On the third annoying day of Christmas
A Christian said to me
"The First Christmas is something I should like to see!"
Ok, so these song lyrics aren't that great. Big deal. Get over it. You get my point....
The "First Christmas" wasn't when Yahweh, Jesus, Your Lord and Saviour, The Son of Man, The Son of God, God in the Flesh, Joshua, or whatever you want to call him was born! It was when the Roman Catholic Church decided to usurp a pagan ritual and shoehorned Jesus and that whole virgin birth thing into it. They were merely trying to put butts in the pews; nothing more! That flaming and smoking purse the guy swings around was probably purty neat, too. "Oooh! The Church has Fire! OOOOH!"
BAH!
Friday, December 16, 2005
Thursday, December 15, 2005
2nd Annoying Day of Christmas: Christmas vs. Holiday, The Championship Bout
On the Second Annoying Day of Christmas
A Christian tried to slug Aunt Faye!!
She had wished him a "Happy Holiday!"
Now that gay people are getting married to each other and the world isn't being destroyed and happy marriages the world over aren't suddenly falling apart, Christians had to find some other issue to get into a tizzy about.
Even though I'm not religious I never ever had a problem with wishing folks a "Merry Christmas". And, even when I was religious (back upwards of 3 decades ago) I always thought "Happy Holidays" merely referred to Christmas and New Years Day. However, with the brouhaha now welling up like rising bile from the damn Christians I'm not inclined to say either. They make a huge point of pointing out the painfully obvious fact of "holiday" being a derivative of "Holy Day". Big fuckin' whoop-dee-doo deal!!! Words change meaning! If you don't think they do, try telling a happy male figure skater that he's gay! Ok, that's a bad example. But try saying the same thing to most any NFL player.
Regardless, I'm likely to start wishing people a "Happy Solstice!" Or even "Happy Winter Celebration of Your Choosing Should you Choose to Celebrate Anything at This Time of Year or Happy Ordinary Day Should You Choose to Not Celebrate Anything!"
But I'm afraid that might be a tad wordy and not really fit on a Christmas Card. (Or the "Winter Celebration of Your Choosing Should you Choose to Celebrate Anything at This Time of Year or Happy Ordinary Day Should You Choose to Not Celebrate Anything Card".)
What kind of moron would take offense at someone else wishing them some pleasantness?? Getting offended at being wished "Happy Holidays!" is no different than slapping the person who hands you your lottery winnings! It's rude! Don't do it!!
(O'Reilly, get out of the ring; you're out of shape and those red trunks don't look good on you.)
A Christian tried to slug Aunt Faye!!
She had wished him a "Happy Holiday!"
Now that gay people are getting married to each other and the world isn't being destroyed and happy marriages the world over aren't suddenly falling apart, Christians had to find some other issue to get into a tizzy about.
Even though I'm not religious I never ever had a problem with wishing folks a "Merry Christmas". And, even when I was religious (back upwards of 3 decades ago) I always thought "Happy Holidays" merely referred to Christmas and New Years Day. However, with the brouhaha now welling up like rising bile from the damn Christians I'm not inclined to say either. They make a huge point of pointing out the painfully obvious fact of "holiday" being a derivative of "Holy Day". Big fuckin' whoop-dee-doo deal!!! Words change meaning! If you don't think they do, try telling a happy male figure skater that he's gay! Ok, that's a bad example. But try saying the same thing to most any NFL player.
Regardless, I'm likely to start wishing people a "Happy Solstice!" Or even "Happy Winter Celebration of Your Choosing Should you Choose to Celebrate Anything at This Time of Year or Happy Ordinary Day Should You Choose to Not Celebrate Anything!"
But I'm afraid that might be a tad wordy and not really fit on a Christmas Card. (Or the "Winter Celebration of Your Choosing Should you Choose to Celebrate Anything at This Time of Year or Happy Ordinary Day Should You Choose to Not Celebrate Anything Card".)
What kind of moron would take offense at someone else wishing them some pleasantness?? Getting offended at being wished "Happy Holidays!" is no different than slapping the person who hands you your lottery winnings! It's rude! Don't do it!!
(O'Reilly, get out of the ring; you're out of shape and those red trunks don't look good on you.)
Wednesday, December 14, 2005
1st Annoying Day of Christmas: Jesus is NOT the reason for the Season!
On the First Annoying Day of Christmas
O'Reilly said to us,
"The reason for the season is Jesus"
Here's a news flash for Bill O'Reilly, et. al.: Jesus is not the reason for the season! It's just an annoying pithy saying! The real reason for the season (both figuratively and literally) is the winter solstice!
