Leap Day

Yeah, I could post a whole bunch of links about why leap year happens and how it corrects the calendar, but who cares? It's a free bonus day and I think we should get to slack off and do whatever we want with it. Besides, if I'd had the decency to be born on time it would have been my birthday. I misssed, so sue me. :-)

Come on, who's with me on this leap day party idea? I think we could have one organized in four years.

;-)

Not So Far From Real

Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early

Thanks to The Onion.

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Advance Notice

The 28th is Public Sleeping Day.
Get ready.


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EE&V

Eyes
Bright sunlight streaming through glass doors onto industrial tile.

Ears
Elevators, phones, hushed conversations, and quiet music from overhead.

Voice
"Did that hurt?"

"Does it matter?"

Anon E. Mouse

Some quotes I can't attribute but still like.
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"Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and beat you with experience."


"People are the only animals who eat themselves to death."


"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."


"Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold -- but so does a hard-boiled egg."


"The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much."


"Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too."


"Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl."


"Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times."


"In order to discover new lands, one must be willing to lose sight of the shore for a very long time."


"Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible."


"A steady salary is an invitation to mediocrity."


"Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way."


"Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children."

Today Is

Card Reading Day. I don't know if it means greeting cards, playing cards, or credit cards. How can we celebrate properly this way?

Tomorrow is Be Humble Day. I can do that. I'm very good at being humble, maybe the best there ever was. Oooops. :-)

Then it's International Dog Biscuit Appreciation Day. I don't really want to eat any of these, can I appreciate the pictures on the box?


:-)


Enjoy!

If You Haven't Seen This Yet

Dating, A Re-cap

Why am I annoyed? Because I know better than to make the same mistakes and I did it anyway. There's no teacher with a firmer hand than experience, and experience tells me that I should stay away from anything I do this badly. I'm listening when I should be watching, daydreaming when I should be thinking. I know there are rules to the game, but I can never seem to follow them. It seems to silly to to anything so important in such a sideways fashion. It's like trying to climb a mountain by going in an upward spiral all the way around revolution after revolution. That makes no sense to me. Maybe it's hubris, but it seems like you should pick the best route you can, be as equiped and prepared as you can, and climb.

I didn't get into this because I need a relationship, time has shown that I do well with fairly minimal human contact. She started it, and it seemed like we had enough in common, we get each other's jokes, and we have fun. And I thought I might be able to be a sturdy, useful thing for her and her kid. Silly me. I should have been thinking about the fact that over all the years I've know this woman she's pretty much always had a boyfriend. She's jumping from rock to rock keeping her feet dry. She wants the boyfriend role filled but it doesn't matter that much who fills it. If one doesn't work out, there's always the next one. I'm not that special.

I never should have sent her flowers or let her know I was interested in more dates, much less offering to ride along an hour and a half each way when she visited someone in the hospital so she could have company if she wanted. I might as well just tape a 'welcome' mat on my back. It's stupid, but that's how it works.

Anyway, I seem to need to keep learning the same lessons the hard way, but I think I've got it this time. The stove is really hot, stop touching it. That's not doing anybody any good.

A Moment of Silence Please

After spending several hours reading articles and the attached comments on a variety of topics all around the internet, it has come to my attention that critical thinking is, at best, on life support and in danger of dying out completely.

I'm not talking about those hateful, small minded, flame-festers either. It's those other people. The ones who seem articulate and intelligent on the surface until you really read what they typed and discover that they're jargon tossing, jingoistic idiots who might have a hard time finding their way out a a hedge maze with a GPS box and a map.


Sorry, end rant.

Yeah, I Know

It's V-day and I was gonna say all those things to a certain someone, but that all came apart a couple weeks ago. So I still have the thoughts written down, and I still think well of her, but it doesn't look like there's ever going to be a right time to share that stuff with her. It was good while it was, and I did find a better brand of string cheese because of it.

I also had sort of a flower budget, so a long time friend is going to benefit from that.

Always looking for the bright side, I guess.

Same-ness

My name hasn't changed at all. Oh, well.

And now it's after midnight here so I should wish everybody a happy Arrow-Through-The-Heart day, but it's really just a Hallmark Holiday, so you all can decide how/if you celebrate.

EE&V

Eyes
A failing light on dark street corner.

Ears
Sodium arc light hum and flying insects.

Voice
"I wanna put things back the way they were."

"You can never go back. As long as you're alive and breathing you're going forward whether you like it or not. If you try to hide from life it goes right on by."

Tomorrow Is

Don't Cry Over Spilled Milk Day.

It's also White Tee-Shirt Day. I guess that way the milk stains won't show as much.

I'm kind of looking forward to the 13th when it's Get A Different Name Day. I don't know if we get to pick them ourselves or if somebody will be asigning them to us, but either way I'm curious to see what the phone book looks like on Thursday.

:-)

I Wanna Play Too!

These guys get to have all the fun. I want in! :-)


On a safety note, this is why they put a pressure relief valve on the side of water heaters and why you should check to make sure yours is working properly in much the same way you test your smoke detectors.

Tomorrow Is

Charles Dickens Day. So in honor, here are a few quotes from the man.

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Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.



Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.


Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.


I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.


In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.


Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.


No one is useless in the world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else.

Every Once In A While

I have to throw in a little bit of this if I want to keep my IPM Super Site icon over there.

(well, not really)
:-)

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For aught that I could ever read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course of true love never did run smooth.



The devil hath power
To assume a pleasing shape.



Love sought is good, but given unsought is better



Heaven and earth,
Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him
As if increase of appetite had grown
By what it fed on, and yet, within a month—
Let me not think on't—Frailty, thy name is woman!




These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which as they kiss consume.



But, O, what damned minutes tells he o'er
Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loves!




Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind;
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

Well, This is Fun

All the webcams in the area seem to be down, so you'll have to take my word for it. We're getting snow, lots of it. An hour ago the streets were clear (some snow on the grass) and now it's about ankle deep. Oh, and there's thunder and lightning too. Hmmmm, maybe that's why there's no webcams?

Thunder Snow. Sorry to those in parts of the world that rarely get snow that I can't show you a picture. (No, I'm not going back out in it just to snap a shot.)

Feeling Quotey

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.”

-- Elie Wiesel




“Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.”

-- Scott Adams




“I'm dating a woman now who, evidently, is unaware of it.”

-- Garry Shandling




“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”

-- Albert Einstein





“Don't rely on someone else for your happiness and self worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can't love and respect yourself - no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are - completely; the good and the bad - and make changes as YOU see fit - not because you think someone else wants you to be different.”

-- Stacey Charter




“Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.”

-- Oscar Wilde



“Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'”

-- Charles M. Schulz