Moved!

Currently watching: The Sopranos-Season 6 pt 2

we survived the 90+ degree heat yesterday and moved 3 trailers-full and numerous car loadings of stuff from both Abbie and I’s places to our new home(technically i’m still gonna be living at my parents till after the wedding if i haven’t mentioned that before).  especially brutal was the 1990 grand caravan i was using to pull the trailer we rented..it had no A/C.  Needless to say I had my shirt off most of the day.

As for the house itself, its actually quite nice for being 60 years old.  all the walls and trim have been repainted and the carpets were clean.  the bathroom is basically completely redone and the kitchen has a new hardwood floor and some newer appliances too.  outside isn’t quite as nice but honestly i could care less.  there were a few issues upon move in, mostly little things.  a few tree limbs had fallen in the yard due to recent storms and hadn’t been taken care of yet.  the doorbell doesn’t work and a number of lightbulbs were out.  also because of all the new painting inside a few of the windows didn’t latch correctly.  this should all get fixed pretty quick.

as i said it was really hot yesterday and when we arrived with our 2nd trailer loading apparently someone had mowed the yard while we were gone and they severed a wire to the A/C outside and of course inside it had warmed up to like 86 degrees.  i didn’t have any phone numbers handy to call about it…fortunately my dad was able to splice the wires back together and it ran fine after that.  what kind of a tard just runs over electrical wires?

on a disapointing note, due to how the house is constructed with the entrances and fairly narrow openings we are unable to move a couch into the house!  everything else we got in there, though my tv was a chore (no way that wasn’t getting in).  so now we gotta figure out something to replace the couch…anyone have a loveseat they don’t want?  we could probably get that in there ok. Goodwill should enjoy the couch we have

hopefully sometime in mid-august we should have everything setup for guests, don’t even think about it before then though.  moochers.

Authoritarian lawrence schools to obama dissenters: no job for you!

currently playing: 2006 Fifa World Cup Soccer (Gamecube)currently listening to: Ween-Chocolate and Cheese

http://kansasliberty.com/liberty-update-archive/2009/01jun/conservative-teacher-fired

well leave it to the little blue outpost in our lovely state to suppress free thinking and personal political opinions.  this should honestly be a national news story…imagine if the situation were reversed…the teachers union would probably strike (rather than leave this guy out to dry like they are in this case) and smelly protestors lined up around the block.    But alas it doesnt even make a ripple in local papers, just in online blogs and some local radio shows.

This man wasn’t even pushing conservatism in his classroom (God forbid they teach principles aligned with our country’s’ founding), he just committed the crime of not assimillating to what his fellow teachers/administrators all think—again, outside the classroom!  I mean i have certainly gotten into it with some people i work with at the railroad in the break rooms and such, but i’d never fear getting fired for expressing my views.  And this is a man with 20 years experience teaching!

It would be nice if someone came to his legal defense to get his job back, his constitutional rights have been violated here.  It would be difficult because in kansas, a teacher w/ less than 3 years teaching in this state (he transfered from arkansas) can be fired with zero cause or reason.  he had perfect evals and his students loved him.  this could only happen in lawrence.  only in non-tolerant, conformist, statist, authoritarian, dictatorial, ultra-left wing, hippie town lawrence.

**Update 6/27** dude got his job back…see comments that pat posted for article link.  glad to see the good guy win here.

Staying busy

Just finished watching: South Park-Season 12 Now watching: Sopranos-Season 6 pt 1

haven’t updated in almost 2 weeks but been pretty busy.  saw the big lebowski on the big screen at liberty hall in lawrence with jake last weekend.  such a great movie, glad to revisit it with a nice big crowd while drinking a few beers.  went to yet another wedding last weekend, a friend of abbie’s.  that makes 4 weddings i’ve gone to in the last 8 weekends.  that better be it till mine cause i’m tired of em for now.

last week i had my requisite 2 days a month of classroom training with the railroad.  at least they are doing something with those 8 days a month they are paying for.  not really sure how much longer that will last me though, i’m hoping a few more months cause once it goes away i lose my health ins (and will rely solely on railroad unemployment).  business is picking up a little bit (more a result of typical seasonal boosts), just enough to hold off more furloughs, but nowhere close to getting me back to full-time.  i completely blame the current administration for my continued lack of work.  railroads are one of the chief indicators of economic activity/recovery and our CEO here at Union Pacific RR has basically said (in a very telling video interview) they expect things to be slow till 2011 and they have seen no impact from “stimulus”.  sigh.  hope you all are happy with your “hope and change”.  things are still projecting to get worse in this country.  inexcusable.  cancel your retarded stimulus, quit roadblocking companies, cut corporate and capital gains taxes, and lets get this s%#t moving again (see below).  sorry, can’t help it.  it just pisses me off that this country got so caught up (and still is, though its eroding slowly) in a personality rather than logical fixes to things.

