I got a little behind this morning so later than usual this nothing will be. NO! I didn't mean that! Pull your mind up out of there. I just took a little time to answer a few messages instead of trying to lump all of the answers in another generic note to all. I may not be getting any better at this crap but I haven't quite given up the trying yet.
So many things are reliant on your head to happen. By the time my head finally thinks of something to type, it's been run thru there so many times that I am wore out with it and feel real sure it won't be interesting. I, with the help of my head, come up with something else. Unfortunately, it is usually with the same results. I can't see how anyone could have ever said that I was quite a talker. I suppose a face to face talk doesn't require much thought, just a reaction. Maybe I was a good reactor.
A trip to Osage Beach is the talk. Just a drive through the rain with the possibility of a severe weather happening before we get back. Remember, a pain does not insure a gain!
I'm not going to put too much in worry over it. I worried about getting a message typed and look where it got me. The thunder is pushing me to a quick unplugging here.....Bye
While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love. -Bo Bennett
(Extra) "You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think." - Dorothy Parker
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Monday, March 31, 2008
Sunday, March 30, 2008
March 30
So far our unofficial precipitation monitor has only caught enough to fill itself up to the 1.5 inch line, but we're told that quite a bit more will be entering the things receiver between now and Tuesday morning. The lake is at something like 658.8 feet leaving only 1.2 before full reservoir or so I just read and it was dated this morning. This huge body of sewer water has a real baby shit brown hue to it, one that I've not seen for a long time. If it stays like this the sun won't be able to penetrate enough to maintain the growth of the sewer grass about which I doubt there will be many complainers.
Whoa now! A little bit of lightning created thunder and something is going wrong with our computer. Big ass malfunction is what we've got.
"You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in." - Arlo Guthrie
Whoa now! A little bit of lightning created thunder and something is going wrong with our computer. Big ass malfunction is what we've got.
"You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in." - Arlo Guthrie
Friday, March 28, 2008
March 28
Glenda says we're bound for a little trip to town, Eldon that is, home of the most worn out bowling alley in use today. Of course that is our main destination. It's just that the folks that run it are so nice and I mean that. They always serve us a huge plate of cookies and give us free coffee. I think they provide that so as to give us something sweet to do while we sit around waiting for one alley or the other to be repaired so we can continue. Oh, did I mention that the special old folks Friday price of only $1.25 per game? They really can't be making a lot of money there.
Watching and hearing them on TV, I don't care which one of the three, McCain, Clinton or Obama becomes our president, we're in for a very terrible next four years! How did we idiots ever end up with those three choices? Of course half or two thirds of what they say they're going to do will never come to pass but the wonder of what will come to pass is a strong worry maker. I will go as far to say that if you yourself is not a little bit worried, you're sorrowfully disconnected from reality! That or you are a very young person or very immature person.
"There are. intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters or the refusal to listen." - Natalie Clifford Barney
Watching and hearing them on TV, I don't care which one of the three, McCain, Clinton or Obama becomes our president, we're in for a very terrible next four years! How did we idiots ever end up with those three choices? Of course half or two thirds of what they say they're going to do will never come to pass but the wonder of what will come to pass is a strong worry maker. I will go as far to say that if you yourself is not a little bit worried, you're sorrowfully disconnected from reality! That or you are a very young person or very immature person.
"There are. intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters or the refusal to listen." - Natalie Clifford Barney
Thursday, March 27, 2008
March 27
My new deepened voice will not go away for some reason. Could it be that my voice is now resounding thru my huge bass drum like middle?
Yesterday, I came down the garage with my arms loaded with a 50 lb. bag of water softer salt and had to kick on the door and holler for Glenda to open it. After several shouts, I heard her tentatively ask, "who is it". Said she didn't recognize my voice. Damn, you don't need to be a blond to be exasperating.
When she finally opened the door she had Mikey growling beside her and a can of pepper spray in her hand. I guess I can't fault her for being cautious but why did she haft to shoot me twice in the face. It sure did pep me up tho, as I sailed down the steps with that 50 lbs of salt. Thankfully it landed first but Glenda said it made her think of saltpeter because of the salt, my landing on top and my gyrations caused by the spray made it appear that I was humping it and yet she said, she couldn't detect anything sexual during the ordeal other than my screaming the F word eleven times as I sailed. I personally think it was only twice but what idiot wants to argue with a ding-a-ling holding a pepper spray can.
Guess I can say too, that spring can't be here yet because my taste buds still seem to be dormant.
