Category Archives: Life

Life, Opinion, Shopping

Dirty Books for Women

This Fifty Shades of Grey book is really making the news. I finally had to take a look at it while in the store today. I flipped through a few pages. I have to tell you, I was not impressed. The writing was pretty lame and the story just isn’t interesting. I didn’t buy it.

What the fuck do the women like in this book? Are they really liking the book because it talks about kinky sex? Of are they just a bunch of sheep buying the book because it is being well marketed and the talking heads are being paid to rave about it, thus driving up the sales. Has anyone heard a woman actually admit that it is a good book? I have not.

Automobiles, Life, Nature, Work

Car Wash Again

Most of the time my car only needs a light hosing down to keep it clean. I do a spring detailing, and then once a week I run it through the automatic car wash at the gas station. It’s two bucks for a 5 minute hose job.

For some reason, where I parked my car yesterday was a bird poop magnet. When I came out of the office I found white splotches of bird shit all over the car. It wasn’t even under a tree. I have no fucking idea why a flock of birds would decide to fly over my car and just all of them shit on it. There weren’t any cars parked beside it when I got out of the office, so I am curious if they got shit splattered, too – or was it just me?

So this morning I got up early and drove down to the self serv car wash bays and spent a half hour scrubbing my down to get the bird shit off of it. I don’t know what the fuck I’m going to do about parking it in the lot to the office on Monday. Maybe I’ll find a place on the other side of the building.

Family, Life, Rant

Did You Ever Hide Your Report Card?

report card

As a kid, I did OK in school and my parents never gave me any grief about my report cards. It would never occur to me to hide my report card or not give it to my mom when I got home from school.

In junior high, one of my buddies, Kevin, didn’t get very good grades. I was shocked to find out that he parents would beat the crap out of him for every grade below a C on his report cards regardless of the teacher or the subject. His dad would scream at him about being an embarrassment to his family for being below average and that no one in his family was below average but Kevin.

In my mind that is abuse, but back then no one would call out people for abusing their kids or their wives. People just suffered through it. There is still abuse like that going on in today’s world. I don’t think anyone has a solution to a huge social problem like this. The abused kids and wives don’t speak out because their alternative to that kind of home life would be living in a shelter and being in poverty for years. They have to choose between two evils, and most people stick with the familiar, no matter how brutal and unfair it may be.

Food and dining, Life, Local, Outdoors

Grilling With Style

Bought a new gas grill today. The old one was rusted out and too small – I had bought it for camping and got many good years of burgers and steaks from it. But it was time to go. I found one at Sam’s Club for a fair price and tossed that sucker into the back of my pickup truck and hauled it home. No assembly required – just have to hook up the propane tank and marinate the steaks. Its gonna be some good food here in a couple of hours!

Family, Friends, Life, Local, Music and concerts

Fireworks from the Riverbank

Nashville always has a free concert and fireworks show on the Fourth of July. We have the Nashville symphony that plays during the fireworks – a whole list of classical patriotic songs. But we also have 3 or 4 other types of music before the show.We all just meet up down by the river and spread out blankets on the grass to watch the shows and drink beer.

The free concerts last all afternoon and up until about 9:30, then the family drag their tired asses home and the young people hit the bars to keep on keeping on. Good times!