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November 29th, 2009
January 23rd, 2009
 | 03:35 am
Our nephew is staying with us for a couple of days. Last night I went into the guest bedroom/library/game room, and do you know what I saw? My nephew and my wife jumping on the bed! I asked him if that was something he was supposed to be doing. He said, "only if Aunt Vic is doing it too." Good boy.
"In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken," and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion."
-- Carl Sagan
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March 4th, 2007
| 08:25 pm
Mmmmm, apple juice and pear smoothies. I wish I could find pear juice. Anyone know where I can find it? I suppose I could just buy pears and make my own. I watched season 1 of Rome today. It was very entertaining. I'd like to mention that as far as I know, Romans didn't march, or rather what they called marching wasn't what we call marching. We made pampushki, lecso, and chicken and black beans yesterday. Next time we're going to combine the lecso and chicken and black beans. My roommate was late for his first day of his new job. I'm naming my son William Augustus. What do you think?
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January 4th, 2007
| 10:36 am
More wedding photos courtesy of my cousin Courtney.
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December 26th, 2006
November 23rd, 2006
| 08:36 am
Nothing else has died in the fish tank of death. Pete keeps giving me a scare by taking day long naps, but he seems to be ok the rest of the time. I made my mama's corn bread dressing for dinner today. I made two pans and ate about 20% of one of them already. I had to taste it to make sure it was ok, right? I think I've decided to just leave the smaller one here. We'll need something to eat with the leftover turkey. We also made a blueberry pie last night, but we're not sharing it.
Here's last year's rant on Thanksgiving preparedness for those of you who think your holiday has been ruined by the local grocery store not having what you need to make Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday morning.
And helping a couple of cute, bouncing, teenage girls find fake fingernails is a good way to boost an old man's spirits, and make him feel really old at the same time.
Happy Thanksgiving, Live Journal.
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July 23rd, 2006
| 09:34 am
...and apparently I'm at least 1/16 Scottish. Clan McGuire. You may call me Highlander.
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July 21st, 2006
| 11:38 am
My great aunt Hugh used to file her grandmother's--she was 21 at the end of the Civil War--nails for her. One day when she was 95, she mentioned to her daughter--my great grandmother--that her nails needed filing. Her daughter offered to do it for her, but she said she was going to wait for Hugh. The next week Hugh went to visit and file her nails. Hugh filed them and asked if they were ok. She said they were fine and took her last breath. They said she was making sure her nails were nice when she met her maker.
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July 1st, 2006
| 12:01 pm
We're back. The trip went well. The week went by slowly and was exhausting, as one might imagine. I spent a lot of time thinking about the structure and dynamics of our family. Ours, as are a lot of southern families, is strongly matriarchal. I don't know who first said that men run things, but I know he wasn't from Dixie. In my lifetime, the reigns passed from my great grandmother to her eldest daughter, my grandmother, then to my grandmother's sister, my great aunt Hugh, where they are currently gripped by gnarled but strong fingers. I recall more than one occasion where those same fingers felt as though they could rip my arm from my shoulder as I was being pulled out of mischief. Even though she was the middle child, my mother was next in line for the dubious honor of Matriarch. We all know the Maiden, Mother, Crone hierarchy. She was the Mother. Now it seems that my 22 year old cousin Carrie, mother of a four year old, is the new Mother. As much as losing my mother has shaken up my life, it has shaken up the family tree even more. She was the one everyone called for advice. She was the one on whom everyone placed the burden of keeping everyone on their own side of the couch. Now the Maiden has become the Mother, and the next Maiden is three years old.
Unless I'm completely wrong and ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) ninvampiress is next. After seeing her with my family, it wouldn't surprise me one bit. They absolutely love her. To hear some of them talk, including Hugh, she might as well have been born into the family.
( a few pictures )
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June 25th, 2006
| 02:22 am
We're leaving to fly home in a couple of hours. Any of you who want to come to the funeral are more than welcome. I don't know exactly when or where yet, but if you call Ray Funeral Home in Cleveland, I'm sure they can tell you when and where. I think it's going to be on Wednesday. Our number is 303.489.7948 or 662.756.2596 if you need us. We'll be back Thursday.
