Happy New Year.................................................................................

Hell Yeah

Am I ever ready for a three day weekend. Nothing planned. Maybe I'll go house hunting.

The President still has not called me and offered me the job. I am a little saddened by this as the economy is in such a odd state. It needs my help. If we do nothing about fuel prices and the continuing rise in the price of gas then the economy will fail to heal itself. We also need to understand that the job market is not going to get much better for a long long time. Companies have realized they can do without all the help they have shed over the last few years. If we want to put people back to work then we, as a nation, need to make a commitment to fixing the infrastructure of the United States. Roads, bridges, utility pipes, water pipes and so on are in dire shape. We could commit to fixing everyone of these issues over a ten year time span, there a lot to fix, and that would have a massive effect on unemployment.

Lastly for today. Unemployment, official numbers, is about 10%. That means there is 90% employment and that number is very good. We need to realize that every person can not have a job. That means we need to live within our means. That means companies should pay their employees a living wage and employees before stockholders.

Going to get my oil changed today and see about getting tires and rotors tomorrow morning. The truck is getting old and deserves some presents for the New Year.

President Obama I am waiting.

Steep Canyon Rangers and Steve Martin

Well spring is just around the corner. I have started getting seed catalogs in the mail. I think 2011 will be the year of the pepper.

My printer crapped out. Now I have another expense. UUUgggh.

Time to spend money on the truck. Oil change, tires, and rotors for the old boy. Got to keep it running for a another at least.

I need to upload pictures from my camera. Have three months worth on it right now. Who knows what treasures wait to be found.

My lease ends at the end of March. Time to begin the early search for a new place. Would like to find a house to rent. Really want to buy a home.

Wonder if I will get a raise next year? Not sure they are even giving them out.

Greetings

So unlike many travelers from the northeast I was able to make my way home before the blizzard hit New England. This is what greeted me in Raleigh. This is much better than being stuck in airport. Much better.

Christmas was very good. The family is doing quite well and it was good for all of us to be together. A short and rewarding gift/trip.

Hope everyone had a merry Christmas.

My mom and I both got Kindles. Now we can figure out how to use them together.

Got a great smelling body butter from Tammy's company, The Herbal Butterfly Essentials. It smells so good you may want to eat some. I see good things coming from this. 2011 emerging business of the year?

Nice snow here. It will all be gone by the weekend as temps slowly rise this week. 60 or so by Saturday.
Flooding the next mess here.

Have a wonderful Monday. 2010 is coming to a close.

Tammy & Willie

Happy Happy

Not our Mom & Dads Christmas song, but a great song it is.

The eve of Christmas eve. Off to the family and maybe some snow, I just don't know.
Face full of festive food, belly never full.
Wrapping paper around, gifts in hand. More food, I can not stand.
Family full of love, some full of fight.
Put them cookies out before midnite.

Be happy and glad for you are blessed.
You could be homeless, no place to rest.

Thank the pagans, or your lord.
That thing as the centerpiece is type of gourd.

Congrats

Congratulations to the Lady Huskies of Uconn. The win streak is a very amazing feat that you have accomplished. Do not listen to the naysayers who dismiss it and talk all kinds of trash about it. It is a landmark event in the world of sports.

I can not breathe out of my nose.

Do you have that Christmas spirit?

Can't wait to get home and have some of Mom's holiday treats.

Gotta run to the shower. Snoozed 3 times this morning.

Have a great day, my Christmas presents.

This is the band the Ritchie Blackmore has been playing with for many years now.

Did you get up and watch the moon last night. I did not. I decided to sleep instead. Actually forgot to turn the alarm on.

Spring is just around the corner. Can't you tell.

Still fighting off that cold. Of course everyone at work has a touch of it so it is a challenge.

Sending off the Xmas gifts today via UPS. HO HO HO.

Looks like I may have a white Christmas in CT., or maybe when I leave on Sunday.

Got to run. Toast and coffee is calling.

Hear N' Aid

Do you think Dio had much influence on the vocal stylings of the others here?

Off to get the last couple presents this morning, wrap this afternoon, mail via UPS at work tomorrow. Need to get to the stores before all the church folk flock to the stores after church.

Fighting off getting sick. It is on the verge but so far I have held it at bay.

I need a big bowl of chili.

