This is a pretty amusing site. Lots of funny pics. Link
Dinner is cooking and it smells great. I tend to experiment with different improv recipes when I am home. Tonight I am working on a sort of goulash kinda thing that I threw together and if it tastes half as good as it smells it's going to be a treat. I browned some lean ground beef, combined that with some elbow macaroni, tomato sauce, petite cut Roma tomatoes, finely diced white onion, finely diced red and green peppers, finely diced half clove of garlic, a dash of red pepper, a dash of ...
Now this is the kind of story I enjoy seeing on the local news channels. There is a BBQ place in Carrolwood, FL (Tampa suburb) called Alex's Southern Style Bar-B-Q. It seems the owner of the place, oddly enough named Alex, has his own special Christmas season tradition. He explained that when he was a kid his parents were poor and they could never afford to get him a bicycle for Christmas. Now that he has a successful business he does a collection drive every year to purchase bicycles to d...
Saturday morning I noticed that the rear tire on my bent was flat as a pancake. I know it wasn't flat when I moved it out of the house when I got home on Friday, but I figured after sitting for more than six weeks the air may have simply seeped out and a night outside on the carport finished the process. Saturday afternoon I carried my pump outside to air up the tires to go for a ride. The rear tire wouldn't take air at all and the air came out as fast as I pumped it in. Great. I thought p...
Ok, now I think I have seen it all when it comes to the press media. I just sat here and watched a local news station story describing how bad it is that Florida hasn't been hit by a hurricane in the past two years. WTF? Are you kidding me? They talked about everything from how citizens become complacent due to the lack of storms to how the local building supply companies suffer. Give me a break! It simply amazes me how they can take a good thing like no hurricanes and turn it into a negat...
At age 69 the famous motorcycle stunt ride Evil Knievel has made the last big jump from this world to the next. He was one of my heroes growing up. I am saddened to learn of his moving on.
I finally rolled into home about an hour or so ago. I kicked off my shoes, put on a pair of shorts, opened a cold one, and put my feet up. Ahhhhhhhh, heaven. Shortly after I got comfortable my mother walked over and told me they were heading for Wal Mart to do some shopping and asked if I wanted to go along. "Yeah Mom, I just walked in the door after more than six weeks on the road and I want to go to Wally World. Thanks, but I think I'll pass." Inertia has hit me like a ton of bricks. ...
I made a delivery in Northern Indiana yesterday, one in Georgia today, and am now spending the night in Florida. I'll make my final stop here in Florida tomorrow before noon and then make the 90 minute drive from there to home. I've been out around six weeks this time and am looking forward to getting home for a few days. I have an amazing amount of laundry to do. I might just take one day and go to the laundrymat to do it instead of spending my entire home time doing it a little at a time...
Oh good grief! Amnesty International and the UN are now calling the use of tasers torture and are calling for a ban on them. Yes, a handful of people have died as a result, either directly or indirectly, from being tasered, but hundreds more are subdued by police without any real physical harm being done to them. Before police started using tasers the only options they had to subdue the violent and uncooperative suspects was to use pepper spray or physical abuse including clubbing them wit...
One of the knitting forums I frequent, and where I've been a member for a year, has a lot of people joining on a daily basis. It's quite popular because it's a very friendly community. Usually. Like any other online community you get your share of asshats there. I had to deal with one of those tonight. On one thread a person had posted a full cut and paste of something they had posted in their own thread, basically some sort of religious charity related stuff. I pointed out how rude it was...
Over the past several days I've received numerous emails from some of the folks at Linux Questions inquiring about my health and expressing concern that I hadn't been posting there for a while. The truth is that I have been busy with other things and simply hadn't spent much time there. It is rather touching that my fellow Linux geeks were concerned about my health and well being. After the 10th or 12th email I posted there letting everyone know that I am indeed still darkening this world'...
I just called and ordered a pizza to be delivered to my hotel room. The young lady who took my order seemed to have the IQ of your average turnip. I had to repeat damn near everything I told her, she didn't seem to even be listening at all. Um, you're on the fucking telephone, listening is pretty much all that's involved! She even had one of those stereotypical Valley Girl voices that I find amazingly annoying. If I could have reached through the phone I would have done the world a favor a...
Last night I spent a little time over at Applebee's having a few adult beverages, some dinner, and knitting a bit at the bar. I guess the bartender likes the hat that I made for her. She said that she had shown it to her mother who complimented the work. While there a few of her friends wandered in and she introduced me as "The guy who made me the cool hat I showed you". I guess it's a hit with her. One of the young guys even asked me if knitting was hard to learn. I told him that learnin...
It's kind of a strange feeling for someone who is normally on the go. I have nothing at all to do today. Nothing. At some point I will probably run down to the truckstop and put a little fuel into the truck, but even that isn't really a pressing need unless I decide that I need to go some place but honestly, there really isn't any place I can think of that I need to go. Everything that I need is within easy walking distance. There's Applebee's next door, a grocery store, a liquor store (if...