas eve. I remember this well because I had become somewhat of an expert on the "fake sleep" routine. My parents would start unloading gifts and placing them under the tree once they felt all us kids were sleeping. Than we would be awoken at the appropriate time on Christmas eve.

We would wander out to the living room where we would find grandma's and grandpa's and lots and lots of presents flowing out from the tree and covering the entire living room floor. We would literally have to move gifts around to find places to sit.

Than taking turns, one at a time we would begin to open presents. And we would open presents for hours. Into the early hours of morning we'd work our little fingers pulling at ribbons and tape. It was amassing.

So when my wife and I had children I tried reproducing those early Christmas memories for my own children. But I overlooked an important part of the memory. There were 8 of us growing up back than, there are only 3 in our household.

No wonder there are to many toys around here!

It's interesting to note later in life we moved from the Chicago area to Virginia. Not far at all from Walton's mountain.

Good night, John boy.

Wool pulling and blinders Welcome Christmas

Ever feel like you got the wool pulled over you? Few weeks ago while visiting my Grandson's school I noticed a flyer for having your students picture taken with Santa. At the time I didn't think much of it. But than a flyer come home a little later with the details. Students who paid $12 would be excused from class to go sit on Santa's lap and have their picture taken.

Now, my first thought was: " What is this saying to those students whose families do not have the extra $12 for this "? Now I know there is no such thing as equality. Some will always have more than others. There will always be those who will feel the hollow sting of wanting. That's just reality isn't it? But wait just one minute. This is Christmas and there is no reality!

What is being said to the under privileged kids is you and your family are not good enough to visit with Santa. Plain and simple.

2nd thought: " How appropriate is it to allow a for profit entity to use education time to sell their product "? Or since employees of the school district are undoubtedly being used to escort the children to the Santa event, plus the untold time involved in keeping track of who was good enough and who wasn't, wouldn't that make those employees temporary employees of the private contractor? So who would be responsible for their pay?

3rd: This whole program was not an appropriate use of valuable education time.

So, I placed a call to our local School District with my concerns. After being passed to 3-4 people ( I think in my first call I mentioned the " D " word ( discrimination) and no one in their right minds wants to touch that. Anyways, the 4th person was to look into it and get back with me.

Well almost a week later, and the Santa picture day growing nearer I called back to the district. It seemed there had been discussion and the general consensus was that it indeed was a bad idea but nothing final had been determined.

Well this morning I got the call as I expected. Today was Santa picture day and I had bet everything that the call would come today.

It went like this:

" Sir we believe your concerns are valid and this will be addressed at the next superintendent meeting. However, since the Principal had felt that this was a cheap way for families to get pictures of their children with Santa, and that the flyers were out already with no way to notify those who choose to participate we see no way of being able to cancel at this time. However, rest assured we do not think this will happen next year ".

Cheap for families? A trip to the mall with camera in hand will get you a free picture of your child sitting on Santa's lap. Or for a more professional look the local Walmart offers pictures with Santa starting at $5.

As for the idea that it was to late to cancel, a flyer sent out yesterday would have resolved the issue.

No, I'm pretty sure I'm reading this correctly. The wool wasn't pulled over my eyes as far as these folks had thought.

Happy December 1!!

We've started doing the holiday decorations thing. Put a couple lit 4 foot trees out and some candles. Neighborhood is lighting up pretty nice. Some of these people have spent a great deal of money on decorations.

Algae is still growing in the tank. I read that algae indicates a good environment in the tank. So we are trying to use natural methods to cut back the algae. We've started by turning off the light for a couple days. No photosynthesis we'll starve the little buggers. Plus UV light is suppose to kill it.

We got a pretty good rain last night. All the plants were nice clean and shiny this morning.

OK another "this really pisses me off" post. 2 weeks back my daughter asked me to get her a PS2 at the flea market. So I found one. I asked five times if the thing worked and each time the seller said "oh yes"

Lying sack of shit!! Damn thing doesn't work at all! You know this type of crap should be considered the same as stealing. Maybe if these people faced serious trouble for their lies they wouldn't screw people.

I'm going back this weekend hoping they are there. See if they will refund my cash. If they are there and won't give my money back I'll have to up the ante as they say. I figure since neither hubby or wifey speak English its a good chance they are illegal. And if thats the case I'll turn them into ICE! ( immigration )

I did get to see comet P7/Holmes before it shrunk again. Pretty cool. I didn't want to mess with the big telescope so we just used the spotting scope.

With the Presidents X press man spilling his guts you think anyone will now stand up against the White House? I can't remember the actual charge but ratting on a covert person, undercover is a federal violation with a long prison sentence. Think any of the top 5 from Bush on down going see any of that time?

Happy Thanksgiving. I hope everyone enjoyed themselves. Than the big shopping day today. I actually was all stoked up about going out shopping. There were several items we had planned on getting. Wasn't real excited about the 5 in the morning deal though. Several places had laptops in the good deal range. Unfortunately there good deals were still above my good deal ideas. My neighbor however got her daughter one. Actually it was a random act of kindness. Another woman closer to the front grabbed 2 laptops and handed one to my neighbor who wasn't even in the right line. What a nice person. I knew they were still around.

Than my sister called me about their crazy early morning ( 4 AM ) shopping. She rambled off the list, 50 inch TV, Digital Cameras, Portable DVD players on and on and on. Than she struck a nerve. A new laptop. For who I said. Her significant other was the reply. Why? You guys just bought a nice $1200 2 years ago. She lost the power supply was the come back. Now I know it isn't right but my whole mood just sank to the bottom. She's out buying a new laptop cause it was to hard to hit up EBay for a $20 power supply. Meanwhile your's truly keeps his old 98-99 laptop limping along with tape and string.

I know I'm not suppose to be bothered by this, they are successful and can afford these things. It just caught me off guard. Needless to say I wasn't much into facing crowds or looking at over priced items I could never afford so I sent the girls out shopping on their own. Maybe later today I'll perk up.

So another Black Friday has come and gone.

For all you perverts out there I have bad news. We lost one of the snails. The desert has finally cooled down and the temperature in the house has dropped considerably. The water temp in the snails bowl also dropped. Friday we found one of the horny snails laying on its side. No manner of stimuli caused it to move. So my wife in her scientific way determined that it indeed was dead. After the autopsy I had no doubt in my mind that indeed it was dead.

