Archive for February, 2007

Daily Outrage

Sunday, February 25th, 2007

     ro Golfer Whines About Teh Intarnets — Pro golfer Fuzzy Zoeller has started a lawsuit to identify the person who posted a defamatory paragraph about him on Wikipedia, AP reports.
     Apparently, playing professional golf leaves you with too much free time on your hands, and you get started on this crap. Here’s his Wikipedia article — [...]

Blathering. And Cyber Eyes.

Saturday, February 24th, 2007

      had mentioned, after we saw Ghost Rider last week, that since I can’t seem to get hired anywhere else, maybe I should apply for the Spirit of Vengeance position. I think I would make a kick-ass Spirit of Vengeance.
     By way of example, my cook got in to work yesterday. Knowing that he’d taken his [...]

Ghost Rider

Monday, February 19th, 2007

     riday night, Art, Lil’ Art, MrJames, and I went to see the midnight showing of Ghost Rider. It was a great movie!
     Now, to get it right out of the way, first thing, I am not a fan of the Ghost Rider comics. In fact, I thought the comics were kind of stupid. I never liked [...]

Hope

Friday, February 16th, 2007

     n an update to yesterday’s update about MrJames’ situation — MrJames went to the bank that holds his car loan, only to discover that his loan officer’s paperwork all showed that he was paid up to date, except for his very last payment before the car was “stolen”. He hasn’t made that one. His loan [...]

Valentine’s Day

Thursday, February 15th, 2007

     rt and I had a lovely Valentine’s Day. Art got us a suite at a very nice local hotel — the room had a huge tub with jets, and a king-sized bed, and all the luxuries. We got out of work and went straight there, to enjoy a nice, long soak in a blistering hot [...]

Jobs, Barack Obama, Links

Monday, February 12th, 2007

     ell, unfortunately I received an e-mail this morning from the bank I had applied at, turning me down for the job. On the upside, I have an interview at an office supply place in town on Friday.
     Some days, I think that I am never going to escape the Restaurant. I’ve been looking into college [...]

Round-Up — Good Posts I’ve Read Lately

Sunday, February 11th, 2007

     trios on Religion — I tend to try to have a “don’t be an asshole needlessly” attitude when it comes to dealing with religious beliefs that no one is trying to impose on me, but there’s no requirement for people to share that attitude. Beliefs cloaked in religion shouldn’t be granted automatic immunity from scrutiny, [...]

Check Your Bovine-Fecal Meter.

Friday, February 9th, 2007

     eport Says Pentagon Manipulated Intel — Pentagon officials undercut the intelligence community in the run-up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq by insisting in briefings to the White House that there was a clear relationship between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida, the Defense Department’s inspector general said Friday.
     This article comes from ABC News — this would [...]

Silent Dogs

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007

     o, Friday morning, Art and I had to be up at the ass-end of dawn to run some errands. At eight in the morning — an ungodly hour if ever there was one — we were trucking the trash cans out to the end of the driveway prior to leaving to run errands. On our [...]

Interview

Friday, February 2nd, 2007

     y days off were screwed up this week. Instead of Thursday and Friday, I had Wednesday and Thursday. Wednesday was a pretty lazy day. I sat on my butt and read all day. I did manage to do a couple of loads of laundry, but that was about it. Thursday was more lively, because of [...]