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Sunday, August 30, 2009

How Bizarre, how bizarre...


Yea, so Ribhard actually awoke from a nap the other day singing in key while still half asleep, "Every time I look around, every time I look around..."

Saturday, August 29, 2009

How Bizarre How Bizarre



Once you get a funky song stuck in your head..you cannot get it out..you start humming it...singing it...thinking about it...looking up Indonesian Youtube versions..lyrics.......till it runs it's course and weeks later slowly fades....

Saturday, August 22, 2009

WTF


Part of me wants to kill it and the other part kind of wants to name it. It is fucking huge, and it is eating stray cats and taking hostages in the corner of our patio. Can you see its fangs? (it's upside down)

Friday, August 21, 2009

Alarming News!!!



As you know, the mighty WindStar van died a few months ago....so we bought this old 98 Subaru Outback a few weeks back. We now have matching old blue subbys. The car came with a keyless entry alarm system. This was all well and good until the alarm began to go off at odd hours....like 2 AM in the morning outside my bedroom window...at the Lowe's parking lot...and sitting in the parking lot at school. I called the local Subaru dealer to see how much it would cost to kill it. They said maybe free and maybe $100....they would need to examine the situation. So I hopped my fat ass down there and slid into the service lane. The service writer...who honest to god looked like Alfred E. {what me worry?) Neuman listens to my tale of woe, calls the service department and Jimmy says it will be a few hours and maybe $210. I did opine that was a bullshit price and burned rubber leaving the service bay. Drove over to the Sound Advice place at Uintah and Circle....Johnny said $50 and will take about an hour. I shook on the deal...walked across the road and strolled up and down the aisles of Cheers Liquor Store....a delightful store with many many types of alcohol. Thought about Valencia and her no pocketbook story....which incidentally made the Gazette the other day.............a tale that needs to be discussed on the blog....anyway..I now have Merlot (5 ltr $12.00 box) and no alarm going off. Life if good.

Thursday, August 20, 2009

no mo sticky mess



Dear Heloise
The cup that comes with the liquid laundry detergent was always a complete sticky mess. I found that if I throw it in with my load of laundry, it gets cleaned with the load. I just need to be sure not to throw it in the dryer. Now my loads are fresh and my cup is free of the sticky mess.
John J. Garland, Flowermound, TX

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Stool Transplant


Was reading the Wall Street Journal about a medical condition called - Clostridium Defficile or “C.Diff” - it occurs when you've been exposed to "Broad spectrum" antibiotics during a surgery, or to fight off an extreme infection. Essentially, the antibiotics do an excellent job killing the bacteria - but they also end up killing the "good" bacteria in your stomach - which leads to the aforementioned condition.

Anyway in the article it said that lab-mice had "Coprophagia" or "coprophagous"  tendencies which is defined as the act of, or desire to, "eat dung" and they found that in mice that had C.Diff - if they ate "dung" - it in turn replenished their stomachs with the "good bacteria" - thus eliminating C. Diff.

The article continued in 2003 "...18 patients over a nine-year period who had recurrent C.diff and had "stool transplants" performed -- i.e. where doctors took "stool" from a person close to the patient, such as a spouse, and inserted it through a tube into the patient’s nose and from there to the stomach. The study found 15 patients had no more recurrences, Two patients died of unrelated illnesses and one patient had a single recurrence of C.diff after the "stool transplant"

I'll open this one up for comments...

Monday, August 17, 2009

An Afternoon in Flowermound



An Afternoon of Teabagging
The Flower Mound Library will host a class from 1 to 3 p.m. on Saturday, September 19that will teach participants about the art of teabagging. Dan the Man Fuller, author of Teabagging Time Entertaining, will discuss his/her book about the history of afternoon teabagging, teabagging etiquette, teabagging types, traditional teabagging menus, new ways with teabagging, and holiday and special occasion theme teabagging. Dan has written many articles for newspapers and magazines including Victoria Magazine, Texas Runners and The Saturday Evening Post.

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Christmas In July...

Announcement: Baybo gets Boan a new puppy!!!!

Heard that Baybo tripped over it recently -- Hope your ankle heals soon! Anyway - I couldn't figure out how to embed the movie they sent but here's the link...

http://www.warmandfuzzyfeeling.com/

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

News From the Villiage ....

Yet "Another" reason not to move to Florida ...



http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20090809/NEWS01/908090319/-1/SEVENDAYS

Saturday, August 1, 2009

Brief thoughts from a public bathroom



So I am standing at a urinal in KC yesterday. I look down and see the brand name of the automatic flusher: "Toto". And I am thinking to myself is this ironic or what...my first thought was "Toto we are not in Kansas anymore"..followed quickly by "Toto we are in Kansas".

I wonder if the people that spec'd,bought, and installed the flushers were slightly influenced by the brand name Toto? I am thinking that in Kansas, brands like Kohler, Sloan, Moen, or American Standard didn't have a chance.

These are thoughts that flush through ones mind as one stands at a urinal with time on ones hands.

The old fashion ways........



I was talking to my youngest daughter the other day....I asked her if they use a Garmin or Tom Tom...she said no "We do it the old fashion way......we GOOGLE"

I am thinking time sure flies by when you get older.