The Weather and Our Moods

Ever notice how the weather effects our moods even our thinking and sense of humor.

So let's see what would happen if I tried to start a novel with this rain coming down.

It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly a shot rang out! I downed the shot in a single swallow and ordered a beer chaser. I had come in here with a mind to be a skirt chaser, but, there weren't any fillies in here. I figured I'd drink my fill and walk out the door. Then in she walked. She had a face and figure you couldn't help notice. A face like the Elephant Man after a long unsuccessful career in the ring. A figure like a Circus Fat Lady after a Three month eating binge. It looked like the only difference between her and a charging Rhino would be about four pounds. The Rhino would be lighter.

Gee I guess the weather makes no difference at all in the way my mind works.

( EVIL Maniacal Laughter ) HAHAHAHA

Old TV again

I got a DVD I had ordered in the mail today. It is an old TV series that didn't really become popular called "Future Cop". I watched it when it came out as the year before I had been involved in a Film Called Shoot and got to know it's stars become friends with one. Hard to imagine an Oscar winner as being as much of any ordinary man as he was but Ernest Borgnine has to be one of the nicest most natural people I have ever met. He treated everyone like he was one of them and vice versa.

About the TV Series he plays a veteran policeman who is partnered with an Android. Way before it's time but just imagine Data from Next Generation as a cop. Borgnine's character is the only non scientist who knows his partner isn't human. I could imagine it doing much better today as we are more open to the concept of artificial intelligence mind it will never be a match for natural stupidity.

Don't feel like writing so just graphics

Don't feel up to writing so some graphics

I Give in you Can Put These on my Wanted Poster

The Real Me

With all my concern about getting my weight down Tracey ( this one is not my ex-wife btw even though she spells her name the same way ) Kirst and Odette have all been asking very politely to see some recent pictures. Fact is I don't have any as I am always on the other end of the Camera. I do have some from last year on facebook. I am at the weight I am now that I was when they were taken. I will try to get some new ones over the next say two remaining weeks of summer. Before the polar bears return and start attacking the penguins.

That's what my brother says when telemarketers call "Sorry I'm in Canada. The Polar bears are attacking the penguins I have to go chase them off. Where did I put my Rifle.

Anyway I guess I do need some new pics so they will be posted.

Now about the reason about the concern over the weight. I am not worried with regards to apperance. Heck I wear Hawaiian shirts with Camoflage shorts and a Cowboy hat. I'm number one on the Fashion police's most Wanted List. There not coming after me even with a fashion police SWAT team. They need to wait till they have trained a commando unit. Gawd can you imagine what Fashion Police Commando's would wear.

My illness can cause ( during a Panic attack ) my blood pressure to go above 200 over 160 ( it has gone higher ) and pulse to go over 200. This makes me very at risk for heart attack but much more likely for stroke. Having the extra weight on increases that risk. I have not had a bad attack in over a year now. However an once of prevention is you only choice when there is no cure.

Also as my Brother put it those guys with six pack abs should be jealous. You've got a two four.

Apparently someone has srpray painted me

Kirst tells me I've been tagged ( which means some one has sprayed graffitti on me, don't worry I don't get it either ). Odette says that means I have to tell 6 things about me. I guess you get tagged 3 times your the anti-christ.

So one why this graphic ( and the one at the bottom if I can find the one I want ). While it's because like most of my gender I know almost nothing about women. I know women have boobs while men are boobs but that is pretty much it. Sure they also usually smell nice and I was raised to treat them differently. No matter how much some of them scream they are women not ladies. When they do that I usually tell them the dictionary definition of a woman is ( and you can look this up ) a human female of lower class than a lady. I usually add I am going to assume you are not of lower class but just having a bad day. Remarkably they usually stop yelling at me about it at that part. Helps that such exchanges have usually taken place in crowded situations.

The second part of number one is that I had to memorize a memory aid to know how to put the toilet seat. Fly goes down seat goes up seat goes down fly goes up.

I had considered doing a blog about all I do know about women but I couldn't see the point in publishing an empty blog.

