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Vernal Excursus


There's bound to be talk tomorrow…11/23/09 @ 03:53 am
So. 'Tis a season, once again.
That’s right! The world famous Generic Seasonal Greeting©, 2009 version, is in production! And I'm going to try and get ahead of the curve this year. So if you’re new, have moved, or are otherwise interested in receiving one of these mass produced, offensively inoffensive, ambiguously relevant, rigidly PC and hopefully humorous salutations please leave me your name and address (comments are screened) or, if you’d prefer, email it directly to prolixfootle@cs.com.

Oh - and I do ship internationally, for those overseas interested in being seasonally unoffended.

Prevailing Humour: seasonal
Associated Harmonics: Baby, It's Cold Outside (Mulato Beat Remix) Louis Armstrong & Velma Middleton


When the moon arises in the western sky...10/28/09 @ 06:59 pm
( Today is one of those days… )

Prevailing Humour: crushed
Associated Harmonics: Riboflavin Flavored, Non Carbonated, Poly-Unsaturated Blood - The Rigamorticians


DO NOT BE ALARMED...10/14/09 @ 05:14 pm
( So, finally… a proper update )

Prevailing Humour: cranky and irritable
Associated Harmonics: Two Tribes - FgtH


Cleveland/Akron win bid for 2014 Gay Games09/29/09 @ 01:08 pm
http://www.ohio.com/news/break_news/62606392.html



"Cleveland and Akron will host the 2014 Gay Games - an event that
organizers say could have more than a $60 million economic impact on
Northeast Ohio.

The Federation of Gay Games today selected Cleveland as the host for the
Olympics-style competition over Boston and Washington, D.C. The
announcement was made in Cologne, Germany.

The Cleveland Synergy Foundation organized the local bid.

While Cleveland is the official host, Akron will play a large role in
the event.

Firestone Country Club has volunteered to host the men's and women's
golf tournaments. Softball games would be held at Firestone Stadium.
Rodeo events would be at the Summit County Fairgrounds in Tallmadge*.
And the marathon would be held in Akron.

The competition could lure up to 65,000 athletes and spectators to
Northeast Ohio, organizers say.

The Gay Games, held every four years, started in San Francisco in 1982.
Chicago and Sydney, Australia, also have hosted the competition. Next
year, the event will be in Cologne.

For more details about Cleveland's bid or the Gay Games, go online to:
http://mygamesrock.org or http://www.gaygames.com."



*Very near where I work...


You might as well face it...09/28/09 @ 06:46 pm
OK, I admit it... I *LOVE* 80's music.

Prevailing Humour: One track mind
Associated Harmonics: Addicted to Love (12" Mix) - Robert Palmer


Try again tomorrow...09/15/09 @ 05:35 pm
So... how MI is TMI?

Prevailing Humour: curious
Associated Harmonics: Jane Says - Jane's Addiction


Now watch what you say or they'll be calling you a radical; liberal; fanatical; criminal...08/28/09 @ 08:46 pm
I don’t know if many of you are aware of this, but I am a worrier. I worry about the usual stuff; money, work, money, sex (and the lack thereof), work, money… you get the idea.

But I also worry about other stuff. Bigger stuff. Stuff like overpopulation, the environment, animal cruelty, gay rights, global holocaust… again you get the idea. Most days I try and put these concerns to the back of my mind, because if I obsess about them too much, I won’t be able to function. I’ll just sit in a dark corner and mewl.

Most of the time I’m pretty successful. I like to pretend that function pretty well for being a chronic depressive, even if I have say so myself.

But today… today one of my all-time greatest bogies jumped out of my monitor to boggle and leer at me. Via Facebook, no less.

All of the conservative pundits are worried that we are slipping quietly into socialism. They’re practically soiling their collective pantaloons over this. Perhaps we are – I hope not, but it’s too early to tell. I’m not exactly a great proponent of big government and its spaghetti-monster-like tentacles insinuating themselves into every facet of our lives. But that’s only a minor blip on my personal Fright-O-Meter. Well, at least right now.

What I worry about more is that we are not-so-quietly slipping into a fascist (which, by the way, is a word I can never spell correctly on the first go) theocracy. At least here in the Rural Wastelands, if you quietly mention that you think that the separation of church and state should be more stringently enforced you’re likely to be burned in effigy. Tell someone you think ‘In God We Trust’ doesn’t fit your personal creed and should be removed from our currency, and you’d best prepare to be lynched. And as a person with a (slightly to ‘Good Grief, how could you possibly think THAT??’, depending on the issue) non-conformist ideology, I could see myself becoming one of the first against the wall.

