Skipping Frog - North Texas: July 2011

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

I left the water running in the pool Saturday night... for 10 hours! Yikes!
The Food Network makes my eyes sting.
When did The Learning Channel become mindless reality shows?
We should have seen the coming ever since MTV stopped playing videos and started with The Real World.
It appears people are fed up with the President... finally.
You can't spend your way out fo debt... I know this cause I've tried.
Tomorrow is the changeout of the tail pipe to a muffler on the VW. Going to be hot.

Apparently the fat cats of the Senate are approaching a 'middle of the road' deal on the budget... that means tax raises (along with some cuts).
Many of the deals are long term cuts... long term... really...
Why can't they get it through their heads that you need to cut expenses NOW, otherwise you are just putting ALL OF THIS OFF UNTIL NEXT BUDGET.
This will keep happening until someone has the BALLS to be unpopular and make some serious cuts.
Think like we do... owe too much??? Cut back.
This is so frustrating. I think it will only give more life to the tea party movement.
OK OK I'm done ranting.
I went ahead and bought the VW I've been mulling over (on and off) for the last month. The sellers couldn't find anyone to buy it and offered to have me pay out the balance over time.

Walmart is so ass-backwards right now...
I have a problem spelling certian words no matter how many times I write them. A couple are: handle and resturaunt. (I left them as I spelled them).
I am tiring of the non-stop oven outside. Ready for some rain.
The gutter people still haven't come. That was ok with me since I needed to get some stuff ready for their arrival (painting and replacing of trim).

Action figure I saw at Walmart and right is his look-alike Richard Kiel (Jaws from James Bond).

I spent $600 at Lowes yesterday buying a lot of wood for fix stuff around the house. I also got some tools, water hoses, and concrete. Time to work.
Those commercials for that car the 'ninja' are so retarded. They are so blatantly geared toward young girls and awkard teen boys.
It seems to me that a large portion of women who come to the gym downstairs ONLY come to dump their kids at the daycare so they can have some freedom. I doubt working out is their main goal.
Huge Marketing failure yesterday at work when the new PET scanner failed to show up. All the marketing people standing outside in the 102 degree heat for an hour... priceless.
Chris and Miguel came over yesterday and we shot some pickups for the show.
After that I worked on trim around the house. Today I will be painting.

Mideval Times Dinner and Tournament (next to the hotel we stayed at this last weekend).

The Fort Worth Library thought it was a good idea to make people check out media inside the media room. So you NOW have to stand in 2 lines at the library... way to go government!
Northpark mall is a beat down... too many people.
Saw Super 8 this weekend. I think it was JJ Abram's attempt to remake ET.
I wrote a long post about the economy and the nation's debt issue. You can read it but it basically comes down to this: if YOU have debt you need to rid of, YOU cut back, right? Why can't the government do the same?
We are getting gutters this week. I need to so some 'pre gutter work' before hand. I am guessing I will be doing this at dusk since it's FREAKNIG HOT.

Well, civilization is over. There is a magazine called 'ass' now...

I spent my 4th (daytime atleast) at work catching up on school (and passing my final by answering all but one question right).
I also moved my office.
This weekend I spent Sat and Sun at the rent house working. Lots more to do still.
The electricity there scares me. I am in need of an electrican that's free.
I don't think those exist.
Floated in the pool and watched the fireworks. Been doing this for 4 years now... I think I'm done with it.

To be or not to be... not to be.
The 4th of July is on a Monday... I bet people hate that.
I am looking at doing a lot of work aronud the house (in relation to decks and other wood items).
The sign for CVS is up in Decatur... Walmart is shaking in their boots. I don't know why but they are.
School is going well. It's pretty lame though.
Maybe I should have been a career student or maybe a Senator, they make 174,000 a year!

This is a pic I took of a box for a safe I saw at Walmart. That CD says TPS report... he he he.