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- May 29, 2018
- little caesars extra most bestest stuffed crust
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So after a very long while I returned to Little Caesar's ...
You know, in an attempt not to sell them short based on my last visit which was a dismal abysmal gastronomic disaster. I ordered their extra most bestest stuffed crust pizza in the pepperoni variety and waited about 5 minutes or so to get it.
They were really busy and being kept hopping so I didn't mind the wait.
When I returned home I ate about 3 pieces or so one with the way overpriced garlic sauce I bought and placed the rest in my fridge — perhaps for another day ... or not.
The pizza was indeed hot and fresh with plenty of pepperoni to it's credit though I missed the cheese in the stuffed crust at first but found it after a piece or so.
The verdict was in shortly into my repeat foray and that being the pizza was a vast improvement over the last one I had about a year ago I guess.
However inasmuch as I give it a strong 4 out of a possible 10 I suppose that the pizza just isn't really for me. I like a much thinner crust, more toppings on the same pie, and cheese in the crust that is obviously there.
This fare remains for those who will be happy with anything as long as it's cheap and plentiful.
Well, God bless all of you Little Caesar types out there but I suppose I continue to decline to be one of you. Guess I'm just one of those "choosy mothers" out there getting grub to go.
However, in a pinch and were I quite hungry I could certainly go for some.
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- May 28, 2018
- Memorial Day
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Memorial Day is that mark on the calendar reserved to honor and remember those who died in active military service . It is traditionally observed on May 30 but has been relegated to the last Monday in May to accommodate the opportunity for a three day weekend.
The day is marked with a variety of observances typically ensconced in military tradition and often includes those individuals with lifelong military service or service with distinction.
Now that we have a Commander-In-Chief truly worthy of the title I will be celebrating the day a lot more than I have over the previous eight years of the brigand democrat usurper who tainted The Republic with his surreptitious damage to our nation for which he has not yet been held accountable.
The deep state will eventually fall when all of their criminal atrocities become known by enough of the tax payers.
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- May 28, 2018
- My Bucket List Was Emptied Friday, May 30, 2014
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A couple years back I had a bucket list. I had always intended to reconnect with my childhood friend Chris Gagnon who I knew way back when in Key West — you know, talk about old times, see how he was doing over the years, reminisce ...
Alas, this became undoable when I found out that he passed when we were both around 40.
Though quite a while back I remember that time well as a busy educator wasting my life in the stupid state technical college system and trying to adapt to that blended family which was my brother's propensity for abandoned relationships shirking everything beyond a three foot radius around him.
In all the disappointment — which was mostly about me — I almost lost sight of the true tragedy which was the loss of all that Chris was ...
An artist, musician, writer, and voracious reader, hysterically funny, the epitome of kindness, and possessing impeccable manners. So in all my present day "phobic" rejection of same sex anything I am given pause to consider my fine friend Chris; who I wish were still here to share that which he was with the rest of the world.
Sometimes we tend to casually dismiss that which should be embraced in our humanity. Chris certainly deserved the consideration and the world is far less than it was when he was around to grace it's countenance with his easy smile, intuitive nature, and excellent conversation. He was a nice person as were his parents and I have missed them over the years as well.
Lately I've found that the realization of the nature of his passing makes me feel badly about myself and my attitudes sometimes. It's not that I consider my bucket list to be lacking either, for I have experienced most if not all of that which people accumulate in their experiential inventories over the years. I suppose the lack of items in my bucket list leaves time to work on me and how I feel about things in my continuing quest to actually kick that bucket as far off in the future as humanly possible.
I was originally thinking about a memorial entry on the White Street Pier in Key West because Chris went down hard and I'm sorry for that fact. I just think he should be remembered and he was very difficult to locate. It took me 40 years and all I was able to find were a couple of photos and his obit. A sad notion indeed — but he departed a 20th century man; just prior to the advent of widespread broadband internet and it's subsequent social media, blogging and all of the communication avenues available nowadays.