Think I’m exaggerating? Here is the Land that’s tall in the middle and round on both ends we have a bit of a brouhaha unfolding. A local public school district has included 'belief in God' in their mission statement for some time. Recently, someone, apparently without a belief in God, brought this to the attention of Madison, Wisconsin’s Freedom from Religion Foundation, who emailed and requested that the wording be removed from “school publications and web sites”. The matter, of course, has been forwarded to the school district’s legal counsel for review.

Which is all well and good. But…

Today a friend (who is a local personality) posted, on Facebook (and I’m not going to link to it – inciting flame wars is not my style) this:

“Can someone please tell these atheist freaks..that the seperation (sic) of church and State is not part of the 1st Amendment! Freedom From Religion Group should READ the damn Constitution BEFORE they send letters to Lake Schools!!”

Again, a bit vehement, somewhat condescending and more than a little insulting, but it’s totally fine. Excellent, even. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion and all that (even if it is… a bit misguided – but that’s beside the point and an entirely different discussion).

What sent the Fright-O-Meter pegging into the red was the very first response he got. The gentleman wrote, and I quote, “I think people should excerise (sic) their 2nd AMENDMENT rights toward the ATHEISTS and AGNOSTICS! LET THEM MEET THEIR MAKERS!!!!!!”

Egad! Spine-chilling… And even more disturbing, to me at least, was that my friend in no way adressed the comment, nor did he remove it. That’s tacit approval in my book.

So I wrote my friend and expressed my concerns:

“ The threat is veiled (thinly), but it is still a threat. I find it very, very uncool to suggest violence, including murdering those who don’t share your views, to achieve your goals. Especially being a member of the target group. It reminds me of the philosophies of certain Jihadist factions. I’m certain that you don’t condone that suggestion, but neither did you address it or remove it. As I write, it’s there still. And I find that very… disturbing.

Again, I apologize if I’m overreacting. Really I do. But those kinds of extreme reactions cause me to worry about the future of this country. More than the environment, more than the economy, more than slipping quietly into socialism, I worry that we may be heading towards a fascist theocracy, lead by careless zealots like the gentleman who posted that comment.”

Hopefully he’ll address the issue, and maybe restore a tiny bit of my woefully eroded faith in mankind. We’ll see… Right now I need to take the dogs out and then shoot up.

Prevailing Humour: I see torches and pitchforks!


In through the 'Out' door...08/25/09 @ 05:39 pm
*sits delicately in the computer desk chair*

Well, the good news is that my prostate is in exemplary order.

Prevailing Humour: weird
Associated Harmonics: Raspberry Beret - Prince


Why are these lights so bright?07/30/09 @ 06:54 pm
( Read more... )

Prevailing Humour: pleased
Associated Harmonics: Waking Up In Vegas - Katy Perry


07/16/09 @ 03:57 am
Guess what the cats dragged in - again.

That's right, another freakin' BAT. Guess I get to visit the Health Department today...

location: United States, Ohio, Atwater
Prevailing Humour: aggravated


Oh! they really pack 'em in...07/15/09 @ 07:30 pm
I've posted this here too, but I really reccomend that you (or at least those of you who might have an interest in this sort of thing) go and read it at [info]the_hande_booke...

 

( A new story from yours truly... )

location: United States, Ohio, Atwater
Prevailing Humour: artistic
Associated Harmonics: Rock the Casbah - The Clash


Lets change the mood from glad to sadness...06/23/09 @ 04:44 pm
So, and so, and so…

Busy and hectic, that’s what my days are made of lately. What’s new… what’s new…

Well, Dad got kicked out of the first rehab facility. Apparently he’s an ‘elopement risk’, which is a fancy way of saying he escapes. In his wheelchair. And cannot be caught by the facility’s personnel. In his wheelchair. Maybe ‘caught’ is the wrong word. Maybe ‘monitored’ is more accurate. Cannot be monitored by the facility’s personnel. In his wheelchair.

So they moved him to a ‘more secure’ facility (i.e. Alzheimer’s ward) even though he doesn’t have Alzheimer’s. Or indeed any official diagnosis of dementia, even though he obviously has some sort of stroke-induced cognitive malfunction. Mom says the physical therapy is going fairly well. The cognitive… well, let’s just say that the other day he was telling his therapists that he has been working for General Tire. And he hasn’t worked for them for… oh, I’d say a good fifty years or so. So, um, yeah.

I still am fighting the flu. Swine or not, it’s tenacious. But I think I’m finally over the worst of it.

