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I’m With Him

Savage Baptist over at No Blog of Significance has some good points:

It’s like this: I need to make some major changes in my life. For some of those changes, it would be helpful if I didn’t have quite so much name recognition, so to speak. So I’m going to delete my two existing blogs and start over later, with another user name, e-mail address, and blog.

I wish Savage Baptist the best.  I’ve read him almost since he started blogging.

While my situation is likely very dissimilar than his, the reasoning, in a way, is the same.  I’m already “anonymous” and yet my past so-called “name recognition” makes me want to vomit sometimes.  This silly blog started several years ago and many positive and negative things came of it.

It’s just hard to write anything on here anymore.  Too many memories.  Too many things I want to forget that reach into the recent past.  Too many people will have expectations of me:  expectations that do not resemble anything close to what I am now.  I’ve already undergone “major changes” and need to do a bit more housekeeping to reach that which I know I am.  But it’s a long road, and this blog is simply a speed trap for me now.

I’m sorry I started this up again.  It was mistake.  But really, in my mind, it’s just a confirmation of what I already knew:  let it die.

If you see some 30ish guy walking alone through Chandler Park, smoking a cigarette, wearing a battered hunting-orange City of Tulsa hoodie, maybe sitting on a bench enjoying the litter-filled cliffs and walking trails, tell him howdy and ask him, “Did you find what you were looking for?”

I’ll probably laugh at you, and ask you, “No, you want to help me search?”

Blog-nuking will commence Saturday.

Good bye Tulsa.

Printer/Copier/Scanners Deserve Rights, Too

I’m growing extremely anxious about the fact that printer/copier/scanner devices’ rights are not being respected.  I mean seriously, being a “minority” they are more and more becoming the targets of hate crimes, bigotry, and violence.

Wanna hear my voice?

Oh man.. this is funny…

I randomly ran into this text to voice deal.  You insert up to 300 words of text and it shoots out a wav audio file for you.  You can imagine the hilarity that ensued for me…   Here’s an excerpt from my last post…  in audio form….

Ah, but, I don’t want a female voice.  I’d rather have this ..  um…  voice called “Anjali”.  Here’s Anjali with your homework assignment….

And this last one is for the Irritated Tulsan, who cracks me up on a daily basis.

Indigent means “Hard Up”

It kinda cracks me up how buzzwords will suddenly show up on the scene.  The most recent example of this would be the word “indigent”.  Heck, I only had an inkling as to what this really meant.  Here’s a definition:

–adjective
1.     lacking food, clothing, and other necessities of life because of poverty; needy; poor; impoverished.
2.     Archaic.
a.     deficient in what is requisite.
b.     destitute (usually fol. by of).
–noun
3.     a person who is indigent.

Here are some synonyms of the word indigent:

why oh why …

… didn’t I take the BLUE pill??

Don’t know why that audio clip cracks me up.

And if you know where that clip comes from, then you’re a bigger geek than I am.

Save Some Money on Laundry

I’ve generally been a thrifty person for a long time.  Those skills are coming in very handy now that the economy is tanking out.

My last post was making fun of a bucket I bought.  Now I’m going to tell you what I do with that bucket….  I make my own laundry soap.  Yep, you heard it right.  I MAKE it myself.  It’s really easy, and it is CHEAP.  Read more after the jump.

Buckets are Dangerous

According to this warning on a bucket I bought at Atwoods recently:  Click for bigger version

May just be me.  I’m kinda wondering..  Should I also lock down my toilette?  I mean.. you know.  It does pose a drowning hazard, right?

Only One Thing to Say about this Prez Election

Make Bath Time Easier and More Fun

Ever had issues getting a child into or out of the bathtub?

Here’s an easy way to get your child out of the tub when they decide they want to stay in.  (I always laugh when they whine about getting into the tub, and then whine about getting out.)

Dog Fued

What’s funny is that somebody probably thought a pun was being made.

Stupid Lawnmower Part 93876

Well, If I’m going to do this, might as well start it off right.

I live in a house now with a lawn that has grass.  It grows.  A lot.  No, colder weather doesn’t slow it down and it seems to be some kind of mutant ninja turtle grass or something weird.

Ok, I don’t have a riding lawn mower anymore, but I do have this extremely cool push mower with front-wheel drive, complete with beverage holder on the handle.  I can mow my whole yard on half a tank of fuel, so it only costs me $98 to mow my grass now.  All I have to do is basically walk and direct the thing where it needs to go.

**cough**

**  pulls out the fork **

**  yawns and looks around **

Ah heck, nevermind…

** stabs self with fork again **

** goes back to sleep **

RIP meeciteewurkor

mcw

03-18-2005 … 05-18-2008

Stick a fork in mee.

Gone for good and never looking back.

correspondence will still be read at meeciteewurkor at gmail d0t c0m

bye

haven’t found what I’m looking for …..

I have climbed highest mountains
I have run through the fields
Only to be with you
Only to be with you
I have run
I have crawled
I have scaled these city walls
These city walls
Only to be with you

But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for
But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for

I have kissed honey lips
Felt the healing fingertips
It burned like a fire
This burning desire

I have spoke with the tongues of angels
I have held the hand of a devil
It was warm in the night
I was cold as a stone

But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for
But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for

I believe in the Kingdom Come
When all the colors will bleed into one
Bleed into one
Well, yes I’m still running

You broke the bonds
And you loosened the chains
Carried the cross
Of all my shame
all my shame
You know I believe it

But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for
But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for
But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for

Funny How that Works, Mayor

The city of Tulsa’s website can really be an informative piece of work sometimes.