"Exaggeration is the inseparable companion of greatness." - Voltaire
Yesterday, I came down the garage with my arms loaded with a 50 lb. bag of water softer salt and had to kick on the door and holler for Glenda to open it. After several shouts, I heard her tentatively ask, "who is it". Said she didn't recognize my voice. Damn, you don't need to be a blond to be exasperating.
When she finally opened the door she had Mikey growling beside her and a can of pepper spray in her hand. I guess I can't fault her for being cautious but why did she haft to shoot me twice in the face. It sure did pep me up tho, as I sailed down the steps with that 50 lbs of salt. Thankfully it landed first but Glenda said it made her think of saltpeter because of the salt, my landing on top and my gyrations caused by the spray made it appear that I was humping it and yet she said, she couldn't detect anything sexual during the ordeal other than my screaming the F word eleven times as I sailed. I personally think it was only twice but what idiot wants to argue with a ding-a-ling holding a pepper spray can.
Guess I can say too, that spring can't be here yet because my taste buds still seem to be dormant.
"Exaggeration is the inseparable companion of greatness." - Voltaire
March 25
I don't believe in being sick and refuse to be, but for a little over a week now my body has been going thru a process of some kind that made it a little less comfortable than it usually is. Today most of that discomfort seems to gone. The body is still trying to expel a few remnants of the process such as producing a little cough now and then in an attempt to dissipate the wheezing instigators. All in your head I say, all in your head.
You know that a healthy person without a little mind control can be made sickly just by several people telling him he doesn't look well. Silly isn't it? With Glenda telling me several times a day and everyone she talked to that I was sick and had the flu or something, then with the effect the process had on my voice causing folks whom I talked with in person or on the phone to tell me how bad I sounded, my resolve took a hell of a beating. Thank goodness I was still able to retain a little mind control or I might have ended up in the hospital or possibly even dead by now. It's surly true that sticks and stones can break your bones, but I believe with the right frame of mind, words can never make you sick.
"Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their words" - Eileen Caddy
You know that a healthy person without a little mind control can be made sickly just by several people telling him he doesn't look well. Silly isn't it? With Glenda telling me several times a day and everyone she talked to that I was sick and had the flu or something, then with the effect the process had on my voice causing folks whom I talked with in person or on the phone to tell me how bad I sounded, my resolve took a hell of a beating. Thank goodness I was still able to retain a little mind control or I might have ended up in the hospital or possibly even dead by now. It's surly true that sticks and stones can break your bones, but I believe with the right frame of mind, words can never make you sick.
"Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their words" - Eileen Caddy
Monday, March 24, 2008
March 24
Finally finished off the bottle of Ron's Nutkin' Futs this morning. This was given to us by the eldest daughter, as a gift about four years or more ago. A warning that I ignored when we first received it really got my attention about five minutes after taking a bite of food dowsed with it. It took me that long to get my mind back into a somewhat usable mode. On the bottle it say's, "WARNING! ONE DROP AT A TIME! This product contains the hottest know ingredients in the universe." Whoopee do, hot doesn't bother me! That first bite made a liar and a believer out of me! And another warning there-on, "NOT FOR PEOPLE WITH HEART OR RESPIRATORY PROBLEMS" was not put there just for a sales gimmick either since a large part of the first five minutes was spent in trying to get my breath and slow down my ever beating heart. I thought I was going to die!
I did learn very quickly to use it ultra sparingly and have enjoyed a drop or two with my breakfast for the past four years at least. We also learned to pay attention to another note on the bottle that say's, "KEEP AWAY FROM EYES, SENSITIVE BODY PARTS, PETS AND CHILDREN". This particular teaching came in several ways over the years but the one I'll relate was by me leaving a part of one of the drops on the plate. A few minutes after Glenda submerged the plate for washing her hands began to burn. It took three or four good burnings before she figured out what the problem was. Now, after eating I remove any residue from the plate with my napkin before tendering it for a wash. You know burning hands caused by an unknown is a very complicated problem to correct.
We did talk to LaDonna, thanking her another time for the gift and following that with a request that she never send us another bottle.
"Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside." - Dr. Melba Colgrove
I did learn very quickly to use it ultra sparingly and have enjoyed a drop or two with my breakfast for the past four years at least. We also learned to pay attention to another note on the bottle that say's, "KEEP AWAY FROM EYES, SENSITIVE BODY PARTS, PETS AND CHILDREN". This particular teaching came in several ways over the years but the one I'll relate was by me leaving a part of one of the drops on the plate. A few minutes after Glenda submerged the plate for washing her hands began to burn. It took three or four good burnings before she figured out what the problem was. Now, after eating I remove any residue from the plate with my napkin before tendering it for a wash. You know burning hands caused by an unknown is a very complicated problem to correct.