Than yesterday, we noticed that the other horny beast was not responding either. However, after removing it from the water we did notice a slight movement so we set it in with the drifters and goober. ( we lost the last 2 Tetras yesterday ) Lucky for Mr/Ms. ( I have no clue how you sex a snail ) Snail we dropped him into the warmer waters because 15 minutes later he was crawling all over the place. Thats when my wife said " I hope the other snail was dead " Of course it was dead, especially after she ripped it out of its shell and ran her fingers through its innards. And if I had to testify in court, I never heard any screams of agonizing pain judge! Besides the President say's it's ok to torture.

Went to the flea market today. Wanted to pick up a few cheap things. Ended up buying my daughter a car for $700. Well actually she paid for it. Her first car.

Bush is going to help rebuild the Justice Department. Well now doesn't that make everyone feel real warm and fuzzy inside. I was afraid the Justice Department may have risk falling into a nasty habit of working independently of political parties. Sure glad that worked out. Once again, thank you Mr Bush. You know if this guy is such an idiot, and 2 cans short of a 6 pack. How has he managed to twist everything into his way of thinking?

Maybe we all need to think like him. " Honey, I just thwarted a terrorist attack, can we have sex now "?

As I suspected adding the air line to the aquarium came with a bad side effect. We now have green algae growing. We'll need to get rid of the algae and try adjusting the air flow. Also why on the fish, we spotted a black young baby fish in the tank this morning. No idea how it got there or who it belongs to but we have a new resident :)

Wonder if I should grow up?

One of the advantages of being poor on a fixed income is there are always things you want. Heck my list grows daily :) This morning I saw a 71 MG. Now I've wanted to fix up an MG since way back when. Heck I remember when you bought them new. Its just one of those things you carry around inside that you just sorta know that maybe, some day it will happen, But alas, it was not today. :(

I had a good friend in high school who committed suicide by MG. Ran under a semi trailer. Lost his head. Can't understand what he was thinking. Actually except for all the blood the car wasn't in that bad of shape after the accident. My sister in law had a Triumph for a while but it suffered from severe bad wiring.

The other side of the poor equation is you learn quickly to not be disappointed when your list grows. Plus, because my finances are probably not going to change much, I still believe a little in Santa. Plus I put a lot of belief in people.

Hey did you see the "Great Decider" now has his own "Veto Pen"? Wow, I guess he needed something new to play with since he shit all over the sandbox and made a real mess there.

The Wish Book arrived the other day. Little thinner than the old Sears Christmas catalogs we got when we were kids. Still my grandson enjoyed going through pointing out everything he wanted for Christmas. Shopping for him isn't that hard. Just sweep the boys isle into the cart. Actually, he's fixated on the Optimus Prime transformer for $40. I'm thinking his " things I want " list is going to grow a bit longer this year. Don't get me wrong here. This kid is not short in the toy department. In fact he probably has more toys than most kids. I think in my attempt not to allow him disappointment, and keep his list short I may have over done it. But most of his goodies came from the flea market so everything was like 10 cents on the dollar type stuff.

The old laptop still giving me grief. Some days it just doesn't fire up at all. In the mean time, it is hit or miss with the blog thing here.

The fish are liking the air line a lot! Hopefully I've hit on the right combination to keep them alive. Riley the dog and I have been going out early evening and running ( well he runs I roll ) about a mile to give him a bit of a work out. Its good for him. we found we can attach him to the back of my chair and run without him getting ran over by the chair. I can't go nearly as fast as he can run but we get going pretty well.

My fund raising for the all terrain wheelchair has not done very well. Out of the $10,000 for the chair and $1000 for shipping I have raised a total of $0. After a year I've given up on the church and all their promises.

I guess it will remain on my list a bit longer.............................

Christmas is coming. I figured this out about October 25th when our local Walmart started putting out the Christmas stuff mixed in with the Halloween stuff. I really wanted to get one of those animated Santa's and put a nasty Halloween mask on it to scare the little ones.

Finally after 26 years of marriage we had trick or treaters! Every year we would buy candy but our doorbell would never ring. Last year, we lived across the street from the school. Still not a boo from any small fry. But this year made up for it. From about 5 till almost 10 they showed up. Many I suspect from across the border. Had something to do with the English "trick or treat" followed with the Spanish "gracias". And the fading away voices of " what did you get "? in another language. Now I always thought we were going a bit far going to the higher end neighborhoods so the kids would get the " better " candy, but these folks have gone to another country! Now thats taking candy begging to another level.

We sold our Christmas tree a few months ago while having a garage sale. It was pretty cheap when we bought it. One of those "all inclusive" deals, lights, ornaments and tree all in one box. In the heat of garage sale mania I said " hey, lets sell the tree and get a new one " So we did, but new ones are a lot more than they were when we bought the last one. We may need to hit up somebody else's garage sale!

I think we are making real headway with the fish. There is now a small clear hose running into the tank and terminating under the pirate ship. This line feeds the air from the little air pump into the tank. We now have a steady stream of bubbles coming from the sunken ship.

Can fish be happy? Instead of spending most of their time ( I don't think time matters to fish ) at the surface of the tank sucking air, all the fish now just lazily swim around like fish are supposed to do. Pale Rider, one of the drifters no longer swims in circles at high speed. None of the fish are swimming as if " drunk " anymore. At this time it appears that we've found our solution. Of course, it cost us 11 fish to get to this point. Leaving 8 remaining.

Well I spent my morning looking over Craig's list, nothing exciting or affordable. Hopefully a positive advantage of the high price of gas will be the gas pigs will be sold really cheap.

Well I reported the McDonald's to the local Health Department and corporate offices. But as I kind of suspected, nothing else has been said. There is just to much money to be had to be concerned about the discomfort of one guy in a wheelchair.

