Archive for April, 2007

• Farting chipmunk

  Date: 2007.04.30 | Category: I was too lazy to organize these | Response: 0

• Thinking of replacing your incandescent bulbs?

  Date: 2007.04.30 | Category: I was too lazy to organize these | Response: 0

  edit: damn, its a myth…. don’t I feel sheepish

  You might want to think again.

  “How much money does it take to screw in a compact fluorescent light bulb? About US$4.28 for the bulb and labour — unless you break the bulb. Then you, like Brandy Bridges of Ellsworth, Maine, could be looking at a cost of about US$2,004.28, which doesn’t include the costs of frayed nerves and risks to health.”

  Read the rest here

  The CFL mercury nightmare

• About a girl

  Date: 2007.04.30 | Category: I was too lazy to organize these | Response: 0

  Man is not mean to live alone and many of us spend much time, money, and effort in the search for another person to be with. Some of us our adept at this process and quickly find the individual that is a perfect match. Others like to play the game for a while and aim for variety of quality. Some people are so afraid of the game that they make excuses for the majority of their life on why they can’t meet anyone. I’ve never been much into the variety game as I often shoot for one at a time and see where it goes.

  For the longest time after the divorce I had a huge fear of rejection. I’d been through it once and I never wanted to feel like that again. The experience changed my life and made me for the better. It made me realize that I would get up the next day and move along. If nothing else, I’d learn something from the situation. This time around I told myself, what the heck, whats the worst that she’s going to say? All she can do is tell me no. I had to be careful with that growing experience because the first thing you want to do is put up a barrier so that nobody else can get close to you because the hurt sucks. The hurt, as bad as it is, is probably the best part because its the thing you’ll remember. You’ll remember why you went out there in the first place so you wouldn’t have to experience the pain again. The pain happens if it doesn’t work out but you’re shooting for never having that feeling again. If it does happen, the sun will rise again tomorrow… unless a nuclear apocalypse coincides with the collapse of your relationship causing nuclear winter. The odds of this happening is minimal and I’m sure that dating would be the last thing on your mind. I’m willing to wager you’d be trying to not die of starvation, a permanent sunburn, or radiation poisoning.

  So, for the last month I’ve been dating a particularly spectacular girl who I enjoy spending time with. I’m fairly set in my ways as I’ve been out on my own for a while and I’m used to doing things a certain way. There is still a whole bunch of flex in me and dating is all about finding the flex in yourself and in the other person. You’ll know immediately if there isn’t a spark when you first meet but the test of time is seeing how you interact when a difficult situation causes friction. So, we’ve moved through the first one of those (thanks Target!) and I’m curious to see where it’s going to lead us.

  So, yes granny, I am dating a girl.

• Bob Newhart and Drunken Monkeys

  Date: 2007.04.26 | Category: I was too lazy to organize these, videos | Response: 0

  Nuff said… just watch the videos

• 4 links

  Date: 2007.04.26 | Category: I was too lazy to organize these | Response: 0

  I’m not going into detail because I’m busy watching the democratic debates but you should check em out

  Can you hear me now?

  The Best and Worst Internet Laws

  Sen Reid is correct

  Dailykos Apparently this website is huge but I’ve never checked it out (until now)

• The Desert Edition

  Date: 2007.04.26 | Category: I was too lazy to organize these | Response: 1

  I’ve been trying to go back and fix some things that I accidentally deleted… not all of the information transferred well. Below is everything I wrote while in the desert last time I visited. All of the links are inop so you’re pretty much crap out of luck there. I have a feeling most of them probably wouldn’t work even if I tried them.

  Enjoy

  16 Jan 06
  Ok, yet another burning missive pounded out from my dirt encrusted keyboard that barely works is ready to go. Come and get it.
  I’ve said it a few times before but if the government votes to send Americans into harms way they should train them before, protect them while there, and treat them when they get home. We’ve been doing a fairly good job at the first two and I was happy to hear about the military shipping improved protective vests based on the changing tactics of the insurgency. We’ve got bomb disposal vehicles that are keeping our guys more out of harms way than we’ve ever been able to do in the past. Our surgeons are saving lives that would have been lost in previous wars. But, when our troops come home, we still aren’t helping enough. After reading a few Newsweek articles (sure, not the best source of news but I can glean a few facts from their pages), I discovered that unlike the DoD budget, the Veterans Administration budget it optional. There is a private group that is raising money for a rehabilitation center for troops who have lost limbs in the war. To this date, all of the donations have been from private sources and none of the money has come from the Feds. The Feds are trying to make good on the situation by funding all of the operating costs as soon as the building is constructed but in they should really be footing the whole construction bill. The American people shouldn’t need to bail out the federal govt, congress should take the hint that this is important and legislate more funds to troop rehab. There was no mention of care for the mental health of military members that have returned from the AOR; this should also be on the top of the agenda.
  Bottom line, if you send someones children to fight a war, take care of them when (and if) they get back.

