I Miss Southgate Mall. I honestly do.

Work

If there is a more mind numbing, poorly paid way to earn a living and squander my talents, outside of assembling widgets, I have yet to find it. I wish I could afford to go to law school full time and resume my life. #bitter #temperTantrum

To be clear, there's nothing funny about what he's accused of doing. However, the meme, tasteless as it might be, made me smile.

The Good and the Bad

From one P.M. Monday until 8 A.M this (Wed.) morning, I managed 3.75 hours of sleep. Shoot me. 

OTOH, I woke up this evening from a nap to find that Lisa had made homemade tempura chicken, rice, a crab Rangoon dipping sauce with homemade won-ton chips, and  chow-mein cookies.

 I should skip sleeping more often.

The Walker Mural

The side of a building on KK. It's become a little tourist destination. I wasn't the only person to stop and snap a picture.

A Joke

Jesus: "Still on for Thursday?"

Judas: "Yeah, the Last Supper."

Jesus: "The what?"

Judas: "Supper. Normal supper with the fellas."

So we're funding Iran now?

Ugh. People on FB are celebrating saving a few cents on gas, and ignoring the fact that we just cut a NUCLEAR deal with Iran in order to accomplish this great feat.

That's Iran, the Western hating, anti-Semitic nation that's ignored endless sanctions in the past but, we're told, will surely behave *this time*. 

Any statement saying this is a wise or necessary deal is just smoke up your a*s. 

Here's hoping it isn't radioactive too.

Naturally.

While I was asleep Junie was using my phone to play a game. By the time I woke up she was gone to Bible school and the phone was AWOL. A search of the van and home came up with nothing. A call to the school revealed where she left it: on the fencepost by the trampoline. Naturally. Where else would you leave a smartphone?

PT

Physical therapy this morning was a stationary bike, a leg press machine, and a hip raise machine. "So basically this is a gym membership at 30 times the cost?" I told the therapist. 

GRRRRR

Originally I was miffed at FB for spoiling last weekend's fight card  (my fault - I have a half dozen boxing sites on here) but since the kids, in their wisdom, deleted it to record yet another episode of "Dog with a Blog" and "Jessie" BEFORE i GOT TO WATCH  THE FIGHT, I guess I should learn to embrace the spoilers. Thank Goodness the kids pay for the cable and the electricity, or I might feel put out. 

Um, what now?

My nieces cat, shaved south of the neck to resemble a lion.

A/C

Anybody got an old window A/C they are willing to part with? My niece Caitlin Anne is melting in her new digs.

update: Lisa and I just got home from delivering and installing the new (to her) A/C for my niece. Given that her flat was an oven, I imagine she's genuinely as grateful as she seemed. Nice flat, horrible neighborhood. As an aside, her stairs reminded me of Lisa's back on 8th street. Ah, memories. Lisa and I had good times on those stairs :)

Normalcy

Sauerkraut and potatoes in the oven, YaYa asking me for money, Junie roller skating in the house, Smiley on his tablet . . . .ahhhh, normalcy.

Vacation Bible School

The youngest two just walked in the door from the first day of Vacation Bible School over at Oak Creek Assembly of God. They enjoyed it and won't stop chatting about it, and I'm glad. I wish it was a Catholic program, I'm not going to lie, but I'm pragmatic enough to know that a knowledge of Jesus is a good thing in any form.

Pen Pals

I just dropped $33 in international postage for pen pal packages for LuLu and YaYa. I support the hobby, as I do believe in fostering goodwill across borders, and I want it to continue. But at the very least, the girls will have to fill out their own customs forms going forward, b/c THAT was a pill, and the packages (not letters) will have to be more infrequent. :)

FYI

Someone just asked me what was up with BLANK, and is our friendship at a crossroads (not their words) because we are "arguing" on FB. I'm not arguing, I'm debating, and I debate honestly, without adding superfluous comments just to tweak someone's nose. *unless I add that that was the intent. I've never deleted or unfollowed anyone for their views, with the exception of a virulent anti-vaccination zealot who made the sun rising in the East an example of a big Pharm plot - and hell, I blocked her largely because she was a Seahawks fan (seriously)! So, please, put any concerns to rest (at least on my end).

A New 'Do

A haircut for Smiley!

Bernie Sanders

I'm over at a progressive web forum right now where the folks are discussing how their pal Bernie will be taken down; apparently some fear that Clinton is withholding dirt on him for just the right moment. He wrote a near-pornographic essay once, and linked arms with Cuba and the Sandinistas in the ''80's, but these folks drool with adoration over that. Some are bringing up the alleged fraud charges levied against his wife after she ran a college into the ground. Oh, and one guy is pissed that Sanders voted against gun control and says he'll never vote for him now, even tho they agree on everything else. Nothing that really hits me as incredibly useful in a negative sense. Personally, the fact that at the time of the election he'll be a 74 year old dyed-in-the-wool Socialist from an insignificant electoral state would worry me a heck of a lot more.

Chess

I know it's only an app and not Bobby Fisher, but I just won a game of chess for only the second time in my life. Hells bells boys!

Advertising sure has changed since the '30's.

Advertising sure has changed since the '30's.

Pitch Black

Dull Facebook diary entry: started watching "Pitch Black" with Smiley this afternoon but he got bored, and I wasn't loving it, so I turned it off and biked down to the library. Otherwise a boring day.