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This Post is Sarcasm

What a great day to be a billionaire in the United States, huh?  A huge tax break that only costs heath insurance coverage for 20 million or so of our fellow Americans.  Well, not really our fellow Americans though because they aren’t billionaires so they are lower class proles whose lives and health don’t matter.  217 loyal fascist collaborators in congress did their jobs to put more money in the billionaires’ pockets.

It’s About God Damn Time!

The first trailer for The Dark Tower movie has arrived.  I’m not going to lie to you, this doesn’t appear to have all that much to do with Stephen King’s books. I’m a little nervous about that.  I don’t want to just see the books on the screen, I want them to make the movie stand on it’s own, but I’m a little nervous to say the least.

 

Though I have to be honest… hearing the whole I do not aim with my hand mantra out loud was pretty freaking awesome.

Sgt Pepper Meets Star Wars

This was sent to me on Facebook yesterday by Mike the Bass Player.  I think we need to incorporate this into our set.

The video is a taste:

This soundcloud playlist is the whole album (it’s supposed to be, I haven’t tested it to make sure):

Enjoy, one and all!

So That was a Night

We had to do some grade A schedule juggling last night.

My step daughter was on a school trip to Europe.  Yesterday she woke up in Barcelona.  She was booked on a flight to Lisbon, and then another flight to Boston.  The Barcelona plane had mechanical problems and was delayed for a long time.  Long enough for them to miss the connection in Lisbon.  Now what?

The tour company and the airline did some major league scrambling just trying to get the 33 students and all of the chaperones back into the USA.  They ended up getting onto a flight to JFK in New York.  From there they took a bus up to Logan airport in Boston.  Instead of picking her up at her high school at 4:00pm or so, we ended up needing to pick her up at 1:20am in Boston.  That would be rough enough on us old people, but when you add in the other thing…

My step son has a school trip of his own.  He’s staying in the country, but has to take a long bus ride.  The plan was to get him to his school for check in at 5:00am.  So if we pick up the world traveler at 1:20 and get home at 2:00, we’d have to get up at 4:00 to get ready to drop the other world traveler off at 5:00.  Oh, and then we had to go to work.  Yeah.

My beloved wife took care of the Boston side of thing and I took care of the check in side of things.  With the stress of the whole day and the fluidity of the situation, neither of us got much sleep.  I have no idea how much I got.  Three hours?  Maybe?  certainly not four.  The downside of yesterday is that I am possibly more tired than I’ve ever been.  I’m mentally useless today.  The upside is that step child #1 is home safe and sound, and step child #2 is off on a really cool adventure.

Fair trade.

Relief

Oh what a relief it is.

Last week felt like the longest week ever.  I was so relieved when it ended.
This week wasn’t quite as bad, but it was definitely the second longest week ever.  I am so relieved it is finally over and the weekend is here.

I cannot believe that on Monday it will be May.  This year is burning away so fast it’s dizzying.  May means my birthday.  Yuck.  It also means my step daughter’s sweet 16.  I don’t expect her to get a Ferrari cake or anything.  Did Diddy do it?  Diddy did do it.  Then at the end of the month it’s our eighth wedding anniversary.  That is a great thing.

This weekend has a couple of karate classes, a birthday party, a band practice, and finally finally finally my step daughter comes home from her trip!  Of course, on Monday my step son goes away on a trip of his own.  One comes home, the other goes away.  Bummer, indeed.