"Life: What's going on while you're busy making other plans..."
Still rings true... Often and loudly.
Life's certainly played its part upon my mortal coil- the least of which is the current job market, the past election cycle and heaven knows any myriad of other things that includes everything from lawn mower mechanics to diaper changes.
Let's start with the last first...
Blissfully, thankfully, my daughter has just about made the hurdle from "princess panties" [Pull-ups are thusly named so in our house, it's the only way to get a hard-headed Irish red little girl to wear them. Wonder where she got that trait from- thanks Crappaw...] to real underwear- a cost savings as well as life savings to all including the pets who look at me like "Why can't we do that on the floor?!"
Lawn Mower Mechanics...
I hate yard-work. My wife knows it- now the rest of the world does too.
I really hate yard-work when the riding lawn mower decides to blow its one and only cylinder. I also hate having it sit for just under a year in a shop waiting for a [could be "hot" & I don't mean in the volcanic sense of the word] new/used engine & then getting the call that;
"The motor mount had to be modified slightly to get the thing to fit and incidentally, your throttle's gonna work backwards from the way it works now in order for the engine to fit- oh, & your headlights didn't work anyway but one of those had to be moved to make way for the exhaust..."
"Whaaaaaaat?!"
Let's just say that The Family Unit here at "Rose Manor" has now nicknamed that Murray lawn tractor "Frankenstein".
And we're talking the Gene Wilder "Frahnk-un- Steen".
This damn thing is so mutated it looks like a Transformer that developed rickets half way from turning into some kind of robot or at the very least, it could be it's own "Teenage Mutant Ninja... "X".
Strange thing is- it purrs like a kitten and drives like a dream- let alone cut grass better than it ever did before.
Something to be said for being different- right?
The past Election Cycle...
I'm a staunch conservative, "Confused Zen Buddho-Taoist in Christ".
As I see it the current POTUS is no more interested in me than I am in him- I'll leave him alone simply clinging to my guns & religion while in turn, he can leave me alone by staving off his "new age fascist world order".
Here's a common sense point to ponder:
No matter which extreme of the political spectrum one can be- I've come to learn that the acting President can't "win" regardless what he does- by satisfying anyone, no-one's gonna be happy. The two warring factions on either side of the political spectrum are so diametrically opposite that they join each other at the opposite end of the primordial circle.
Now I know why Ronald Reagan used Grecian Formula... I'm sure his hair was white 5 days after taking office back in the 80s.
And then, there's The Current Job Market...
18 years working where I worked & it was over one dry March afternoon late in the month.
Perhaps I should have seen it coming- perhaps not... I had come off a one year high having worked for Walt Disney Imagineering on the Toy Story Mania attraction- sadly what I gave all to had me return to something i should have at least kept privy, if not absolute attention towards- which was my "day job".
Corporate means being what they are- and no one can fault them for being such- I was laid off along with a gaggle of about 1400 others. Cest la Guer. Some will fall so that others may live to continue the battle.
For me- perhaps life begins anew...
Unhindered with the want, need or desire to keep a position that [after Imagineering] I'd finally outgrown [or, most likely "finally figured out"] my adventure begins again.
As the character Yojimbo [in the self-same titled movie] had noticed as his wander took him to a fork-in-the-road; with a decision to make, he had yet more decisions to make.
With Yojimbo- there was no turning back.
So too will it be with me.
Much like Yojimbo- I have my tools of the trade- though perhaps in today's world it's a better plan to carry a sharp mind as opposed to a sharp sword- [though I can use both]!
Still, I'll be trying to hedge my bets- choosing a path that not only I can live with but will also allow my family to live right alongside me.
I continue to be;
Russ
Let's just say that The Family Unit here at "Rose Manor" has now nicknamed that Murray lawn tractor "Frankenstein".
And we're talking the Gene Wilder "Frahnk-un- Steen".
This damn thing is so mutated it looks like a Transformer that developed rickets half way from turning into some kind of robot or at the very least, it could be it's own "Teenage Mutant Ninja... "X".
Strange thing is- it purrs like a kitten and drives like a dream- let alone cut grass better than it ever did before.
Something to be said for being different- right?
The past Election Cycle...
I'm a staunch conservative, "Confused Zen Buddho-Taoist in Christ".
As I see it the current POTUS is no more interested in me than I am in him- I'll leave him alone simply clinging to my guns & religion while in turn, he can leave me alone by staving off his "new age fascist world order".
Here's a common sense point to ponder:
No matter which extreme of the political spectrum one can be- I've come to learn that the acting President can't "win" regardless what he does- by satisfying anyone, no-one's gonna be happy. The two warring factions on either side of the political spectrum are so diametrically opposite that they join each other at the opposite end of the primordial circle.
Now I know why Ronald Reagan used Grecian Formula... I'm sure his hair was white 5 days after taking office back in the 80s.
And then, there's The Current Job Market...
18 years working where I worked & it was over one dry March afternoon late in the month.
Perhaps I should have seen it coming- perhaps not... I had come off a one year high having worked for Walt Disney Imagineering on the Toy Story Mania attraction- sadly what I gave all to had me return to something i should have at least kept privy, if not absolute attention towards- which was my "day job".
Corporate means being what they are- and no one can fault them for being such- I was laid off along with a gaggle of about 1400 others. Cest la Guer. Some will fall so that others may live to continue the battle.
For me- perhaps life begins anew...
Unhindered with the want, need or desire to keep a position that [after Imagineering] I'd finally outgrown [or, most likely "finally figured out"] my adventure begins again.
As the character Yojimbo [in the self-same titled movie] had noticed as his wander took him to a fork-in-the-road; with a decision to make, he had yet more decisions to make.
- Simply choose a path and continue.
- Allow the fates/gods/god/ancestors choose for him.
- Figure out how best to let the [#2 dieties] broadcast this choice to him.
- Take that path chosen outside his control.
- Opt for the path not chosen outside his control.
- Ignore all of the above and turn back.
With Yojimbo- there was no turning back.
So too will it be with me.
Much like Yojimbo- I have my tools of the trade- though perhaps in today's world it's a better plan to carry a sharp mind as opposed to a sharp sword- [though I can use both]!
Still, I'll be trying to hedge my bets- choosing a path that not only I can live with but will also allow my family to live right alongside me.
I continue to be;
Russ
