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now playing: train, "i wish you would"
two "kid nights", two sick kids, replete with ER visits, the works.
tuesday night, jayda came out with hand taped up, having apparently bent it backwards in basketball practice, so we went to have it x-rayed and splinted...she got a huge kick out of the fact that it was her middle finger and that she had to "throw the bird" at the x-ray machine. in fact, since i knew the doctor who was on duty (he's a musician as well - bass player), i was gonna ask for a xerox of her x-ray for her, but it was focused in tight enough on her middle finger that you couldn't really tell how she held her hand...
before we were finished, though, the shift changed and another doctor took over the ward - who was a guitar player and collector as well, i found out. since there was no pain involved, it was kinda funny...we were talking about what we had, what we played, what kind of amps we liked, so on and so forth...and jayda holds up her hand at us with this "what am i supposed to do with this?" look...much later, of course, it occured to me that i should've made a smart-assed comment along the lines of "looks like a good time for you to take up slide guitar..."
which turned out to be true...she has a large aluminum splint on her middle finger now.
so that was a post-midnight bedtime...then wednesday, i stayed up until almost 4 in the morning installing the wiring harnesses for the studio, and then last night i left work (late) and went to pick up the kids (late) and dylan is near death...we finished what errands we had and i took him home and let him sit for a bit at home - he was complaining a lot about his throat, and the fact that he was having a really hard time breathing. the skin on his body felt normal, but his head, face, neck and chest were on fire...even after we got him home to bed, he was a mess...i got up at 3:30 or so to go to the bathroom, and he was awake, sitting upright on the sofa in the living room, unchanged for the most part. i had made him take a hot shower when we got home at the end of the night to possibly ease whatever irritation he had in his throat that was giving him problems with his breathing, but it hadn't had any effect.
i got up at around 5:30 to shower and he wasn't on the sofa anymore, but when i came back upstairs, he was sitting upright in his bed.
so he called his grandmother and i took him there this morning after dropping jayda off for basketball practice.
did i actually make some precocious comment a while back about changing my ways, where staying up all night every night of the week was concerned?
there at least has been some reason behind the events of the week, and some productivity as well...so i can't be completely bitter about it at this point.
it's been interesting, this week, to see people's reactions to the mandate issued by the pentagon regarding shutting out the countries who opposed the war, where the rebuilding contracts are concerned...i have multiple thoughts on this.
first of all, if i'm chirac, i think my position would be simply this: i don't want your money or your business, but since iraq belongs to you now, pay off the loans we floated them - their debt is your debt now. secondly, if i'm a soldier stationed in iraq right now, it becomes even clearer to me what the motives were behind sending me there to risk my life at this point..."hmmm...we haven't found any WMD...87 billion dollars...haliburton....i think something may be rotten in baghdad..."
speaking of haliburton, how 'bout that overcharging the pentagon to the tune of almost double the going rate for gasoline imported into iraq, huh?
and how 'bout this for spin in action? from CNN:
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A Pentagon audit has raised questions about whether a subsidiary of Halliburton -- an oil services company once run by Vice President Dick Cheney -- overcharged the U.S. government $61 million for gasoline imported from Kuwait to Iraq.
The Pentagon said Thursday a routine review turned up the potential overcharge by subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root, which was awarded a no-bid contract in March to rebuild Iraq's oil industry.
But there is no allegation that Halliburton unduly profited from the overpriced gas.
(end quote from CNN)
now riddle me this, batman: just how do you overcharge someone that much and not "unduly profit"?
i also heard a rumor recently that there are those who are considering replacing franklin d. roosevelts' image on the dime with that of ronald reagan.
ok, cover your ears.....
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
well, fuck it, then. why not put nixon's picture on the dollar bill, then? then we can put dubya's mug on the quarter, gerald ford's picture on the penny - it makes sense, in a way...the presidents who have been bought and paid for can have their likenesses on the very money used to buy them! it makes perfect sense, no? i can hear the pitch now...
"think of the new currency as a means by which to honor those who honored the dollar above all else...above integrity, above responsibility, above all."
