Igloos make me laugh

Bullets of Chagrin and Disapointment

I was on an interview in Charlottesville, VA at the University of Virginia once in January of 2001.  The day afterwards, I drove north to Washington D.C. and arrived late in the evening around perhaps 11 pm.  I had the urge to tour but as you can imagine this is not a touring hour.  However, I did find one quite enjoyable activity.  I walked through the inaugeration grounds and setting that was set up for the next days inaugeration of George W. Bush to become our 43rd president. It was pretty exciting knowing that this was the exact location that a major historical event would soon take place. :).  I must say that I was not confronted by anyone and strolled the entire location unrestriced.  I was greeted by perhaps one security officer.  Would this fly today in the Age of Terror?  I don't think so.  But I can say I was near by in time to a part of history. 

One other place I strolled by was the 9/11 site of the World Trade Center probably in 2002 or 2003. I was in New Jersey/ Jersey City for an interview.  After the interview, I hopped on the train and subway and found my way to Lower Manhattan. 

Editing the New York Times

I must say that I am infinitesimally happy to be a reader of the NY Times.  It really is the best newspaper news source around.   I get a copy each day on my kindle and its easy to read, a pleasure to enjoy and a merit to view.   It is always an earnest accomplishment to tell people that you read the Times, especially with the amount of hatred that the Conservative Right Wingers have for this amiable, professional and worthy news source.  I must say that I have tried a good number of papers on my kindle including the Washington Post, Miami Herald, Cleveland Plain Dealer and Boston Globe.  The NY Times is by far my favorite.
So thanks to this amazing publication, I am informed of coming and goings of the USA and the rest of the world.

Cheetos in paradise

My Impression of Mrs. Palin?  Palin has the character of a hot dog salesperson sitting in the balcony of a cheetos convention.  Palin has the reading skills of a trapeze artist smoking marijuana in a thunderstorm on mars.   Palin has the wisdom of a baracuda eating an easter egg for breakfast.  Palin has the diligence of a grateful dead fan sitting on his mothers bed eating rice crispies and smoking a stogie.  Mrs. Palin has the deference of a violin player conducting a symphony in E minor while eating chocolate bars as she dances a hula dance with a waist band that reads "remarkable" around her ear.   I think that Mrs. Palin is about as industrious as a fleetmouse sitting on the balcony of the price is right's show on environmental maladies.   If Mrs. Palin is elected to another higher office, I am going to eat oranges with my nose plugged.  I think that Sarah Palin is about as free of outside influences as a bait store is free from the fish population.  If Sarah Palin dove into a lake that was filled with carp and blue gills, I think that she might break a leg dancing on the bottom of the sea bed as she sips candy apple juice from the front pages of the paper. Why the fish? Becuase she is about that sincere about our future as she is about dancing in a pool of water filled with bait eating blue gills and carp.  I think that Sarah Palin is about as remoreseful about the McCain loss as she is about a refridgerator falling on the blessed age of reason.  Sarah Palin finds pennies in a can of eggdrop soup when she eats cotton candy with a tooth pick at the bottom of the Empire State Building.  If Sarah Palin went to the races she might be able to pick the winner with a safety pin in her nose.   If Sarah Palin went to a horse race, she would pick the winner by sneezing into the crowd and asking for a smile from the announcer of the last days events.   I think that its time to say goodbye from the Top of the Deck to Mrs. Palin's card of presidential eligibility.  Not now. Not forever.  Go cook a moose Sarah. Its time we cook your goose. 

Cut to the chase

Explanation why I have 4 main active blogs and 2 others that to date I am yet to blog upon: 
I realize that many might view my conscription of 4 major blogs as peculiar and in fact, perhaps unwise.  I decided that at the beginning of my blogging experience, I would not be served well by posting all of my content in one single blog.   I have a medical blog (CraigJasonBrennerMD.blogspot.com) that I may in fact use to some capacity for medical endeavors.   I regard the Sir Henry's blog as my side door... the Sir Walter's Backgammon Table as my back door... The Heresy and Good Fortune blog as my attic and the Tulip Patrol Blog as my front yard.  By visiting each of these, you may glimmer a better look upon the house that I have constructed here in cyberspace.  Thanks for being interested and willing to visit more than one venue of interest.  Of course, you can always find links to the various blogs on the right side of the blog under the "About me" column.   

Making Tea in a Better Burger King Store

I bought a good 6 cigars today. I must say that in the last year since I have started smoking these, I am now up to about 4-5 a week.   I am slighlty concerned with Laryngeal CA and marginally concerned with Oral CA.   ASCAD does cause me much consideration.  That said, I am not addicted, but enjoying the great pleasure of a smoke.  I did smoke cigarettes for a few years in college and it was easy to quit smoking.   I did not smoke for a good 16 years until now.  I do however have a small cough that surfaces once a day and I have noticed that my chest feels slightly irritated a bit.  So in that interest, I am predicting a slow down on the smoking which is about once every day or other day during the weekdays.

Shrugging Atlas Shrugged

War and Peace. A good read some have said. I got about 100 pages in, didn't know or understand any of the characters and put the book down.  Perhaps for good? I don't know.  Maybe I'll resurrect it someday. But it wont be any time soon.   I've got more to read than War and Peace.

As for Atlas Shrugged, I read enthusiactically the first 350 to 400 pages of what I remember was about700 pages.  Enthusiactically... But then I put the book down and never picked it up again.  It sat in our house for over 7-9 years.  I eventually picked up the tattered paperback and tossed it in the trash. Thats it. I shrugged Altas Shrugged. Ha Ha Ha.

Planting 60 daffodils on my property.  Lets see how they look in 5 more months!