The Poet... Evermore.
The New Holland brewing company is starting to become a favorite brewery of mine. So far I have not had a beer from them that I did not like, and this weekÂ’s beer is no exception. Tonight IÂ’m reviewing The Poet Oatmeal Stout.
We have our standard 12 oz brown bottle. The label has a picture of a Raven sitting on a branch in front of a full moon with the name of the beer in old script underneath it. There is also a story about the beer next to the picture. It is kind of lengthy so IÂ’m not going to repost the whole thing, but it basically says this beer can go with just about any occasion.
It has a nice dark brown, almost black, color to it. Light barely passes through. ItÂ’s almost like a really dark fresh coffee color. The head has a nice tan color to it. There is minimal lacing on the glass. After a while the head fades to a tan ring around the edge and a slight film on the top.
There is a nice earthy aroma to it. A mixture of roasted oats and malts with a touch of chocolate and hint of coffee tickle the nose. The scent isnÂ’t too strong, but strong enough to really enhance the experience. The flavor is of robust malts with chocolate and coffee accents. There is a touch of hops that adds just a touch of bitterness that really livens up the flavor.
This is a full-bodied beer. It has a creamy and smooth mouth feel to it. There is not a lot of carbonation to it.
This is probably going to be one of my favorites. I could see myself craving this beer and drinking it on a regular basis. Definitely, going to make my top 20 list. I give it 7 out of 10.
I'm heading to Springfield.
I’ve told a lot of people about this Illinois gun ban that I spoke about below. Some of the people are just blowing it off as, “Same shite, different year”. Sure, the anti-gun politicians try to ban firearms every year. This year has a different ring to it though, there has been quite a change up in the politicians in office and the bills they are trying to pass may actually make some headway. I’m worried that this time the bills have more then a snowballs chance in hell of passing.
After talking it over with Ktreva, IÂ’ve taken two days off and I am going to head down to the Illinois Gun Owners Lobby Day to show my opposition to anti-gun bills. I wrote a letter to Dave Syverson (My state Senator) and Chuck Jefferson (My state Representative) voicing my opinion. This time, I just donÂ’t feel itÂ’s enough. It is important for me to take the time and go to Springfield to be counted.
If there is anyone else that is planning on going or is interested in heading that way, let me know. I would love the company.
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Spectacular. I wish I could go, too. Expect to receive a full report. You may check the IL State Rifle Assoc. website about the possiblity of riding a bus from somewhere near your location.
Posted by: Petey at February 27, 2007 10:32 PM (cEd6r)
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I'm royally pissed. I requested the 13th and 14 off and was denied almost before I had finished the paperwork. Seems March is going to be hellishly busy.
Fuckers. What the hell good are vacation days if the bastards wont let you take the damn things?
Posted by: Graumagus at February 28, 2007 11:41 AM (DrRYD)
My government wants to make me a criminal
While at work today I received a call from my friend Giles (I wonÂ’t post his real name with out permission). He was the leader of my old re-enacting group. He asked me if I went to a local gun show here in Rockford yesterday. Grau, Shadoglare and my buddy from work J-man all went. Giles asked if I had heard anything about IGOLD while I was there, I didnÂ’t recall hearing or seeing a thing. IGOLD is the Illinois Gun Owners Lobby Day. He then asked if anyone said anything about the new Illinois gun ban that Mayor Dailey of Chicago is trying to get pushed through legislation with support of Governor Blagojevich. Which I hadnÂ’t heard anything about either, I did hear about the renewal of the assault weapon ban. But he assured me that was NOT what he was talking about.
Giles has a Federal Firearm License as part of his business doing movie special effects. To be honest IÂ’m not EXACTLY sure what all he does, he seems to do about everything. IÂ’m sure if he reads this he would be more then happy to comment a list of his many talents. Anyway, he told me he received a letter regarding IGOLD because Daley is trying to get ALL firearms banned in Illinois. IÂ’m not talking about the just the seven ban targets that it seems all anti-gun people want. From what Giles tells me, Daley and Blagojevich want to use Illinois as a test ground to get all 7 passed this year, as well as throwing in some other items, that would pretty much make owning a firearm in the state of Illinois Illegal. They are even talking about not putting in a Grandfather clause. Thus honest upstanding citizens like myself would be turned into criminals.
