Post #2436.I do not like this person. Michael Moore has the wisdom and wit of an impacted stool.
Michael Moore is the Bernard Madoff of film making.
Michael Moore was on CNBC's Power Lunch. They could have warned us. They probably did. You had the sound turned down. Oh yeah. Still, I don't do well when sudden unpleasant things happen.
What do you say or do when someone like Michael Moore is so gross that he actually defies description in just about every language but Ket, and even if Michael Moore spoke Ket you couldn't say anything Ket enough to hurt his feelings? Tnila ammokn ket nnakarnagra sakdak nu maknitu. Hey, good one.Rick Macherat
Post #2435.4411 Huguenot Walloon Drive. That was just for you folks who were trying to remember, What WAS that address? Sometimes I'll laugh out loud, thinking about those two kids. They're still alive, you know. He's 79 and she's 78. And still very much in love, we'd like to think. Rick Macherat posted by Rick at 11:20 PM
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Post #2434.Rethinking Facebook. You've probably read about how oldsters are taking over Facebook. It's true. I'm on it, and it seems that a number of my acquaintances are too. I originally went on to look up names of people I knew to see who was still alive. The SSDI isn't always accurate. I wasn't there long before people started finding me. Women mainly, seems that's what they do from a certain age onwards. It's never mentioned, but likely things are starting to get a little boring around the house. Rather than hit a few cocktail lounges at lunch and/or on the way home from work, like the old man does, these ladies hit the keyboard.
Let me share just two recent sets of posts, first from a somewhat younger one,
says don't go see Julie & Julia on a day when you are on a restricted diet! You will want to go home and eat BUTTER and chocolate cake. I can't have any carbohydrates until after a test they're doing tomorrow ... but tomorrow afternoon ....
thinks she's going to be sick for her first day of school. :-( (daughter) is sick today & I'm starting to feel it too. Neither of us want to miss a day of school.
is on a mission to straighten up the house before we bring Turtle home tomorrow. He will trample anything on the floor & kick it under the couch. So really, it's like having an extra kid...since that's what mine do anyway.
finished her first week of school & this is what I learned so far: I REALLY like being back at school...it's fun; modern dance is an awesome workout; even after an almost 8-year break I'm still better at Japanese than most of the people... in my Japanese class; & my Relationships in Families class is pretty much just common sense stuff & not that exciting, but at least the teacher's nice & provides a lot of "stories".
And from the other one, a lady my age,
is having her colonoscopy tomorrow, so it's nothing but clear liquids from now on. Wish me luck. .
and on and on and what's more each of them has a gaggle of other lady friends who chime in with messages of support. And their pages are just like these it turns out. The only old male friend I've managed to land has a new dog. He is totally absorbed with it. I don't think any of his children, grandchildren and great-granchildren for all I know had the emotional impact equal to the arrival of this dog.Rick Macherat posted by Rick at 11:52 PM
Wednesday, September 09, 2009
Post #2433.Some more auspiciousness. With today being oh-nine, oh-nine, oh-nine, something should be written. Pause. Okay, what? I did read that the number nine is an auspicious one for the Chinese, something about the emperor and it being the largest single-digit number. I thought it was the number eight and am beginning to believe they regard all numbers as auspicious. Which is fine. I was mentioning to Brother today about how 09/09/09 would not occur again for another century, and his disinterest made me realize that the whole thing is an artifact of our having so few months. We could easily have 39 months if we wanted to, except there would be a lot more paperwork. So much for that. I've mentioned it, typed rather aimlessly about it, so now I'm covered.
A Melanoma Moment,
Honey, why don't you come in from the sun for awhile ... I can joke about Melanoma because I have it. Anyway, did I ever tell you about the first, and only legitimate, traffic ticket I ever got? It was right here,
where I had missed my exit off the freeway, driven a bit farther and exited the wrong way UP the entrance-ramp. This wasn't exactly downtown LA; this was so far in the boonies and the next exit was so many miles down the road that it was almost a necessity. It probably made the day for the State Trooper waiting on the overpass for speeders as he likely hadn't seen a car at all for an hour or more. Long story short, my dad made me go to court to be confronted with my crime as he was very unhappy about it. I didn't understand you could just mail in the fine. In court, the judge was flustered and impatient, could not understand what the ticket was about despite my explaining several times, and he dismissed the charge. Whuu-uuut? What's even more astounding about it is the car had four teenage boys and you would think virtually a 99% guarantee of some beer aboard, (these days it would be weed) but the officer didn't ask or check. That's how lucky I was in those days. Blessings, yes I count them often, believe me. Thirty years later I got another ticket in a wholly different time and place, a totally bogus one, and I paid the $77 fine by mail. I've boycotted FEDERAL WAY, WASHINGTON ever since. Nasty little town, don't go there. Rick Macherat
Post #2432.Pizza Night. I was cleaning up the kitchen after dinner and found a stray piece of sausage, caused me to think: just how far has this bit of .. whatever, come since it last oinked? This was a frozen pizza from Safeway. I don't even want to think about the process which brought that oink from the pristine field where it grew up to my tv tray. One of the things we're going to discover when it hits the fan is that we have no clue about food - where it comes from, how it gets to us, etc. All we'll know is that the Safeway is out, then we will riot. What else would there be at that point? Learn to farm? I like to inject meaningless observations into conversation sometimes, like, "When I was growing up, we used to have great fun climbing the artichoke tree. We built a swell tree house and fort up there." Does anyone ever challenge your nonsense? Almost never.
Speaking of old guys who knew how to do things, my father was a member of the greatest generation, a pilot and a four-sport letterman, so he could do anything. My brothers and I, on the other hand, were complete morons. That wouldn't be so bad except it was still true when we were well into our late thirties. Anyway, as youngsters, we would be digging in the everything drawer in the kitchen, and he would say, "What are you boys looking for out there?" "We're trying to fix the mumble-mumbliddy, dad." Pause. "Oh, well come in here and I'll show you how to get that thing working." (How did he know? Turns out it didn't matter.) "See, what you do is .." and the rest was all hands and expressions like ".. these gizmo's usually have a flanged niblick on the anterior derivative, and what you want to do is.." and some more with the hands. Old guys and their hands, huge gnarly hands, and when they're pilots, well, forget trying to have a clue. Eventually, he would make the index finger of one hand go into the closed finger-thumb circle on the other and I so wanted at least once before he died to say, "Dad, what does fucking have to do with it?" but I never did. Anyway, so we thank him and go out to resume repairs on what of course we have by then completely lost interest in. "Did you understand any of that?" Brother #2: "No." Brother #3: "Of what?"
What's strange is that I'm already twice the age he was then and he STILL seems like an old guy.Rick Macherat
Post #2431.Flu. The news just showed a fat girl walking down the street, coughing into the crook of her arm. There was no one near her. I think she was a student at my alma mater, Washington State University, where the H1N1 flu has hit hard - 2,000 cases. Hey, they're all doing it, there goes another one. I must say that the learning habit has really picked up at WSU since I was there.
How far in the boonies is Washington State University? CNN reports this morning that there are hundreds of cases of H1N1 Swine Flu in the east and southeastern United States. Next to none out west. Pullman is a loooonnnnng way from nowhere. I bet it could get nuked and no one would know about it for a couple of months - probably until around Thanksgiving when students started not coming home with three months laundry. Rick Macherat
