today is the malemate's and my 20th wedding anniversary. YAY for us. it's been an interesting journey; often times quite entertaining. this year he went all out to find a card that expresses himself:
i've been kinda naughty lately. i have a secret, but, it's starting to feel like a volcano that wants to spew its molten ash over my brain.
fuck! if i could just think straight, i could put it out here and maybe it would dissipate. but, the thoughts are like a word jumble puzzle.
i'll have to come back to this. i just can't do it right now. i will say that i have been emailing with someone for three months.
i think i may be heading down a path where i should not be ...
in the vaping world, ecigs are called pv's - personal vaporizers
most of the people that have a pv will modify it in some way to accommodate/personalize it to their preference.
personal vaporizer modified
so the ecig then becomes the pv mod - but more often, it is just referred to as a mod.
this particular reviewer is quite well known in the pv world - but this 'review' is his extreme. funny stuff.
i hope no one is wondering why the price of gas is so high.
this lying progressive man-child we have in the white house put a moratorium on drilling in the gulf a few months back. surely people don't have such selective memories to have forgotten that.
how that half-white fool can say he is for the 'little guy' and actually have people believe it is beyond me.
tomorrow the malemate and i are taking a li'l trip to hot springs, arkansas. his 2 younger brothers are twins and they are going to be meeting up there and asked if we would come also.
i've been to hot springs one other time. we were there with the ok! cousins and had a really good time. we did the tourist stuff and as always, just enjoyed being with them.
this should be interesting this time (and i can only hope it will be FUN), as his one brother AND his wife are both ministers and the other one and his wife are both very much into their organized religion.
well, i'm just not sure what the entertainment is going to be - as we all know, i drink, gamble, and now vape (as opposed to smoke).
i'm guessing a sports bar for happy hour is out of the question.
the horse track (if they are running) is probably off limits.
doing the bath houses where, yes, you have to get naked to enjoy the natural hot springs, is probably on the no-no list.
i'm bringing a deck of cards along and maybe we can play some "oh hell" which we always play for a $1.00 a game.
i wonder if they would consider $1.00 for 17 hands as gambling?
obviously, we only play for fun, but it does cost a dollar per game -- not per hand.
oh, for crissakes, even jesus took a gamble on me ... oh and btw, god, thank you!
it's been almost a month since i started the e-cig. during that time i have smoked maybe 4 analogs and am REALLY loving vaping.
i'm kinda torn on this though, because i am a die-hard gadget person, and vaping with all its paraphernalia is a gadget persons dream.
because of this, in less than a month, i have spent close to $500 on the e-cigs, juices, batteries, chargers, drip tips, atomizers, etc.
of course i can justify this!
when one starts smoking, one tries different brands, lengths, lighters, etc. to try to find the one that is just right.
well, that's what i am doing. i'm trying to find the model and flavor that is just right for me.
just today, i ordered one of these:
a phidias pv -- pv acronym for personal vaporizer - made by a craftsman right here in the USA.
it is going to be made of california pepper? wood and i cannot wait to get it.
of course it does not come with the special batteries, or the charger for those batteries, so i had to order them too. and of course it is going to take more e-juice, so that will be on my order for tomorrow.
at first i was feeling kinda guilty - but when the malemate came home last night after bowling and told me how much he spends EACH week on bowling, well, lets just say i could not WAIT til morning to get on this puter to get my orders placed.
i have been tobacco free since 02/05/11. this is certainly not the first time i have stopped.
it seems i find a way a to use an event/disappointment/riding in the car with the malemate as an excuse to start up again.
i have not played golf since 1998? 1999? i sucked at the game, but i lovedLovedLOVED to hate it.
the reason i had to quit? because i developed an allergy to something on the fairway that broke the blood vessels in my lower legs. unfortunately, it ended up completely staining my lower limbs and what once were nice looking legs and ankles, now look like a botched tatoo job.
however, i do listen to rush limbaugh on the weekdays and he announced that he was going to be hank haney's next project.
i had to dvr this. why? because i wanted to see rush's before and after swing.
i have to say, my swing looked alot better than rush's did on the first episode. but, it was clear that by the second episode, he had learned much, even though it did not come across that he felt he had.
anyway, when i played, i would use the putter when i was on the outside of the green. the malemate and others i played with used to tell me to chip it in. but, the putter was my club of choice. i think i embarrassed the malemate by doing this.
