My workplace has an emergency text alert system that they were supposed to be testing yesterday (alerts for threatening weather and other emergencies).  They were unable to test it due to the bad weather.  *sigh*  Continue reading

Went to the range last night with Mr. B and our friend M (or should that be Q because he always has the coolest toys?).  I’m trying to get used to a new target pistol (Beretta .22 with a nice red dot sight), Mr. B was checking out some new magazines that he bought for… Continue reading

I still think that Chicago’s Mayor Daley was scared by a gun or gun-like object or maybe even a pointed stick when he was a child in order to have such a paranoid, unreasoning fear of anyone but his bodyguards in the city of Chicago having access to firearms.  To listen to his voice getting… Continue reading

Mr. B took the tractor and chains and got the big pieces of tree (up to 1000 pounds) out of the neighbor’s yard and into our woodpile to be split after it has dried a bit.  He did this all by himself, using the tractor to help pre-position the logs so that he could get… Continue reading

Got this article via Breitbart.  The Mexican government has asked an Arizona federal court to declare the new Arizona law to be unconstitutional.  They claim standing because they want to keep their citizens from being harassed while ‘visiting’ the United States.  Here’s a thought….  how about Mexico keeps their folks on their side of the… Continue reading

To me, artistry is more than just pictures on a wall, a statue, or something that can be captured on film.  An artist is someone who has found what they are meant to do–they understand the intricities of their craft and have an instinctual feel for what they are doing.  This can be shooting, welding,… Continue reading

I’ve been pretty lucky in my life in certain arenas.  Although my folks were divorced when I was eight, my mom married a great guy who is a great dad and my biological dad, by his own admission, was not-so-much a good father.  From my biological dad I got great hair, the gift of gab,… Continue reading

I have been going to yoga for the past six months.  I like it, I like the people, and I think it’s working for me on the physical front (YMMV).  However, in every situation, there are those who are completely frickin’ clueless.  To get into the studio, you have to pass at least four signs,… Continue reading

I just read the text of Obama’s speech last night.  My take:  empty air.  Platitudes and wrangling to get cap and tax passed to the detriment of this country.  Fifty-seven days in and they finally ‘approved’ the sand barrier that Jindal proposed 52 days ago.  Oh, and we should have more regulations, forgetting that we… Continue reading

Via Insty, this video of Christie in Perth Amboy (which I just thought was a place mentioned in Bugs Bunny cartoons).  The man speaks sense and I think he speaks from the heart.  He says that the government tells you that “we’ll give you something but someone else will pay for it” and that change… Continue reading