There simply ought to be a law banning Christmas music before December 1. No one, and I mean absolutely no one, should have to listen to Frosty the Snowman for more than four weeks a year. It’s simply cruel.
Hawaii – it’s nice but
Hawaii seems to be a great state. Honolulu seems to be a great city. But… and this is a major but… have those people lost their minds when it comes to traffic? I lived in NYC and it wasn’t as bad as it is on any highway around Honolulu anytime of any day or night. Build yourselves some decent infrastructure or mass transit that isn’t a joke amongst the population which, I sensed after listening to many conversations, is the consensus on the new rail line being built.
But other than that, great place.
Back from three days in Paradise
Well, actually three days in Hawaii. For those of us who prefer our heaven to be cold and not hot, it was not exactly paradise except for those two beautiful boys I got to hang with and rediscovering my long lost college roommate. Imagine our surprise when we both realized that neither one of us had changed a bit since we last saw each other sometime in the Summer of Love. That’s our story and we’re sticking to it!
Get Smart was smarted than we imagined
Remember the Cone of Silence from the TV show Get Smart. Whenever Max needed to be sure no one was listening in, the Cone of Silence would drop over him. Well guess what folks – the silly TV show was more prescient than we’d imagined. It has now been revealed that when the president travels, he travels with a tent that can be erected anywhere and into which he goes when he needs to have private communications that can’t be bugged. The tent blocks or scrambles anything trying to listen in. The imagined Cone of Silence has become the real
The forgotten sounds of silence
Do you sometimes wonder when we lost the ability to savor silence? Or is that a question asked only by those of us born before the constant cacophony that is our present day world? I’m not speaking strictly of the noise we hear with our ears. I’m speaking about the constant noise that assaults our brains through the electronics to which we are constantly attached.
This thought occurs as I get ready to take a quick trip to see my old college roommate. The trip involves a flight, as do most that start in Alaska. There was a time in
What is wrong with this picture?
One of the suggestions in Parade Magazine last Sunday for helping out our troops on Veterans Day was to buy them cushioning helmet pads for a $35 donation to operation-helmet.org. I may be wrong about this, but doesn’t that sound like something we should be issuing to our soldiers as SOP? I mean, seriously, IEDs are the new weapons of choice in our wars of choice and yet we don’t automatically provide something as simple and cheap as $35 cushioning pads for their helmets? Does our government, does our military, get much stupider than that?
Pretty in pink…
The princess in all her pinkness. Admit it. This is a helluva lot more fun than contemplating what those idiots in Congress are doing at any given moment… or those idiots in the White House… or those unbelievable minds that brought us corporations as people. God save us when viewing a picture of a dog in pink is the relief we all need.
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Because I think my dogs are cute… and to annoy my cousin Joe…
Here they are in their refurbished winter coats getting ready to go out. Cold has finally arrived in Anchorage. Thanks to Karie for getting all the Velcro fixed. I never did learn how to work a sewing machine.
The second picture reminds me of the US Congress. You figure out why.
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