Not dying shouldn't be a function of how rich you can make someone else.
In a civilized society, everyone should have equal and affordable access to the most advanced health care available.
Anything less is cruel and barbaric.
It's that simple.
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Saturday, March 20, 2010
The Vernal Equinox
Today is the first day of spring!
Here is what that looks like in Kansas City.
Despite the weather, this has been, and continues to be a very good day.
It started off with me preparing an EPIC brunch for my best friend and her fiance. Peppered bacon. Scrambled eggs with diced ham, green onions and shredded cheese. Oven roasted potatoes. French toast. Kona coffee. And mimosas. Mimosas are half champagne, half orange juice with little slices of strawberries.
It was fucking awesome! Then the BFF and her fiance left to continue their day and I was left with most of a bottle of champagne. So I have been dealing with the vernal equinox snowmegeddon by staying inside and sipping mimosas all day.
Yay. Me.
As I speak, there is a pot roast and veggies warming up in the oven. I made the pot roast yesterday, but didn't touch it. I put it in the fridge to "age" overnight. So I got that working for me.
It's taken me the better part of the day, but I've almost polished off the champagne. I am nothing if not persistent. I set myself a task and then I keep working until the mission is accomplished. It's good to have goals.
By the way, those pictures you just saw? Those were taken a couple of hours ago.
Guess what?
It is still. fucking. snowing. Hasn't even let up or paused.
Welcome to fucking spring in Missouri!
Here is what that looks like in Kansas City.
Despite the weather, this has been, and continues to be a very good day.
It started off with me preparing an EPIC brunch for my best friend and her fiance. Peppered bacon. Scrambled eggs with diced ham, green onions and shredded cheese. Oven roasted potatoes. French toast. Kona coffee. And mimosas. Mimosas are half champagne, half orange juice with little slices of strawberries.
It was fucking awesome! Then the BFF and her fiance left to continue their day and I was left with most of a bottle of champagne. So I have been dealing with the vernal equinox snowmegeddon by staying inside and sipping mimosas all day.
Yay. Me.
As I speak, there is a pot roast and veggies warming up in the oven. I made the pot roast yesterday, but didn't touch it. I put it in the fridge to "age" overnight. So I got that working for me.
It's taken me the better part of the day, but I've almost polished off the champagne. I am nothing if not persistent. I set myself a task and then I keep working until the mission is accomplished. It's good to have goals.
By the way, those pictures you just saw? Those were taken a couple of hours ago.
Guess what?
It is still. fucking. snowing. Hasn't even let up or paused.
Welcome to fucking spring in Missouri!
Friday, March 19, 2010
Who's to blame?
Hey, peoples. Well for the past week or so debate has been raging on - again - about the indiscipline exhibited by some of our young people. Fingers are being pointed at parents, teachers, the minibus culture, the radio broadcasters, Vybz Kartel and Movado... but who's really to blame for the way some of these youngsters are acting these days?
I say, we're all to blame. From the day Bajans could no longer correct each others' children; from the day parents started going to schools and cursing and beating teachers for disciplining their children; from the day society just got so busy that its youngest members got left behind, we failed our children and ultimately we failed ourselves.
Finger pointing only takes you so far, and we've been going around in circles with this topic of youth indiscipline for far too long. Let's get some sort of dialogue going with the youth themselves because they have a lot of the answers to this problem.
I say, we're all to blame. From the day Bajans could no longer correct each others' children; from the day parents started going to schools and cursing and beating teachers for disciplining their children; from the day society just got so busy that its youngest members got left behind, we failed our children and ultimately we failed ourselves.
Finger pointing only takes you so far, and we've been going around in circles with this topic of youth indiscipline for far too long. Let's get some sort of dialogue going with the youth themselves because they have a lot of the answers to this problem.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
My GTO Revealed
No, not that GTO! Although that would be really fucking sweet!
Long time readers of this blog know that I am the proud papa of a hella smart and witty 16 year old daughter who is the center of my universe.
I refer to her as young Galadriel Tanqueray Onassis, or, GTO. Obviously that is no more her real name than Xavier Onassis is mine.
Even so, I have been hesitant to post any pictures of her out of respect for her privacy. The Flying Spaghetti Monster knows she wouldn't want to be associated with my "nerdy blog".
But she recently had a photo shoot with photographer Hans Pinkas. And yes, I checked this guy out three ways to Sunday before agreeing to this!
The kid has a good eye and better lighting control and exposure technique than I can ever hope to have. He does good work and I like the results.
So, with her permission, I present my daughter, young Galadriel Tanqueray Onassis as photographed by Hans Pinkas.
She's my only child.
Know why?
Because when you bowl a perfect 300 game on your first try, you can only go downhill from there.
Best retire your balls and shoes and quit while you are ahead.
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Email Aggregation?
I don't know about you, but I have several email accounts that I use for various purposes.
I have one that I use for personal and professional contacts.
I have another that I use for pseudonymous social networking purposes.
I have another as a throw away account where I don't care if I get spam or surveys.
Gmail claims to be a service that can aggregate all of your various accounts in one place. And it is.
But the problem is you have to use POP forwarding on your various accounts to send them to Gmail.
