Month: July 2006

As I browse my usual news sources it dawned on me – what about my little piece of the world where I reside? Not the state news, not the city news, but our news – here in my neighborhood. We have a little bit of it all here.

The police and fire dept. spent hours across the street at the school the other nite. Such fun. They found a bomb of sorts. I was curious so I walked across the street to ask the firepersons what they were doing there. They pointed to an orange cone that was next to a large beer can. Strange looking with it’s two stripes of black electrical tape wrapped around it and something else stuck to the sides. I would be careful where you walk, pointing to it one of em said, it is a small pyrotechnic device – in other words – a beer can full of explosives. Seems of all the big bangs we have been complaining about  – one did not go boom. I am not talking about small bangs here. I mean the kind that you wake up on the way down back to your bed type. Hours later it was dismantled and the remains removed.

The slumlord next door keeps running the malfunctioning airconditioner while he cleans the place up. Trouble is it freezes over and leaks all over. His solution is to place a bucket in the center of the living room to catch the drips – more like a steady flow of water. Now the water has managed to make its way into our townhouse via a main beam. My upstairs floor is warping – need I say this is not a good thing! Now I get to play the association CCR’s and who is liable games.

A group of teenagers has taken to hanging around in my carport. Yep and if you nicely ask them to not lean on your cars and truck they very not so nicely tell ya to go f yourself. Then they pick up all the fallen cherries around and bomb your dogs in the backyard. Ghezzzzzzzzzzzzz…..

I did get some revenge (not that revenge is a good thing) last night when they gathered in front along the sidewalk. Lots of noise, foul language, and teasing of my and my neighboor across the streets dogs. With all my windows and doors shut I still had trouble hearing my television over their noise. So- I snuck out and located the inground sprinkler control box for my front lawn and turned them on – hahahah a blast of water screams and they moved. My lawn may end up being the greenest in the area if this keeps up. Now if I only could water my carport! During the day playing Simon and Garfunkle really load seems to keep em away.

From the local area news:

The woman accused of being involved in a hit-and-run crash the killed a motorcycle rider and then triggering fires that destroyed two homes in El Dorado County has more than 20 charges against her. For some reason I like it when irresponsible people have to face the consequences of their actions. FYI- she was drunk.

In the Natomas area it seems a Peacock is becoming quite annoying. Since it is not in my yard I find it humorous – I wonder if it would chase off the kids? Emmm

So Drumsnwhistles tags me in her post about Blogher. After reading and re-reading her post I decided that I was confused. She was kind enough to send some help – not that I really “get it” but I will give this a try.

When did you start blogging and why?

I started this blog because a friend of mine wanted to know how to set up a blog. My friend never stuck with it but I decided to stick with it.

How do you use blogging to build friendships?

Apparently not very well since I only communicate via blogging with a couple of people. The only person I could tag would be Drums and she tagged me.

What is your favorite thing that you wrote? What got a strong reaction from readers?

The post I did on the Patriot Act and the Secret Service and the creation of a Federal Police force. I heard a rumor of the formation of a Federal Police force that was bieng compared to the SS of Germany on some website and set about to verify any facts available. What I found did surprise me. The post did recieve the most hits and a few great comments that have been lost in the land of bits n bytes.

The post that recieves the most hits still today is one that I posted a stupid YouTube video on. I bet now that I have mentioned YouTube twice in this post it will recieve many hits from google searches for YouTube. I am shameless.

Are you and your blogging persona the same person?

Very close with some ommissions.

If you had a super power, what would it be?

The ability to morph myself into anything. The possibilties for learning by walking in anothers shoes will be endless. Becoming a small pebble on the beach or a seagull in flight, a hundred year old pine tree, . ..

Now the hard part – to find someone to tag? Umm I choose Froggi Donna from the Lily Pad.

Although I suspect she will be wondering why? Because she is a courageous strong woman and her motorcycle tour to cover 48 states is documented here.

There are just times where my brain goes into freeze mode. It really makes me feel stupid sometimes :).

Examples are:

• reading something a zillion (exageration) times and not getting it.
• being able to do something really well in a  familiar setting yet be unable to perform the same task in a unfamiliar setting.
• Trying to come up with the right word and not finding it only to think of it hours later and go duh
• Trying to say something and mixing up the endings of the words – like dog barking becomes doging bark LOL
• Getting really tired all the time.

There are lots more but ya get the idea. Somedays I am completely unaware of my shortcomings and on other days, like today, they just seem to be painfully obvious. The strange thing about this is on the good days where I more “with it” are the days I am more cognizant of my deficits.

Ok done for now.