a small beef

I have very few things that bother me...but... when I do drop by a fast food joint for a burger and fries, I would appreciate IF YOU WOULD JUST GIVE ME EXACTLY WHAT I ORDERED, ESPECIALLY THE DAD GUMMED, FRAKKIN DIET COKE. NOT COKE... NOT PEPSI... NOT Dr. PEPPER... JUST EXACTLY WHAT I ORDERED...a DIET COKE, WHICH I REPEATED 3 (THREE!!!) TIMES.... A SIMPLE, SUGAR FREE DIET FRAKKIN COKE (or PEPSI)

pretty busy weekend...

...the twins were off to visit Grandma for a couple of days this past weekend.... We met up with a friend of Jessica's from work, Chris and Aunt Ellen and Kenneth for dinner at Stax Omega, then saw Quantum O Solange or something like that. It was pretty decent for a Bond movie...

... then I went over to the Homecoming game and stood around on the sidelines for a half and watched the team upclose. Interesting seeing how the team reacts to Dabo... watched the band at Halftime then bolted back to the house...

...It was great to sit around 2 (TWO!!!) firebowls and visit with Chris Sloan, Brent White, Aunt Ellen, Kenneth Russell, Brian Harwood and wife Jessica, Gresham and Cheryl Barker, Mike Spacholtz and girlfriend Christina and talk about old times....

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I know we talk about this every year, but....

Even though Walmart and the Malls have their Xmas stuff out now... in oh.. say... September, I noticed yesterday while at the Mall that Santa had made the trip into town and was at the Mall taking pictures with children. November 12th!!! I remember when we didnt even have a mention of Santa until Turkey Day at the earliest...now I get to see him sitting in town at least 2 weeks earlier now...

Santa has last laugh.....

Well... "Anonymous".... Santa tells me that you can keep chuckling, but He's ALL DONE. The fix will be that Ryles and I-Man both have piggy banks with about 60 dollar coin in them both... here's the plan...each one splits their banks to the tune of 30 dollars jack for one gift each for their birthday and Xmas for their sibling. I will give them each one of the 2 Toys R Us catalogs (complete with 10 dollar off coupon) we've gotten in the mail, let them circle 3 things they want, and take each one separately shopping for each other to get gifts for the other one... follow that. Any extra things not manufactered by Santa can be retrieved from the Toys R Us assembly line quite nicely, thank you.

Santa tells me that he has already spooled up the ThinkThank for birthday/Xmas 2009. Gotta keep pushing ahead before Obama tells me I need to tell Santa to give gifts to people who failed to plan ahead and spent their stimulus checks getting their hair and nails done or wasting it on 20 inch rims next year. Yeah... i know...complete stereotype there...but...well..its true...

Who's coming? Homecoming?

Everyone is invited to drop by after the game on Saturday... Alumni, Actives,spouses, significant others and kids are all welcome to drop by. We'll be hanging out all evening, so drop by whenever. Need directions, email me or call me or text me...

TV ads suck...

..or at least thats what Santa tells me.... especially when he was telling me today about how he has his list of naughty and nice boys and girls here at the house, and has virtually completed toy making. And how it really sucks when one of those blasted toy makers puts on a TV ad for the newest, greatest, hottest, most possible funnest toy EVER, and you get to hear your son and/or daughter go "OOOOHHHH...that's SOOOOOO cooooooolllllllll. THAT'S WHAT I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS!!!!!!....I'm going to ask Santa to bring me that for Christmas!!!!!"...silence...crickets chirping...

Obama Wins!

Obama takes the White House by 7 million ( or so) votes, or a 52-46 count. Time for less talk and more action. I wanna see all this change happen. The Democrats hold the Executive and Legislative Branch. No excuses. if you want to do all these things, I expect to see them happen. if they dont, i suspect you will get booted out too... (see Republicans '94)

glad this is over

I long ago stated that I thought there was a definite slant toward Obama from the NBC/MSNBC, CBS, and ABC. Several studies have shown that these outlets have "reported" up to 70 percent of their stories about McCain as negative. I have seen legitimate questions about Obama go unasked or be downplayed, yet see story after story go on about what dress Palin is wearing. I dont beleive this election has been fairly reported. Perhaps Obama is the right choice. But I dont think all the information has been placed on the table for ALL Americans in the same light about Obama as has been about McCain. I no longer take ANYTHING NBC news has to say about the elections as serious. I may never again. If you are looking at a place for fair reporting towards both sides, I go to www.fair.org It is these types of places where I made my decision regarding my vote... not Foxnews or MsNBC and their obvious or subtle slants on their coverage. Because it was even shown that coverage of the debates and how they had cameras posed on candidates was designed to make you think a certain way about candidates...

..my biggest beef now is ths... if it is so important that you vote, why is this not a national holiday? Or at least change the day to a Saturday. Why do you have to make plans to get to the poll @ 7am or wait in line @ 7 pm?

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Halloween...

I-Man was a.... soccer player. He dressed up in his soccer uniform. Ryles was a gymnast. She dressed up in her gymnast leotard. That is what they wanted to be. We didnt even have to point them in that direction. they decided on their own. So... no trip to the Halloween store this year.... thank goodness...

Hot water

Ok...so after purchasing and installing the new water heater (and removing the old gas water heater), we now have hot water. Had to add a circuit breaker to the fuse box and run another cable and wire directly to the heater, but the job got done. Many thanks to my Uncle for the electricity expertise and making sure the wiring was all good.

Screw Fort Hill Natural Gas... I will enjoy walking in on Monday and canceling my service.

P.S., anybody want a used gas water heater?