To be smelling fresh cut grass on DECEMBER TWENTY FRIGGIN EIGHTH!!!!!!!!!!11111elevenelevendy!!!
AND!! To have to sweat in my own home in the middle of winter!!!
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Sunday, December 25, 2011
Merry Christmas
Here's wishing my tiny little corner of the bloggosphere
A Very
Merry Christmas!
from a cute furry little Groundhog...
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Milk Starts Civil War?
Wouldn't it be incredible if something as simple as raw milk started a second American civil war? Not exactly likely but you never know...
http://www.etruth.com/article/20111218/NEWS01/712189916
http://www.etruth.com/article/20111218/NEWS01/712189916
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Jumper In The Fog
I woke up earlier than I wanted to this morning. Still, I ended up running a bit late to work. Pretty much the story of my life there. Me and time don't get along real well. They said it would be foggy this morning and it sure 'nuff was. I was not looking forward to the trip to work. My morning commute is different now that the house is sold. I have a couple of routes I can take so I took the shorter one. Given the fog, the likelihood of a wreck was significantly increased. Right after I swapped one highway for another I saw the sea of break lights. I contemplated getting on the access road for a minute but as I got closer I could see the flashing lights. They weren't that far ahead so I figured the delay wouldn't be too bad. In fact, it looked like traffic was moving in both lanes, they probably had the wreck off to the side already or it wasn't serious and everyone had pulled over.
The closer I got to the "accident" site things started to get a little strange. It appeared that the "scene" was pretty close to an overpass. Then I saw a police car down on the access road and the officer got out and seemed to be concentrating on something down there. Getting a bit closer I saw several officers on the bridge. A bunch of them kept looking over the edge. As I got closer I started looking for guard rail damage. Somebody must have gone over the edge. No damage, no skid marks. Then they stopped traffic for another cop on the opposite side so he could cross. No wreckers, no ambulance. I'm on the bridge and almost to the officers but don't see any damage or skid marks or busted up vehicles of any kind.
Then I saw her. There were about 6 officers surrounding her. One was DPS. He was talking to her in a very animated fashion. Lots of hand action. She had blond hair. Long, wavy blond hair. She was whipping her head from side to side, trying to see the officers on either side of her. I think she was wearing something blue but I am not as certain of that. I saw her face and hair. I was less than 10 feet from her as I passed. She was sitting on the edge of the bridge about to jump. The officers were trying to talk her down and the guy below was stopping traffic.
There was nothing I could do.
Except pray. So I did.
I felt like complete crap after that. Just driving away from something that serious seemed so wrong. I know there wasn't anything of benefit I could have offered there that wasn't already being done but it still just seemed wrong somehow. I kept praying. It was all I could do. Once I got to work I told one coworker the story and started hitting the net for any news of the event. There was none. No local stations were reporting it. I didn't eat much today. Seeing something like that takes something out of you. Not knowing the ending was maddening. I even emailed one of the news stations asking about it but heard nothing. Since most of the day has gone by and no report has surfaced I assume she was talked down. I would find it hard to comprehend that had she jumped no report would have come from it whether she had lived through it or not. I guess it has to be a slow news day to report an averted suicide. I suspect that DPS officer didn't think it was a slow day. I sure didn't.
I hope they got her help. I hope her reasons for thinking nothing was worth living for could be worked through. Seeing someone a decision away from death shocks the system. Makes you ask some questions and puts things in a different perspective. I suppose for myself it confirmed in me the great value of life. Then time marched on...
The closer I got to the "accident" site things started to get a little strange. It appeared that the "scene" was pretty close to an overpass. Then I saw a police car down on the access road and the officer got out and seemed to be concentrating on something down there. Getting a bit closer I saw several officers on the bridge. A bunch of them kept looking over the edge. As I got closer I started looking for guard rail damage. Somebody must have gone over the edge. No damage, no skid marks. Then they stopped traffic for another cop on the opposite side so he could cross. No wreckers, no ambulance. I'm on the bridge and almost to the officers but don't see any damage or skid marks or busted up vehicles of any kind.
Then I saw her. There were about 6 officers surrounding her. One was DPS. He was talking to her in a very animated fashion. Lots of hand action. She had blond hair. Long, wavy blond hair. She was whipping her head from side to side, trying to see the officers on either side of her. I think she was wearing something blue but I am not as certain of that. I saw her face and hair. I was less than 10 feet from her as I passed. She was sitting on the edge of the bridge about to jump. The officers were trying to talk her down and the guy below was stopping traffic.
There was nothing I could do.
Except pray. So I did.
