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| I am tired of the foul ads that show up occasionally on this site so I've decided to bail. I'm heading over to http://fivemilesfromhome.blogspot.com/ and, in the next day or so, will be firing up http://www.fivemilesfromhome.com once the registration is completed. If you decide to follow, I look forward to seeing you over in blogspot world. If not, it was nice knowing you. | | |
| As a guy, I like to fix things. Today I had both of my daughters in tears as a result of my attempts to fix things. Daughters don't always need things fixed. They just need things heard, listened to and understood. I was a little smarter with my wife today. I was tempted to try to fix things with her as well, but managed to just listen. It was a rare moment that I hope to repeat someday. Unfortunately I didn't repeat it in the evening when my daughters needed me to just listen. I opened my mouth and tried to fix things. I fixed things alright. God, who (unlike certain guys he created) is wise, decided to make women both complicated and forgiving. I am not the only guy who has benefited from that wise design decision. | | |
| NBC, ABC, CBS, PBS, CNN, the Washington Post and pretty much everyone in Hollywood is unashamedly working to elect Obama. FOX, Rush Limbaugh, Shawn Hanity, Washington Times and pretty much everyone who has a talk radio show with any audience is unashamedly working to elect McCain (well, at least now that Palin is the VP candidate). This is obvious to most everyone who spends more than 5 minutes watching, listening or reading, and yet most if not all of the media providers pretend to be presenting the facts for our consideration. It is a silly charade. NBC, ABC, CBS, PBS, CNN, the Washington Post and pretty much everyone in Hollywood is going to do everything possible to make Obama look like a god and McCain look like Elmer Fudd. FOX, Rush Limbaugh, Shawn Hanity, Washington Times and pretty much everyone who has a talk radio show with any audience is doing everything possible to make Obama look like an articulate puppet and McCain a spectacular running mate for Palin.
It is important to know you are being manipulated by people who are given vast fortunes because they are so good at manipulating.
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| I haven't been particularly excited about this election. Obama is an extremely articulate socialist. And I have been really rather ho-hum about McCain. But Sarah Palin as McCain's running mate is simply astoundingly brilliant. My respect for McCain has gone through the roof for the brilliance of the selection. Now I'm excited.
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| I noticed in my calendar a few days ago that it was the anniversary of my old office mate. The wedding was 10 or 15 years ago, I really don't remember now, but the one thing that still is vivid in my mind was the Jamaican Rum Cake. He is from Jamaica and his family knew the official way to make this terrifying concoction. I had some warning because he had brought in a piece for me to try a few months earlier. It was supposedly chocolate, but the level in which every molecule had been soaked in Jamaican rum made it impossible to tell. This isn't the kind of recipe where the alcohol cooks off. This is where the cake is baked and then left to soak in rum for weeks (yes weeks). It is essentially a rum flavored napalm and I was really nervous having a (very small) piece of it near the candles at the wedding. I emailed him this week to say congratulations (we have long since moved to different parts of the facility at work) and let him know that the ulcerations in my mouth from his Jamaican Rum Cake have just about healed. He told me that means it is time to bake a new one.
Happy Anniversary Alf - I miss sharing an office with you (and not because of the Rum Cake).
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