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.