Been trying to convince my wife to let me buy an old Jeep. Not that I've seen any affordable ones lately. My handicapped van has over 200,000 miles on it and like me last week it to spills fluids out of every orifice. We call it Big Red. Not because of its color. Its actually a nice neutral shade of gray. No red stands for Rolling Ecological Disaster. You can tell where we've parked. The van has the lift, controls seat, and raised roof that pushes the price sky high. And since we can't afford the $40 grand or better to replace it, we keep driving. My wife won't allow me to drive anymore. She is concerned the beast would brake down. With my luck it be in front of that McDonald's. :)

Anyways back to the Jeep thing. I've had Jeeps in my earlier years when I didn't use a power chair. I've had a couple CJ-7's that actually worked really well for me. I use to put the manual chair in the back and off I'd go. Because of the short wheel base I had no troubles with my limited neck movement. I also had a Cherokee at one time with an external lift that my power chair road on in the back. It worked well but the distance from back wheels to weight of chair over loaded the rear springs to much. We compensated with air shocks in the rear but they leaked to much. Plus someone stoled the lift! So now I'm thinking short wheelbase of a CJ or Sahara combined with external lift would release me from my prison and allow me freedom to come and go. To regain some independence once again.

Now if I can just talk the local dealer into a dollar a month.............

Sorry been down with the flu last few days. Than yesterday I'm feeling better so we go out and get something to eat at McDonald's. Big mistake. I got food poisoning! Chicken ( I don't even like chicken ) wrap was bad! I had uncontrollable fluids spewing from both ends all night.

Interesting I called the McDonald's spoke with the manager who said: " I'll give you a free meal anything on the menu " Like as I'm puking into the garbage can did she really think I really wanted to eat there again?

The fish are still acting weird. Goober ate a couple more of the little zebras. I'm not sure whats going on. Last night, all the fish were picking on goober. Seemed like maybe his days were over. He wasn't responding very well or defending himself. Than this morning he's all perky. Very strange. Pale Rider seems to have totally lost what ever brain he had and swims in high speed circles. When not swimming in circles he seems to struggle trying to swim straight up and down. 2-tone just seems to suck air on the surface. Not sure what the deal is.

We've decided that the gold fish need to go. We've got a friend with a pond we'll donate to. Leaving 4 zebras and goober. If goober finishes off the zebras than he'll be joining the goldfish and will start fresh. I picked up an air pump and tubing. I've long suspected that the oxegen level in the water was to low so I've decided to modify the tank slightly. This is a small 5 gallon octogon tank. No air was being added except through the filter.

Does it really matter?

Is there dark matter that holds galaxies together or not? Is this something we really need to know? Will it effect how my Wheaties fall out of the box and into the bowl. Come on, there isn't enough matter in the universe to hold galaxies together so it must be some other type of matter, dark matter can't see taste or touch but its there. Who say's science and religion don't get along? Oh but wait, if you can pull the old dark matter trick out of the hat than surely the modified gravity theory works just as well. You know the one where if condition A,B, and C is equal to D unless L is present than A, B and C = X. Oh yes that works very nicely. I think todays science is based on information provided by that little Martian guy from the Looney Toones. :)

Than there is the lost book of Nostradamus. I watched that last night on the History Channel. Lots of pretty pictures of predictions to happen in the next 4 years. Did this guy really have this fixation with Americans as the producers of this show seemed to think? Why does everything have to do with America, the Catholic Church and Muslims? I bet the rest of the world is sitting back going " Just get it over with so we can go back to normal "

I'm not to concerned about the lost book. After all, Nostradamus used words for his predictions not pictures.

Last night my grandson and I were talking when he told me that he thought one of his friends may have walked off with one of his toy cars. I asked " did you ask him about it "? He said he had but the little boy said he had not taken the car. Than my grandson said something that really concerned me. He said we should torture this little boy until he confessed. Torture I said, how do you do that? He than stated that we could lock him in a dark closet till he was so scared that he would tell where the toy was. Where did you hear about torture? In school he said, The President said it was ok to torture to get what you want.

I explained that torture does not get you what you want, and in fact really does not work. The person being tortured will say or agree to anything to stop the torture. Later, we found the car. I said are you glad we didn't torture the little boy?

Why am I discussing torture with an 8 year old anyways?

This madness has to stop.

Swim bladder infections. I didn't know fish had swim bladders! Apparently, the swim bladder can get infected very easily. In fact, looking over the web just about everything that happens to the aquarium fish effects its swim bladder.

So our fish all suffer from swim bladder infections. Hence the strange swimming behavior. Since the chemical balance in the tank is ok, and the water temps are within range I'll assume the twice per day feeding is the source of the problem. We are over feeding our fish.

We moved the stereo to a new shelf system yesterday. Originally it was sitting on a rather unstable $20 plastic shelf system we had purchased at K-Mart. Every time you would press a button on the stereo the whole shelf system wobbled. Walmart had a nice 5 shelf system made of glass, chrome and metal on clearance at a decent price so we picked one up. Last week we assembled the shelf. Took most of the day. Things do not come with clear instructions anymore. Yesterday we removed the 6 components from the plastic shelves wrestled the new and much heavier shelves into position and than returned the components to the shelves.

Before we could connect them we got side tracked. I had found an old Hitachi big screen tv on Craig's list really really cheap and the owner called to say he was going to deliver it. So we had to re-divert our energies to getting the little 20 inch tv disconnected and moved.

So, needless to say the stereo is still not all hooked up today, but we now get to watch our favorite shows and movies on a 55 inch screen. Its no where like the new stuff, but it is great for our needs. Everything is relative when you think about it. I really enjoy looking through Craig's list. It is as much fun as shopping ebay.

It turned cold last night walking the dog. Saturday we hit a high of 88 degrees. Today they are calling for mid 60's. What a change!

I think the fish ate one to many of their buddies. Wonder if there is such a thing as " mad fish disease "? Pale Rider, one of the Drifters now swims in tight little circles at full speed all the time. Goober, lurches forward in 1/2 inch burst while cleaning the glass. The rest of the Drifters all act strange blowing bubbles, and synchronized swimming.

I have not mentioned our yard. My wife has planted a large amount of flowers over the summer. Along with the flowers are the assorted statuary and solar light fixtures. We've set about a dozen little solar lighted things out in the yard but it wasn't until this morning that it occurred to me that these lights may be for another time zone than what we are currently living in. Why would I think that you say?

Every solar light we bought came with very explicit instructions. Those instructions were:

" Allow to charge for 24 hours before use ".

