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September 28, 2005
Happy Birthday Grandma!
My Grandma's birthday is today. Although she passed away in 1991, we always think about her. Love you Gram, always, and I still think :
"I'm something on a stick!"
"I'm still a lousy bugger"
"I'm still a simple simon"
"I'm still a miserable character"
"I'm still a devilbon"
"I still need my mouth washed out with soap"
"I still make fun of "mewfins""
"Dad is still "Superman/Claaaaaark Kent""
And I still love you.
Tawwwcos and and Cooooffee forever!
Always "Somthing Gooood"...
1909-1991
’TIS a green isle set in a silver water,
A fairy isle where the shamrock grows.
Land of Legend, the Dream-Queen’s daughter—
Out of the Fairies’ hands She rose.
They touched Her harp with a tender sighing,
A spirit-song from a world afar,
They touched Her heart with a fire undying
To fight and follow Her battle-star.
Too long, too long thro’ the grey years growing
Feud and faction have swept between
The Thistledown and the red Rose blowing
And the three-fold leaf of the Shamrock green;
But the seal of blood, ye shall break it never:
With rifles grounded and bare of head
We drink to the dead who live forever
A silent toast—To the Irish dead!
’Tis an Irish cheer on the hillside ringing,
Where, checked and broken, the vanguards reel,
But on and upward and forward swinging,
The glittering line of the Irish steel!
Like points of light ’mid the boulders lying
Gleam and redden their bayonets keen.
On, thro’ the hell of their dead and dying,
Forward, forward, the Shamrock green!
To Ireland, set in the silver water,
To the fighting blood that is proved and tried—
Our sharpest sword and our fairest daughter—
Who saved the Empire and turned the tide!
And Wisdom comes as the days grow older,
We are done with the faults of the past, I ween,
Standing together, shoulder to shoulder,
The Thistle, the Rose, and the Shamrock green!
Posted by cystdog at 10:17 PM
September 27, 2005
Metaphor for Rancho cityhood
Posted by cystdog at 10:55 PM
September 26, 2005
Im outta here!
Posted by cystdog at 11:30 PM
Electric Blue
Posted by cystdog at 11:28 PM
Wow, that was close
Posted by cystdog at 11:27 PM
View from Iron Point Road south
Posted by cystdog at 11:26 PM
Lightning over ED Hills @ radio towers/Hwy 50
Posted by cystdog at 11:25 PM
The first fall rain
Well, it began drizziling on the way home from work this afternoon, and the smell of that; the smell of wet weeds, and trees, grass filling the air, the smell of wet roads and the oil, it was great. The rain is coming down now, hard, and the thunder and lightning are ruling the skies. I'm headed out to Folsom, and will be making a detour up Iron Point Road to the top of the foothills overlooking Folsom, and the valley. They have a greenway adjoining the road, with street furniture and a paved walking path. If you haven't checked it out, you should. I think it should be interesting to see the Sacramento Valley tonight, with all the lightning across the sky. If I can deal with the rain, I'll be trying to get some pics.
Posted by cystdog at 07:18 PM
September 25, 2005
A fourth kind of lie Mark Twain would have enumerated
Mark Twain wrote in his autobiography, of lies:
Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
I believe he would have enumerated RCPD, and indeed Rancho Cordova City Council cited statistics collected since 2003, as a fourth.
Posted by cystdog at 03:05 PM
Dvorak: A 21st Century take on transubstantiation?
Mexican officials are apparently concerned about a Catholic Bishop's take on accepting contributions from drug dealers. Dvorak invoked the term "transubstantiation", and for me, visions of tons of gack being consumed as "the body of christ". As blasphemous as that sounds, stranger, and more infamous "transubstatiations" have occurrred, both approved and unapproved by the Vatican.
Dvorak Uncensored � Mexico warns church on drug-tainted money
On Monday, the bishop said money can start out being dirty but “can be transformed” when it enters the church, Mexican news media reported.
Posted by cystdog at 01:48 PM
The Treo with Windows cometh, finally
When Verizon makes these available, sometime on October, I am on it.
I'll be able to VPN into my workstation, with encryption support native, from anywhere using Windows Mobile 5.0, instead of MobileTS or Palm VNC on a 600, which is sloooow.
