White Lightning Axiom: Redux

You've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with the 3's of YOU. At the end, choose 26 people to be tagged. You have to tag me so really you just need 25 more people. If I tagged you, it's because I want to know more about you - but not in a creepy stalker kind of way.

To do this, go to "notes" under tabs on your profile page, paste these instructions in the body of the note, type your 3's, tag 26 people (in the right hand corner of the app), then click publish. OR ... go to blogspot, post it and hope that the note transfer works right.

Three Names I go by:

1. Sir
2. Yes Sir
3. How may I serve you .... Sir

Three Jobs I have had in my life:

1. Ditch Digger
2. Teacher
3. Malcontent

Three Places I have lived:

1. Earth
2. Daydreams
3. Virtual Reality

Three Favorite drinks:

1. Scotch
2. ummm ....
3.

Three TV programs that I watch:

1. Whatever the kids are watching
2. Whatever the wife is watching
3. 'One Moment Please'

Three Places I Have Been:

1. I've been everywhere, man.
2. Rt 66
3. A very scary place behind my frontal lobe

Three People that e-mail me regularly:

1. Viagra Vendors
2. Nigerian Princesses
3. I email myself ... a lot

Three of my favorite foods:

1. Beans
2. Broccoli
3. Cabbage ... yeah, my innards are a friggen toxic waste dump!

Three friends I think will respond:

1. No-body loves me
2. Every-body hates me
3. I'm gonna eat some wooo-ooormmms!

Three things I'm looking forward to:

1. Spooning with the mrs
2. Hanging with the spawn
3. TSD Practice

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Stolen without malice from MetroDad:

HER FIRST PAYCHECK

Here's a truly heartwarming story about the bond formed between a little 5-year-old girl and some construction workers that makes you believe that we CAN make a difference when we give a child the gift of our time.

A young family moved into a house next door to a vacant lot. One day, a construction crew turned up to start building a house on the empty lot.

The young family's 5-year-old daughter naturally took an interest in all the activity going on next door, and spent much of each day observing the workers.

Eventually the construction crew, all of them gems-in-the-rough, more or less adopted her as a kind of project mascot. They chatted with her, let her sit with them while they had coffee and lunch breaks, and gave her odd little jobs to do here and there to make her feel important.

At the end of the first week, they even presented her with a pay envelope containing a couple of dollars. The little girl took this home to her mother who said all the appropriate words of admiration, and suggested that they take the two dollar "pay" she had received to the bank the next day to start a savings account.

When they got to the bank, the teller was equally impressed and asked the little girl how she had come by her very own pay at such a young age. The little girl proudly replied, "I worked last week with the crew building the house next door to us."

"My goodness gracious," said the teller, "and will you be working on the house again this week, too?"

The little girl replied, "I will, if those assholes at Home Depot ever deliver the mother fucking sheetrock!"




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You Are 85% Conservative, 15% Liberal

Social Issues: 75% Conservative, 25% Liberal Personal Responsibility: 75% Conservative, 25% Liberal Fiscal Issues: 100% Conservative, 0% Liberal Ethics: 75% Conservative, 25% Liberal Defense and Crime: 100% Conservative, 0% Liberal

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Not a lot to add to the Haupertonian Chronicles today. Although, I usually do not post on Friday. Given that; standard fare, yesterday presented. Although, the TSD adult class was a real hum-dinger. Almost everyone in the class was as sweaty as I typically am. Even the Circle Sparring was invigorating. At the end of class, one of the participants, Sgt Awesome, announced that she would be riding in the MS-150 and is looking for donations. I immediately pulled out $20 and demanded that the rest of the crowd 'Man up!'. I gave her some tips and thanked her. She, of course, noted that although it would be warm, it could not be any worse than her tour of duty in Afghanistan.

More cheap meme cruft:

Welcome to the new 2008 edition of getting to know your family and friends. Here is what you are supposed to do, and try not to be lame and spoil the fun. Change all the answers so that they apply to you. Then [send this to a bunch of people you know, INCLUDING the person who sent it to you] post it. Some of you may get this several times; that means you have lots of friends. Have fun and be truthful!

