May 2008

That Nasty Old Nap Monster…

Sorry about no Thursday posts. I completely missed the thirteen and the thongs πŸ™ I wonder how pissed they would be if I combined Thursday Thirteen and Thursday Thongs? You know, Thirteen Thursday Thongs…

Sounds good to me anyway.

I mentioned the other day that I was going back through my music library and culling out the duplicate tracks and the ones that are corrupt. I ended up with something like 8100 songs. Of course some of them are still duplicated. It’s amazing how many times a song can show up on ‘greatest hits’ albums for bands like Aerosmith among others. I ended up deleting about 20 gigs worth though, I had somewhere around 30k songs at one point. That means that 22 thousand songs were duplicates, corrupt, cut short, or just crap I wanted to get rid of. Most of the CDs are in my basement, if I ever want them back I can dig them up and listen to them that way I suppose. I am still tempted to go back through and delete even more, although some of the stuff that the wife enjoys I might not, and vice versa.

Except for messing with the music I spent the entire day yesterday sleeping. The last three weeks have kicked my ass. Having two days off hasn’t fixed the problem but it certainly went a long way toward helping it out. I napped for a couple of hours this afternoon as well (exciting life ain’t it?) but I tried not to overdo things today.

I’ll be back online a bit later. I have to go pick the girls up from school. I had blood drawn earlier and once again they had to stick me several times so I need to vent about that later.

Wednesday Hero

CSM Robert Prosser and LTC Erik Kurilla
1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment (Deuce Four)
U.S. Army
LTC. Erik Kurilla and CSM. Robert Prosser’s story is an amazing one. One that Michael Yon has told far better than I ever could. Warning. The site contains very graphic images. Some may want to turn off images before viewing.

These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.
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Wordless Wednesday (It’s Still Wednesday Somewhere!)

Ruth's letter to Chris

(not quite so wordless)

RePete wrote a letter to her brother the marine and addressed the envelope herself. Repete is five, oh by the way.


Some Things Are Just Wrong…

So. Have you ever done you just knew was wrong, even as you were doing it. That ugly feeling you get in the pit of your stomach is just awful. Not like stealing or anything. I don’t mean wrong in that way.

I am pretty sure that my third shift grill operator had a few budweisers too many prior to coming to work tonight and I just ignored it and went on about my business. This is my fifteenth day straight and today, like several lately have been 15+ hours. Not that it’s any excuse but I am just tired and really didn’t give a shit.

Hopefully in the process of cooking tonight he won’t chop his hand off or burn the place down.

All of my manager are finished with their vacations now. The last one comes back tomorrow and I have to cover the next two days off so that one of them can be off. Thursday and Friday I will actually get a couple of days off in a row. That will be the first ones since the weekend I went to the Ren Fest. It’ll be three weeks by then. No wonder I am so brain dead.

Luckily I won’t be doing much in the way of cooking the next couple of days. I have to stripe a couple of parking lots and put down cool seal on a couple of roofs so at least it will be something a bit different.

That’s about it tonight. I am pretty well beat and just don’t have anything else in this weary brain to write about.

Frontier(s)

I love a good horror movie. No. really. I love them. Anything from the genre will suit me, from Hitchcock to King, even the old monster movies with Karloff and Price. It seems as if my oldest daughter has inherited the love of horror from me as well and although I enjoy watching the films with her I don’t think I will let her go with me to see Frontier(s).

Why?

Looks to be just a wee bit too gory for a ten-year-old. I am pretty psyched about it actually and although it may not be playing anywhere close to my house since it is getting a limited run starting May 9th and showing for only one week, the DVD release will be coming a week later.

Frontier(s) makes other movies look like kiddie shows. Judging from the trailers and clips I saw at the web site it’s going to be a pretty terrifying flick. If you aren’t into horror movies and the like, you may not want to see this one.

Uncut. Uncensored. Unrated.

Not too many movies make it to the theater without being rated. Frontier(s) was originally slapped with an NC17 rating for extreme sadistic gore and violence, so rather than cuttting it down to an “R” rating and losing some of what makes the movie so horrific they decided on the limited theatrical release followed shortly by the DVD. How many movies have you seen that look as if they might have been good had they not been cut up and the good parts removed? I know I’ve seen plenty of horror movies that just weren’t horrible. That’s because the movie creators allow their creations to be butchered just to get an “R” rating. Obviously by not doing this Frontier(s) has created a bit of a stir, but that’s all good, just means more people know about it.

