Is This All The News You've Got??

Things keep happening at such a pace that I'm having a hard time just keeping up. Since last I wrote the Navy Seals have taken one nasty coward out of the picture. I cannot fathom how a man of his so-called wealth could live in such a primitive mess. Is that what our middle eastern neighbors call a mansion?? It looked more like a ghetto crack house to me. I wonder what he thought when he heard "Knock, Knock". I'll bet he thought it was camel delivered pizza. Well, he did get a nice boat ride for his troubles. Go Seals!In the mean time our boys and girls have been sitting behind their joy sticks and flying those drones right up the bad guys' asses. Next time you cowards go riding across the desert wastelands on your flea-bitten asses just remember that a smart nerd from Iowa may be guiding a missle up your robe covered ass!In the mean time we have had Tornados across the whole country, droughts in Texas, Irene all the way to Maine, and Earthquakes in Washington. I think Mother Nature is showing her displeasure with this clown show of politicians preparing to run for President. Is this the best a country of our size and intellect can muster?? It seems to me that all the whining losers that were in school 30-40 years ago have suddenly become motivated to lead our country. Michelle Bachmann makes Sarah Palin look like a Rhodes Scholar. Newt Gingrich?? Why is that fat-assed little man spending all that money at Tiffanys? Rand Paul. What frigging world did he fall from??The cat from Texas. He has a hunting ranch labelled N*****Head. Does he not know about the world wide web and nosy reporters?? I admit I'm a registered Republican, but this Tea Party crap bewilders and worries me. In good old Kentucky we have David Williams who is running for governor , and whose own wife says he is not likable. She is right. I think Nancy Pelosi is more likable that David Williams.On the other side , the incumbent, Democrat Steve Beshear doesn't have a clue on running the state. We are in a situation called "Between A Rock and A Hard Place".But there is always Gatewood. Then again if you listen to all the Gloom and Doomers we have only to survive until December 21, 2012, when the world is going to end according to an ancient Mayan Calendar. The old guy from California missed the day this spring when it was supposed to have ended. He said it was "Miscalculations".Miscalculations my ass. He recalculated and said it will be this October. They all missed a good chance when the bus sized satelite entered our atmosphere.Funny, NASA can't really tell us where the crap will fall. You'd think these guys were rocket scientists. But they are, aren't they? So everyone is predicting the Armegaddon for next year. Sandy and I were caught in Carmegeddon at the Kentucky Speedway for the Inaugural Big Race. We sat for hours on Highway 35 and finally realized it was in vain, turned around, and watched the boring Kyle Busch show from our own living room. We won't be back for that fiasco. Our Governator is giving millions of dollars of our tax money to make new entrances and exits so that arrogant owner SOB can make millions more dollars. We won't be back to Bristol or go to Charlotte which he also owns.I would almost rather go see Kentucky play football than go back to Kentucky Speedway. But I forgot, its about the same frustration, isn't it? Maybe we should consider changing conferences. How about going to Eastern or Western's conferences. Then everyone could pay the exorbitant prices for tickets and parking and know they're going to a "Bowl". We can be winners. There are some silver linings about having this coach and team. I'm betting there will be good and easy parking around the stadium the rest of the year.We had frost here in Stanford last night ,which seems early. It is only the 2nd of October. I'm sure some fatalist is calculating at this very moment of how this early frost is a key ingredient of next years' end of time and a sign of the future.It may just signify that UK is not going to a bowl this year. I don't know we'll just have to see how it plays out. In more pressing matters Fort Logan is still holding on against the Shawnees , but those damn redskins broke all the windows out of the Visitors Center. The Fort will be rotted by this time next year, but what do you expect for $200,000?

Is This The End Or What?

