I was thinking on the drive home today...
how it's been forced upon us by the media that we have it soooo bad. Times are rough. Economy's bad. Can't pay the bills. 401K's down.
Yet...
I see so many newer model vehicles on the road than ever in history. Eating out is a minimum once a week. Everyone has cable TV. EVERYONE AND THIER KIDS have a cell phone. Most have computers with internet. What else? Times are bad.
There are people currently collecting unemployment and welfare that have more than most of us did growing up. Seriously.
I don't remember my parents buying new cars. Eating out was a treat. They took leftovers to work the next day. Does anyone eat leftovers anymore?
Yeh, times are hard now.

We're at a small bump in the road. Everyone's been living the high life for so long...including me.
QUIT COMPLAINING THAT TIMES ARE ROUGH!

Gotta go. Gotta go watch cable on my flat screen.

Pumkin' Carvin' '08

Where's Monkey?

Bubba's been grounded for some of his grades recently. I was just thinking how fitting the costume is.

"I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator." -Barack Hussein Obama

"Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties. " -Abraham Lincoln

It's gonna be a hot dog day

YouTube - Mickey Mouse Clubhouse HOT DOG Song

Our family's new theme song.

Keith and I finished the fence. 137 pickets. I took a shot in the dark and bought 140.

Monkey for President?

It'll be a dirty race

It was a good day

bad grades
insurance thieves
lunch money gone
fence unfinished
project deadline
bills
roof damage
illegitimate contractors
ragweed high
Obama
still a good day, though

Posts are mounted. 1st step completed.

Monkey takin' a stroll.

5 posts in. 1/3 of the way there.
The roof contractor, insurance company, and mortgage company are in negotiations. I managed to get them all on the phone at once. Let them battle it out.
I'll build the fence.

Started on the fence replacement today. Turned out to be fun. I have a plan and cost estimate. Long way to go. Shoulda hired a few undocumented workers to dig the holes though. That's the worst part.

Almost forgot about the state of our nation this weekend...almost. No Wall Street tomorrow. Thank God.

Bubba and Monkey

Somehow managed to stay up way past bedtime without me noticing.

Tune-Up

I did the $150 dealer tune-up myself tonight. It's fun. Everything on this bike comes off with an Allen head wrench. Kinda hard to get the oil filter out, though. Japanese hands put it in there. Found where the mouse was living last winter...on the crankcase.
Fixed the idle problem. Runs like brand new.

TV coincidentally went out during Ike. It wasn't left plugged in. It's only 17 years old? Anyway, got our use out of it. I broke down and bought a liquid crystal flat screen. I'm amazed with it. Andi's cousin, Greg has a HUGE, badass, LG. After seeing the quality of that brand and the features, versus any of the others, I already had decided that's what I wanted. Only much, much, smaller. Plus, his company (TI), I think, makes the chips that go in them...and I have a few shares of TI stock, too.
I love this TV. I don't even watch TV. I spent four hours in front of it Friday night.