ZED ZED ZED

Woo-hoo to LooHoo and Norsek! May they be able to stay retired, and enjoy.

hey bb – how was your row across the bay today?

Come on Baby

hey tejanarusa

i had an email from loohoo tonight – she said that she has been celebrating and did not know if she would make it to late late night or not.

she said to tell everyone (if she didn’t make it):

If I don’t wake up in time, will you please give everyone my love? This is such a sensational feeling!

No row… voted…gardened…was awarded a free truck mounted carpet cleaning by good landlord saved $80.00 for a area carpet yeah!
How was your blogging day saw you around the Lake most of the day.
Marcy is smokin the torture perps. Fine work.

Hey, Suze. It’s good to be here, but I must must make myself go to bed soon, as I have an “interview” tomorrow.

It’s just for a foour-week test-scoring project, probably not even 40 hours each week, but I don’t scorn any paying job these days. Just have to pass the Spanish fluency test. Should be brushing up my grammar right now…FDL is justs so tempting, especiallly at late late night. ;)

fingers and toes crossed for ya tejanarusa

i voted today – it is all by mail here and the ballot was due 8pm today – so i dropped mine off at a collection box in town.

marcy has been showing those traditional reporters just how reporting is done indeed.

Voting there is so CIVILIZED — when is the rest of the country going to adopt this?

That’s funny. I’m likewise working on German grammar as I write this.

twas my first oregon vote and my first as a d.

i’d been doing absentee ballot in ca for several years. don’t like those touch screen voting machines.

hey ron d

Hi Suzanne!
bear hugs for LooHoo, and more ammo for Norske.

Suzanne’s no longer a REpublican! Yaaaay!(umm, not too gleeful or anything). Welcome!

I feel like a baby….. every 3 hours and I am starving…… going to rummage through the frig……

depending on which of my kin ya talk to, i’m either finally saw the light or have been corrupted.

good sign – you’re rebuilding! Need fuel.
(I am not, of course, a doctor or a nurse)

Mr.CE and I have been voting in advance at the Board of Elections for the last two presidential elections. Pretty impressed with the staff and general high spirits of the crowd (read, Dems). Still, I want Oregon rules.

Yeah, I hear that. I think I’m the only Dem in my family. We just avoid the whole subject of politics if at all possible.

Some horrendous family scenes back in the ’70’s — a miserable trolley ride home for me, after a visit with my dad, in Boston on business, during a big DC protest. Cried the whole way. After that, started keeping mum most of the time.

making up for when ya did not have an appetite at all katy. hunger means your body is getting stronger and needing more nourishment than when you were so sick.

what was it miss manners used to say – to not discuss politics or religions – i’ve tried to follow that rule when at family functions but… sometimes i just can’t help using that stir stick i seem to come equiped with.

Hey Suz!

and katymine – here’s to rummaging

hey newton

newt! All well?

Ahhh…. found a tub of Trader Joe’s Belgian chocolate putting…..

Please yes, I want Oregon rules too.
But wait, that would disenfranchise much fewer voters, can Ohio deal with that? /s

Lucile sounds right in tune…BB is a winner anytine…went to a performance at the old Carousel Ballroom in downtown SF 1969 I think.
Want to say Albert warmed up for him.
Every time now I watch a Tube puter crashes no biggie takes 8 minutes to reboot

hmmm chocolate

hi chris, all well.
just worked my way through thers, landed here

Hungry and sleepy all good signs of healing.

Hey Margot,
I don’t know. I could ask Bob Brown, Sherrod’s brother. I will see him in June, I hope.

kerplop! Had a wicked hard day at work, with lectures on Louis Comfort Tiffany(with associates), and should be sound asleep.

pumped.
jazzed.
spiked.

I know the feeling. And that LCT stuff is nice. Never looked until you mentioned it.

Good, katy, glad you are re-nourishing! Enjoy.

love just about everything tiffany (their gift boxes are the best) but the LCT glasswork blows me away.