1. What is your occupation right now? I write software so you can watch cable television.
2. What color are your socks right now? Black as my soul
3. What are you listening to right now? 100 code monkeys rattling away on the keyboards
4. What was the last thing that you ate? Oatmeal ... damn cholesterol
5. Can you drive a stick shift? Not without grinding gears
6. Last person you spoke to on the phone? My Scrum Team
7. Do you like the person who sent this to you? Certainly!
8. How old are you today? 1,274,869,412 seconds old give or take
9. What is your favorite sport to watch on TV? Curling
10. What is your favorite drink? The Ultimate Long Island Ice Tea in the Disney Contemporary Resort Bar ... 3rd floor.
11. Have you ever dyed your hair? Sun bleach only.
12. Favorite food? Easier to say I do not like raw swiss cheese, avocados and olives
13. What is the last movie you watched? Kung-Foo Panda
14. Favorite day of the year? Every day I wake up next to the Mrs
15. How do you vent anger? Vicious Lawn Work
16. What was your favorite toy as a child? The Mississippi
17. What is your favorite season? Spring
18. Cherries or Blueberries? Certainly!
19. Do you want your friends to e-mail(blog) you back? Is there any doubt that I am an extrovert?
20. Who is the most likely to respond? Everybody wants to be a cat! (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!?)
21. Who is least likely to respond? Friggen Dick Nixon ... he is such a ... well.
22. Living arrangements? Domestic Warrior, Working Dad, Leader of the Horde. The Manor needs me to fill all the roles.
23. When was the last time you cried? I'm a bit of a pansy, but I read this story. If it does not move you, you are already dead inside.
24. What is on the floor of your closet? New Toys for the Children.
25. Who is the friend you have had the longest {that you are sending to}? The Mrs.
26. What did you do last night? Swim with kid, TSD with kids, Snuggle with Kids ... trend?
27. What are you most afraid of? I fear what I may do if someone got between my family and myself.
28. Plain, cheese, or spicy hamburgers? HAMBURGER!!!! 9lb, please.
29. Favorite dog breed? Labs: Big, dumb, happy, loyal Labs.
30. Favorite day of the week? Sunday
32. Diamonds or pearls? Bleck ... I'm more of a Carbon Steel sort of guy.
33. What is your favorite flower? Morning Glory.

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Labels: Children, meme, Multiple Sclerosis, Swimming, TSD

Ok ... preoccupied today with work. Go figure. Yesterday I went out to lunch again (gasp!) ... and proceeded to burn 8$ on a sushi buffet. I think I got my money's worth, but I may have accidentally eaten one of the chop-sticks. Other than that, I just received another set of medical forms to fill out for more voluntary torture. You know, I try to stay in the network of doctors and such that are associated with the Mega-Hospital here and they just don't seem to be able to share this data. Stupid HIPAA making my writing hand cramp up and all. But whining is what I do best, you know. Some real top-shelf grousing here, cheap! Hmmm, what else ... oh, the Tyrants and I did some firefly hunting ... they were quite enthusiastic about it ... even though they are now allowed to exercise their 2nd amendment rights, they chose to use nets instead of the suppressive firepower of heavy weaponry. Tend not to catch much in the way of bugs when you start to bring out the napalm, oddly enough. Hrm, yes. TSD; good. Ghengis had to do a bazillion pushups though. Swimming; equally good except for me having to explain to Attila why she cannot wear a bikini even though the sufficiently robust young lady who was in the pool was wearing one. No, the facility rules say otherwise hon ... and I'm making some extra rules to boot.

Now, the meme for the day. Got this from Deb-Deb who got it from Liz:

1. Post 3 things you've done in your lifetime that you don't think anybody else on your friends list has done.
2. See if anybody else responds with "I've done that."
3. Have your friends cut & paste this into their journal to see what scandalous unique things they've done in their life.

