Archives: September 2007

Someday Son, This Will All Be Yours . . .

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Published on: September 28, 2007

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It’s good to have goals. My daughter plans on being a veterinarian (as long as she never has to put an animal down) and a horse trainer. Oh, and a teacher, a horseback riding instructor and occasionally the President of the United States. My son is more focused: He wants to be a veterinarian and have sixty kids, which he will raise here at my house once he takes it over from me so that he can raise horses. With all those kids and horses, I’m going to suggest he get a spread with a bit more than 5 acres. To that end, it’s time to give him the talk about finding a woman with huge tracts of land. My favorite professed goal, though? The boy-child’s classmate who has decided to be a tattoo artist when he grows up. Now there’s a kid who is focused. He’s seven and already working on his designs. I envy that kid. I wish I knew what I want to be when I grow up.

Damned Hippie Liberal Freak

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Published on: September 19, 2007

I’ve always known I was a lefty (the permanent ink smudges on my left ring finger are a dead giveaway). I did not know it was this bad, however . . . According to the guys over at Political Compass, I might as well join a commune.

My political compass . . . Economic Left/Right: -6.88 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.18

To give it perspective, that’s more commie-hippie than Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and the Dalai Lama, and more Libertarian than Gandhi or Nelson, almost matching the Dalai Lama. Fortunately, they didn’t include O.J. or anyone connected to the Bush administration in the law and order questions, otherwise I would have most likely ended up somewhere to the right and north of Shrub himself.

Going Balls-Out in the News

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Published on: September 18, 2007

1. If large testes are bad for your brain, does using steroids maker you smarter?

2. I like alternative energy and the green movement, but when we start getting low on the wanking salmon, will I have to take hand in the brightening myself?

3. I’m sure you could dig up an equal list of dems, but the thugs are making it so easy these days.

4. And finally, I just wish I’d thought of this headline for the Petraeus 9/11 recital: Chickens**t Spews Lies for Chickenhawk.

Rain, Holes, Fire

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Published on: September 18, 2007

Good morning. Nope, nothing new here, other than rain, a big hole in my wall that I still need to fix and a cord of wood still left to split and stack, preferably somewhere dry. What we thought was smoke from the fires this weekend turned out to just be dust blowing up from the Palouse. I had no idea Idaho was a perpetual dust bowl. Speaking of fire, it looks like we’re number one again — most acres burned! Yay, Idaho!

Sounds Like His Day Was Worse Than Mine

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Published on: September 17, 2007

Ouch.

About Friggin’ Time

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Published on: September 17, 2007

It’s only been three months (four?) since I had a filling replaced with what the dentist called an overlay and the nightmare began. First, they made the overlay too tall, so I was constantly exerting pressure on a corner of the tooth. Then they ground it down and cracked it, so that anything I ate or drank went straight to the root (fun stuff, that). Finally, the dentist admitted failure and put on a temporary crown. Which immediately wore through in the center, leaving a little cement and a whole lot of nerve for every meal. Today I received the permanent crown. We’ll see how it goes. I like that it is smooth to the tongue and that it has no giant gaping holes in it. I don’t like the ring of grey cement all around it (which I’ve been promised will go away. The excess cement, not the crown).

What else? Well, I’ve been working and we have regular insurance again. Sure, the coverage sucks and is as much as our mortgage, and we had to go with four individual policies rather than a family policy to keep the whole thing under $2K per month, but at least we are insured. It must suck to be poor in America.

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