pizzapizza

pizzapizza
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Friday night is pizza night around here and nary do I get away without some kind of "help".

Help doing what?

Extending my cleanup time?

Tommy and Caroline

Tommy and Caroline
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I screwed up and deleted this post so I put it back but the comments were lost. Thanks for the nice words all of you.

poemsterpic

poemsterpic
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For all the warm weather people out there.

I'm staying home today or at least I won't be going anywhere to work. It's the last day of fall and it's zero degrees with a "real feel" temp of -20. Snow flurries are blowing around with high winds and if I venture outside I'd be in danger of becoming stiff and not in a useful way either.

Still no blowable....er....throwable snow at this point because what we got last night has already been blown not thrown away to where I don't know but it's conceivable it may even show up at your place with these winds around here.

I'll ask you to excuse me because ever since I was a kid the idea of shirking responsibilty and staying home when you should be somewhere else always made me a little giddy......until around 1:00 PM when I became melancholy because I realize I should have gone because it was almost over anyway and then I could've taken tomorrow off instead.

Life isn't easy,is it?

I'm thinking of making some changes to this old blog in the way of new stuff like posting some pics and a new segment to compliment the Sunday Sermon. It will be called Monday Morning Quarterbacking and don't worry it'll be stupid too.

Don't worry about me though I'll just take tomorrow off too.

Sunday Sermon

This is reiteration of my mission statement as posted in one of my poemster posts circa June 2004 B.C. (before cosmos)

With the celebration of Christmas so near this holiday season for me brings a special time of reflection and introspection. Reflection on where I have been and introspection to see what I am. The timing couldn’t be more perfect.

In June past I started thepoemster blog because I could as they say.
I would use it constructively to formalize my thoughts and ideas. It would serve as a reminder of my goals as well as have an outlet to have some fun . It has so far met its design goals with only a couple of complications along the way spurred on by my own stupidity. Remember that I create 95% of my own problems.

I am on a journey including but not limited to the spiritual aspect of my life. I would place equal importance on the physical aspect by testing some of adages like “This is America and you can attain whatever it is that you set out to do.” I only want a little bit more than that because I want to have some fun doing it. More on that another time.

I would exclude nothing and examine everything and how it may or may not fit into my life. Columbo-like in execution I collected and examined many things to date and reaffirmed that things are not always, as they appear to be.

I soon found it would be just as important to vary the methods used to examine things I found. Some items needed close scrutiny and with others it was more helpful to step back to see the big picture.

My mission statement once again in fifteen words or less:

To become less judgmental and more understanding and accepting of others.

Christmas would not be without the birth of Jesus and whether or not he was a mortal or a God I must profess I do not know. Not knowing something doesn’t bother me. However, just being a man would not diminish his life in fact it would in my opinion make it even more profound and less impossible to achieve.

I have learned that life is a delicate balance of what we know and what is in our hearts. It is not some verbatim recital of facts and quotes in an effort to show how smart or well intentioned I am. What’s good for the goose may not be good for the gander. We as individuals must develop our own custom approach but the outcome is much affected by how we go about it.

I went about it this way.

I set out to collect attributes that I admire in others I would keep them and hold them close until I could fully absorb them. I would become a person that I could admire and then allow myself to “trickle down” to others.I was not prepared for the healing effects that would result. Forgiveness brings with it a healing and I guess I could spell it out but I’d rather leave it for anyone to customize for himself or herself. No sense in being too sanctimonious with you folks. If I may say though, save some for yourself though it’s equally important if your anything like me.

My journey is far from over and my mission is not complete by any stretch of the imagination but I have taken some good steps as of late and I know one thing to be true. I am on a good track and it has been good for me.

It is truly a wonderful time of year but when examined closely and from afar for that matter I realize it is no different than any other time of year.

At least it shouldn’t be.

Peace on earth and good will to all. Always,



Rob


CC: College

So I buy this Honda snow....thrower. They are no longer called snowblowers.

That's understandable.

You don't want, on a subconscience level,to give the impression your product blows,right?

I started to read the propag....er...ah....brochure after I got the thing home (that's right after I already bought it then I read the literature just for the fun of it)(that's not really as screwed up as it sounds,never buy something because of what it says in a brochure) and basically it touted all the strong points of the machine and why it is the best overall choice for the task at hand.

Honda makes great motors and so far this thing does start on one pull everytime although it has not yet seen any "throwable' snow to date.

The brochure describes an early morning snowfall and an ambitious happy faced parent up early clearing the driveway so the family can get out and do some sledding. Not to worry the quite motor won't wake up the kids or the neighbor.

No, not till I take the muffler off it won't.

Anyhow the machine handles the task with aplomb and even leaves you pining for next snowstorm.

They don't say how long it takes for the novelty to wear off though.

How stupid.

It is for reasons like this I'll promote all my current and future endeavors with honesty and integrity.

I'm seriously thinking of using a bunch of curse words too.

December 22
The years shortest day
I look forward to getting
it out of the way
It starts to get dark
a little after 4
I don't know about you
but I know I like more
of those hours of daylight
and the bone warming heat
what can I say?
I guess I am beat

What am I doing in VT anyway?I didn't even like CT winters so much.
Seriously though I don't mind it so much.I suppose I really even like it up until after New Years day and then maybe a few assorted days after that.

We got a little snow yesterday and the road to the store up the hill was pretty slick.I put my studded snow tires on and went up the hill and only made it up halfway.I wound up in a culvert and had to get yanked out by the kid that does donuts endlessly in the road not far from where I live.It sucked.Guess it was a lesson for me.Sliding off the road up here can have disasterous consequences as there aren't too many guardrails between you and impending doom.

I'm putting tire chains on my Christmas list.