1. Held my twin newborns in the delivery room and told the Mrs that they are just as beautiful as her.
2. Stood on an expanse of land that is the family farm and could see no-one as far as the horizon. Really, truly, alone.
3. Was told by a doctor that I would most likely be in a wheel chair within 10 years. That was 12 years ago. I'm going to be testing for my black-belt in Tang So Doo early next year.

Sure it's not extraordinary, but hey, it's my story.

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Been a bit preoccupied so I present you with this random meme filler:

fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too

Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.

i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnr d waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

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Real quick now ... busy day. First off, there was nothing extraordinary to report yesterday (read: mundane) except for one of the younger children in TSD had a bit of a bladder control problem. It happens, and for some reason, I'm always the one to spot it first and 'leap into action'. I shovel worse on a daily basis. The hardest part is trying to make sure that the perpetrator is not ridiculed by the class. I have to remind some of them that they were in that situation not too long ago and I'm sure they did not appreciate the scorn of their peers. Helping them develop a little empathy is an eternal Sisyphian task. They can be pugnacious little buggers, but when that light-bulb goes off they tend to become quite introspective.

Now, for the memes. First off, you see my desk-top there, right? NervusRex did not tag me, but I hijacked it anyways. Like my icons? So pretty ... Ahem, yes. And then there is Blinders Off with her 'Real Age' test. I took the test, and it seems to me that it is rather insensitive to the MS question, but I'll take the results any day. Apparently, I've got another 60 years to climb through. Not too shabby I suppose, but it did not seem to ask the 'cancer' question.

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Friday asks for muttering ... mumble ... grumble ...

1. Stuffed :: Meals with more than one course
2. Gills :: Fishing for Northern Pike with Dad on Lake Minnewaska
3. Distance :: High-school geometry
4. Panties :: Wha? Animal House.
5. Checkered :: flag ... Cars, watching with Jakers ...
6. Fill in :: Holes in the dirt ... planting season ya know.
7. Taunting :: My daughter ... in Karate ... she KNOWS I won't break formation
8. Diner :: Gut-ache
9. Pizza :: Thursdays ... cold by the time I get home.
10. Best friend :: Who knows not, but assumes as much.

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Fortunate for me, Sharon the Snow Flake tagged me or I would have nothing to blog about!

1. Do you put up a real tree or artificial? Only the best for you babe ... real.
2. When do you put up your tree? 1st Saturday after Thanksgiving or the next weekend.
3. When do you take down the tree? Take down? Ummm, when the needles are gone.
4. Do you like eggnog? Yes Spiked or not? Yep, by the gallon ... of rum!
5. Favorite gift received as a child? Electric train ... Poor, poor Nell.
6. Worst Christmas gift ever received? Underwear ... womens.
7. Favorite Christmas movie? Come ON! Christmas Story!
8. Have you ever recycled a present? Once ... booze. I can only drink so much!
9. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? DATE LOG!
10. Favorite Christmas song? Great Alleluia. You know, I remember all the words!
11. Most annoying thing about this time of year? These days? Lack of the requisite 7 foot snow drifts.
12. What you love most about the holiday? The gestalt and how my children enjoy it.
13. How many reindeer did Santa have? Does it matter? They were all delicious!
14. Best Christmas memory? Hint: It has to do with food and drink.
15. If you could have one Christmas wish what would it be? That the joy would not get stale.

I am tagging Diane, Liz and Brain Cheese

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Well, Sharon da snowflake tagged me. Tagged me real good. So, what things can I dig up that I have not squawked about yet?

1) I'm one of those EEEVILLL NeoCon Republicans you hear so much about. Just ask my Tyrants; Ghengis and Attila. Carl Rove fears us; we may conquer the world before he gets to it.

2) Most people who meet me in real life SWEAR that I'm a vegetarian ... until they see me in action on the weekends. Meat Train Collision! I once ate a 220 oz cowboy ribeye steak in one sitting.

3) I've never left the US ... except twice to Canada. That's like kissing your cousin though, really does not count.

