There was a brief discussion of Walter Brennan the other day. Unfortunately, a large number of those present had no idea who he was. Even I didn't know that he'd won three Oscars.

"Dat Walter... he hot!!!"

I can't even remember why the subject came up.

My niece, "Pam," will understand this.

It seems like there's seldom enough time

Sharon and I just returned from the annual family Thanksgiving gathering. This year it was at Janet & George's... they would be my sister and brother-in-law... in Clovis, which is down in the southern part of Northern California right next to Fresno. My other sister, JoAnne, her husband, Greg, and Nate, their son were there. Also there were Sara , her husband Woody
and little Georgia. They are the Blogs Woodys. Anna, Ken and baby Eden were there too, as was Rebekah, my third niece. We spent so much time catching up and trading bacon recipes that we were unable to spend enough time to solve the world problems.

As I mentioned in a previous post, there was football on the radio for the drive down and the outcome was about as I foresaw. What I didn't foresee was that the other two games would be pretty much the same. It was actually more interesting to watch my nephew, Nate play Rockstar on his Wii. So that's what we did.

Plans are now underway for the next family gathering in March to celebrate St Patrick's day. My guess is that we'll do it on March 14 because St Pat's is on Tuesday.






Deep Fried Bacon ~ with sausage gravy for dipping

BTW - we did not have turducken for the Thanksgiving feast

There was bacon for those who wanted it

The content says it all

See y'all later.
Clovis calls.

Thanksgiving Holiday

Tomorrow Sharon and I will make our way south a few hundred miles to Clovis, where my sister and her family live.
One thing that makes the trip go by so well is that we're able to listen to one of the annual turkey day football games (Detroit vs. whoever is going to beat them this year even though they're playing at home). But I was thinking a little bit ago that it would be really neat if the 'Car Talk' guys from NPR were on tomorrow. Then I remembered that most public radio stations are low powered FM and I spend as much time trying to pick up a stronger signal as I do listening. It's too bad because their show and 'A Prairie Home Companion' are two of my favorites.
Sometimes, if we are running late, we will even hear part of the game from Dallas. I think I dislike the Dallas Cowboys even more than the L.A. Dodgers... if that's possible for a native San Franciscan.

Anyway, we're looking forward to visiting family and seeing just how big my nieces' (two nieces, two daughters) daughters are.

Side note: The forecast is for a high
of 62º, it is currently 73º

I keeping with a post earlier this week...

Y'all can prolly figger out whut to drink with this.

really cool recipe

followed by

Wait 'til John Madden hears about this

Golly, I'd never seen turducken written before. That's really an ugly word

Going home for the holiday

We really need new luggage

Sometimes we're a little preoccupied

DUCT TAPE USE #317

I have to tell you that I have never seen a better use for duct tape in my life. Makes you want to require everyone to carry a roll for emergencies.

Thank you Sharon!!!

Wasting time

So earlier today I posted a comment on another blog.
I visited, lord knows how many, other blogs and sites.
I finally decided that there really wasn't anything out there worth repeating here... at least not yet.

I did get a chuckle or two reading the archives
of Top Tens from the Letterman show

If that's not a waste of time,
I don't know what is.

Did you know?

Horatio and Willie Nelson are not directly related.

They may have bought their clothes from the same place

I like to start the week out with a chuckle

I thought Mother Goose and Grimm was funny. Then I read Dilbert.

Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!!!

and that's before I even turn
on the computer to surf the WEB

.

Take me out to the ball game...

Then we're going to Disneyland:
Mom to toddler in stroller: What was your favorite part of the circus?
Toddler in stroller: The elephants pooping!

The movie is Dumbo, not Dumpo!!!

The answer is....

Four American presidents are not buried in the United States:

Jimmy Carter
George Bush
Bill Clinton
George W. Bush

BTW Jimmy Carter is a Lions Club member

Hmmmmm.....

Question of the day...

How many American presidents are not buried in the United States?

The answer is astonishing

No it isn't!!!

Bonus Question:

Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical situations?

???

Some Stories are Worth Repeating

This one's only gonna get a link to a link

Pay particularly close attention to the comments on both links

I can't believe how much chatter this story generated.

And today's Quote

"Facts are such a distraction from the essence of what's really happening."
-- anonymous

Well, he wasn't really anonymous.
It's just that nobody bothered to get his name.

I think it was Niles

I didn't know that.

On this day...

1307 William Tell shoots apple off his son's head
1928 Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse debuts in NY in "Steamboat Willie"

and a quote:
We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know.