as i watched the second episode of the haney project, hank told rush to use the putter to bring it onto the green.
i about jumped out of the chair whooping and yelling yesYesYES!
thanks hank! that felt soSoSO good!
i feel vindicated.
i'm a bit of a walker. i take great pleasure in it. however, i am a fair-weather walker so when the temps start dropping i drag the treadmill out of hibernation and use that.
the other day after finishing on the treadmill, i had pain in one of my knees.
this is not good.
after about 5 hours the pain was all gone.
the next morning i rolled out the treadmill and did the chore - while watching dvr'd tv show
... wait for it ...
the millionaire matchmaker
yeh, not sure how i got started on that one. i think it was because i was trying really hard to avoid watching 'hoarders', which i secretly wanted to watch, and which i am now dvr-ing also.
okay, enough of a few of my treading/tv viewing choices.
anyway, the knee thing is a problem so i have to decide what to do about it.
i'm thinking an elliptical - but space is a huge issue - and from what i have read, the fold up ones give up quality to save on footprint.
so, i thought maybe a recumbent bike or maybe an upright/air bike.
what to do, what to do.
i just don't think i have it in me to 'stick' with any of the above choices like i have the treadmill.
i've had the iphone for a few months now and i'm not as fond of it as i thought i would be. sooooo, the search is still on for the perfect cell phone.
i bought a blackberry off craigslist the other day. right off the bat, i was pleased with the size and weight of it compared to the iphone. it just seems to feel better in my hand. i also kinda like the idea of buttons as opposed complete touchscreen.
however, i must make a mental note to myself to always clear history before selling a phone.
apparently the gal i bought it from is not very techno-savvy as she and someone had real good time with the texting function.
this phone had so much sexting on it, i thought i was going to have dig out bob!
sure glad i did the alcohol rubdown before getting into the nitty-gritty of it.
the ok! cousins came to town for the new year celebration.
on january 1, 2011, j and i were lounging in jammies all day as the guys had a pool tournament to attend to.
around 5 in the afternoon, she proudly announced her new years resolutions:
1. drink more alcohol
2. gain more weight
3. exercise less
4. smoke more
after this she noted: "i NEVER keep my new year's resolutions."
i like the way she thinks.
me and j of the ok! cousins on nye 2010
i was working away on wednesday night and the phone rings showing the caller id to be a mutual acquaintance of the cap'n and shar. i knew before answering that it was not going to be good - as the main reason we exchanged phone numbers was 'in case of emergency.'
he asks if i have heard from shar - i told him i left a voicemail tuesday, but had not heard back. i asked if the cap'n may have had appointments or maybe they were gambling. he drops the bomb that no, none of that because he just left there around 2:10 in the afternoon and then around 4:30 he got a call from the cleaning lady something about the cap'n and shar's house burned down!
robert also wants to confirm shar's cell phone number - which he had correct. he then says he is unable to get an answer on it.
the cold chill and internal shaking begins.
i told him i have a couple other numbers of friends over there that may have some info and as soon as i know anything, i'd call him back.
my first call to a friend went to voicemail. the second call i got an answer and received the news that yes indeed, their house did burn, but ...
the cap'n, shar, and the two dogs are safe.
let the rebuilding begin.
i finally got the phone jailbroken.
the first thing i did was head to cydia and search the 'spoof' app.
if it works correctly, i should be able to put any phone number as my caller i.d. to 'spoof' the recipient of my call into thinking it is someone else calling.
have i mentioned how much i despise women who play their kids against the other parent, and/or grandparents. well, the deceased son managed to impregnate just that type of insecure, manipulative, control-freak wench.
ever since the malemate got back from california in june, this wench has managed to only let him to talk to his grandson twice. we only have a cell number for her and she screens all messages, texts, and calls and so the malemate seldom gets to talk to his grandson.
i'm thinking the malemate may need to use the spoof app when he gets tired of her wrangling stunts.
last i knew, the wench had a pretty good relationship with the other grannie. i think i'll put the other grannie's phone number in when the time comes.
okay, i may be way off base on this one, but i watched that tiffany hartley on fox news the other day and i gotta say, i'm not getting the feeling that mexicans shot and killed her husband, david hartley.
her body language and her delivery tells me that she knows alot more about her husband's disappearance than she is telling.
