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Anything too stupid to be said is sung.
- Voltaire

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.

- - Christopher Morley

But yet again, I’ve gone to the gun show and returned empty handed. Not many H&K’s this time around it seemed. Was also reminded of how much I like the feel of the Walther P-22’s…and the Glocks. So much for “Yes, I really know what I want.”

Little bro came along as well. Best quote of the day: “Not sure about a place where you can get a gun, a ski mask and a book on ‘learn everything possible about burglar alarms’.” (What can I say, I’m used to the history books next to “how to field strip any weapon” next to “How to beat down The Man” books.) But he seemed to enjoy it.

I always have a good time, if nothing else for the off the wall stuff that you see, and some good people watching.

“…Armageddon is not exactly a foreign policy…”

- Madeline Albright on the Colbert Report, 3.27.07

“Cake’s nothing but a delivery system for icing.”

Regarding registration of hedge funds…

- “Oh, I see where this is going. First they have to register, then they start putting them in camps…”

“When I die, I want to come back as me.”
- Mark Cuban

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

Some people are like Slinkies. They’re really good for nothing. But they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down a flight of stairs.

In this morning:
“So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.”
- Johann Wolfgang vonGoethe

I don’t know, it just made me snort a bit this morning. It’s a great thought, but I gotta say lately I have been anything BUT in balance with anything else. :) And if I really have been, good grief, how out of whack is everything else then?!

Turns out my switchover to Sprint got delayed, because even though I did god knows how many recorded verifications that YES, I wanted to change MY long distance provider, Verizon refused the order… So I spent my lunch getting Verizon to let me ditch AT&T.

Oh, and Happy Friday the 13th!!

Don’t throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Theodore Roosevelt

You may want to avoid anyone who appears to be on a rampage. You don’t want to be the brunt of someone else’s fury. Do your own thing.

I’ve found that’s usually good advice for every day of the week.

And an interesting quote to have pop up today after last evening’s ponderings, from Ralph Waldo Emerson:
The only gift is a portion of thyself.

I almost made myself famous this morning for all the wrong reasons as I was sorely tempted to go outside and whack someone upside the head with a maglite - why does anyone think it is OK to repeatedly honk the car horn rather than just walking up to someone’s front door, knocking and saying, “Hey, I’m here!”??

Today’s word of the day is, “Housework!” The past couple weeks have been rough on the ol’ homestead and there is much to be done - my things have taken on a life of their own and scattered themselves all over the place when I wasn’t looking. Been a while since things have been as out of control as they are domestically-speaking, and even so, it’s really not too bad and shouldn’t take much at all to get back in shape, which pleases me no end. Amazing progress for me.

Have had a positively horrid case of foot in mouth syndrome of late - I do hope that passes very soon without my having to resort to simply not speaking to anyone ever again.

Got some decent sleep, thank god. Only things on the “must do” list for this afternoon is to go to the pharmacy, and for the weekend at large is getting some laundry & dishes done. Everything else is off the table at the moment.

In the past 24 hours I’ve gone from one “that would be fun” event next Saturday to three of them. (However, having discovered one of them is $35 for entrance, and the other two are free, that may help in decision making.)

Everytime I thought things couldn’t get worse this week, they did. I am so far beyond drained. I need something, but I can’t really put my finger on it to make it happen.

“No beer and no TV makes Homer go something, something”
“Go crazy?”
“DON’T MIND IF I DO!!”

Yeah, it’s been that kind of a day already. Actually, kind of a holdover from yesterday. I had FINALLY gotten my calls back down to a reasonable level, and the queue just exploded. Then again this morning, it’s just NUTS. I now have 12 calls all to myself. Eep!

Usually when I get stuck with this many, I just stop taking new calls while I whack down the ones I’ve got. No such luck today since the incoming volume has been so stupid.

And to top it off, they’ve killed our email here for a couple hours cause it’s been sucking so badly lately.

“Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming — WOW–What a Ride!”

Just stumbled across this description of Washington DC:

“LA for less attractive people”

Vincent ‘Vinnie’ Antonelli: I never touched a gun in my life. That and that alone forever doomed me to middle management.

Steve Martin, My Blue Heaven

of a nap.

At some point our society shifted. Sleep is for the weak. People who routinely get by on minimal hours have been elevated to cult status. I don’t know when it happened, but boy are they missing out.

I work anywhere from 8 to 12 hours a day. Mostly mental/visual work. Very little actual running around. Yet, it is DRAINING. Physically and mentally. When I get home, I’m physically beat, and the hamster on a wheel that is my brain is still running at 100 MPH.

Bill Cosby did a sketch on sleep. There was a line that went something like this:
“I love sleep like I love a good steak.”

I’m totally with you, Bill.

Today was one of those days - not long, but mentally very consuming. After being home a while, I realized I was tired and feeling rather creaky, but it wasn’t even quite dark yet and my head was still filled with stuff. But the rack monster was calling, and who am I to ignore?

Off to bed for a bit. Now, there is something that just feels very indulgent about a nap from the beginning. You’re supposed to be UP and about and awake - they’re called waking hours for a reason. Stretching out and having my head sink into the pillow, only one thought came to mind.

Oooooooh, this feels gooooooooooooooooooood.

No radio, no tv, no noise, no visuals. No new inputs for a while. Some time to let everything filling my head just drift away.

I’m not even sure if I completely fell asleep. But I do know that 45 minutes later, I’m feeling a lot better.

Not only does Jesus save, but he makes nightly off-site backups.

The sun will continue to set on schedule.
The moon will rise and be beautiful.
Flowers will bloom.
There will be some white Christamases.
People will fall in love.
Children will be born and grow up strong.
Birds will sing.
Branches will be laden with fruit, fields rich with grain and vegetables.
The surf will be up on occasion.
The world will turn green for spring.
There will be hot chocolate and firesides.
Cats will find sun beams and dogs will recieve table scraps.
Friends talk late into the night.
Fine wines will be drunk.
Fine foods will be eaten.
I predict all these with a feeling of reasonable certainty and this belief makes me incredibly happy.

Peter Gibbons: I don’t like my job and I don’t think I’ll go anymore.
Joanna: You’re just not gonna go?
Peter Gibbons: Yeah.
Joanna: Won’t you get fired?
Peter Gibbons: I don’t know. But I really don’t like it and, uh, I’m not gonna go.
Joanna: So you’re gonna quit?
Peter Gibbons: Uh-uh. Not really. I’m just gonna stop going.
Joanna: When did you decide all that?
Peter Gibbons: About an hour ago.
Joanna: So you’re going to get another job?
Peter Gibbons: I don’t think I’ll like another job.
Joanna: Well what are you going to do about money? Bills?
Peter Gibbons: You know I never really liked paying bills, I don’t think I’m going to do that either.

Office Space

If at first you don’t succeed, remove all evidence you ever tried.

Maybe it’s time to clean off my desk…

Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your accordion.
Author Unknown

A *person* is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it.
Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones), Men In Black

I did absolutely nothing, and it was everything that I hoped it could be.
Peter Gibbons, Office Space

In a nutshell, that will hopefully be my weekend. No road trips, no errands to run, nowhere I have to be at any time.

No one is allowed to get sick this weekend, either.

I’ve worked too many hours this week, so this weekend will be spent getting a few things done around the house, and generally relaxing and doing as little as possible.

I can’t wait. :)