One Month Later

... and I am on vacation again. The winter hasn't really started as of yet. This weekend did not look good for winter sports enthusiasts, but I'm still holding out hope for this weekend.
For now though, I will be content to make a couple of trips to the Home Depot, and get some work done inside the house, i.e wall plastering, and a few other small projects.

A Mournful Occasion

I was looking at a few of my earlier posts, when I saw the post about the two most annoying dogs in the world, getting their shots. Since then, one of them died. He was at least thirteen, because he was six when my family got him. He jumped up on my bed, then died, presumably in his sleep. I only mention this now, because one of my family's two cats just died this weekend, in much the same way.
They were both good pets, and each had great qualities about them. Neither was perfect, but both were affectionate. It makes me wonder sometimes about our tendency to attribute human emotions to animals. Basic emotions have to be there, including a fear response, and I wonder since I was there for neither death, were they scared when it happened?
I hope not, I hope they just went down to sleep and never woke up.
Goodbye and Goodnight Moses, and you too Ricky, Good Boys.

It's Been Awhile

I haven't written on here since April, and if I checked it out, it would probably say something on my last couple of entries about not writing for long spans. Not a lot has happened, since my last post. This being more of a journal entry, I'll keep it short; I just finished out a 72 hour work week, with 8 hours of holiday pay for Veteran's Day. Now, I am on a nine day vacation. That's right kids; Thanksgiving Week off.

There's a lot that I have been unnecessarily putting off, and I hope to directly address all of those things. I have been planning on signing up for the gym after another too long hiatus. Maybe Monday morning I'll take my open morning and do that...My garage-into-office-and-workshop project was also held up, and I think I'll be revisiting that as well. I have a few other things, but for the most part, I haven't had this much time off to myself without being unemployed, before. I am really looking forward to it.

Here's to next time I write, hopefully sooner than 7 months, seven days maybe.

Green Machine

I 've recently bought my brother's 2000 Ford Mustang. It is sitting in the driveway with a short list of things that need to be updated including a new front bumper (it's cracked), and a paint-job (scratched and marred in several places). Not driven by vanity, but these are aesthetic things that need to be fixed because of wear-and-tear on the exterior. He's tough on his car.

Anyway, as the title suggests, it is green. I'm planning several color schemes. I'll make some before and after photos. The before pictures will be posted sooner, and the after pictures probably won't be around until August. (Taking my time making decisions and budgeting.)

President Stupid

Chief of Staff, Andrew Card, has [resigned] been replaced. Yeah, he was the problem, now everything will run smoothly.

GWB Job Approval Rating: 34% positive; 65% negative in November 2005. Currently it's a job approval rating: 36% positive; 64% negative. [March 2006] While in most cases this 2% flux isn't very important, it is still only slightly better than 2/3rds of the country thinking he's doing poorly.

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That's our guy, our stupid, stupid, stupid guy. Breathes on his own ladies and gentlemen.

Dawn of the Dead

I have finally re-awakened to the rest of the world. I am for the time-being, off awake-overnights, and working in the normal day hours. I have quickly resumed sleeping for eight hours, eating meals with others, and relaxing in the evening as appossed to forcing myself to sleep so I'll stay awake.

I will also be taking more time to spend on this, my blog, and my previous website. I don't have a lot to say right now, but that will change shortly. I'm sure to have something to complain about by the week's end.

Goodafternoon, and I'll write something soon.