A pumpkin? For ME???...

Pumpkin carving time! Thanks to the local realator for giving us this swell pumpkin. I wish I would have saved his advertising sticker before I carved this up. I love it when it's time to light them up. I'm thinking in the future maybe LED's for the eyes and for the internal lighting instead of a flammable candle...

Here's one in the daylight. I was going to take a picture of the before unadulterated pumpkin but the battery of the camera needed charging.... Since 2 weeks ago... so no clean pumpkin :(

And here is a shot of my pumpkin carving tool. Got this idear from a friend and I put my own twist to it. I made these for my neices and nephews but have been unable to deliver them in a timely manner. Maybe next year I'll have more luck getting them to them. Meanwhile I'll try and pretty these tools up and clean some of the slop from the epoxy.

One fast week

I can't beleieve a week has gone by already. This time last week I was packing and anticipating leaving work and going directly to long beach for a red eye flight to JFK to see my wife after 42 or so days. Being road trip types of people we decided to drive down to DC for the weekend. Yeah, at first I wasn't so keen on the idea but I figured my wife probably needs a break from the monotony of her routine. We knew the trip was going to be fast and didn't worry about having to see everything that DC has to offer. Needless to say, that was a gross understatement as there is a ton of stuff to see on the east coast. Bob's big boy, chick fila, toll booths and lots of trees and greenery to enjoy. We are going to have to come back again and here is a taste of what we went through.

The unknown bliss of being a duck

The reflecting pool at Washington DC. I wonder if like the ducks, we as a people can become so preoccuppied with what we are doing and so into our own pursuits and goals of fulfillment that we sometimes go around the world oblivious to what's around us and end up with are Arses hanging out for all the world to see and laugh at. I guess if we were ducks this wouldn't be so bad as they are getting food and having a blast swimming in a fine swimming hole. But as a person with higher thought capabilities is this good enough to only be after my own self interests or is there something more?

Clint Eastwood was here.

the steps of the lincoln monument. a lot of history here. it was kind of a surreal moment as all the movies and references of the area flood your thoughts and one can't help but wonder if you are actually there among all this history of america.

What are you doing?

I laughed at my wife when she took this picture in the car. But now I can see the wisdom of the action. this is only part of the route as the lewes-may ferry area is not shown. and that would hve been on the far right of Delaware. Going through Maryland was pretty neat too.

Cows of Delaware

My new favorite place is Delaware. Sorry Ohio but I Iike the rustic and alone feeling that the first state offers. These people live like me and you but at a slower pace. Now I gotta ask myself, who is getting the better deal in life...

Lewes-May Ferry

The staging area. We just had enough time to take a whizz and get back to the car. I'm sad to say that our time in Delaware was too short. They had some nice beaches and my feet were just itching to touch the sand. But that couldn't have been done because i was dancing up and down needing to take a whizz something fierce.

leaving lewes, DE

 


Here is a shot of the ferry leaving lewes Delaware. My new favorite place. I'll be back!. 

Tirade day

So, "update your blog" the wife says, "I don't want to have to look at your man boobs" she tells me... So today is tirade day. I'm too lazy to blog my new lure that I bought... It's my first one and it's called a fuzzy bugger. or something like that. In fly fishing parlance it's suppose to be the baloney of the trout fishing world. or would it be duct tape?... Good for all occasions. that will be later when i'm in a better mood.

Tirade time:
So, i like emailing and i like my friends that send me emails. But every once in awhile I'll get a chain email that will really make me piss blood! Argh. So i'm reading about a time in the past and some old geezer is waxing poetic about eating raw hamberger, not keepping proper cutting board etiquette and cross contaminating eggs, mayonaise, and lettuce and on and on and on w/out getting e.coli etc. and more stuff about how great the good old days were and how bad and evil it is now. Well dumbass (not my friend but the poetic waxer) I got... 3 words for you... 3 Hundred Million... that's how many people are living in this fricken country. Do you even now why e.coli is so prevelent in the meat packing industry? or even know why we have giardia and can't be sipping the local lake run off? when you were a wee one there probably was only about less than a hunderd million people in this country. and you ask what's wrong with us now? 300 million people. all these people need to eat, shit, sleep, bathe, work, and clothes themselves... and uh, something has got to give...DUH! I bet there are some native american indians that can wax poetic too about the pre pale face era... running naked and killing bears and buffalo oh so nice.

You can almost say that yeah, the past was great. But that's the problem. It was so great that it made people want to screw more and viola 300 million people. You fouled your own nest and now you complain about it. Well, it aint your mess because you are going to die soon. On behalf of my kids FYou very much... Who, God willing will be fit, smart, and bright enough to not be a fat arse playing nintendo all day eating doughnuts and saying how great the past was.

I hope I'm not a parent pushing for the government to control the dispensing of soda pop at schools because I (the parent) don't have the fortitude to say "no" to my kid(s).

I hope I'm not a parent that complains or blames the shcool that the reason why my kid is fat is because the schools removed recess and P.E.. No, i'm affraid my kid is fat because i'm fat and I like to IM and Chat and watch tv. And oh, if my kid has 100 dollar shoes, I'm to blame for that as I can't tell my kid no (again).

I hope many things. but most of all I hope as a collective our society will hold our younger generation accountable for their actions.... Yeah you dumbass skateboarder who leaves your grinding rail in the middle of the street, if I see that dumbass contraption in the middle of the road (again) I'm going to have to ask your parents to do something about it. why must the neighbor admonish the kid? Mom, Pops, you there? You bought the dumb arse thing for him, at least make him put it away! I'm tired of the blatant dis-respect of this society. It's gonna have to stop. But I'm affraid I'm living in my own star trek world...again. People in general are discourtious and dumb. Ugh. end of tirade.

live long a prosper... but not too much as we already got 300 million... use some birth control or control in general. and perhaps maybe not too long in living. Get that deathrate up you know...
I guess i should come up with a new saying... Live fast and screw less.

piece!
lja