about anxiety. Looks like I'm spending my evening working on that topic.
Twitch came by, picked up his mattress and his TV. The important stuff. He can't USE the TV until next week sometime, but .. I digress.
All day tomorrow in a seminar for licensing CE, and then all day on Monday.
Picked Ruby up today - they charged uchanged the oil, and up the battery, inspected her, and discovered that she was missing a retaining nut on a front strut. IT seems that this has been a problem for some time; she drives much better now.
Haven't heard [back] from Secret Agent Man since Tuesday night. Thinking about him a lot, though.
Lots of worry going on around me, by me, because of me, and so on. I haven't come up with brilliance yet, but I'm working on it. I have a few hours yet.
Watching the very first episode of Twin Peaks - wow - what a trip. I have forgotten that whole show, how the story got started, and so on. My old TV looks like a portable compared to Twitch's huge TV. A black framed TV is better than silver, though.
DJHJD
Friday, June 02, 2006
Thursday, June 01, 2006
Well, you were wondering ..
source article
Republican agenda revealed
by kos
Thu Jun 01, 2006 at 06:23:44 PM PDT
It's a local story from Lincoln, Nebraska, except that it offers us an insight into the Republican mind. And that makes it a universal, national story.
The mayor said she wanted specifics, so City Councilwoman Robin Eschliman gave her specifics about where she would cut the city's budget.
After a semi-scolding in a memo from Seng about how generalities don't help with budget-cutting, Eschliman responded with a list of specific budget cuts she supports, largely based on a survey she did over the winter. Here are a few areas in which she said she'd support "substantial cuts":
* Merit pay increases for city employees
* Swimming pools, unless attendance goes up
* Bus routes
* Expenditures involving water runoff, flood plain issues, etc.
* Libraries, unless usage is increasing
* Capital improvements to parks
* Funding for the Women's Commission; she suggests moving it under the umbrella of another department.
When contacted by the Journal Star about her letter, Eschliman said it was mistakenly released to the public and was only a preliminary list.
The New Nebraska Network pounced:
Though many Republicans are ideologically opposed to the above sorts of spending, it's rare indeed that one will come right out and tell families that they should go without popular services that government has long had an essential, oftentimes exclusive, role in providing.
When Eschliman talks about substantially cutting funds for public parks, libraries, and swimming pools, she's just being honest about the Republican party's priorities. It just so happens that when Republicans are honest about these things, they reveal themselves as completely out-of-touch with mainstream voters and their values.
Sure, people like to complain about paying taxes, but not to the degree that they're willing to give up those things that so enrich our quality of life and give our communities character. Eschliman and her like may prefer to see that money returned to citizens for investment in real estate and the stock market, but real people accept and embrace these limited trade-offs of their private gain for the public good .... a concept the true Republican ideologue simply can't grasp.
That's just the thing. Republicans will talk a good game about returning money to taxpayers, yadda yadda, but they are hard pressed to make the cuts. Because ultimately, at the end of the day, people like things like parks and swimming pools and libraries. Republicans may consider such things "non-essential", but most people consider those places community hubs.
So Republicans, when in power, cut taxes and starve government, but they rarely have the balls to actually cut popular programs. Because if they did, that would be the end of their political careers. And when their agenda sees the light of day, like it did in Lincoln, Nebraska, Republicans find every excuse to disavow that agenda.
If conservative ideology has supremacy in this country, why do conservatives hide in the shadows? If people really wanted government stripped to the bone, why not proudly display that agenda in all it's glory?
The "why" is easy. Republicans are afraid to reveal their true stripes.
Just another manifestation of Republican cowardice.
Republican agenda revealed
by kos
Thu Jun 01, 2006 at 06:23:44 PM PDT
It's a local story from Lincoln, Nebraska, except that it offers us an insight into the Republican mind. And that makes it a universal, national story.
The mayor said she wanted specifics, so City Councilwoman Robin Eschliman gave her specifics about where she would cut the city's budget.
After a semi-scolding in a memo from Seng about how generalities don't help with budget-cutting, Eschliman responded with a list of specific budget cuts she supports, largely based on a survey she did over the winter. Here are a few areas in which she said she'd support "substantial cuts":
* Merit pay increases for city employees
* Swimming pools, unless attendance goes up
* Bus routes
* Expenditures involving water runoff, flood plain issues, etc.
* Libraries, unless usage is increasing
* Capital improvements to parks
* Funding for the Women's Commission; she suggests moving it under the umbrella of another department.
When contacted by the Journal Star about her letter, Eschliman said it was mistakenly released to the public and was only a preliminary list.
The New Nebraska Network pounced:
Though many Republicans are ideologically opposed to the above sorts of spending, it's rare indeed that one will come right out and tell families that they should go without popular services that government has long had an essential, oftentimes exclusive, role in providing.
When Eschliman talks about substantially cutting funds for public parks, libraries, and swimming pools, she's just being honest about the Republican party's priorities. It just so happens that when Republicans are honest about these things, they reveal themselves as completely out-of-touch with mainstream voters and their values.
Sure, people like to complain about paying taxes, but not to the degree that they're willing to give up those things that so enrich our quality of life and give our communities character. Eschliman and her like may prefer to see that money returned to citizens for investment in real estate and the stock market, but real people accept and embrace these limited trade-offs of their private gain for the public good .... a concept the true Republican ideologue simply can't grasp.
That's just the thing. Republicans will talk a good game about returning money to taxpayers, yadda yadda, but they are hard pressed to make the cuts. Because ultimately, at the end of the day, people like things like parks and swimming pools and libraries. Republicans may consider such things "non-essential", but most people consider those places community hubs.