-- W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)

W.H. Auden was about 600 years too late

Maybe I mentioned we were away all weekend

Sharon and I were in the Twin Cities (that would be Marysville and Yuba City) for a Lions District meeting over the weekend. Nothing earth shattering occurred.

Who are we going to blame this on?

More than 99.9% of all the animal species that have ever lived on earth were extinct before the coming of man.

Aliens get my vote

We will end this

With a couple of relatively tame selections from Overheard in New York

Guy: Touche.
Girl: Isn't that Japanese for "okay"?

and

Woman #1: She was as dumb as molasses.
Woman #2: Well, molasses don't have a brain.
Woman #1: Well, she was as dumb as that.

See ya'll Sunday when we get back

I had to share this

'Dear Lord:

Thank you for bringing me to Timmy ' s house, and not to Michael Vick ' s -- AMEN! '

Thanks to Jim Barringer
who got it from someone else

By the way

Remember how I was complaining about not receiving emails because they were being filtered?
Then I said I was going to have to do something about it?
Then I said, philosophically, that even taking no action was doing something?
Well, that's what I did.

Those of you who have my email address may continue to send me email. If you don't have it, send me an email and I will tell you what my email address is. If I don't respond it means that your email has probably been filtered.

Yeah, I know the full Moon is done,
but I'm really like this all of the time

It's a joke!!!

Huge exclamation point

Read about this here.
Click on the image to see a larger version

I don't think it's photoshopped either

The end is near.

It is no small wonder that Circuit City has filed for bankruptcy and is reorganizing.

!

Quote for the Day

[I'm not even sure it's really a quote.]

"Having a resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die."

make that the millenium

As of this moment

There is a full moon... well at 10:17pm it will be full.

That explains a lot.
Now I understand why there were so many ringy people in Costco this afternoon. What was really strange is that the parking lot and the store were full. Yet there were very few people in the checkout lines. Back in the days when I was working in restaurants and in retail I didn't have to look to see if there was a full moon. I could tell just by who I saw and how they acted. Now there's not nearly as much contact with the public.

Brian - this one's for you:

Two English businessmen in London were sitting down for a break in their soon-to-be new store. As yet, the store wasn't ready, with only a few shelves set up.
One said to the other, "I bet any minute now some idiot tourist is going to walk by, put his face to the window, and ask what we're selling."
No sooner were the words out of his mouth when, sure enough, a curious Irishman walked to the window, had a peek, and in a thick Irish accent asked,"What might ye' be sellin' here?"
One of the men replied sarcastically, "We're selling *ss-holes."
Without skipping a beat, the Irishman said, "You are doin' well then ... only TWO left!
Moral of the story: Englishmen ... God bless them ... should not mess with the Irish!!!

I have to thank my OLDER brother
for contributing the joke and
Brian for being such a good sport

Oh yeah and this...

My niece posted a blurb about some kind of mini riot at the Stonestown Shopping Center in S.F.
At least there was a total lack of preparation for the crowd that showed up so the crowd was uncontrolled and a lady had her nose broken.
Anyway, somebody else asked in the comments if my niece's husband was going to watch the UFC [Ultimate Fighting Championship]. The first thing that came to mind was that there's a free, live version at the shopping center.

No, they haven't found a cure

How to you spell f-r-u-s-t-r-a-t-i-o-n?

We all know we're supposed to replace the batteries in smoke alarms when the clocks are reset each year for daylight savings and standard time.
This year I determined to go one better. It has been well over ten years since I installed the first smoke alarm and probably at least seven years since the last one was installed. Anyhow, I went out to the local "big box" retailer and purchased four brand new alarms to replace the old ones. Other than dealing with the folks chowing down at the free samples tables at the end of each aisle, that was probably the easiest part of the whole task. But maybe reading the instructions... as far as they went... was easier.
Removing the old alarms wasn't too difficult. However the bases were another story. I will have to remember to make sure that the screw heads don't get the slots filled with paint in the future. Then, of course, none... not one single one... of the holes for mounting the bases for the new alarms matched the existing holes for the old alarms. At least not if I wanted to have the new ones remain upright. Thank goodness the old holes are at least covered by the new alarms.
Tomorrow I may mow the lawn cut the grass.

I don't always have a smart*ss remark

There's a comment here just waiting to be written

What's this?

I saw an ad today for a Digital Rice Cooker.

What exactly is digital rice?

I am still mulling over a comment
I received to a post yesterday

A BOY!!!

