monday....

I'm home. Mom called me as I was driving to Temecula, saying she was not feeling well (her Parkinson's is acting up) so I called in, left messages, and now am finishing my first cup of coffee.

In my brief drive I spotted a deer crossing the road about a mile from the house, a pleasant surprise. The moon is full, and right now I'm hearing the sounds of the dishwasher and clothes dryer running. 

I guess I'll work on some photos I took last week, a little post processing and maybe an upload of two.

classifying information... a lesson for Dubya...

It seems the government is creating a new category of information 'controlled unclassified' to manipulate all that has been up to now just called 'sensitive but unclassified'.

Back in the day when I was in the intelligence gathering business, we had levels that were for information beyond what a person with a top secret clearance could see. It required a need to know accompanied by the knowledge of how to keep the information safe and secure. The best part of this was being able to tell President Nixon he couldn't see it. 

I figure today there is a lot of stuff out there that Dubya doesn't have a need to know (at least the intelligence community has the intelligence to keep it away from this buffoon) and I'm sure there is a general consensus that he wouldn't know how to handle it safely. 

Dubya wake up! You are a lame duck, a disgrace to the office, and the worse example of a Yale grad that exists.

another Monday....

Went to the hardware store to get some stuff I needed to service the evaporative cooler.  I'll do that later this afternoon, once it cools down outside. Still hot, the sun is brutal. Stopped at Subway for lunch, grabbed it to go, and on my way back home stopped by my local lake to enjoy the breeze and watch other people fish. Haven't got the urge to fish this year, I guess it is the mark of a lack of patience, something every fisherman needs. My mountain bike has a flat tire, so I could spend some time fixing that, but that can wait till later. I did wash the car today, it looks much more white without the regular coating of dust that marks living in Anza. Looked at a used truck for sale, a 2000 Ford f-150, regular cab. $4200 was the asking... I'll check what it is really worth and maybe make an offer. I'm at the computer, the fans are running, and I'm not working much today.

Thinking back....

I've had a good life. I was retired once, from 1974 to 1980, when I returned to work from disability. During my first 'retirement' I lived, I lived for the moment. I rode motorcycles, I did some very long road trips, I visited most of the national parks and monuments this side of the Mississippi. I had experiences, from celebrating the Bicentennial in Clark Fork Idaho,  to facing a drunk outlaw biker wanting to knife me for messing with his woman, repairing my motorcycle in the rain while the local law officer looked on in Hoquiam Washington, riding down the interstate watching th dust fly as we crossed the path of the Mount St. Helen's ash cloud, being snowed on at Crater Lake in July, experiencing the solitude of the Redwoods on a foggy morning, and fishing the Snake River in Idaho.  I've lived, or at least tried to. Sometimes I wasn't too well behaved, but I survived. I do have a lot of good memories, even the bad things turned to good in my memories. I guess I'm still trying to live life as it comes and turn the bad to good, that is the only way to go.

happy birthday....

Happy Birthday to lesliepear

 

did we really have to have a study of this?

It seems that teens are engaging in oral sex....duh.... and they aren't doing it to remain 'technical virgins'. They  are using the data to support more abstinence education.... like that really works. All I can say is the people doing this study missed the point. Teens engage in sex, all kinds of sex, so make sure the topics are discussed by parents and also covered in sex education classes. If it is taboo, the teen will do it.

more monday...

I'll be outside in an hour to make some repairs and make sure there is a cooling system operational for tomorrow. I never trust the weather man. 

I hope it is cooler next weekend. I still have so much to do, and I don't need the heat to make it miserable. I'm concentrating on the barn now. If the barn gets organized, a lot of stuff will be easier to do. I got to check the next local swapmeet date, as I will have my first load to sell. Just looking around me now I have a book on equine health, a phone caller id capture device,  I'll have repair manuals, maybe a chainsaw or two, a woodstove, a hydraulic floor jack, and an assortment of computer stuff. 

I'm looking into a short hike to the falls at Herkey Creek,  that may occur soon.

I got tickets to the Antiques Roadshow, that show on PBS. My time slot is 5 p.m. on Saturday June 7th at the Palm Springs Convention Center.  It will be hot, it will be crowded, and it will be fun. I got my two items ( the allotment per ticket) and I'm looking forward to the event.