Free to a Good Home One Juicy Vintage Desk

I got this desk from a friend of mine a few years ago for our kids to use. They did use it for a while, but there's been more of a battle between my wife and I about keeping the desk. I want to keep it, she doesn't. The kids have outgrown it so I am ready to let it go. I don't just want to junk it and I suppose that if I put it out by the curb (figuratively speaking since we have no curbs) and someone would snatch it up, but I'd rather give it to a friend. I did ask someone already and I'll see if she wants it for her daughters. If not, I'm sure someone at work would want it. I also thought of EBay but I saw a simliar one and it's going for $35. I don't feel it's worth my time for that and I'd rather know where it's going to.
~ gee, what an exciting post

HNT

A very good friend of mine (who I happen to work with as well) turned me on to this song. I thought it would make a good post

Naked (click to listen)
Baby, ask me anything that you want
And I'll look you in the eye now
There can be no surprises
If we mean what we say
I've been around the block
And I've done some things
That I ain't so very proud of
Darlin' help me leave this cloud of
Rolling lonely behind

Naked
I'll stand naked
If you stand naked with me
I'll stand naked with you

In the morning when I look in the mirror
I look twice at what I'm seeing
If those eyes are really me then
Lord, have mercy on my soul
I'm walking forward but I'm walking alone
And I need some understanding
Here, we all need some understanding
And I want you to know

My hands are shaking as I reach for the touch
And all I want to do is hold you
And I want to lose control
You are so easy to crave
The time has come for us to lay it all down
There can be no more denying
If I can't have you I'm dying
A little more every day

Naked
(Take me out from the shadow)
I'll stand naked
(Lead me down to the waters)
If you'll stand naked with me
(Drown my soul in a sea of love)
I'll stand naked with you
(Don't leave me haunted, 'cause)
Naked
(I believe in the searching)
I'll stand naked
(And I'll find my way through the darkness)
If you'll stand naked with me
(There are doors ahead if we see clear)
I'll stand naked with you
(They're falling open)

~the bodeans

This Prick Got Off Easy

Enron founder Ken Lay dead of heart attack:
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Enron Corp. founder Ken Lay, who was convicted in May of fraud and conspiracy for his part in the Houston-based company's collapse into bankruptcy in 2001, has died of a heart attack at his vacation home in Colorado, a Houston television station reported on Wednesday.

KHOU-TV, a CBS affiliate, said Lay suffered a massive heart attack. He was awaiting sentencing later this year and was expected to face a lengthy prison term for his convictions in the Enron collapse.

Too bad, I wish he rotted in jail for a long time

Art By Nina...

My friend Nina has some new pieces of art on her blog.
I've always loved her work

Happy Forth of July

The FIREWORKS are finished over here

You say Al-Qaida, I Say al QaedaObviously They Didn't Get the Memo

Al-Qaida in Iraq role in bombing denied:
I guess the folks at the Associated Press have different guidelines than we do in the textbook publishing business. Didn't they read page 3 of my last post? Are they trying to start a war?
It's al Qaeda guys... no hyphen, no i's
Good grief!

Why I Dislike PC (political correctness)

I work for a publisher of textbooks and I happened on a Sensitivity Guidelines document. The top of page 3 cracked me up. Yeah, we don't want to get them REALLY pissed off at us.

Apologies

I know this probably isn't necessary, but there are many who visit here and comment. I read all comments but don't always respond. There are some who should be linked to my blog favs, I'm lazy and tired. I'll get around to it at some point.
~phil

Colbert Roasts President Bush 2006 White House Correspondents Dinner

Colbert Roasts President Bush -
2006 White House Correspondents Dinner
C-SPAN
24 min 10 sec - Apr 29, 2006
If there were any other country he would
have been shot after 5 minutes
God Bless America

Why do I Feel Like I'm Floyd R. Turbo?

This has been bothering me for a while, not big time, but I noticed that there are NO signs in my town that tell you what the hours for putting money in the parking meters are. One night I saw some guys getting out of their car at about 8 pm to go for pizza or something. They were ready to feed the meter before feeding themselves. I told them they didn't need to put money in and the guy thanked me. It's only $.25, but it's the reason, IMO, of why they don't have signs posted that gets me. It's either to get everybobody's quarter, or more likely, leave it imbiguous so people don't know what the rules are and then they can slap you with a $25.00 ticket so they can buy more donuts or whatever. So exerciseing my civic duty, I went to the local paper website and composed this letter (probably at 7 am). I obviously didn't really read what I wrote. I sound like Johnny Carson's character Floyd R. Turbo. It was my first time I ever wrote a paper about anything and also the first time I am in a paper that isn't either cancer related or being part of a group of 'unidentified youths...'

When do you feed the parking meters?
To the editor: I have noticed that there are no signs in the center of town that list what the hours are when you have to feed the parking meters. Unless you have searched them out, you have no idea what the hours are. It would be helpful to residents and visitors to have signs in the center of town listing the hours when you need to feed the meters.
Just a thought.
Phil G.
Monroe