So Republicans, when in power, cut taxes and starve government, but they rarely have the balls to actually cut popular programs. Because if they did, that would be the end of their political careers. And when their agenda sees the light of day, like it did in Lincoln, Nebraska, Republicans find every excuse to disavow that agenda.
If conservative ideology has supremacy in this country, why do conservatives hide in the shadows? If people really wanted government stripped to the bone, why not proudly display that agenda in all it's glory?
The "why" is easy. Republicans are afraid to reveal their true stripes.
Just another manifestation of Republican cowardice.
Notes from the party:
More Jell-o shots, and in larger cups
More vodka
More patio furniture
More landscaping
Waterproof disposable cameras
Live pool-cam
Stronger wi-fi signal
Fewer sexually confused drunks
Less potato salad
Less food
Not on a school night
More vodka
More patio furniture
More landscaping
Waterproof disposable cameras
Live pool-cam
Stronger wi-fi signal
Fewer sexually confused drunks
Less potato salad
Less food
Not on a school night
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
What if you had exactly what you asked for?
I work on the science and philosophy of manifesting what I ask the Universe for - and I've had proof of it before. Yesterday, though, I first experienced having the universe deliver EXACTLY what I had asked for when I wasn't paying attention. It really rattled me.
I know that when I decided that this was what I wanted, I put it out into the Universe and then I started contradicting it by expecting the opposite result. When I got the result I wanted, it just shocked me.
Was it an anomoly? Was it real? Wow. I'm riding two trains of thought here - first, is it something that's real, and what comes next? Also, is it really this easy to have what one wants?
I know that when I decided that this was what I wanted, I put it out into the Universe and then I started contradicting it by expecting the opposite result. When I got the result I wanted, it just shocked me.
Was it an anomoly? Was it real? Wow. I'm riding two trains of thought here - first, is it something that's real, and what comes next? Also, is it really this easy to have what one wants?
Monday, May 29, 2006
Memorial Day memories in the making
I'm sitting here watching the gray clouds roll in from the east, as the light of day is barely dawning. This house is so fabulous.
N8 (the guy from Clear Lake who has a tendency to show up, wildly drunk) knocked on my bedroom window at 5:00 (4:55, actually) and is now snoozing in my bed. He doesn't seem as drunk as he USUALLY is, but he was at the 128% of drunken obnoxious before he wandered off in there to crash.
I looked out the window when he knocked, saw his car parked outside, went outside to see if he was wandering around somewhere, couldn't see him - just his car, so I went back to bed. Twenty-five minutes later, I gave up, realizing that I wasn't going back to sleep. So, now I'm up. Another night of fewer than five hours of sleep.
Yesterday, Roland helped put the speaker wire under the carpeting - it looks SO much better. The stereo is still thunderous; we watched War of the Worlds last night, and had it turned up to about 55% - we couldn't talk in the living room. The sound was clear as a bell, and the glassware in the bar was shaking like crazy. Brian was helping with this project yesterday, and remarked that I get irritated very easily. Well, yes. When people do stupid shit, and then try to blame me for it, I get irritable. Peace and tranquility, my son. I get over it very quickly too.
That's one of the reasons that I don't often go to movies at the theater; I can watch them here at home, in staggering sound and .. not have to park?
Spent some time yesterday car shopping on the internet again. Every single thing that I look at (which is appealing to me, anyway) has a little column of black circles in the Consumer Report reliability ratings. This would mean nothing but frustration and annoyance, which is NOT what I want from my new car experience.
Perhaps a .. Toyota Camry? Ugh. That would be much like driving a loaf of Wonder Bread.
N8 (the guy from Clear Lake who has a tendency to show up, wildly drunk) knocked on my bedroom window at 5:00 (4:55, actually) and is now snoozing in my bed. He doesn't seem as drunk as he USUALLY is, but he was at the 128% of drunken obnoxious before he wandered off in there to crash.
I looked out the window when he knocked, saw his car parked outside, went outside to see if he was wandering around somewhere, couldn't see him - just his car, so I went back to bed. Twenty-five minutes later, I gave up, realizing that I wasn't going back to sleep. So, now I'm up. Another night of fewer than five hours of sleep.
Yesterday, Roland helped put the speaker wire under the carpeting - it looks SO much better. The stereo is still thunderous; we watched War of the Worlds last night, and had it turned up to about 55% - we couldn't talk in the living room. The sound was clear as a bell, and the glassware in the bar was shaking like crazy. Brian was helping with this project yesterday, and remarked that I get irritated very easily. Well, yes. When people do stupid shit, and then try to blame me for it, I get irritable. Peace and tranquility, my son. I get over it very quickly too.
That's one of the reasons that I don't often go to movies at the theater; I can watch them here at home, in staggering sound and .. not have to park?
Spent some time yesterday car shopping on the internet again. Every single thing that I look at (which is appealing to me, anyway) has a little column of black circles in the Consumer Report reliability ratings. This would mean nothing but frustration and annoyance, which is NOT what I want from my new car experience.
Perhaps a .. Toyota Camry? Ugh. That would be much like driving a loaf of Wonder Bread.
Sunday, May 28, 2006
Sunday before Memorial Day
So, this morning, I woke to cloudy skies and sprinkles. Rick trundled downstairs from the Twitch room about ten minutes after I got up. He went off to Jack in the Box to pick up some brekkie for us while I made coffee and emptied the dishwasher. Then, he and I cleaned things up around here in anticipation of the Dallas girls, who are arriving in about 45 minutes.
I'm loving having the surround system working. L-O-V-I-N-G it.
I'm loving having the surround system working. L-O-V-I-N-G it.
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