4) I used to run marathons, triathlons, teach aerobics, lift weights ... now I mow the lawn and incessantly chase my children about. I get more exercise that way.

5) Given the choice of cold weather vs hot ... I would prefer to live in 60 degree Fahrenheit and would be ok down to -60. Ice fishing anyone?

6) I'll eat anything, but I'm not a big fan of olives, swiss cheese and pickles. Pass the haggis and an extra helping of fried jelly fish please.

7) I'm 6'10" tall and 190lb of Adonis bronzed muscle with long locks of golden hair cascading down my muscle-bound back.

8) I'm an unabashed and chronic liar ... good skill set for bloggers and politicians.

Who to tag ... who to tag?
Joan, Maggsbunny, Dave, MsShad, and Jaws

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Got this from Deb-Deb ... she taught me a lot about drinking ...
98%ALCOHOLIC

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Wow ... its a dull day. YES! Because of my intense and unabating dedication, I get 4 hours of 'reward' time from work and a 'under the desk' award of 8 hours. I'm soooo going to use that. The 1st 4 is going to be used by sleeping in for an hour every day this week. Mmmmm. I end up getting in 45 minutes late (15 minutes is gained by less traffic) so it will last nearly all 5 days. Every day will be the same: Get up w/o an alarm clock, drop off kids (take care of dogs if the mrs does not), go to work and slouch through meetings making snarky remarks, then pick up the Tyrants for swimming, then Karate, and then adult Karate ... dinner, bath for twins, shower for me and off to bed. Ahhhhh, normality. Of course, there is that hiccup in my plan called Halloween. Always something, eh? Oh, and the singular notable event yesterday was the celebration on the behalf of the twins for them eating their entire lunch. With all the candy floating about, it's amazing that they are not swimming in a sugar stupor.

On a completely unrelated note, a meme from Jaws

10 Reasons why 2008 will be a Better Year

10. Like cheese, wine and sweat socks, I only get better with time.
9. My POS Saturn SL1 will be over 10 years old and still running ... woot!
8. I'll be hitting the 40 mark ... my doctors never expected me to get this far.
7. The Tyrants will be finishing phase 7D-12 of the global conquest plan.
6. My normal weight is now below 190 ... I'll be working on the 1lb/month plan
5. Our debt reduction plan should bear fruit.
4. The Tyrants will start 1st grade ... which means UNIFORMS
3. We will vacation closer to home this year ... probably Hershey again.
2. The Zoysia grass is taking over the lawn quite nicely.
1. Another year with my lovely family.

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I'll probably catch hell for this, but I don't think anyone out there would be all that surprised about my views.

	Fred Thompson Score: 41	Agree Iraq Immigration Taxes Stem-Cell Research Health Care Abortion Social Security Line-Item Veto Death Penalty	Disagree Energy Marriage
	Duncan Hunter Score: 41	Agree Iraq Immigration Taxes Stem-Cell Research Health Care Abortion Social Security Line-Item Veto Death Penalty	Disagree Energy Marriage
-- Take the Quiz! --

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Taggage courtesy of Maggs-Bunny:

This is the What’s In A Name Meme started by Two Moms In A Blog. I was tagged by Maggie from Maggsbunny.

My name is: Mark

MARK [Pronunciation - Mmmmm Arc ... like a dog with a hair-lip]
It means: From the God Mars
Its origin: Latin
Additional info - English form of Marcus. Saint Mark the Evangelist is traditionally believed to be the author of the second Gospel (Gospel of Mark) and a companion of Peter. A famous Roman bearer of the name was Mark Antony (Marcus Antonius), politician and general, also the lover of Cleopatra[Ed The Mrs is not going to like that!]. In the Medieval tale "Tristan and Isolde", King Mark is the aged ruler of Cornwall to whom Isolde is brought as a bride by Tristan. His name though was presumably of Celtic origin, perhaps derived from the element march 'horse'. This was not a particularly common name in the Middle Ages but was more frequent use by the end of the 16th century.[Ed. GHAAA ... that was a bit much!]

