Two-Paws 1 minute video made it into the 31st weekly edition of Carnival of the Cats! How fun! I wonder how she got submitted? I’ll have to send some in myself now.
Year: 2004
What time is it?!
My calendar says Daylight savings is next weekend.
http://www.whattimeisit.com/ shows the time as 11:22.
http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/b.html says the time change is next weekend.
Comcast has already set their clocks back an hour.
I cannot believe how dependent we have become on the clock on the cable box! I remember as a child how cool it was to call a phone number and get the time and weather. Of course, we still had rotary dial phones back then.
I think it is time to get one of those clocks that syncs with the military clocks.. wait a minute! Our GPS does that! Where is that thing?
Missed Goals
10 years ago today I made a commitment to myself. One that somewhere along the way fell apart. I committed to sacrifice a decade of my life for early retirement. I saw completely feasible that on this day I could be economically unburdened and self-sufficient. My income would be through investments, interest, non-labor revenue and residual income. I would take my late 30s and do those wonderful thrill seeking, life threatening adventures that I enjoy so much. Sky diving, hang gliding, hiking the Appalachian Trail, kayaking the Intercoastal Waterway to Cancun, scuba diving and so much more were planned for my late 30s. My 40s would be world travels and publishing photo journals of my travels. The plans become vague after that.
At one point I wanted to live fast and die young. By that plan I’d be at my end today.
Obviously I have walked a far different path and am happy for it! There is no thrill described in the first paragraph to compare to hearing your child sing the alphabet song for the first time, or see the gleam in their eye as their name is called for that first place ribbon at the horse show, or to release some exuberant, over-confident pre-teen into a chaotic throng of delinquents at the mall, or watch a small boy suck the marrow from life. I have a very loving wife and a wonderful family! This is a very happy day!
Business Models
Political – Biased Paper Tries to Lull Dems into Not Voting
Today’s Knoxville News Sentinel (the world’s worst paper) ran an article on the front left read of the paper titled Pollster: Bush lead in state approaching a ‘blowout’ ( BugMeNot for a login )
George Bush’s lead over John Kerry in Tennessee has passed the “no contest” level and is approaching the “blowout” level, according to the director of a new poll conducted by the University of Tennessee Social Science Research Institute.
There can only be one goal here. The paper is trying to create a self-fulfilling prophecy by telling people “if you support Kerry, no need to come to the polls.” What a horrible tactic! Save my America! Don’t be duped by such propaganda!
South Knox Bubba has exceptional words on this including this quote:
The Zogby poll ending Oct. 18th shows Bush 50.3% to Kerry 48.7% in Tennessee.
If it is truly that close then the News Sentinel article is really unfair to the democratic process.
Political
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This Morning
There is physically not enough time left this weekend for me to accomplish everything I need to do.
Divided
Man I’m so torn right now. I want to do something selfish, I want to play with my eight year old (fix bike, sell popcorn, battleship), I want to work, and I want to clean the house.
Valdalism is NOT Freedom of Speech!
Give me my America back! The America I grew up in promoted Freedom of Speech and encouraged the discussion of opposing views.
The location of the two signs. The Bush sign sits on a corner lot with a lot of traffic. The Kerry sign is the corner house’s neighbor on a lesser traveled street. 
This sums up the Republican attitude quite well for me. I feel the Republican party has turned quite Orwelling and has resorted to mob tactics, scare tactics and down right communistic behavior.
I know the valdalism has happened on both sides but my rant is beyond the specifics of this example. I began discussing the signs below with my 11 year old daughter.
Kerry Edwards with a W craved into it by vandals.
Her math class did an exercise with bar graphs by counting the percentage of the class that was supporting each candidate. My daughter said she was supporting Bush so I took some time to put together a list of his accomplishments and failures (its since been overwritten by accident…is my daughter a Bush vandal?!). I opted to discuss politics with her. During a Girl Scount event the girls all said they were supporting Bush and my daughter jumped on the bandwagon. The main reason was that “Bush was cutier than Kerry.” So I discussed with my daughter that your own opinion may not be the popular opinion but that is no reason to not express it.
The Bush Cheney sign sits undamaged.
My daughter still sides with the Bush camp. I asked why and she responded with “because he can do a better job.” I asked her to site some examples. I even fed them to her “he can do a better job of managing the nation’s debt” “he can do a better job fighting terrorism” etc and all she could do is shrug. Our schools and government have brainwashed our kids!
I recounted for my daughter the failures of the last 4 years and the reasons I support Kerry. I noted the numerous relatives we have that are supporting Kerry. She is unmoved. So, you might ask, “How much effort should go into deprogramming an 11 year old?” 2 elections from now she will decide the president that will run my country. The deprogramming has to begin NOW! Our future is at stake! Now is when we choose to save democracy or give in to a communistic state.
The cold war ended and George W Bush was angered by that. GW wants the Cold War back and is disguising that as a war against terrorism. How much money, resources and lives were wasted on the Cold War? Why do we want it back?
Resources:
Records and Experience
Bush Resume written from a former Bush supporter
Voter’s Self-Defense Manual 2004 brought to us by vote-smart.org
The Crawford Texas Newspaper endorses Kerry!
Electablog
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This Morning
Ah! So quiet this morning! I wake at 6 to Noah’s shuffling but he decides to play quietly in his room and I easily drift back into a deep sleep. What’s that noise? Ring Ring Ring. Ah! The phone. I bound from the bed and with legs stretching like Plastic Man I make it across the house in 3 steps. “Umm.. I’m the last the one here and they like wanted me to call you.” “Uuuhh. Who is this?” “Your daughter!” “Where are you?” “At the YMCA!” OH! That was better than coffee. Time? 7:25. 25 minutes late 15 minute drive. “Be right over in 10 minutes!”
Of Grasshoppers
Student: How can I be happy?
Master: Live the life you have not the life you imagine.
Poems
No poetry here for awhile. I think I’ll point out two poems previously written that I think were slightly overlooked.
The first, The Need to Succeed, appeared on Aug 29 and I thought the hidden words were so obvious that comments would come quickly so quickly in fact I gave it only a day before posting, Of Expectations. After a great deal of time passed I went back and highlighted a few things in Of Expectations and connected the two poems with trackbacks.
I thought instead of pointing out there there was more to the poems than what you first see that I would write more and more of these until someone caught on but I haven’t had the creative energy to keep it up. Don’t go looking for anything earth shattering or life changing. It’s not that deep!
Political
From Salon: World to Americans: You’re OK — it’s Bush we hate But if we reelect the least popular man on the planet, we could find ourselves being despised, too.
Because the United States exercises such decisive influence over the lives of everyone else on this planet, some foreign opinion leaders have begun suggesting that non-Americans should also be able to vote for who runs the United States.
if Americans vote Bush out on Nov. 2, it will signal the world that its affection for us is both recognized and reciprocated. And that — to borrow a line from one of the movies that have made American culture so beloved around the world — could be the start of a beautiful friendship
In the Men’s Room
This work safe movie (must watch!) demonstrates why men’s restrooms are more efficient than the ladies. For the ladies reference, there is a disposable travelaid “TravelMate” that disposes some of the concerns for lack of cleanliness described in Rowan’s post by providing the same conveniences that the guys have. Restrooms.org used to have a tutorial on ‘How to Pee Standing’.
Ponderings of a Princess have a related discussion on whether or not peeing in the shower is ok right now. Thanks Tim!
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Slept hard last night. Am struggling with being focused and productive today and not totally tripping out.
This is one of those days where I could really use a strong technical sales person working with me and a programming intern.