Thank you all for your thoughts and words. They mean a lot to us.
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June 23rd, 2006
| 10:28 pm
My mom died this morning. She had a heart attack, but they don't know why yet. We went home to visit her just last month, and I've talked to her on the phone in the past week. I was a mama's boy, and this was probably the worst loss aside from ninvampiress I could have. I'm ok, just a little lonely. Be sure you keep in touch with those you care about.
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May 24th, 2006
| 05:43 am
![[ we were here ]](http://pics2.city-data.com/city/maps/fr7926.gif)
We're back. We had fun. We ate a lot of good food, which means we both probably gained 20 pounds. Most of my friends have moved away, so I didn't get to see many of them. Some of my friends didn't get in touch with me while I was there. *cough*jimandzach*cough* Being sober for a week sucks. Went to Airport Grocery. Great food. Went looking for the River. Couldn't find it.
Realized that most subconscious racism seems to be solved by treating people decently. One of the excuses I get for why racism exists is, "well, they (the minority) always just seem angry towards us (the majority)." I made sure I treated everyone the same way, and guess what? They all treated me the same way. Maybe instead of asking why the other guy seems to treat you differently, you should ask yourself if you're not the one doing it.
( pictures )
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April 15th, 2006
| 02:47 am
How far and to where can you trace your ancestry? Not just vague "Mom says we're from Sweden," but actual lists of names, places, and approximate birth and death dates. My family got as far as South Carolina in the early 1800s. My mom says her side of the family is French, Irish, and English. Not nearly as cool as I'd have hoped, but at least I've got some Germanic blood, assuming the English really is English, and not just someone who lived in England, which is probably the case. I can pretend one of my ancestors was Boric, King of the tribe of the Reindeer who lived near the mouth of the Danube in 936 BC. Or I could just totally make up something like Oprah and claim he was a Zulu.
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March 27th, 2006
| 10:55 am
We're planning on flying down to Mississippi possibly May 14 - 20. Any of you in the area who want to get together--Ray, Sheila, Dawn, Jim, Krista, JC--let us know. We'll be staying in Ruleville/Cleveland. It'll be the first time I've gone home in four years. It'll be the first vacation at all I've had in four years. ninvampiress will finally get to meet the family!
We finally got a bed for the guest bedroom. Alex has been asking us to get our crap out of there, so he can set it up. I just got all of our stuff out, and most of it turns out to be his. In a few days we'll officially have a spare bedroom. woot. It doesn't have a chest of drawers or anything yet, but it's a start.
Happy birthday, rabidsnowbunny
Things at work are getting stupid. No one can seem to get along with anyone else. It's gotten to the point that some people are just too angry to even try. It mostly seems to be the guy running the crew when the regular crew lead is off. He's still new to running the crew, has never been a good order writer, and can't seem to get his orders right. He orders too much of the wrong stuff, and not enough of the right stuff. The stocker most affected by it refuses to even speak to him, in spite of that being the only way he's going to figure out exactly what he's doing wrong. I try to talk to them separately, but it's not enough. And I sometimes get the impression that the crew lead thinks I want his job. I keep telling him no, that I'm fine doing what I'm doing, but I don't know if he believes it. I'd just be happy if I could go in, spend eight hours working in the freezer, and leave without any personal or political issues coming up. On top of all of that, the district manager is unhappy with things, and putting pressure on management, who is in turn putting pressure on all of us, which makes the aforementioned issues even worse.
Do any of you have any good online radio stations you want to share? It seems to be difficult finding a good one. Most of them seem to just play the same stuff the ones here play, which defeats the purpose of finding a new one. I like WWOZ in New Orleans, but I'd like more than one option. I'd love some from outside USA/Canada that play local music, rather than the same American music we heard here five years ago.
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November 25th, 2005
| 12:49 pm - A few words about Thanksgiving (and other holidays).