"return with us to the days of yesteryear...the days of defamation of character of prominent opposition party members, the days of paying criminals to break into democratic headquarters and lying to cover it up, of erasing secret white house tapes, of selling arms to the middle east and diverting the profits to rebel forces in central america, the days of lying to the american people to drum up support for a meaningless, but very profitable, war...do you remember? well, we do!"
i'm tellin' ya, man...if canada bordered us to the south, it'd be a no-brainer...as it stands, it's lookin' pretty sweet anyway.
chances that stone road will play "long time gone" at their show tonight: near 100%
two "kid nights", two sick kids, replete with ER visits, the works.
tuesday night, jayda came out with hand taped up, having apparently bent it backwards in basketball practice, so we went to have it x-rayed and splinted...she got a huge kick out of the fact that it was her middle finger and that she had to "throw the bird" at the x-ray machine. in fact, since i knew the doctor who was on duty (he's a musician as well - bass player), i was gonna ask for a xerox of her x-ray for her, but it was focused in tight enough on her middle finger that you couldn't really tell how she held her hand...
before we were finished, though, the shift changed and another doctor took over the ward - who was a guitar player and collector as well, i found out. since there was no pain involved, it was kinda funny...we were talking about what we had, what we played, what kind of amps we liked, so on and so forth...and jayda holds up her hand at us with this "what am i supposed to do with this?" look...much later, of course, it occured to me that i should've made a smart-assed comment along the lines of "looks like a good time for you to take up slide guitar..."
which turned out to be true...she has a large aluminum splint on her middle finger now.
so that was a post-midnight bedtime...then wednesday, i stayed up until almost 4 in the morning installing the wiring harnesses for the studio, and then last night i left work (late) and went to pick up the kids (late) and dylan is near death...we finished what errands we had and i took him home and let him sit for a bit at home - he was complaining a lot about his throat, and the fact that he was having a really hard time breathing. the skin on his body felt normal, but his head, face, neck and chest were on fire...even after we got him home to bed, he was a mess...i got up at 3:30 or so to go to the bathroom, and he was awake, sitting upright on the sofa in the living room, unchanged for the most part. i had made him take a hot shower when we got home at the end of the night to possibly ease whatever irritation he had in his throat that was giving him problems with his breathing, but it hadn't had any effect.
i got up at around 5:30 to shower and he wasn't on the sofa anymore, but when i came back upstairs, he was sitting upright in his bed.
so he called his grandmother and i took him there this morning after dropping jayda off for basketball practice.
did i actually make some precocious comment a while back about changing my ways, where staying up all night every night of the week was concerned?
there at least has been some reason behind the events of the week, and some productivity as well...so i can't be completely bitter about it at this point.
it's been interesting, this week, to see people's reactions to the mandate issued by the pentagon regarding shutting out the countries who opposed the war, where the rebuilding contracts are concerned...i have multiple thoughts on this.
first of all, if i'm chirac, i think my position would be simply this: i don't want your money or your business, but since iraq belongs to you now, pay off the loans we floated them - their debt is your debt now. secondly, if i'm a soldier stationed in iraq right now, it becomes even clearer to me what the motives were behind sending me there to risk my life at this point..."hmmm...we haven't found any WMD...87 billion dollars...haliburton....i think something may be rotten in baghdad..."
speaking of haliburton, how 'bout that overcharging the pentagon to the tune of almost double the going rate for gasoline imported into iraq, huh?
and how 'bout this for spin in action? from CNN:
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A Pentagon audit has raised questions about whether a subsidiary of Halliburton -- an oil services company once run by Vice President Dick Cheney -- overcharged the U.S. government $61 million for gasoline imported from Kuwait to Iraq.
The Pentagon said Thursday a routine review turned up the potential overcharge by subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root, which was awarded a no-bid contract in March to rebuild Iraq's oil industry.
But there is no allegation that Halliburton unduly profited from the overpriced gas.
(end quote from CNN)
now riddle me this, batman: just how do you overcharge someone that much and not "unduly profit"?
i also heard a rumor recently that there are those who are considering replacing franklin d. roosevelts' image on the dime with that of ronald reagan.
ok, cover your ears.....
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
well, fuck it, then. why not put nixon's picture on the dollar bill, then? then we can put dubya's mug on the quarter, gerald ford's picture on the penny - it makes sense, in a way...the presidents who have been bought and paid for can have their likenesses on the very money used to buy them! it makes perfect sense, no? i can hear the pitch now...
"think of the new currency as a means by which to honor those who honored the dollar above all else...above integrity, above responsibility, above all."
"return with us to the days of yesteryear...the days of defamation of character of prominent opposition party members, the days of paying criminals to break into democratic headquarters and lying to cover it up, of erasing secret white house tapes, of selling arms to the middle east and diverting the profits to rebel forces in central america, the days of lying to the american people to drum up support for a meaningless, but very profitable, war...do you remember? well, we do!"
i'm tellin' ya, man...if canada bordered us to the south, it'd be a no-brainer...as it stands, it's lookin' pretty sweet anyway.
chances that stone road will play "long time gone" at their show tonight: near 100%
posted by tom at 11:15
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