Short Blog of Me Being Lazy Imagine That (12/01/13)...

Well at about ten to five this afternoon I decided to get going and get productive. Basically I have spent the day in my version of PJs (t-shirt and shorts) reading about three weeks worth of newspapers and my latest Randy Wayne White novel while listening to music on various radio stations on the internet and drinking some enhanced coffee. By enhanced I am referring to the new bottle of Kahlua that made into the Schlewingstan household yesterday afternoon.

I can confirm that the weather in Brisbane, QLD, Australia is in the mid 80s with partly cloudy skies per Triple M. In New Glasgow, NS, Canada it was around 32 or 0c with some snow flurries later changing to rain per East Coast FM. In Montreal, QC, Canada it's about -3c with light flurries per CHOM-FM. I can confirm that it was about 10c or 53F here today with clear skies. That's coming from temperature thingee on my back deck as I didn't listen to any Greenville stations today.

I can also confirm that my front lawn no longer exists as it once did. It is covered with thousands of leaves from the Bradford pears that I have out front. My neighbor on my right will not be happy with me as the other day he had some hired help out there on his property removing any leaf of significance whatsoever from his property. Once it dries up a bit more here, my leaves will be sneak attacking his lawn with total disregard of real and/or imagined borders or property lines. LOL. I wonder if that is what was meant by "love thy neighbor". Hmmm. Probably not.

Right now I have some country-style pork ribs in the slow cooker. They had a fire sale on them the other day at the store where Harrison works part-time. I bought a slow cooker recipe mix at the same time to use along with honey and ketchup. I am not crazy about store-bought recipe envelope mixes as I always worry as they seem to be loaded with salt and I am not a salt user. Also not crazy about using ketchup as a key ingredient. Not sure why but it makes me uncomfortable. Now there's some effing logic for you. LOL. Yes ma'am right up there with Einstein's Theory of Relativity is Schlewing's Theory of Ketchup Use.

I need to get back to the kitchen and start cleaning up. Between the curry and the chicken soup I made yesterday and these ribs from today I have used pretty much every pan, pot and cutting board I own. That implies that my weekend slothful ways have to come to an end. Bleh to that.

Peace out rock'n'rollers Monday is almost here. Hahaha. I can here Ode To Joy now in my brain NOT.

Long Weekend...(09/20/2013).....

Wow I haven't been exactly prolific in my writings lately, have I? Rhetorical question by the way. LOL. It seems the only time I have been sitting in front of the PC lately is to keep up with my Nationals online and to play Words With Friends until I get so effing annoyed by the stupid ads that I used to be able to mute but can't mute anymore and hear repeatedly. I don't effing need breath strips for my dog. I don't have a dog! I've got cats and cats have good breath it seems so breath strips are effing useless. LOL.

The blog title says long weekend as I have this coming Monday off as I am off to Sevierville, TN on Sunday to see and hear live in concert The Marshall Tucker Band, .38 Special and Foreigner. It will be an awesome show! I have seen the latter two bands live in the last 3-4 years and I know I will be bopping to songs that I have been listening to since I had lots of hair on my head. Yes that long ago. LOL. I can't wait! Hopefully my phone will be charged and I can take some decent pics from the show. I messed up by leaving my phone in the car a week or so ago when I went to see The National in Asheville which was an excellent show. I've enjoyed the shows I have seen this summer. Started off with Third Eye Blind then Darius Rucker then Chicago then Heart then Sheryl Crow then the Beach Boys the Mumford & Sons and then The National. Pretty darn cool!

In fact I have tons of long weekends coming. I booked about 11 days off over the next eight weeks or so just to get to my carry-over for 2014. I didn't plan my vacation time real well this year. Well I started off well with the Sanibel trip in early July but the nearly $2000 "Jynx Get Well" vet bill kind of screwed up some plans between having to take care of her and that money that was destined for a second Sanibel trip. Nevertheless Jynx is well and purring up and sneezing up a storm so all is well in Schlewingstan.

Anyways back to the present. I opened a bottle of "Menage A Trois" I picked up earlier tonight on my red wine and salsa run at Costco and I am typing away as I listen to the musical stylings of Mark Knopfler, Meat Loaf, Powderfinger, Bear's Den and Sinead O'Connor. Nats are up 7-0 nothing and the Tribe are up 2-1. Reds are losing (good) and now we need the Rangers to be down as well or perhaps the Rays pitching can falter letting the Orioles back into the game. Less than 10 games left in the season. H told me last night that I need to get the hockey package on our cable programming. H is a Habs fan. That is so cool! It took 19 years but the Prodigal Son has allowed his Canadian DNA to prevail. I really need to upgrade the sound on that flat screen I have in the living room. It is kind of tinny and brutal! I just don't watch enough TV to give a whit....

I will finish this in the morning...H is home and he wants to chat...

Weekends That Have Two Saturdays (05/26/13)...

Surprisingly I am awake and coherent enough to start typing away after about 4 hours of sleep last night. I would not bet against me having a nap at some point later this morning or early afternoon. That would be a sure loss.

That would be like betting against opening up the comments section on the local news websites and not seeing racism and hatred passing off as commentary by the brain dead.

I have a theory that all those books, shows and movies about the un-dead or zombies are first person accounts of real-life encounters in the Upstate. Fortunately I see enough good people in my day to day life or on my volunteering opportunities that they outnumber the morons that spew their bile and hatred on the local news websites.

Oof. I need another Kahlua coffee and a happy pill this morning!

Looking forward to indulging in some more good beers (that have water content) tonight at Aloft 2013 and seeing the Sister Hazel / Third Eye Blind show. I checked out a recent setlist and I will be a happy camper if they follow the same for this show. I heard that a recent show at Nationals Park they included a cover version of Zep's Stairway. That would be pretty cool to hear live.

Spent some time reading up on my Nationals this morning. This season is huge letdown after last year's amazing run. I keep reading from management and the players that the season is young. Well they are rapidly approaching the 1/3 mark of the season (sometime next week) and it doesn't look good when they are chasing Atlanta (5 and 1/2 games back) who are winning often and winning late even though the Braves have little production out of their 2nd basemen and their right and center fielders. They have had to deal with the adversity of injuries as much as we have yet they are finding the wherewithal to win games. Looks like I will head down to Atlanta next weekend as my Nats will be at the TED. I need to check StubHub to see what they have available for Saturday and Sunday.

It doesn't look any prettier when you look at the wild card standings where the Nats are looking up at least at 4 teams above them. I was buying hook, line and sinker what the pre-season prognosticators predicted with a Nats-Tigers World Series. Hahahaha.

I think that today I will finally start on part two of the greening of my little piece of Schlewingstan. I have done pretty much all I can do out front and on the sides. Just need to keep watering and weeding when they pop up as I am sure that they will do. They are hardy annoying little buggers.

There is a chance that I will go into super lazy mode and start reading one of the five books I picked up yesterday morning at Mr. K's on Laurens and Verdae. If I even go near the couch; the greening will be put off until tomorrow.

Okay fellow rock and rollers it is time for me to make some homemade egg burritos for breakspass as Harrison used to call it when he was a year or two old. Peace out!