At first I thought maybe Giles was upset because this would severely hurt his business and maybe even cause it to shut down. But after doing some digging IÂ’ve found other things that hint to this nefarious deed. The Illinois State Rifle Association on their main page has an article about IGOLD that states:
”Many of you are aware of the present legislative danger we are all in. For those of you who are not aware, if Mayor Daley and the anti-gun crowd have their way Illinois gun owners will become extinct, non-existent, gone, history, no more. Mayor Daley has vowed to rid the state of guns and he makes no distinction between the illegal firearms wielded by the violent criminals and gang members of his city and those firearms owned by law-abiding, peaceful Illinois citizens.”
Emphasis Mine
I really wish I had a copy of the letter Giles received so I could put it up for everyone to read, but he loaned it to a friend and it hasnÂ’t been returned to him. He told me it stated that if firearms werenÂ’t turned in with in so many days of the law passing that the owner would have criminal charges pressed against once honest citizen. There would be no compensation for any firearms turned in.
Many people are going to start throwing around the Second Amendment, “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” People, the Constitution and its amendments are all fine and dandy… as long as our government upholds it. Anymore I don’t see any politicians actually upholding the Constitution. Our leaders want to take our rights away. I’m not talking Democrats; I’m talking all politicians. What they want to strip from us depends on which party line they are toeing up to. So I have no faith that “the lesser of two evils” elected officials we have will actually uphold the Second Amendment.
IGOLD is Wednesday March 14th. I am tempted to take a couple of days off of work, get a hotel room and travel down for it. I really canÂ’t afford to miss the time from work, but I feel strongly about this. IÂ’m going to see if I can get some time and maybe at least drive down for the afternoon information and just drive back that night missing the evening activities. Maybe IÂ’ll show enough support doing that to help.
Yesterday at the gun show, I really wish I had made a purchase that I had wanted to.
I’m not thinking 40 rounds of .45 will make a big difference, but it might hold ‘em off for a while. Now excuse me while I go rent an apartment in Wisconsin to use as an oversized gun locker.
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This is nothing new for Daley. For some reason, it is the fault of every law abiding citizen that there is crime in Chicago. Evidently, the excercising of my LEGAL and CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT at my home over 3 hours outside of Chicago is somehow the root of all crime in Chicago. Attending the IGOLD would be great, I would love to go. But if you can't attend, make sure you contact your State Rep and State Senetor to voice your opinion and find out where they stand. I am lucky that my Rep. and Sen. are 2nd Ammendment Supporters. The one thing we have going for us is that most people (and reps) downstate do not support the Daley Bans. I just wish Daley would quit trying to run the entire state. He is not he Govenor, nor has he been elected to any state office.
Posted by: Petey at February 26, 2007 08:42 PM (cEd6r)
Posted by: Raging Mom at February 27, 2007 10:34 AM (l+Chn)
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I've been debating building a vault under my mountain out here in Misery. Ask T1G he'll tell you I gots the terrain for making a beautiful clandestine, hidden vault.
Let me know if ya wanna go halves.
Posted by: BloodSpite at February 27, 2007 11:54 AM (ZTGJT)
Posted by: vw bug at February 27, 2007 12:54 PM (PeJFE)
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The lot next door to mine is vacant, a half acre for a bit less than five grand I'd guess. Of course the lot next to that is also for sale and already has the septic and utilities. When the Fedex guy delivered my lastest ten pound lot of real black powder I asked him if he wanted to see my ID to proove that someone over 21 was signing for it he said, naw, you are over 21.
Posted by: Peter at March 03, 2007 12:33 AM (Ke06Q)
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I savor, cause I discovered just what I used to be taking a look for.
