Category: Uncategorized

  • Where I work

    I work on the couch most days. The local library was the other place that I would work, but currently that branch is closed for repairs and remodeling, which leaves me on the couch for the foreseeable future. It would be nice to have a desk to work at. That last time I had a desk was two years ago before my wife got her current remote job. Since that time, we did away with the old wooden desk, and my wife has more of a rolling/standing desk she uses in the bedroom. Maybe I’ll have a desk again, one day.

    On the whole, I like sitting on the couch. It is comfy, though that can be a disadvantage when I am tired, and it is quite easy to slink over and take a nap. But being in the living room gives me access to the stereo and the TV which is one way I can listen to music while I work, it has turned out rather ideal

    The other nice aspect of the couch office is that I have a window I can look out of. Currently, I have the view of a construction site that is putting up a sixteen-story condo/hotel. The funny thing is that I never see more than five guys working there on any given day. At this rate, it might take them sixteen years to finish it. But even before the construction, it wasn’t the prettiest view out that window. We live in the back of the building, and for years we just had two empty parking lots and autobody shop to look at. Not exactly inspiring, but it was quite most days. Now, there is the sound of a power tools, between 7am and 4pm, Monday through Friday, but outside of that…

    Still rather ideal for writing.

    (Hey! It’s a new week, which means a new chance for you to give a like, or a share, or even leave a comment on this blog. Unless you are reading this from the archive, in that case; Who won the 2024 Election?)

    (It will take some time, but that joke WILL pay off.)

  • The NFL and Cowboy Fans

    There were no Premiere League matches this weekend out of respect for the passing of the Queen, which I expected and feels like the right thing to do. That left me with that other football league: The NFL.

    Just like the last twelve or so years, I’m in a Fantasy Football league with friends. I have posted many times before that I’m not the most current fan of the league, and as such, I let the computer draft a team for me. In my defense, I have won our league twice, and one of the teams had a losing record. So, I’m clueless, or my teams peek at the right time. As we are coming to the conclusion of the first weekend of NFL action, I just might eek out a win. A couple of things need to break my way, but it is possible.

    The other thing that happens during this time of year is that I have a group of friends from college, who are all Dallas Cowboy fans, and we have a group chat that continues during their games. We’ve been doing this chat for sixteen years, and we still have yet to win a Super Bowl…

    And last night on Sunday Night Football, we were all ready to go. Positive that this WILL BE THE YEAR, that the COWBOYS will WIN THE SUPER BOWL!!!

    But it would appear that the Cowboys don’t have a deep threat, which ends up making the Offense pretty vulnerable. Now, the Defense still looked solid. They did hold Tampa Bay to 19 points, which I think included shutting down Brady in the Red Zone three times.

    Oh, and Dak broke his hand and will be out for weeks…

    Super Bowl?

    Ever heard of Cooper Rush? Most people haven’t, and he’s the Cowboys back up QB. Last year he had the game of his life in his one start against the Vikings, in a must win game, and he found a way for them to win. I admit that I made jokes about the guy, and how hopeless the team would be in that game. I was thoroughly shamed by Mr. Rush, and will hold my tongue as he takes over for the rest of the foreseeable season.

    Now, we should get back to the real issue of this team, which is Jerry Jones letting Amari Cooper leave, and not getting a deep threat receiver replacement for him. Yes, I will blame Jerry Jones for any failure on this team, that’s just how I was raised as a Cowboys fan. I do have a feeling that some “dealing” will happen in the next few weeks. I wouldn’t be surprised if Jimmy G shows up, along with some veteran receivers as well. Better late than never, right?

    Man, this could be a long Cowboys season.

  • Memorial Day

    Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

    Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

    But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

    Abraham Lincoln
    November 19, 1863

  • Basic Human Rights

    The story out of Politico shouldn’t have surprised anyone, but somehow we were all surprised by it. Of course, the Conservatives on the Supreme Court were going to overturn Roe; everyone knew this. It’s been their goal for thirty years.

    I do grow very tired of Chief Justice Roberts insistence that the SCOTUS is not a political institution, and is an independent deliberative body. Sadly, the truth is that you are not an independent thinker if your reasoning is completely predictable. That goes for both sides. Its why I want liberals on the court to protect Roe, just like how they want conservative up there to destroy Roe. Again, we all know this. Roberts needs to get with the program.

    Also, if you don’t want to be seen as a political body, then stop doing political shit. The reality of the matter is that there are at least four justices up there that want it to be political. They could have concurred with the lower court’s ruling, but no, they had to her the case. They chose to be political on this matter.

    And this should be the Democrats rallying cry from here on out, but I’m not encouraged. The Democrats will fuck this up. They have just been given a political gift of a major issue to talk about that NOT the economy, and it’s an issue they can win on. If the Dems frame it as “They take away your rights, we defend your rights.” The Roberts court limited voting rights, labor rights, free speech rights, now women’s rights. What could be next? Gay Marriage? Interracial Marriage? Right to Council?

    But they won’t. The Democrats will drop the ball. They already have. Chuck Schumer is already calling for a vote in the Senate so Americans will know where each Senator stands. We already know where everyone stands!!! That does nothing! Why do Democrats keep bringing balloons to the gun fight? Conservatives got the upper hand on this issue by appealing directly to people’s emotions. Not by calling for symbolic votes. Chuck, you gotta start playing the same game, but you won’t. Schumer and the other Democrat leadership will roll out useless gestures and meaningless facts, when they need to be telling people that the house is on fire, because the house really is on fire!

    The implications of this probable ruling are quite simple; Two Americas – Abortion, and Anti-Abortion. There will be states where women can live in liberty with equal rights, and states where liberty is claimed but denied to women. But it won’t end there, for the goal is to defeat all forms of abortion, to where women lose the basic human right to decide if and when they want to get pregnant. The hypocrisy of this possible ruling remarkable in its inability to hide how unworkable it would be in practice. House Divided, remember.

    There is no exception for a basic human right.

  • Skipped Writing (Unedited)

    I thought that I would skip writing today. The kid is on Spring Break, which means that I am “on” the whole day. Add on to that, dealing with our car’s repairs, the laundry, and all the other chores; It just didn’t seem like it would be possible to jot anything down.

    And that was true

    Up to about thirty minutes ago.

    The wife is in bed, the kid is in bed, the dishes are done, coffee is made for the morning, and I am watching the Mavericks play the Jazz.

    Why aren’t I writing?

    I am tired, but I should just get something out.

    And I am having trouble holding on to what it is that I should be doing. Most days I don’t know. Most days, I feel like I am still faking it, like a kid on the first day of junior high. Most days, I feel like I am letting the kid down.

    I try to just keep putting one foot in front of the other, with the hope that I am leading myself in the right direction.

    But most days, I feel like I missed my shot. Most days I feel like I am too late to the party.

    And I try to take these feelings and make something out of it.

    Which is why I am so fucking tired right now, and I should go to bed, but I’m not.

    I’m going to write something, because that makes me feel better.

    And that means something.