Finally.

Yesterday, we finished up working on the condo that we have been repairing for the past 6 weeks or so. I put the ceramic tile back that I had to remove to get the dishwasher out (A hazard of putting in new floors after appliance installation)  and we were finished. Well, not totally. I still have to hook up the icemaker.   

Today we rented the place to a schoolteacher. As always, we are going with our gut feeling when choosing a renter to occupy our property. It works most of the time. We are now free to head to warmer climes or at least after Saturday, we will be. We have decided to to stay here until Christmas, however.

ah-one and a two and ah-three.

This month’s readers digest carries the startling statistic that the average American passes gas between 14 and 23 times daily. It didn’t say how many of those are caused by having a finger pulled but I would venture to say it’s roughly on the order of one third. 

I showed this article to Susie so she could see that the act of ripping one off is as natural as the setting of the sun. She has taken to counting my indiscretions. This morning as I bent over to tie my shoe, a small blast escaped and she yelled from the other room. ”THAT’S ONE.”

I have yet to get beyond “THAT’S ELEVEN.” so I don’t know where Readers Digest is getting their data. It’s certainly not from my posterior.

Tomorrow evening, we plan to have Navy Beans for dinner so I may have something more to report.

blogging for the hell of it.

I have been remiss the past few weeks in posting to this site because I have been busy doing other things. We are about to wrap up the remodel of our condo and it should be  ready to rent next week sometime.

I also have a part time job driving a bus for a large package delivery company. I tried substitute teaching in a middle school and boy, was that an eye opener.  That generation of seven graders is out of control as far as I could tell. Of course, I’m from another generation and this school was not like any school I ever attended.  .

I have also been in a blue funk over the state that our country is in right now. 

I never intended for this site to be a serious thing because I’m not a serious person. I was aiming for funny but then, there’s not much funny going on right now. Our Hollywood celebrities have all seemed to have lost their minds. Portland, Maine is passing out birth control devices to its middle schoolers. Middle schoolers, for God’s sake. I honestly don’t remember if I even knew there was such a thing as sex when I was in the sixth grade. Well, maybe I did. There was that unbelievably cute Barbara whats-her-name.

Fuel prices have us straining to adjust our budget and try as I might, I can’t seem to reduce the number of miles that we drive. The democrats are still bitching about the war in Iraq. I don’t know if they have a leg to stand on because I don’t know where to go to get the truth. The guy in Iran, the guy in Venezuela and now the guy in Pakistan. Jeez, is there going to be any let up? And if I see one more Andy Mohr car commercial, I’m going to throw up.  All this stuff has me a tad down in the mouth.   

On the other hand, my book, ‘Travels with Susie’, is one of the books selected to be featured at the Indiana Historical Society’s Indiana Author reception and book fair in December.   

I am keeping an eye out for funny stuff worth mentioning, however and I promise that as soon as I see something, it’s going right to this page.    There won’t be any more of this grousing nor will there be any more of the political posts following this. So help me God

Monroe Gray (or Grey)

I would like to go on record as predicting that this just re-elected Indianapolis city councilman will resign before his term is completed. I would also like to say to the  people in his district who voted for him despite his underhandedness and alleged unlawful dealings, Could you people get a life?  Voting for this guy just because he’s a democrat is an embarassment to the city.  

Greg Ballard.

In a stunning upset yesterday,  Greg Ballard was elected mayor of Indianapolis over the incumbent Bart Peterson. The reasons given include the obscene property tax increase, the crime rate, the county income tax increase, the combining of the sheriff’s and city police departments and the shenanigans of Monroe Gray (or Grey, I forget which)., the Democratic leader of the city-county council.

I would like to submit a couple more reasons. First of all, Mayor Peterson’s tv ad campaign stunk to high heaven. His trying to take credit for  the Govenor rescinding the property tax increase took more balls than it takes to hold the Masters golf tournament and The lady explaining that her twin sons would be able to go to college because of Bart was a laugher.

The second thing that contributed to his loss was the defeat of the Colts by the Patriots last weekend. The Euphoria that gripped the citizenry over the unbeaten season had people forgetting about all the problems the city faced. Once the Colts lost, however and folks came back to earth, it was hard to ignore the crime, Monroe Gray (nee Grey) and  the huge sports palace being built on the southside of town at the expense of other worthy government projects.  I think that the invincibility that fans perceived the Colts to have was lost and more than a few voters realized that the 3/4 billion dollar Lucas Oil Stadium will be nice but totally unnecessary once Peyton Manning is gone.

On a lighter note, it was encouraging to see that if people get mad enough, they can buck the political machine.