So I came across this site called flooble that lets you generate random blog posts and decided to check it out and give it a try. Hey, it beats writer’s block, that’s for damn sure. The results are below…
Today I was listening to a radio program about ingratitude on the African subcontinent. I was very interested by the topic, so I began explaining my friend Archibald about it, and he interrupted:
“Get out!.. No kidding?! Don’t tell me you’re into the African subcontinent too!“
But then when I got to the part about the ingratitude, Archibald subsided and began sobbing. But then just now, Archibald’s father told me that the reason Archibald was so freaked out was because he had to study ingratitude in class. Occasionally Archibald can be quite strange like that, but I need to make this work…
TGIF!, right?
Perhaps for some of you, but not for me so this is your weekend open track-back post for June 27th-29th. The wife is out of town so either I will be here posting the hell out of some stuff or working extra hours. I’m scheduling this a bit early so it’s hard to tell right now.
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Holy cow. I’ve skipped as couple of weeks again and we are all the way to the letter “W” now. I think perhaps I will take the time to pre-write some of the entries so that I don’t miss another week!
Anyhow, this week “W” is for Wisteria. A few years back I planted this bad boy at the base of my porch and it took a couple of years before it did anything but last year and then this it has really taken off. I have as yet to get any blooms but I am starting to train it outwards as a canopy with wire and I have no doubt that I will get flowers next spring or perhaps the year after.
I mentioned earlier that I would get this up today, so here it is…
This Weeks Hero Was Suggested by Mary Ann
Staff Sgt. Jude Voss
1st Battalion, 3d Special Forces Group (Airborne)
His courage illustrates a combat truth to these veterans of World War II, Korea and Vietnam: Soldiers aren’t thinking about glory or ideals in the midst of a battle. They fight for the men to the left and right of them.
And that’s just what SSgt. Jude Voss did in September of 2006 when, without consideration to his safety, SSgt. Voss ran through enemy fire and the burning, smoking debris of a truck to rescue Sgt. 1st Class Greg Stube. Sgt. Stube was in a bad way. Uniform burning and legs busted, but because of the actions of SSgt. Voss he is alive today.
Because of his actions that day, SSgt. Voss was nominated for and received the Silver Star Medal for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action. “I did what everybody out there would do” Voss said. “I was just the closest guy.”
You can read SSgt. Voss’s story here.
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 Have Every Right To Dream Heroic Dreams. Those Who Say That We’re In A Time When There Are No Heroes, They Just Don’t Know Where To Look 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.
Apparently the government has denied U.K. performer and DJ Boy George a visa to enter the United States. Immigration is reporting that they denied the visa because George is facing trial in November in London on charges of false imprisonment from back in April of 2007.
Back in August of 2007 he spent five days cleaning up the streets of Manhattan in order to fulfill his community service for falsely reporting a break-in at his New York home.
Seems kind of stupid to me. It’s not as if he’s going to hide a bomb up his ass or something, although as someone that likes to whitewash the back 40 I guess you never know…
This is actually LAST Wednesday’s post that I never got online. No better time than the present, huh? Today’s post will be up later this afternoon.
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Capt. Jamie Riddle(Left) and an Iraqi Flight Instructor School student walk to the flightline before a recent mission at Kirkuk Air Base, Iraq. The Iraqi air force recently established the school for Iraqi pilots. Captain Riddle is an instructor pilot with the 52nd Flying Training Squadron
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 Have Every Right To Dream Heroic Dreams. Those Who Say That We’re In A Time When There Are No Heroes, They Just Don’t Know Where To Look 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.
Saturday was our third day at the park. After having stayed up pretty late the night before we slept in a bit. Besides going to the Animal Kingdom today we also had the Pirates and Princess party to attend that evening. I honestly don’t remember where we ate that morning, now that it’s been almost a month. Had we eaten at one of the character breakfasts I would have taken pictures so we must have eaten there at the Polynesian Resort where we stayed that week. We got kind of a late start to the day.
The girls didn’t particularly enjoy waiting for the bus…
We had a pretty good time at the Animal Kingdom but we cut it a bit short that day and didn’t get to do a whole lot of stuff. Pete and the wife did get to ride on Everest, maybe more than once if I recall and Pete loved it. The wife I think was feeling a bit ill by the time they got off…
While I didn’t get to go on the safari ride there is a walk in the Asia section you can go through and I managed to get a few pictures of the animals there.
These damned bats were hanging around. The fucking things were huge…
I had a hard time getting a shot of this green tree frog in it’s aquarium.
This guy was hanging out taking a nap in the heat…
…and I did manage to get a picture of this Komodo Dragon lying around in the sun.
There is this pretty cool fountain in the Asia section section that all of the kids were playing in cooling down a bit.
It doesn’t matter when or where, RePete is always ready to pose for a photo shoot…
We also rode the Kali River Rapids, which is my favorite ride there. I’m not much into roller coasters and I usually end up hanging with RePete anyway, but water rides I love. It was pretty hot and muggy, so we left the Animal Kingdom around 4pm or so and went back to the hotel to clean up and change after a short nap.
The Pirates and Princess party was at the Magic Kingdom and ran from 7pm until midnight. You actually had to purchase separate tickets for the event, so it wasn’t crowded in the least. I think we were all pretty tired before we ever even made it to that or we would have had a much better time.
This was taken in front of Cinderella’s Castle late into the evening…
All week long by the time we finally rolled in to the hotel (this time it was after midnight again) the girls passed out…
Sunday we went to Hollywood Studios. I think we all enjoyed it much more than the last time that we went, but I will post some photos from Hollywood Studios next week.
Back around the time that I turned seventeen I was living with a friend of mine up in Roswell. Actually there were several of us that were roommates off and on for quite a while. My best friend Chris, the one that passed away a couple of years ago, was living there as well. One of my favorite memories is that the two of us would stay up late to watch the George Carlin shows on HBO. I love George Carlin. He was pretty damned hilarious. One of my favorite bits, along with millions of other people is the seven words you cannot say on television. Here’s most of it.
I heard about his death yesterday and I was saddened by the news. While I don’t share some of the same political opinions I can’t argue that he was a pretty smart dude who used humor to get his point across. There was nothing he couldn’t talk about and make people laugh.
He was in several different movies and television shows as well as continuing his stand-up act right up until the week prior to his death.
Back when my son was pretty young we were introduced to the Thomas The Tank Engine television show. He was the narrator and played the conductor in the US for awhile. I always thought that it was just too cool that the guy who’s indecency case for the ‘seven words’ routine made it all the way to the supreme court would be narrating a children’s show.
