…that it’s always 4 PM somewhere as we ordered a drink with lunch. And now I find out that no matter how much April snow we get in Anchorage, it’s always warm somewhere. But that somewhere is NOT the inside of any given Vegas casino. Bring a sweater!
Charlie Sheen is a piece of trash
I owe Sean Parnell an apology. I meant to participate in the march last week to promote the end of the epidemic of domestic violence in this state and encourage men and women to always choose respect in all relationships. But I forgot. There is no other explanation and no way to make it sound good. I simply forgot. I’m old. It happens.
As I read about the march I was struck by the dichotomy of its message to choose respect with the spectacle to which the media has exposed us over the past few weeks of Charlie Sheen.
Even
Dear Las Vegas,
I will soon be arriving at your glittering palaces where I will once again do my best to pay homage to your penny slot machines by dumping as much money as possible down them as quickly as possible. Please do not force me to play any longer than necessary by teasing me with minor winnings that I only have to sit there longer to shove back down your voracious gullet.
Thank you.
You’re never too young to learn to read
Of course, in this case, Joey is listening to a book I recorded for him. Apparently my parrots were making noise in the background when I did the recording. His aaka tells me he is MUCH more interested in the bird sounds than in anything I’m saying. But at least I’ve got him reading a book.
Two Obscenities
The burning of the Quran in Florida is one. Any suggestion that the group that did it is either Christian or a church is another.
Another wonderful thing about living in Alaska
People like Lindsay Lohan and Charlie Sheen never move here and people like Sarah Palin leave.
Hallelujah…. it is done
Taxes done, mailed and paid for the feds and every state that wanted a piece of me this year because of the sale of my mom’s house. Ditto corporation taxes… yes, I may be small but I AM a corporation. And for the 12th year in a row, I have been unanimously named Employee of the Year.
Life doesn’t get much better. Well, I guess if I got a refund instead of paying it would be better. After all, GE made 15 billion last year, something like 5 billion of it here in America and they apparently paid no US
And we all learn to drive once again
No matter how short a time has elapsed between snow falls in Anchorage, each time the next snow fall hits, Anchorites once again prove that they have the attention span of gnats and the ability to hold learned behaviors equivalent to that of most 12 month olds. No, wait. That’s an insult to 12 month olds.
Each time it snows, why do some Anchorites feel that maybe this time it won’t be slippery so they can speed and change lanes and cut off those annoying people who insist on driving carefully thus depriving the speeders of their ability to get
The world just lost two great old broads and heaven is the better for it
When we’re young, there is this whole layer of people above us who buffer us from death because older people are supposed to die first. That seems to just be the natural order of things. Periodically one of our generation has an untimely passing but we chalk that up to the vagaries of fate and go back to believing that we are pretty immortal because of that buffering layer above us.
Then our parents’ generation starts dying – slowly at first, then more rapidly – until one day we wake up to the unnerving fact that there are simply not
Have you ever noticed?
Have you ever noticed how North Korea stops being an imminent threat to our peace and stability whenever something happens somewhere else. North Korea simply disappears from the headlines as though it never really existed. But the minute things calm down in the latest hot spot and American politicians are afraid we might actually pay attention to how they are screwing us, suddenly North Korea becomes the biggest threat to our peace and prosperity since the hippies marched in DC in he sixties.