Friday Follies...
Well, I've seen the missus off to school...and since she NOW has to arise around 0530, she's not the happiest camper in Yellowstone...LOL.
But, perhaps the school corporation will indeed see the errors of it's ways, and get back to NORMAL time.
And since it's the WEEKEND, what better way to kick it off with a little ditty from Dave Edmunds (who?) from way back in 1976:
If I can't embed the video, (which it looks like I cannot) I'll just post the link...We old curmudgeons don't cotton all that well to this here new-fangled techonology - especially when it doesn't DO what we WANT it to do.
Either way, the song is PERFECT for a Friday!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DspXjubUMyw
If you wanna sing along...here 'ya go...
Here Come The Weekend - Nick Lowe & Dave Edmunds

Monday ain't a fun day
Tuesday's a goof day
Wednesdays are frenzy
Thursday's the worst day
Friday is great
'Cause I can hardly wait until the weekend

I should be clockin' in at eight
But I'm a little late
Can't blame my baby 'cause I took her on a date
Two 'till ten, and then it's Friday again
Here come the weekend

Here come the weekend
Here come the weekend
My working week's so tough
I think I've had enough until the weekend

I've had an overdose of doctor's notes
But it just don't ease the pain
Goin' on the sick, don't do the trick
'Cause sooner or later I'll be clockin' in again

Working like a dog on a ten hour day
Never see enough of my take home pay
They pay me for the shift like they was givin' a gift
Here come the weekend

I've had an overdose of doctor's notes
But it just don't ease the pain
Goin' on the sick, don't do the trick
'Cause sooner or later I'll be clockin' in again

Someday I'll be able to forget my working days
Life will be a grin 'cause my ship is comin' in
Everything will go my way and I won't have to say
Here come the weekend

Here come the weekend
Here come the weekend
My working week's so tough
I think I've had enough until the weekend

Here come the weekend
Here come the weekend
Here come the weekend
Here come the weekend