Number two about me. I am an information junkie. Not news that the media broadcasts that is not is useful in any way unless you can find some way of spreading it on the flowers. Mind you that would be such a concentrated fertilizer we would end up not only feeding the world and regrowing the rain forests. We would probably end up being attacked by giant mutant ninja plants. I like almost any kind of information. Languages, Sciences History. Doesn't have to be useful things. The various last words attributed to Oscar Wilde for example, my favorite being. " Either that wallpaper goes or I do"

Number three. This one I have blogged about before. If you haven't going back and reading my blog from day one forward is a good idea. I'm puppy whipped. The article has the same title.

Fourth some of the things I enjoyed the most are things most people hate. I loved the really hard courses in school. My fasination with Japanese may be partly because when I registered to take it at summer school I took the word intermediate to mean difficulty level. It meant second year. 4 others made the same mistake and there were only enough enrolled to continue the class if no one dropped. The other four were also adults and all agreed to stay and try and the teacher was really great. Other things I really enjoyed included Basic Training and Wilderness survival. I ended up teaching both.

Five by my standards ( for myself I don't expect anyone else to be me ) I am fat. I have about 20 pounds to lose to get in decent shape and 45 to get in fighting shape. In my defense it is mostly due to a side effect of my medication but I could have done more to slow it down or prevent it. I am 5 ft 7 in or 170cm. I weigh 180 pounds or 81.8 say 82 kilograms in Mass. Or not quite 13 stone. My mind has no problem switching back and forth from Metric to Imperial and can even think in US gallons. ( Your gallon is 5/6 one of ours Ray ).

Six though I have one I am very allergic to cats. My Mom on the other hand has six. I have to take anti-histamines before visiting.

Have to go the Cat is doing his Lee Harvey Oswald imitation again

The Penguin English Dictionary

As most of you know I recently have a thing for languages. A couple years ago I was helping out at a bookstore and my Nephew dropped by with my brother. After browsing for a bit he came running to me and said "Uncle Sid will you buy me a Dictionary" I said of course and was impressed a boy that young would want a dictionary. I asked him which one. He took me to the Penguin English Dictionary. I was more impressed it is the Dictionary I use about 3 inches and has a retail price of $40. I asked him why that particular one. He looked at me as if I was some kind of idiot ( an accurate observation btw ) and said " Because I Want to learn how to speak Penguin "

He got the book.

Several Thousand Words About Pussy.....Cats

First get your minds out of the gutter.

Second a picture is worth a thousand words. So

The Seven Deadly Sins

The seven deadly sins were developed as teaching tool by the Catholic church several hundred years ago. I think today they can serve as a self assessment tool to see what we need to work on. This may be more practical they may also serve as a checklist of warning signs in others you should watch for. Especially if it is the start of a romantic relationship. I would also add the caveat those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. I am not referring solely to your history but also failing to take the time to discover the history of your potential other.

Greed or avarice is sometimes called covetousness and is the only one specifically mentioned as a Commandment.

Vanity is normally called Pride and considered the first deadly sin.

Wrath is also called Anger.

Envy is also of course called jealously.
























The Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey film highlights these things in a modern context. For Classical views there is a very old Morality play called "Everyman" and of course "Dr Faustus" the play by Christopher Marlowe. ( I recommend that one the poetry in it is wonderful. ). You may also be interested in looking the Seven Cardinal Virtues and the Seven Sacraments.

Today I switched modes to serious.

Question. Should I split into two separate blogs. One for Humour and one for practical or informative?

A New Diet

Maybe it's from watching too many episodes of Gilligan's Island in a row. I am going to try a new diet. I got the idea from the show to be honest. They are pretty much limited to eating whats on the island and that is mostly nuts and berries. So I am going to go on an all fruit diet for a week. I tried vegetarian for a week once years ago and lost 7 pounds that I didn't plan on losing. That was in only a week. I do need to drop some weight at the moment. It is not because I don't approve of the vegetarian lifestyle that I decided to go with fruit. People are vegetarians for different reasons. Some feel eating meat is cruel. Perhaps it is, however I would have to say I am a Meat and Potatoes man except I'm not crazy about potatoes. I do like fruit so why not. It's not that I am a member of some fruitarian movement who thinks eating vegetables is cruelty to vegetables. They therefore only things that naturally fall off plants. Like fruits and nuts. ( Here is the scary/funny part I didn't make up that last bit they exist!!! ). I'm going to avoid nuts although I do like them they are however high in fat. So for one week no cruelty to vegetables, or animals. ( The Dog and Cat are still going to get meat. They are not in the least political ).