See also:
Chris Gagnon Obituary
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- May 27, 2018
- I wish I'd never heard of Windows 10
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I wish I'd never heard of Windows 10. I wish I'd never heard of Microsoft, Bill Gates, or the rest of that slimy group of pirates claiming that their purloined booty is "innovation".
10 Technologies Microsoft 'Borrowed'
My problem revolves around the fact that they release product way before it's ready for production implementation and then force 'updates' on you til you're sick of them and their half ass offerings period.
Doug Barney
Redmond Magazine
I recall a a lovely article on the AP wire back in 2016 when Microsoft claimed that users can still opt out of Windows 10 upgrades.
Then you have family members forcing your hand by upgrading unbeknownst to their support person — namely "me".
So I have to upgrade so when the inevitable problem goes down I have some point of reference from which to troubleshoot.
Anyway, now my dear John Pruett is gone but Windows 10 persists as the bane of my Microsoft hating existence.
You may ask yourself, what are the alternatives.
Well ... there are a number of them I would be perfectly happy with because between the open source and pay for play products all the bases are covered quite nicely. I find those desktop operating systems in the Unix/Linux realm most attractive as Microsoft alternatives. No. I don't need Microsoft. I don't need Bill Gates. I don't need his asian indian stand in Satya Narayana Nadella either.
It is a sad commentary when a populace can only envision one environment anywhere. This myth that Microsoft is "the way" is evidence for that lack of intellect which has progressively overtaken the United States and therein lay the crux of the problem.
We are too stupid as a people by and large anymore to get out there and cultivate options. So I'll just have to "be me" and live for that day when I can abandon the support needs of all too many around me and go for the technological platforms I prefer rather than allow the poor choices of those around me rule my life to the point of distraction as happens now.
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- May 26, 2018
- National Paper Airplane Day 2018
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When I was a kid I certainly fashioned my fair share of paper airplanes. While I'd like to say they were the aerodynamic pest de la resistance of their time, I'm sure you know better.
We would make them, fly them, then suffer the consequences when the teacher caught us in our various maneuvers culminating in a confiscation and scolding or two periodically.
Today is National Paper Airplane Day. It's one of those unofficial things we do to celebrate various aspects of life which might go unnoticed otherwise. Paper plane aeronautics may be simple but they are also universal outlets to both little and big boys everywhere.
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- May 25, 2018
- Geek Pride Day 2018
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Geek Pride Day 2018
Today is Geek Pride Day, a rather informal initiative to promote geek culture which comes down each year on this day.
It began in Spain in 2006 and has spread via the internet and came to the fore in US geek culture two years later.
Though I am the classic geek with pursuits that are highly technical and eclectic ... I don't really indulge geek afterhours pursuits such as cosplay, card games, many of the films and such.
It's okay though because when it comes to those things in geekdom which really matter like writing programs, troubleshooting networks, repairing hardware, and subject matter expertise I can certainly hold my own with the best of them.
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- May 24, 2018
- International Tiara Day 2018
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A tiara is a jeweled ornamental band worn on the front of a woman's coiffure. It is a favorite piece of jewelry worn by my favorite girl, Dr Amy Farrah Fowler on The Big Bang Theory television show.
It's all the perception of her thrill at both receiving it and wearing it that amuses me most with the diadem. I also view it as one of those trinkets a lady should receive if the relationship is viewed as exceptionally valuable to the gentleman because they're intricate and involved and project status as should be exhibited in that relationship between the giver and receiver of such jewelry.
I understand that many of the female persuasion admire tiaras as an art form but our modern age really doesn't provide many opportunities to wear them ...
The tiara, or diadem is symbolic of rank and status in various societies throughout history — and has been from time immemorial as a substitution for the crown.
Today is International Tiara Day. It is observed each May 24th, which is the birthday of Queen Victoria.
So it is my personal feeling that if the mood strikes you should don a tiara for that regal touch whenever you feel it is appropriate because like Amy Farrah Fowler all ladies are special.
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- May 23, 2018
- World Turtle Day 2018
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Every now and then I encounter a turtle or a tortoise. The last episode involved two adult sliders I caught on Hendrix Street over by my house fairly early one Saturday morning.