We did talk to LaDonna, thanking her another time for the gift and following that with a request that she never send us another bottle.
"Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside." - Dr. Melba Colgrove
Saturday, March 22, 2008
March 21
Took Dory to the boat in Boonville to feed her a huge buffet meal in honor of her birthday today. The boat was very honored to have us too or at least I calculate it that way. The fickle finger of fate or whatever stepped in and surprised us with a royal flush for $1,000 as we were preparing to leave. Had some leftover after filling the car up too.
Everybody wants to sell you an annuity and like the guy said the other night, as we sat waiting for the free meal that cost him over $500 to fund, "we don't charge you a thing when we sell you an annuity, the insurance company pays us." I looked around, didn't find out how much they are paid but ran across these things.
How One Agent Skyrocketed His Commissions to $354,697 in 7 Months by Selling Annuities. These investment contracts often carry high commissions, onerous fees and surrender charges—the hefty charges that must be paid if an investor pulls money out of an annuity early. In some cases, annuities can increase the investor’s tax burden and can stick heirs with large tax bills. Once the investor starts withdrawing money from an annuity, the capital gains are taxed as ordinary income rather than at the lower capital-gains rates.
http://www.aarp.org/money/wise_consumer/investment_fraud/risky_recipe_variable_annuities_and_a_free_meal.html
On July 2, 2002, page CO-1 of the Wall Street Journal contained a report by Ellen E. Schultz and Jeff D. Opdyke titled "Annuities 101: How to Sell to Senior Citizens."
The report described a training session of "Annuity University," self-proclaimed as the "Nation's first and foremost Annuity Sales Training School." The Annuity University instructor educated the attendees about seniors and selling annuities to them. The WSJ report provided quotes from the training session, including these:
"Treat them like they're blind 12-year-olds . . . ."
"There's the technical answer," . . . and "there's the senior answer. Tell them it's like a CD -- it's safe, it's guaranteed."
"You're there to solve their problems, but you have to create those problems first. No problem, no sale."
"Tell them you can protect their life savings from nursing-home and Medicaid seizure of assets. They don't know what that is, but it sounds scary."
"It's about putting a pitchfork in their chest." (emphasis added)
"Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich, something for nothing." - George Bernard Shaw
Everybody wants to sell you an annuity and like the guy said the other night, as we sat waiting for the free meal that cost him over $500 to fund, "we don't charge you a thing when we sell you an annuity, the insurance company pays us." I looked around, didn't find out how much they are paid but ran across these things.
How One Agent Skyrocketed His Commissions to $354,697 in 7 Months by Selling Annuities. These investment contracts often carry high commissions, onerous fees and surrender charges—the hefty charges that must be paid if an investor pulls money out of an annuity early. In some cases, annuities can increase the investor’s tax burden and can stick heirs with large tax bills. Once the investor starts withdrawing money from an annuity, the capital gains are taxed as ordinary income rather than at the lower capital-gains rates.
http://www.aarp.org/money/wise_consumer/investment_fraud/risky_recipe_variable_annuities_and_a_free_meal.html
On July 2, 2002, page CO-1 of the Wall Street Journal contained a report by Ellen E. Schultz and Jeff D. Opdyke titled "Annuities 101: How to Sell to Senior Citizens."
The report described a training session of "Annuity University," self-proclaimed as the "Nation's first and foremost Annuity Sales Training School." The Annuity University instructor educated the attendees about seniors and selling annuities to them. The WSJ report provided quotes from the training session, including these:
"Treat them like they're blind 12-year-olds . . . ."
"There's the technical answer," . . . and "there's the senior answer. Tell them it's like a CD -- it's safe, it's guaranteed."
"You're there to solve their problems, but you have to create those problems first. No problem, no sale."
"Tell them you can protect their life savings from nursing-home and Medicaid seizure of assets. They don't know what that is, but it sounds scary."
"It's about putting a pitchfork in their chest." (emphasis added)
"Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich, something for nothing." - George Bernard Shaw
March 19
Wowee! We still have our head above water here but had began to think the rain was here to stay. Believe it or not our measuring device indicates that we only received 4 inches over the past few days. Even at that, with the human body being 61.8 percent water we could make a hell of a lot of people with just the 4 inches of rain.