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• Its all about the benjamins

  Date: 2007.04.26 | Category: I was too lazy to organize these | Response: 0

  As I’m sure you’re aware both houses of congress have passed a bill on a narrow margin that provides funding for the ongoing war, provides funding for some pork barrel projects, and sets a timeline for the US withdrawl of troops if certain conditions are not being met. I saw some clips the other day of Bush giving a timeline for Saddam and his sons to leave Iraq or the US would invade. He believed that certain conditions should be met at a certain time before we should invade. They obviouly didn’t heed his warnings and here we sit four years later.

  The democratic party is doing two things with this legislation

  1. They are playing politics – they want to send a message to the American people that they think the situation is unsatisfactory and that they want a change

  2. They are setting conditions for withdrawl provided the Iraqi govt doesn’t meet certain conditions – they are trying to make us reach certain goals (I’ve been trying to find the bill text but have been unable so far)

  The President has a choice

  1. He can veto the bill and send it back for changes

  2. Accept the bill “as is”

  We’re all aware that the president is going to veto this bill and that he will quickly tell us how this funding is urgently needed to continue operations in the mid-east. We all should know that we have money until at least June or July so we do have some time left before the allocated budget is gone.

  Ok, either way this situation plays out its one side is going to be wrong (obviously). I wonder what would happen if congress would filibuster the defense spending bill. I know that everyone on the ground would suffer as we depend on supplies to keep us going. Congress would want us to move out and would try to cut of funding to force us to do so. Unfortunately, I think those on the ground would be forced to tough it out.

  The President wants us to try the surge method under yet another general in charge of combat operations.

  Congress wants us to continue fighting if measurable benchmarks are met.

  We all seem to want the same thing but we are fighting about the details.

  The one thing that annoys me the most about the situation is that while many people are suffering on both sides of the war some people are making money off the war. People are growing rich while pawns in the middle are dying.

  Its a raw shitty deal and I wish we could just all hug and be done with it. Its a shame our intolerance for eachother has driven us to this point.

• Where have I been?

  Date: 2007.04.26 | Category: I was too lazy to organize these | Response: 0

  I know that for the 2 readers of my blog you’ve been wondering where in the heck have I been for the last week or two? Well, I haven’t gone anywhere but I’ve been busy doing other things. If you didn’t catch the other post, I spent a week with my sister when she came out for a visit. We did some of the tourist type stuff but after that we ended up just sitting around my apartment and really just hanging out. Its been a long time since we’ve done that and it was really cool to get a chance to hang out with her for more than a day at a time. Her visit got me thinking about some of the other family members that I rarely see. Its a shame that I don’t have the time to get out and visit more of you but thats just a hazard of my job. Oh well, thats why they invented phones and email.

  I’ve spent most of this week working at the Tyarget (Target). For the most part, its an extremely boring job where I get little to no job satisfaction. Once in a great while does something interesting happen (we catch someone stealing, a fight breaks out, etc) While I’m waiting for something to happen I get the wonderful opportunity to stare out the front door and wait wait wait. I really want them to transfer me to the Tacoma store as its only a few minutes away and I’m not looking forward to paying the $4.00 a gallon that gas is speculated to soon cost to drive all the way down to Lakewood. Its not that I don’t like the people there, I just don’t like the drive and what I do there. Wow, its much like the Air Force… I loath my daily job but the people keep me interested. One day I hope I’ll get approved for that holy grail of a job. Speaking of jobs, I’m off to part 1 of my physical today…. this should be interesting. I was originally scheduled to return from leave Friday to go see the doc but as I expected they called me and moved it a day forward. Luckily, I left one day open in my schedule to prepare for the inevitability of military scheduling… oh what a joy it is.

  For those of you reading between the lines: yes, I’m dating a girl and she is great.

  Thats all she wrote until later

• Its just damn interesting

  Date: 2007.04.20 | Category: I was too lazy to organize these | Response: 1

  Ahh the KGB, it was so long ago that your name alone struck fear in the hearts of men. I still know little of the rest of the world because history books only provide us with one point of view. They only let us know some of the stories which is why I’m glad websites like this exist. So, if you want to know about the KGB or something else that is damn interesting follow the link.

• New photos

  Date: 2007.04.16 | Category: I was too lazy to organize these | Response: 0

  My sister has been in town for the last few days and I’ve taken a few pics. There will be a few more later but this is all that there is now.

  
  admin edit – photos are gone