Guard Dog

That only tastes good when accompanied by a hangover and coffee.

Nah my legs in a cast and getting up is this whole big production and.... actually you're right. But it's ok now anyway, a baseball game came on. Puerto Rico vs Panama. Looks like my next three hours are booked solid!

You are a young guy right Sluggo? Twenty something? Here is a little advice that is guaranteed to change your luck. Stop dating twenty somethings or worse under twenties. They don't need you. They defineitely will not appreciate you. Go for the girls in their late thirties. Divorcees are fine but the ones who haven't been married yet are the best. so you're telling him to go for cougars? Absolutely! If they are looking for you why not look for them. It worked for me until I got married. I know you would not turn one away if they targeted you. Now don't YOU go getting married Shryke. I reliving my twenties vicariously by reading your posts!

I've been watching ESPN all day. All day. I don't want to. I don't even like basketball. But I cant find the remote. Oh goodie! Sportscenter is coming on...again.

You are a young guy right Sluggo? Twenty something? Here is a little advice that is guaranteed to change your luck. Stop dating twenty somethings or worse under twenties. They don't need you. They defineitely will not appreciate you. Go for the girls in their late thirties. Divorcees are fine but the ones who haven't been married yet are the best.

I knew a guy who met one in a bar in San Diego once. He didn't know. None of us did. They left together and he came back alone about 10 min later. He.. umm... found out... while they were making out in the parking lot. I still laugh about how THAT little discovery must have went down.

For the most part I'm still intact. The crash was almost head on. It happened on Covington Pike between Memphis and Millington. The other guy was drunk and crossed the median and hit me between the front tire and drivers door. It broke my left femur, my right ulna (arm) and my right wrist plus a few cracked ribs, broken teenth and my face looks like I kissed a weedeater. The bad part was my Ulna nreak was compound fracture and it damaged my radial artery. When EMS got there one of them tolt the HP I would not survive. They had my wallet and took my insuracne card out and got my emergency contacts from them. Well, I never updated my contacts on that so their first call was to my ex and they told her I had died in the accident. She had to call my parents and tell them. They did not find out the truth for seversal hours when the hospital called them. Anyway, I've got pins in mt arm and leg now and my right wrist is in a cast. All in all I was lucky. I have a hard time convincing myself of that sometimes but I guess it was just not my timew to go. I would love to have heard the call to my ex.

Slug, pus = infection = trouble. Whatever the doctor does to you it won't be worse. I'm having surgery tomorrow after which the cast comes off my left arm. Yea! I'll fianlly be able to type normall again. I started PT the day before yesterday, not too bad just squishing a raquetball and using a towel for resistance on my legs. Fortuantly I am in pretty good physical condition so that is making it easier. Thanks again everyone for all the encouragement and emails!

Currently in my third season of Out of the Park Baseball 9. This is the BEST baseball sim EVER.

Too bad I can't give you soe of my pills Calax, they would knock you right out. Of course I've been chasing thwm with bourbon so that does help a little.

Thank You all very much. It means a lot to me. It's been a pretty bad month, and a ways still to go but it getting better.

"And don't let the door hit you in the ***." Friday was supposed to be my last day. I had my week all planned out. I wanted to wrap up some of the projects I had worked on. I had planned on spending the week saying farewell to friends and co-workers, some of whom I have known for years. Instead I got a shock after lunch today. I had a member of management from another department waiting for me in my office. He supervised as I cleaned out my desk and bookshelves (even giving me a hard time by asking I prove that some of my text books and professional books were really mine). Then I was escorted to the door without even a chance to say goodbye to anyone. Furthermore I was not allowed to access my computer and some of the pictures/documents on it were mine and not company related at all. After seven years of taking no small part in building that company in the end I could not even be trusted to clean out my office without fear I would steal/sabotage something. Or kill someone apparently. They explained it was just a policy to do that to avoid possible issues/violent confrontations with "downsized" employees. I was not alone making the walk of shame to my truck carrying a cardboard box with all my books, awards, coffee cup, (and silver whiskey flask which did get a laugh Taks). The real funny thing is, this time last year I was a nobody RF Design Engineer in South Florida. One of many. The guy that replaced me still has his job. I accepted a promotion to become the Tower Manager/Engineer/Compliance Officer for the entire eastern US and I'm now unemployed. Sometimes ambition and the desire to improve yourself lead to a dead end. In fact I think it does more often than not. So I stopped by the store on the way home and bought two cases of Icehouse. Since I have nowhere to be tomorrow I intend to build a pyramid of empty cans high enough to reach the ceiling. Rant over. I do feel a little better. One last thing. They forgot to ask me for my cell phone. Once my severance check posts I'll send it back to them. Too bad all I have is small white envelopes but I can use a hammer to make it fit.

