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Police Presence

A combination of today being a Massachusetts holiday and the kids needing to be in school early has placed me about 90 minutes early for work with only 10 more minutes to go before I get there.

On times like these I stop at the rest area next to route 16 and have a little breakfast while watching Netflix.

Right now the rest area is swarming with Massachusetts State Troopers.  I’ve never seen so many badges in one place.  This can mean only one thing:

It’s Marathon Monday.

No one had better mess with Boston today.  No one.

Yard Work Sucks

My step son and I went out to the long neglected back yard and did some yard work.

Yard work sucks.

Seeing as no one can see the back yard unless they are stalking through the woods, I tend to let the leaves go and only worry about the grass getting too long. That means the wind blows the leaves against the house and they just stay there. Today we started the chore of tackling that particular pain in the scrotum. We got a lot of it done, but I have to go back out tomorrow.

Yard work sucks.

150 Years Ago Today

Why is April 15th such a monumental day?  The Titanic sank.  Fenway Park opened.  The Boston Marathon Bombing.  Jackie Robinson’s Brooklyn debut.  Congress ratified the peace treaty that ended the Revolutionary war.  My father was born.

It is also the day that President Lincoln died.  John Wilkes Booth shot him on April 14, but he died on the 15th.  In memory of that terrible event, here is a picture of Lincoln and Booth together about a month before the asassination.

 

Yes I know it’s a little like playing Where’s Waldo.  Where’s Booth?  Here’s the answer.

The First What?

Former First Lady of the United States, US Senator from the state of New York, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has officially announced that she is running for President.

There is really only one question left to ask.

Never in the short history of this great nation has the spouse of the President been a man. Hence, we do not have a male equivalent of the title First Lady. When Hillary becomes our nation’s second President Clinton we are going to need to come up with a new, official title for the first President Clinton, Hillary’s husband and former President Bill Clinton.

I’m going to throw my suggestion out there for everyone to see. I think the husband of our first female President should be officially referred to as The First Dude. Only “dude” should be pronounced surfer style so that it sounds more like The First Dooooooode.

I also think he should probably be kept out of the White House intern office. Just a thought.

Congratulations and best of luck to the next President of the United States, Hillary Clinton. May you mop the floor with all competition.

Originally published at robj2112.wordpress.com on April 12, 2015.

The First What?

Former First Lady of the United States, US Senator from the state of New York, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has officially announced that she is running for President.

There is really only one question left to ask.

Never in the short history of this great nation has the spouse of the President been a man. Hence, we do not have a male equivalent of the title First Lady. When Hillary becomes our nation’s second President Clinton we are going to need to come up with a new, official title for the first President Clinton, Hillary’s husband and former President Bill Clinton.

I’m going to throw my suggestion out there for everyone to see. I think the husband of our first female President should be officially referred to as The First Dude. Only “dude” should be pronounced surfer style so that it sounds more like The First Dooooooode.

I also think he should probably be kept out of the White House intern office. Just a thought.

Congratulations and best of luck to the next President of the United States, Hillary Clinton. May you mop the floor with all competition.

It is Not Time

Yesterday I posted that I might go to the beach for some sunrise pics. Right now you’re all desperately waiting for said pictures.

I didn’t go. I have developed a mathematical expression to describe exactly why I did not go.

(Sleeping in on a Sunday morning) > (Getting up before dawn on Sunday morning)

I hope that explains things for everyone.

Battery Killer

This is just a quick observation about how you should pay attention to warning messages.

I was in between meetings at work today. I had my MacBook Pro with me so I opened it up to check my mail. One email needed a quick response but I had to use one of our applications to look up a relevant piece of data. The app doesn’t run on Mac so I opened up Parallels to run it in Windows. As it loaded I got a warning saying that I was running on battery, blah blah blah. I ignored it.

20 minutes later I was shutting down and I noticed the battery percentage had dropped 20%. TWENTY PERCENT! Holy cow, Parallels was right to warn me! Sheesh! I should pay more attention to stuff like that.