Year: 2012

Categories Nothing Much

Starbucks

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My closest Starbucks is in a Barnes and Nobles, so although the receipt does say B&N I promise it was a Starbucks counter.

And of course I was at a book store so I had to buy a book…..and was reminded of WHY I stopped buying books at my local B&N (besides the damage to my bank account….) was because their sci-fi/fantasy section has been cut by over half and it totally sucks now.

And yes, I paid cash.  Guess that makes me a terrorist.

Edited: almost forgot, no protestors, but I got out of my car to realize that I was parked between a minivan with a “Pass National Healthcare NOW” sticker, and a Subaru with an “Obama ’08” sticker….

Categories Nothing Much

This is what happens….

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….when I forget to bring my own bandaids to the doctors office with me.  You’d think that by this point in my life that would be ingrained…..this is the inside of my right elbow after having blood drawn and a bandaid left on it for about 3 hours:

BTW, the picture doesn’t do it justice, one of my co-workers caught me inspecting it and demanded to know what I’d gotten into that I was allergic too.  All that kinda pink was really BRIGHT RED, and burned like hell too  (I really am that pale though, sorry).  Thankfully the worst of the burning/itching went away after about a half hour or so, so I could pull back down my sleeve, cause our office is fricking COLD.

Categories Rants

To various “news” sites

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including at least one listed on the GunBlogBlackList.

If, when I first load your page, the screen is taken over by an ad of some kind, I am NOT going to continue onto your page.  I don’t care if if the “ad” is a survey cause you want to know how to improve.  It DOES NOT MATTER.  Not only am I NOT going to read anything further on your page today, there is a better than average likely hood that I won’t do so later for a very long time.

Oh, and ads that suddenly scroll across my screen while I’m reading annoy me almost as much.  Doesn’t matter what the ad is for, or why.

Edited to add:  To the companies who think the above mentioned ad type is a good way to get your product/name out, I have been known to use those ads as a good way to populate my “do not buy” list.  Just sayin……

Categories Links

Just three links this morning

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TX judge resigns after caught sleeping through a hearing.

9 years after discharge veteran arrested for AWOL.  A sentence he already served.

White grandfather detained for taking a walk with his black granddaughter.  I agree with the commenters who recommended lawyers and requesting copies of any recordings made by the cars.  Assuming his description of the event is even close to correct several someones need a lesson in how to handle things.

Categories Nothing Much

OMG, I SAW A UFO!!!!!

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REALLY!!!  I HAVE A PICTURE!!!!!  SEE!!!! 

Ok, not really.  I was taking pictures of the stunning moon last night and while I was futzing with my camera settings (cause taking pictures of the moon is HARD, especially when I can’t operate the camera with gloves on and its 9 degrees outside and I was too stupid to grab the tripod and the remote trigger) I accidently set it to a really long exposure and that picture was the result.  It does look kinda cool though….

As for a decent picture:

This was hanging not to far over the horizon last night as I was taking the dogs out.  (the line across is a power line, I tried to find an angle where the line wasn’t in the picture, but then I ended up with trees in the way….)

(you can blame the first part of this post on the increadibly disheartening news that I found in my mail box when I got up this morning and that I just posted on a few minutes ago, I needed a laugh)