Another Week Gone

16 Aug 19
15:15 hrs

     Yes, another week is gone leaving only a couple more before we haul the Jr. Loin Fruit south to Capital City. This was his last week at work which, from all indications, he did enjoy - especially the money.

     This past week your's truly was supposed to have a full week on a project. It wasn't. But, I'm on this whole weekend. My Lobster was off for a couple of days and that gave us time to get caught up on our cribbage games. We were both at home to observe work in the Wayward Inn by a Master Carpenter. By the end of yesterday we had a privacy door for the bonus room and our bank account was correspondingly lighter.

     The morons who operate and control the National Defense of the Great White North are in the process of rectifying a major faux pas. When our troops departed Afghanistan the cenotaph - built by soldiers to honour their fallen - that was in country was dismantled and brought back here. When NDHQ West was opened the cenotaph was rebuilt but none of the families of the fallen were even invited to view it. Not only that, it was assembled in a location where the families and the general public could not access it. Pure Bullshit. My question is this: who was the dickhead who made that decision and was he/she raked over the coals for being so stupid? Ultimately,  the Chief of Defence is responsible whether he had to sign off on it or not. What an asshat!

18:00 hrs

     We have not been to the new taphouse as of yet. I'd love to get to it soon. The two Couch Monkeys have asked if we could play Cards Against Humanity. It sounds like a drinking game so I'm up for it.

17 Aug 19
04:45 hrs

     Last night's card game was quite raucous. The funny part was the suggestion that we play this with Elric the Stalwart and his Lobster.  Uh, no. It would probably be the end of the friendship.

     For the past week my friend Kurtz has been Out in the Weeds with Father Guido Sarducci and the All-Star Choir. Last year Father Sarducci learned that Kurtz likes to chase after our 8 foot tall hairy friends and decided that he would like to perform a full blown mass ceremony Out in the Weeds. So, he hired Kurtz to take him and a part of the congregation for a week long outing. I don't know how much camping experience the Father or the congregation has but our base camp is pretty rustic. I expect to get a full debrief in a couple of days.

     With the Jr. Loin Fruit no longer working if I'm free on Monday maybe we can go out and drown some worms. It came to mind that, as a family, we have not done Weenies on the Beach at all this season. That being said, the season is just about over as the District only allows Beach fires from the May Two-Four Weekend to the September Long. That's it. That's all. After that if you want to enjoy a hotdog by the ocean you had Better bring a bbq. What a bunch of jerks.

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10 Aug 19
14:45 hrs

     A couple of shakeups this week, Dear Readers. First thing is that the Onion is no longer with us. No, she has not passed away. She is no longer residing at the Wayward Inn. Last Wednesday we loaded up the last of her stuff and transported it to her new digs. She is now in a shared three bedroom apartment and her new room is a wee bit smaller than the one she had here. Mind you she is paying less rent as well. It was an interesting experiment that we all experienced in a different manner. I think for my Lobster it was great to have another female in the house. I found her to be funny, helpful and more engaging than the Loin Fruits most of the time. And having to cook for one more vegetarian in the house was okay but the Onion did not eat eggs either so that added another layer of complexity to making meals.

     My Better Half and I will be going to watch the Crash Test Dummies tomorrow night. I've enjoyed their music for a lot of years so this will be a treat. Unfortunately,  the lead singer with the deep bass voice is no longer with the band. That's okay. The music will be just as enjoyable.

     The Jr. Loin Fruit has but one week of work left giving him about a week and a half to get his crap together for the trek south to higher education in Capital City. My Lobster and I will drag him and all of his stuff south with the Mobile Wayward Inn. This will provide us a base of operations and mobility.

     Have you seen the shot that happened in the Hugh-ess last week? Thirty plus people shot and killed at two different locations. The shooter in the Lone Star state opened up at a Walmart with an AK47. He was taken alive. He has admitted to the authorities that he was purposely targeting Latinos. The Dept of Justice will be seeking the death penalty.  In Oh-Hi-Oh the gunman was dispatched by a police officer thirty seconds after he started shooting at a nightclub. In those thirty seconds he killed nine and wounded more than a dozen. One of the victims was his own sister. This second shooting marks the 250th mass shooting in the Hugh-ess this year.

11 Aug 19
11:15 hrs

     I have mentioned it before and I'll say it again - do yourself a favour and read a newspaper!