Well May 21, 2011 came and went without the much anticipated end of time as predicted by the old guy on the West Coast. He had taken out thousands of dollars of advertisements warning the world that the end was emminent, something I don't disagree with. Sandy and I had been invited to a wedding and I declined because this wasn't the last thing on earth that I wanted to participate in.Either she didn't think the world was ending, or maybe that was what she wanted to go out with. Either way Sandy went on to the wedding and I ate Lee's Famous Recipe carryout and watched Nascar's fiasco from Charlotte. It was almost like a condemned mans last meal . The appointed time came and went and we're still here this morning, at least I think I am.As I went to get the papers it struck me that the world has become so shallow and self absorbed that maybe the end of time has already come and maybe the world we know and live in is really what's left. I honestly can't think of many people worthy of moving on. I think maybe the Navy Seals would qualify for sending old Bin Laden where he belongs. I still am amazed at Bin's so called mansion in Pakistan. It looked like an abandoned crack house in Detroit. They said he had spent millions of dollars building that thing. I feel they should have had better housekeeping, and did you see that black and white tv he watched himself on? It's like you gave chimpanzees lots of money and turned them loose. The US rejoices in the departure of the worse human since Adolf Hitler. May they be roommates in Hell. We still have next years Mayan prediction of the end of time in December of 2012. Do we not have better problems than predicting our doom?How in the hell can these experts read these stone carvings and decide that since they show nothing after that day the end comes? Why do we believe this is the end? Maybe the stone carver just got fed up and took a better job. We've all done that. Maybe he was the last carver and they had no replacement. Thousands of years later we Twitter that the end is coming because a neolithic jungle dweller gets bored and quits. Joe Biden would probably sleep through the end of time. Speaking of sleeping ,we went to vote in the primary elections, and I nearly didn't vote for the first time since I was Eighteen. Is this the best the State of Kentucky has to offer?? And the national elections? Newt Gingrich?? Rand Paul?? Where's Ross Perot when we need him? Maybe the end of time looks better all the time. In hindsight I probably should have given more thought to my last acts on earth last night. I actually did call my family to tell them goodby, you know ,just in case. They were in Fayette Mall shopping, something they probably would have chosen as their last act anyway.Today is May 22,2011, and I for one am happy to still be here. It's warm and winter is finally over. Grass is pretty and green . Maybe a good last thing to be doing would be to be cutting grass listening to Fergie at ear melting volume. We need to straighten this mess out that we've created in the last few years. We owe that to the people who made this country the greatest in history, And we need to say that in English

Super Bowl?

Well Super Bowl has come and gone without much interest other than the usual fanfare about commercials.Green Bay playing the Steelers has about as much interest to me as Gonzaga playing Pepperdine , but I'm not much interested in pro football. The commercials reportedly cost $3 million for 30 seconds, which seems a little steep in this day of hardtimes and recessions. I watched some, and came out wondering what these idiots were thinking. What they're thinking is that America is totally a nation of dumbasses. Did somebody really pay a PR company to produce a 30 second spot of a guy getting kicked in the groin over and over again? Or who paid for the chip commercial showing a male sucking another male's finger that had been in a chip bag? What has this country become?? Joan River's head on a smoking young body?? Come on . And does anybody really know what in the hell Go Daddy.com really does? Besides tease you with Danica Patrick?? I did like the VW commercial with the black beetle racing around the other insects with a double white racing stripe. It was entertaining and funny. The half time show was ok since anything with Fergie is ok with me.At least there wasn't a wardrobe malfunction like Janet Jackson, but come to think of it a malfunction of anything of Fergies would have been worthy of replays.The National Anthem ?? Just leave out part of the song and add a thousand syllables to one syllable words. Great job Christina. Why didn't you just sing the song?? Remember Rosanne Barr and her crotch grabbing at the baseball game. There was also a nice flyover of 4 fighter planes over the closed stadium. Another great move. Maybe the four hundred ticket holders who lost their seats got to see the flyover outside as they watched the game on giant screen tvs. Is it any wonder the United States has lost prestige in the eyes of the world? The Egyptians are rioting to change their government and we're kicking young men in the balls in $3 million commercials. Now that Super Bowl is over we can get back to enjoying Winter Storm No. 8 that promises to impact 125 million Americans. We sold three more jobs last week and everything looks great for the upcoming year. The last two years we spent the month of February in Florida, but good sales prevented that this year. I never did find my mermaid anyway.I really miss the thought of all those old painted up Yankee women who blew angry horns at me every time I pulled on the highway. I wonder if they miss me? I honestly never found out what they were honking their big old Buick and Cadillac horns at.I guess they were just missing Detroit and Cleveland. People in Hazard and Harlan are never that impolite as they pass you on the highways.Kid Rock is going to be in concert this coming weekend in Louisville, and I seriously thought about buying tickets, but I felt I would be the oldest male there and I gave up on the idea. As a matter of fact those old bags in Florida should start liking me now because I'm almost as old as they are.I think those old blue haired grannies would really like to see a Kid Rock show.I really miss the Publix grocery stores about as much as anything in Florida, unless it would be the big busted mermaids at Weeki-Waki Springs. I've gotten into Retro rock and can't listen to much in the car with Sandy, as she likes Rod Stewart singing those old songs out of the fifties. Blue Oyster Cult doesn't spin her wheels. Of course retro isn't the appropriate description for the rock I'm currently misbehaving to. Speaking of misbehaving, we've got tickets to the Inaugural Sprint Cup Race at the Kentucky Speedway in July. The only misbehavior I have seen at a Nascar event has been at a fight between two old guys at the Kentucky Speedway. I really think they were from Ohio, but who would know?They were both angry drunks and deserved each others company in jail.That little old Junior Earnhardt had better start winning races this year because he's running out of excuses. There's a whole new crop of speed demons who want to win.I've learned to relike Blondie and the Atomic album. Rapture was way ahead of its time.I saw Bubba Clinton on tv the other night and he looked like hell. Those young trailer trash have gotten the best of him. If Clinton hadn't been President he would have been on the Springer show. Can you imagine Clinton's Baggage when he opened up his suitcase?Johnny Edwards would have been right beside him. Dave has over 2500 friends on Facebook and says he knows them all. Huh??I don't think he has any Amish friends but you never know. Go Dave.It's 11 degrees and headed down.Good Night and it's Hazard tomorrow.