i was so excited about getting an iphone. i had already told myself i was going to jailbreak it, cuz i wanted access to non-itunes apps.
sooooo, just be on the safe side, i decided to back everything up (using itunes) just in case i did something wrong and lost all my contacts on the phone after the jailbreak.
i opened itunes, plugged in the phone and a message pops up that i should update my iphone to 4.1. well, i'm new to the iphone stuff and thought, 'oh yes, i most certainly should' and clicked the button. the update occurred.
so, here i am with a 3g 4.1 firmware iphone only to find out that there is no windows jailbreak software for that version of firmware - and that i never should have updated - and there is not a way to 'downgrade' the firmware.
so, i wait and wait for the iphonedev-team to develop the windows version of the jailbreak software.
damn, i wish i would've just stayed with the backflip with android software.
i really do enjoy doing transcription - however, i think the docs and pa's get a bit bored with the dictation from time to time.
the office i was typing for today has all male surgeons and physician assistants in it. the newest pa is dictating away and stumbles on the diagnosis of 'degenerative disk disease" and one of the bored? surgeons is listening in. this is how it went:
pa: d-d-disk ... uh degenerative disk disease
surgeon: degenerative dick disease
pa: ahhhh you fucker [laughter] you bastard [laughter] you bastard [laughter] fucker
/methinks somebody needs to show the new guy where the mute button is on his dictation machine.
well yay for the usps consumer affairs! i had filed a complaint back in june regarding a package that i shipped to my dad. i had not heard anything back and assumed the complaint went into the trash.
this morning i get a call from a charles - usps consumer affairs - one level below the usps investigator. charles asked me about my complaint and i told him the details of it - how i had paid priority and tracking to ensure that the package would be delivered to my dad in the care center in a timely manner. the tracking showed it had been delivered, but every time i asked dad if he got it, for about it for 2-3 weeks, he said he never got it. keeping in mind that i had addressed it with the care center address and not dad's pobox.
finally, i called my brother - and sure enough, the post office took it upon themselves and delivered it to dad's pobox - even though that address was not even on the package. i was livid - to say the least. off to the computer i went to file a complaint.
charles of consumer affairs could not have been nicer, or more polite, or more humane. he listened to my vent and agreed that the post office was wrong. he assured me he would be calling the post master back and 'plant a bug' in his ear regarding his job when it comes to mail delivery.
about an hour later, i got another call back from charles. he stated that he had talked to the postmaster and that he is confident that it will not happen again. i told him that i may send a 'test' package - charles encouraged it and then gave me his personal number should i have any other problems.
we then went on to talk about books of all things! charles likes murder mysteries too and he lives in kansas city, and he served in the army in hawaii. oh yes, we had a very informative chat.
i think charles likes me :-)
i was having internet problems the other day - and of course it is never anything on my end. so, i call the provider and bitch&moan. the gal (who sounded USA born & raised btw - {{{shock}}} walked me through a few steps and it was clear she had about as much patience for me as i had for her. in the end, she called it - it was the router.
i didn't think many of these electronic things ever actually broke - one gets bored with them or they lose their purpose as new technology replaces older ones - but to actually break? well, unless it is a cell phone that gets dropped in the toilet or is taken for a dip in the river, or some other irresponsible act - but to break when it seldom ever gets touched? how does that happen?
i'm now on a linksys e3000. the hardest part of setting it up was plugging the power cord in - which is a behind the desk, pinned between the wall and desk, and on the floor - well, that and sitting and waiting for the software to install.
as you can see though, i am back in business! yay me!
and this is why john mccain is a friggin piece of shit rino -
just how many sides of his mouth can he speak from?
and didn't he take an oath to uphold the constitution? and the laws of the land?
what an A_S_S_H_O_L_E
why don't they go back to their own fucking country instead of continuously trying to pull ours down to that level? if our country is pulled down to that level, there is no other country in the world to go to.
the cap'n and shar were at one of the local casinos this past weekend and since i had a free room, i went and spent the nite. it was great seeing the two of them again, as it always is. but that shar is a MUCH better gambler than me. she is able to stay with the poker machines until they start 'putting out.' (between you and me, i think she does something to them to scare the shit outta them.)
anyway, i get bored with the same thing after awhile, so i tend to mosey to the slots. this is clearly a danger zone for me i have found out.
when i was at that casino the last time, punching the buttons for 'mr. moneybags' a guy sat beside me and gave me a bit of an education on that type of machine. i tried to recall what he had told me about them during this trip. it actually worked for quite some time, and i had played it to the point where i recouped over 2/3 of what i had lost initially.
but then ...
i didn't cash out and walk away and everything i 'thought' i learned went out the window and everything i had recouped went right back into that machine ... ummm PLUS another $100.
it really pisses me off to like something that much and really SUCK at it.
needless to say, my reservation for next weekend is canceled.