The sun never stays out for 24 hours in our time zone.

Speaking of instructions, I really like the simplified instructions the Chinese have come up with. Obviously all those years of writing fortune cookies has paid off. Read the instructions on Chinese fireworks: " Light fuse, and get away " No confusion there. Chinese maternity ward: " Spread legs and push " Chinese toy factory: " lead to Democracy " Sign on Chinese tank: " Protesters to front "

I had a lot of them this morning, but that was this morning.

Correction: Several post back, actually way back in the beginning I made a referance to the Hawking Effect. I errored that should of been Hawking Vapor or something like that.

Next month, I'll correct myself again.

Well the phone was really messed up. It turns out that not only was it messed up somewhere in a network box, but the phone itself had corrupt memory. They were unable to fix it. So today I got a new phone and new phone number. Talk about a double whammy.

I'll spend the day tomorrow redoing the contacts.

My phone is still messed up!! 3-7 days is what they're saying now. Bummers!

My fish are still dying. We are suspecting that ol' goober the sucker fish has acquired a taste for fresh fish. We have seen him chasing and attacking other fish. Pale Rider, one of the drifters is also high on the list. We are down to 1 neon tetra from 6, both SAE's are gone and 1 tiger tetra is gone. I've decided that if all the fish disappear and only goober is left, he'll be out on the front sidewalk with a little sign saying free fish. That does not necessarily mean that he'll be in water.

If they all die, than I think I'll try salt water and 2 clown fish.

2 years ago I purchased a really nice telescope. I've yet to really use it because I can't get the wheelchair up close enough to view through the eye piece. I have been debating now about spending $100 on a cmos camera for it. With the little camera I'd be able to view the night sky on my laptop. The only drawback there would be is my laptop is very very slow.

Its hard to make any decisions over a couple bucks when you live on a fixed income.

Well yesterday was the big day. Our new area code was started. Today my cell phone is useless. They have been warning us for months with recorded messages and text messages that the change would happen. However, its rather obvious now that they forgot to prepare themselves for the big changeover. From what I've heard mine is not the only phone with issues.

All the fish have settled in and we didn't suffer any losses. Although we probably rushed the process of introducing them to the tank. We had thought we lost the Siamese Algae Eaters but they took up house keeping inside the Pirate Shipwreck.

Its looking like we've got a full population in the tank now.

Well, we added 6 new striped Tetras and 2 Siamese Algae Eaters. The striped Tetras were a whole .37 cents each. Active and zippy little guys. We had stuck a plant in the tank a few weeks back and discovered that we now have red algae. The SAE's will eat red algae. Hence the reason for adding them.

We also noticed that the water smelled real bad!! Apparently our closed ecosystem was not doing very well after a month. So we spent a part of the day rebuilding the ecosystem. All the fish have perked up now. We'll need to do some more research on a natural method of maintaining the tanks ecosystem, but until than we've got some new chemicals to balance things out for now.

Goober's become aggressive towards the other fish. We'll need to figure out a program for him.

Where does time go? Ever wonder where time goes if you don't use it? Is it something we can store up and use later? That would be interesting. Don't have time to play today, however I've got 2 hours stored in my " time bank " we can play catch later.

Assuming that time goes out in one long stream would it be possible to have an event so large that it folds time like an accordion? Or is time sliced like a deck of cards one moment represented by each card? Than it would be possible to take time out of sequence, or to re-visit a period or section of time.

We race against the clock from the moment we are born. Sort of a reverse count down. Do we worship our watches? And if time goes by quickly if we're having fun, than would it not be that those people who suffer and do not enjoy life have more time?

What happened to the people Jesus raised from the dead? Did Lazarus die again? Or is he wandering the Earth today waiting for his just reward? Now that would be cruel twist of time.

Well we lost a total of 2 of the little neons. We considered an autopsy but the other fish ate them before we had a chance to extract the bodies. Water temp is good and clear not sure what the deal is but we went ahead and replaced the filter cartridge. Tuesday, well get a couple more plus a little hiding place for them to hide out.

We got up this morning to find that we had a death in the family. One of the neons over night died. The little bugger had been swimming a lot by itself lately. We were thinking he was just being a loaner. But this morning he's floating. The drifters as expected keep swimming up to him trying to take bites out of him.

Its interesting. Lately I've been contemplating my own mortality and how my family will deal with things. I've got no large or little life insurance. At one point I and my wife had very good life insurance policies. But our financial resources being as they are, we eventually had to let them go. Sad, for if we could of held out another couple years the policies would have become self supporting.

My disability income ends when I do. There is no consideration for family members in the SS department. You die, your family is on their own. I don't think the old "guess I just won't die" attitude is going to be the best plan. I'll need to work on this some.

We've found a new way to walk Riley the monster dog. My wife has a hard time controlling the beast when the 70 pound all muscle dog decides he wants to go and say hi to another dog. She pretty much fights him but eventually you know the dog is going to win. Originally, we tried hooking his leash to the wheelchair but he would cut in front of the chair and than get the leash caught in the chairs wheels. Than we decided to shorten up his lead. We now use 4 large carabiners (sp) to lead him with. We connect them to the back of my chair's seat. The length is long enough that he can walk to either side of me. Works great!! Plus Riley figuredout rather quickly that he can't pull me and the chair. The one time he tried the rear tire of the chair clipped his paw. Ever since than Riley goes where I go.

Plus there is always a nice slack on the lead now. Another advantage is my chair will go up to 8.5 mph.So we've been ending our little walks with a nice 2 block run and gentle walk back to the house afterwards.

I'll be back................

I missed blogging yesterday. A script ran by Google to track my activities was blocking my Linux Firefox from logging in to two separate sites. I've spent 2 hours tracking down the error. Unfortunately, last nights post was to do with my final solution to time travel and how we could undo all the errors mankind has made leading us to our ultimate demise.

However, since the powers to be at Google felt a need to adjust how they pry into my private business no doubt to add to their gold lined pockets, I was unable to make that post.

And today I've forgotten the solution. We are all doomed..............

More snails!! Yes you read correctly. We've got snails everywhere. Apparently the 2 lustful snails did something right. How I'm not sure, nor am I sure what ever they did should fall into the category of right. However, today we noticed small what appears to be snails in the Betta bowl.

