Thursday's Thoughts

• This morning (02/10/2016) on NPR Sam Baker said after a dramatic musical bump to the effect, Bernie Sanders convincingly beat Hilary Rodham Clinton in the New Hampshire primary. This was followed by a Bernie Sanders sound bite from the primary. A moment later Baker said something like, Finally, on the other side Donald Trump won the nomination. and then nothing- no sound bite or quote from Trump. You could practically hear Baker's eyes rolling.
• You would have to very intellectually dishonest to not see NPR's left leaning.
• I personally know 2 different people who only voted for David Walker for sheriff as he door knocked their homes and spoke to them while campaigning. One of them was thinking about another guy as he had heard something good about him and the other did not care at all about the sheriff's office (although he felt highly invested in other positions and was a well informed voter).
• The snails have made my aquarium water so clear it is almost distracting.
• If cost was no object what is the one thing you would leave as a legacy, that thing your descendants would rememember for generations? For me it would  be to have an amazing library of rare, old, autographed or otherwise worthwhile books. This might even include a Guiness book of World Records collection of autographed works.
• Isn't there a guy/group who own a Bible signed by tons of famous people including multiple Presidents and astronauts?
• A suicide bomb truck AKA vehicle borne IED destroyed by Javelin missile.
• I have books autographed by David Mcolluch, Nguyen Cao Ky and another Vietnamese general whose name I don't recall at the moment. Why the Vietnamese authors you ask? One of my friends is a part of the once South Vietnamese military now a resident of the US underworld Vietnam dudes who personally know Vietnamese authors club.
• Yeah- it is a thing. Look it up.

Thursday's Thoughts

• NPR was one of the first organizations I took note of who understood: If you want to get something done sound like a broken record- keep repeating yourself. People will either get the idea and accept what you're promoting or get so sick of hearing about it they'll give you whatever you want to shut you up. They did this with the ACA and are doing the same with gun control now.
• There is a video going around with titles like," See a sweet hippo save an antelope from certain death in the jaws of  a vicious crocodile! " Why is that more pleasing to us than, See a vicious hippo deprive a starving crocodile of her meal ! They're both presumptive but at least the second thought is basically true and way less anthropomorphic.
• I sat through meetings and classes all day (03/17/2014) at work. My job is so demanding, stressful and demanding it was a welcome break.
• Yes I know- it is twice as demanding as other jobs.
• Regardless- I need a break.
• I have been on a fruit eating kick lately. No one is more unsurprised than I that I feel better- so why do I get in habit of eating like a pig for months on end?

  

  Huh? Wait- what?! Five thousand dollars on sale for a bicycle? That is literally more than my parents paid for the house I was raised in.

• We just got in ( 03/21/2014 @2152 ) from watching Non-Stop. Wow it was bad- amazingly bad. It has been a while since I saw a more  far fetched and predictable movie. Maybe worse- I saw somebody in there with a 6-7 year old girl. The graphic violence and language aside, you could scar a child for life with a movie that bad.
• One of the ladies we had dinner with accidentally closed her cat up in  a freezer recently and then left for work. Luckily her daughter discovered it an hour later. It was chilly- one cool cat ( I'm all over those low hanging fruits aren't I?) but alive and decidedly uncurious about the freezer for the rest of the day.
  

  

  Yeah, you're smart- you pretty much got it figured out from the poster

Just A Tuesday

Part of the concept behind these pictures were I wanted them to be be candind- actors being themselves so I thought that idea was blown when these girls hammed it up but I realised that is exactly what they were doing- being themselves.



Lady troll.





The pyrate who had lunch with us.




The first time I saw the troll away from the bridge.



• US Marines in Marjah Afghanistan.
• The last time I was at The Ballpark I sat just to the right of where the firefighter was who was killed going for the ball Josh Hamilton threw into the stands. I could not even stand the thought of moving around that railing.  I jumped and grabbed him every time my eldest even leaned toward that railing. I literally drew up inside and held my breath and looked away when people I did not even know walked near that thing and had to pass each other. I cannot comprehend somebody falling over it while going for a stupid ball.
• NPRs left leaning light shines brightest when discussing gun control. They will have a Harvard professor in favor of gun control along with a Yalie of the same stripe in the same line up as a 250,000 dollar a year spokesperson for the gun control group du jour who will be followed by a woman whose 3 and a half year old triplets were killed by a gun and if any of this is balanced by a gun rights advocate, he will be somebody they obviously found talking to himself while masturbating and rubbing his own feces in his hair while standing in front of a gun store.
• One of our supervisors is a pretty lady who looks easily 10-15 years older when she is in a stressful period in her work life. When that time passes- a deadline is met or whatever, the years just as dramatically fall away.
• Lori, pics of the horse and falconer are on the way.
• A patient struck me as someone who might have been infected with TB by being some place she should not have been, for example a drug house. I'll even further guess she was not using but was hanging around people who did- probably a boyfriend. It doesn't matter where she got it really. I don't know of a cluster of drug resistant cases coming from a particular drug house etc. but I would like to know the truth- to know if my hunch is correct. 
• There is a big deal being made over a blog called Reasons My Son Is Crying. The author snaps a pic of his toddler crying, then as the title suggests lists the reason why he is crying. I literally do not know what people are thinking- whether he realizes it or not, he is molding that behavior and contributing to increasing it and he has made a monster that may follow and define that child for literally the rest of his life.