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| Gone But Not Forgotten - I'm Surrounded my PanaGals at My Son's Wedding |
I wrote yesterday about my wife importing people to fill the
void left by the recently departed PanaGals.
Last night the daughter of the Virginia Musquetera showed up along with
her little “dog” Louie. She was
traveling north to a weekend wedding in Maine.
It was so good to catch up with her and a little disconcerting to be presented
again with the child of a friend who’s grown into an amazing adult. Time can be so cruel.
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| Another Shot from Last Week in NYC |
I call Louie a “dog” because I usually classify creatures
his size who try to masquerade as canines as “rats with a hormone problem”. They generally bark and make a general
nuisance of themselves instead of the loftier pursuits of larger dogs. I’m going to grant a dispensation for little Louie
though. He and Buddy immediately took to
charging around the yard and later the house in very canine like behavior.
Louie even established a beachhead next to me at Couch Potato
position #1 which led to a very entertaining king of the hill match with the
Wonder Pooch. I had to stay on my
virtual toes all night as Louie and Buddy would charge around the house and
Louie would streak into the room and launch himself to land directly in my lap
with Buddy close behind. I found myself
buried under a mountain of dogs a couple times.
I couldn’t have been happier although I did learn to protect
myself. I don’t think there any progeny
in my future but I still like to maintain the equipment in serviceable condition.
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| Buddy and Louie Last Night |
I’m now getting over a hundred readers a day for this blog
which tells me one thing – there are a lot of bored people out there. I specifically don’t reveal any names in the hope
of maintaining some anonymity and personal space. I do have a series of recurring characters
whom I’ve assigned blog nom de guerres to.
Several people have contacted me asked what a MEF is or who is Wing Man. I’ve taken a broad step (for me) without
assistance of my technical advisor daughter to include a listing at the bottom
of the blog of all the recurring characters.
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| Bike Taken Apart |
While waiting for the arrival of Louie and his mistress I
tried my hand at repairing my trusty stationary bicycle. I’m not blessed with any kind of mechanical
talent other than curiosity and that has led to some entertaining and sometimes
epic failures. I was buoyed by some
weekend success repairing the front doorbell (duct tape use # 4,678). While doing my morning ride yesterday and reading
there was a series of gear gnashing and noise emanating from the enclosed lower
portion. I eventually figured out how to
remove the housing which turned out to be the toughest part of the job (well
that and putting it back together correctly).
When revealed the problem was the chain had fallen off the gears – a repair
I’ve been making since elementary school.
There was a mysterious set of small ball bearings rolling around
everywhere though. Since it was working
again I’m not going to sweat the ball bearings; never ask a question you don’t
want to hear the answer to.
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| And Reassembled |
One of my military buddies sent me the below top ten list
which is pretty amusing. Most of the Canadians
(except for their hockey team) I’ve met are pretty cool and this an amusing
look from the outside at some of our foibles.
It has the added benefit of assisting in my never ending effort to get the
Cantankerous Friend’s head to explode:
This is Canada's Top Ten List of America's Stupidity. Of
course we look like idiots .....because we are.
Number 10: Only
in America could politicians talk about the greed of the rich at a $35,000.00
per plate Obama campaign fund-raising event.
Number 9: Only in
America ...could people claim that the government still discriminates against
black Americans when they have a black
President, a black Attorney General and roughly 20% of the federal workforce is
black while only 14% of the population is black 40+% of all federal
entitlements goes to black Americans - 3X the rate that go to whites, 5X the
rate that go to Hispanics!
Number 8: Only in
America...could they have had the two people most responsible for our tax code,
Timothy Geithner (the head of the Treasury Department) and Charles Rangel (who
once ran the Ways and Means Committee), BOTH turn out to be tax cheats who are
in favor of higher taxes.
Number 7: Only in
America...can they have terrorists kill people in the name of Allah and have
the media primarily react by fretting that Muslims might be harmed by the
backlash.
Number 6: Only in
America...would they make people who want to legally become American citizens
wait for years in their home countries and pay tens of thousands of dollars for
the privilege, while they discuss letting anyone who sneaks into the country
illegally just 'magically' become American
citizens (probably should be number one).
Number 5: Only in
America....could the people who believe in balancing the budget and sticking by
the country's Constitution be thought of as EXTREMIST'S.
Number 4: Only in
America...could you need to present a driver's license to cash a check or buy
alcohol, but not to vote.
Number 3: Only in
America...could people demand the government investigate whether oil companies
are gouging the public because the price of gas went up when the return on
equity invested in a major U.S. Oil company(Marathon Oil) is less than half of
a company making tennis shoes (Nike).
Number 2: Only in
America... could you collect more tax dollars from the people than any nation
in recorded history, still spend a Trillion dollars more than it has per year -
for total spending of $7-Million PER MINUTE, and complain that it doesn't have
nearly enough money.
And Number 1: Only in America...could the rich people- who pay 86% of all income taxes - be accused of not paying their "fair share" by people who don't pay any income taxes at all.
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| Wife and I in Central Park Last Week |
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