Occasionally, just by simple observing over periods of time, you’ll notice really strange happenings. Take this on for instance. I am not approving or disapproving, just observing. And heck, I could even be full of BS, but who knows.

On April 16th, the city’s website announced that a new veterinarian would be hired for the city’s animal shelter.

In addition to a new manager, a full-time permanent veterinarian has been hired for the Animal Welfare facility.

Dr. Kim Haynes is an Oklahoma native and a 1994 graduate of the Oklahoma State University School of Veterinary Medicine. Dr. Haynes has seven years of private veterinary practice experience and seven years of animal shelter medicine experience in the Dallas area.

Eh, ok. I’m down with a veterinarian to take care of our less fortunate animals. Something about the next paragraph made me pause and think, though:

Dr. Haynes is married to Robby Neill, currently the Director of Risk Management for the City of Garland, Texas. She has two sons: Matthew, of Lubbock, Texas; and Weston, a U.S. Marine currently stationed at Cherry Point, N.C.

I’ve always wondered about people being married and having two different last names, but whatever.. if it floats your boat, then cool. But that’s not what I observed. I found it interesting that Kim Haynes is coming to Tulsa to be a vet. Quite a move from Texas, I guess. Well, what is going to happen to her husband? And the kiddos? After that thought, I didn’t give it much more attention. Until about 11 days ago….

I Knew It Would Happen, Channel 8

I knew it. I knew it, Frank. I knew that you would completely blow tonight’s airing of Lost.

Looks like I wasn’t the only one ticked off, as this commenter wrote on the KTUL website:

Windy and War

It’s probably just me, but this on the KOTV weather section had me laughing for a bit…

Dang it, Travis, stick to weather!

“Well, folks, it’s gonna be windy today, with a chance of bombs falling from the sky. You all out there driving watch out for those slick streets and bomb craters, now, hear? Stay tuned, we’ll break in to every single show running to keep you advised.”

Laundromat Dumbness

Did some laundry today.
Well, actually a crap-load of laundry.
In my haste to load everything up and get it rolling, I blew $1.75 on ……..

Bed sheets. ….

That didn’t belong to me.

heh.

They were just sitting there in the machine, and I had the washers to the right and left of the suspect machine full of sheets.
I went down the line tossing in quarters and soap and without missing a beat, washed a very nice lady’s sheets for her…. The lady offered to reimburse me, but I told her it was worth the money for the good laugh I got out of it.

At least I didn’t bleach the sheets on accident…..

Don’t Jack with the Geeks

Our Schools: 2nd Amendment is only for Cops?

Recently I acquired a 5th grade public school worksheet handout for a social studies class in the Tulsa area.

Apparently our fifth graders were studying the Bill of Rights recently, and I thought you would find it interesting to see how these sacred rights are being presented. In particular, the Second Amendment is very curious.

The worksheet has two columns. The left column has a list of 9 “statements”, which the student is supposed to match to one of the 10 Amendments in the right column. The directions are so:

Read each statement. Write the matching Amendment number that supports each statement. Not all Amendments will be used. Some Amendments will be used more than once.

While looking through the “statements”, I came to letter E which read as follows:

Police officers carry weapons.

The Amendment as described on the worksheet to which the previous statement is supposed to match reads so:

Right to keep and bear arms

The actual text of the Second Amendment follows:

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

I have serious issues with this type of “instruction” being given to kids. I will explain.
First the word “weapon” is generally used in today’s society in a negative sense. When you say the word weapon generally some kind of extremely dangerous and life-threatening image will come to mind, especially to a child in the fifth grade.

Second (and you cops out there need to help me out on this one), police officers are an extremely bad example to cite for the Second Amendment. It also will convey to young children that ONLY police officers are allowed to carry quoted “weapons”. (does the 2nd Amendment even apply to police officers? Certainly when they are off-duty.)

Third, the word “carry” implies (to me anyway) the act of bearing a weapon at all times, which we all know is actually allowed by carry permit laws for ALL law-abiding citizens (permit laws are unconstitutional, by the way ie. “shall not be infringed”).

Fourth, think about the statement construction itself: Police officers carry weapons.
To a young mind that will almost sound like the only people that can bear arms. Using an authority figure will be striking in a child’s mind and strongly emphasize the point home.

So, in mere four words, our wonderful public school system has conveyed to our children that guns are negative, they can only be used by police officers, and you can’t carry them around (because only cops can).

Last, but not least: the Second Amendment is cited only ONCE in the worksheet, thereby exposing the child to the author’s definition only once.

Ok, one last tidbit and I’m done. I looked through the actual text book (I’m trying to get copies and should in a couple of days) that pertained to this worksheet. I searched very hard and did not find the ACTUAL TEXT of any of the Amendments that make up the Bill of Rights. However, very prominently on two pages was a list of the Bill of Rights paraphrased i.e. dumbed down and worded to serve the authors’ agenda.

(if anybody has a child in the 5th grade in a social studies class, please check out their book, and if you can scan the page where the paraphrased Bill of Rights are and email them to me.)

Discuss.