Welcome back. How's college treating you?

After watching last night it occurs to me that the humans of the 12 colonies are such a whiny, fractious, and contentious lot that they are incapable of acting in their own self interest. Maybe they are not worth saving.

WordNetDaily?!? Lolz. More like WingNutDaily... Actually WND is a pretty good place to get op-eds especially Walter E Williams (one of the brightest economic minds of our time). But I will agree the news reporting there needs to be taken with a really big grain of salt.

I KNEW IT!! I KNEW IT!! He's coming after me! Well, Obama had better sent well armed men with no families because I've been making preparations! I kid. In all seriousness, I've stopped reading the blogs and haven't even visited realclearpolitics.com since the election. I just get so depressed at what I'm afraid is coming and know there is nothing to be done about it. If I dwell on it it just makes me sick. The upshot is the Superbowl is next week and Baseball starts in less than a month. And at least I will not be unemployed after next week. I try to focus on those things. Not the inevitable nationalization of private business coupled with the total collapse of the dollar followed by years of double digit inflation. And I think Enoch is optimistic at 2011. The government cannot simply print money to do with as it wishes without consequences.

Why wouldn't you? Heck you should feel at home most anywhere.

Now reading The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penny. Really, really excellent writing. It is very reminicent of Jack London who (along with Twain, Kipling, and Clavell) is my favorite author of all time. @Hurlshot, Agincourt is next for me. I'll let you know how it is.

Seinfeld moment!

That was not the only iron in the fire for her.

I second this motion. I wouldn't reccomend it to anyone.

I got an e-mail from my ex today. A very angry e-mail. First time I've heard from her since I saw her last year. Anyway, as you guys may remember, I sold my house in Florida last summer. We bought that house together so even though we had split up she had a 50% ownership stake in the house. So after closing I met with her to give her a check for her half. It was a big check too, almost $30K. Anyway, I paid my half of it towards the principle on my new house. She used hers to buy a car. My choice exempted me from paying a capital gains tax, hers did not. Fast foward to yesterday. She just got her taxes prepared and found out she owes the IRS almost $10K, and she spent ALL of that money so she does not have it to pay. The icing on this cake is she is mad at ME for not explaining all this to her! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA..... Ahem.... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA..... It probably betrays some deep flaw in my character that I'm deriving so much pleasure from someone elses difficulties. Especially with an organization so despicable and evil as the IRS. But I think I would have traded ten years off my life to have been a fly on the wall when her tax guy told her the news. Everytime I think of it..... HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.....

It's colder than a well digger's ---. The creek in the back of my land actually froze. The dogs don't want to go out. Coming from Florida I am not used to this.

Krezack is correct. It will not happen and Rangel is trying to get a rise out of everyone (admittedly so was I). However, he is not some lone nutjob on the fringe of his party. He is the Chairman of the House Ways and Means committee and the third most powerful member of the House of Representatives. Coming from him automatically makes this an issue worth of discussion. I just find t deliciously ironic that after all the Democrats screaming about Bush bringing back the draft, it's only been Democrats that have actually attempted to do it. Excitabat fluctus in simpulo.

Personally I could not care less what two consenting adults do between each other so long as it does not affect me or anyone else. So I don't care if they do get married but I absolutely believe that nothing should stop them if thats what makes them happy. I've said it before, that whole life liberty and the pursuit of happiness thing means nothing unless it is applied to everyone. I must admit, I've never understood the religous objection to it. As a practicing Christian I understand well and good that not everyone believes the same thing I do. Religion is a template by which you model your own life. It is not a standard by which you judge others lives.