March 21, 2007
IÂ’ve been trying to keep up a good face about it, but I think my friends and family have figured out something is wrong. As things have progressed theyÂ’ve started to alienate me, or at least it feels that way. I see and hear less and less from them and theyÂ’ve stopped inviting me out with them. Not to be all machismo about it, but I can handle that easily. What bothered me was not knowing what was wrong with me.
Finally, today, IÂ’ve been given a partial answer. They finally diagnosed my condition. I found much relief in that. Unfortunately, itÂ’s incurable. There is absolutely nothing that can be done about it. I probably wonÂ’t die, but I will suffer for the rest of my life with it. I guess IÂ’ll just have to learn to cope with it, as itÂ’s also not treatable.
I have Chronic Lyricosis. There are two different versions of Lyricosis.
1) Singing so poorly that nobody can understand what youÂ’ve sung;
2) Not knowing the actual lyrics, but singing anway.
Usually type one causes type two in the listeners, therefore the condition is considered contagious.
The sad thing is that have I both versions, even if the second version is somewhat voluntary. Yes, I know the correct lyrics to Celin Dion’s “My heart will go on” is: Near far wherever you are, I believe that the heart does go on. I always sing, Near, far alone or in a bar. I believe that beer tastes better. Sure the Carpenters wrote, “Why do birds suddenly appear, everytime that you are near.” But isn’t it better “Why do birds suddenly appear, everytime I drink beer?” Of course Joe Crocker meant the lyric to be, Love lift us up where we belong. Where eagles cry, on a mountain high.” And I’m sure he’d kick my arse for me changing it to, “Love lift us up where we were wrong. Where the eagles die, way up in the sky” but I just can’t help it.
I prefer making up my own lyrics. They are a lot more fun to sing. Though in the fact that I canÂ’t hold a tune in a dump truck and often sing in a Scottish burr, does it really matter what lyrics I sing? I mean usually people are running away from my absolutely horrible singing voice. Many years ago GrauÂ’s family, WesÂ’ Family and mine went camping. They had a karaoke contest. Although I know IÂ’m a bad singer, I was kind of hurt at the fact that they where honest to goodness surprised that I didnÂ’t win the worst singer award.
Well, at least I know why they donÂ’t invite to go karaoke anymore.
Oh, and as for the real health issues, uhÂ… they still donÂ’t know. ItÂ’s pretty bad, oh and IÂ’ve gotten so used to coughing up stomach acid and bile all the time that IÂ’ve gotten accustomed to the taste and actually kind of enjoy it. Yea, I know.
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March 20, 2007
Then to make matters worse we had the first day of a three-day Audit at work. Not an internal audit, but an external audit. An outside company came to check our policies and procedures as well to make sure we are in compliance with State and Federal law. Guess who has to go before the audit review board this afternoon? ThatÂ’s right, Mr. Groggy head. Why me? Well to be honest, I do most of the inventory tracking, I almost always wear a shirt and tie to work even though I donÂ’t have to, and IÂ’ve had experience going through these before.
I knew this was coming and that I was going to have to give testimony, but I didnÂ’t realize what it was going to be like. I spent an hour and a half being grilled by a panel of four over where we get our information, how we come up with our figures, and how we confirm that the information is accurate. Since two of the panel have never worked in my industry, it was really difficult to try to explain things to them.
About half way through, I started developing a headache. That made things even more difficult. Then they start questions where I came up with these procedures and policies. Folks, I would like to say that my mouth filter kicked in and that the last year of working hard to be a better corporate citizen paid offÂ…
…but it didn’t. I spouted off, “I didn’t. Someone else came up with them, I was just taught how to find the data using these methods and have been doing it since. If you really want to know why things are done this way, I suggest you come back three months ago and ask the guy whom I took over doing these reports for.”
Yea, probably not the best answer. An hour and a half later I’m finally released from my tribunal. I feel like I was raked over hot coals. At one point I had to lead the panel on a field trip to my desk to give them a demonstration of the reporting system and basic math. No I’m not joking. I couldn’t get them to grasp the concept that Beginning inventory + Receipts – Ending Inventory = Releases. Yes it was really that simple.