If you want to check it out you can see the unrated trailer and several other clips over at the Frontier(s) web site and you can also watch the official theatrical trailer below…certainly not for the weak of stomach…

If you watched the trailer, what do you think? Wanna go check it out with me? πŸ™‚

Sponsored by Frontier(s)

Odd Shots on Monday


Walking past a liquor store on the waterfront in Nassau this bottle caught my eye and I had to get a shot of it. Fire in De Hole Rum. That’s got to be some potent stuff to be called “erotic rum”
Nassau, Bahamas 039

I had an entire long post thought out on that day but I am tired and worked about 16 hours today. I’m pooped. Perhaps a shot of the ol’ fire in de hole would help πŸ™‚

Blogs For Borders Video Blogburst

I have this week’s up a bit early. They released it a couple of days ago to coincide with May Day…
Our weekly video podcast/vlog on illegal immigration and border security issues. In this weeks edition…
May Day 2008: Chicago!
Our coverage of the third annual Pro-amnesty tantrum here in Chicago. This is the official blogburst for the week, we plan on taking the weekend off and enjoying the heck out of it!


Our other May Day coverage:
When Socialists Attack!
May Day or Che Day? You Decide.
Chicago May Day March: A Pictorial


This has been the Blogs For Borders Video Blogburst. The Blogs For Borders
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Glutton for Punishment

So I sent in the paperwork for the next promotion today. I still have some of my continuing education crap left to do but most of them are pretty quick. I guess the wife and I are going to have to sit down and discuss where we are willing to move if that should come up. It’s a damn site easier to get promoted if you are willing to relocate.
Hell, I don’t even know if they would put me on the promotable list. Chances are I will end up with some type of a six month development plan rather than a promotion this time but I have been in my current position for a year now and we are only growing. Hell, the only reason we don’t get bigger faster than we already are is because of people. That’s pretty much how it’s always been though.
There are a lot of possibilities as far as where they could send me. We’ve got hundreds of restaurants around the country. Around half of them are franchise but we still cover everywhere from Texas to Florida up into the Carolinas. Somewhere on the gulf coast would be nice, although the wife doesn’t want to move to Alabama or Mississippi because because of the school systems. Hell, I could end up in east bumblefuck south Georgia somewhere for all I know. I already live in west bumblefuck so it wouldn’t be much different.

DC Madam Commits Suicide

Just two weeks ago Deborah Jean Palfrey was found guilty of running a high-end prostitution ring which catered to the Washington D.C. elite. Thus the moniker “D.C. Madam”.



According to police in Tarpon Springs, Florida, Deborah Jean Palfrey was found dead earlier today, having hanged herself in a storage shed near her mother’s mobile home. Her 76-year-old mother Blanche Palfrey found the body. You can read more of the report at CNN as well as Yahoo! News.


Palfrey left a suicide note, actually more than one. There were at least two (I don’t know the exact amount) handwritten notes that explained why she killed herself. Palfrey had not been sentenced yet but prosecutors estimated she was going to receive a sentence between 57 and 71 months.
Last year Palfrey told ABC news that she would never return to prison after serving time in the 90’s for prostitution related charges. She damned sure didn’t lie about that one.


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Thursday Thirteen #13: Alphabet Week!

Thirteen Things about Richard

So since I have last participated in the meme they have been giving out a general theme for each week. This weeks object is to pick a letter of the alphabet and then list thirteen words about myself that begin with that letter.

Damn, this is hard. OK, Today’s Thursday Thirteen post is brought to you by the letter “M” (not to mention the fact that Bert is evil)…

1…. Manager
2…. Married
3…. Miles (My last name)
4…. Messy
5…. Mental
6…. Male
7…. Muscled (starting to be anyway)
8…. Mischievous
9…. Mean (occasionally)
10…. Mysterious (It’s my lie, I’ll tell it like I want to!)
11…. Mushy (if you read my earlier entry you would think so)
12…. Manic (sometimes)
13…. Marvelous

I did say they would describe me but I didn’t say they would all be true…I would have put masturbating but that was earlier…

The purpose of the meme is to get to know everyone who participates a little bit better every Thursday. Visiting fellow Thirteeners is encouraged! If you participate, leave the link to your Thirteen in others comments. It’s easy, and fun! Trackbacks, pings, comment links accepted!