I arranged for two days of vacation this week – tomorrow and Saturday. I have tickets for the family for Legoland. The plan? Drive to Carlsbad, spend time at Legoland, spend the night at a hotel near Calrsbad, and drive home Saturday.

Then, somebody in Yuma triggered an “event” on the power grid.

That event triggered a blackout covering San Diego and the surrounding area.

That blackout strained the San Onofre nuclear plant, causing it to shut down, and powering down the area a bit north of San Diego.

The one little item that haunts me right now is that I passed on the $8.00 “just in case” insurance for the hotel (prepaid! on hotwire!) in case something happened and we were not able to use the hotel for the night we paid for …

Called my friend Doug over in that area. He called the Denny’s in Carlsbad – they never answered the phone. Not a good sign.

SomeOne has a very finely tuned Sense of Humor.

… sigh …

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Got a busy day planned (as I write this the evening before, and plan to have it published at 0601 Friday morning) starting with Cinnamon going to the vet – one of the fosters (who are both leaving this weekend) bit her ear. Dang it. Poor Cinnamon – she was the one that got attacked by Princess, another foster, several years ago – and she is so gentle and loving that she doesn’t fight back.

This early morning appointment (0845) necessitates moving the chiropractor to a little later in the day – but not much later, because I have a dentist appointment (teeth cleaning time! with a full upper plate, it takes half the time of everyone else!) at 1130 followed by Cinnamon’s diabetes checkup visit at 1445. Due to the timing of her insulin shot, the visits can’t be combined. Because their was blood involved, it can’t wait much later in the day to be taken care of.

Whew! And I’m just getting warmed up!

Then I need to finalize the trimming of the doors and one shelf, along with finding a set of hinges for a corner cabinet, for the Scottsdale RR Club cabinets. I was going to end up skinning them with laminate, but I really don’t have the tools needed to skin existing cabinets. I can build laminate cabinets from the git go, but skinning them after they are hanging on the walls is another matter entirely, and one I do not wish to undertake this late in my wood career.

With the Toy Store Manager career coming right along, I think it’s time to hang up the wood tools. I’ll hang on to a few items that I need for work around the house, but things like the industrial strength/sized table saw is going to find a new home. If you are interested, please call BR-549.

New (and probably overdue) addition to the blog roll (I really should rename that “Daily” part …) – a12IggyMom needs your attention. She’s conservative, and kinda direct most of the time (snicker – duck). Give her a look see.

I sure hope you all have a wonderful and relaxing Labor Day Weekend. Don’t get too rowdy, stay safe, stay sane. I’ll see about getting back in touch on Tuesday or thereabouts.

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So, like many in this post-racial world we live in, you have probably been called a racist for disagreeing with the policies and actions of a certain current pResident. Also like many in this post racial country we live in you are probably sick and tired of being called racist for disagreeing with actions – since when did actions become a race? Never fear – Bubba has posted the solution, with the inspiration of his evidently deeply thoughtful, freedom-loving, anthem-singing, allegiance-pledging, gun-toting, socialist-hating, moonbat-slappin’, troop-lovin’, right wing extremist and highly philosophical wife – the addition of letters in parentheses after Duh Won’s name, in order to clarify. Much like the muslims (and the dhimmi leftards who couldn’t see the forest for all the leaves that have fallen on them whilst standing at the edge of said forest waiting for someone to tell them what to see) who follow every utterance of mohammed with “(pbuh)” which they claim is “peace be upon him” but which we know as “piss be upon him”, from this point forward in order to appease the liberals, lefties, and other assorted brain dead media representatives, I will be referring to the pResident as Obama(THHO). That way, I cannot be called racist, since I am denigrating The Honky Half Only.

Bubba and wife, you two are doing a great service for us all. Thank you.

And a big tip of the hat to Bushwack for allowing me to find Bubba’s wisdom today.

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The headline reads “Flooding, cleanup in wake of storm” and I had to read the article to make sure they weren’t talking about a flood of tears in the liberal news outlet’s studios, since there was nothing overly dramatic to blow out of proportion. The cleanup of those tears, according to the subheadline, could run into the billions.

Hype? You betcha. On the front page of today’s Arizona Republic, there is a picture of an oceanfront house in Fairfield, Connecticut with what appears to be the back porch collapsed into the high water. The rest of the house is standing, and, at least from the photograph, still above water.

photo by Cathy Zuraw/Connecticut Post

The AZREP caption reads “A home in Fairfield, Conn., is submerged after Tropical Storm Irene sent seawater flooding into shoreline communities and destroyed oceanfront homes as it surged across New England on Sunday, toppling trees and cutting power.”

Ok, it’s a small example, but typical of the OverActiveMedia – didja notice the use of the word “submerged” in the caption in connection with the pictured house? Just curious, but when did “submerged” come to mean “when a part of the back porch falls into the water”?

Like my buddy Texas Fred says, what a NewsGasm!

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Sorry for the radio silence. I’ve just been – meh.

Politics has been worrying me, I’ve been watching the “best” and “brightest” tear this country apart bit by bit (over several administrations, not just the current one, although the current one seems to have made a mockery of the speed at which the previous ones were doing it) and I do have some friends in the path of the latest storm – again, though, with this handy-dandy crisis brewing – at the start of a weekend, yet! – what is the bummer in chief going to slip past the sleeping American public this time?

The brightest points of my life are my fellowship, my wife, and my daughter. While work is enjoyable, I would rather not have to, but while I am there I am making my best effort to keep up and learn. And learn. And learn. Boss lady sure knows a lot about retail, trying to keep up with her can be tricky sometimes.

Readers who are still following my sporadic postings may be aware that we had taken in a couple of dogs for a friend, just for a few weeks – about five months ago – and we’ve been trying to place them ever since. The buff colored cocker spaniel, Max, is headed for Kansas eventually – but the last word from there was that the ride fell through. I’m fixin’ to take a Saturday off and do a turn and burn over a Friday, Saturday and Sunday to take him there.

The other dog, a Chinese Shar-Pei mix, is fitting in with our dogs, but she still needs a home where she gets more attention. We have four to pay attention to; she comes up short most of the time. She is very sweet and loving, and if anyone lives along the Phoenix-Kansas (just north of Wichita) travel path, I would be willing to make the detour …

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