Christmas is a derivative of "Christ Mass" which was first held by the Roman Catholic Church on December 25 oh so many decades ago. And it's not like they knew that This God-Child was actually *born* on December 25 (forgetting anything about Julian calendars, and all)! They merely took the pagan celebration of the winter solstice and held a mass to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ.
(And, no, I'm not actually accusing O'Reilly of saying that exact phrase in the song lyric above. This is satire.)
O'Reilly said to us,
"The reason for the season is Jesus"
Here's a news flash for Bill O'Reilly, et. al.: Jesus is not the reason for the season! It's just an annoying pithy saying! The real reason for the season (both figuratively and literally) is the winter solstice!
Christmas is a derivative of "Christ Mass" which was first held by the Roman Catholic Church on December 25 oh so many decades ago. And it's not like they knew that This God-Child was actually *born* on December 25 (forgetting anything about Julian calendars, and all)! They merely took the pagan celebration of the winter solstice and held a mass to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ.
(And, no, I'm not actually accusing O'Reilly of saying that exact phrase in the song lyric above. This is satire.)
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
The Twelve Annoying Days of Christmas
I am so damn fed up with folks (Bill O'Reilly and other oh-so-persecuted Christians) making such a damned big deal over "Happy Holidays" as opposed to "Merry Christmas". There is no damn war on Christmas! Nobody is trying to take Christ out of their Christmas, fer cryin' out loud!!! You can have all the damn Christ's in Christmas you want! Christ in a manger. Christ in swaddling clothes. Christ in your eggnog. Christ in your damn shower soaping up his private parts!! Call it Christchristchristchristmas for all I care!
Have all the Christ you want but you'd better be willing to give up your Christmas Tree. And the mistletoe. And your scented candles. And Santa Claus.
These damn Christians I'm talking about have made me so irritated that for the next twelve days--as in that insipid song--I'm going to voice my opinion once and for all on all these things that they are so very wrong about.
(And, yes, I know that the Twelve Days of Christmas actually start on Christmas Day and then proceed for 12 days and ending on Twelfth Night sometime in January...)
Have all the Christ you want but you'd better be willing to give up your Christmas Tree. And the mistletoe. And your scented candles. And Santa Claus.
These damn Christians I'm talking about have made me so irritated that for the next twelve days--as in that insipid song--I'm going to voice my opinion once and for all on all these things that they are so very wrong about.
(And, yes, I know that the Twelve Days of Christmas actually start on Christmas Day and then proceed for 12 days and ending on Twelfth Night sometime in January...)
Friday, December 09, 2005
Electricity (Part 2)
Ya know something, all of y'all who have had electricity for these past four months have it oh, so much easier than you realize. You really do.
We finally got electricity switched on here! YIPPEE!!!! It's like we're really living up here now!!!
I can't begin to adequately and fully and completely describe what it feels like to have utility-supplied electricity again. It's been since August 10, 2005 that we've been relying on that little (ok, it's not all that little) generator for all of our power needs. That's four damn months...
Anyway, I'm very, very, very, very happy. Like going back to work after months off because of illness.
We finally got electricity switched on here! YIPPEE!!!! It's like we're really living up here now!!!
I can't begin to adequately and fully and completely describe what it feels like to have utility-supplied electricity again. It's been since August 10, 2005 that we've been relying on that little (ok, it's not all that little) generator for all of our power needs. That's four damn months...
Anyway, I'm very, very, very, very happy. Like going back to work after months off because of illness.
Tuesday, November 22, 2005
Do Dogs Have a Soul?
I took this picture of our dog on the couch before she died. I know what I see in the picture. But anything else.... Well, that's up to you....
Sunday, November 06, 2005
Electricity....
God! I want electricity!!!! That is all....
(Should be, according to PG & E anyway, this week... But I've been wrong before...)
(Should be, according to PG & E anyway, this week... But I've been wrong before...)
Thursday, November 03, 2005
"I'll have the venison, please..."
Our three dogs have a habit of running off down the hill and onto the neighboring property. It's at least 120 acres of cattle range land so they don't often have much to worry about. Other than Trixie.
Trixie is the kitty. She's sorta beige-ish colored. Has a long, thick tail. Green eyes. And she weighs at least 140 pounds or more. She's a mountain lion. A cougar. "Kitty!"
But Trixie doesn't seem all that interested in us. Nor the tasty morsels of dogs we have.