other than that i’ve been helping abbie with some wedding plans, mostly i’m focusing on planning our honeymoon to san antonio/gulf coast.  gonna spend a week down there, we are driving down.  we are pretty excited for it.  the other thing we have been trying to finish planning is the rehearsal dinner.  its about done now.  next week is gonna be all about moving into our house, which happens on friday.  technically i’m not moving, but a lot of my bigger things will move there.

after next week’s moving, abbie has her wedding shower and for me it’ll be fireworks/golf week with my family, usually my favorite time of the year!

if u have free time….watch these.  educate yourself.

the rest of the series…http://www.youtube.com/user/EIBNetRocks

Signed lease…amongst other things

Currently listening to: Grizzly Bear-Veckatimest

Last week Abbie and I signed a lease for a house at 7501 Rainbow in Prairie Village, KS (5 min south of the plaza).  Its a 3 bedroom/1 bath ranch house with a 1 car garage, a fenced yard, an attic (but no basement), and included all appliances (yes washer and dryer too).  I think it will suit us just fine, though we’ll have to sort through a lot of furniture and things that Abbie and I both own to fit it all in there.  Most of my stuff will probably be given away.  heh.  Abbie moves in on June 26th and I’ll move in after the wedding.    We are excited to finally have our own place, and we will have it for at least 2 years.

This past weekend Abbie and I flew to Denver for my younger sister’s wedding.  We were just there for a day but it was a nice wedding at a country club in the mountains.  they did it outside on a deck so there was a nice background.  we also go to go on the coors brewery tour.  i’ve never done a brewery tour so i was happy to get to do that and get my free samples.  Did you know blue moon is made at the coors brewery?  I didn’t.  one of my favorite beers.

other things…still part time at the railroad, though they have been bringing me in for training a few days a month now.  I still don’t expect to be back to work full time anytime soon, probably not till next year with the way things are looking.  I’m keeping my head up on all this.

wedding planning is going ok so long as i take things one at a time.  we are on schedule.  hopefully it all comes together nicely and everyone has a good time.  I found out this week that my high school 10 year reunion is the same day as my wedding.  doh.  kinda wanted to see everyone for whatever reason.  maybe at the 15 or 20 year one lol.

oh i almost forgot…here is the link to Abbie and I’s “official” newspaper wedding announcement.

http://www.columbusdailyadv.com/articles/2009/06/01/people/doc4a1eae50afa2c795966263.txt

Barack Obama-The underpants gnome of politics

Currently watching: The Sopranos-Season 5 Currently playing: Mario Party 6-Gamecube

Currently listening to: Spiritualized-Ladies & Gentlemen We are Floating in Space

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124329131991652291.html

This will easily go down as the most brilliant and hilarious article written this year.  Its a must read because IMO it summarizes almost all of liberalism.  First, here’s the diagram from South Park that the gnomes use:

Basically, you first decide the goal you want for phase 3.  Then you tell everyone that phase 1 is the way to do it.  The peeps feel warm and fuzzy.  Problem is no logic or reasoning or proof or plan for how phase 1 gets you to phase 3.  but everyone wants phase 3 so…  Examples from the article:

Phase One: Order Guantanamo closed. Phase Two: ? Phase Three: Close Gitmo!

Phase One: Talk to Iran, Syria, whoever. Phase Two: ? Phase Three: Peace!

Some of my own:

Phase One: Carbon taxes  Phase Two: ?  Phase Three:  Preventing Climate change!

Phase One: Print trillions of dollars we don’t have  Phase Two: ?  Phase Three:  Economic Recovery/Create new Jobs!

Phase One: Bailout/Takeover failed industries  Phase Two: ?  Phase Three:  Industries return to profitability!

Phase One: Demand socialized medicine  Phase Two: ?  Phase Three:  “Free” Healthcare for all!

Phase One: Redistribute wealth  Phase Two: ?  Phase Three: Utopia for all!