Over with the Drifters in the other bowl still remains the snail from the unknown. We're still boggled over how that got there.

I've noticed if I go up to the tank with a light colored shirt all the fish will swim over and to the top. If I wear a dark color shirt they do not swim over or to the top. Wonder if the fish are seeing colors or just the light/dark of my shirt.

Think it may be worth a $500,000 study grant?......................................

Free points

See where the President of Iran wants to lay a wreath at the site of the WTC? What was our response. No. Will we ever learn? The guys falling out of favor in Iran. Now he can turn to his followers and say "I offered an olive branch, America said no. How can we deal with such people who only seem to understand war not peace?"

Of course he was out for points. And our " stay the course " bull headed attitude handed him a handful.

Been watching the sucker fish. This is interesting. The fish makes his way down the tank side sucking away. At the bottom he doesn't turn around and head back up but instead goes up backwards tail first! I have never seen this type of behavior before. Now I've got to get a second sucker fish to see what it does.

In the how did that happen department my wife and I have seen what appears to be a really small baby snail in the Aquarium. Before you go " you've been ragging on about the snails sex habits for weeks " the baby snail is in the tank with the fish, not in the bowl with the snails and betta. This is very strange.

In fact, if we were in older times someone could almost create a religion out of this............

Is that lead on your barbie or you happy to see me?

If you ingest lead do you gain weight? With all those toys and lead paint in the news lately, I'm thinking about ordering one of those test kits from Ebay. Of course you got to wonder if they work. I can see myself swabbing my grandsons toys with what appears to be a Tampon without the tube. What would be really interesting would be to test non toy items like fish. Wonder how much leads in a pet fish? Maybe I'll grab one of the drifters and rub him out!

Than you gotta wonder why fish do not appear to be affected by lead?

See where NASA is recruiting for new Astronauts? But they don't call them astronauts anymore now they are " Space Plane Pilots " You know as an Astronaut it seemed ok to sit on top of a roman candle with a billion pounds of explosives under your butt. The whole Space Plane Pilot just sounds gay to me. I can hear the announcer now: And we have liftoff of America's 217 Space Plane Pilot flaming his way to the stars. Sort of a Rocky Horror meets Buck Rogers kind of thing.

Look at the illegal thing. I've noticed a lot in the news lately. You watch, Bush is going to pull a fast one. I'm sure its one of those " Bush pretends to reduce troops, Congress slips in amnesty for the 12 million that use to be 30 million illegals into the defense bill, and we Americans bend over while Pinata's get rammed up our asses.

Now thats gay!

I really would like to know what people " Government for the people " refers to?

Almost fall

Couple more days and summer's over. Than the blistering heat of the desert just becomes the heat of the desert.

We've been seeing an increase of humming birds. Must be passing thru on the way to Mexico. Seen a few Monarchs also. My wife has planted a lot of flowers in the yard so the little critters have plenty to munch on.

Riley the dog howls with the sirens. Not really well though. I think I'll get one of those nature cd's of wolves howling so he can go into training. Teach the dog a respectable howl. We're talking about a 70 pound Shepard/wolf/ and something else dog. When my wife walks him it is more like he walks her. Last couple days we've clipped him to my chair and I've walked him. 70 pound dog has no chance against a 300 pound wheelchair and 200 pound person. He goes where I go.

Hopefully a few weeks of this and he'll stop draggingmy wife.

I talked about the Neons and Drifters, but I've left out the little sucker fish. You know the thing that looks like its a left over from the Jurassic period. Spends all day sucking up the algae that tries to grow in the tank. It does a wonderful job considering its only one. I'm thinking about getting another to keep it company.

I also wondered if fish drink? Or how do they bath?

We've been having a lot of fun around here. With some help from some generous friends our music system has been enhanced with a better cd player and nicer speakers. For the last few weeks we've been re-listening to our cd collection. Saying things like: "wow I never heard that before". We have now gone through our music collection several times, I'm gonna have to go out and buy more................

Kilogram mysteriously losing weight I read that the official weight in France has actually lost weight.

Just a wild guess but could it be out gassing?

Ever wonder why?

I like Andy Rooney. He always makes me laugh. But there are lots of questions he hasn't asked. Like: " Have you ever wondered why " you click START to turn off your computer? Ok, I know that was an old one but how about: "Have you ever wondered why " you can't get the last drops out of your soda can? "Have you ever wondered why " Do one size fits all condoms really fit every guy out there? "Have you ever wondered why " it is that the first time your wife ask you to pick up some feminine product the isle is loaded with Grandma's who just got off the bus from a bingo party?

"Have you ever wondered why " TV screens are measured diagonally? We don't watch our TV's that way. "Have you ever wondered why " Morticians are Doctors they're just afraid of failing.

Well maybe there is a reason Andy hasn't asked these questions.

How about Ceaser the Dog Whisperer? Here's a guy who expects dogs to either walk behind him or along side of him and never pull, but the first thing he does is slap on his blades and have the dog drag him down the street. Talk about mixed signals. He's not whispering, he's down right confusing the little doggies. Don't pull, mush!!

Yesterday I turned on my TV to watch a DVD movie. The screen turned black and than these words were presented " Formated to fit this screen "

"Have you ever wondered why " they get into your house to measure your TV screen?

C-ya

This is harder than I thought. Really when your life doesn't really get anywhere, there isn't that much to say. I mean face it the high lite of my day is the fact that I only took one nap today.

We met with the grandson's teachers today. Not much to talk about. School was hot. I'm glad I don't need to be there every day.

Lets see if I'm more productive on Friday.

The lady's a tramp

Having already downed a few power drinks, she turned
around, faced him, looked him straight in the eye
and said, . . . 'Listen up, buddy I screw anybody,
any time anywhere, your place, my place, in the car,
front door, back door, on the ground, standing up, sitting
down, naked or fully dressed, dirty, clean ... it
just doesn't matter to me. I've been doing it ever
since I got out of college and I just love it.'

Eyes now wide with interest, he responded - - 'No
kidding. I'm a lawyer, too. What firm are you with?'

Anyone missing a nuke?

I love to read conspiracy websites. It doesn't seem to take much to get these folks going that is for sure.

