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Bark Like a Chicken

Unless something comes up over at CNN that I want to post about I am getting ready to hit the sack. I just realized however that I had not taken the time to post about getting my blood drawn this morning.

Having my blood drawn seems to have turned into a full-blown goatfuck ordeal over the last few years.

The last few times I have gone they have had to stick me several times and after four or five times digging around in my arm with a needle they take it out of my hand. Shit, they can stick one right in a vein and no blood comes out.

Guess I am actually dead and just don’t know it…

Anyway, I made sure to drink a big glass of water prior to going to bed last night and then drank two or three more when I got up this morning so that I wouldn’t be dehydrated when they went to poke me.

Fuck all, it still took three times. Here’s this woman digging around my fucking arm with a big old needle saying “tell me if it hurts”. Shit, unless you rip something loose I’m not saying a damn thing, just get the blood.

She finally stuck one in the top of my hand and it came right out.

Either I need to go in and just slash away with my pocket knife to help them out or start drinking water like a week before hand. My arm is still sore where she jammed the gottdamned needle into my arm.

All to get my cholesterol checked so my Doc can renew my prescription next month. What a damned dog and pony show.

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So I am still fighting the smoking. I cut down to almost nothing and finally quit for a couple of weeks and then started having one or two here and there. I have had a pretty hard month at work. Not an excuse but I guess working 17 days straight kicked my ass because I have purchased cigarettes twice.

Haven’t had one in two days now and it sucks quitting again because I am going through the same damned withdrawals I went through last month. Doh!

I am starting to seriously consider getting hypnotized but I am afraid that I will come out of there barking like a chicken or whatnot…

Oh by the way…since Eric’s out of town I stole the keys to his site and managed to cross-post this over there as well…

What Brings You Here?…

It’s funny some of the things people search for on the Internet. Fortunately when you come here a record of your search terms comes along as well and I get to see what brought you here! Some of the things make sense and some don’t. Here is a smattering of the wonderful searches that brought folks here over the last hour.

Ajax Foster Care Numbers – While I wouldn’t be searching for foster care this is a completely normal thing that I might find myself looking for. I usually start out by searching for “so and so home page” and normally the address and phone number are listed there. So why did they come here? Fuck if I know. I have posted in the past about Ajax, as in Javascript and I have also posted about foster care as in the FLDS but how the heck did they find my sight with that search and actually get off the right track. Apparently in Google Canada I am number 6 on that search. The township of Ajax and phone numbers is #1 but the article I wrote on the FLDS children must have been more attractive than their initial search.

Single Moms Looking to Date – Oh hell yeah. I don’t have them beating down my doors but if they are looking for a date I can find them one for a nominal charge but I get to take pictures…Believe it or not I am #1 at Google for this search. Sweet. Gotta keep that one.

The next two were from Blogcatalog and someone going through Google to translate one of my entries on Brianna Denison into Italian.

The Doll Palace – I wrote a review of this site that my daughter uses well over a year ago. Nothing particularly amazing.

Brianna Denison – Obviously I wrote several posts about Brianna and quite a bit of traffic from them.

Funny Interests – Funny interests? Not I apart from my goats…

Watching deleted Youtube Videos – I always get hits from this. It’s the 10th and 12th most searched for term that brings people here.

Americans are Uneducated – Apparently someone has been spending too much time here dumbing themselves down. I am apparently #1 on this Google search, resulting from a post I wrote entitled Sevenload Thinks Americans are Uneducated LAST March responding to their comment on my site about Guantanamo Bay and the execution of Saddam.

Last but not least is the latest search which was Stuff People Stick Up Their Ass…Now there’s someone after my own heart. I used to get nasty searches for Beef Curtains and other stuff quite often but lately they have all pertained to murders and missing people, which of course I have been writing about. It’s nice to see there are still degenerates on the Internet. I’ll bet the bastard was looking for pictures too!

Weekend Open Track-Back

Just in case I don’t get to post one later this weekend, this is my open track-back post for the weekend of May 9th-11th which also happens to be Mother’s Day weekend! Happy Mother’s Day!

Linkfest Haven, the Blogger's Oasis

If you don’t know what a linkfest is go over and check out the link above. Basically the way it works is that if there is a post you want folks to see, maybe something you are proud of, important news, or just pictures you want to share, you send a trackback or linkback to this post. All of the sites that have linked to it are listed below along with the title of the entry they want you to come see. It’s a great way to share your work with other people and can help build traffic to your site.
Here’s the deal though, if you aren’t really a blog or are just spamming me with trackbacks I will remove it.
There are plenty of folks that participate in Linkfests and there are even a couple of different blogrolls to join. You can find them linked on my blogrolls page.

That Nasty Old Nap Monster…

Sorry about no Thursday posts. I completely missed the thirteen and the thongs 🙁 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.
We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived</font SIZE></font COLOR>
This post is part of the Wednesday Hero Blogroll. For more information about Wednesday Hero, or if you would like to post it on your site, you can go here.

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.

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 🙂

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
Blogroll is dedicated to American sovereignty, border security and a
sane immigration policy. If you’d like to join find out how right here
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Linkfest Haven, the Blogger's Oasis

Trackposted to Rosemary’s Thoughts, third world county, Faultline USA, Nuke Gingrich, McCain Blogs, 123beta, Pirate’s Cove, The Pink Flamingo, Cao’s Blog, , Democrat=Socialist, , Right Voices, and The Yankee Sailor, thanks to Linkfest Haven Deluxe.

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.