This Just In:

Timely?

Monday's entry

Right! I don't have to butcher the "English" language

I love it!!!

I have a theory.

First let me say that it is based on very limited information and virtually no research. I have reached an age where I am no longer required to back up statements with fact... I only have to use big words.

Come to think of it, I have a number of theories. Each of them is as outrageous as the next. I think I shall save them until the next polite gathering I attend just so I can liven things up a little.

I can see Sharon cringing as she reads this. [GRINS]

Hi Honey!!!

ELECTION RESULTS:
We've all probably seen the state by state breakout of how the nation voted last Tuesday. Here is a comparison when it's broken out by county.

FROM MY PEREGRINATIONS:
Yeah, I know it's bass-ackwards, but I don't care to add new stuff in front of the stuff that was here first. So I find myself using the edit feature so posts show up chronologically.

Of course the real reason for this post is that I found a sometimes humorous website. I won't give it a plug, but here's a link to a post on the archive.

they don' got am'blances
& I love them big words,
not to mention butchering the
English language on occasion

Blog as journal?

What a concept. We can choose to put as much or as little of ourselves as we want in this space. Some already are doing so. A window to (y)our lives is opened each time the activities of the day are shared. More amazing, we can voyeuristically [I made up that word according to the spellchecker] explore the daily lives of complete strangers. Some of us even care enough to try to properly punctuate and spell words correctly.

Before the Internet and blogging some folks... the ones who knew how to read and write... kept journals or diaries. These were meant primarily for their own use. Consequently they left out a lot of information that would give us some insight about their daily lives. On the other hand if they wrote everything down, they probably wouldn't have time for anything else and there'd be a whole sh*tload of journals full of menus, decorating tips, furniture inventories and hour by hour activity reports. But there are those who wrote just to remind themselves a high... or low... moment and that is all that's been left for us to know about them.
Okay, so what's my point? We really don't know how long the pearls of wisdom that we put in our blogs are going to last. A scary thought is that some stranger may come across them in a hundred years and say to himself, "Great oogly-moogly, is this clown weird!"
Come to think of it, someone could find it in a minute or so and think the same thing. Ultimately, we should decide:

• if this is for ourselves only -then it doesn't really matter what we write
• if it meant for others to gain some insight - then we might consider being a little better organized

If you've been following this blog for awhile
you know which choice I made

I have a friend who has two blogs. He wonders if he should be keeping a journal too. My only suggestion is that he find a method for saving what he's furnished already.

Hi Brian!!!

I love it when someone else does all of the work

INVISIBLE WRITING


How many dogs does it take to change a light bulb?

more INVISIBLE WRITING

It's one of those click on the link things
(opens another whole website)

Everyone needs to rant

I think I may have figured out why I may be a little cynical about elections.
We have spent the last two years... yes folks it only seemed longer... listening to candidates [pick one] tell us what's wrong with the current situation and what they'll do to fix it.
So two days ago we elected one of them and nothing has changed.
I say we should impeach or recall the sucker and find somebody who will really do something... NOW!.

Oh, I also think one of the qualifications
for any political office should be that a
person should have held a real job at
some time in their life.

O.G.A. II

There is this.

You have been Spammed and
there's more where that came from

because I'm lazy

I won't post my thoughts about the recent election. This post almost mirrors my sentiments. I do think that as a nation we did ourselves proud. That was yesterday and it is over. We have to take care of today.

Martinis won't help and
the holograph was lame

What can I say?

Hmmm, how about , it's a metaphor for elections?
Yeah, I know it's a stretch [no pun intended].

Let's start this week with a quote:

“A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way”.
-- Mark Twain

Do not try this at home.

Bonus Quote:

Bummer

I was looking at the preview thingy from the satellite company last night and saw that there was going to be a showing of the Nova show about fractals. I dutifully switched channels from the Texas vs. Texas Tech shenanigans and found some kind of blues thing. Now, I like blues, but this was like somebody's home movie and the sound was terrible so I switched to the Food Network and watched reruns of kettle chip making. Saturday night television sure leaves a lot to be desired.

Wait, there's not much worth watching on TV any more.

I received a wmv. file this morning that's really funny... also just a little on the wrong side of 'family friendly.'
I'd post it here but it's 4mb so it would probably take forever to add to the site. I'm going to upload it to another site. If you should choose to watch it, please consider giving it a better title.
Click here to watch it.

Don't pay any attention to the changes
I keep making. because I'll probably
change it again... and again... then again.