Now if youÂ’ll excuse me, IÂ’m going to go mix some Jack-quil D to take care of this head coldÂ… and to forget.
Because I get to do it again tomorrowÂ… only over a different procedure.
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Damn Grau, you gone and done good!
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March 19, 2007
Many of my employees at work have already spent their tax returns, and they haven’t even filed yet. They figure they are going to get a large return so they went out and bought new TVs, computers and other items on credit planning on paying it off when they get their tax refunds. The problem is that a couple of them are going to be paying on these for a while because unless they are getting $10,000 back from the Feds, they aren’t going to cover what they’ve already spent. ($6,000 TV, $1,300 Computer, $1000,00 Home Theater plus the other little things they are putting on their credit cards saying, “I’ll pay it off when my refund comes in”) And yes there are at least three people that work for my company that is in this situation.
Me, I donÂ’t do that. I try not using my credit cards to pay for anything unless I pay it off by the end of the month. If I donÂ’t have the money, IÂ’ll wait to have to pay for something. That is until last summer. We had just gotten new windows put in the house and I was going to install a window air conditioner that didnÂ’t fit. We ended up looking at getting Central Air put into the house. You may recall the escapade regarding the electricity and contractors.
I was able to get the electrical done in the house, and paid for it out right. However the Central Air I thought was going to have to wait until this year. That was until I found a place that would finance, one year no interest, same as cash. I was still hesitant, but as much as I like to see Ktreva all hot and sweaty, she doesn’t like to be that way. So I caved in and financed the damn AC with the intent to pay it off before the year was up. “When we get our tax return….”
All was well. I kept saying, when we get our tax return, weÂ’d pay off the loan. No finance charge, no hidden fees, nothing! WeÂ’re good to go! Had our taxes done, found out we were going to be getting a bit more back then anticipated. NICE! ThatÂ’ll help cover the cost for the Packer tickets and then someÂ… if I make it. We got the money and all of a sudden itÂ’s like I didnÂ’t remember my own philosophy. I got spend happy. New cell phone, new clothes, new shoes, buying trinkets and eating outÂ… then I sat down to pay off the lawn and realized I had over spent, by a lot. Not horribly, but enough to put a crimp in my plans. Yes, IÂ’m still getting the loan paid off, but now IÂ’ve got to scrape up the difference for the Packer tickets. I had the money easily, I just couldnÂ’t control myself. It really pisses me off.
I just canÂ’t believe I did that.
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March 17, 2007
Notice how many shots it takes to bring down the lion. IÂ’m just not that good of a shot.
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Apparently they are in Indianapolis, Indiana. I love the fact you can rent just about any gun you want to shoot. However, is it just me, or does this guy seem a littleÂ… off?
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Nah, because while he was finding a desk top version, I found a Flash Circle TD. ItÂ’s yet another Tower Defense game, except this time you have two lines of creeps that march in a circle and you can not have more then 100 on the board at a time. Yea, it gets harder then it sounds after about 20 rounds.
I donÂ’t know why they keep making these games other then to get me to ignore my family.
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March 16, 2007
I didn’t even want to talk about politics because I felt it was a boring and depressing topic. Many of my friends have heard me say, “Enough with the talk about politics.” Sure many things going on angered me, but what good did it do? Nothing I said or did would ever change anything. That’s pretty much how I handled politics for the last 15 years.
As new laws were passed that upset me, and new taxes put in placed that drained my income, I just became more convinced that nothing would ever change. I grew more and more bitter. Neither political party appealed to me. Both sides had issues I agreed with and both sides had politicians that scared me that they were in office. On the other hand both sides had stances I disagreed with. I just couldnÂ’t relate to either. I remained independent.
Things started changing with me in November of 2005. Politicians in the city of Rockford decided that they wanted Home Rule. This pissed me off; it was too much power to the local politicians. I actually got out and spread the word about Home Rule and why I didnÂ’t want it. I even used this blog to help spread the word and did a radio interview. To this day, we still donÂ’t have Home Rule, thankfully.