     Print media is important as it forces you to slow down and ruminate on the written word. Too many people in our society rely on the thirty second sound bite or the two hundred and forty or so character tweet to provide them with the news of the day. Unfortunately, these snippets of information are quite often intentionally wrong causing the reader react or view the subject matter as the writer directs. This is how the Tangerine Tyrant has kept his base from straying. This is how Russia has manipulated election in the past and will continue to do so in the future. Yes, print media can also be used to misdirect the facts but it is harder to do so, in my opinion.  I feel that real journalists have quite a bit more integrity that the tweeters. Just think the Hugh-ess CIC has 63 million Twitter followers. That's a lot of people who could be considered as sheep or as having blinders on.

     My Better Half picked up a National Post for me yesterday. I like the paper and used to have a subscription for it when we lived in the middle of the country. In the paper there is a one and one half page article on how the pharmaceutical industry has discovered a means of curing - or at least alleviating - the feelings of loneliness. Can you imagine that? It seems there is s natural chemical that the human body produces when you are engaging with someone. Pharma can reproduce this chemical and if taken you lose the feelings associated with loneliness.

     Just great! Another wonder drug to make a person feel something when they don't feel something or when they want to feel something different. How about skipping the meds, putting down the hand-held device, turn off the frickin computer, grab a book, walk to a park where you can lay on the grass and turn some pages. You never know, you might just meet someone and you won't be lonely anymore.

18:15 hrs

     My Lobster and I have just finished dining at a Corner restaurant.  Nice place for people watching but the food was overpriced. In an hour or so we'll be watching the Dummies! Can't wait!

21:30 hrs

     The show was excellent. Brad hit all the right notes. Of course, the Superman song is a huge fave of mine.

    

Disturbing Revelations

01 Aug 19
07:45 hrs

     Good Morning Dear Readers! Happy August. August is the eighth month in the Julian calendar and is named after Caesar Augustus and I have no clue as to what he did to deserve having an entire month named after him. Think about it. Hannukah is only eight days long, Easter has two days (Good Friday and Easter Sunday) and Christmas is just one day. So whatever he did it must have been big. The only thing that comes close is Ramadan which also a month.

     I am about to tell you something that has been bugging me of late. There will be those who may be upset with what I have to say but it can't be helped so here goes. In a discussion at the Wayward Inn I learned that a friend of the Onion cheated in college. That's right. She submitted work in her name that had been completed by another person. Not by another student but by a family member who is a professional in the subject matter. Can you believe this?

     I asked the Onion about it and she said :what's the big deal" and that "everyone does it back home." Well, Girly Girl - NOT IN THIS COUNTRY!!!

     It is totally unethical to cheat and plagiarism is the worst in academia. Imagine that you are in a hospital and the attending medical staff had plagiarized their work in school. Would you want this individual working on you knowing that he or she did not learn the knowledge needed to cure your ills? Or, how about the engineer who is now certifying a highway overpass and his only knowledge of structural loads comes from playing with Tinker Toys, Lego and Jenga. Pretty freaking scary. Unfortunately,  I have no direct evidence that can be taken to the college board. It can all be and would be denied by the parties involved. If I had such evidence you can bet your bottom that I would be beating down the doors to ferret out the cheats.

     Let's put it this way - my distaste for cheats ranks right up there with my hate for thieves. As the saying goes - Once a thief always a thief and it's the same for cheats. In their minuscule mental capacity they feel that they haven't harmed anyone. Well, maybe not when the crime was committed but eventually someone will be hurt.

14:00 hrs

     A couple of days ago an 89 year old man was sitting his car waiting for the newspapers to be delivered. Like a lot of seniors here in the Valley he earns extra monies by delivering the local cage liner. While he waited in his car a sketchy 20 something male asked him if he had a cigarette that he could spare. The old guy says he doesn't smoke so Sketchy attacks him with a machete. With lacerations to his face the old guy drives to the local Constabulary and files a report. The perp is still on the lam.

     Speaking about being on the lam...the search for two fugitives from Over the Hump has been scaled back until Better leads are developed. These two clowns are wanted as suspects in the murder of three individuals on the Northern Left Coast. The last known sighting was near the town of Gillam, MB. That's along way from home. A full blown Queen's Cowboy Posse complete with some military air support has been scouring the swampy bug infested northland for over a week with no results. The police may be scaling the search back but rest assured the police are just laying in wait for these two desperados to screw up and then they'll nab them.

19:15 hrs

     The new brew pub on the Wayward  Inn side of the estuary is soon to be opened. I haven't heard the exact date but the last time I drove by I was very impressed with the Left Coast design that has been incorporated. There is a bakery right next door and if the pub owners are smart they will source out all their bread requirements from their neighbours.

02 Aug 19
06:00 hrs

     Happy Friday!
     Only nine days until we see the Crash Test Dummies!