Greektown and swim party

Erika is on her way here (sans Jackson). We are going to Greektown when she gets here and then tonight there is a swim party up at the clubhouse. Erika doesn't know it yet but there will be a Karaoke machine at the party and all my neighbors expect to hear from her. I don't know if the weather will be conducive to swimming tonight but the party will be good and I have prepared a batch of whiskey sours.

Then in the morning (when Erika leaves for home) Rita and I are leaving for an overnight gambling trip to Manistee and Little River Casino with a stop at Soaring Eagle (Mt. Pleasant).
Never a dull moment.

What a candidate

I loved, loved John Kerry's acceptance speech.  My favorite line was "Saying mission accomplished, doesn't make it so." I don't remember any lines that I particularly didn't like.  All in all the best convention I ever watched.

Did you see those little little kids of John Edwards.  I thought they said Elizabeth Edwards was 55 years old.  Poor lady.

 

Amazing Last Big Mommie

Thats 4 reality shows that I watched on tape and there was King of the Jungle and Teresa and Obama to watch last night.

Blond mommie is living in dreamland and hasn't a clue.  The married black couple are great in the race.  Marvin is an idiot.  I tried to vote for the last comic.  The voting was supposed to be open until 1 pm eastern time.  When I tried by phone, the line was always busy.  When I tried on line they wanted my name, address, phone and I don't know what all.  When I tried to submit my vote without giving all of that they wouldn't accept it.  Lish.

I liked Obama a lot, shades of Julian Bond (and I don't know what ever happened to him).  I think Teresa will make a very good first lady.

 

Bill and Hillary

What a great job they did at the convention last night.  I would vote for either one of them.  Jimmy Carter was no slouch either.  The commentators didn't even pick up on the parts of Bill's speech that I liked best.  I loved the way he referred to "my tax cut" and how the republicans are protecting his money.  He didn't say "Those fat cats are getting fatter."  He said "Your government is giving me money."  I don't usually watch conventions and always turn off political speeches but I happened upon Jimmy Carter while channel surfing and stopped to watch and kept coming back. 

Soda Pop Fountain

Just like in The Big Rock Candy Mountain.  I had a soda pop fountain in the trunk of my car.  There was a wayward can of diet Pepsi way at the back of my trunk for about 6 weeks.  Everybody who has been in my trunk offered to get it for me and I always said "That's OK".  I knew that I could always get it with my big stick, aka handle of my snow brush/ice scraper.  Yes that is a tool that I leave in the trunk year round rather than get caught in the first snowfall, ice storm without one.

Anyways this morning was the day I chose for the pop can to come out.  Before I loaded my groceries into the car I was going to secure the can and put it into one of the grocery bags to transfer it to the house.  Alas, I used the wrong end of the big stick and the ice scraper punctured the can right in the middle and there it was, the soda pop fountain.  It was so pretty that I just stared at it for a while before common sense took over and I scooped it out and on to the ground to continue its fountainish properties.  The offending scraper redeemed itself when I was able to scrape up the pop residue from the bottom of the trunk pretty well with it.

Now, I think a little Fabreeze will take care of the rest of the problem.

King of the Jungle

I just came across, quite by accident, a reality show on the Animal Planet channel called King of the Jungle.  They ran two episodes and I enjoyed them.  The king was selected by feat of strength competition and then king chose two people to be up for elimination.  Those two people then enter a competition encompassing speed (first one to push the buzzer type thing) knowledge (answer right you get a shot, answer wrong, your opponent gets a shot) and intuition.  The shot you get is to choose the proper rope to sever that will topple your opponent's amulet.  I see that it is also on for two hours tomorrow, but I don't know if those will be new episodes or reruns of today's. 

I tried looking up the show on the Yahoo TV site but its not even listed either alphabetically or under reality shows (Man there are a lot of reality shows listed).  At least that is one of the channels that my TV Guide does list so I can watch for it in the listings.  It was an OK show but if it interferes with anything else I like, its out.

Honorable discharge

I don't know where this went previously. 

Jeannette had surgery on her foot about 5 weeks ago and I have been picking up the slack for her daughters in the caregiving department Today I have been discharged from my quasi-care-giver duties.  Her doctor took the pins out of her toes today.  She can drive next Saturday and can go back to work a week from Monday.