You have ended my 4 day long hunt! God Bless
you man. Have a nice day. Bye
Posted by: gffl.net at October 28, 2012 09:11 AM (kh4OV)
Mexican Prank.
Some people will find this funny, some will find it mean and cruel, someone like me will find it hilarious. This was a prank they played on some attractive actress from a Mexican Soap Opera for a Mexican TV show. The spoken words are all in Spanish, but it has English subtitles. I will warn you that the language is kind of harsh, but in Spanish and the subtitles.
This girl freaked out pretty damn bad. Yea, IÂ’m an arsehole.
Posted by: Contagion at February 26, 2007 05:56 PM (mUqHC)
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I'm not convinced it wasn't all a big joke on everyone watching it. At the end she was kinda smiling. I guarantee, if someone had done something like that to me... he'd wish he was dead by the time I through beating on him and I wouldn't be smiling - even a little. (although I also wouldn't have run screaming into the elevator... geeze).
Posted by: Teresa at February 27, 2007 04:48 PM (gsbs5)
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Sexy women really freak out, and curl up like babies in the corner to practical jokes with hanging dead people...cool.
Ironically they most likely do this same joke to her every week, and she still never catches on.
Posted by: Bennet at March 03, 2007 11:40 PM (3OefG)
MTV '83
Remember back when MTV actually played videos? Actually remember when MTV first started? Well someone out there decided to remind all of us old farts about it. They posted an hour and a half recording of MTV on Google Videos.
IT has such songs as: Night Ranger - Don't Tell Me You Love Me, Huey Lewis & The News - Heart & Soul , The Tubes - Monkey Time Price - Little Red Corvette, George Thorogood & The Destroyers - Bad To The Bone, The Police - Synchronicity II, Sammy Hagar - Your Love Is Driving Me Crazy, Steve Miller Band - Jet Airliner, Kansas - Fight Fire With Fire, Michael Bolton - Fool's Game, Quiet Riot - Cum On Feel The Noize, Bow Wow Wow - Do You Wanna Hold Me?, The Who - You Better You Bet, The Motels - Suddenly Last Summer, Madness - Our House, Nick Heyward - Whistle Down The Wind.
I fold.
This is for the geeks and the terminally curious types out there. Ever wonder how good your IP address is? I’m not talking about in the usual way, but in that just plain “how cool is it” kind of way. And in that phrase when I say cool, I mean “how geeky am I that I actually wanted to check this out.” . Well if you do, here is a website for you. Here is the bitmap of my IP address:
Personally I like how it breaks down your IP address into a poker hand.
The cat must die.
For years IÂ’ve hated cats. To be honest, hate is too friendly of a word. I donÂ’t think there is a word in any actual, fictional or pretend language in the entire universe that describes how much I truly feel toward these creatures. There is only one thing that could outweigh my hatred of cats, and that is the love I have for my wife. She adores the damn things. SheÂ’s grown up with cats, has always had them and isnÂ’t happy unless one of those insipid creatures is lurking around the house.
Two years ago, after years of cat free bliss due to her other cat dying, I caved in and bought her a cat for Christmas a couple of years ago. The cat and I had a mutual understanding, it stays away from me and I wonÂ’t eat it. Hey, I may not like them living, but char broiled they taste good. Everything seemed fine, other then it would jump on the bed in the middle of the night earning it a flight into the wall, it never really pissed me off.
That is until 6 weeks ago.
Now the damn thing is pissing on the carpet. ItÂ’s been using the liter box for years. I donÂ’t know why itÂ’s decided to stop all of a sudden. WeÂ’ve, and I mean Ktreva, have tried various carpet cleaners to remove the smell. She has tried disciplining the cat, using pet carpet cleaners, cleaning the liter box more often and nothing seems to work. THE DAMN THING KEEPS PISSING ON THE FARKING CARPET!
Now my house smells like cat urine, which pisses me off. IÂ’ve been burning incense, scented candles, air fresheners and Febreeze. Nothing seems to work. The damn cat knows itÂ’s pissing me off, because it stays away from me. ItÂ’s been a week since IÂ’ve caught more then a glimpse of the damned creature. IÂ’ve had enough.
