One or the Other

There is a kid in the elementary here in town that I know really well. He is about the coolest kid around. If I think of it, in another post I'll tell you how he eats salad. This is an assignment that he had that was titled All About... He told about his likes and dislikes, who his parents are, birthday, and the like. I thought his long term goals need to by displayed. Here they are.

I am sort of pulling for "if I scrue that up I'll probably be a World Recerd Breaker."

Sew Fast

I've mentioned, I think that I work for my wife in her embroidery shop. I thought I would give you an image of what we do. Notice the magic.

El Toro Negro

Huh?

I have a DVR. If you don't have one, I recommend it. Aside from being able to pause tv, you can set it to record programs (up to a hundred hours on mine). I enjoy being able to fast forward commercials and useless crap in a lot of programming today. I don't have to listen to Paula Abdul drone on about haw special someone is or how good they look or how they are true to themselves. Huh? I can hit the skip button and she is done. I can watch an hour program in about 24 1/2 minutes.

And sports. I can watch a baseball game, extra innings and all, in about 8 minutes. I can see every great golf shot in super fast mode. Cool stuff.

Usually if I want to watch a live show I will hit the pause button, wait about 20 minutes, and then be able to skip most of the commercials. Now, on occasion I do watch a program live. I couldn't believe a couple of commercials I saw within about 5 minutes of each other.

You have seen the bleeding heart ad that try to get you to give them your money. They often include an idiot movie or tv personality ("this is a paid advertisement") that uses his skill at lying to make you feel like a pile of dung because you have a nice house or few bucks in your pocket or are rich, while everyone else in the world is starving or is a victim of a big evil business or is going through a disaster or is suffering from some disease.

The two I saw were about fat kids and starving kids. I never knew that 6 in 10 kids were suffering from obesity. The reasons why, in my opinion, are a subject of another, future, post. What I couldn't understand was the next ad that caught my attention was asking for money to help starving kids. I mean, who doesn't want to help a starving kid, but guess how many kids in America are STARVING. Yep. You got it. 6 in 10.

How in the world can 60% of kids be too fat, AND, 60% of kids be starving. WTH. (That's text lingo for what the heck.) That would mean that every time you see a kid in a playground he is either obese or starving, or maybe both!

El Toro Negro

New Shirt

I don't know if I have mentioned it before or not, but my wife and I have an embroidery shop. From time to time I will make a shirt for myself and stitch something on it. I had her order me some new T's the other day.

My buddy at work and I talk a lot of politics. We see things pretty much the same. He usually has the more insightful thoughts. He came up with the following saying, and I put it on one of my new shirts. I have been selling a few here and there. I am a capitalist, after all. It reflects what I believe and, according to the polls, what a majority of Americans are finding out.

I can't understand the arrogance of Obama, Nancy, Harry, Washington, and the left. I am encouraged to hear that old folks and doctors are dropping like flies from the AARP and the AMA. I am encouraged by the town hall meetings and the frustration that our citizens are doling out. I am glad to see our elected officials worried about 2010.

Anyway... here is the shirt, front and back.

El Toro Negro

A Truck Load

I found this single cab, small sized truck at Wal-Mart this morning. I have been known to have a messy truck. A couple of tools on the floor or an old soda bottle in the passenger seat. I almost always have the lunchbox I take to work, but my truck has never been in this bad of shape. I hope my wife reads this post. She gives me a hard time about my truck. But hey, hardly anyone rides with me.

This guy was a smoker. I'm sure you guessed that. He had crap pilled in the seat, on the dash, in the floor. The bed was full too. I can only imagine what his house looks like. I have to say I'm sorry about the quality of the pic. I t was from my camera phone.

El Toro Negro