Elsewhere in "Sodom City"...
*** (( Gunman robs novelty store - Journal Gazette
ort Wayne police investigated an armed robbery Thursday at a north-side novelty shop.
he robbery was reported about 10:30 a.m. at Stoner’s Funstore, 5511 Coldwater Road. An off-duty police officer arrived first and found a female employee had been tied up. She told police a man entered the store, brandished a black handgun and took an undisclosed amount of money.
The bandit was described as about 5-foot-5, 25 to 35 years old, black, and wearing a black billed cap, black sweatshirt, black baggy pants and black shoes. He also wore white work gloves with gripping material on the palms, police said. Police used a dog to try to track the man, who left through a back door, but they could not find him. ))
Well THAT perp fits the description of about damn near EVERYONE in MY part of town...should be a piece of cake rounding up "suspects", right?
Guess the robbers are getting a tad desperate when they start knocking over NOVELTY stores.
Stoners is noted for gag gifts...kinda like a Spencers, only WEIRDER!
Here's the website:
http://stoners.com/
I love their "saying" -
SELLING FUNNY, GOOFY CRAP SINCE 1949.
One commenter on the news site had THIS to say about the story:
(( Fact-is-Fact wrote:
I think the reason that so more people are becoming prejudice is because they have pulled their heads out of the sand and have finally seen who is committing the most violent crime not only in the city but the entire country (FBI stats) and also which culture is victimised more by the other culture. You seen what happened to
Detroit it only took about 50 years for that entire city to be destroyed. Well Fort Wayne is on its way. Look at the "people" move away to other small cities such as Columbia City/Dekalb County etc etc. and you have seen your ghetto just like in Detroit expand from the central part of the city to the entire south side of Fort Wayne slowly destroying it like cancer in a body. Remember how South Town Mall was such a nice place to shop until the problems destroyed it? Well now the cancer is traveling north and it can be seen by the condition of the neighborhoods as far north as State St. I know some will disagree with me but if you just open your eyes
and look around and do some research you will see it was not the Auto Industry that destroyed the city it was a certain culture just like every other larger city in this Country. ))
In case you're wondering... NO, that wasn't ME that posted this to the WANE site...(I wish - sounds JUST like what I've been saying for YEARS)
And if that isn't bad enough....
*** Driver's Ed might not be all it's CRACKED UP to be (no pun intended).
Here's the *411* on this "revelation":
http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20100820/LOCAL/308209977
Now, I can honestly proclaim that *I* have never taken Driver's Ed (and it was given at MY high school, and NO, it wasn't for BUGGY-DRIVING...sheesh).
I learned the "old-fashioned" way...
I was working with a good buddy (Walt Verbitski) who had a NEW 1972 pale yellow Olds Cutlass Supreme (damn fast car), and he offered to teach me.
(My father worked 3rd shift, and he couldn't take me driving, but he thought it was OK for Walt to teach me, providing I didn't do anything "stoopid". Fair enough, then)
So, I figured what the hell, the price was right (free), and Walt DID get some gratis cheese steaks out of the deal anyway (the ULTIMATE barter item, trust me).
Thing is, I wound up learning to drive down in SOUTH PHILLY, rather than up in MY neighborhood!
Those of you that aren't familiar with South Philly, let me say this:
NARROW, ONE-WAY STREETS...and LOTS of them!
You've never known fear until you've had the number 5 bus RIGHT up your ass, in the rain, on a narrow street you've never driven on before.
Like Walt told me: "Hey, you learn to drive HERE...you can drive ANYWHERE".
And by God, he was right!
I drove on Delaware Avenue (tons of train tracks criss-crossing all over the place) - great if you want to take a perp in back of the meat wagon on a "scenic" drive before he gets to the Roundhouse. You needed a seatbelt JUST to stay behind the damn wheel on that chunk of road. Prisoners in the back of the van were RARELY cuffed to the "travel-bar"...and they bounced REAL well.
Walt even taught me how to parallel park WITHOUT using the whitewalls as "curb-feelers"...never forgot that, either.
But learn I did, and he let me take HIS car for my driver's test (the PA "Stateys" administered the driver test at "the barracks" ), and I passed with flying colors on the FIRST TRY. That must account for something.
So you might want to think long and hard when it comes to teaching that son or daughter to drive.
It might be in everyone's best interest to teach them yourself.
Sure, they might not get that D/E insurance "discount", but they might become BETTER drivers with YOUR tutelage, and that will lower THEIR (or your) premiums in the long run. Besides, it's a good BONDING experience (and a boon for VALIUM sales...LOL).
*** That old birthday of mine is coming like a jail-on-wheels (this Sunday), and Wifey had been deciding WHAT to get a man that is so frigging "complex", and since that truckload of DIRTY FIFTY DOLLAR BILLS wasn't on HER "short list", (like it IS on MINE) she opted to get me another car...!
(Oh, yeah, the WOW factor was certainly there.)
So she sprung for THIS:











That's right...the DeLorean time machine from Back To The Future...
AND...in 1/24th scale!
(helluva cool diecast)
WHAT? You thought I was talking about a REAL car?
Give up the beloved FIREBIRD? After TWENTY-SIX YEARS?
Surely you jest!
That car has been a part of my life for TWICE the amount of time I've been married to Missus Bobby G.
Getting rid of my "Black Beauty" would be like cutting off a foot...(or some other part of nature that will remain unmentionable).
That would be like the Lone Ranger WITHOUT Silver...AND Tonto!
Like I say, I don't need all that fancy-ass sh*t in OR on a car to make it work for me (unless it's "Mr Fusion" and a flux-capacitor).
Keep that MP3 "dock", and that LCD screen TV/DVR/DVD player...not my style. Hell, I don't even have a CD or cassette player...don't need all the distractions. I like to make driving as enjoyable an experience as I can, despite the numerous idiots who (unfortunately) share the roads.
All I need is good, solid transportation...that STILL looks cool as I sit behind the wheel...LOL.
A man of simple pleasures...yep, that's me.
(some would say I'm just plain SIMPLE)
'Ya think?
But simple IS...as simple DOES, right?
In any event, this will be a "landmark birthday" for me in some ways, and perhaps I'll disclose why soon enough.
So here's to the cake, Chinese food, and a cold Guinness.
I just hope the fire department doesn't have to roll on our house when Wifey lights ALL those candles...!
Have yourselves a fantastic weekend.
Be well, make a difference to someone, and, as always...
Stay safe out there, America.