The drive for this must have disturbed a sleeping monster inside me. I started following more and more the local politics; I started listening to talk radio (Much to KtrevaÂ’s chagrin and embarrassment). Then something happened that kicked that monster awake. I received word about the new gun bans here in Illinois. That brought forth an interest in politics I never thought I would possess. I started writing letters to my state senator and representative, I started making phone calls and trying to rally others to the cause. I drove to the state capital to lobby. My political activity was getting me noticed. In doing so I inadvertently did something else.
I got my name on some lists.
Not necessarily bad lists, but those lists of local political interests. I received information from various politiciansÂ’ offices and even an invite to an invitation only meeting, which I attended. This morning I went to a breakfast meeting that had my state Senator, Representative, other state reps, the Mayor of my city and other elected officials. We discussed the Governors new budget and how it was going to affect the citizens of Illinois.
I found myself really getting involved. I also found myself getting a lot of attention. Most of the people in the room all seemed to know each other, even across party lines. None of them knew who I was. I was a nobody. I could almost hear their thoughts, “Who is that, and why is he here?” It was intimidating. Elected officials where coming up and introducing themselves to me. Other behind the scenes players where probing me for my opinion on topics, just to see where I stood on the politics at hand. Then I realized; they didn’t see me as a nobody. I was a somebody. I was a citizen that was taking time to exert my opinion and influence on the political process. Maybe I wasn’t a VIP, but I wasn’t a nobody. I was someone who could make a difference. Someone that could support or oppose there cause and bring others to share my views. I was keeping myself informed. The most dangerous thing in politics is an informed citizenry.
Now IÂ’m looking forward to my next meeting and the next forum.
It amazes me how much IÂ’ve changed.
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March 15, 2007
Murphy’s Irish Stout comes in a 1 pint Nitro Can. “The ingenious floating Draughtflow system in the can enables you to enjoy the creamy head of draught style Murphy’s from a can.” I’m pretty sure this is very similar to, if not the same, as Guinness’ floating widget. The can is tan in color with a shield insignia over the name of the beer.
We have another beer that is a drink and a show. ItÂ’s a very thick beer and the nitro system infuses the beer with gas making a beautiful display of bubbles rising to form a thick tan head that lasts. It leaves a nice lacing on the side of the glass. The beer is black like coffee in color. Light doesnÂ’t really pass through the beer at all.
The tantalizing smell of dark roasted malts enhanced with a touch of cocoa and hint of coffee tickle the nose. The smell is light and not overpowering, itÂ’s an enhancing side to the main course that is the taste. Upon taking the first sip, the mouth is awakened with blend of flavors. Roasted barely malts dominates the taste with underlying flavors of coffee and chocolate malts. There is a touch of hopps to it that makes a good finish that isnÂ’t too bitter.
This is a nice medium to heavy bodied beer. There is a nice creamy texture to it that coats the mouth and throat. The nitrogen infusion from the can gives it a good “carbonation” that keeps the beer from being too heavy.
This happens to be a beer I truly love. I would rather drink this then Guinness any day. Unfortunately itÂ’s not as common as Guinness is. This beer is an 8.0 out of 10.
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Court Overturns DC Handgun BanA U.S. appeals court on Friday struck down a 30-year-old Washington, D.C., law that bans handguns in homes, a precedent-setting ruling that dealt a setback to a city with one of America's highest crime rates.
By a 2-1 vote, the appeals court broadly interpreted an individual's constitutional right under the Second Amendment to bear arms, and concluded the law violated those rights.
Hey, maybe things are starting to swing our way! Go over and read the rest if you are interested in how the courts may be positioning on similar bans. I wonder how this will affect Chicago?
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To be honest there where only a couple of real problems in my handbook. Since I drove down to Springfield, and didnÂ’t take one of the buses, I had to find a place to park. Apparently there is a severe shortage of public parking places in Springfield. I drove around for 30 minutes trying to find anything. Most of the metered spots were only for 30 minutes to 2 hours and when I did find a 5-hour spot the damn meter was broken. I ended up parking in an abandoned lot with a bunch of other vehicles. Technically I think I was parked illegally, but I didnÂ’t get a ticket so I donÂ’t care.