Lets see, how about the nukes being " accidentally " loaded on the B52 and flown over the country. Originally there were 6 reported cruise missiles with nuclear warheads loaded but the destination base only reported having 5. Oh wait, they miscounted it was only 5 cruise missiles loaded we miss counted, oops, we bad! I thought the Airforce had a higher education standard than this?

Someone tell the White House that they can now recruit 3 and 4 year olds to join the Airforce. Fresh meat for the oil wars.

Now here is something interesting. Go to the El A1 Isreal Airlines web site and try to book a flight out of New York on September 14th. You can't. For some reason they have decided to not fly out of New York on the 14th. Hmm, interesting. Of course its interesting until you find out that the El A1 has no flights out from anywhere on that day, which I believe is a Jewish holiday.

Of course maybe they decided not to fly because the Air National Defense network has been ordered to stand down on September 14th. You've heard this order before. They were ordered to stand down on 9-11-2001 as attacks on American soil were taking place.

I love this stuff! It is so much better than watching TV I think.

Oh, almost forgot. Another suggested that the massive search for Steve Fosset is actually a cover story. What they are really looking for is that lost nuke even though the B52 never actually flew over that area. Next they will tell us nukes can walk.


Of course to be on the safe side I think I'll stay out of New York on the 14th anyways.

The drifters, neons and betta have settled into their new feeding routine. Twice a day, and they eat it all. The snails have cut way back on their perverse activities. I'm wondering if we're going to be hearing the squshy slimey sounds of little baby snails in the near future?

I've had at least a 1/2 dozen long distance phone calls from the same number today. The person on the other end speaks Spanish only. I do not speak Spanish which is what I inform them and hang up. They keep calling. Maybe they are trying to teach me Spanish over the phone?

Next time they call, I'll see if we can meet in NY on the 14th. :)

The rewrite is in

Darn computers. Been having "issues" with my flea market laptop. Hard drive is going out so I tried to "clone" to a new/used drive. I have to dual boot XP/Linux. I'd dump XP if I could but there are 1 or 2 things I still can't do in Linux. It takes 5 minutes to boot XP. About a minute to boot Linux.

Anyways, cloning my HD failed. So I've been gone for a few days.

I saw a great political cartoon the other day. Can't remember who drew it or where it came from but it basically showed Bush walking from Air Force 1 to the General saying "Sorry it took me speech writers so long, here is your report". The Caption "The real reason why Bush was in Iraq".

It was my wife's birthday over the weekend. As she requested we did nothing. Originally, we were going out to dinner but we could not settle as to where. So as the day slipped by we finally settled on Curry Chicken at home.

The snails have all but stopped their insane sex activities. We wondered what the deal was. at first I thought they ran out of booze or smokes but that does not seem to be the issue. Than I figured all those free samples of Viagra I've collected over the years were being dropped into the fish bowl by my wife, ( for some reason she won't allow me to use the stuff ) but there still in the little pill bottle so that wasn't the case either.

Than on a whim I decided to check the water temps. Sure enough it had dropped from 82 degrees to 76 degrees. Which is obviously to cold for snail sex. Wow, who says you can't learn new stuff.

The drifters are on a diet. Told you about them asking for menus. Well we cut back on the feeding routine. Went from 4 times per day to 2. Now they eat all the food provider and not so picky.

I had bought some speakers at the local flea market a month or so ago. Upon hooking them up I discovered they were not very good and had issues. The seller agreed to refund the speakers.

Which he did yesterday. Than he turned around and sold them to another buyer. I found it interesting how he could so easily sell known defective items. Oh well buyer beware.

Another day...................

Out from under my rock

Any body seen the new Bin Laden video? Oh wait, were not allowed. Anyways from the news reports ol' Bin say's we Americans should join the Islamic faith.

Well at least he offers solutions. Maybe not the best, but much better than Mr. Bush's kiss my ass, and do what I say approach.

Last night we came to the decision we were over feeding the fish. I kinda figured it out when one of the drifters requested a menu. I didn't even know they could read.

See where Southwest Airlines wouldn't let the Hooter girl fly because of her revealing outfit? What is wrong with showing off what you got? Man Southwest use to be my favorite airline. I guess its time to shop for a new one. It wasn't that long back that airlines didn't have dress codes. Hell I learned female anatomy from a flight attendant on a trip from LA to Omaha!

Wow we have been having fun today. 1st, we're a land locked state but we are feeling the effects of a hurricane. Yesterday was interesting, we had a nice warm sunny day with flash flood warnings.

OK what is going on? Mr. "stay the course" President after talking with his advisors ( I didn't know there were any left ) on those advisors advise is going to stay the course in Iraq. Um, what was the reason for the big report we've all been holding our breaths for? And where did this set of advisors get recruited from? Wendy's, Burger King, or McDonalds?

Dang, our betta fish is a gimp! We just noticed that his left front fin isn't there. It is completely gone. Which reminds me of another question. Where do you get those little wheelchairs the frogs use after we eat their legs? Is there Medicaid/care for frogs or do they get stuck with the wheelchair bill?

I'm thinking a benefit concert may be in order. Get Willie and the boys to croon their hearts out for all those legless frogs in the world.

Paris Hilton announced she was going to have a baby by next year. Lets see, 12 months minus 9 months equals 3 months of uncontrolled wild sex to pick out the right father. If her grandfather really did disown her, how will she ever raise a child on the simple life?

Speaking of fish, we have now trained the drifters to come to us. It was pretty simple actually. Every time we walked up to the tank to feed them we would say "come" and they would swim right over. They are so well trained now we don't even say come anymore. My wife and I are Fish Whisperers. Interesting observation: Since we're not saying come so often the snails sex life has slowed to a snails pace.

I got my new speakers this morning. We spent most of the morning and part of the afternoon listening to old CD's like they were new CD's at a rather loud volume. No distortion. It was really really cool. We keep going "I never heard that before"

As I said, we are having fun today.

Hot women, and cold fish

Sorry I missed Monday, not much going on.

See this report " Men want hot women, study confirms " Who pays for this shit, and how would I get on the gravy train. How hard could this study been? question: Would you prefer a hot lathered up sex crazy woman, or a cold fish?