A motor trip, fueled with about $9.80 worth of gasoline round trip, is planned for today. To Jeff City we'll be bound, a visit with Lena and dropping off Ruth's, Glenda prepared taxes, then visiting with her for awhile too.
Lunch will probably take place at the Senior Center in the mall where we can eat pretty good for only $2.50 each. That destination for lunch came out of the brand new budget we had to work up because of the high cost of the gasoline. Unfortunately, it looks like we still may need to dip into our meager savings just to meet all our few monthly obligations.
By the way the meal last night at Ruthie D's was pretty good but like all these free meal deals, the no sales pitch, sales pitch was that same old pushing of annuities. For any financial problem, it seems the answer lies in some annuity somewhere. The different groups that sponsor these free meal deals always seem to specialize only in the older retired folks for some reason.
“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and those are the people you need to concentrate on.” —Robert Strauss
A motor trip, fueled with about $9.80 worth of gasoline round trip, is planned for today. To Jeff City we'll be bound, a visit with Lena and dropping off Ruth's, Glenda prepared taxes, then visiting with her for awhile too.
Lunch will probably take place at the Senior Center in the mall where we can eat pretty good for only $2.50 each. That destination for lunch came out of the brand new budget we had to work up because of the high cost of the gasoline. Unfortunately, it looks like we still may need to dip into our meager savings just to meet all our few monthly obligations.
By the way the meal last night at Ruthie D's was pretty good but like all these free meal deals, the no sales pitch, sales pitch was that same old pushing of annuities. For any financial problem, it seems the answer lies in some annuity somewhere. The different groups that sponsor these free meal deals always seem to specialize only in the older retired folks for some reason.
“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and those are the people you need to concentrate on.” —Robert Strauss
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
March 18
Finally found the ombrometer yesterday morning and put it out during a lull in the rain. Have no idea how much precipitation we received prior to that, but since it has accumulated 2.2 inches of the stuff. It's still raining and the forecast tells us that, in this area it will probably keep doing some large drops of dew all day. Do what you dew, dew well mother. Some like it and some don't, either way I guess you could say, it's what floats your boat.
We have one of those, 'come join us and enjoy a free meal at the spiffy Ruthie D's restaurant on Horseshoe Bend to attend this evening. All we are asked to do for payment, is show up and sit through one of those teaching lesson/sales pitch that will show us 'How to recession proof our retirement and protect our nest egg from Uncle Sam' type presentation.
With the cost of gasoline it won't be a free ride. Our fuel cost will run us right at $5.60 round trip but.....we won't need to leave a tip. We do want to attend and keep the presenter happy with us so we might be invited again some day. To get attendies, I expect that down the road they will need to add a free gasoline chit into the sucking enticement and we wouldn't want to miss out on any of those.
"Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to." - Jonathan Swift
We have one of those, 'come join us and enjoy a free meal at the spiffy Ruthie D's restaurant on Horseshoe Bend to attend this evening. All we are asked to do for payment, is show up and sit through one of those teaching lesson/sales pitch that will show us 'How to recession proof our retirement and protect our nest egg from Uncle Sam' type presentation.
With the cost of gasoline it won't be a free ride. Our fuel cost will run us right at $5.60 round trip but.....we won't need to leave a tip. We do want to attend and keep the presenter happy with us so we might be invited again some day. To get attendies, I expect that down the road they will need to add a free gasoline chit into the sucking enticement and we wouldn't want to miss out on any of those.
"Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to." - Jonathan Swift
March 17
We're getting a whale of a rain storm right now. Too bad it didn't get here until I was out of bed and dressed, I would have certainly stayed there. There is nothing like a hard rain to soothe one into sleep, sleepy or not.
Looked high (garage) and low (house) for the rain gage but didn't find it. When the rain hit I gave the useless hunting task up. I'm almost positive it's right there where I put it! Wonder where that was. I absolutely know where I put it the first time but it not being there now indicates to me that I may have moved it for some reason. Shoot, if I could only remember the reason, it might possibly provide me with the where.
The lightning is providing me with a secondary reason to shut the computer down as it follows closely the fact I have pretty well lost interest in this task.
"There are no uninteresting things, there are only uninterested people." - Gilbert K. Chesterton
Looked high (garage) and low (house) for the rain gage but didn't find it. When the rain hit I gave the useless hunting task up. I'm almost positive it's right there where I put it! Wonder where that was. I absolutely know where I put it the first time but it not being there now indicates to me that I may have moved it for some reason. Shoot, if I could only remember the reason, it might possibly provide me with the where.