All of my accounts are Yahoo accounts and POP forwarding is only available if you upgrade and pay $19.99 a year for a Premium Yahoo account.
I'm not paying $60.00 a year for 3 Premium Yahoo accounts just to have the convenience of viewing all of my "free" emails in one place.
I used to have an application that did what I'm talking about for free, but I lost it when my XPS crashed and burned.
So I'm asking all y'all motherfuckers. What are you using? I know you cheap bastards aren't paying for this kind of thing. I'm looking at you @kcmeesha!
I have one that I use for personal and professional contacts.
I have another that I use for pseudonymous social networking purposes.
I have another as a throw away account where I don't care if I get spam or surveys.
Gmail claims to be a service that can aggregate all of your various accounts in one place. And it is.
But the problem is you have to use POP forwarding on your various accounts to send them to Gmail.
All of my accounts are Yahoo accounts and POP forwarding is only available if you upgrade and pay $19.99 a year for a Premium Yahoo account.
I'm not paying $60.00 a year for 3 Premium Yahoo accounts just to have the convenience of viewing all of my "free" emails in one place.
I used to have an application that did what I'm talking about for free, but I lost it when my XPS crashed and burned.
So I'm asking all y'all motherfuckers. What are you using? I know you cheap bastards aren't paying for this kind of thing. I'm looking at you @kcmeesha!
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Survivin' the flu....
Hey, peoples. I'm back after surviving the horrible flu that's going around in Bim these days. Hope you all are okay out there.
So, what's went on in the world when I was on my sick bed? Well, we're still experiencing a drought. Ain't seen rain in months. I hope when the rains so come we don't drown because Mother Nature is doing some odd things these days.
We've had over 1000 fires so far this year as well, mostly cane and bush fires. Our fire officers have to be commended for their hard work, because since January, the firebug has been raging out of control.
On the political front, PM David Thompson has shuffled out his Minister of State responsible for Immigration, Sen. Arni Walters, and made him Executive Board Chairman of the Barbados Water Authority. Good luck up in the Pine, Arni. Word is more changes are coming to the Cabinet as well.
What else? Oh, congrats to actress Mo'Nique, who copped the Best Supporting Actress award at last Sunday's Academy Awards. Well done, Ms. Mo'nique.
So, what's went on in the world when I was on my sick bed? Well, we're still experiencing a drought. Ain't seen rain in months. I hope when the rains so come we don't drown because Mother Nature is doing some odd things these days.
We've had over 1000 fires so far this year as well, mostly cane and bush fires. Our fire officers have to be commended for their hard work, because since January, the firebug has been raging out of control.
On the political front, PM David Thompson has shuffled out his Minister of State responsible for Immigration, Sen. Arni Walters, and made him Executive Board Chairman of the Barbados Water Authority. Good luck up in the Pine, Arni. Word is more changes are coming to the Cabinet as well.
What else? Oh, congrats to actress Mo'Nique, who copped the Best Supporting Actress award at last Sunday's Academy Awards. Well done, Ms. Mo'nique.
Sunday, March 7, 2010
De Quervain's Tenosynovitis! I Haz It!
I haven't been to a doctor or been given a diagnossis or anything, but I'm 99% certain this is what I have.
Now, it's not terminal. But it is affecting my mobility and lifestyle.
Here is why.
On Friday, February 12, I got my federal tax return.
As a patriotic American, I stimulated our economy that same weekend by buying myself some new toys.
I upgraded to a 3G smart phone and I bought a Sony PS3.
That was 3 weeks ago.
Two items to note:
1: I'm right handed
2: I didn't grow up using Play Station style controllers.
So now this is happening.
Bitch hurts like a motherfucker!
This is particularly debilitating because I was forced to switch to a left handed reverse grip after I tore my right rotator cuff a few years ago.
Although my injury was incurred as a direct result of my Selfless Service To The American Economy, I'm not asking for any special treatment.
I'm just hoping that a handfull of vicodin washed down with a bottle of Jack Daniels will help a little. If you would like to contribute to my vicodin and bourbon fund, well, who am I to say no to your generosity?
What doesn't kill us makes us stronger, right?
Keep me in your prayers.
Now, it's not terminal. But it is affecting my mobility and lifestyle.
Here is why.
On Friday, February 12, I got my federal tax return.
As a patriotic American, I stimulated our economy that same weekend by buying myself some new toys.
I upgraded to a 3G smart phone and I bought a Sony PS3.
That was 3 weeks ago.
Two items to note:
1: I'm right handed
2: I didn't grow up using Play Station style controllers.
So now this is happening.
Bitch hurts like a motherfucker!
This is particularly debilitating because I was forced to switch to a left handed reverse grip after I tore my right rotator cuff a few years ago.
Although my injury was incurred as a direct result of my Selfless Service To The American Economy, I'm not asking for any special treatment.
I'm just hoping that a handfull of vicodin washed down with a bottle of Jack Daniels will help a little. If you would like to contribute to my vicodin and bourbon fund, well, who am I to say no to your generosity?
What doesn't kill us makes us stronger, right?
Keep me in your prayers.
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