Come on really how many times have we all heard about stupid studies that Uncle Sam paid for? Do we really need to know all this stuff?

Oops, gotta run, I'll continue this in a bit..................

A room with a view part 2

What I want to see when I look out a window would be a meadow. Trees surround the meadow with a little brook running through the middle. I'd like to see the early morning frost of the fall glistening in the sun.

Winter should have low lying fog outlining the warmer waters of the brook. Gently rolling snow on the ground and tree branches bowing to the weight of fresh show.

Spring should be wildflowers and deer. Young fawns running and playing in the soft tall grasses.

Summer the grasses should give way to children playing in gentle summer breezes.

I want to see thunderstorms, lightning and rain. I want to feel the cold air of winter grasping at the warm house heated by the old stove. Hear the wind blow through the trees.

Damn, the snails are at it again!!

to be continued...........

A room with a view

Anybody catch this months issue of "Feel and Scream"? I heard the centerfold was fantasic!

Well we had a traitor in our group today. Yes, one of the little Neons was hanging out with the Drifters. Fortunately, this action was nipped when to Neons swam over and escorted the little confused Neon back to the school.

Been wondering about my preoccupation with our snails? Check this out:



All day long these two are at it. I feel sorry for our betta that shares the same bowl. I know he's going to need to get professional help at some point.

Today I'm thinking that some day I'd like to actually live somewhere with a view. I mean as a shut in there has to be something better to look at. Looking out the front of our house I get to see our neighbors across the street. Neighbor one older woman, very nice but wears skin tight clothes that crawl up her butt crack. Now this wouldn't be bad if her butt was something worth looking at. The other neighbor you never actually see. Just the car leaving or returning. The garage door opens, the garage door closes. The real interesting thing is 98% of the time its a little silver car, but every now and than out will come a blue car. Strange indeed.

Out back, More houses but nothing going on. In fact the most exciting thing that happens out back is rather Riley can get his leg up high enough to finally hit the bush. He usually hits his front foot.

More in part 2...........................

Snail screams?

Been watching the snails. No, not when they are doing it, that's disgusting. Like walking in on your grand parents disgusting. No I've been watching their other routine which is climb up the side of the bowl to the top of the water than fall down.

They do this all day long. Well not when they do the other thing. Up the side, fall to the bottom. Makes you wonder if they scream on the way down? I think they are playing like kids on the playground slide.

Of course, if you watch carefully every now and than you will catch the betta give a snail a little nudge than down goes the snail. Look at the betta, I think he's smiling.

The drifters in the other tank have finally braved swimming out past the neon guards. Food is a powerful persuasive tool. Even though the neons are really smaller than the drifters I think they are much smarter. The drifters swim frantically around chasing food flakes crashing into each other. The neons on the other hand, hang out underneath and wait for the food to drop.

No child left behind

I just had to add this.

" Iraq report set benchmarks to high "

Come on people anybody hear of the No Child left Behind?

You know where many school systems have complained that the " benchmarks are to high "

What a ride!!

We added 6 new fish to the tank last night. Little Neon Tetra's. Obvious educated fish they swim in schools. Unlike the 5 drifters who just hang out where ever.

I was a little concerned for the Neons. When we first set the bag in the water, the drifters started pecking at the bag. I was thinking those little guys were going to be drifter bait. But as soon as they were released, they grouped up and pushed the drifters into a corner!



Check out this chair!! I want one of these. Not to climb rocks. Just being able to get out of my house be cool. Told my wheelchair provider about this.........His response, "you can't have one"!I found a perfect used one for $10,000 fully setup its double that price new. I bet I'd be hard pressed to get that stuck!!

Medicare won't help cause I've got a chair. Plus those wo make the rules say the chair only needs to move the disabled person around the house and Doctor visits. I wish they would ask us gimp guys what we think before they start making up those rules.

So now its brainstorming time. 10,000 people each gave me a dollar I could buy this baby. 5000 people $2 bucks 200 people $50. Shoot most people spend that much on tennis shoes!

I've considered prostitution but it would take a lot of nickels to make up that kind of money.

Photo

I added a photo today, way big major step. Not much for photo's. That's me in the yellow shirt. My grandson in the orange and rounding out the party, Riley the pound dog in the black, whit, and gray. My wife is taking the photo so she isn't in this one.

See I told you a wheelchair hangs off my butt.

Helicopter Fish

All the fish survived, yippie. Ya know after setting up the tank and putting the fish in, of course than we read the instructions!!

What a blast. Been watching them off and on all morning. It is cool how fish just float, move around the whole deal. They remind me of little helicopters. I bet the inventor of the helicopter got the idea from watching fish.

Speaking of, and really I know the guys name, just can't even attempt to spell it. helicopters I've always wanted one of those RC Helicopters. The kind that has to have a 6 channel radio just to control it. We use to live in a big open house with a monster loft right above the kitchen. 17 foot high ceilings. Always thought it be cool to fly one of those electric R/C helicopters down to the kitchen, little recon/rescue mission to air lift a beer for me. How fun would that be?

Well, the beer days are long gone along with the 17 foot high ceilings. But I still want one of those electric helicopters. Still be cool.

Oh and I figured out why I bought the little aquarium and fish. Yesterday I was in Sam's Club picking up my next 3 months worth of meds. I was over by the TV's drooling over this 60 inch Sony HDTV LCD. The video playing was Aquariums of the US. I watched that for 20 minutes while my wife shopped. Next thing I know is I'm in Walmart buying one of those small octagon aquarium kits and some fish. I think I was brain washed!!!

Where has all the matter gone?

Anybody read where those space scientist are saying that the Universe is short matter by something like 90%? Now I've got a thought or two on this one. First of all maybe that 90% missing matter is in the other 13 dimensions String theorist believe floats around? That could work sorta kind of. Look are dimension only requires something like 10% matter. Recipe for dimension add 8-10% matter and fill to the rim with void. Shaken of course, not stirred.

