It's morning somewhere

I was listening to NPR this morning, and a story came on, about the current US administration planning on offering military technologies to Arab countries - in an attempt to counter Iran,... and terrorism. One of those countries is Saudi Arabia. Now, I forget,... since I've heard so much about the war in Iraq, and how our troops are fighting in Iraq because of 911,... but weren't most of the 911 attackers Saudi? Does this make sense, or am I the crazy nut who knows nothing about the world, and needs to realize that making jetloads of blood money (through war, warmongering (tv and radio) and weaponry sales) is patriotic?

Labels: frustration, gripe, war

I'm not sure what this flower is. It looks like a vine of some sort, so could it be a Clematis?

Now for my gripe of the day.....

I wasn't born in Missouri, but I've lived here a long time. My grammer used to be pretty good, but lately, I find my friends' and co-workers' grammatical habits are rubbing off. It's quite irritating. The other day, I blew up at a co-worker (and friend) that it's: "we went somewhere," not, "we had went somewhere". She said, "oh, did I say, 'had went'?"

I guess I'll just have to blend in.

So, me and my co-worker had went to a meeting, where we talked about a program that had been ran. In it, a certain field needed to have a "N" populated automatically. We seen the output from the program and found it good.

That's just for starters. I kid you not!

Labels: flowers, frustration, gripe

Please let mommy win the big jackpot. We're getting tired of being stuck inside, while the stupid birds get to play around outside. If mommy won all that money, she could build us a nice large outside run for us to play in. Maybe one of those birds would land on it so we could catch and eat it. Yeah! Sincerely, Rocky Girl.

As always, check out the wonderful animal pictures linked for Friday Ark at The Modulator.

Labels: Friday Cat Blogging, frustration, Rocky Girl

The poor spider. It thought it would catch the big game. I came home from work, one night, and saw a beer can laying near my car. I picked it up, as litter is very annoying. Because of that, I noticed the spider web, instead of running into it like I normally would have. I had to cut the web to get past. Hopefully, the spider decided to web up somewhere else.

Labels: spider, web

You can read my newest story, Ant Hill, at The Practical Press. There are other stories there, too, that can be read and shared. I hope you all have a good Sunday.

I tend to work a lot. When I get home, I feel sorry that the poor kitties have been trying to help out by washing the dishes... you know, I put the dishes on the floor and they clean them. When I get home, the dishes are ready to put back in the cabinets.

This morning, I had to go to the dentist (broken tooth-crown needed!) and I stopped by home before heading off to work. To my astonishment, I found that the cats aren't really working their little paws off while I'm gone! I am shocked, to say the least. Shocked! Shocked! Shocked! AND THEN...THEY HAVE THE GALL TO ASK ME FOR TREATS?????

As always, check out the wonderful animal pictures linked for Friday Ark at The Modulator.

Labels: Friday Cat Blogging, Grey Feather, gripe, Rocky Girl

More pictures at The other blog.

Sis has a great many animals, birds, and fish living on her farm. It's always fun to stop by.

I took a great many horse pictures. Unfortunately, few turned out good enough to please me. The horses kept moving and I guess I don't have the settings correct for the movements they make.

I had to work this past weekend, but I managed to accomplish some things. I took a walk/run at my favorite path. Someone told me that these yellow flowers are coneflowers. They certainly were growing and blooming in great number. After the exercise, I went home and went to bed. I woke around midnight to a beautiful storm raging outside. At least I didn't have to water the plants.

Sunday brought another day of work, then for lunch, I went to Walmart fo pick up cat treats and drugs. I can't tell you what else I got, but I was able to take the refrigerated items into the building and put them in the refrigerator until end of shift. I wish I'd remembered to pick up some ice cream.

Back home, the cats were happy that I thought of them when they noticed the two boxes of cat litter, the big bag of cat food, and the many small bags of treats. Dirty clothes got thrown into the washer and I went to bed. I woke, once again, around midnight... or a little after. Dishes were washed, clothes folded and put away. Yeah, it was a pretty darned good weekend.

