October 2005

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Now that’s a sacrilege

Cadillac Tight ? Blog Archive ? This cannot stand

Hot Smoked Mullet?

I knew that Zonker was out of work and looking for a new career, but I had not realized that he had relocated to my area. I was out for a drive yesterday eveniing and ran across his new barbershop. Everyone come on down and support him by getting one of a variety of styles.
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Fairtax Book

Looks like the Fairtax book is doing pretty good. I am kind of pissed off. During the elections Johnny Isakson said that he would support the Fairtax, but from what I have read is non-commital now. If that is the case, well fuck him then. I guess until I have heard back from his staff the jury is out on that one though.

the Axis of Irrelevancy

Although I am not a liberal, there are quite a few things that he posts that I can agree with. The comments on the Million March bullshit are some of them. I mean, come on, this is the same Farrakhan that believes he was taken onto the mothership, that the US Government staged the 911 tragedy, and is saying that perhaps also BLEW UP the levies in New Orleans to kill the black people.
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Another week gone

Damn, I’m not sure where this week has gone. First week back at work from vacation is always pretty difficult, and the last six days have been no exception. In addition to the long days they have put another manager trainee in my unit, so I now have him, as well as the two interns. Trying to keep me busy I guess.

Disney Pics – Day four

Our last day at the park was Friday. We spent it at the Magic Kingdom again. Rode some of the stuff that we had not had a chance to the previous day. Personally this was my favorite park. I suppose that is because it is more geared for younger kids than the other parks are, or at least it seemed so to me.

We started out the day with a late breakfast at the Crystal Palace, another one with characters wandering around.

After that we went to the Jungle Cruise. The dude that drove the boat told some horribly afwul jokes and puns. Hurt my ears every time he opened his mouth. The SO loved them.

After that we rode the train around the park. The two older kids loved it.

Not.

Tom Sawyer’s Island

Another play area.

Waiting for Stephanie and the kids on a ride.

By this time I was ready to leave them here.

The last thing we did was watch the Cinderellabration show at her castle. This is when she gets crowned as a princess.

Can’t forget Mickey and Walt.

Stephanie wanted to get a picture of me sitting here. We have one, or maybe my parents do, of me on one of these benches in the Main Street area when I was about ten years old. If I come across it maybe I will scan it and post.

I took somewhere around 300 photos. I used to work as a photographers assistant and have always felt that the trick to get good pictures (there are one or two here) is in volume. Sooner or later you will get a good shot. Like 300 monkeys and 300 typewriters.

Disney Pics – Day three

Thursday we slept in a bit, and went and had the Ohana Breakfast at the Polynesian Resort. There were several of the characters there. I particularly liked the character dining at the resorts, as well as the Magic Kingdom, it damn sure beat standing in line for a 30 second photo. This way they just migrated around to the table eventually where we could get pics.

Mickey and Ruth

Then Pluto came around.

Lilo and Stitch came and hung for a couple of minutes

After breakfast we grabbed the bus and headed to the Animal Kingdom. We had a good time, and it was fun, but all in all this was my least favorite part of the trip. It also rained quite a bit harder than the other days, and it was very hot and extremely humid.

in the Dinoland section of the park

Waiting in line for Kali River Rapids

On the Safari Ride. This was pretty cool. I went to Lion Country Safari as a kid when it was still open, this was of course much smaller, but reminiscent.

Chris tried pretty hard, he took most of the pics on the Safari ride, most of them sucked though. The biggest part of the problem is that my digital camera is great for stills, but moving, it blows.

For supper we went to the Rainforest Cafe. It was pretty fun, but I was wet, cold, and it was expensive. I was damn sure ready to get back to the hotel and dry out.

Disney Pics – Day 2

The second day there, we spent at the Magic Kingdom. I think that we were there until about 11pm or so. Left about an hour before they closed. We were all pretty damn tired. The first couple of pics were takien on this little train thing in Tommorowland.

We had lunch at the Liberty Tress Tavern in Frontier Land.

Ruth was her usual charming self.

After lunch we headed for the Swiss Family Treehouse.

Anna pouts whenever we have to do something that she doesn’t like, or isn’t her idea. That is quite often.

A brief stop at a watering hole for Ruth

Then we went through It’s a Small World. Most of us enjoyed it.

The we rode the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party. We all had a good time.

Except for Ruth, who didn’t ride this time.

That was most of the pictures that I took that day, at least the ones that I am going to post.

Damn, that hurt

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I love this picture except for the fact that I look like someone just rammed a stick up my ass.