Black Friday..........

Bbbbblack Friday is here. Oh nooooooooooo…..!!!!!!!!!

Don’t go near the malls, stores or shopping centers today. Unless you want to be totally annoyed, and pissed off. Let’s face it, the start of the Christmas season brings out the worst in people. Lousy drivers, always in a hurry. Then when they get you in the crazy hurried up mood, they stop right in front of you, without warning. Then they turn around and look at you like, what’s your fucking problem. Or they get you so pissed of at the checkout. They have a loaded shopping cart, and you have one or two items in your hands and they won’t let you go ahead of them. Which really is no big deal, because you’ve waited just as long as they have and you already had expected they wouldn’t let you go before them. Just as they get up to the register and before they start to unload, they have their other two family members bring up their four kids, and they all have carts that are loaded with everything, including the kitchen sink. Mean while, you could have gone to another register and even started at the back of the line and get through and out the door before the family from hell has gotten all checked out. Oh’ by the way, grandma who was waiting by the register has to come up and pay for all the stuff, which takes fifteen minutes. Because she has to count out the exact change and makes sure that all of the discounts and coupons are all accounted for…………….

I guess you get the picture, I hate going shopping on the Friday after Thanksgiving.

Speaking of Turkey Day, I had a great day. Had coffee with Mark in the morning, then went and paid my respects to the bartender at the Legion, Then went with Art and family to the Mohawk Station. Had a great dinner there. After din din, we went to Arts dad’s for a while then back home and a few Manhattans before Art went home and I relaxed and went to bed. All in all, not to shabby of a day. I even watched some of Finding Nemo.


I wonder how much painting Sue will get done and if she’ll spend the day shopping. Oh well guess I’m done for today, keep your stick on the ice……..

It’s Turkey Week!!!!
It started out with Turkey at Keith and Kim’s. Always a good time and good food. Yes, I ate too much, like always… Oh well!

I have to stop. Time for a joke,

Bill Clinton will be recorded in history as the only President to do Hanky Panky between Bushes.

Now back to my blog…

Thanksgiving, I have two choices for din din, Turkey and all the trimmings at The Legion, or Turkey day festivities with Art and Lynn and his dad, at The Mohawk Station. Guess where I’ll be???
Most likely both. I’ll be disowned by both, if I don’t go to either one. My sister is staying home with the four-legged hell raiser. They will be painting again this T- day. That’s O.K. I get to invade Sue’s at Christmas time for several days… Watch out Tucker, there will be a new Sheriff in town for those days. I won’t let you chew on Sue’s dining room table legs…

Time for another joke…

Chrysler Corporation is adding a new car to its line to honor Bill Clinton. The Dodge Drafter will be built in Canada.

Yes we do miss our President Clinton.
Dubbya is just to depressing to think he’s funny. In the beginning he was funny, but after his first term, he just became so full of shit… or was it the people around him giving him the so called miss - information or was it he didn’t really give a shit?

Well that was depressing, talking about our current President. I’ll stop right there. Time for another joke…..

“Yep, that’s right - I miss Bill Clinton! He was the closest thing we ever got to having a black man as President.

Number 1 - He played the sax.
Number 2 - He smoked weed.
Number 3 - He had his way with ugly white women.

Even now? Look at him... his wife works, and he don’t!

And, he gets a check from the government every month.

Well that’s enough for today. I’ll have detail’s on the Turkey day festivities later in the week… See ya in the funny papers. Don’t forget, Keep your stick on the Ice………………………………….

First real morning of Snow...

Yes I think it’s just freakin great. We finally got SNOW, (that dirty four letter word we dread this time of year), Big Fat Hairy Deal! Not that we got much, just enough to cover the ground this morning. But it looked slippery out, and Mark said the sidewalks were slippery. Oh well, guess we can’t put it off any more. Just last night I turned up the heat to about 58degrees. I’m still scared to turn it up any more than I have. NiMo will be really expensive this winter. Good thing I filled out that application for HEAP.
I’m soaking my beans for my dreaded Kielbasa bean soup. Yes the almighty will be heard from this weekend. Think I’ll make it Saturday. Es I need to go get some Kielbasa, and maybe a six pack of beer with that. I’m invited to Herman’s, Oh, excuse me, Keith’s house for Thanksgiving Turkey Dinner. I guess every one over there has got to work on Thanksgiving. I’ll bet at all different times that day, so they wanted to get everyone together on Sunday when they are all available at one time.
Both René and Paul work at the area hospitals and Keith works evenings and Kim works overnights so It’s hard to get them all together. It should be a good day on Sunday for all…. Maybe I’ll bring something in the alcohol related or maybe something from the bakery… I don’t know. I’ll have to see if I can figure out what to bring.

