He gets more ridiculous all the time.

Man, is he bold, covering the likes of Hoagy Carmichael and Cole Porter.

When did Rod 'jump the shark'?

"...one more time..."

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Jesus speaks to W?

You know, if Jesus Christ were alive today, I'm pretty sure he wouldn't be willing to sign a loyalty oath. Hence, he couldn't even get into one of Chimpy McFlightsuit's rallies.

Not that a young middle-eastern man would have a chance anyway.

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Escapades of Cindy

This could be bordering on...stuff one shouldn't put on the internet kind of thing.

Just over 10 years ago, my father's father passed away. He was truly a wonderful loving man, who was loved in return. Lots and lots of family came in from here and there to attend to funeral in rural Georgia.

My dad's brothers were all there, one older and two younger, and all of their kids. That took some doing, truly.

Well, his older brother, Kenneth, came with his second and current wife, and his three daughters by his first wife.

Kenneth's only son, the youngest in his family, late 20s at the time, came with his mom, the first wife, Cindy.

Cindy, to my knowledge, has never been committed to a mental institution. Small wonder.

Cindy and Ricky arrived pretty late at night the same day that most everyone else arrived, and went straight to Granny's. Honest to goodness, the first item on Cindy's agenda was to rifle through the medicine cabinet to see if there were any drugs that Papaw left behind which might be of use to her. I guess there were, and she asked to keep them. I don't know if I ever heard the how the whole conversation went, but, wow.

Short story long, I guess, really.

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We have a guest in our office...

Excerpt from an interoffice email received today...
"A friend of mine from Spain, Amaya (last name redacted),is in town for the next couple of weeks..."
Anybody have any ideas about what we might do to benefit from having an English-speaking native of Spain sort of available to me? Seems like I could get perspective on a few things about life in Spain, but I probably ought to start any dialog with an appropriately professional degree of caution.

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For my broadband friends

Lesse...two pieces of news.
I mopped the upstairs bathroom last night.
Maybe that doesn't sound like much (unless you've seen it, then you probably get the idea), but...I've been living here for 15 months, and that was the first time I had ever mopped it. So I had the "quantity of filth" component of difficulty way up there.Further, there is a lot of *stuff* in there, and I had to drag it all out for the job. Difficulty component 2 also high.
But I got it done, and it felt good. I was all shweaty.
Wonder when that will happen again.
The other news, next Thursday morning I'm scheduled for outpatient surgery. I have a small umbilical hernia.
That is all.

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Winding Down

It's all over but the shouting. We are just hanging out here at the crib. OML will be heading to KOF-town about noon tomorrow. I'll drop him at the airport on my way to work.

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Family moments

I'm listening to my daughter and my younger brother in the family room the "TV room", voice training a robotic dog that has been collecting dust for months (like much of what I own).

My brother has been in Europe for what seemed like forever, but has actually been...almost three years? It's really great to have him back, if just for a short while. He will return to Germany on September 11, having chosen the date only partly in irony.

It has been a fun day and a half so far - he has her holding out her hand straight before her, straight and verticle, fingers pointed toward you, saying "trial lawyers!!!", even after having protested that our doing this was becoming quite annoying. She uses her best Georgia accent, and ends up sounding not like Zell (who, it turns out, wasn't actually the source of that particular tirade at the convention, but nevermind the convolution), but rather like the John Turturo character in "Secret Window". That's actually an observation that *she* made, when she followed a hilarious "trial lawyers!!!" with a comparable "you stole my story!"

Good times, good times.

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