Some Changes

You can see that I've been messing with the layout and colors and all.  I could waste many hours fooling with this stuff, and probably will.  But I'll leave it for now and go do something useful.  I am very happy to have the slideshows starting near the top where they are easily found.

Let me know what you think.  I want you to be happy when you come to the Empty Nest.

Peace and Quiet

I'm enjoying the pleasant temperature and relative quiet here on the deck with my little cat Tippy.  I can hear only one lawn mower off in the distance.  I expect the leaf blowers will fire up soon.  And the sirens.  We live in between a fire station and a rescue squad.  We often pause conversations until the rescue vehicles move far enough way from our house for us to hear ourselves.  I wish people would quit wrecking their cars and having heart attacks.  It's getting on my nerves.

Back to the peace and quiet.  I try not to listen to political ranting and raving but sometimes some of the assinine comments seep through my ear muffs.  Like the business about the islamic community center that some imam wants to build near ground zero.  You have to wonder if some Obama/democrat haters didn't put the imam up to that idea, it being so close to an election and all.  What better hot button issue to be flogging right around election time.  Nothing scares Americans (OK, some americans) more than the thought of evil mooslims worshipping right in our faces.  Flaunting their strange god right on our christian soil.

Pause for sirens to go by .....

So the president says "chill, people, it's the American way to let people worship the way they want."

And the people aren't buying it, since, you know, the president isn't even a real American.

I had to chuckle when I read that the location for this proposed muslim center used to be a Burlington Coat Factory.  So now the muslims are interfering with capitalism!!  Damn them.

Did I ever tell you the story of how we tried to buy a fancy baby carriage for our 3rd born son and were thwarted by the security system at our local Burlington coat factory?  I'm sure I haven't told you cause I can't really talk about it yet.  It's too emotional.  He'll be 21 in November .... 

So, come November 3rd, the day after the election, things will quiet down re: fearmongering and hate speech and outlandish proposals to rewrite the constitution.  And my baby will turn 21.

Now that's a lot to look forward to.

Alert: Family Boycott Update

People, I've been so busy I forgot to announce the newest family boycott: U-Haul.

Do not do business with U-Haul.  The second of our 3 sons has been treated very badly by U-Haul.  He went to get his reserved truck, and shazam, there was no truck!

This also happened to our oldest son.  And to our second son's girlfriend's brother, on the same day as the incident that set the boycott in motion.

I don't know how U-Haul stays in business.  They should change their name to "U-Haul ... Maybe .... Maybe Not".  If they didn't paint all those fancy scenes on their trucks, they'd have plenty of room for the new name.  You know, the saguaro cactus and the red rocks of Sedona.  Fish and bears and 3 toed sloths.  All to distract you from the fact that the truck you are looking at is supposed to be in another city, in use by someone who is sadly not able to move at the moment.  Sorry, no move for you, chump.

If you need a truck, try Budget.  And what ever happened to Ryder?  Subsumed by U-Haul no doubt.

You're probably curious about the other family boycotts.  There's only one, Abercrombie & Fitch, which some of you make think ended, but oh no, absolutely not, it's still in effect and very successful, I add smugly.

According to my daily, printed newspaper (yes, I am an old geezer clinging to my outdated news source), teen stores are in a sales slump.  I only take credit for A&F's pain.  Ha ha, you filthy pornographers.  Don't mess with me.

U-Haul ... Maybe ... Maybe Not, you've been warned.