When we arrived at the Howlett building, there was a line waiting to get in. No problem, most government buildings have strict security. A gentleman in a suit, whom unfortunately I missed his name, came out and advised that the reason for the hold up was that the room was packed. They had a much larger then expected crowd turn out. I believe he said it was almost three times as many people then they anticipated. Which was cool, itÂ’s good to see that there are enough citizens that are concerned with this issue. I didnÂ’t mind waiting, as I felt this was a good cause and I was glad so many people showed up.
When we finally got into the auditorium for our session, I was a little disappointed. First the PA system in the building worked horribly. All it seemed to do was take the words the speaker was making them into a slightly louder garbled mess. Since I already have some hearing problems, I missed about 75% of what was said. J-man said he missed over half. We were given a packet of information and some directions on what they wanted us to do (Which we couldnÂ’t hear). Both J-man and myself were hoping that in this session there were going to be people talking about and explaining in more detail the various laws they want us to oppose or support. IÂ’ve read their material, but both of us really wanted a more in-depth explanation behind these bills. I think the ISRA missed out on an opportunity to educate here.
The Howlett building, the Capitol and the Stratton building (Where a lot of the representativeÂ’s offices and meeting rooms are) are all connected by tunnels. They told us that we want to use the tunnels so we donÂ’t have the hassle of having to go through metal detectors and security check points each time. That sounded greatÂ… at first. The problem was that with as many people that showed up, plus the normal staff, other visitors and what ever other people where there, it was hot and stuffy. To make matters worse, it was unseasonable warm, a nice 75 degrees and I overheard one of the staff members saying that there was a problem with the ventilation system, and it wasnÂ’t working. That made it at least 95 degrees in that building. Everyone was sweating like a dog. Towards the end of the day we ran into another friend of mine Giles and a friend of his. We all decided to go to the same committee to let our presence be known. Giles and his friends are smokers, so they wanted to walk outside to the Stratton building instead of taking the tunnels. At first I was just going to meet them there, because I didnÂ’t want to deal with security. IÂ’m glad I changed my mind. It was so much cooler and nicer outside. It was a much-needed break from the stagnant heat.
I never was able to see my Representative or Senator, they where in committee meetings the whole time, or avoiding the crowd. We did leaving calling cards as to why we were there. When we showed up to most of the committee meetings, they where packed with people, most of the time it was standing room only. Everywhere you turned in any building you would see someone wearing an IGOLD button or shirt showing his or her support for the Second Amendment. There was no mistaking the presence of the pro-firearm lobbyists on Wednesday.
Now we just wait and see if we had the impact we were hoping for.
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March 13, 2007
Then follow that statement with, “Once you get better, I’m going to get you some human targets. That way you get accustomed to shooting at the human form.”
Yea, the neighbors didnÂ’t come out to talk to me tonight either. They all just watched through windows.
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March 12, 2007
Ktreva wanted to get a new cellphone, she wanted something newer and more stylish. On lunch today we headed to the store we have our cell phones through. We walk in and Ktreva instantly finds a phone she likes. It has all the bells and whistles and gadgets that she wants. I other the other hand canÂ’t find anything I like. They either have too many gadgets and functions on them or they look god-awful. As I was looking around I saw one phone that advertised something that actually caught my attention. It had a GPS navigation system.
Folks, I love maps. IÂ’m not ashamed to admit that I spend hours studying maps just so I can become more familiar with places. With this fascination comes another problem. I expect anyone on trips with me to have the same skills with and respect for maps. They hardly if ever do. Now I find a phone that will take the place of my unfit navigators. After looking, I found other phones that had this capability, but I didnÂ’t like the feel of them. So I ended up buying a phone that takes pictures, videos, can play music and a bunch of other stuff I will never use just for the navigation system.