Ok. Off and running. Want to beat the Christians to the store.

Have a heavy metal Sunday.

Madman

Well it's Friday. The countdown is on and the mad rush to mail packages is in full force. I will join that rush tomorrow.

Super foggy this morning, Temps reaching the 40's today.

Ten years of war and we are no better off than when we began. Stop this crap and bring home the soldiers. The people of this country are sick of it all. Spend that money here doing something meaningful.

Ok, I got nothing else. Sorry. Maybe I'll have something after work.

Let it snow

We may get a snow, ice and rain event tomorrow so the folks that run this place were kind enough to put this letter in our door.


                                                   It really is that time of the year again!
                                                            The snow is falling!

We know that during this time of year if ( and when) the snow ( and ice) falls, your travel can become treacherous. So, we want you to know what we're doing to help you be safe!

What we clear:    
                                                         
Around the mailboxes    
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
Problem travel areas (i.e. hills)

Around clubhouses and fitness areas


What you need to know:

Clearing these areas is important to us, and it is important to a lot of people.
Labor to clear these areas may be delayed, be we assure you that as soon as labor is
available, we will get these areas cleaned.

Sidewalks and general parking areas are not going to be cleaned.

Please, please, please be careful. Ice is difficult to spot and you are
responsible for your own safety.


WE HAVE ICE MELT FOR
YOU IN OUR OFFICES!
PLEASE STOP BY AND
PICK SOME UP DURING
OFFICE HOURS!


Here is what I have to say. Fuck you assholes, I bet 90% of your residents would rather have you clean the sidewalks and the general parking areas. Those are areas that we all use everyday you stupid @#$%@%&>. Most of us do not use the fitness area or clubhouse.
I think we should all fall on the ice and sue the fuck out you since you really do not care for anything more than collecting rent.
Do you think you are not responsible for the parking area and sidewalks. Bet I could find several lawyers would love to sue before the blood stops flowing from the skull I split open on your icy sidewalk.

Hope you have coal in your stocking.

PEACE OUT..............................................

Parasol's for Peace

Back a few months ago when I went to that outdoor concert they had a bunch a cool things there.
One of the neat things was an event called Parasol's for Peace. You donated $10, more if you wanted, and you got to paint a parasol anyway you wanted. They put them on display, after they dried, on this big hut type thing made out of  branches. They were going to use these in an auction to raise money for a charity that furthered the cause of peace. There were lots of them. It was a pretty cool idea.

That is it for this morning.

Happy Tuesday. Stay warm.

Slip and Sliding

The kids north of here in Mount Airy, Grayson County, Va and other schools have been closed since last week Monday. Due to snow and ice and they will be closed again today. Ice has been the big problem and most of those areas have limited abilities in ice removal. Big hills and tiny country roads are a big problem when ice comes along.

So the local cable company and Time Warner are in a pissing match over the ABC tv contract for this area.
They may suspend broadcasting ABC on the cable system. Its blackmail. This seems to happen all the time.
The stations need to hold out across the country and force the price down. Ultimately time Warner would have to cave if enough broadcasters refused to pay the price increase. The cost of cable and internet is totally unrealistic. Lets us pick the channels we want.

Twelve days.

16 for the low tonight.

Manowar Nessun Dorma

To all those out there who dismiss heavy metal vocalists, please clean out the wax. . This dude can sing this quite well. Love to hear songs from unexpected vocalists/bands and so on. The joy of music is freakin' cool. How do people not like music.


So I have sold nothing at the gallery yet. Need to find another one someplace. Might as well make a trek over to Asheville and see what I can do/find over there. More gallery's may mean more exposure.

Rain all day here. Snow on the other side of the hills. Brutal cold coming in this week. A low of 14 is predicted one night this week.

Christmas is close. Are you done?

Hope your weekend has been peachy.

PEACE OUT.............................

Rocking your Friday

Wake up with Rammstein. These guys are from Germany. I have this album and it rocks quite a bit. No I do not understand any German.

Its Friday. Decent weather for the weekend. Looks like a cold front will be moving in on Monday with lows around 17. I want snow to go with the cold.

Christmas shopping will be finished tomorrow. Then wrap and mail it off.