On the way home we stopped for lunch at the Pizza Hut Lunch Buffet.  It was very good, a lot like the pizza buffets at Cici's but I'll bet it cost more and didn't include the beverage.  While I was eating my salad Jeannette was describing in detail the process of removing the pins and said "I'll have to show you these toes."  And I'm thinking "not if I can help it."

I am doing this as an edit and not as a new post so we'll see how (or if) it goes up.

I just tried the spell check on this.  It gives you suggestions but doesn't highlight what it wants to change it for.  I don't know what words they wanted to change for crucifying and Chicago but I told them never mind. 

 

Back on time

Erika just walked me through changing the time stamp to reflect my correct time.  I know I said it wasn't important but it stayed in the back of my mind.  Its a burden when the back of your mind doesn't agree with the front of your mouth.

Back up to speed

OK, I had to get up early but I have watched all my tapes and it turned out I was just as able to get caught up in the suspense of them all.  My senior momentum kicks in nicely.  I was worried about the last two couples in the Race and when the married couple came in 9th, my mind said "Oh yeah, its the father-daughter team that was out."

Which one is Eraserhead I can't tell the two bimbjoks apart.  But they have to keep Holly out of the diary room cause I can't stand that voice. 

I nobody else watching the next action hero.  I can't stand that Jerrod is still there.

 

address avalanche

About a week ago Marcel forwarded an email with an article about anti-terrorism and requested that we let him know what we thought about it.  I formed a shareable couple of sentences and proceeded to click on reply to all.

AOL in their infinite windom, trying to make my life easier, and knowing that I was too stupid to add the addresses of my friends and associates to my own address list, they auto added every single address Marcel had sent to.  They didn't add them all in a bunch so they would be east to spot and delete.  They interspersed them alphabeticly among my real addresses so it would take me about 20 minutes to find them all and delete them.

 

Good Grief

I can't leave you people alone for five minutes.  There is a blogging epidemic.  I love it.  I just got back from Kewadin about 2 hours ago and my first thought was "What's there to eat?" (question mark inside the quotes too?)  (inside the parentheses?) (Who's Ben Franklin?)
 
After checking emails and blogs I haven't thought about snacking for 2 hours.  This is going to be great for my diet plan.
 
Kewadin was worderful.  We took a vote on the bus to make a stop at Hessel (A barn size small casino in the Kewadin chain) and that meant another $10.00 voucher.  I managed to spend all the money they gave me and only $15.00 of my own so the trip was a great success.
 
They reopened the Paradise Room which, due to fire damage, had to be revamped.  I expected some major revamping with better machines and more ticket machines, but not so.  I was very disappointed but managed to have a little fun.
 
The time and date stamp on my posting page is set for pacific time.  I don't know why.  I know I can change it but it doesn't stay changed so the heck with it.

gambling for comments

I was so excited to see that I had comments.
 
Now I have to take a couple of days off to go to Kewadin.  I'm very excited about that too. 
 
Tell you all about it when I get back

Blogging responsibilities

There are a lot of responsibilities to keeping a blog.  You can't say everything you feel, like a stream of consciousness because you never know who is going to be reading it.  I don't expect this to be read by anyone who doesn't love me or at least like me a lot.
 
Not having a baby to share or a wedding to plan I will have to write of mundane things.  Like liability. 
 
After the company I had last weekend, my downstairs toilet was running slugishly.  After putting up with it for 4 days and realizing that it was not going to correct itself I called maintenance.  Maintenance guy showed up on Friday just before noon when I was going to leave for the clubhouse for bi-weekly Dominos.  As he walked into the half-bath he promptly clunked his head on the wall cabinet.  I mean he hit that sucker hard.  I didn't want to leave the house in case he passed out or something.  The first thing he said is "What is that doing there"? 
 
A perfectly good question because we are not supposed to attaching large objects to our walls.  Bill put that cabinet up for me when he built the changing table while Marisa was living with me as a baby.  Its an old kitchen cabinet with the doors removed so it becomes a shelving unit so to speak.  It was to store diapers and baby things and has continued to be of great service thoughout the years. 
 
Being a short person it has never presented a problem to me.  But now what is running through my mind is Why did I ever cancel my renter's insurance.  Sure I saved $75.00 a year  but are those savings going to be enough to cover this guy's lawsuit.
 
He did go about his business and I did leave the house before he had finished his plunging so I did not see his parting condition or hear his parting comments.   But the toilet works great again.
 

Blog Deux

OK, this is the second blog that I will probably not be using.