Anyway, the dogs went running off down the hill again yesterday. We usually have to take a good half hour getting them to come back. (We're working on fixing that; it's a problem.) First to come back yesterday was C.B.. With two dark spots on either side of her neck where she'd discovered the joys of Eau du Bovine. (a.k.a., Cow Shit.)
And then comes Crash. Very happy. With something in his mouth. Proud, in fact. He had a present for us. (Or, for himself, I'm not exactly sure which.)
It was the intact skeleton of the entire back leg of a deer. Complete with Appetizer Ants. And the hoof. And a smidgeon of deer hide and hair.
UGH!
So, we threw it on the grill and cooked it up to kill anything growing in or on it. And now we have free dog chewy treats.
Later that night, a large pack of coyotes were howling away down the hill. I suppose mourning the loss of their deer leg.
The joys of rural living with dogs!
("Steak, anybody??")
Trixie is the kitty. She's sorta beige-ish colored. Has a long, thick tail. Green eyes. And she weighs at least 140 pounds or more. She's a mountain lion. A cougar. "Kitty!"
But Trixie doesn't seem all that interested in us. Nor the tasty morsels of dogs we have.
Anyway, the dogs went running off down the hill again yesterday. We usually have to take a good half hour getting them to come back. (We're working on fixing that; it's a problem.) First to come back yesterday was C.B.. With two dark spots on either side of her neck where she'd discovered the joys of Eau du Bovine. (a.k.a., Cow Shit.)
And then comes Crash. Very happy. With something in his mouth. Proud, in fact. He had a present for us. (Or, for himself, I'm not exactly sure which.)
It was the intact skeleton of the entire back leg of a deer. Complete with Appetizer Ants. And the hoof. And a smidgeon of deer hide and hair.
UGH!
So, we threw it on the grill and cooked it up to kill anything growing in or on it. And now we have free dog chewy treats.
Later that night, a large pack of coyotes were howling away down the hill. I suppose mourning the loss of their deer leg.
The joys of rural living with dogs!
("Steak, anybody??")
Sunday, October 30, 2005
HOT WATER!!!
Yippeee!!!!!!
We have hot water!!!!
I've taken my first HOT shower on my property!!! God! It felt so damn good... I almost felt like a real, normal human being again....
Only thing we're waiting for now to be able to move in is the grading inspector to call me the hell back. Then, it's the Final Inspection and then move in time!
Oh, and PG & E still hasn't got us hooked up to electricity yet. Good thing I bought a generator on Ebay back in July--it's been pretty much the main thing that has kept living on this hill palpable.
We have hot water!!!!
I've taken my first HOT shower on my property!!! God! It felt so damn good... I almost felt like a real, normal human being again....
Only thing we're waiting for now to be able to move in is the grading inspector to call me the hell back. Then, it's the Final Inspection and then move in time!
Oh, and PG & E still hasn't got us hooked up to electricity yet. Good thing I bought a generator on Ebay back in July--it's been pretty much the main thing that has kept living on this hill palpable.
Thursday, October 27, 2005
Almost Done!!!
YIPPEE!!!!
I have a phone line at the house now!!! Now I can surf all those sites that the Library won't let me onto... ;{)
The VERY last thing we're waiting for before we can move the hell into the house is a grading re-inspection (I put the house too damn close to the top of a slope (i.e., closer than 2 feet) so I had to, uh, re-slope the slope), the inspection for the gas line (i.e., propane) and the final inspection. If all goes well (I HOPE I HOPE I HOPEIHOPEIHOPEIHOPE) I'll be movin' into the damn house this weekend!!!!!!
Oh, and then I gotta start waiting for PG & E to come out and get the electricity hooked up. Shouldn't be too long. Probably by Christmas... :)
Well, that's it for now. I'll be posting pictures soon now that I can waste time on the 'net at home again...
I have a phone line at the house now!!! Now I can surf all those sites that the Library won't let me onto... ;{)
The VERY last thing we're waiting for before we can move the hell into the house is a grading re-inspection (I put the house too damn close to the top of a slope (i.e., closer than 2 feet) so I had to, uh, re-slope the slope), the inspection for the gas line (i.e., propane) and the final inspection. If all goes well (I HOPE I HOPE I HOPEIHOPEIHOPEIHOPE) I'll be movin' into the damn house this weekend!!!!!!
Oh, and then I gotta start waiting for PG & E to come out and get the electricity hooked up. Shouldn't be too long. Probably by Christmas... :)
Well, that's it for now. I'll be posting pictures soon now that I can waste time on the 'net at home again...
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