I felt like complete crap after that. Just driving away from something that serious seemed so wrong. I know there wasn't anything of benefit I could have offered there that wasn't already being done but it still just seemed wrong somehow. I kept praying. It was all I could do. Once I got to work I told one coworker the story and started hitting the net for any news of the event. There was none. No local stations were reporting it. I didn't eat much today. Seeing something like that takes something out of you. Not knowing the ending was maddening. I even emailed one of the news stations asking about it but heard nothing. Since most of the day has gone by and no report has surfaced I assume she was talked down. I would find it hard to comprehend that had she jumped no report would have come from it whether she had lived through it or not. I guess it has to be a slow news day to report an averted suicide. I suspect that DPS officer didn't think it was a slow day. I sure didn't.
I hope they got her help. I hope her reasons for thinking nothing was worth living for could be worked through. Seeing someone a decision away from death shocks the system. Makes you ask some questions and puts things in a different perspective. I suppose for myself it confirmed in me the great value of life. Then time marched on...
Saturday, December 3, 2011
Gypsies, Kinda...
As of Wednesday, the Groundhog family wearily settled into our 'rent' house. We get to leave again sometime in the next 18 months baring unplanned events of some kind. I am soooo sore. I hurt everywhere. Still...
It took us 12 days, though we didn't do big hauling but for about 4 of them. It took 4 pickups, 3 trailers, one Suburban, 2 10x30' storage units,and 9 friends (you know, the true kind that will help you hide bodies and stuff). Oh. My. Lord...
We WILL be getting rid of a TON of stuff before we do this again. Current house looks like a storage unit too. The bedrooms are almost in shape, the rest, not so much but it's coming along. Nobody died or got seriously injured, though I have a number of bruises. I could seriously use a week off about now. At least the holidays slow us down a bit. Besides that, I gotta save my leave for something coming up in about 6 months that I'll tell you about in another post.
From a prepping perspective this whole event was kind of interesting. We've been unable to do much anything about prepping for the last year due to finances. Now we'll actually be able to do some things that will help us in that regard. Got lots of money priorities to sort out though. The Hogdar ™ has of late been picking up much "end of all things" fear out there. Financial people freak out pretty good, and probably for good reason although their timelines are probably way too compressed. When we took the stock dump of 2008 a lot of people lost a lot of money very quickly. It took many more months for companies to lay people off and get the Great Recession rolling along nicely. I'm of the opinion that a financial collapse could certainly occur quickly but it's effects tend to take quite a bit of time to work through the economy. Other than Iran and the Myan calendar thing, there doesn't seem to be too many big outside threats to the USA. Our internal anxiety is rather high but I don't see anything obviously threatening until we get near election time. The Occupy protests were pretty pathetic. The TEA party went back to work a long time ago. Our politicians are the usual crop of horribleness. And we're going to keep borrowing money until the economy explodes. This could go on for some time actually. For that I'm rather grateful as it gives me sorely needed time to stock up on stuff and deal with a few other issues. I hope to get much more active in prepping this coming year.
Where are we going? No idea. I do believe it's going to be a bumpy, if not wild, ride.
It took us 12 days, though we didn't do big hauling but for about 4 of them. It took 4 pickups, 3 trailers, one Suburban, 2 10x30' storage units,and 9 friends (you know, the true kind that will help you hide bodies and stuff). Oh. My. Lord...
We WILL be getting rid of a TON of stuff before we do this again. Current house looks like a storage unit too. The bedrooms are almost in shape, the rest, not so much but it's coming along. Nobody died or got seriously injured, though I have a number of bruises. I could seriously use a week off about now. At least the holidays slow us down a bit. Besides that, I gotta save my leave for something coming up in about 6 months that I'll tell you about in another post.
From a prepping perspective this whole event was kind of interesting. We've been unable to do much anything about prepping for the last year due to finances. Now we'll actually be able to do some things that will help us in that regard. Got lots of money priorities to sort out though. The Hogdar ™ has of late been picking up much "end of all things" fear out there. Financial people freak out pretty good, and probably for good reason although their timelines are probably way too compressed. When we took the stock dump of 2008 a lot of people lost a lot of money very quickly. It took many more months for companies to lay people off and get the Great Recession rolling along nicely. I'm of the opinion that a financial collapse could certainly occur quickly but it's effects tend to take quite a bit of time to work through the economy. Other than Iran and the Myan calendar thing, there doesn't seem to be too many big outside threats to the USA. Our internal anxiety is rather high but I don't see anything obviously threatening until we get near election time. The Occupy protests were pretty pathetic. The TEA party went back to work a long time ago. Our politicians are the usual crop of horribleness. And we're going to keep borrowing money until the economy explodes. This could go on for some time actually. For that I'm rather grateful as it gives me sorely needed time to stock up on stuff and deal with a few other issues. I hope to get much more active in prepping this coming year.
Where are we going? No idea. I do believe it's going to be a bumpy, if not wild, ride.
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