Saturday, July 04, 2009
Happy 4th of July
Thursday, July 02, 2009
And, have to get this one in.
Labels: King of the Hill, Music
This is why
The much vaunted and feared Corn Storage blogmeet has not, and must never occur.
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Beer Olympics 2008 #1 - watch more funny videos
The Pale Stale Ale
For the pale stale male. That would be me right now. Not too much of that beer, or any other either. Work is stale, waiting for shoes to drop. Girlfriend taking care of her grandson, who is a great kid. Most of my time taking the papoose to and from job, then will take her to college in August. Pretty stale. Yup.
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Labels: Babe Magnet, Beer
Monday, June 29, 2009
Still running around like crazy. Listening to Brubeck now. Like this guy sez. I heartily concur. Stand corrected after the latest visit to WallMart. It's not only beer and Clamato, it's all of the above with lime and salt! See, that makes it all better. Also found, and hopefully lost at WallMart: Boones Farm.
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Saturday, June 27, 2009
I Can't Handle It Any More
Mike Judge has done it again. How some of the peeps around here haven't caught on and sued for defamation of character only shows how stupid said peeps are. Last night's Goode Family episode could only mean Judge has been hanging out around here, possibly in the homes of some relatives. Gerald and Helen completely incorporate the trope with which I've become sickeningly familiar in lo these many years of living in BlueLand. Basically, the theme was "we can all learn from this unemployed worthless bum". Also, I am completely morphing into Helen's dad on the show, played by Brian Doyle-Murray. I mean, how many times have I heard the vomitous "we can all learn from murdering terrorists/winos/derelicts/poo-flinging monkeys/pigeons/rats/vegans/lice/Kucinich/inanimate objects"? This one also throws in said bum named Heinrich Mueller, which the Goodes worship also because he's a much more"evolved" Euro-Peon. Go ahead, click the link. Charming.
So how does this impact my drinking? That's the most important question. I like my Martinis dry, with a twist, and the best ones are in the People's Republic. But given the summer responsibilities Martini time starts when The Goode Family signs off. Damn hard to sit through the other barflies incessant whining about a free press after watching Mike's latest masterpiece.
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So how does this impact my drinking? That's the most important question. I like my Martinis dry, with a twist, and the best ones are in the People's Republic. But given the summer responsibilities Martini time starts when The Goode Family signs off. Damn hard to sit through the other barflies incessant whining about a free press after watching Mike's latest masterpiece.
Labels: King of the Hill, Kumbiyah, Martinis
Thursday, June 25, 2009
More dragging through the bullshit from the High School. Very unstraightforward responses. My kid has put in for duly stamped transcript for one course online. Big pain in the ass. Too unusual for attorneys to understand, or even complain about online or in a bar.
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Monday, June 22, 2009
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Sunday, June 21, 2009
She Blowed Up Good!
|Still My Daddy
Still My Daddy
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I got this today from my daugter, for Fathers Day. It is the best Fathers Day gift ever.
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I got this today from my daugter, for Fathers Day. It is the best Fathers Day gift ever.
P.S. to very personalized rant below. The petty beerocrat counsellor had a major league stickittodaman attitude problem what was the cause of many complaints against her, none by me either. I'm just friggin' sick and tired of getting this in the face at every turn in this deep blue town and it is a big reason many businesses and productive people won't locate here. Possibly me in the future.
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Labels: Kumbiyah
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Weekend Fail
One of the great things about being older is that every fail isn't the end of the world. Take this weekend. Please. Thursnite started out nice. Both sisters were over, without even more Goode Family like relatives attached. Middlesis was zonked out from work, littlesis from her trip in from ChiTown. Overall, it was nice. My daughter enjoyed it too. I think. And so it looked like the first post-graduation week was wrapping up nicely. And with a surplus of pizza in the fridge that is still feeding me. Only Friday to get through, so what could go wrong?
Pick up my daughter from a Clinic seminar Friday afternoon. This should have been a nice break from work, and a chance to shmooze with other kids in the program. She was tense, and pouty, so I knew something was up. About halfway home she spills the beans. Spoiler Alert for several cheezy teen movies, and many adults recurring nightmares.
As background, this girl worked her tushy off last year doubling up on courses so she could finish High School a year early, because she wanted a more religious life at a top university. And she toally did that. She accomplished her goal. The school administration for the most part was wonderfully supportive. Actually, they got back to us same day. You won't even get that service when paying bigh $$$$ to private industry, so these top guys at the school deserve a lot of credit, and I give them that recognition.
Only one presented any obstacle to her doing early grauation. One guidance counsellor really seemed to have a bone in her throat about this. If only it was a literal bone in the throat! Anyways, long story short, my daughter accomplishes what she needs at school and the Principal verifies she has the credits. In fact, he ordered her diploma two weeks even before I asked him is she could participate in gruaduation! He deserves a lot of kudos for this!
So graduation was a week ago last Thursday. The Superintendant certified that all participating had met graduation requirements. Everything was above board. And we had a great time and lived happily ever after.