On the way home from work I played with it, and let me tell you, it was great. It auto updates if I miss or make a wrong turn. Then it gave me voice warnings of pending turns and then telling me when to turn. With a push of a button it will map out where you are at. This has to be the best idea anyone has ever come up with for a phone. My father has one of those large GPS systems for vehicles and this works just like hisÂ… only I canÂ’t talk to mine, and itÂ’s even more portable.
If you have Verizon, and a phone that can handle the VZ Navigator system, IÂ’d highly recommend looking into getting it.
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First as we were standing outside all the kids were running around playing in the mud, except Clone. As other Fathers were yelling at their kids to get on the sidewalks and behave, I was standing there holding CloneÂ’s hand. This is not like my son. Any chance to run around and play in snow or mud; Clone would be all over that in a heartbeat. If other kids are doing it, there is no stopping him. Except Saturday, no he was a perfect well-behaved angel.
When we get into the classroom the other kids are running around and yelling. The teachers are trying to get everyone settled down so they could start their program. Clone takes my hand and leads me to his spot. We sit and wait for the others. One of the other dad’s says to me, “He is the best behaved child I’ve ever seen.” I could only reply with, “Thanks, I’m just wondering what my wife did to him, because he’s not normally like this.”
Then during the “play time” he was well mannered, waited for other to take their turn before he did, didn’t take any of the toys away from the other kids or anything like that. Again, it was typically uncharacteristic of my boy. Then after class he helped other kids get their coats on. He was so charming and pleasant; I wanted to know what overcame my genetics.
After class we had some errands to run, we needed to do some shopping. Again he was the perfect child, not getting into anything. Not running around and screaming, not touching things he shouldnÂ’t. I was starting to wonder if he was sick. It was after noon by the time we finished, and I decided to that since he was being so well behaved that IÂ’d take him and Ktreva out for lunch.
We ended up going to Der Rathskeller, a local German Restaurant that has really good food. It had been a long time since IÂ’d eaten there and Ktreva never had. That was when the good behavior ended. All I have to say is that Clone, Sauerkraut, a frankfurter, mustard in a squeeze bottle and a fork is not a good combination. That's more like MY child.
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March 09, 2007
I sure hope I pass the tests.
To fail pre-school with a college education would be embarrassing.
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March 08, 2007
Of course there is the increased arguing. The snide comments and dirty looks can be a dead give away. Sometimes itÂ’s the impatience with their partner or constantly irritated by the others actions. The decreasing use of pet names is a bad sign. Then there is the cessation of all affection. A lack of courtesy or inconsideration towards each other is a huge warning. The individual thinking more about themselves then their partner. Finally there are the more nefarious signs, such as plots to injure or hurt the spouse.
With a heavy heart I must say that Ktreva and I have fallen into this state of relationship. I had thought we had a good strong marriage only to find out that it isnÂ’t true. Maybe I missed all the other signs, but she sent a very strong one this week.
I asked her to pick me up a box of Frosted Mini-Wheats from the store. Do you know what that witch did? She got me ORGANIC Frosted Mini-Wheats.
If she still loved me she wouldnÂ’t try to turn me into a Hippy!
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March 07, 2007
They really want you to believe this is an Irish inspired beer. The label has all kinds of Celtic knot work all over it. It even has the name of the beer on a red banner in the “old Irish” script right over three shamrocks. If they really wanted to do it right, they would have had a pint-sized bottle instead of your standard 12 oz brown bottle. Any beer drinker worth their hops knows that the Irish drink by the bloody pint.
Besides being 4 oz short when poured into a pint glass, there is a dark brownish red color to the beer. ItÂ’s darker in color, but light still passes through. There is no haziness to it at all. There is a nice quarter inch white head that slowly fades into a film on top of the beer. There is virtually no lacing on the side of the glass.
There is a good earthy scent of roasted malts, both of the barley and chocolate variety. The floral scent of hops can be detected as well as a nice citric accent. There is a nice malty sweetness with a burnt hop bitter finish to the beer. There is a touch of smokiness to it that enhances the flavor. To be honest, the flavor is a little on the week side. There is a mild aftertaste that isnÂ’t pleasant, but does make you want to drink more.