The lightning is providing me with a secondary reason to shut the computer down as it follows closely the fact I have pretty well lost interest in this task.
"There are no uninteresting things, there are only uninterested people." - Gilbert K. Chesterton
Saturday, March 15, 2008
March 15
Yep, it's raining here and it's said it will do so most of the day and with a possibility of a few snow flurries mixed in. Don't worry about the mule just give him some water.
I'm trying to disbelieve what I heard with my own amplified ears and saw with my own eyes this morning. On NBC as they played Jeremiah Wright's "God damn, America!" speech they allowed the words, God damn to play but just a few seconds later bleeped out the word nigger when he used it. Sick sick sick. What is the world coming to?
A terrible bunch of candidates is what I see. A worrisome four years coming no matter who of the three becomes the next president. It is only possible that one might create a little less worry than the others.
"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself."
I'm trying to disbelieve what I heard with my own amplified ears and saw with my own eyes this morning. On NBC as they played Jeremiah Wright's "God damn, America!" speech they allowed the words, God damn to play but just a few seconds later bleeped out the word nigger when he used it. Sick sick sick. What is the world coming to?
A terrible bunch of candidates is what I see. A worrisome four years coming no matter who of the three becomes the next president. It is only possible that one might create a little less worry than the others.
"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself."
March 14
Sitting in a funeral parlor for 45 minutes waiting for the ceremony for the deceased to begin, there isn't much talk carrying on. This wasted time gives some of us a solitude moment right there in the middle of a whole bunch of other folks lost in their own thought.
Not that you would be interested but into my quite time wasted thoughts seeped in, some things that has confused me some in the past too. The fact that only the living humans are saddened by the loss of their friend or relative. We the living are very, very selfish people. We are saddened by our loss! I, me, mine, my loss!
What about the deceased? He/she has lost their life, what about that? We're always told that with death comes a better time without worries or strife, things that are all common to life.
Under these circumstances I can't help but think how much better things would be if the mortician would put a huge smile on the deceased ones face and crinkle the flesh around the eyes a little and leave the eyes open. This could help all the viewers better understand that the deceased ones happy to ride his spirit to the much better place.
Then again, I suppose I could be wrong about all this.
"Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed." - William Cowper
Not that you would be interested but into my quite time wasted thoughts seeped in, some things that has confused me some in the past too. The fact that only the living humans are saddened by the loss of their friend or relative. We the living are very, very selfish people. We are saddened by our loss! I, me, mine, my loss!
What about the deceased? He/she has lost their life, what about that? We're always told that with death comes a better time without worries or strife, things that are all common to life.
Under these circumstances I can't help but think how much better things would be if the mortician would put a huge smile on the deceased ones face and crinkle the flesh around the eyes a little and leave the eyes open. This could help all the viewers better understand that the deceased ones happy to ride his spirit to the much better place.
Then again, I suppose I could be wrong about all this.
"Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed." - William Cowper
Thursday, March 13, 2008
March 13
You might find a deal on something, find a neat internet site or find a real good book at the library but a possession must be lost before it can be found. That is exactly what happened here. I lost my hearing aid Tuesday and Dory found it yesterday. How quickly a sadness can jump up the scale to become a celebratory mood is amazing.
We bought batteries for the metal detector yesterday then put it to work when we got home. The detector didn't really detect it but I give it credit for the find. Dory was using it in the yard and the need to swing it back and forth slows your forward movement. Because of the slow walk Dory was able to take a closer look and spied the thing off to her left. What a great moment! It was in an area that we had both traversed many times during out initial search and several more times during the subsequent searches that we conducted. A good bit of exercise being the only results of those many $1200.00 motivated sad walks.
In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it. ~Jane Smith
We bought batteries for the metal detector yesterday then put it to work when we got home. The detector didn't really detect it but I give it credit for the find. Dory was using it in the yard and the need to swing it back and forth slows your forward movement. Because of the slow walk Dory was able to take a closer look and spied the thing off to her left. What a great moment! It was in an area that we had both traversed many times during out initial search and several more times during the subsequent searches that we conducted. A good bit of exercise being the only results of those many $1200.00 motivated sad walks.
In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it. ~Jane Smith
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
March 12
I don't care much for this daylight savings time thing. Getting up at 4:00 or 4:30 that they are now calling 5:00 or 5:30 leaves a whole lot of dark left before the dawn and sun gets around to erasing it. I do like to see the sun rise but I was able to do that with the real 5:00/5:30 time and didn't haft to wait so long for it to come.
