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1 June 2006
As we're riding around in the Jeep, I say to Duncan, "If this
whole gay
marriage thing becomes legit in New York, you wanna get
married?" He said, "Hell of a proposal." But he said
yeah...and that's kind of cool.
Duncan spent a couple of days in North Carolina this week. They were
finishing up some of the last details of his parents' estate. He brought
home this great old table clock that has real chimes and will chime,
just not when it's supposed too. I spent two hours cleaning it
yesterday. It is beautiful. He also brought some china and an old china
cabinet that has two curved windows on the side though one is broken.
Thirdly, he brought home some Chick-Fil-A.
I love Chick-Fil-A.
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6 June 2006
This is a letter from the local
editorial page.
Urge vote to outlaw same-sex marriage
The US. Senate is poised to vote on the Marriage Protection Amendment, and the stakes
couldn't be higher for our country and its future generations.
Amendment opponents have asked, "How does one couple's gay marriage threaten anyone's
heterosexual marriage?" This question misses the point: The goal of gay activists isn't
the individual relationship of any two people; it is the revision of national policy to
say that gender, especially in child rearing, is inconsequential.
Why is the MPA so essential? Because without it, marriage is at the mercy of judicial
activists bent on overriding the will of the people and the role of the legislative
branch, by creating homosexual marriage.
So don't delay. Contact your senators today, and urge them to support the Marriage
Protection Amendment.
KRISTINE LYTLE
Saratoga Springs What the hell does this mean? "The goal of gay activists... is the revision of national policy to
say that gender, especially in child rearing, is inconsequential."
These are the kind of people who vote. They take this information and they
pass it around to other stupid unlearned people and they walk into the
voting booth and push the button for some fool who is in the back pocket
of the conservative right, AKA George W. Bush, because they are
scared. Here's one that doesn't surprise me. Northeast
has dumbest drivers. OK, that's a CNN headline, not mine. People have
no idea of what those green, red, and yellow lights hanging from the wires
over the road mean, what the little lines drawn on the street mean, and
God forbid, if I ever see a bicycle riding down the right side of the
road, I'll pass out. I scored 100 on that test by the way. ..........
7 June 2006
You can barely notice how gray she's gotten on her neck and chin but
her tongue still works fine. While putting in the air conditioner
downstairs, I noticed how it, like everything these days, has a remote.
So I counted ours. We have twenty remotes. From the garage door openers
to the DVD player. Why do we even have to get out of the chair? It's
raining again.
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8 June 2006 I see U2 and Mary J. Blige have
remade "One", the same song she did on the finale of American
Idol with Elliott Yamin. Mary J's voice is to die for but I think the
American Idol version was better simply because she seems to hold back
on the U2 duet. No matter what she does, when she hits that certain
note, it's orgasmic. I found out one of my buds from work pleaded
guilty last week to possession of child porn. They found 600 images of
children tied, bound, chained, and urinated on while engaged in sexual
activity on his computer. He was caught when he sent videos in chat
rooms to undercover police officers in different parts of the country.
He used to be a firefighter and part time school bus driver. There is no
evidence that he involved himself with any children. He faces up to ten
years in federal prison. This is a guy who I really liked and now I find
it difficult to hate. I hate anyone who has any connection to child
porn. I cannot tell you how much I hate pedophilia. Part of me wants to
grab his shirt and shake him. The other part of me wants to see him get
some help. Yet another part of me wants to push him down and beat the
shit out of him and make him think about that kid that was getting peed
on and fucked instead of out playing on their swing or riding their
bike. On
the subject, I hate it when anyone who is making an argument against
gays who ends the sentence, "...gays and pedophiles", always
linking them together. ..........
10 June 2006 I put a couple of house plants
outside a couple of days ago because they haven't seen the light of day
in years. One is a more than seven foot tall palm tree. Both of them
fell over in one of the many storms we've had lately. When Duncan came
home, he thought I'd had some sort of tantrum and threw them out the
back door. How many people can say their former mayor delivers
newspapers. I
can. He has a great job though that may come to an end when George
Pataki leaves office. Luckily, the Schenectady County Republican Party
Chairman is being investigated for groping a fourteen year old girl so
his job is open. ..........
12 June 2006
We made it to the pride parade yesterday afternoon and the weather
actually cooperated. Saw a couple of friends, visited the still unopened
restaurant where a couple of other friends are opening a Mexican joint,
and went to the Olive Garden. We haven't been there in years and we both
had some unforeseen need to go there. Unfortunately, I changed the
setting on the camera to manual and didn't notice so some pictures
didn't come out. And in case you you've been waiting on pins and
needles for the past couple of years, although it still needs some (a
lot of) tweaking, here are the Schenectady
pages I've been working on for a long time. I'm mostly tired of sitting
on it. .......... 15
June 2006 Oh my God, our almost brand new Krispy
Kreme is closing Sunday. I admit, I rarely make it over there but
they're so freaking good. A lot of people just don't like them around
this area, that and the Adkins Diet and the bad publicity from the
corporate fraud. I, myself, am saddened. .......... 17
June 2006 
I'm all for
historic preservation, probably more than most, but there comes a time
when you just have to say, let it go. The new neighbors have been
working on this old carriage house that I've been waiting to fall down
since we moved here. I've been in it. There is not an unrotten board in
the place. The windows are broken including most of the sashes, the
shutters are in pieces, it's leaning in two directions and the roof is
about gone. I say, how about doing a little work on the house you
actually live in. I guess, more power to 'em. .......... 24
June 2006 
After
more than six months, we've finally got something to sit the TV on. The
stereo is getting set up and we can listen to CD's again. We also
finally finished the upstairs bathroom last weekend. I'm done. The porch
roofs need some repair and we're actually gonna hire someone else to do
it. Duncan's sister is coming up tomorrow along with his nephew. Their
expected stay is about a month. I've gotta be on good behavior for a
month. I want to listen to some KC. ..........
29 June 2006
I loved the original Pirates of the Caribbean movie but who'd have
thought I'd need to remember what it was about for future reference? I
remember loving it but I needed to research it to remember anything
about it. Doing just that, is easier these days than it used to be,
that's for sure.
The city of Schenectady is under a state of emergency much like many
other counties in upstate New York. We've been inundated
with rain lately and yesterday many areas received up to nine inches
with more expected today. We actually didn't receive as much as many
places but the Mohawk River is cresting and all
of this as well as many other places in the area are now under
water. The New York State Thruway is closed for more than a hundred
miles between Schenectady and Syracuse as well as many other roads. A
section of I-88 collapsed and killed two truck drivers going in
different directions. The drivers were killed as they were swept away by
the current of the water.
My sister-in-law and Duncan's nephew have been visiting this week. I
wish I could say that we've been great hosts but we've been working most
of the time. I'm sure we'll be doing something soon.
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