Sods and Clods

I'm wondering how long it will take will take before they get to the Dr. Suess reference about the Grinch. And I wonder who will use it first.

You can read more at this link: http://english.epochtimes.com/news/5-12-20/36004.html


I haven't read the article yet but I trust the opinion of Epoch times and I liked the picture.

Happy reading and have a happy holidays.

Lenard J.

Pathetic

No, not me! The freaking New York Transportation Union. Going on strike. Taking thier toys and not letting anyone else play.

A major inconvience for those of you that need to get into the city. I guess the last days of 2005 for me and my Ol' Lady will be of us walking. I think we'll hit the used book store that's relatively close by. I'm in the hunt for Dune 2.

Then after tomorrow I'll be homeward bound to the west coast for 2 weeks. I'm hoping that the MTA and Union will get their asses together and come up with something. I'm hoping that the MTA breaks the union. Fire them all and hire new employees. I'm hoping. It's christmas, one can hope can't I?...

On second thought that might not be a good thing as we will have a whole new crop of panhandlers for 2006. The Union employees are only qualified (barely) to do their existing job and most likely nothing else... I can't help but think of this one Union worker I saw a while back. He seem to be studying to be a conductor. I can just see it now... All jazzed up to finally be able to drive a train only to not drive because of the strike... and to get fired because the strike is illegal. To want something so bad and yet be held from it because the "union" won't let you work. Plus why balk now? It seemed to be a good job then, what changed now?

Ironies of ironies the "strikers" are striking for employees that aren't even hired. They are battling for future hire-ees. They are complaining only to complain. Let the future union workers negotiate for their contract once they become Union members... And there will be new employees count on it. The MTA is the holy grail baby!...

Plus the Union want something else that's completely assinie from the MTA... Respect... How much does that cost? And you know what they say..."respect is earned, not given".

To get the union to get back to their subpar performance all the city/MTA has to do is start offering applications. Once the Union see the lines that will wrap up and down the city and around the blocks they will realise their stupidity. I mean how hard can it be? half of the Union workers barely speak english, they always seem half asleep, they are like 70 pounds overweight, they always drive the subways like it's their first time (very rarely a smooth ride) and they are never helpful. And of course the Union is pissed off because they didn't get their "piece" of the Pie (the MTA has a billion dollar surplus). And that surplus is no surplus.

They increased the fees a while back and the increase just took them by suprise. Give them a year and they will figure how to be in debt again (by giving it to the union and giving into their demands).

Bastards! As usual it hurts the people that can least afford this crap. But who the F* cares. Dog eat dog right? I'm sick of this crap. Break the union Please!

Cripes! that's all i can say... Looks like we got to call the FoB's of golden carriage taxi for a car ride to JFK... they are suppose to be cheap but you'll be lucky if the driver has been in the US longer than 6 months. Our first experience getting to brooklyn was telling our driver how to get to brooklyn (like we knew how, HA!) and it was a good thing our landlord gave us very detailed directions...

adios, and live long and prosper.
Lenard J.

East coast life snap-in utility

Wouldn't it be great if things could work like a microsoft update or patch? Just snap that new accessory in and presto... You now have new features and functionalities! Only where would I get more RAM? But I guess in life we are all just early releases of a dysfunctional operating system. And like microsoft (releasing half assed products to beat the "competition") we will need countless updates and patches and various other protections so we don't crash and suffer a major dump.

Maybe I should say I wish things wold be more like firefox. but that's only a browser and not an operating system but so nice and user friendly.

Now how in the hell did I get on that tanget?... Okay back to my needing an East Coast snap in...

So after the first snow I've begun to appreciate the use of salt on the road (or the more friendly calcium bi-carbonate) in liberal quantities. I've learn to spot ice patches on the sidewalk during the middle of the day, to stay away from the yellow and brown snow along the edge of the side walk, and no matter how cold it is you have to step lightly or else you will end up on your bum. Oh, I've felt what it was like to walk on sleet (it's like walking on a greasy sidewalk with sand on the ground). A snap-in would have prepared me for these events so I wouldn't be so much like a "californian" just stepping off the Jet Blue gangway... Oh, that's who I am... Anyhow these experiences are something else.

But walking home on my first night while it was snowing was a once in a life moment. It was amazing to see the fluffy little flakes coming down.

And the Rockerfeller center was amazing. I've never seen the tree before this event and I'm glad. Because when I saw it the sight made me smile from ear to ear. It's completely ridiculous. Sorry to ruin this for those of you that haven't seen it before but it's something else. It was all lights!


A good thing too since the tree on closer inspection is asymmetric and has a bunch of twigs popping out and stuff.



































It was a neat experience. People everywhere and it was busy as they have the touristas and the usualy 9-5'ers milling about and trying to get home etc..

happy holidays! I'm going home to the west coast soon and I'm excited to be back in CA. Don't really have a stable AP so this might be the last blog of 2005. Happy new year!

Regards,
vin

Oh, Now where did I leave off?...

Welcome December! Mine and the Ol' Lady's first snow in Brooklyn.



After Thanksgiving I caught a cold and lost the steam that I had to blog. But now, I'm bored It's kinda chilly outside, so I'm just kicking back and vegging out figured I'd blog some. The blogging phenomina is kinda neat really.

It's almost like a competition. Or at least that's how I'm viewing it. I've seen some others at random and they all seem to have that underlying competitive undercurrent. Or else why would they have adwise? or other chances to advertise? and push products or an agenda (but i certainly do like that guy from Voodoo computers cool stuff!). I'll claim my piece of immortality (byBlogging) and hopefully not get sucked into the trap of the bigger better blog-o-sphere world of lookee at me world! I am unique... By doing thusly, it will make me UNIQUE! railing and rebeling against Blogging by blogging! sigh.

Okay, It's fun. but only when it's not a chore.

So let's see, Delta Boy once again inspired me to keep up with my blog. All them pictures of food, I'm hungry, and I remeber a conversation I had about posting the picture of my 1st New York (Brooklyn) turkey dinner so... Viola!

With stove top stuffing! Not the best looking one I've made but it was tasty. I think I needed to add either more sugar to the brining or more butter when baking. And it was tricky as the oven has a tendancy to either be 50 degrees hotter or colder than the intended setting on any giving day.

So from this turkey it lasted from Thanksgiving to.... Dec. 8th, 2005. Granted we didn't eat turkey every day in a row but we finished off with Turkey Tacos (after numerous turkey sandwiches, turkey dinners and also turkey porridge/congee/jook. But the landlord's mother made the jook as I don't have a pot big enough to cook the carcass. I'm told she said it was good and they gave me a portion for myself)! No pictures of the tacos. But they were good. I've been thinking about them ever since. We did them Jack in the Box style as I've been craving J in B since getting here. But that's another blog for later.

So this is our thanksgiving dinner. It mostly looks like take out but those are the only containers we have to hold our foods in. Everything is home made.

Cheesey Potatos, Cheesey macaroni, brocli, turkey and mushroom gravey, stove top stuffing, sweet potatos, cranberrys. The rice and the turkey are backin the kitchen as we needed elbow room to eat. But this was it. We felt like pigs and figured this will be our first an maybe last TG with ourselves. I was thinking that if we were better prepared we could've (should've, would've, etc) had some contianers packed for distribution and could've passed them out in the subway (the leftovers). But being thanksgiving the bums/homeless probably already had their soup kitchen/church scoped out for food. So we were left with our food, gluttony and guilt.

Next year we are thinking about going along with some families or friends. We'll see.

But I did like the time with the ol'lady. It will make for memories later on for the kiddies if we are lucky.

adios,
vin