Today I'll be heading off to Walter's after work to pick him up so that he can come out and pick up his car. The windshield repair people will be here during the day to fix the trim that was broken when they put the new windshield on his car. Hopefully they will do better this time.
I'll be running out during a late lunch today to take Sean to the orthodontist to pick up his retainer. It is going to be a quick trip. - This didn't work out today, Sean has a case of bronchitis and was out at the doctor this morning. This had to get pushed back another week.
I was late getting out tonight and when I picked Walter up he and I head out for a bite to eat before heading to the house. We had a very nice meal at Chili's - I hadn't been there before and they had a very nice atmosphere and great food.
Poor Walter is going to be taking a First Aid class at work today. He really doesn't want to do it. He is almost pouting. He said he would, "Rather be cutting line in Fluvanna". That's dedication to doing the work and surely a sign that he really, really doesn't want to take a first aid class. I told him he could pout and protest (wear a sticker on his shirt that says, "I'd rather be cutting line in Fluvanna") but he still had to go.
The repair that they made on his car was excellent. He is quite happy with it.
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Thought for the Day: “Where else but in America could the women’s liberation movement take off their bras, then go on TV to complain about their lack of support?” —Bob Hope
I'll be running out during a late lunch today to take Sean to the orthodontist to pick up his retainer. It is going to be a quick trip. - This didn't work out today, Sean has a case of bronchitis and was out at the doctor this morning. This had to get pushed back another week.
I was late getting out tonight and when I picked Walter up he and I head out for a bite to eat before heading to the house. We had a very nice meal at Chili's - I hadn't been there before and they had a very nice atmosphere and great food.
Poor Walter is going to be taking a First Aid class at work today. He really doesn't want to do it. He is almost pouting. He said he would, "Rather be cutting line in Fluvanna". That's dedication to doing the work and surely a sign that he really, really doesn't want to take a first aid class. I told him he could pout and protest (wear a sticker on his shirt that says, "I'd rather be cutting line in Fluvanna") but he still had to go.
The repair that they made on his car was excellent. He is quite happy with it.
Email & Newsletter Gleanings
Thought for the Day: “Where else but in America could the women’s liberation movement take off their bras, then go on TV to complain about their lack of support?” —Bob Hope
Ant & Grasshopper
*OLD VERSION*:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or
shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or
shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!
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*MODERN VERSION:*
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving. CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, and everybody cries when they sing, "It's Not Easy Being Green." Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the group singing, "We shall overcome". Jesse then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake. Nancy Pelosi & John Kerry exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.
Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity and Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of The summer. The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government.
Hillary gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper in a defamation suit against the ant, and the case is tried before a panel of federal judges that Bill Clinton appointed from a list of single-parent welfare recipients. The ant loses the case. The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around him because he doesn't maintain it.
The ant has disappeared in the snow. The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving. CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, and everybody cries when they sing, "It's Not Easy Being Green." Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the group singing, "We shall overcome". Jesse then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake. Nancy Pelosi & John Kerry exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.
Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity and Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of The summer. The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government.
Hillary gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper in a defamation suit against the ant, and the case is tried before a panel of federal judges that Bill Clinton appointed from a list of single-parent welfare recipients. The ant loses the case. The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around him because he doesn't maintain it.
The ant has disappeared in the snow. The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote
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