They say you are what you eat. If that is the case one should avoid Fruits, Nuts, and Vegetables. In the case of Nuts it's far to late for me.

Btw: the following graphic is for my friends in NZ.

What's in a Name?

I have a used name. It is my Father's and was also his Father's. I hope I live up to it as well as them. To make it legible just click on it and it will appear full size.

At a Loss for Words

It's 4 AM and I can't sleep. It's my own fault. I have been trying to learn Odette's language and today I was trying my hand at speaking it from listening to it on CD's. I just can't seem to yet get my ear and tongue around it yet. In time I will. Also the CD's I have do not have a transcript of the conversations so I'm using a phrasebook and dictionary to try to match the words to the sounds. So far it is a hard as it would be to train my dog as a seeing eye dog. Normally that may not be a problem except my dog is blind and I'm his seeing eye human. To be honest he dealt with his going blind better than I did his going blind. We say humans only learn to use the other senses if they go blind. Dogs already use the other senses way better than we do. With the possible exception of the sense of taste. Dogs will eat things even Scotsmen won't try.

Anyway I think my only practical solution is to make a copy of the talks and send them to Odette and nicely ask her to send me a copy of what they are saying. I tend to learn better from the written word so if I can follow it on paper I will learn faster and better. As each conversation is really only a few sentences repeated many times it is not as complicated as it may sound. I would only need the whole sentences that get broken down and repeated ad nauseam.

In fact by the time I was done trying for the day I put on my French lesson to clear my mind. I have 30 Tagalog lessons and 90 French in the same series. French lesson one was two easy. I had never bothered to listen to the French before. I decided to jump to lesson 90. Still too easy. Not really hard to understand why as the lessons are intended to bring you to a high intermediate level of understanding. In Canada French speakers are about as common as UFO sightings at a Tennessee moonshiner's convention. So I guess my French is better than the tapes aim at. I don't have any trouble when in our French speaking province. Maybe I should consider a trip to France. Heck my Japanese is probably better than my French. I had to take French in school, I choose to learn Japanese.

On top of that when I tried to send Odette a copy of lesson one something went wrong with my mail program and it kept sending so I had to close it. I hope I didn't flood her mailbox before I noticed. I have a habit of pushing my computer to the limit so doing several things at once is normal for me. I'm not cramped up in a computer desk and chair. I have a wireless keyboard and a 32 inch monitor so I sit in an easy chair with the keyboard in my lap. The only thing rough is if I have to keep clicking the mouse then my wrists begin to pain. The beginnings of Carpal tunnel and I intend to not let it progress. It disabled one of my brothers. He had the surgery but had a bad reaction to the surgery. He used to make his living doing very fine electronics work with his hands. Now he can't even use a hammer without extreme pain.

Anyway I do intend to learn the language. It just may take longer than I wanted it to. They don't have instant language comprehension and usage in a pill yet do they?

How I Write a Blog

I was thinking about what to blog today. Didn't have any real idea what to write and thought I would give a break to explaining how my Gender thinks. ( or does what passes for thinking amoung my Gender ). So I am going to explain my Blog writing process.

First I think of something to write. Today it will be about how I write. Then a think of a title. Funny is my favorite but accurate is the most important. I also like subtle. Go through my old posts and you will notice a few patterns. Today I went for accurate as possible.

Next I look for a graphic. I have a huge selection on the computer and start at the A's and go up the alphabet. As a result you end up with the front part of the alphabet in the majority. I need to randomize that a bit. On occasion a graphic will inspire a topic.

In the event I feel inspired to write a few subjects or one will require further reasearch One gets written for today the others get written on a word processor and filed. There I need some notes for things such as what graphics to include and most of the finished post is cut and pasted.

In order to write I mentally rewire my brain so instead of leading to my big mouth the output device becomes my fingers. Being a touch typist the speed is about the same so the flow is the same. A word of warning I speak like I type.

Then I post it and wait for reaction. Sometimes I write almost soley for reaction. Like when on yahoo answers I posted the Question " Was Robert E Lee Chinese " I got so many replies the computer was lit up like Christmas. I added at the bottom I'm looking for the best reaction here. I gave that to the person who claimed his Cola was now covering his keyboard via his nose.