Spent 2 cold hours this morning installing some new lights on my Jeep. It’s just a direct switch out, sorta. I really need to start reading instructions.

I removed my fog lights and replaced them with LED driving lights that will give me better lighting on back roads. Jeeps are known for poor nighttime lighting and I’m hoping that this will make it better without adding a bunch of lights.

Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.

Well, Tori had a great day yesterday. She met with an old friend and they went 4 wheeling. They got stuck 3 times, which makes me question if she really used the 4 wheel drive.

Glad you had fun Tort.

• Female cops should be kicked off the force if they cry, but it’s OK for men cops to cry.
• Eve, as in Adam and Eve, is the root of all evil. She started the whole evil female thing.
• All females are evil.
• I find it very hard to resist asking if that includes her when she says  things like this.
• Most women these days are whores.
• Lesbians should be killed.
• Gay men are that way because women force them to choose men.

Edit: I’ve noticed that I have new viewers.  ML is Nina’s aunt that now lives with us and I’m finding there’s much to about this woman that is just staggering about her hatred of women, gays, other races, and men. There’s no way that I’ve been able to rate the levels of this woman’s hatred. I could call her a homophobe or a bigot or a man hater or woman hater, but since she hates just about everyone but Germans you can’t label her like others.

• Didn’t even have time for a nap.
• Helped Mark load a trailer.
• Removed the flat tractor tire and had it fixed.
• Looked at guns in Vegas.
• Picked up the tire and replaced it on the tractor.
• Tried to start the tractor.
• Battery is dead. Gonna jump it tomorrow.
• Went to dinner with Nina and Tori.
• I bought . . . . again.
• Stopped and looked at motor sports equipment.
• More stuff too, but I’m tired.

After the game, the King and the Pawn go into the same box.        ~Italian proverb

. . . . .  and we’re speeding into the New Year’s holiday. Let’s all hope that the course is a safe one. Christmas was almost drama free, so generally a nice day. I called my friends from other states and countries yesterday and this morning, a tradition for me that I truly love. It’s always nice hearing their voices.

This year I did something on a spur of the moment that gave me a nice feeling. Ed called me to tell me of Ryan’s Christmas wish, told to a mall Santa Clause, of getting a garbage truck for Christmas. Ed thought I would enjoy the story. Well, I did enjoy the story and I went online and found a truck for $15 and had it wrapped for another $5, wrote up a card and signed it Santa Clause. Free shipping made it a $20 gift to a kid whose parents are split. When I talked to Ed yesterday he told me that the truck was the last thing Ryan opened and looking at the wrapped package he said “I hope that this is my garbage truck, Santa promised.” When Ryan saw the truck he was speechless.  Ed claims that the truck hasn’t left his side since he opened it. Another garbageman is born.

Anyway, that’s my Christmas story.

Sometimes the thoughts in my head get so bored, they go out for a stroll through my mouth. This is rarely a good thing.

Last night’s party, while lightly attended, was a nice get together.  We got a chance to catch up with several neighbors that we only see at the yearly party.

The title says it all.

OK, maybe you remember my Insanitorium site when I was developing it, or maybe you don’t. It doesn’t matter but it was a place to talk with friends from the net off the site we met at. It eventually died when a Facebook group took over the duties of what we were doing there.

I repurposed that site to a photo site for my pictures. No real commentary or discussions other than descriptions or travel stories will be posted there by me.

It looks very similar to this one and is also mobile friendly.

Check it out here.

The Darwins Are Out!!!!

Yes, it’s that magical time of year again when the Darwin Awards are bestowed, honoring the least evolved among us.

Here Is The Glorious Winner:

1. When his .38 caliber revolver failed to fire at his intended victim during a hold-up in Long Beach, California would-be robber James Elliot did something that can only inspire wonder. He peered down the barrel and tried the trigger again. This time it worked.

And Now, The Honorable Mentions:

2. The chef at a hotel in Switzerland lost a finger in a meat cutting machine and after a little shopping around, submitted a claim to his insurance company. The company expecting negligence sent out one of its men to have a look for himself. He tried the machine and he also lost a finger. The chef’s claim was approved.

3. A man who shoveled snow for an hour to clear a space for his car during a blizzard in Chicago returned with his vehicle to find a woman had taken the space. Understandably, he shot her.

4. After stopping for drinks at an illegal bar, a Zimbabwean bus driver found that the 20 mental patients he was supposed to be transporting from Harare to Bulawayo had escaped. Not wanting to admit his incompetence, the driver went to a nearby bus stop and offered everyone waiting there a free ride. He then delivered the passengers to the mental hospital, telling the staff that the patients were very excitable and prone to bizarre fantasies. The deception wasn’t discovered for 3 days.

5. An American teenager was in the hospital recovering from serious head wounds received from an oncoming train. When asked how he received the injuries, the lad told police that he was simply trying to see how close he could get his head to a moving train before he was hit.

6.. A man walked into a Louisiana Circle-K, put a $20 bill on the counter, and asked for change. When the clerk opened the cash drawer, the man pulled a gun and asked for all the cash in the register, which the clerk promptly provided. The man took the cash from the clerk and fled, leaving the $20 bill on the counter. The total amount of cash he got from the drawer… $15. [If someone points a gun at you and gives you money, is a crime committed?]

7. Seems an Arkansas guy wanted some beer pretty badly. He decided that he’d just throw a cinder block through a liquor store window, grab some booze, and run. So he lifted the cinder block and heaved it over his head at the window. The cinder block bounced back and hit the would-be thief on the head, knocking him unconscious. The liquor store window was made of Plexiglas. The whole event was caught on videotape.

8. As a female shopper exited a New York convenience store, a man grabbed her purse and ran. The clerk called 911 immediately, and the woman was able to give them a detailed description of the snatcher. Within minutes, the police apprehended the snatcher. They put him in the car and drove back to the store. The thief was then taken out of the car and told to stand there for a positive ID. To which he replied, “Yes, officer, that’s her. That’s the lady I stole the purse from.

9. The Ann Arbor News crime column reported that a man walked into a Burger King in Ypsilanti, Michigan at 5 A.M., flashed a gun, and demanded cash. The clerk turned him down because he said he couldn’t open the cash register without a food order. When the man ordered onion rings, the clerk said they weren’t available for breakfast… The frustrated gunman walked away. [*A 5-STAR STUPIDITY AWARD WINNER]

10. When a man attempted to siphon gasoline from a motor home parked on a Seattle street by sucking on a hose, he got much more than he bargained for. Police arrived at the scene to find a very sick man curled up next to a motor home near spilled sewage. A police spokesman said that the man admitted to trying to steal gasoline, but he plugged his siphon hose into the motor home’s sewage tank by mistake. The owner of the vehicle declined to press charges saying that it was the best laugh he’d ever had and the perp had been punished enough!

In the interest of bettering mankind, please share these with friends and family…. unless of course one of these individuals by chance is a distant relative or long lost friend. In that case, be glad they are distant and hope they remain lost.