ItÂ’s to the point now that my hatred of the damn creature is starting to outweigh my love for my wife. I am ready to kill the damn thing. Be it by sword, knife or gunÂ… I donÂ’t care. Hell if it gets close enough IÂ’ll squeeze its farking neck, until the head pops off. Then IÂ’ll take hide, put it on a stretcher and hang it in front of my tent at re-enactments.
Maybe IÂ’ll just grab it and throw it in the toilet and keep flushing until its spark of life is covered in shite.
This would break my loving wifeÂ’s heart. Thus I will not do any of thatÂ… yet. If any of my good readers has a clue on how to stop the damnable creature from using my carpet (and itÂ’s just one spot) as a piss pot, I would appreciate it.
Until then IÂ’m going to go play Kill a Kitten for a while to help quell the felinicidal urges.
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I can't help with gettin' the cat to stop pissin' but I know exactly what product will get the smell out - we'll pick some up on Saturday. Don't worry dude - relief is on the way........
Posted by: Tammi at February 22, 2007 07:13 PM (3UQTn)
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Ummmm you could place down an electric mesh,and then every time she goes for it, hit a button and reenact that "dancing cat" scene from Cat's Eye.
Posted by: Shadoglare at February 23, 2007 07:47 AM (dt9Qb)
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Once you get the smell out, that should help. Cats go where they smell their prior "goings".
Posted by: Carmen at February 23, 2007 08:18 AM (PS6+x)
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Okay... you know'd I'd like to tell you to dispose of the cat, but I know how much Ktreva likes the damn thing.
You might want to run her, the cat, to the vet. If she's got some frickin' infection, she may be associating it with the catbox and won't go in there. Weird, yes. But it's a cat you're talking about.
Otherwise, the best way to stop her from pissing on the floor is to wrap her in a heavy canvass bag, placed inside a heavy plastic bag, and duct taped. Works almost everytime.
From what I've heard, that is.
Posted by: That 1 Guy at February 23, 2007 10:18 AM (7ZVOO)
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T1G, you left out the part about the cinder block and the river.
Posted by: Raging Mom at February 23, 2007 10:57 AM (l+Chn)
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If the cat has suddenly changed its litterbox habits, it's time for a visit to the vet. Something's not right, and that's the only way the cat has figured out how to let you know.
Posted by: Omnibus Driver at February 23, 2007 02:03 PM (WOXRM)
Special Pilsner
It took me a long time to find a Pilsner to review when originally requested. Now IÂ’m finding them all over the place. This week IÂ’m reviewing the Special Pilsner by Capital Brewery from Middleton, Wisconsin. ThatÂ’s right for all my local readers, this is a brew made not far from home.
It comes in your standard 12 oz brown bottle. There is a red oval label with a picture of a capital rotunda. The name of the beer is above it in white lettering, and the name of the brewery below in black lettering on a white field. I could be mistaken, but I think the rotunda is the Wisconsin State Capital building in Madison. IÂ’m sure one of you Wisconsinites out there will correct me if IÂ’m wrong.
It pours a nice light yellow color. There is a vary feint cloudiness to it. One can still see clearly through the beer glass to whatever is on the other side. It pours a nice half-inch white head with good-sized bubbles. The head slowly disappears into a good white film on the tope of the beer. There is barely any lacing on the side of the glass.
The aroma is wonderfully inviting. ItÂ’s not overpowering in any way. This is what a good beer should smell like. There is a combination of grains and yeast that makes it almost smell like some kind of bread. There is a slight straw undertone to it. The initial taste is almost disappointing in that itÂ’s kind of weak. It has a mixture of malts with a slight hop spiciness to it with a hint of sweet grass. The aftertaste is barely noticeable.
This Pilsner is a thing, light bodied beer. ItÂ’s clean and has a good carbonation to it, nothing that is over powering, only enhancing. There is a dry finish to it.
