Misc.

Waking UP

As I opened my eyes the day began. I lay in bed and did what I call a function test. I wiggled my toes, looked across the room to make sure my eyes were still working, and slowly slid to the side of the bed and stood up.
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I made my way to the bathroom and found my toothbrush. Just putting a dab of toothpaste along it bristles I started brushing. Moving on to the pill box and then downstairs to the coffee pot I am slowly waking up.
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Cup in hand I go back upstairs and get dressed for the day. I found my blue socks and pulled them up. They have a small yellow sun along the top edge. Next after the under garments I sat on the bed and pulled on my black Levi jeans and zipped them up. A wiggled into my Dale Earnhardt tee shirt, stood up and found my Nike skate type shoes with the large laces. I so love large laces as they tie easier. On the way back downstairs I grabbed my long sleeve denim Earnhardt shirt.
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The wind is really blowing rattling the windows and occasionally I can hear the noise of items toppling outside, scrapping the ground as the are swept up and dragged away in the gusts. The door upstairs slams shut. Outside the air smells of rain the odor that comes from wet dirt and road mixed with a whiff of something familiar that brings back a recollection of a wet fishing trip.
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I turn the television on and start watching reports on the snow fall and the next stage of the bicycle race. I have to chuckle wondering what Richards Sharp did to end up with the Blue Canyon reporting detail. As they list off areas with power outages I hope that ours stays on long enough to watch the NASCAR race. While listening to the reporter I get a bowl from the cupboard, put some in some water, micro wave it, and pour in an instant pack of maple flavored oatmeal.
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Back in the living room in front of the television eating my oatmeal and tossing toys for the dogs to fetch I think life is good.

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Bail Me Out

I sometimes just get PO’d when I see or hear something. Especially when I hear it over and over again. What is with bailing out the “poor” uninformed saps that got themselves over their heads with a messed up mortgage? I mean I am sorry you did not take the time to read the dang deal or think about the consequence of a balloon payment but really why when we need the dollars so badly does this government feel the need to bail you or your mortgage company’s asses out? And then that bit is followed about a piece on deals for first time home owners. I have no problem with that but – what about us poor dumbos that did it right? You know, paid off our mortgages through the years, did not fall for a refinance trap with a balloon payment or payments we knew we could not afford?

Now some of us are stuck in a bad market in neighborhoods that have gone to the gangs and varmint’s etc. but does the government say hey, you know what you did what was thought in standard circles  to be right so we will help you and toss you some bucks too! NOT!!! No special rates or deals for us to get the heck out of our hoods. Which by the way we are still in because we did not jump at the first mortgage offer or buy something we know we could not afford.

Yes the housing situation sucks and something needs to be done but rewarding the folks who through ignorance or maybe hopeful thinking decided to get in way over their heads is not right. I am so tired of getting the short stick because I don’t know or choose to use the sytem, nor do I make stupid mortgage deals.

Because the bank that issued my credit card was careless and lost big time I get to deal with their crazy attempts at getting an extra buck out of me, some are even lowerering peoples limits, raiseing fees, . … I am sure I will get to pay extra for their screw ups too.  Bail outs, bail outs, bail outs, who is gonna bail me out?

Ok enough comment on if you wish. I don’t get it. Sometimes I wonder why we don’t take out a new mortgage and then say F it and not pay – I mean then we could afford to rent somewhere in a nice neighborhood cause we could take the money and pay off the credit cards and fix the cars  – God I hate morals and having them.

Just Plugging Along

Nothing exciting, worthy really of a post going on around here. I made it to Borders yesterday and picked up some new reading material. I used my AARP card and received 10% off all paperbacks, a coupon for 20% off one book, and found two books in the buy one get one free display. Now all I have to do is read them.

The stove search is still going.  I friend that has a business distributing appliances amongst other things has come to the rescue and is offering us some good deals. We might end up with a more expensive model for less dollars than the basic models. Woo hoo.  Never underestimate the value of having a working range. Micro/convection oven cooking only sucks.

I am still checking out different themes for this blog.  I want one that I can customize the look of yet has support for the latest plugins that make blogging easier.  There is sort of a middle wasteland. Either you get all the bling or you get plain with less built in support ( so you have to add all the codes) to get stuff to work. I now realize my days of wanting to add php code and calls is over.  WordPress 2.7 sent my old theme into fits LOL.  Right now I am looking at white-space. Yep, make the typography easier to read and navagation easier for us cognitively challenged.

Working on a Theme

For a list of the blogs that participated for blog amnesty day head here to Liberal Values.

So what do you think? I am modifying the css on the theme Get Some by A WordPress Hacker. If you like looking at theme ideas his web site theme is cool.  It is worth checking out if you like looking at different presentations.  I am not the best with css and his is layed out and easy to customize – and it is free – cool no?

sample theme look

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