Its really uncanny how even when my wife is asleep she can see me. When I was young my father had a similar ability to know what I was doing and could appear through solid matter – walls – and stop me from whatever it was I was doing at the time. The other evening after she’d gone to bed for the evening I grabbed a bag of my favorite potato chips and was quietly munching away while watching some TV, when seemingly out of nowhere there she stood in front of me hands on hips giving me The Look! She admonished me in a stern tone – the kind… Read More
Continue ReadingMy Wife left me home alone to fend for myself this evening…
My Wife left me home along to fend for myself this evening so this is the mischief I got into: I was feeling hungry and didn’t quite feel like left overs so I started puzzling and puzzling until my puzzler was sore and this is what I came up with. If I could spell and type at the same time I’d be amazing…
Continue ReadingSpring 2014
Sadly, due to extreme human involvement and severe abuse of natural resources mother earth has canceled spring this year. A final decision has not yet been reached as to whether summer will be offered this coming June. The powers that be are taking a wait and see position before rendering their final decision. For or those of us that have no affective input into the decision making process concerning what is good and what is not- read regular working stiffs – well, life is a big shit sandwich and the bottom 99% get to eat the whole thing. So, suck it up buttercup.
Continue ReadingTexas Chili Cookoff
For those of you who have lived in Texas, you know how true this is. They actually have a Chili cook-off about the time the rodeo comes to town.
It takes up a major portion of the parking lot at the Astrodome. The notes are from an inexperienced chili taster named Frank, who was visiting Texas from the East Coast:
Continue ReadingHow You (We) Fix Congress
Warren Buffett, in a recent interview with CNBC, offers one of the best quotes about the debt ceiling: “I could end the deficit in 5 minutes,” he told CNBC. “You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election. The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds) took only 3 months & 8 days to be ratified! Why? Simple! The people demanded it. That was in 1971… before computers, e-mail, cellphones, etc.
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