Oh, yes, as always, check out the reading material posted at The Practical Press. Heh:)

Labels: chores, trail, weekend

Do you ever have one of those days? You sit and sit. Finally, you see the bird flying past the window. You jump at the window, grabbing onto the curtain. You know that bird is right there! If only you could get past the curtain. You realize the bird is gone. The only problem now? Your claws are still stuck in the curtain and you can't get loose!

As always, check out the wonderful animal pictures linked for Friday Ark at The Modulator.

Labels: Friday Cat Blogging, Hunting, Rocky Girl

It finally happened. I can see how it might happen to others. The last post is about silly things we've done. Yesterday was a good day for something really stupid. My brain was thinking of too many things, I guess. I needed to get to the bank, I needed to get coffee, I needed to remember to write down the gas mileage because the gas gauge doesn't work, I needed to get to work. So, I stopped at the station and started gassing the car. I got back in the car to find money, get my cup, and get the pen and paper ready. While I was doing those things, the pump stopped.

I jumped out, entered station, got coffee, and paid the clerk. I got back to the car, got in, and wrote the mileage, date, and how many gallons. I started the car and slowly started moving. A loud clunk! clunk! made me stop and put the car in park. I got out and found I'd forgotten to remove the pump and restore the gas cap on the car. I remedied that. Luckily, I had been going nice and slow.

The pump had fallen to the ground, nothing spewing, nothing broken; a drop of gas on the ground. I put it back in its holder. Closed the cap. Made some inane comment to the open-mouthed guy standing at the other side of the pump. Got in the car and, once again, slowly made my way out of the station. This is the first time its happened and by golly, I was so glad I hadn't torn the darn thing off. It's not going to happen again. Gas up, restore pump and cap, THEN find money, cup, etc.

Labels: car, human nature, stupid

Yesterday, I took off and enjoyed the sun and water. I've posted pictures at the other blog. That's probably my vacation for the summer, unless I get another chance to go floating.

Remember my post, last year, entitled Dirty Laundry? Well, these aren't laundry stories, but they're not the normal day type of occurance. One of these things happened to me in the last week or so. Can you guess which one? These are all true stories, but only one was mine.

I went to the hospital to have a stress test. They put the leads and electrodes on my upper chest, right below the collar bone. After the monitoring was done, they removed the leads and allowed me to go. Happily, I made it to my part-time job on time. About two hours into the job, I had to visit the restroom. Since my chest seemed uncomfortable, where the leads had been, I looked in the mirror. I noticed there were two small electrodes still attached to my skin, below my collar bone. I removed them. When I got back to my department, I asked my co-workers why none of them even mentioned the electrodes to me. My neckline was low enough that they should have shown. They said they didn't notice.

I had an appointment to get to and I was running late. I wanted to put my contacts in, but didn't have the time. I grabbed my contact case and the small bottle of eye drop solution, and took off. I made it there on time. I still had time to put the contacts in, so I stopped at the ladies room. I opened the contact container and put a drop of solution on my finger. Before picking up a contact, I noticed the solution felt a bit thicker than normal. I pulled the bottle close to read its label. It wasn't contact solution at all. It was super glue! I was so glad I hadn't put the drop of solution on the contact, first!

I got to my part-time job and thought I'd make some coffee. The machine is one of those large ones with three burners. None of the burners were on, so I grabbed the coffee pot, filled it with water, and poured it into the reservoir. I pulled out a coffee filter and a packet of coffee. I pulled the filter basket out of the machine. Water started spewing everywhere. It took me a moment to realize I needed to put the basket back in and set the pot under. When it finished, I dumped it out, filled the coffee pot with fresh water, and waited to pour it into the reservoir until AFTER I'd put the new filter and coffee into the basket, and the basket back into the machine.