Nite, see you this week.

hey dearie

Suz,
I did a speech about LCT and his work from the 1870’s -1920’s. What an amazing person. And he owned New York City.

g’nite ce

Hi, Suz. I’m so excited for the new retirees…..time to enjoy life. It’s taken me two years to get over being downsized, but I’m finally enjoying having time for my own endeavors……wish I’d come to it in my own time and at my own pace.

*deep sigh* with overhead slides of closeups of his work?

Tiffany also did a huge amount of stained glasswork here in Cleveland. OK, really, must go…

Fading fast, and I have to be coherent enough to pass the FL Teacher Certification Exam tomorrow.
Good night all. The best of all possible tomorrows to you all, especially LooHoo, Norske, and (((katymine))).

Shine on.

g’nite ce and rond

DWR1 (X) Hi Dearie we were overcast all day you coling off? My 12 foot sunflowers are starting to take off been in ground a month. Got some cosmos seeds from a friend to plant as well to add some color too…I like them a lot.

Well, it’s late, all right–have now sifted litter boxes, taken out garbage, washed face, and picked up all stuff knocked to floor by cat (he doesn’t usually do that, but today – constant. Oh well.)
OMG, I’m supposed to find my college diploma. Forgot all about that — to take to interview. That or original transcripts–not likely in 36 hrs. Now, let’s see, that diploma is around here somewhere…..Hope I didn’t put it someplace “safe”….
Okay, turning offf computer. It’s been real, y’all. G’nite!

Nite Chris, RonD

hey margot

g’nite and good luck

Hey, bb; we’re having a bit of early June-Gloom here … it’s been like that for a few years now. But lovely, nonetheless. Just hearing the waves now and then does it for me.

Thanks!!

Cannonball!

hey mark h (handing ya towel)

I’m laughing!

i’m hoping it will be warm enough for me to resume diving soon.

Hey Suz, newton, bb, everyone.

my first as a d

Say it ain’t so…Crossing a socialist shark-filled Rubicon there, S.

;>)

hey db – tis true – i am a former life long republican

hey all..

A snoopy dance for loo hoo and for katymine’s progress.

hey margot

hey sunny

Margot the good hearted.
You heard Dearie say the sound of the waves was enough for her…do you miss the Bay? Suz has her own bay now, full of wildlife. I saw a wonderful Bluejay today where Blackjack spent sometime…a Zen moment.

Simultaneous Union member as well.

proudly so – every month when i pay $170/month for my medical coverage, i say a thank you to the teamsters (and a wish they had retiree dental coverage)

Nice remembrance, bb. We have doves & robins and stuff….and I love the bird song. I used to live just a half mile away and only heard crows and seagulls. This is better.

You bet! — thanks to the unions! I had security as a teacher and as a probation officer, but once I became an attorney I had no security. My insurance costs $750 a month and I work part time to pay for it….
too young for ’single payer.’ Life is hard sometimes. As long as the older folks can be tossed out, the insurance companies win and win. Screw them.

if gov health care is good enough for our congresscritters and our soldiers, it is good enough for the rest of us.

You’re a kind person, bb.
I’ve never heard the bay, as a matter of fact. I miss the high desert. But right now, Ohio is full of blossoming trees. I have some real nice neighbors. My 80-year-old neighbor mowed my front yard. He tears around on his riding mower like a kid on a dirt bike.

Seconded!
Hi everyone!
Funny Wheelie Diva

Intersting…what kind of law did you practice? Our citizens group here is looking for an environmental attorney.

AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND…

Citizen Suzanne and the late nite Firepup Freedom Fighters:

Bless yer heart Sister Suzanne, we’re roundin’ third and slidin’ inta home…5 more shifts and a wakeup.

How are ya doin’ out in the boondocks, Sister Suzie…ya still in love with the deer in yer front yard or has the novelty warn off?

KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE AMMUNITION WE STILL HAVE 2 WARS TO END!!

hey funnyd

P.S. How’s Loo Hoo doin’…out kickin’ ass and takin’ names tanight?

hey norske – havent seen any deer but i gotta buncha eagles, barn swallows and probably another dozen bird types i aint figured out yet flying around.

my pod is now in portland and i’m gonna be moving in all my stuff this summer. i love this little spot on the bay.

I was one of those disparaged personal injury lawyers…..the only people who liked me were my clients!

scroll up – i cut and pasted from an email i had from her – she’s been celebrating (big ole smile) and said she may not make it here tonight.

found it for ya norske – this is the comment

Hey, sometimes injured persons are actually entitled to compensation, and often hafta fight fer it–and need professional help. Or so I imagine. IANAL myself…
Funny Wheelie Diva

Indeed. Don’t get hurt on the job in California anymore…..the workers’ compensation system has been gutted and even the best lawyers (my brother is one) cannot win for injured people. Insurance companies won. Very sad, really. The oligarchy is winning inch by inch.

Hey, let me know if you want a hand. If I’m still not workin’ I can bring my air mattress and pitch in for a couple days. I’m especially good at making sure the work crew stays fed and watered.
Funny Wheelie Diva

fucking ah-nold and his fucking ‘redo’ of worker’s compensation. (spitting) fucker

haven’t picked a date – am still working up the nerve to drive to the pod warehouse in pdx and taking a look at what is inside. i know i packed some of my essential must have stuff just inside the rollup door. wish i could remember what that was besides a coffee pot and a tv.

Yeah, inch by inch…on the backs of ordinary working people.
Grrrrr.
Didn’t Cali used to have reasonably good workers comp?

Funny Wheelie Diva

telescope
ice cream maker
television

*laughing* essential stuff.

thanks newton – was hoping you were still around and would remember

My Aunt’s in Portland. If we coordinated closely enough, I could ferry some of the POD stuff from there.
Eventually, they’ll bring you the whole POD, right?!
FWDiva

Yeah, back in the day, California had top-notch education, good workers’ compensation (i.e., just and equitable), and lots of vegetable/fruit fields. Now, not so much. I spent 25 years in the Midwest before getting back to California….and it really wasn’t the same place when I got back.

i gotta find out if they service tillamook – they should since 6 and 101 are truck routes (not to mention highways). i have to give the pod people 24 hours notice (so they can unstack it and have it accessible). i’ll try to remember to let ya know when i figure out when i’m going – it will more and likely be a m-word day since that is a day off for me.

nope. the raygun years were the beginning of the end of the golden days of the golden state.

Yeah, you’re right. I was a high school teacher in California in those years, and I could see the beginning of the downturn, but then I moved away…….and came back to see a whole new place. Sad, really.

yup, it is. i’ve lived in ca since 63 and it is not a hopeful golden state – it is a tarnished bitter dream of what was now.

I remember the Pod and Newtoner does too as he was directing traffic. Bigger furniture was in the nose and behind it…the furniture from your living room. Boxes of stuff from the shed were stuffed in the open space in the furniture. If I thought really hard I could draw a diagram. I think the beds were on the sides and your uniform and stuff from the small room and closet were in the middle top.You were entertaining the meet up guests at the first part. Lot of heavy stuff. I believe you gave a waya bunch.

Well, I gotta say that I still love California. Roots go back to 1880’s — and the state gave my people some really good stuff. There are still good places and good people, but the guvt is a mess. But, really, looks to me like guvt is a mess in most states. (Oregon appears to be an exception……you did well!)

After a day or two of rethinking, I moved the beds to the sides (I think). But there is a little challenge at the very top of the very back. It is heavy and unwieldy and stacked atop other heavy and unwieldy stuff.

I do not envy the fellow who has to manage it out of there. My sincerest apologies, whoever you are.

great memory bb – thank you – that jibs with what i am remembering. my binocs and cookbooks are in boxes that npb and i picked up from jen’s storage in castro valley and brought up to the pod. they are behind the stuff in front but before ya get to the stuff that you guys packed that first day.

gave away my living room furniture (except for my mission style coffee table) and my dining room set.