I sure wish the hair on my head grew as fast as the whiskers on my chin.
i'm thinking about a career change -
bearded lady
i'm typing away to one of the ortho surgeons and it is going along - blah blah blah - then the last paragraph the dictator says:
"Thank you again Richard, for allowing me to care for your patient. And, by the way, it is time for you to come back here and teach our residents here. We enjoyed teaching you during your training so well that we would love it if you would teach our brand new orthopedic residents how to be more of a physician and not just a carpenter, like the rest of us orthopods."
sooooooo, is this a valid request to join or a flat-out zinger ??? perhaps it is in response to something the dictator heard. wish i knew for sure - but the dictator did not chuckle when he finished.
at least he used the word carpenter rather than butcher, eh?
go jd hayworth - take down that chameleon named mccain - who is no conservative. i feel sorry for arizona if they get 6 more years of that mickeymouse mccain. the illegal alien issue will only get worse if they send mccain back to congress.
if this does not scare you into understanding what "they" are - then i'm sorry for you. but then, i'm female and i understand how sharia law applies to females. i don't think i'd fit in under that very well ... would you?
this is the shit we are up against now that a fuckin muslim has been elected to president in what was once, the most powerful nation in the world.
i got this in a forwarded email. just in case your email box has not been overflowing with the same forward, i thought i'd put it out here:
this morning i get out of bed and start the morning routine.
as i pass through the living room, i hunt for the remote and turn on the tv - switch it to channel 205 - fox news. without paying much attention to what is actually on the tv, i go into the kitchen to start the coffee.
i pass back through the living room, still not paying much attention to the tv, as i generally let it run for an hour or so and then i will go back and do a rewind so i can spin through the commercials.
i go into the office and crank up the computers and check that the podcasts downloaded and/or start the podcasts for download and/or copy the podcasts to the mp3 players for the malemate and myself. i also do a check on a few newsy websites to see what happened to the world overnight.
then i go back to the living room to rewind fox news and catch up with that. however, i get into the living room and there is some couple sitting at a table on the screen - not the fox & friends - and they are blabbing in some foreign language - even the ticker at the bottom of the screen is in some foreign language. i change a channel up and down and realize that it is only fox news that has been affected by the "hack."
i called 'the dish' and waited, and waited, and waited on hold. finally a foreign accent gal comes on the line to tell me that they have had several calls regarding this and not to worry.
i said: "not worry? it appears you have been hacked by some middle eastern and you say not worry?"
she says: "oh this is not any form of terrorist act."
me: "uh? and how can you be so certain of that?"
i hung up and did a little search on the net - and apparently this is not the first time that this has happened to the dish broadcast of fox network.
screw spanish - seems i need to learn farsi just to live in this country.
now the enemy has the power to take over the satellite broadcasts? scary shit indeed.
today my 16-year-old granddaughter flies in to tulsa to spend a week with us old folks. to say i'm outta my mind excited would be an understatement. this is the first year since 2004 that she has been out this way. i asked her the previous years, but i could tell her heart was not in it, but this year when i asked, she said, "i really would like to come out." i was elated.
flights were researched. she had flown before, but she had never done a plane change by herself. well of course there are no straight through flights to bumfuque, (xoxo jock) missouri or oklahoma from sacramento - so a plane change would have to happen if she was to come here. she was up to the experience. yaaaaay!
i text'd her mom this morning about the time her flight was to leave - and she text'd back and said she is all boarded and in the air. yaaaaay!
then her mom sends another text and says that the other gramma had called and asked the gdaughter if she would come down to texas. gdaughter says "i'm going to my grammy and grandad's." big YAAAAAAY for us! and a big ZING to the blood gramma.
the other granmma has never had much to do with the gdaughter - and clearly the gdaughter remembers and, apparently does hold a bit of grudge. hmmm, you'd think she really was of my blood wouldn't ya? works for me!