Snow

Okay, I'm getting tired of complaining about the weather. Today it quit snowing and the sun came out for the first time in what seems like months. The only problem is that the high temperature in Stanford/Fort Logan was 20 degrees! At 9 0'clock PM the temperature is hovering at 4 degrees. Funny, tonight's low is supposed to 10 degrees.We went to Versailles this morning and the roads were passable ,but still treacherous. The good news is we have only one more week of January, but the Nocasters are gleefully talking about "The Next Wave" coming from the west. They're thinking by Monday that the storm will hit Atlanta and the South again. Don't you just hate it when Al Gore and the global warming is right? I think that it was more comforting when the citizens of the country could only look outside and figure what the weather was going to be. Times like this makes me think of Aruba , which has Last Summer, This Summer, and Next summer for its seasons.Some people might get bored with continual low-eighty degree temperatures, but not me.There is no need of weather forecasters in Aruba, But come to think of it what good are they to us? Cold days are good for catching up on drawing and the paperwork necessary for the business, and I really enjoy the creative process involved in drafting. Drafting itself is just about a lost art because of CAD, which is computer assisted drawing. I'm a dinosaur because I'm too old to draw on a computer, and obviously I can't type. Therefore I draw. I guess I have drawn a line from here to the moon in the last 33 years, and have used my electric eraser to obliterate half enough to return to earth. There's something comforting about sitting at my drawing table and getting back to basics. Part of the problem at times is being on the cell phone for extended periods. A typical cell conversation will last an hour or more and this just zaps the creative process. The most bizarre effect of Autocad is that companies have nearly stopped selling drafting supplies, and even erasers for the electric erasers are becoming increasingly difficult to buy. Drawing used to be done with big push button lead pointers, and had large lead that was sharpened in a mechanical devices that created beautiful , fragile points. THey had to be sharpened about every 4 or 5 minutes, and had to be the right hardness or they would smear on your vellum(paper). Autocad takes all that out of the equation. A plan drawn by autocad has no personality and is boring. You have to figure out the scale to take anything off the thing, and most of the time the scales are wrong or mislabelled. Someone told me the Cad developers are trying to make changes to the Cad to make the final drawings look more like hand drawn. Why?? Cad drawings are pieces of crap, mostly created by nerds at the direction of lazy architects and designers. Lazy creators create inferior products and often repeat their sorry designs. Cad operators only have to push a few keys to alter one building to the next. Creativity in the design and architectural field is dead in the USA. You have to go to Spain or even Brazil to find truly impressive designs. In the last few years the Administrative Office of Courts for the State of Kentucky has gone on a suicidal task of building new courthouses all over Kentucky. Our leaders have built huge , unbecoming behemoths in nearly every county seat of Kentucky. What these nearesighted spenders didn't comprehend is that all of Kentucky's jails and prisons are falling apart and vastly overcrowded to the point that criminals are given early release , or no sentence at all. It makes sense to sentence the criminals in palaces ,but have no place to incarcerate them. The AOC has gone into old towns and torn down classic old buildings to replace them with monstrosities of poor taste. In Monticello ,Kentucky they built this paragon of ugliness that blends the Adams Family Victorian Mansion with The Jetsons. What a waste of money!In nearby Lancaster the nimrods have created a grand curving brick front with 3 story fluted columns. Never mind that Lancaster has no jail at all, and the rest of the whole town is rapidly falling to ground in rot. There is not even a jail or grocery store in all of Lancaster, and yet they built this multi-million dollar judicial center. It has to make sense to someone, and I would like to know who. Lancaster is scheduled to be completely bypassed in the next five years by the widening of Highway 27. I think that it would be prudent to make a rule that there would be no judicial centers built if there were no grocery stores, and especially if there were no jails.But that would make too much sense in governmental thinking. I read today that New York is testing or trying to see if States can legally go bankrupt to not have to pay the ponderous debt loads that they have accrued. Now doesn't that make you feel comfortable for future services?? I think neighbor Crab Orchard has played with the idea of bankrupcy, and I don't know where this stands, but one thing I do know is that Highway 150 has bypassed the town. RIP Crab Orchard. Now I don't even see your Cobra Gunship as I nonchalantly bypass the old downtown. Brodhead will be bypassed this summer. RIP Brodhead.Maybe I'll be more pleasant and optimistic when Global Warming finally arrives. Come on Al!!