I see the a-holes from the Westboro Church are going to protest at Elizabeth Edwards funeral. I am all about free speech, but these people are just plain ignorant. These folks are really a bunch of media seeking whores who have some odd God they believe in. We should send the address of their church to the Taliban. :)

Did you see the students riot in England? Triple college costs so they can not afford to go. Nice way for the government to control and shape the future by limiting education. I want to see the passion of those students here in the U.S.

Its getting hot in here

Wiki Wiki Wiki.. The cyber war is heating up. The companies who have caved to pressure from the U.S. government found themselves being hacked and shut down for periods of time yesterday. MasterCard, Visa and a few others were shut down at various times yesterday. What will today bring? I find this whole thing completely fascinating.

Where was all this outrage when Valerie Plame was outted as a spy by our own government.
While there is all this rhetoric saying Wikileaks has done all types of damage to the the U.S. and the world ultimately, you did not hear anywhere near as much when Valerie Plame was outted by Dick Cheney.

Cold the last few morning. 19 or 20 when I get up. Brrrr. May hit the low fifties this weekend before the next cold wave comes through. The 50's will seem like a heat wave. My skin is parched. Taking a moisturizer bath everyday to keep from drying up.

Busy at work. Have a bid due everyday for the rest of the year.

Picture of habenero peppers drying in the truck.

Where are you John?

30 years ago today John was killed. We could use some words of wisdom from you today. We are still a violent world. Sorry my brother. we did not listen.

Peace

66 years ago today the world began its major change and while the war was won by the right side one has to wonder if the governments of the world learned a god dam thing.

The world is all about power and control of its people. It seems we have learned nothing from war. If they control the people, they control the money.

Here is a list of the folks who got bailed out by the feds.
Nice list. Where are the little people?

http://bailout.propublica.org/list/simple

It's Gone

Well we got a little over 2 inches of snow Saturday, Now its all gone. Just warm enough yesterday to melt it all away. It was nice while it lasted. Really did not do much yesterday. A low key Sunday for sure.

Hope the Carta family enjoyed the Christmas party. My Saturday evening was spent watching Dexter on dvd. It is a really great show. Check it out if you have Netflix.

Need to take so aspirin. Have a nice little sinus headache this morning.

My nephew was mugged by three Mexicans at gunpoint on campus Friday night. He did not call the campus police. I told him he should since it may be happening to others on campus. Scared the crap out of him.

Have a happy Monday.

Picture from the Droid X of a sidestreet in downtown Greensboro.

Take it with a grain of salt

Hell yea, its snowing. If I had a girlfriend I would like to go out and have a quickie in the snow.

Went to the farmers market this morning and bought olive bread, eggs, farmers cheese (goat), purple and yellow cauliflower, and freshly ground coffee. I loveeeeeeeeee the smell of freshly roasted and freshly ground coffee. With my shitty sense of smell it is one of the things I can smell quite easily and I love it. Makes me happy.

Think I'll brew some coffee and go sit outside on my porchette, I call it that because it is so tiny, and enjoy the coffee in the snow.

Maybe I'll watch some dvd's of Dexter this afternoon and clean the apt. I saw the dust bunnies get into a fight last night. Figured that was a sign.

This has to be one of the coolest Xmas songs out there. Robert Earl Keene rocks.

Yea

It's Friday. Woo Hoo. Busy week at work and that will continue today. Lots of bids right now which is surprising for this time of year.

Looks like the President is going to cave on taxes. When is he going to switch and become a republican. Uggh. What next.

No plans for this weekend. Need to fins something to do. I can I can wrap up my Xmas shopping for the most part. What are your plans?

Seems the United States is putting lots of pressure on Wikileaks. If I was them I would dump more as soon as possible before they get shutdown. You know that is the aim here. Shut them down and make them look like they are not credible. The truth hurts and the gov't can not take it anymore.
What next.

Looks like winter may finally be here. Temps only in the 40's as highs for the next week.

That's about it for today. Time for a cup of coffee or two.

Silver Spring

Fantastic song written by Stevie Nicks to Lindsey Buckingham when he broke up with her in the 1970's. Listen to the lyrics closely. Think she felt a little pissed at him.

Well it seems Julian Assange is a marked man. If he gets caught want to be the United States tries to get him over here for a little visit with a jail cell.

Some crazy heavy rain last night. Snow flurries to the west. Ken may need a shovel.

Running late for a shower, again.