I placed them in my back yard and never saw them again. Before that I found a young box tortoise over at my dad's place over in Briarwood a couple years back. This one I also released in my yard never again to be seen.
I hope they're still out and about doing turtle things at their own speed nearby ...
It's part of that penance I do for being such a cruel child. I would sometimes mistreat little animals — perhaps because I felt that I was bigger and stronger I suppose ... I don't really know what I was thinking when I reflect on those times now in my old age.
So now, if I encounter one it has the right of way as far as I am concerned. I let them exist where they are and attempt not to disturb them unless they are in peril such as on the road in front of my house or somewhere similar.
Today is World Turtle Day. It is a celebration of turtles and tortoises, started under the auspices of American Tortoise Rescue to increase attention to, and respect and knowledge of turtles and tortoises. The desired end of World Turtle Day is the promotion of human action aimed at helping them survive and thrive in the world.
It is celebrated worldwide in various ways from dressing in green, turtle rescue operations on highways and at the seashore, research activities, craft projects, and lesson plans in classrooms.
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- May 22, 2018
- World Goth Day 2018
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At work I have an ongoing joke whereby I arrive in my black tie, black pants, black belt, and black shoes and tell everyone how "I'm goth". I am frequently confronted about my white dress shirt for which I simply clarify as "business goth".
So even though the rock music called 'goth' which arose from punk with those mystical and apocalyptic lyrics never crossed my lips nor my ears,
And even though I never embraced the subculture favoring all the black clothing with white and black and red makeup to go along with it all ...
I enjoy my brief fantasy into telling people that "I'm goth" regardless of their skepticism and suspicions of my motives right on down to that hilarity which sometimes ensues.
Today is World Goth Day — "a day where the goth scene gets to celebrate its own being, and an opportunity to make its presence known to the rest of the world."
World Goth Day has British beginnings about 2009 as a BBC Radio 6 event by Goth DJs Cruel Britannia and martin oldgoth . Ultimately, May 22 became the date selected for recurrence of the day celebrating goth subculture. It has grown over the years to around 40 events internationally.
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- May 22, 2018
- National Maritime Day 2018
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Sailor. Seaman. I have been called both. Mariner. Seafarer. I have been called neither.
Today is National Maritime day, a celebration connected with the sea ... in particular that industrial complex associated with commercial or military naval or marine activities.
It brings me back to my Navy days and those thoughts of all they have afforded me later ... and how I should have both enjoyed the time and taken it all a bit more seriously.
Things don't always turn out like you think they will. Also, the road less taken is somewhat more divergent than I was initially lead to believe. Hindsight is always 20/20.
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- May 21, 2018
- Stupid Web Presence
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I take a lot of hits regarding my minimal web presence on my business card and hobby/social media sites. The crux of the issue is their beginnings juxtaposed against their evolutions ... which while transpiring presently are not evident because of implementations which are "back end" and not yet on the public facing network.
Case in point: I have been looking for a person to trim trees in the local area and have pursued candidates via search engines and have to say that the web presence of this particular group leaves much to be desired.
It's either way too much or too little and the presentations are vastly cookie cutter creations by some company selling the same thing all over.
My point being that if your web presence is the exact duplicate of your competition's with nothing other than the exchange of contact information you're all disqualified.
You dopes with these ridiculous flowery nothings or facebook substitutions can take a hike too.
Then there are those other HVAC idiots who think that a person who hosts their web site needs to take care of all their "seo" needs. First of all, if you're working in seo you're a shister out to relieve the stupid of their fundage. I spoke to a young lady who thought that seo was the "be all" and the "end all" of web presence — and naturally she called herself a practioner as a career.
What a load of crap. If you want higher listings in the search engines one of three things must transpire:
1. You pay for it.
2. You inspire the world by hook or crook.
3. Or you pay for it.
The so-called "organic" search engine is just a watered down fragment of what google used to be before it became the whore of the internet.
You pretty much buy your position in the search engines unless you appeal to the world enmass. Good luck with that too.
Anyway this stupid skill-less girl really did think she was an up and coming marketing star to be the nothing she is in reality.