I could actually see myself craving this beer. At first I wasnÂ’t sure about it, but after finishing the first beer I really wanted to have a second one. This is a good hot summer day beer. IÂ’m giving this beer a 6.5 out of 10.
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Weekend Weirdness.
What a weird and interesting weekend. First Ktreva brings me a bottle of Jack Daniels. Only two weeks AFTER I voluntarily cut back my drinking because she was concerned about it. She said I was doing good and deserved a reward. That was on Friday night.
Saturday I went shooting with a work friend of mine Bob. We went to a local gun shop that has an indoor range. He just wanted to get some practice in with his 9 and didnÂ’t want to shoot alone. Hell, I wasnÂ’t about to pass up a chance to get some quality time in with my .45. The range is okay, itÂ’s indoor and a little cramped, but itÂ’s better then nothing, and it is with in 15 minutes of my house.
After shooting we went to Old Chicago where I ended up getting in a “debate” with the bartender and some of the patrons over the quality of, or lack there of, Winter’s Bourbon Cask Ale. They thought it was good, I thought they were idiots. In the end I had them convinced that most things made by Anheuser-Busch is crap.
I was home at a decent time and was watching some TV when my buddy Wes of Bodhran Roll Please came over and kidnapped me. Allegedly he was in dire need of a night out on the town and I was to go with. First we hit Hooters for some much needed Hot Wings and Beer. Afterwards we hit a local exotic dancer bar. I refuse to call it a strip club, because there is no nudityÂ… nor striping. We did get to school a girl who was on her first week of dancing. Trust me, you could tell she had no enthusiasm for it.
Sunday I went over to my friend J-manÂ’s house to watch the Daytona 500 while Ktreva was at a Baby Shower from Hell. Okay, I donÂ’t like Nascar. IÂ’m not fond of watching races. Why did I go? For the best of all reasons, he really gets into it. And itÂ’s fun to watch his reactions. That and we grilled steaks. Grilled meat in February will get me to brave even Nascar. Since I didnÂ’t really know any of the drivers and I donÂ’t follow it, J-man told me I had to root for the number 07 car, because it was sponsored by Jack Daniels. He is a Dale Jr. fan. I refuse to root for him just because it seems everyone else in the world does and he seems to crash a lot. Sure heÂ’s consistent, but so is him needing a new car. Before the race I made multiple comments about Dale crashing.
When it got down to the last 4 laps and Dale hadn’t crashed yet, I made the comment, “Well it looks like Dale isn’t going to…” BAM! A Huge crash that takes out a chunk of the racers, including Dale. I’m not exactly sure what J-man was yelling at me because I was too busy laughing. I do know he blamed me for the wreck, something about me being a Jinx and using the Bears for a reference.
The coolest thing was that on the very last lap there was one more crash, and the Jack Daniels car slid across the finish line on itÂ’s roof and on fire. Seriously, I think he should have gotten extra points in the Nascar standings for that finish. After the race, I just came home.
ItÂ’s strange; I had originally planned on a plain uneventful weekend and actually ended up having a lot of fun. I wonder if the same will happen next weekend. All IÂ’m planning on doing is going to a gun show.
The Sharks only natural predator?
My blogless friend D is another cheesy horror film fan like myself. We have been talking about the various different bad, yet good horror movies weÂ’ve seen. He kept telling me about an Italian movie that had a Zombie fighting a shark. I had never seen a zombie movie with a scene like that. While looking for some information on zombies (Please donÂ’t ask) I found this clip:
I donÂ’t know if this is the same clip he was talking about. From my research, IÂ’m pretty sure this is from the movie Zombi 2. If not IÂ’m sure someone would be nice enough to tell me what movie this clip is from.
He's damn lucky.
