04 July 2006

As you can see, we went to Niagara Falls yesterday and though I've been there a couple of times before, last year and almost twenty years ago, I got a new perspective yesterday. My God, it is beautiful. I've been under the falls on the American side but we went under the falls on the Canadian side and just stood there in the splendor.

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04 July 2006...Later

I put a few more Niagara Falls pictures here. One of the things I enjoyed yesterday was how diverse the crowd was. I think every part of the earth must have been represented there. We even saw a group of Amish people there, one who was flying around at fifty miles per hour on her Little Rascal.

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05 July 2006

Last night, we sat on the Hudson River bank and watched the fireworks across the river at The Empire State Plaza. We got there early and got a great spot. I always enjoy fireworks because it's something that attracts all different ages and types of people. It's something I've done since I was a kid.

As of this moment, we are still waiting on The New York Court's ruling on gay marriage. Gay marriage...civil unions...some other compromise...or status quo. A favorable ruling is the only thing that could make this day any nicer.

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13 July 2006

I saw this van on the news except it had a tree on top of it so I decided to see what Flying Fingers was. It's a yarn shop north of the city that runs this shuttle to bring people out of the city to it's shop. It seemed to be minus a yarn ball when I saw it on the news.

Working and slumming, that's about all I've done or seem to have done the last week. My jeep is in the shop. It has a broken thingamajig on it. I wish it had three big balls of yarn on it.

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14 July 2006

I've had three entries in my dream journal this week which is unusual because they're the first this year. I think I like going back to look over my dreams better than the main journal because I can usually remember something about the entries themselves but every time I look at the dreams, I find most surprise me. I neither remember having them, writing them, or even typing them.

I'm sorry Duncan's sister is leaving tomorrow morning. It seems she just got here even though she's been here three weeks. If anything, I hope she had a good rest. We had to work much of the time so they had to be on self entertaining mode a lot. Today is a good day for a Jeep ride, touching up on paint, and going to work later in the day. OK, two out of three ain't bad...and that Jeep ride better be good after the money I spent on that bitch yesterday. Work tonight equals no fireworks tonight.

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18 July 2006

Poor old Kaleb screamed out in pain this morning at the vet as he tried to take her blood. Everything else checked out fine for a fourteen year old dog though. Her teeth are filthy so we're gonna have them cleaned next week. This is something I've put off for a couple of years because last time we had them cleaned, it was not long after she got her skin condition and in the back of my mind I believe it released some sort of bacteria into her body. Remember, I'm an expert in such things.

The meteorologists in this area love to use the term "heat wave". They seemed so thrilled today that we actually had three days in a row over 90 so it's an official heat wave. 90 degrees and Ni-Mo (excuse me, National Grid) can't keep up with demand as part of the city has lost power due to high usage.

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19 July 2006

One of the niftiest shopping centers in the area is coming down. In place of this cool 1950's era building will stand a Walgreens. As much as I like Walgreens, I fell bad that fourteen shop and restaurant owners out of a home. Sure they'll be relocated but nowhere else will they get this great location and visibility it provides along with the huge 1950's sign on top. No more will I get to ride by and say, "Wow, that's a cool building."

Yesterday's mail included seven envelopes. All were from Citibank and all were different. Three were for Duncan and four were for me. Duncan doesn't have a Citibank card but I do. Still none included any kind of statement, just seven pieces of junk.

This morning is Eartha Kitt morning as I scour YouTube watching virtually almost anything Eartha.

Happy Birthday Duncan, wherever in Iowa you are right now. I love you.

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23 July 2006

I watched I Heart Huckabees last night. This movie made no freaking sense yet I couldn't turn it off...and when it was done, I liked it. I'm still not sure what the hell was going on, but I liked it. I think there may have been drugs involved.

I have a friend at work who's from Northern Israel, very close to Lebanon's border. Her family's still there though they've evacuated the immediate area. When she calls her cousins, she can hear the missiles go by in the background and she worries most of the time. I went to see The Man Who Saw Tomorrow when I was a kid and Nostradamus predicted the end of the world started this way. I don't put much faith in predictions by the way. I hate Sylvia Browne and all like her.

Factoid of the day: The number of prescriptions taken in this country have doubled since 1999. And as you see, I ordered new stamps today.

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25 July 2006

Owl Jolson is 70 years old. Tommy Bond, who played Butch, the mean kid from The Little Rascals, was also Owl Jolson. He died last year. Why I thought of this, I don't know.

Hats off to Floyd Landis for winning the Tour de France despite the fact his hip is almost gone. He's scruffy and he's hot, but in reality, I think most regular bikers dressed in their tight biker garb look really good. I'm a big leg person anyway, especially the calf. Big muscular calves just turn me on.

Duncan's been out of town for a week and he'll be home late tonight.  I am so happy.

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26 July 2006

Lance Bass is gay. I think Owl Jolson may be too. Joey Fatone would actually be the hottest former N SYNC boy to come out as gay but that's pretty unlikely.

I hate Chrysler's Dr. Z commercials. Annoying and I don't like his mustache for some reason.

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