Ok while on the string concept. My over simplified mind say's that the "string" stuff is like those Stem Cells that can pretty much become anything. Now someone famous saiid something about matter neither being created or destroyed or something like that. I slept through most of my high school years. Anyways, so we got the black holes gobbling up large chunks of real estate up there like Californians moving into Oregon. Ok originally were thinking that the black hole sucks up all this matter and its gone. Well sorta. Than Dr. Hawking comes up with the idea that stuff radiates back out of those black holes. The Hawking Effect, I think. But, what if the Hawking Effect isn't matter? What if matter sucked into the giant black holes goes throubn all that gravitational, time warping pressures of the black hole and is hawked out not as matter but as string material again?

Cool no?

Doesn't that complete the guy with the whacked out hair theory? I should sleep more often :)

I got out today!! I bought a $30 aquarium and 5 fish. Have not named them yet, we'll see how many make it through the night. Wonder if fish were Christians, how they would baptize each other? Hold their heads in the air?

Oops, gotta go see who resigned today...................

Oh wait, I got an email from my local city council person. Say's the local Police are going to start enforcing the handicapped parking. Does this mean they are going to stop parking in it?

When I grow up

When I was growing up I had a whole list of things I wanted to be. One of which was President of the United States. Of course back than the reason for such a lofty goal was pretty simple. The President gets to fly in really cool airplanes and helicopters.

The President in my early view was the only person who could make things right. Of course the news was on past my bed time so perhaps my views were a tad innocent.

Look at those great Presidents we learned of. Washington set the course of our new young nation. Lincoln with the ink of his pen freed the slaves. Kennedy sent us to the Moon, Even Nixon at least had the decency to not drag the country through a lengthy and bitter impeachment process. I'm sure all of these had their faults and some people disliked them during their terms as President. ( we know Booth wasn't a happy camper, that is for sure )

I just can't help but wonder if any kids today dream of becoming President? If they do I guess they are learning early how to be cold calculating and tell good lies.

More later...........


I didn't win the big lottery again!! Glad I didn't blow my dollar on a ticket. Can I sue Ed McMhan and Publishers Clearing House. The anxiety of waiting for Ed to show up at my door with that bigger than life check has made it hard for me to go to work.

If your against illegal activities that makes you a racist. I want to apologist to all the Muggers, rapist, murderers, and child molesters and anyone else doing illegal acts for my racist attitudes towards you. If I should ever see any of you who do illegal acts mothers, sisters, or relatives being raped or murdered or any other illegal act, I'll be sure not to allow my racist attitudes to interfere. I am so ashamed of my racist attitude.

Glad I got that off my chest...............

It's Saturday!!!!

Here I am running a bit slow this morning. Probably due to that Healthy Choice lunch I had yesterday. Today I'm doing Dorito's Lime and Jalepeno. much better!!

Ok anybody else have this problem? Our snails have sex like 10-12 times a day. Just all the time. Their sexing me out of house and home!! All those after the deed smokes add up! And who ever said a snail is slow, well let me tell you when the one snail decides its time again it can really book. Don't know which is which sex or if they are different. Could be gay snails for all I know.

The betta fish in the bowl gives us this really disgusted look every time the snails are at it. Plus the water doesn't stay clear for long with all the transfer of snail bodily fluids.

Wonder if I can sell tickets........................

Hey, where are your legs?

Damn shut in's always got the angles. Ok I guess I need to explain. From about 6 AM to 11-12 PM I sit in a wheelchair. The rest of the time I toss and turn in bed. Don't sleep much!!

Remember the dragging anatomical part? Well hell, you would drag to if your legs were missing from, oh lets say the balls on down!! Can I say that? Probably get some note from some old biddy saying how insulted she is. Hell I never said anybody had to read this stuff. It's supposed to be therapy for me.

Now if that wasn't enough my left arm is gone from the shoulder. But the worse part is I'm missing my friggin pinky on my right hand. So yeah people thats a freakin wheelchair hanging out my butt!

Funny the DMV can't seem to figure that out.

Now, don't get me wrong. This ain't so bad once you get use to it. So back to the shut in thing.

My wheelchair cost something like $26000 dollars. Which is a lot of money!! Lucky for me Medicare helps out. Now I'm not complaining, I tried skateboards and believe me wheelchairs are a lot easier on the ass, but the way Medicare looks at things a wheelchair only needs to get the disabled person around his or her house. They don't care if it gets stuck outside.

Now I live in a desert, you know where it gets HOT like the rest of the country been doing lately. Last year I got stuck in triple digit temps 7 times. Once in my own back yard and the fire department had to rescue me. So far this year only 3 times stuck. But as I said I don't get out much!

Anyways, I'd like to have an outdoor chair but those who make rules in Washington don't think I should go out! And although I did once consider selling my "services" it would take a lot of nickels to come up with that $26 grand amount.

More to follow..............

Just had lunch, Healthy Choice TV dinner. Come on how can it be healthy for you if you eat the whole thing and your still hungry? I end up running around the kitchen looking for all kinds of goodies to eat. Now a healthy choice would be like a box of Ho Ho's. Try it, eat the whole damn box when you are finished you are full, not this hungry crap! Speaking of healthy, if this food is so healthy why do you still need to take a dump after eating it? I would of thought if healthy there be no waste bi products? And really how healthy can it be after sitting in a 1000 watt microwave at full power for 4 minutes? See you don't nuke Ho Ho's!

More about me. I've got, well had, one died, 3 grown children 2 boys 1 girl. Since they all hated me at one point or another in their lives, I'm pretty sure they are mine. Besides at the time the mailman was banging the mail lady so I don't think he had time.

If you have not noticed I am the product of late 60's Virginia education system. The spelling and grammar errors probably gave it away. Who cares, feel free to correct anything I misspell or punctuate wrong. To many freaking rules if you ask me.

OK now what?

Well I did it. I now have a blog. What the hell does blog mean anyway? I'm just going to ramble here every now and than. I once came up with the answer to all questions but forgot it an hour later. Maybe I should of started a blog sooner.

I don't care if you don't like what I write, hell half the time I don't like it either. I have a tendency to argue a point and in mid stream reverse my position. Comes with being shut in I think. Also I have no friends but me. Really I like myself. Besides all of my other friends died prematurely. No I had nothing to do with their untimely deaths except that they knew me.

If you're looking for money, don't waste your time. I don't have any.

I met my wife skiing in Vermont 26 years ago. I told her a certain anatomical part of my body touched the floor. Like I said, that was 26 years ago. I didn't lie :)

To be continued.................