People, as you all know I like firearms. As part of owning a firearm, I have a lot of respect for them. You can’t mistreat or misuse a firearm. If you do, it could end up with disastrous consequences. That applies to all Firearms. Even ones that people “know” are unloaded or safe. I’ve seen first hand and heard about second hand too many cases of people messing around with one and hurting themselves. Like the idiot in this video:
Sure it was only a flare gun, but itÂ’s still dangerous and heÂ’s lucky that heÂ’s okay. The sad thing is that IÂ’ve seen people pull the same stunt with real handguns. When I was in college there was a guy that put a revolver to his had and was going to pretend to blow his brains out. After a quick yelling and the guns owner disarming the idiot he advised him that the revolver was indeed loaded. That idiot pulled it out of a nightstand in the guyÂ’s room.
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I like how they;'re shooting a FLAREGUN on a BOAT with a CONTAINER OF GASOLINE on the roof.
Posted by: og at February 17, 2007 11:09 AM (iqbdN)
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When I was young, my dad owned about 4 or 5 guns. One was his police gun from when he was a cop just after WW2. He used that frequently because he was a member of a gun club. Then he had 3 hand guns that were souvenirs from WW2 - German guns although I don't know what kind anymore. He kept the German guns in a special case - and I believe he used them every once in a while.
One day he had some friends over and was showing them the German guns. I walked up to the door of the room they were in, just as one of the guys picked up a gun and was goofing about with it - he swung it around, aiming at everyone, grinning like a maniac. My dad jumped up and immediately told him to "Stop now and give me the gun". He didn't grab the guy's arm and didn't yell loud in case he startled the moron. The man shrugged and handed the gun to my dad who checked the chamber... there was a live bullet in there that he didn't know was there.
That's the last time I ever saw him display those guns to any of his friends. It scared the bejesus out of him that someone would be so stupid. I was about 9 years old and it's a lesson I've never forgotten... any gun should be considered to be loaded - even if you "know" it's not.
Posted by: Teresa at February 17, 2007 11:14 AM (gsbs5)
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Good god - I can't freeking believe that moron didn't hurt himself!! Stupid bastard...
Posted by: Richmond at February 17, 2007 02:38 PM (e8QFP)
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It's a shame the stupid bastard didn't blow a hole through his head. That's a gene pool that needs to dry up.
Posted by: Wes at February 18, 2007 07:01 PM (jsV0Y)
Zombies and Tanks
When Clone did take a nap yesterday I was all happy because I found a game online that was fun. You get to run around and kill zombies and demons. The more you kill, the more weapons you get. UziÂ’s, shotguns, barrels of gas, grenades, etc. I spent a good hour playing this yesterday. I was very proud of this find.
Then I visit Frizzen Sparks and he found Tanks. ItÂ’s a take off of the old Scorched Earth game we used to all gather around my computer in high school and play. I spent 3 hours last night playing this one. GrauÂ’s find made mine look stupid. Either way, both are really good time wasters.
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While doing some searching for games to download, I found this - a modernized, 3D, network/internet playable version of scorched earth.
Was thinkin we may all have to play sometime
http://www.scorched3d.co.uk/
Posted by: Shadoglare at February 17, 2007 10:19 AM (AJO7e)
Poor kid.
Clone has steadily been getting worse through out the day. He seemed okay this morning, but as the day went on, the grouchier he became. He complained he didnÂ’t feel good and that his cheek and tummy hurt. I feel bad for the poor guy. ThereÂ’s not a lot of anything I can do. HeÂ’s been getting his medication on schedule, but I donÂ’t know if thatÂ’s helping any.
HeÂ’s lying on the couch crying right now. I wish there was something/anything I could do to comfort him, but nothing I do seems to work. For most of the day IÂ’ve sat on the couch with him watching movies and TV. WeÂ’ve seen Curious George and Cars, along with various Nickelodeon cartoons.
To all of you stay home mothers out there, are the kids cartoons this bad all the time? IÂ’m just wondering, because these were even more stupid then I normally find kids cartoons.
IÂ’ve tried getting Clone to take a nap, but he wonÂ’t. IÂ’ve even tried laying down and taking a nap with him. A nap could do me good today, but even with that he wouldnÂ’t go to sleep. I just donÂ’t know, itÂ’s hard to see your kids feeling bad and not able to do anything about it.