ET Jr just got back from his first year of college in California – Humboldt State. He loves California. He hasn’t been south of Ukiah yet, though.

Yep close mental hospitals many ended up lifers in jail. In the 50’s california was really good as they wanted population. It did become a vision I can’t quite say. A lot more pain for all now. That is why I went to Oregon.

oregon has been hit with some dayam hard economic times. my pension goes a lot futher up here – housing is 1/3rd of what it cost in ca. unemployment was stable last month, the same 14% (iirc) that it was the month before. lotsa programs getting cut but … and it is a huge but – they know how much those cuts hurt folks and try like the dickens to avoid them – unlike ca where the neediest are always the first budget items cut.

hey et (laughing) he is in for a rude awakening if he thinks it is all like humboldt.

Glad to hear that your son is happy….and he is in God’s Country….but he can go a bit father south and still be okay…..and nothing beats San Francisco, in my opinion. California has so many beautiful and interesting places. East side of the Sierras is one of my favorite.

busted said he would help unpack the pod. i hope he brings lotsa help – those stairs start to get brutal after about the 3rd round trip bringing up groceries. just about everything in the pod weighs more than groceries.

A freshman Econ major (he thinks) just showed up back here in Los Osos a striking change in his deanomer…gained some self confidence. They all seem to like Humboldt State.

Suz, don’t delay too long…. the voice of experience
you don’t want to know and I’m not telling.

He doesn’t think it’s all like the PRoA (the Peoples’ Republic of Arcata).

And he is in VERY good grace – brought us back two lumps of the best cheese in the world!

…unlike ca where the neediest are always the first budget items cut.

I’m certain it’s not because we have a dickhead-dillatante-TrojanRepublican-poseur-GlitteratiWannabe for a Governor, right?

nice eye candy – love that name humboldt fog – what kinda cheese is it?

My wife and I went on our first trip to CA in years last spring – to watch NCAA rowing races. Then we scooted around Northern CA in a tiny motor home. Except for Sacramento – where the races were – we stayed entirely away from cities: Clear Lake, Bodega Bay, the Redwoods in the north, Humboldt County. There ARE many glories there. We hope to visit again in the near future.

the maker describes it as:

an elegant, soft, surface ripened cheese. The texture is creamy and luscious with a subtle tangy flavor. Each handcrafted wheel features a ribbon of edible vegetable ash along its center and a coating of ash under its exterior to give it a distinctive, cake-like appearance.

unfortunately, i’ve seen it done by his predecessors. he just made it worse and when it fell apart, he doesn’t have a fucking clue what to do besides stand at a podium or in front of a camera.

goat?

“Vell pumping iron is better than cumming” An Ahnold quote from his first flick “Pumpimg Iron”. He was just “one wild and crazy guy”. Now he is owned by the oligarch, His World Gym was the model for governing CA both failed.

from Humboldt? My son did his freshman year at UA Anchorage. He’s studying green fisheries restoration there ad working part-time at an oyster farm out in the bay.

Yes. It has three textures – real soft, semi-soft, and a firm but tasty crust.

That is of course, true, even for the recent Democrat.
Reagan for 8, then Jerry Brown for 8, then Dukmajian and Wilson for 8 a piece, then the abortive gray Davis, and Ahnald.

ohmystars… only available in humboldt? *making mental note for next trip down to ca to go 101 and pick up some humboldt fog*

yup – has become an automatic reaction for sac to cut there first – i’ve noticed the state does not have that kinda attitude up here.

Like I said, the “catering” is my bag…bring em on! And here’s hoping you get a stretch of nice, dry days for the operation.

And, newt, I’m sure Ah-nuld has been as big a disaster as most reasonable people would have predicted, but there was always plenty of selfish dick-headedness in CA. Jarvis/Gann’s Prop 13 ring any bells, hmmmmm? I got out of the public ed system, through my BS, just as everything was starting to _really_ collapse behind me (late 80s, early 90s). And I’m pretty sure my folks happily voted for prop13 back in the day. They’re still pretty rabidly RW, sad to say.

