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Category Archives: Rants and Raves

22 minutes in a war zone

I am beginning to hate, dread, and even fear New Year’s Eve. This year we rang in the New Year at 10:15 with some of our bestest friends only to come home and have it ruined by our worstest neighbors.
Three years ago we were awoken at midnight by fireworks and a chorus of imbeciles [...]

How often does this happen?

Since I don’t have a job that provides me with a car I can take home, allow me to be extremely critical of those who do, especially those whose jobs are funded by tax dollars.
Today while in Albuquerque I was behind a police car from Bosque Farms, whose operator clearly was not paying attention to [...]

Preparation or Prediction

This morning on NPR I heard a piece of one of the Big 3 Auto Execs testimonies in front of congress. He told congress that they need 25 billion dollars because there was no way they could have predicted the current economic situation. While I agree with this statement, I would offer up the [...]

On honking horns and other inconsiderate actions . . .

The past few mornings, about 6 am, and one night at 11 pm I have been awoken by the beep-beep of a car horn. You know the kind when someone pulls up at a house and doesn’t want to get out and ring the door bell. I’ve done that when I’m picking up [...]

What would you do with $10,000

I bet you wouldn’t lend it to Wall Street to help them (and us) out of the current financial crisis but that is exactly what Secretary Paulson wants to do. 700 billion dollars works out to about $5000 per American household but the total cost of bailouts, including those that have already taken place [...]

R-E-S-P-E-C-T

We went to the playground tonight and I need to stop doing that. We had a fun time with the boys. We put them in the bike trailer and rode over and let them play for a quick 15 minutes because the weather was so nice. Here is why I need to [...]

Defining Poverty

I usually listen to KUNM on my way to and from work. I love NPR, I think it is no nonsense news and information. This morning on the KUNM Call in Show they were discussing household energy prices and how they would affect New Mexico households this winter. The best part of the [...]

Anyone seen my sander?

Last summer I bought a random orbital sander to work on a project refinishing a dresser.  I am young so I spent a few extra bucks and bought a Porter Cable sander.  Worked great for the project I bought it for.  Last night I went to pull out the sander to sand the picnic table [...]

R-E-S-P-E-C-T

Are you wondering what they served for free lunch at the park this week? Just visit the park.  I went over to the Westgate Community park this morning with the boys.  I wasn’t counting but there were at least 20 chocolate milk cartons scattered among the bark chips in the playground equipment.  They must have [...]