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I *hate* Rx antibiotics - they're often some pretty harsh stuff.
Since he's so advanced in his symptoms, it's almost closing the barn door after the horse is out, but you might shorten the length of his suffering this way...
If you have a nutritionist (health food) store nearby, grab some Olive Leaf Extract. Sublingual is probably faster-acting (especially if it's difficult to swallow pills) but the taste will probably make him hurl. You'd definitely only trick him ONCE! (Even I won't take the liquid - blecch!)
For the pinkeye and earache, I'd recommend Colloidal Silver - topical. The two working together ought to put the little guy straight in no time (OLE will help the external conditions as well).
I'm not a granola-nuts-twigs-and-bark kinda guy - but someone turned me onto these two in my darkest hours of suffering a few years ago. I've been sold on 'em ever since... Skeptical? Good. Do the research yourself!
I will say that since Mrs. Who spends her days with little rugrat-vectors, she tends to bring a lot of crap home with her. I used to get sick whenever there was an outbreak in her classroom. Now, whenever I'm aware that I've been around someone who is sick, or if I feel like I *may* be coming down with something, or if I'm in a situation like, say, being stuck in an AIRPLANE full of coughing idiots - I take Olive Leaf, and maybe spray my eyes, throat and sinuses with Colloidal Silver. It saves me from getting sick nearly every time.
(I even tried c.silver internally when I got food poisoning one time - I was fine in no time at all. Internal use of colloidal silver is a bit more dodgy, however.)
For cold symptoms, I've tried Zinc with little or no overall 'dramatic' success. Of course combined with vitamins C and E it's better, but still not as effective as olive leaf and silver...
Mrs. Who used to be skeptical - now she's hooked on my "voodoo" too!
Posted by: Bitterroot at February 16, 2007 06:11 PM (9FXen)
At least he's not puking.
IÂ’m home from work today. Clone is a sick boy. It started out with him getting sick Tuesday night. On Valentines day morning Ktreva had to stay home with him as he was feeling not well at all and had a temp. When I got home from work on Wednesday Ktreva tells me Clone also has Pink Eye. GreatÂ… Well he canÂ’t go to daycare with pink eye so Ktreva stays home with him again yesterday.
When I got out of a meeting at work, there was a message for me in my voicemail. Ktreva was able to get Clone in to see our family doctor. He told her that Clone has an upper respiratory infection AND an ear infection on top of everything else.
I know this isn't new. It's been around a lot, but I finally got about to taking it. Yea, that's right, I'm Chipping the Sodbury! Ladies, you may swoon now.
Sundog
This weeks beer is Sundog Amber ale by the New Holland Brewing company of Michigan. Yea, I didnÂ’t know Michigan made beer either. Yes, that was a joke, feel free to laugh.
We have our standard 12 oz brown bottle with a orange and black label showing the sillouette of a dog in the setting sun. The label states, “Delicious beer delivered with painstaking consistency, that’s our philosophy. We’ll give you a while to drink it in.” Well, if you drink anything like I do, this beer won’t last a while.
There is a nice dark amber color with some red to it. When poured into a glass there is a good quarter inch white head with nice thick bubbles. The head is long lasting and leaves a good lacing on the side of the glass.
To the nose one gets an inviting scent of malts with a nice hop accent. There is a touch of pine to the scent that makes this beer appealing. It has a lightly toasted malt and spicy hop flavor to it. There is a bitterness to it, itÂ’s almost as bitter as an IPA. The bitterness isnÂ’t overpowering and has a nice tang on the tongue. There is a slightly bitter aftertaste to it that fades quickly.
This is a medium bodies beer with a slightly creamy mouth-feel to it. There is just the right amount of carbonation to really open up the flavor, but not overpower the beer.
My hubby brought home some Moose Drool the other night. It's a beer we used to have all of the time when we lived in MT - might make for a good review. :-)
Posted by: Richmond at February 15, 2007 08:07 AM (e8QFP)