this was a portion of a report i typed today:
She says she has difficulty driving, because she will get lost. Her husband helps her with the driving, but he cannot see.
soooooooo, beware of the gal with convulsions driving with the blind man in the passenger seat ...
and this is what so many misguided people voted for - keep in mind, that this record of unemployment is just since the democrats took over both houses of congress in 2006.
not the decline of america, but total destruction
thank a democrat.
ah summer. gotta love it out here in hillbilly country ... the torrential rains, the ever-constant tornado watches and warnings, the invincible grubs that eat anything with a root, and, oh yes, the friggin' moles with the steady plowing of dirt to get to the grubs. such is life in the ozarks.
i was back in arkansas last weekend at the capt'n and shar's. we did a garage sale. i'm thinking it will probably be the last one we will do there. even with great signs, we just did not get the traffic - which was actually kinda nice, cuz i got to spend even more 'un-demanded' time with them.
it seems when shar and i get together we manage to come up with something else to do in the future. i told her that on my last gambling excursion with my friend from high school, i managed to throw enuf in the machines to warrant a free night's stay in the hotel. well, shar just so happened to also have some free nights. so we booked ourselves for the 20th. yes, father's day.
hence, my gift to the malemate is, he will get the bed at the house to himself that night - cuz i'm going for a night at the casino ... happy father's day malemate! kisskiss
once again, i am going through 'glasses fiasco' this year. i ordered new specs a couple months ago. they came in and the lenses were too big for this pinhead of mine. so they ground them down. well, they were still too big. so, we are now about 9 weeks since first ordering and monday they tell me that i have to start all over with the selection process. this may not seem like a big deal, but they have 3,000 frames in there - so yeh, it is a big deal.
an hour and a half later, i had made my decision and of course i want them done by monday so i can pick them up on my way home from the casino, so i will have them in time for the trip to iowa the following weekend.
pushybitchRme ... and just a tad proud of it.
yeh, it's back to the ittybitty hometown in iowa on the 24th. i have not been there since september 2009. it is the all-alumni reunion, which has been done every 5 years since 1985. to say i am dreading spending time with so many from the past, is putting it mildly. i fear what incident may come up. i plan to spend a few hours with the classmates and then most of the time will be spent with family and ... avoiding/hiding/whatever. i knew this event was coming up and thought i was going to get out of it - but then things changed and obligations took over. so, hopefully "the incident" will not come up and all will go well.
another friend got me started on the dirty martinis, once again. seems the scotch and i are having a bit of a migraine problem - well i am having the problem - the scotch could care less.
so, i'm sipping a dirty martini garnished with a blue cheese stuffed olive. sounds tasty, eh?
trust me, it is.
one can only hope this guy does not fall into the politicians web of corruption like so many have ... and will:
n.j. gov. christie -
p.s. thanks jock for the embed tip - it actually worked for me! xoxo
yesterday i did the dreaded colonscopy. actually, the day before (the prep day) was muchMuchMUCH worse than the scope itself.
bottomline, doc found and removed one polyp, but believes it to be benign, hence, all seems to be fine at this point.
however, there was one HUGE "stroke me" during this experience which made my day, week, year, etc.
as i was rolled into the procedure room where there were 2 female nurses, the one towards the foot of the bed glanced at me and then at the screen, which was also at the foot of the bed.
as she was looking at the screen, she asked me how old i was, and then turned her glance back to me. i told her 55. she looked back at the screen, and said, "well, i saw that on the screen here, but thought there was an error. i have to tell you, you do not look your stated age at all."
i asked, "why? do i look 60?"
she said, "not at all, i thought you were much younger, that is why i was inquiring. i thought they had the birth year wrong."
yeh, i think i have a new best friend. too bad i was knocked out right after that and never did get her name.
twice in the past month i have heard this justin bieber sing on two different shows.
prior to this i had never heard of him and have done no research on the kid.
i have to wonder who this kid is related to, or who he is bonking.
i do not profess to be an expert by any means, but c'mon - surely i am not the only one that realizes that this kid cannot carry a tune?
watch and heed ... before it is scrubbed off youtube
i wonder if there will be long waiting lines for abortions under obamacare.
this is still funny.
listen to [wanda sykes?]
volunteering for a conjugal visit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAqN8ajICnA
linked cuz i don't have a clue how to embed here - sorry.
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