The Palm Treo 700w (aka Treo 670) - Exclusive first look! - Engadget - www.engadget.com
Posted Sep 22, 2005, 1:00 PM ET by Peter Rojas
Related entries: Cellphones, Features
Check it out: we got our hands on the new Windows Mobile-powered Treo, but it ain’t called the Treo 670 anymore (if it even ever was called that), it’s the Treo 700w (which implies—but doesn’t guarantee—the existence of a Palm-powered Treo 700p). We haven’t spent enough time with the 700w for a proper review — we’ve literally had it in our hands for only a few hours — but we couldn’t resist posting up this first look:
Posted by cystdog at 01:28 PM
matherlake_east_access_parking
I'm trying to find out from the County Park Dept. and the City of Rancho whether they can change the parking policy for this area near the Mather Lake East Trail access point.
Here's the email:
>To: info@sacparks.org
>Subject: Mather Lake Parking
>
>
>I wanted to know if the county would consider allowing the public,
>with day use or annual county park passes, to park legally
>at the asphalt pad on Douglas Road across from the Mather Regional
>Park's east access next to the Folsom South Canal Crossing.
>
>Currently it is illegal to park there, and walking from the Rotary
>Park parking area, to the east part of the lake using Douglas Road
>is very dangerous. Parking on the east side of the canal and
>walking to the trail access is both dangerous for a pedestrian,
>and leaves one's vehicle in an unsupervised area where vehicle
>vandalism and theft have been know to occur.
>
>A picture of the parking area I am discussing is at :
>
>http://www.flickr.com/photos/scupper/46502346/
>
>I'd appreciate any feedback and direction as to who to direct my
>concerns to about this parking problem. I suspect I must address
>the Parks Commission, and possible the County Board of
>Supervisors, The City of Rancho Cordova and the Public Works
>department of each.
>
>Thank you,
> scupper
Posted by cystdog at 12:49 PM
September 19, 2005
Must be the Chamber's Hospitality program in action
I spotted this on the way home about 6pm, and the irony is, is that the city was, AT THAT VERY MOMENT, getting an update on the development plans for the Stagger from the owners. Simply dynamic, world class, 22nd Century, "revitalized", air line supplied bullshit
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September 11, 2005
By the way..
It's my birthday. "Happpy 9-11" What a deal.
Spending it fishing and in general laziness.
Posted by cystdog at 09:22 AM | TrackBack
A new, cool fishing site
I spotted a link to new fishing web site called "FisherDiary.com". Figure I'll start logging some of my angling failures in our local life giving Perchlorate watershed.
I'm wandering over to Nimbus Flats @ Lake Natoma today to try for some panfish and perhaps a Trout. Maybe hit Mather Lake in the afternoon. Funny thing happened at Walmart in RC while I was buying line and some new collapsible chairs.
This psycho dude, who strangly reminded me of a truck driver at Lucky Produce I knew in the 1980s, walked up to me and exclaimed that
"All the fish have poison!; they all make you sick, they have Mercury, you'll be catching poison."
I just gave him the Onward and Upward (tm) thumbs up. What was unsettling about it, is that he reminded me of this truck driver I rememebered. I think his name was Dennis, and he'd served in Vietnam. He always spoke of working in the morgue over there, and how it "warped" him.
I was only a teenager when I knew him, so allot of his BS was fascinating to me. He once riddled off a tale about being so enraged by the "Kong" that he walked into the morgue, found a dead VC or NVA there and kicked the corpse's head in, and struggled to extricate his boot from the head.
My other bizarre memory of this man is that he used to carry a brief case, an unusual "accouterment" for a truck driver, and lock himself in our shop supervisors's office for hours at a time. The night shift mechanic (and my adopted older brother) Joe Perry would always tell me the guy was doing meth inside the office and, well, other things I won't lay out here.
It was just weird how this guy in Walmart resembeled this driver, 15 yrs later, he just had this look of fear in his eyes I remembered the briefcase touting truck driver having. His eyes, ringed by red circles of inflamation, like he was experiencing a Vulcan Blood fever, or a bad batch of Gack.
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