That did NOT just happen!

September 6, 2011

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Oh, crap.  How did that happen?

Well, I suppose it beats the alternative!

Perhaps the focus should now become how high can I get that number?

It was Monday, BTW.

Thanks to all who wished me a Happy Day.

Remind me not to do that again

September 4, 2011

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Well, that was a complete waste of a Saturday!

I woke up a bit earlier than normal, and was looking through my emails when I saw one recommending a story site on the internet, and one particular story.  I checked it out, and started reading at about 1pm.  It didn’t look to be too long of a story, although it was listed at 33 chapters.  Now, “chapters” on online sites tend to be a few paragraphs, so I thought I could knock that out fairly quickly.  I’m a fast reader, and can burn through a story pretty quickly.

Bad idea.

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A Lazy Sunday Afternoon

August 28, 2011

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I’m being lazy today.  I was lazy yesterday, too. Friday wasn’t very hectic, either. All in all, a decent weekend.

Mom, the 1970’s, the closet, and burdens unseen

August 13, 2011

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Today is my Mother’s 72nd birthday.  (This photo is from about ten years ago)  After a nice visit, where my niece, and then my nephew and his family stopped by, I was saying goodbye, when Mom said something that kind of stunned me.

“I’m just sorry I wasn’t a better mother for you.  Maybe then you wouldn’t have been so…   unhappy.”

I don’t recall her ever having mentioned anything to give me a hint that she might have felt inadequate as a parent, and that I might have suffered as a result.

As I was leaving, I told her, of course, that she was the best, and there was no doubt of that.  Especially, I said, if she were to compare herself to some of the mothers of people I knew growing up.  Some of them were real witches!  I told her that if anyone ever thought of her as a witch, it could only have been as Glinda.  (Interestingly, The Wizard of Oz came out in the same year Mom was born. Coincidence? I think not.)

As I was driving home, it occurred to me that she might have been carrying this burden of thinking herself inadequate for some time.  As that thought process worked it’s way through my head,  it collided with several baggage cars of my own personal freight train.  In no particular order:  I had never noticed that she might be feeling like a failure as a mother, that I come across as “unhappy” or at least seemed that way to her, now or in the past, and that she might be feeling responsible for my difficulties coming to terms with my homosexuality.

I think we’re going to have to have a talk.

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9-1-1, what is your emergency? (enter)

August 11, 2011

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The FCC is working on plans to allow texting, picture, and video communications with 9-1-1 centers.  It will require a revamping of the system from circuit-switched to IP based technology.  That, of course, isn’t going to be cheap.  We’ll see if Congress supplies the funding for such a rebuilding of the system.

This should be fun.  If it ever happens here, I’ll keep you updated.

Your signal is fuzzy….

August 7, 2011

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Maybe up the power or something, you’re not holding the repeater!

You’ll NOT put a towel down on MY floor, by Gawd!

July 29, 2011

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At least she didn’t call 9-1-1….

But she did call the Sheriff’s Office because her roommate told her she couldn’t put a towel on the floor while she took a shower.  They actually got into a heated argument about it, to the point where shower girl called the cops!  The other half fled before the Deputy arrived, so not much got resolved.  We don’t even know if towel girl got to take her shower,  bare floor or not.

 

Atlantis lands, Shuttles retired, NASA’s next mission is… what?

July 21, 2011

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Space Shuttle Atlantis lands at the Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida, in the pre-dawn hours of July 21, 2011.  42 years and one day after Apollo 11’s Eagle landed on the Moon’s Sea of Tranquility, the last shuttle to fly touches down on KSC’s runway 15.

It’s appropriate that this image shows the shuttle touching down in the dark, because the United States now has no manned access to space.

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Ted’s Birthday Party

July 18, 2011

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Ted’s 36th birthday bash at the Fresno Express was held Sunday night, with a good time had by all.

 

You think you had a bad day?

July 15, 2011

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It’s not often we feel sorry for the “bad guy”, but this time it’s a near thing.

Here’s tonight’s story of a poor guy who just can’t catch a break….

He was released from prison early in the day.  He gets back to Tulare County, and just about the first thing that happens is he gets stopped by a deputy, who proceeds to do what we call an “FI”, a field interview (or interrogation).  After that, the two “buddies” with him apparently blame him for being harassed by the cops, so after the deputies have gone they decide to start beating the crap out of him.  Someone sees that, and calls 9-1-1, and the deputies head back to intervene.  Of course, once they get back on scene, the “buddies” have flown the coop, and our poor “bad guy” is sporting some bruises and scratches.  “Bad guy” refuses medical help, and is not interested in prosecuting his “buddies”.  Since he won’t cooperate, and his injuries are not severe, the deputies leave.  Some time later, but not much, “bad guy”, who is now on foot, gets hit by a car!  Of course, it’s hit and run, and the driver gets away.  9-1-1 gets called again, and deputies, CHP, and an ambulance are dispatched.

While our just-released ex-con is laying on the road, waiting for the ambulance and the cops to arrive, someone decides to kick the crap out of him!  Of course, THEY take off before the good guys arrive, and we don’t have any arrests (so far) for either the hit and run, or the assault.  To add insult to his now many injuries, his common-law wife takes all his money, his last 3 bucks, out of his pocket, and leaves him laying in the road!  By this time a crowd had gathered, and when the deputies, ambulance, EMTs, and CHP arrive, they tell them of the last few minutes of our poor “bad guy’s” day.

So let’s recap: Gets out of prison. Gets stopped by the cops.  Gets beat up by “friends”.  Gets hit by a car.  Gets kicked senseless (or more senseless than the hit and run caused) by one or more individuals while he’s laying in the road.  His “girlfriend” rummages through his pockets, and takes his last $3!  Once help arrives, he ends up being helicoptered to Fresno for emergency medical treatment.

In what might be the only good news in this story, the “girlfriend/common law wife” was arrested for being under the influence, and for robbery.  She sits in jail as he lays in the hospital.

It’s almost enough to make you feel sorry for him.  Almost.

Compared to this, I don’t think I’ve ever had a bad day.

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