I work in a grocery store, so I see how little planning some people do. 7:00 AM Thanksgiving morning is not the time to be shopping, especially for Thanksgiving dinner, things like running out of bread or milk aside. People come into the store with entire shopping lists and expect us to have everything. To be sure, there are things that should be made at the last minute for freshness, but not pies, for example. There is absolutely no reason other than lack of planning for someone to be making a pie Thursday morning. People buy turkeys Thursday morning. Lack of preparation on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part. It would be extremely difficult for me to care less about you not having pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving if you're trying to buy ingrediants 3 hours before it has to be made, and getting uppity with me because you didn't plan ahead.
That having been said, if having to buy regular Cool Whip instead of Extra Creamy Cool Whip is going to ruin your holiday, you don't get holidays. Specifics of holidays notwithstanding, they're about enjoying spending time with family and friends. If an insignificant part of dinner is going to cause disaster, it's time to re-evaluate your world view. Stop worrying about french cut green beans versus regular cut green beans, go back home, and be with your family. And learn how to cut your own damned beans while you're at it.
And I hope all of you had a good Thanksgiving. *kiss*
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October 20th, 2005
| 09:18 pm
me: you're insane
ninvampiress: so's my mom
me: i'm just saying
ninvampiress: this is what i'll be like when i'm 50
me: i know...
ninvampiress: and you'll be dead by then
me: good
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October 14th, 2005
| 02:55 am
ninvampiress's dad is the founder of the Longmont Astronomical Society. In 1998 he was on All Things Considered talking about the Perseid meteor showers. He's a dork, but he rocks. He's the one person I actually know who's doing something that I would also choose to do, if I weren't a lazy whore.
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July 24th, 2005
| 09:56 am
We were just interrupted three times while having sex by my mom, my mom, and someone collecting for the Colorado Highway Patrol.
It was still great.
Current Music: Einstuerzende Neubauten - Leid und Elend (live)
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July 20th, 2002
| 08:56 am
My mommy loves me. She bought me an airconditioner. I'll go lie in front of it naked now.
Current Music: Black Sabbath - Children of the Grave
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March 18th, 2002
| 11:02 am - Randomness
Netscape 6 is too slow and I hate that you have to hit ctrl-shift-L to open a url thingy. Ctrl-O open an Open File dialogue and Alt-O/L doesn't do jack.
I just installed a blackjack game on my windows box (the one I'm one) and it made me reboot. wtf? Something like Halflife or something I can understand, but this is just a fucking card game.
One of the jackasses at work got busted for credit card fraud. That's ok, he was an idiot and now I don't have to deal with him anymore.
Actifed is a wonderful drug. I rarely get colds, but it's got a nice depressant effect. Makes everything tingly. Throw some alcohol on top of that and you've got a nice limbo effect going until you fall asleep.
I can't find any good games to download. I got some NetTrivia game, but felt stupid when I couldn't answer many questions. I'm smart, honest. I reign supreme at trivial persuit. I'm just stupid today or something.
Am I the only one who buys DVDs and doesn't watch them? I have Tron, Blazing Saddles, and Risky Business on DVD, the first two for over a year, and I have yet to watch them. I have others that I watch on a weekly basis, and even some that I put in and watch over and over, like a CD.
My brother called me at work. I haven't talked to him in over a year. Apparently he called my mom and woke her up to get my number. Of course he called during the busiest part of the day, so I had to keep telling him to hold on. Eventually he just hung up while I was talking to a customer.
I hate it when people put apostrophes in plural words just because they end in an 's'. Even more annoying are the people who put them in acronyms and other initialized words (like PC or DVD). "PC's" isn't any more correct than "cat's" for "more than one". Get with the program.
Tish, thanks for the suggestions on Alice mp3s. Unfortunately they're all either abridged, read by a man, or cost money and don't give enough information to convince me they're worth buying. I'm kinda picky about this and if I'm going to pay for it, I want to make sure it meets my standards, whatever they are. I'll keep looking. Or I'll convince some gal to use her precious time to read it onto a tape for me ;)
Anyway, enough randomness for now. Bed awaits.
Current Music: Rainbow - Rainbow eyes
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