I’m certainly not looking forward to the next couple of weeks. The Middling Large Lumber Retailer has decided that we peons get paid all together too frequently, so they are changing payroll form weekly to bi-weekly. Which means, in obvious terms, that we’ll be going a week without any pay while the system transitions. In non-obvious terms, some people are whispering dire predictions of less take-home pay because larger bi-weekly paychecks will mean a larger percentage of payroll deductions. That wouldn’t surprise me, but we’ll see.

Visit two with Headshrinkermann is coming up. It was supposed to be last week, but his office called and said he’d forgotten about me and so neglected to put me in their appointment system, and my appointment had been given to someone else. Should one have some sort of abandonment issues or something if one’s psychologist can’t remember one long enough to set up one’s next appointment? I love referring to myself as one...

Hrm.

Oh, and I’ve been trying to write a bit. But, as usual, I get to a certain point and fizzle out. [info]bodhifox has been trying to help, but he’s been very busy.
Maybe I need a Muse. Anyone out there feeling musevational?

Prevailing Humour: stuffy
Associated Harmonics: LA Woman - The Doors


There's no one home to call...06/16/09 @ 03:46 am
Sick.  I hate summer colds.  And, with the luck I've been having, it'll turn out to be swine flu.

Maybe I should go roll in some mud just to be safe...

Prevailing Humour: sick
Associated Harmonics: Standing In The Way Of Control - The Gossip


No, not for pity's sake...06/13/09 @ 11:55 pm
Ai-yi-yi.  Dad is back in the hospital reasons as yet unknown.

**UPDATE**
He's back at the rehabilitation facility (that in itself is a rather torturous tale), but we still don't know WHY they transported him in the first place.  Well be heading down there shortly to try and get some answers...

Prevailing Humour: Egad!
Associated Harmonics: Owner Of A Lonely Heart (Extended Remix) - Yes


Does that make me crazy?06/10/09 @ 07:49 pm
Apparently chronic depression is the new black.

Prevailing Humour: gloomy
Associated Harmonics: Crazy - Gnarls Barkley


It's the only way to live...06/05/09 @ 09:03 pm
( WARNING: Moderately bad vibes contained within!! )

Prevailing Humour: exanimate
Associated Harmonics: Cars ('E' Reg. Model) - Gary Numan


06/01/09 @ 08:16 pm
Just finished the good deed for the day. Discovered an injured pileated red headed woodpecker flopping about the farm. It couldn't fly, but it could still climb trees (and telephone poles). Unfortunately, it's been a fairly windy day, and it kept getting blown out of the trees and ending up on the ground. Made a few calls and landed at the Field Station at Hiram College. After much conversation and descriptions of the problems the poor bird was experiencing, they decided to send some volunteers out to get it. Arrangements were made, then changed and made again, during which time my brother and I caught it after it (again) fell from one of the trees. We kept it in one of my pet carriers until the volunteers showed up and took it off to be rehabilitated. I hope that, when it's well, the release back into this area. It's the first one I've seen around here...

I also have some pictures, but EGAD!! it's past my bedtime!

Prevailing Humour: accomplished
Associated Harmonics: The Woody Woodpecker Theme on the brain stream


05/24/09 @ 01:48 pm
I have a couple of Dreamwidth invites if anyone's interested. FCFS.

Prevailing Humour: blank


05/17/09 @ 01:14 pm
SO...

Definitely a stroke.  And today, he developed nausea (to the point of vomiting) and a headache.  Could be he picked up the flu somewhere - or it could be another stroke.  More tests, more angst, egad.  And an appointment with a social worker tomorrow to discuss his post-hospital care.

I have been off work since last Tuesday.  Ill myself on Tuesday and Wednesday, and this happened Wednesday evening.  And I'll be off at least tomorrow to meet with the social worker.  Being a government worker, their time is much more valuable than mine, so they cannot tell us when they'll be available to meet, so we have to be available at their convenience.

/ rant

Not sleeping well. Not much time to cook or anything, so eating hit or miss, and expensive since it usually stopping somewhere on the way home from the hospital.  Blergh.

Thanks to everyone who sent support and well wishes.  They're very much appreciated.  I wish I had tome to respond to each one individually, but...

Prevailing Humour: exhausted


05/14/09 @ 11:39 pm
It's looking like another stroke. Results of a whole battery of tests (MRI, CAT scan, echo-cardiogram, Doppler imaging, etc., ad nauseam) should be back tomorrow, and we'll have a better idea of the extent and severity.

Prevailing Humour: tired

 

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