Sad it was yesterday when I discovered we had lost about $1200.00 and I didn't hear it coming. Just before noon I reached around to adjust my hearing amplifiers and found there was no place there to adjust the left one. Still had the $50, in my ear part, in my ear but the $1200 heart of the matter was missing. Dory and I both spent several hours searching the house, garage, yard and down the road to base of the hill out of here, all to no avail. Goodness, I didn't go out till 10:00 and didn't realize until the loss, just how much territory I cover in a couple hours during a nice warm sunny day.
The death of a Lena and Dory friend or at least a good acquaintance has us going to Jeff City this morning. We'll pick Lena up then go pay our respects.
"Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced."~ Emile Durkheim
Sad it was yesterday when I discovered we had lost about $1200.00 and I didn't hear it coming. Just before noon I reached around to adjust my hearing amplifiers and found there was no place there to adjust the left one. Still had the $50, in my ear part, in my ear but the $1200 heart of the matter was missing. Dory and I both spent several hours searching the house, garage, yard and down the road to base of the hill out of here, all to no avail. Goodness, I didn't go out till 10:00 and didn't realize until the loss, just how much territory I cover in a couple hours during a nice warm sunny day.
The death of a Lena and Dory friend or at least a good acquaintance has us going to Jeff City this morning. We'll pick Lena up then go pay our respects.
"Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced."~ Emile Durkheim
Monday, March 10, 2008
March 10
Have you ever been sitting in your car at a stop light when a deep deep base sounding boom boom began tickling at your ear holes? Then it continues to become louder and louder, so loud that it interferes with any thought process you might have running at the time and turning the up-curled sides of your lips to droop almost to your chin. As your mirror and some parts on your dash begin to vibrate a small car passes in front of you with all it's windows down, enabling you to determine the cause.
It's caused by some young person not wanting to face reality and to avoid such they spend what they can get their hands on buying speakers for their car. They then turn the thing up as loud as it will go to where they, nor anyone close, can possibly think. La la, without conscience thought there can be no reality.
Now if you can imagine sitting in a really huge room with about six of those cars down in front of you, all tuned to the same blasting sound and turned up to the max you might understand why I left the Rains show about to cry and with the fear of a nose bleed yesterday after only twenty minutes.
Went back to the car with an extreme headache and listened to the NASCAR race on the radio waiting for the pain to subside. Unfortunately, you can't dispel such an extremely induced instigator very fast. Such a huge load in, takes quite awhile to unload.
I did notice before I left that they knew that whoever stayed was certainly pretty stupid because they flashed applause signs so all the dumb-asses would know when to clap. Another sign was the $7 t-shirts that had a poor job of Rain printed across it that they were selling for $30 apiece. Geez, I even saw folks buying them!
I do think that subjecting a terriost to this show might be a better way to obtain information than water-boarding.
Overall, with the exception of the show, it was an enjoyable trip.
"People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization." - Agnes Repplier
It's caused by some young person not wanting to face reality and to avoid such they spend what they can get their hands on buying speakers for their car. They then turn the thing up as loud as it will go to where they, nor anyone close, can possibly think. La la, without conscience thought there can be no reality.
Now if you can imagine sitting in a really huge room with about six of those cars down in front of you, all tuned to the same blasting sound and turned up to the max you might understand why I left the Rains show about to cry and with the fear of a nose bleed yesterday after only twenty minutes.
Went back to the car with an extreme headache and listened to the NASCAR race on the radio waiting for the pain to subside. Unfortunately, you can't dispel such an extremely induced instigator very fast. Such a huge load in, takes quite awhile to unload.
I did notice before I left that they knew that whoever stayed was certainly pretty stupid because they flashed applause signs so all the dumb-asses would know when to clap. Another sign was the $7 t-shirts that had a poor job of Rain printed across it that they were selling for $30 apiece. Geez, I even saw folks buying them!
I do think that subjecting a terriost to this show might be a better way to obtain information than water-boarding.
Overall, with the exception of the show, it was an enjoyable trip.
"People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization." - Agnes Repplier
Sunday, March 09, 2008
March 9
We're off to see the wonderful wizard of was. This Beatle deal! I didn't like them then, but I've somehow been sucked into going to a show all about the Beatles that was. Yucky do but I'll make it through. Oh yeah, it is in that real old building in Saint Louis that they call the Fabulous Fox Theater.