Until yesterday afternoon. The "Guidance Office" called my kid and told her she needed wait for it.... an extra half credit to graduate. I put this in the category of bullshit. This girl's progress for the last year has been totally under the microscope. She gave up being Valedictorian in 2010, and all the ceremonial graduation honors to meet her objective. All the free time she sacrificed could have gone to more activities, or more competitions, or a job, or learning to drive, or just hanging out and being a kid.
So I wonder if this strange audit of her transcript was a going away gift from the Counsellor. This woman will not be a Counsellor next year. She was demoted to proctoring online classes for the kids at one of the districts "alternative" High Schools. Which means she is Vice President of Sitting By The Door. I heard she made a lot of inappropriate remarks to students in the last couple of years and all my kid's teachers seemed to be on to her. I never complained about her because the administration bigshots have been great guys. But this kind of review one week after the diplomas were certified seems strange.
Isn't that the way of the petty tyrant? The misplaced paperwork. The "misunderstanding". The arms crossed "This is our policy. We know it runs counter to the rules. And maybe the law. But what are you going to do? Huh?" attitude Americans have come to know and loathe so much.
And of course they dumped this on my kids on a Friday afternoon, when she couldn't do anything about it but get burned up. It burned me up plenty. Who the fuck goes over already certified diplomas once kids have graduated?
More fail today. Girlfriend was going to see Land of the Lost with me, but has a sick dog. With all the crap yesterday I don't know if I would have been the best company today. So I head out to the other side of town to go to a techie picnic which is on some church grounds. I gets there, and find myself almost crashing some Eastern Orthodox wedding.
Is it Monday yet?
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Pick up my daughter from a Clinic seminar Friday afternoon. This should have been a nice break from work, and a chance to shmooze with other kids in the program. She was tense, and pouty, so I knew something was up. About halfway home she spills the beans. Spoiler Alert for several cheezy teen movies, and many adults recurring nightmares.
As background, this girl worked her tushy off last year doubling up on courses so she could finish High School a year early, because she wanted a more religious life at a top university. And she toally did that. She accomplished her goal. The school administration for the most part was wonderfully supportive. Actually, they got back to us same day. You won't even get that service when paying bigh $$$$ to private industry, so these top guys at the school deserve a lot of credit, and I give them that recognition.
Only one presented any obstacle to her doing early grauation. One guidance counsellor really seemed to have a bone in her throat about this. If only it was a literal bone in the throat! Anyways, long story short, my daughter accomplishes what she needs at school and the Principal verifies she has the credits. In fact, he ordered her diploma two weeks even before I asked him is she could participate in gruaduation! He deserves a lot of kudos for this!
So graduation was a week ago last Thursday. The Superintendant certified that all participating had met graduation requirements. Everything was above board. And we had a great time and lived happily ever after.
Until yesterday afternoon. The "Guidance Office" called my kid and told her she needed wait for it.... an extra half credit to graduate. I put this in the category of bullshit. This girl's progress for the last year has been totally under the microscope. She gave up being Valedictorian in 2010, and all the ceremonial graduation honors to meet her objective. All the free time she sacrificed could have gone to more activities, or more competitions, or a job, or learning to drive, or just hanging out and being a kid.
So I wonder if this strange audit of her transcript was a going away gift from the Counsellor. This woman will not be a Counsellor next year. She was demoted to proctoring online classes for the kids at one of the districts "alternative" High Schools. Which means she is Vice President of Sitting By The Door. I heard she made a lot of inappropriate remarks to students in the last couple of years and all my kid's teachers seemed to be on to her. I never complained about her because the administration bigshots have been great guys. But this kind of review one week after the diplomas were certified seems strange.
Isn't that the way of the petty tyrant? The misplaced paperwork. The "misunderstanding". The arms crossed "This is our policy. We know it runs counter to the rules. And maybe the law. But what are you going to do? Huh?" attitude Americans have come to know and loathe so much.
And of course they dumped this on my kids on a Friday afternoon, when she couldn't do anything about it but get burned up. It burned me up plenty. Who the fuck goes over already certified diplomas once kids have graduated?
More fail today. Girlfriend was going to see Land of the Lost with me, but has a sick dog. With all the crap yesterday I don't know if I would have been the best company today. So I head out to the other side of town to go to a techie picnic which is on some church grounds. I gets there, and find myself almost crashing some Eastern Orthodox wedding.
Is it Monday yet?
Labels: Babe Magnet, Bitchslapped, King of the Hill, Kumbiyah, techwhining
Friday, June 19, 2009
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Had the sisters at the house tonight, and delivered the bask t of goodies as a birthday gift. It all went pretty well. I was happy about that. My kid is certainly getting a dose of the real world at work. Good. And it's a pretty good experience at The Clinic. Rolled the ex out of rehab today. Daughter is still with me over weekend but going away for Shabbos. Meanwhile, the girlfriend and I will enjoy Land of the Lost on Saturday. Those bastards at ABC shifted The Goode Family to Frinite without telling me!
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Labels: Babe Magnet, King of the Hill