2011 State of Union

I realized that once again time has passed and a new year has begun, which means that my 2011 State of My Union Rant is due.The biggest decision of the moment is what music to listen to as I ramble on into the land of poor grammar, no known idea of what conforms to a paragraph, and the idiotic ramblings of a malcontented, getting older every day, white man. Maybe Enlightment by Van Morrison would be appropriate. Having been to NYC in early December certainly helped 2010 end in a positive note, but then again I'm always happy being in the Big Apple during the Christmas Season. We were lucky enough to come the weekend of Santa Con and the drunken Santas and Mrs. Santas were all over midtown and on the subways. The temperature in New York that weekend approached 60 degrees which only made it worse as we flew west into O'Hare into single digets , and then on to Bluegrass Field into frigid temps and snow. New York has been warmer than Kentucky since December. WLEX Nocaster Bill Meck has been orgasmic over the cold temps. You can see his breathing quicken as he always misses the temperature by 10 degrees. T.G. Shucks over at WKYT is no better and that crackling pre-pubsence voice drives me nuts. At least WLEX has Kristen Pflum to make up for Meck's insane rattlings. I will say that if I was as inept and inaccurate in my business as these weather clowns then I would be broker than I am .I have also gotten smarter this year in the field of New Years Resolutions. Never a fan of resolutions, I always enjoyed watching friends and acquaintances make the silly things, only to back- slide and revert back to their sorry assed old ways by February. My new mantra is to make resolutions that you will enjoy and not break. To wit: my first resolution is to gain as much weight as large volumes of Coca Cola will allow.My second resolution is to leer and ogle at any female that I see fit, and possibly a few that I don't. Lust is not a bad thing. I will not give any advice this year as noone has ever followed it anyway. I will try to buy even more gasoline this year than last, and I will watch even less news this year than in 2010.News is depressing and serves no purpose in my life at the moment.Local government seems to function despite good old boys, and I promise to stay out of that fiasco .Are we still in a recession?? Are we still in Iraq?? Are we still in Afghanistan?? Are the Republicans and the Democrats still bickering? Do we owe $14 trillion dollars? If those answers are yes then this country is still in the same shape as 2010.Maybe someone else should be making decisions. I grow frustrated that we have no smarter people leading this country and helping us regain the prestige we once had. We have dumbed the country down. Speaking of decisions and resolutions, I think the Wildcat football powers should resolve to not schedule any SEC teams next year and only schedule teams like Akron or Austin Peay. That way we can go to endless bowls. Welcome to the Joker Era!!Kentucky plays football like Junior Earnhardt plays Nascar. Speaking of: WE,ve already got our tickets for Sprint Cup at the Kentucky Speedway on July 9.We're not going to Bristol this year ,and hopefully we can see some other tracks. I'd like to go to Sonoma and I think I can persuade my CFO Sandy to consider a Board Meeting in San Francisco about that time. That would be a good resolution.January is almost half over and I have the first three months of this year filled up with some real neat projects. It's a unique feeling to get out of bed and look forward to a day filled with projects that are destined to be outstanding and enjoyable. I came to the realization that I spend money on nothing but liquids. I only buy gasoline,diesel fuel , and soft drinks. My company is fueled on the three and would come to a complete halt if not for the complex interaction of the liquids.I guess the next biggest expense is the strain on my ears as I'm spending a goodly amount of time on the cell phone. I've worn out my Razor V3 and can't get another one. AT&T wants you to buy a cute I Phone and a $30 monthly fee for the internet.Sandy Kay the CFO has the I Phone and Angry Birds. I only want a simple phone.I also resolve to fill my I Pod up this year and I've only got 2600 songs so far. I need to load 8000 more songs in 11 months. I think its doable(is that a word??)We went down to Folly Beach over the week of Christmas and had some outstanding sea food. It was great until mother nature decided to snow . Snow in Charleston is unique , but entertaining. The only difficult time was two hours of glee between Asheville and the Tennessee Line on I-40, when a bunch of scardy cats crept over icy roads. So here we are back and energized in the Bluegrass state ready to cover Eastern Kentucky.I don't think my resolutions are going to be hard to keep, as a matter of fact I will achieve resolution success easier than Joker or Junior. I've already got Fergie and the Peas downloaded from I Tunes and The Beginning is ready for spring grass cutting. I think the Fort successfully withstood Shawnee attack over vthe winter, but Indians have traditionally gone on the war path in the spring. I'll keep you posted.