Okay, How About This?

Okay, how about this?
P suggests, and I concurr, just sell the houses and 7 acres, Keep the 4 to 5 acres starting at Loving Road. Later, you guys could build a cabin, pitch a tent, dig a well, put in a septic system, camp out on it. Unless I sell it to buy a fur coat or a diamond tiara, that is.

Rayburn's Lament

Elephants are big,
Airplanes are bigger,
Nipsey Russell is now one dead comic poet.

koALA Reassures the EvaDewer, and Potpourri

I've never thought of myself as the member of the tribe to be most needful of mollycoddling, (see KOF), but apparently I've sold myself short. I received a call from koALa and Pert this morning, ultimately geared towards giving me an opportunity to vent any misgivings I may have with respect the pending purge of worldly goods and land that make up The Compound. So I did.

While I've never made a secret of my affinity for the family farm, I recognize that it is the people that reside in and around the abode that make it what it is. I know that, even if I had the means to offer fair market for the land, it wouldn't make any sense, as it stops being what it is to me when the occupants abandon it -er- move. I'm aware of at least some of the many benefits that come with the move, and support it. Emotionally, I'm probably reluctant because I don't want things to change, as if keeping things the status quo would prevent other things from progressing. Obviously, on a conscious level, that level of ostrich syndrome would be pointless, and in fact potentially harmful. So sell the shit and move already. Don't forget that herb, though.

Once talked off of *that* ledge, koALa got the opportunity to assure me that the shoulder injury I suffered during tennis yesterday is not likely to be a torn rotator cuff, as was my fear. Though I won't know for sure until one of the local docs performs the appropriate tests, I am mostly convinced that the problem will neither be with me that long, nor require surgery. So there's that.

On a more positive note, I picked up a couple of tickets for the Braves' second playoff game (this Thursday) for me and Pert. We'll be there to see their annual collapse firsthand. I don't know if any of you have been to a park for a playoff game, but there's a really cool vibe that comes with it, at least in my limited experience. I think it has something to do with the bunting (the decoration, not the batting choice).

Installing a new hard drive on a Windows system

This seems like it could be useful. ;-)

Find the Brownie!

Again, I just have to share.

Where's your 3DBB now?

RIP, Tennessee.

That's quite a...projected storm path!

Born to be alive

Stops being that funny after a couple of viewings.

Still...

Hey, man, there’s a beverage here

Nothing earth-shattering here, but I thought I'd share.

Well, Doesn't This Just Bite!

The Taurus, after a new fuel filter, new tank of gas, oilchange & filter, still shows check engine light. Computer at repair shop says #1 cylinder missfiring and will do new plugs & wires for $300.00 which may fix it. Doesn't feel like plugs to me or pa though. All things considered,(mainly,I must have a car I can rely on) we decided to price new cars. What is available, that we can afford, is a Focus wagon for 12000.00 plus our car. And I SAVE the three hundred. I'd wanted to get a Prius, but initial cost, even with Agatha's help, precludes that decision. We get the car tomorrow. I had hoped to drive the Taurus till I died, but, well, I guess I'm glad I didn't.

I Ask to Be...

...or not to be.

Worth sharing

I hope you all had a fun and safe holiday weekend.
Looking forward to pics, I am.

. . . and this

I'm Sure You've Seen This, But It's Just So Funny I've Got to Post It

The misplaced priorities of the presidential administration

I know it's just exhausting to go on providing more evidence of the obvious. We are five years into this debacle and their are still huge numbers of people who "just don't get it."

But I had to share this anyway.

Black people loot. White people find

One man's ceiling...

The above link is time sensitive, but just look for the headline from above somewhere on the page. Or just jump to the chick pix, if you prefer.

I think we're in a world of shit, and we're just starting to get a taste. Or this will all blow over, and we'll forget about it. Except that we'll be paying $4.59 a gallon for gas, and not remember why. (Look at that: I've hijacked my own thread with an economic/political non-seq. Go me.)

"One side can be wrong"

Exactly.

Are you out of your element?

Love's Labor Day's Lost Weekend

Agatha, Pert, koALa, and the EvaDewer head down to PCB this weekend for days of fun and frivolity. Katrina didn't damage the building at all, as far as I know, but it will be interesting to see how much beach we have left. We keep bringing sand in, and Mother Nature keeps taking it away. I see that battle going only one way in the long run, but we'll see.

I'll post some pictures when we get back (or maybe even while we're there, if I'm lucky).

Pert and I are gonna take in a rarity in baseball these days: We're going to a doubleheader tomorrow night at Turner Field. Should be some fun! Thanks to Agatha for the tickets, and to the aforementioned Mama Nature for raining out the original date (last night), thus forcing the two-fer.

Questions on everyone's mind:

1. Is the Gockster going to Orbfest 2005? Is there going to be one?
2. Can the EvaDewer really sit through two whole baseball games?
3. Once we get to the beach, will we really return?

Time will tell.

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