I finaly got my back door sealed up today, and was checking out the spare room to see if I needed to seal the window up. I got to snooping in my boxes of stuff and found my sharpening stones that I’ve been looking for, for a long time. So after I cleaned up the hallway mess, I sharpened my kitchen knives. Watch out, they are now pretty sharp. I also found a book I’ve been looking for, for quite some times. I know I loaned it to someone, but couldn’t figure out whom, and if I got it back. So now I have a book that I haven’t read in a long time, to read again. It’s another book by Harry Harrison, called The Turing Option. He’s one of my favorite writers. Kind of a departure from his Stainless Steel Rat books. But I remember it was very good. It’s about a scientist working in robotics and Artificial Intelligence, who gets shot in the head and has his brain damaged by the bullet, Then has a chip implanted in his brain, to help him be able to be rehabilitated and all that stuff. Really involved, but well worth the time.
Guess I’ll be getting to my reading……
See you later. But remember to Keep Your Stick on the Ice..

Hey what do you know? I’m posting again. I kind of got out of the daily or every other day posting, just didn’t have to much to sat that wasn’t just plain bitching for no apparent reason. So I guess I have to put something in.

It’s cold and damp and miserable today. But otherwise it’s okay for November. Yesterday, I took the bus to and back from the doctors. Not that bad of an experience. Doctor said I’d live and gave me a flu shot and drew some blood for the other Doc., when I see him at the end of the month.
Had to wait and wait and fuckin wait to see the doctor. But otherwise, I got in early and the nurse did her things and gave me the shot and drew blood pretty fast. The best part was I only had to wait about five minutes for the bus, for the ride back to Frankfort. Then I just hung out the rest of the day
doing nothing.

Oh the big news, the store has opened up downstairs. Yes Mark and his wife got their license, had some stuff delivered. I helped them with pricing and ordering. They should do okay. They seem to have a good attitude, plus Mark has had his own businesses before. I have been walking a lot more and I’m feeling better than I have for quite some time. I might not be losing weight as fast as I’d like, but my pants keep fitting better and better.

Tommorrow I’ll be walking down to the bank and to the Village offices to pay my light bill and water bill as well as the Post Orafice to send out my NiMo, ooopps, National Grid bill. Then I will be in the poor house for the rest of the month. I’ve got money put aside for Turkey day at The Mohawk Station, when Art and Lynn come down. Plus I have some other money and food stamps, just in case I need some stuff. Oh well it’s not easy,being cheesey………

I’ve been reading up on my bourbon again. Just something to read about before I go to bed at night. If I get to interested in my other books, I stay up reading to late and have a hard time getting up in the morning. Not that, that should bother me. I usually don’t have anything to do most days. It seems that they use hops in making bourbon and other fine American whiskeys. Notice I spelled whiskey with the ‘e’. The hops is used in small amounts, like three to five ounces in a batch, or what they call a mashbill. Wow, I’d better not get to technical. Anyways, there was something I knew I liked about bourbon, besides the taste. Any time you put hops and water into a cooker, you get something called beer. And you know, I love beer. They might only use a little, but they still use hops. The most perfect ingredient to use to make a beverage. On the book they also say, you can tell somewhat the proof of a liquor is by shaking it. If you shake it and large bubbles rise to the top, it should be over 100 proof, if small bubbles rise it is of lower proof. I tried it and it works Oh well enough on the bourbon. Time to go, see ya in the funny papers………

I guess I did it again. Yup, that I did. I made the best damn pot of bean soup. Not the conventional 15-bean soup, or my infamous Keilbasa and bean soup. But a red kidney bean soup. Kind of like a pasta fagoli soup. But no pasta in it and no white beans. Just extra veggies. Plus a Mexican flair to it. I put in two chipotle peppers. Very yummy.

I started out the old fashioned way. I cut up three slices of bacon and cooked it down, then added three onions chopped up not too fine, I like to have all different size onions and other ingredients. Then after they were cooked down, I added about a half pound of good Italian hot sausage. Meanwhile, I had soaked my beans over night then drained them. I put them in a pot with water to cover them. Started them cooking well before I started the other stuff. After the onions and meat mixture was cooked down I drained the extra fat or grease off of them then added them to the pot of beans. They cooked down till the beans were tender and the liquid was a little thicker, I then added a can of Tomatoes cut up along with the juice from the can. Salt and pepper to taste, then added the chipotle peppers. Two small one’s diced up real fine. After it cooked some more, I added a package of frozen mixed vegatables. And that was that. After the veggies were done, I had my soup. Very good if I say so myself…. I had two and a half bowls of it. Yes I did it again. A simple soup and it just takes time. About two and a half hours start to finish. Most of the time is taken up letting the beans cook down.

We did have a pretty good time on Friday with our parking party. Pete’s barn was the place. A kind of eclectic bar, in an old barn. More of a glorified garage turned into a clubhouse. We had lots of beer and pizza and wings. Not too many people were there, but we didn’t mind. More beer for us. I got home early enough, about eleven o’clock, cause we all had to go to Kiwanis in the morning.
I had about five or six beers, that was enough, I guess I got beer’d out. Must have been too much wings and pizza. Oh well.

Well that about it, for my exciting weekend. Bye bye and buy bonds.

What’s new in the Mohawk Valley?

