Let The Smoke Out

Here’s some great artwork, a nice Sci-Fi feel.

Original either thru picture or here.

I moved the site back to Heliohost. CXR has gotten merged with some other provider and everything is half-broken. On top of this, I’m not sure, from the notices they sent out, that they will be providing a free hosting account for long.

So, if you tried to visit and the site was down, that’s why. Either it was before I moved and CXR was dead, or LTSO was in the process of moving.

My youngest daughter introduced me to “Seasons of Love” from the movie “Rent”

I’m not sure how my own life will be measured, but if my daughters are any indication of how my life might be viewed, then I’ll say it will be viewed well.

I’ll probably edit this with something a bit deeper and more meaningful later.

There was an earthquake in Haiti recently.

In the US:

There is a guy on the corner begging for change that hasn’t worked in 2 years.
There is a family that lost their house because their ARM rose and dad lost his job.
There are kids going hungry every day because mommy had to choose between food or medical insurance.
There is a woman that is a widow because her husband was killed in a drive-by shooting.

But there was an earthquake in Haiti, so all the media are crying for Haiti and telling you to send your money there.

I am in no way minimizing the amount of damage and the pure human suffering that is going on on that island right now, but there is a whole shitload more suffering and pain going on IN OUR OWN COUNTRY that your dollars would be welcomed to fund efforts to assuage. Let the rest of the world help Haiti, and sure, we can supply transport or something.

But please folks, before you get all dewy-eyed and reach for the checkbook for Haiti in response to the latest pics on CNN for Fox, remember that “Charity Starts At Home” can mean it needs to GO to our home first.

The folks that just lost the family home, been in the family for at least 2 generations, where’s their help? Or the guy that’s been out of work for 2 years? He’s not getting any help beyond welfare. Good thing he’s raising his grandchildren, or he’d be SOL.

Yet we spend billions on foreign aid, wars that started with a just cause but are now just efforts to remake those countries in our own image. All this on countries that’ll cheer when something bad happens in the U.S. Faugh!

I’m not saying that we shouldn’t help other countries. I am saying that we can’t help others unless our own house is in order, and it isn’t. There are too many in this country that have been stuck with un-natural disaster, that now it’s time for those in power to give some REAL thought and aid to solving the problems of the PEOPLE.

Florida is known for Miami, Disney, Gators, Voting Controversy, and especially our WARM temperatures.

Florida is NOT known for frost, ice, cold temps, and all the other evils you normal mortals not blessed enuf to live here have to deal with.

We lucky bastards living in “The Kingdom of the Sun” (That’d be Marion County) are all wondering one thing: “Where’s the HEAT?”

It’s COLD! It’s so damn cold I had to go start the van in the morning to melt the ice and warm it up 15 minutes before the Other Half (She Who MUST Be Obeyed) left for work.

Granted, back in West Point I had to deal with snow, and that evil white stuff ain’t here….yet.

Local radio Wind-FM’s morning DJ’s Hunter and Dixon sum it up best with this song.

While I don’t know about largest, it made me LOL.

This has been around a while, but while I was listening to a Christmas special out in Manland (the Garage) they played “Wizards in Winter,” by Trans-Siberian Orchestra, which I *MUST*ALWAYS* turn up. After an
exhaustive air-guitar session, I remembered that there was a video to it, of a man’s house with lights sync’d to the music.
Continue reading Wizards in Winter

A bunch of funny signs, like the one below.

See the rest here.

Part 1 is here.

When last we looked, the back plate of the movement was removed, exposing the Heart of the Beast.

I’m afraid this portion will be a bit light on pictures, as had a few issues on the way that got me a bit flustered.
Continue reading Cleaning an Antique Ingraham 8-day Movement – Part 2