Guard Dog

Wow, Clancy was only 66. I was a big fan of his early works. His later stuff really didn't appeal to me as much.

Gorgon that is EXACTLY what Obama and the left wing wants. They made this system that is so inefficient and expensive KNOWING it will fail. Which will be the segue the need to drag us to single payer. Then they get decide who gets healthcare... and who doesn't. It is the ultimate backstage pass into everyone's lives they have lusted after for so long.

Awesome lawyering. The wearing of stovepipe hats is unconfirmed. If Enoch will grow the beard I'll pitch in for the hat!

I have to agree, that is slightly to the left of creepy. Watching the Pirates/Reds game. The Pirates are going to be tough to beat at home. This one is not in doubt.

GD, I find your excessive happiness unsettling. Currently haven't eaten anything today, might grab a sammich later on. Amazing what getting laid on a regular basis does to someone's temperament!

Not necessarily. While, historically, the appropriations resolving past federal funding gaps have provided back pay for the furloughed workers, there is no guarantee of such, and there are reasons to suspect that doing so might not be the highest priority of the folks on the Hill. We federal civil servants aren't exactly the most popular folks around. At least the weather is incredibly nice. Although I have spent an embarrassingly large portion of the day with Crusader Kings II, I took a bike ride earlier, and I've got some flank steak marinading to grill this evening. For reasons that are too complicated to go into, I have decided that Enoch's job is to be the voice of the statue of Abraham Lincoln. Well they do both have the same profession!

Yeah, what Giftd said. When my old company showed me the door after it was the victim of government malfeasance there was nothing waiting for me but unemployment.

This guy was a class act:

How cool is this:

Now that IS a decent bottle of booze at the bottom. As for the rest... yeah I have some of those things.

Why did you even answer her mail? I simply ignore crazy people, saves me a lot of trouble and valuable time. The trick is spotting them BEFORE you become involved with them!

Hey hooking up with an ex sometimes leads to pretty good stuff. But not if they're nuts!

That man has so poisoned the relationship between the fish and their fans there is probably no going back. I keep hoping to read that he's selling. I know Jeb Bush wanted to buy them last winter.

kgambit is probably not a happy man right now. But I sure am. Great win, great performance by Price. He wasn't dominating by any means but he got outs when it was needed and going the whole 9 saved an overused pen. On to Cleveland!

GF is making fried chicken tonight! And no, I didn't know the chicken prior to today!

Today or in general? Today because I'm killing time waiting for the football games to start. In general because of KOTOR II and as bunch of folks I knew on the BIS & Bioware boards were here. And many still are! I've always found that amazing. Internet forums are pretty transient places.

My last real fist fight was in the military. In the Philippines no less. Fights in the bars around Olongapo & Subic City were common. Marines would fight the Navy, the Aussie Navy, French Foreign Legion, Philippine defense forces, US Air force from Clark, you name it. And if no one else was around we fought each other. There was a running joke that is you didn't get at least one NJP in the PI you weren't really there!

Better player and most valuable player aren't the same thing. If we were voting on better player the answer might be different. If we were picking one for our team for the future, Trout wins hands down. ( jeez and he turned 22 less than two months ago!) But MVP? sorry .. still going with Cabrera Here are their slash lines BA / OBP / SLG Cabrera .347/.443/.653 Trout .330/.435/.570 And if you count actual Game winning RBIs, Cabrera beats Trout - 15 to 9 http://www.sportingcharts.com/mlb/stats/player-game-winning-rbis/2013/ Good thing because you wouldn't have had to listen to me after Georgia 44 - LSU 41 ##^$&%$ Yeah, now THAT was a shocker

That means you had best not end up dead in the near future. You still have too much to do!

I've been working on the house the last few days. I'm extending the porch around the house. I'm doing all the work myself and it is slow going.

You should jump on this is you can pick it up without extending yourself. Real estate is seldom a bad bet. sometimes it is in the short term but seldom in the long term. The danger is you may have to site on it for a time.

I'm glad you guys don't live near me and could not hear me ranting and raving earlier!

Smoked turkey tenderloin brushed with home made BBQ sauce & steamed summer squash & baked potatoes. And pecan pie for later. Obviously GF is coming over, I wouldn't have made all that just for me.

Turkey sub from Subway. Not great, not terrible.

Yesterday at court was kind of similar, was in a bigger city and the prosecutor scored high on the ice maiden/probably moonlighting as a highly paid dominatrix scale. Especially since I said my bit in the first 15 minutes and had to just sit there for the remaining few hours. Niiiice. And I'm guessing you were so turned on you couldn't sit still!