FWDiva

It is available at places like Whole Paycheck Foods nationwide. In Anchorage, you can get skinny little wedges of it for about $20.00. A lot of California delis and upscale food stores carry it. In Tillamook, it isn’t at Fred Meyer, but there may be a natural food place or specialty food shop that carries it.

No argument. From electing tools as Governors and state legislators (not-so-secret admission – Dems in the CA state leg are not much better than Republicans), to voting in a terribly unsound initiative structure – California’s problems are largely, if not completely self-inflicted.

and you have my info in case you decide to hop in the car and drive down the coast one day. and i yours in case i decide to head up to seattle.

i only spent an afternoon there last time (heh – the only time) i was there – at the experience music project. i’ve got a lot of exploring to do.

Ask him to contact Dr. Dan Wickham Ph,D, U.C. Berkeley Marine Labs retired. He is coming back from Sweden He lives up on the mouth of the Russian River and did scuba studies of shell fish pathology on the Northerm CA coast. He is a vintner and has a wastewater company that keeps septic systems operational using and Aerobic Bcterial Digester that he invented, It uses bacteria found in the Redwood floors of the forest their. Called Sludgehammer…he can be contacted from that website. We have some down here including the Fire department. Very smart scientist and a good guy.

Yes, you do! And a standing invitation to crash in my spare room. And, ya know, until yesterday and today, I could have believed that road-trip season was here.

FWDiva

I’ll show your comment to ET Jr when he gets back from fishing out on the lake. It’s light all night here until August.

i’ve been hearing an uptick in traffic on the 3 capes scenic loop – and seeing a lot more rv’s, trucks pulling boats, etc. hard to believe that this weekend is memorial day weekend. i believe that is the official start of tourist season here.

Great. He is probably in the boat that you posted a picture off early in the national election. It was in your driveway…probably a link to your site.
Speaking of furniture gotta get up early and move some for the carpet cleaners. Good night

Citizen EdwardTeller:

Hey there Brother ET where ya been guy? And what is “Junior” catchin’ up there…lake trout?

Hey Suze and others, howya doin?

hey that guy – doing ok – you?

that guy!

Suze – better than a couple hours ago (missing Brat again – wet eyes). I’ve had a few dry-eyed days, but not many. He really left a huge, huge hole.

How’s Katymine? I saw her a couple days ago, but I didn’t get the gist of how she was doing?

Hey Newt, how’s life?

there will be better days and worse days that guy.

katy is doing forking great! she sounds like her old self again (and is really hungry – a good sign).

Life is life.
But this (and it’s cool): the last time I saw katymine, she was raiding the fridge!

This one (the one in the (background)

Rainbows.. They just go back – two 15-inchers.

I’m going to LA next month, playing a gig with a friend’s band. We need a road trip. Stop at Harris Ranch, have critter for lunch.

Glad to hear Katy’s doing better.

I’ve looked at hundreds of orange cats on Petfinder, and as adorable as most of them are, I haven’t found as gorgeous an orange cat as Brat. That guy had the feline beauty market cornered.

sounds like a fun trip dood and a good time should be had by all :) what kinda band and where ya gonna play?

i used to stop at that 76 station across 5 from the ranch and get gas every time i headed south (and my last fillup on the way back).

We’re playing at a car show at Glendale Harley Davidson. The band is kind of a cowpunk band. Lots of twang and drive.

I’ve known the leader of the band for a long time. I need a road trip.

BTW: Great BB King.

The last time I made it south, I took 101. Beautiful now, but too long for your trip. And 5 is right there in or near Glendale, right?

thanks that guy. driven cowpunk is not something i’ve heard a lot of (laughing)

yikes…. no wonder my last comment doesn’t read as snark (my intent) – after 1am here.

time for me to head out. thanks for letting me spend some time with ya tonight.

g’nite pups