I'll be happy if I can help Dory, Debi and Kaytlyn obtain a little happiness. I think I can, I think I can!
"If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed." - Marianne Williamson
I'll be happy if I can help Dory, Debi and Kaytlyn obtain a little happiness. I think I can, I think I can!
"If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed." - Marianne Williamson
Friday, March 07, 2008
March 7
Well howdy, the tickets turned out to be the $45 ones so we may be sitting pretty for the show. Our plans are to pick daughter Debi and granddaughter Kaytlyn up and head'er out. Kind of a birthday treat for Debi who turns -$$- on that day.
The show is an act that replicates a subset of the Beatles music, and since I never ever could stand the Beatles hardly at all, I worry that Dory has foredoomed for me a less than exciting ugly event even tho I may be sitting pretty. I still don't think I'll leave my hearing amplifiers in the car. I can just turn them off if it gets too bad and heck, who knows, I may enjoy something in it.
I never cared for the beatles music and worse now, you know at all these shows where the old songs are performed half the crowd will chime in and sing along. Seems really dumb to me how people pay high dollars to an event then join in the singing to where no one can hear the high paid performer's performance. Go figure!
For an additional treat for the girls, we are considering parking at the North Hanley Metrolink Station and riding the Metro to the Grand Metrolink Station then walking the five blocks to the Fox Theater. Still only a thought because of the worry created hump we haft to climb of walking through an unknown type area where it is suggested during the evening to get a cab. May just settle on driving all the way in. I'm sure it will be a good outing either way.
If you city folks have any suggestions we're open!
"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." - Edith Wharton
The show is an act that replicates a subset of the Beatles music, and since I never ever could stand the Beatles hardly at all, I worry that Dory has foredoomed for me a less than exciting ugly event even tho I may be sitting pretty. I still don't think I'll leave my hearing amplifiers in the car. I can just turn them off if it gets too bad and heck, who knows, I may enjoy something in it.
I never cared for the beatles music and worse now, you know at all these shows where the old songs are performed half the crowd will chime in and sing along. Seems really dumb to me how people pay high dollars to an event then join in the singing to where no one can hear the high paid performer's performance. Go figure!
For an additional treat for the girls, we are considering parking at the North Hanley Metrolink Station and riding the Metro to the Grand Metrolink Station then walking the five blocks to the Fox Theater. Still only a thought because of the worry created hump we haft to climb of walking through an unknown type area where it is suggested during the evening to get a cab. May just settle on driving all the way in. I'm sure it will be a good outing either way.
If you city folks have any suggestions we're open!
"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." - Edith Wharton
March 6
A pretty good round yesterday with a few shop stops that Dory wanted, a really good lunch at the Red Lobster with Lena and then a short visit with her after we took her home. Seems Dory's pleasure was spread out over the whole day while mine was fairly well subdued till the red Lobster visit where it humped up enough to help carry me on.
I doubt that most anyone would believe that Lena is ninety years old. I mean we had to wait for her to get home from the bowling alley where her team made up some games they couldn't bowl yesterday. A couple of the team was snowed in even tho Jeff City was snowless, at least one side of town was. The eastside got as much as three inches we're told. She drove herself in around 2:15 after which we loaded up and headed for the restaurant.
Dory holds the card deck but I think she said there was a quick trip to Osage Beach today in it. She won some tickets from the radio station to something and we need to go pick them up. Just found out that the tickets are to "RAIN, THE BEATLES EXPERIENCE" and is at the fabulous Fox Theater in Saint Louis, Sunday afternoon. $120 worth of free tickets mean woe woe woe to me. The tickets are priced from $30 to $45 but I suspect for free would mean the $30 ones which she got four of.
"Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation." - James Allen
I doubt that most anyone would believe that Lena is ninety years old. I mean we had to wait for her to get home from the bowling alley where her team made up some games they couldn't bowl yesterday. A couple of the team was snowed in even tho Jeff City was snowless, at least one side of town was. The eastside got as much as three inches we're told. She drove herself in around 2:15 after which we loaded up and headed for the restaurant.
Dory holds the card deck but I think she said there was a quick trip to Osage Beach today in it. She won some tickets from the radio station to something and we need to go pick them up. Just found out that the tickets are to "RAIN, THE BEATLES EXPERIENCE" and is at the fabulous Fox Theater in Saint Louis, Sunday afternoon. $120 worth of free tickets mean woe woe woe to me. The tickets are priced from $30 to $45 but I suspect for free would mean the $30 ones which she got four of.
"Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation." - James Allen
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
March 5
PONDER. Ponder is a good and well used word when you live on the banks of the man made Lake of the Ozarks. Like, if while fishing from the dock you find a nail head that needs to be put back down, you ponder the importance because it would require a climb up to the garage for a hammer. The same with a small repair job in the house. Any kind of repair almost always requires one more little tool from the garage that after you've looked the house over for some kind of substitute and failed, requires some pondering.
At most all the lake homes, no matter where you're standing 'it's all uphill from here' is appropriate. It doesn't make any difference but when we go out to greet a visitor they always look down on us. Found out a couple days ago that the main road is 117.6 feet higher than our garage. Yep, living here sure has it's ups and downs.
Plans today include at trip UP to Jefferson City to visit Dory's mother and maybe take her out for lunch if she feels like going.
"Home is the place where we are treated the best, but grumble the most." - Source Unknown
At most all the lake homes, no matter where you're standing 'it's all uphill from here' is appropriate. It doesn't make any difference but when we go out to greet a visitor they always look down on us. Found out a couple days ago that the main road is 117.6 feet higher than our garage. Yep, living here sure has it's ups and downs.
Plans today include at trip UP to Jefferson City to visit Dory's mother and maybe take her out for lunch if she feels like going.
"Home is the place where we are treated the best, but grumble the most." - Source Unknown
March 4
I have noticed, during my many years, that people fail to prioritize properly when it comes to many many things. Like, of the thousands of things that happen daily to you or around you, why is it that some pick a negative happening to carry around all day or longer as they ignore the 999 things that were of a positive nature. I suppose good is always taken for granted so as it comes it is just business as usual. Kinda like days and days pass without any snow accumulation then one day some happens. Do you hear anything about the good no snow days? Very little, but you are flat ass beat to death with the bitching about the one day of snow.
Sure this probably happens to all of us at one time or another. Unbelievably even I may have suffered the fate a couple of times but with Dory as my teacher, I've learned when you see it happen in someone else, let it go. That little pimple of negative can quickly be discarded and replaced with a larger bump, namely your ass. Changing a minor irritation to a major pain in the ass is not a good deal.
You shouldn't admit to another that he/she is low on your list of priorities either. One of the many ways that is accomplished is to tell another that you had planned to call/type but didn't have time or ran out of time..... Anyway you get the drift.
By the way, all the snow missed us and the sun is shinning very brightly at this time, forcing us to look for something else to bitch about.
"The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it." - Friedrich Nietzsche
Sure this probably happens to all of us at one time or another. Unbelievably even I may have suffered the fate a couple of times but with Dory as my teacher, I've learned when you see it happen in someone else, let it go. That little pimple of negative can quickly be discarded and replaced with a larger bump, namely your ass. Changing a minor irritation to a major pain in the ass is not a good deal.
You shouldn't admit to another that he/she is low on your list of priorities either. One of the many ways that is accomplished is to tell another that you had planned to call/type but didn't have time or ran out of time..... Anyway you get the drift.
By the way, all the snow missed us and the sun is shinning very brightly at this time, forcing us to look for something else to bitch about.
"The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it." - Friedrich Nietzsche
Sunday, March 02, 2008
March 2
A flash of the future is what we're being treated to today. One of those hope rebuilding days that could have a severally depressed person to get out of his chair of despair and put the gun away (doesn't fit either of us). A beautiful spring like day that began with a huge smile producing sun and a 43 degree temperature that has climbed steadily since the break of day.
So very many parallels in life that it isn't unsuspected, like the roller coaster of personal life, so goes the weather. From a high of near 75 today to a change to nasty sometime tonight with rain turning to sleet and snow with a forecasted accumulation of about five inches by sometime Tuesday. However a forecast like foreplay, is only an exercise of hope and wishing of which the results of either can never be guaranteed to hit the button and come to pass.
Reads like I'm still unable to focus very well so must need to take a little more time off. See ya around friend.
"The first rule of focus is Wherever you are be there." - Source Unknown
So very many parallels in life that it isn't unsuspected, like the roller coaster of personal life, so goes the weather. From a high of near 75 today to a change to nasty sometime tonight with rain turning to sleet and snow with a forecasted accumulation of about five inches by sometime Tuesday. However a forecast like foreplay, is only an exercise of hope and wishing of which the results of either can never be guaranteed to hit the button and come to pass.
Reads like I'm still unable to focus very well so must need to take a little more time off. See ya around friend.
"The first rule of focus is Wherever you are be there." - Source Unknown
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