I am tagging: pb; MsShad; BrainCheese

If you have been tagged, copy and paste all of this - from the image to the end of the instructions - into a blog post. Then, change the information to match your name and tag three other bloggers. If you don’t know what your name means, you can try looking it up on Baby’s Name World.

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Linda tagged me for this Meme ... she shall wail and gnash her teeth.

INSTRUCTIONS: Remove the blog in the top spot from the following list and bump everyone up one place. Then add your blog to the bottom slot, like so:

1) Meaning of Loaf/Cherry Ride (I got tagged twice-I feel SO popular!!!)
2) I'm Not Carrie Bradshaw
3) Behind Blue Eyes
4) BrainCheese
5) White Lightning Axiom: Redux

Select five people to tag:
1) MsShad
2) Maggsbunny
3) MS Not Just A Diary
4) Some Nameless Chick
5) Sancho Knotwise

Q:What were you doing 10 years ago?

Wondering when the Honeymoon was going to end and trying to fill a fairly large and empty Manor.

Q: What were you doing 1 year ago?

Spinning, upside down, in a minivan, with my family watching my life flash before my eyes as glass, gasoline and metal showered down around me.

Q: Five snacks you enjoy:

1) Animal
2) Vegetable
3) Some minerals
4) Pencil Erasers - chewy & gritty, like sandy clams!
5) Twinkies

Q: Five songs that you know all the lyrics to:

1) "Manamana" by Muppets/Sesame Street Puppets
2) "Little Bunny Fu-fu" by various artists
3) The wheels on the bus go round and round.
4) Who stole the cookie from the cookie jar
5) Ring of fire (heh ...) Johnny Cash

Q: Five things you would do if you were a millionaire:

1) Begin a campaign to impeach BrainCheese
2) Engage in 1$ bill paper cut mortal combat with George Soros
3) Use interest to top off my ONE BILLION DOLLARS
4) Corner the polyurethane market
5) Only eat beef jerky, spam and ramen noodles ... so I can be called 'eccentric' instead of just plain 'weird'.

Q: Five bad habits:

1) Pride
2) Avarice
3) Lust
4) Envy
5) Wrath, Gluttony, Sloth, ... Aw heck, just say 'TV'

Q: Five things you like doing:

1) Splitting Wood
2) Civilization III - Warlords Edition
3) Tooting ... in elevators, and blaming my wife.
4) Propping up the broccoli and peas in my mashed potatoes and pretending I'm Godzilla eating a forest.
5) Using the EZPass lanes on toll-roads and gloating about it.

Q: Five things you would never wear again:

1) More than 7 thing attached to my belt.
2) Boxers ... agoraphobia?
3) The shackles of fascist Oppression
4) Conductive materials
5) Velvet pants

Q: Five favorite toys:

1) Fireworks ... I still have enough fingers left.
2) Compound circular miter saw ... see above.
3) Electricity ... again, see above
4) Lawn mower ... trending?
5) The Mrs' credit cards, how do you thing I get all these toys?

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Wellp, I'm alive. Since I am a clarion of all that is sane, I was asked (rather: tagged) by my fellow GRWC member; 'Why I blog?'. Most likely, why have I not been blogging. So, why do the netizens deign to read my infantile scrabblings, I know not why. Why do I cavort and prance like a fool upon the blogosphere stage?

1) I am actually a 14 year old girl pretending to be a middle age man. You know, because that's totally hot!

2) It costs a lot less than court ordered therapy.

3) Being a toper and sybarite of unparalleled ferocity, I unleash my drunken fury upon the sober community through this medium instead of the general public during my month long benders.

4) AlexC, master of 100 blogs, tried to distract me with this rivulet of tripe.

5) Going forward: Deb-Deb, Miss Chris, BrainCheese, Cottontimer, Very Preggers MaidInk.

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Though the prompting of the ever vigilant Mrs Tyron, I give you this:

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