Bush observation of the day: "Lou DuBose of the `Austin Chronicle' (and [Molly Ivins] co-author on a Bush book) observed on Fox News last week that most of the Texas press corps had the same relationship with Bush that Monica Lewinsky had with Bill Clinton."
London Sunday Telegraph Columnist Mark Steyn surmises the REAL reason Dubya dropped Kyoto:
"[I]f I understand this global-warming business correctly, the danger is
that the waters will rise and drown the whole of Massachusetts, New York
City, Long Island, the California coast and a few big cities on the Great
Lakes-in other words, every Democratic enclave will be wiped out leaving
only the solid Republican heartland. Politically speaking, for conservatives
there's no downside to global warming."
The ultimate example of "Payback is a bitch":
That's what happened in Missouri. After the Supreme Court ruled against the State of Missouri, the Department of Transportation renamed the highway the Klan wanted to adopt. The Klan has paid to clean the Rosa Parks Freeway. That's free speech.
You may recall the US Supreme Court recently allowed the KKK to adopt a highway in Missouri.
I love my mother-in-law. I think she leaves a little piece of herself lingering about the house when she visits. I've been stuck in a rut these past 2 days and today I looked over at the messy pile on my desk and decided to straighten it up. You see, I have this problem that I get very bored and procrastinate if my surroundings are messy. So after I picked up the pile of books, I picked up all the trash and put it in the trash can. Then I walked all the dirty dishes and 2 TV trays down to where they belonged. Then I cleaned the kitchen, swept the floor, loaded and ran the dishwasher, and handwashed the pots. Then I cleaned and vaccuumed the living room. Then I collected all the trash in the house. Then I cleaned the kitty litter boxes, moved them back to the basement where they were before the in-laws visited with the dog, put the cat food and water back in the kitchen (not before throwing the drinking fountain in the dishwasher). That lead to washing the humidifier and refilling it, taking all the laundry downstairs and washing it (actually, to be fair the wife did 2 loads) and finally taking all the trash outside to be picked up tomorrow.
Needless to say, I'm exhausted...but happy. That little piece of mother-in-law saw me through. When my surroundings are clean, I feel satisfied - and I can FINALLY get back to work again.
This past weekend was a good test of fatherhood. I was off with the wife to the home of her Aunt and Uncle, who were in Bermuda, to watch their 3 girls - approx age 2, 6 and 8. I have to admit, when the wife first mentioned it I was all for it. But mostly because she said they had a second phone line and promised me I could hide in the room with my computer. Of course a week before this live-in babysit occured her story changed. Why am I not surprised. So I groaned and whined a bit because the youngest always seems to be crying or screaming when we call and the middle child always demands extra attention.
I was consistantly surprised throughout the weekend. The little one was always smiling and giggling, able to play by herself. The middle child did a little bit of whining when she didn't get her way but none of the 3 ever shed a single tear. Well, actually the eldest did when she took me outside to play football, soccer, and wiffle ball interchangably. I was showing her how to throw a football and hit her in the nose. She was more upset that her nose might start bleeding because "the last time it got hit it bled for almost an hour" then actually being hurt. A joke or two later and she was all simes and trying again this time being careful to tilt her head out of the way.
I spend most of my time with the eldest between playing sports outside to getting her homework dones through the next week. I totally wish I had been driven to get my weeks worth of homework done on the weekends. It would have given me SOO much more time in elementary school. I also hung out with her during her piano lesson while the wife and 2 other girls whent to get groceries, and sat in the living room while she practiced since I'm not *ahem* tone deaf (I'm going to get shot for that comment).
Through all that I still got my computer time in the evening, had time to make cookies with the girls, cleaned the kitchen and washed dishes. I was amazed. Obviously the girls usually have more activities to be driven around to but if kids act like that all the time I think I'm a lot more comfortable than I had been. Kirky (the wife) and I couldn't figure out why they were being so good or so happy. We figured it was because of the change in scenery for the girls.
Surprisingly, I'd do it again in a second.
Phew...archives are fixed and updated. I don't check the ones for this site as often as I do others. But that's mostly because I cross-reference like mad at The Leaky Cauldron.
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