This is a thin beer, itÂ’s almost watery. It wants to have a creamy texture to it, but the body of the beer is just too thin. It is very easy to drink.
As faux Irish beers go, this is not bad. IÂ’ve had much better, but I wouldnÂ’t be upset if someone gave me a six-pack of this. IÂ’m going to give it a 4.5 out of 10.
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”It is part of a globe-spanning ridge of undersea volcanos, the kind of structure that forms when Atlantic tectonic plates separate and lava surges upward to fill the gap in the Earth's crust.
But that apparently did not happen this time. Where there should be a four-mile-thick layer of crust, there is instead that much mantle — the very dense, dark green rock that makes up the deep inner layer of the Earth.”
Oh, okay so something went wrong in the geodynamics of the planet and instead of getting a lava scab it got a puss scab. I got it. (Well if you think about it, the analogy kind of works, gross, but works) Hmm, I wonder if they will blame this on global warming? Wait, wrong post. Anyway this doesnÂ’t bother me. I mean cÂ’mon we barely understand how the earth works and the fact that the site is three miles below the surface of the ocean doesnÂ’t mean anything. This could be a common occurrence for years, but we are just now discovering it because of our technological advances. This is what bothers me:
”The 12-member expedition to take an unprecedented peek at Earth's mantle left the Canary Islands on Monday with a new high-tech vessel and a robotic device named Toby that will dig up rock samples at the site and film what it sees……The robotic device will land on the exposed mantle, deploy a drill, and dig into the rock to bring back samples.”
WHAT?!?!?!?! If movies and Science Fiction has taught me anything itÂ’s that you do not bring back funky samples from strange anomalies for study. If you do, some strange kind of microbial creature will start to take over humans, you will release a funky disease, there will be some kind of radiation that destroys humans or even worse turns them into zombies. (God, if we were only that lucky) This may even be a gateway to an extra dimension or hell. Their drilling into it could open it up!
These scientists are being reckless in their endangerment of life on this planet. What secrets have been locked away in that undersea prison for millennia that they are going to set free? Heed my warning people; this could bring about the end of the world, as we know it.
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That was my first try, after some "training" I was able to get 100%
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March 06, 2007
Folks, I have an obsession with energy drinks. For about two years now when ever I find an energy drink that IÂ’ve never had before, I canÂ’t help but to buy one to try. Of course I only get the sugar free onesÂ… I donÂ’t want to get too hyper on the sugar. Hey, donÂ’t look at me like that. It makes sense in my world.
Anyway I was at the gas station yesterday. I refuse to pay at the pump, that way I can go inside and see if they have any energy drinks I’ve never had. There in a display was an energy drink I had never seen before, Howling Monkey Energizing Elixir. I quickly bought a can and went to work. As I sat at my desk I read the label a little more carefully. Below the name it said “Multi-vitamins, pure caffeine and Quinine”.
As I sat at my desk I started thinking, “Quinine, that is awfully familiar. How do I know Quinine. Why is there something about it that is sending off little warnings in my head.” Then I opened the can and took a drink of one of the most vile concoctions on the face of the earth. This elixir wasn’t fit for, well monkeys. In fact I now know why they where howling. If I had to drink enough of this, I’d howl too.
As I was choking down swallowing the first swig of this swill it struck me; Quinine was used to treat Malaria and muscle cramps. ItÂ’s also very, very bitter. Which, helps explain the god awful taste. I spent most of the morning pondering why in the hell anyone would add Quinine to an energy drink. I mean, Malaria isnÂ’t really a problem in the US anymoreÂ… then again I donÂ’t think that drinking it in an energy drink would cure me if I did have it. Next, the muscle crampsÂ… There are many better things one can get for muscle cramps. Trust me on this one folks. And the stuff is so bitter I canÂ’t imagine anyone using it in a drink for the sole purpose of flavoring.
The can doesnÂ’t say how much Quinine is in this drink, but IÂ’m assuming itÂ’s a safe level. I donÂ’t think they would risk a bunch of people overdosing on their energy drinks. I will say though that I did have some interesting side effects yesterday.
Do you think I have anything to worry about if I try their cola version?
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