Well, not much… I guess we shouldn’t complain. At least the weather has been fairly good. Warm and not too much rain. A while back I thought I would have to look for a boat or a raft to get around. Buy Ma Nature has been kind to us. I think she’s going to give us hell this winter. If not, the oil companies and Nimo will be giving us fits…

Tomorrow is the last day to turn in tickets for the Kiwanis month long raffle. We start drawing winners in the morning. But tonight we are having the long awaited Parking Party, at Pete’s Barn. I hope we are able to get up and be at the Kiwanis meeting after a night of drunken debauchery. (Just kidding) It’s still going to be tuff to get there if the party is really a good one.
Us Frankfort Kiwanians like to have a good time, I mean a real good time. Yes plenty of BEER and other beverages of the alcoholic persuasion… Also wings and pizza. One of my all time favorites. I’ll have to let you know how it turned out.

Yesterday was a busy one, and boy was I Pooped out when it was all done. I walked down to Melrose to get some groceries. I had been trying to get a hold of Brad to see id he could take me to Walmart to get groceries and talk with him about other things. But I just kept missing him and playing phone tag. So when I walked down to the market, I took my backpack to carry some of the groceries home. Well I got a little more than I should have, because I had all I could do to carry the stuff home. Yes I had to stop a few times to catch my breath and rest. I’m not used to carrying about forty extra pounds in a backpack on my back as well as two bags of groceries. I even stopped and sat down on the old bank steps to rest before taking the last leg home. It was a real nice day so the walk was a pleasant as could be. Plus it was nice to sit on the steps for a short while, absorbing all the goodness from the sun’s rays.

After I got home, there was a message from Brad and I called him back and we ended up going to Walmart after all. By the time I got home and put all the groceries away, I was all pooped out. Yes it’s hell getting old. (Not that I’m that old. Just a few gray hair, but mostly in the beard and sideburns.) Plus with my breathing problems it takes more out of me. But I will say this, I was tired but I felt really good when I went to bed. But this morning, I’m a little stiff in my right hip and lower back, and my left knee is a little sore. This weather has been hell on my left knee with all the rain and weather changes. Guess I am getting old. Ha, Ha… Okay, laugh it up fuzzball’s… KYSOTI

Wow. It’s been a while since I last posted on my blog. Yes I’ve had problems that forced me to not be able to connect to the Internet. Juno in their infinite wisdom, does not give you free off-line email any more. (Those fuckers) So I haven’t been able to access email as well. I do have a free 10 hours a month of Juno service and email can only be accessed online. Which sucks, because it is so freakin slow and takes forever to load. I guess they don’t use their high-speed servers for the free stuff. I guess I don’t blame them. This morning when my 10 hours started for this month it took me over twenty minutes to read and delete my mail box. So I have to be careful to not read any junk mail or bullshit stuff that always ends up in my mailbox.

What does every one think of the recent political bullshit that’s been going on? Well I’m glad to see the fuckin Republicans losing a little skin this time. They all tried to make Clinton the bad guy, which of course he was not without blame. He did lie to the American people about his little affair and oral service with what’s her name, oh yes, Monica. Then the now President and Vice President, while campaigning, told us that they would bring the truth and honesty back to the White House. Well guess what, they were full of shit. They have been a truthful as any other person who has been or will be in the White House. They are all freakin liars. But to which degree of lying will they be caught in. Scandal, illegal operations, cover-ups. That’s what every one wants to read about, nobody like the good. It doesn’t sell. And the good is not always brought out. But when someone close to the White House fucks up, and they cover it up or do less than ethical things to shut people up, or force them to be quiet, It looks bad for the President.
Do I believe that something is wrong in Bush’s administration, yes. Is it the President himself, I don’t know. Will we ever, most likely not, but George had better get his ducks in a row, and they had better stay that way. I do know that there are certain things that a President must not tell the whole truth to the American public. If some things were to be told, there would be truly a real friggin mess to deal with, and people would on a whole want to kill or destroy something. We can’t have mass hysteria. So I do think that some things should be kept quiet about. Just like in the old days, when the butchers would make bologna or even better, the liverwurst, if any body actually saw them making it, they would get sick and never eat it again. Just horrible, yuck. But if you don’t know, how it’s made you will enjoy it.

The other day when Scooter was indicted, I was talking with someone I knew about it and something came up. It seems that with every past President and this President, who are two term Presidents, there seems to be something that happens around the end of the first or the beginning of the second year of the second term. Bush has his Scooter Libby scandal, Clinton had White Water and Monica, and Ronny Reagan had Iran Contra. What is it with Second terms? The American people can’t get a good break for anything.

What do I think of the Harriet Miers thing? Well every time you select someone who people think will be or could be the swing vote to overturn Row V. Wade; you might as well make another choice. They feminists and the Pro Choicers will just about hang any one who they think will change the law. So it was inevitable. Plus George would have had to let her turn over minute and notes of talks and meetings that they had and all that stuff, so He was between a Rock and a Hard Place. A Big rock and hard place. So being very loyal, she stepped down. The New Guy, George picked, well maybe he can be approved without too much problems. As long as he is not a Radical Ultra, Blank, Blank, Blank…

Well that’s it for today, enough with the political bullshit, It’s to nice of a day to be inside, besides I need to go to the bank and get money, pay bills and get some groceries. See you later…………………………..