My car was at the shop. In this town, there are two shops with similar names. One is in my cell phone. The shop called and told me my car was ready to go. I told the guy I'd see if I could get a ride, but if not, I'd need the courtesy van. He said to call him back if I needed a ride. My friend couldn't take me so I called the number in my cell phone. I told the lady who I was and I needed a ride. She called the courtesy van to find out when the driver could pick me up. She came back on and said he would be there in half an hour. When he arrived, I jumped in and we took off. We talked and talked. He said, "Did you get a ride this morning?" I told him a different driver gave me a ride. He asked who, and I told him. He said he didn't think that guy had been there, this morning. I then made a remark that perhaps I had the wrong shop. We were driving into the entrance and I realized it WAS the wrong shop. No problem, he gave me a ride to the correct one. I asked if he could get in trouble for giving me a ride. He said, "Naw, it happens all the time". In fact, one time, he even gave a ride to a guy whose car was at a much differently named shop. As I got out, he said, "I won't tell if you don't". This is the second time I got them confused. I never take my car to that shop because it's out of my way. I changed the number in my cell phone.

I took a shower and washed my hair. I got out and dried myself. I dried my hair, combed it out, then sprayed it with hairspray. I wanted it to maintain a certain look. As I formed it, I noticed it didn't stay in place. I looked at the can and found I'd sprayed it with deodorant. It certainly smelled good!

Labels: human nature

Did you ever think what employment your cats might be fit for? I did.

I think Lady Fortuna would make a great kindergarten teacher. She's quite wise, and very mellow.

Mango would make a great CEO or politician, he's such a corpulent feline.

Grey Feather is such a svelte young thing, she would be a wonderful super model.

Rocky Girl is so mean, she would make a great fight trainer.

Cotton would make a great pair of mittens:) Heh.. it's an old joke, he's heard it before!

As always, check out the wonderful animal pictures linked for Friday Ark at The Modulator.

Labels: Friday Cat Blogging

I did, indeed, mean to put that $ in the place of 4. Independence Day is a great day for sales. People buy, buy, buy. Gotta celebrate in the normally correct American way, right? Here in America, Celebrate is just another word for Consume.
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I'm pissed...can you tell? It started out as such a lovely day.........

When people go to the internet and ask questions about how to do things, such as changing a front signal bulb on a car, they need good directions. These aren't the old cars some might have worked on in the past. No, these cars have a lot more junk to be removed. So, if one has the knowledge to share, it would be best to consider that the asker is totally stupid. Start from the beginning and continue until the end.

This is a real SUCKY answer. What the hell is a "light assay", and if the bulb has one of those little plug-ins (which is what the store manual showed as the replacement bulb), I don't think I'd better turn it. I think the old one should be pulled out, and the new one plugged in.

A better answer. I can follow this. In fact, I did... except I can't get the light out. I lift it up and the little rod pulls out of the catch, but the whole thing won't move out. The signal cover seems to be molded onto the light cover (which it probably is). If I take a hammer to it, I'm sure something would break. I'm sure it would be pretty darned expensive, too. Probably a lot more than the shop would charge, and while they're at it, they can check and see if anything else needs topping off or changing.

An even better answer. So, since I was afraid of breaking the whole thing, the bulb didn't get changed. Now, one of the many answers (not linked here) said, "Clue; check your Owner's Manual". That's a real pissy answer. Don't you think I'd have checked the damned Owner's Manual if I knew where it was? In fact, I took it out of the car, THIS year, but don't rightly recall where it is.

Labels: car, consume, gripe, stupid

Well, another Sunday is passing by, and after searching for just that right religion/church, I've found one I really, really like. Just from the one sermon, I'm feeling pious and religious. However, I don't know if I'm ready for any crusades. Though, I am thinking about sending my tithes to the Church of Danae. I wonder how long her church has been in existence?

Finally, the real creationist story!

Thanks to Wiley, I'm now a believer!

Labels: church, hairballs, religion