All of this points to that reality which is the consequences of monopolies being allowed there. The demise of internet neutrality at the hand of Trump's nasty ass FCC indian may at least provide for trickle down economics despite the googles, the facebooks, the youtubes, and all the other bad things out there stifling the world with their overpowering control based stink.
Needless to say I'll probably be talking an old friend into handling my arborist needs because the lameness of the web presence in the local market is stifling and really ... how much money do we have to shove into the facade which is seo ?
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- May 20, 2018
- I'm Sorry I'm NOT Sorry
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Ah, the apology. That sweet submission to remorse and admission that amends are indicated ... that redress and reparations are in the pipeline and lottie da da da.
Unfortunately, many times the contrition required for such antics simply isn't in the cards and even though the offense may be horrific the perpetrator is simply that epitome of rude, crude, and socially unacceptable negating the possibility for anything resembling an apology ... ever.
Thus is the nature of our 21st century schizoid "me" generation and our bunch of persons raised on text message style composition and that parallel grammar and syntax which simply doesn't provide for much in the way of communication ... much less superb manners.
In my past I was your worst nightmare from a standpoint of comportment. I found that unapologetic crescendo right about those Navy days when nobody really expected much from me in the way of tact and poise and I maintained this boorish persona as a matter of personal choice for entirely too long.
As time does, comparative interpersonal relations gave me insight into those errors of my ways and I smoothed out over the years — by and large — with little left of who I was except that persistent 'tude which I may never lose.
I guess I simply tired of aspects of the fray which combative personality embodies and as such lost it in the refreshing mist of that kinder, gentler person toward which I have continually gravitated and thus evolved in these, my latter days.
Still; few apologies are delivered by me personally. I don't know if I'm simply "not sorry" and should be or if I'm merely less offensive in general anymore.
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- May 19, 2018
- Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
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John F Kennedy and The Beatles. When I was a kid it was an innocent time. I would roam the streets of Aragona Village in Virginia Beach playing army and riding bikes, and even delving into various games of tags and sometimes "dolls" with my sister and a few of her friends.
Two constants in my life were school and the cub scouts. Now school is over for me by and large and the cub scouts were dismantled by a bunch of feminist nazis who cannot fathom girls not being permitted to join the boy scouts ... while girl scouts remain exclusively for girls as well. What does this tell you about society and that stupidity of socialization initiated by the public school indoctrinations being issued instead of educations ?
I was enamored with the Kennedys, who occupied the White House with children my age and made me wonder about rulers and government and why anyone would want to kill a man so popular with the citizens of the country. My cub scout pack — lead by my mother — who cried for several weeks after the assassination of our President sent a sympathy card to Mrs Kennedy who responded to us ...
And I was far less innocent than before this dark time in our history.
Mrs Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis was First Lady of the United States having married John F Kennedy, 35th POTUS until his assassination in Dallas, Texas in 1963. She began her career as a photographer for the Washington Times-Herald.
Her parents were John Vernou Bouvier III who was a stockbroker and his socialite spouse Janet Lee Bouvier. She did her undergraduate work at George Washington University.
After the funeral of President Kennedy she and her children withdrew from public life and she married Aristotle Onassis in 1968 and assumed the life of spouse of one of the world's richest men.
Following the passing of Mr Onassis she became a book editor for about 20 years prior to her own passing from non Hodgkin's lymphoma in Manhattan. She is interred with her first husband in Arlington National Cemetery.
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- May 18, 2018
- International Museum Day 2018
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I have always been one to visit museums. I enjoy viewing the collections of various things including art, science exhibits, and technology in particular.
I think this enjoyment was cultivated by my dear late Aunt Millie who took my sister and I on a guided tour of Washington D.C. when we were children so very long ago — a hallmark of which was a visit to the Smithsonian Institution which has stayed with me all those years from then until now ...
Today, the International Council of Museums (ICOM) gives us International Museum Day. "IMD" is a thematic event whereby museum curators and others have the opportunity to meet the public and increase public awareness of the important role of museums in society.
This year's theme is "Hyperconnected museums: New approaches, new publics".
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