Yes, it was a very good year....

It was 1956 and July 4th. We sat on the grass and it was hot.
The music started. There was several singers and players.
And then ... the reason we were there at Freebody Park.

Out he stepped on the stage. We all stood and yelled.
The trumpet started to play, and we yelled. And then
we all sat and listen in silence. I don't remember
all of the songs, but Mack the Knife was one of them.

Then one of the men in the band stepped up and told us
that it was the 56th birthday of the man. And we all stood and
sang HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LOUIE. We were all so hyped.
And that was before drugs... at least for all of us who
were singing and yelling. I was there with 3 girls. I could
hardly believe my mother let me go. It was my first concert.

It was the Newport Jazz Festival and it was Louie Armstrong.
It was a very good year....

Compactors

We have a cheap compactor.
And it is quite efficient. It kind of
takes a day or two, but it does work
well.

See we have a human compactor.
It is a contest my husband has to
get out of taking the garbage out.

He sees the garbage is flowing, so he
pushes it down at least an inch below
the edge. Hoping that when I come along
to put in garbage, I will see it is full and
pull the strings. And take it out.

I got tired of being the only one doing this,
so I joined this race, of who can push the
garbage down the hardest without having
to take it out. Now I can do it pretty well,
but I have got to say that the King is the
KING HUMAN COMPACTOR. He has even
pushed it down enough and then pulled on
the strings so it closes just enough, so it
doesn't spill out, but too much for me to try
to push it down.

And Saturday was the worse one yet. He finally
gave up and pulled the strings, tied it off, removed
it and sat it by the back door. I was lucky, as he
did put the new bag in. Which he has not done in
the past a few times. With the deal, well, I took
out the garbage at least you can do is put in the
new bag. Which is good idea, IF I KNEW he had
removed the old one. And headed to the garbage
basket, with garbage, and pulled out the basket, and
found it without.

What made Saturday's worse was the fact our garbage
cans are just outside the door, in the container, that we
keep the cans in to keep the neighbor dogs out of it.
What, 3 feet? So I decided to throw it outside on top of
the container, and repeated his saying.. INSIDE WORK,
WOMEN'S WORK, OUTSIDE WORK, MEN'S WORK.
It was now outside.

Ah, the games we marrieds play to past the winter by.

More questions than answers....

As the past week or two has unfolded, more
information has been eked out by the media.

There is a time line of sorts. We hear that
she and her husband split up in 2000 and
divorced last year 2007.

So that means she had her first treatment after
she and her husband had split up. And she has
had 6 children by treatments only, in that separation
time. And then after her divorce, she has the final
treatment. And her youngest, twins, were barely
a year old when she had the last treatment. AND
all of these children are only a year or so apart.

Now I realize that many people have children close
together. I, myself, is one of those people. I had 8
in 10 years with one set of twins. BUT I had a husband,
and he was the bread winner during those years. We
had homes big enough for those children. .

Yet, this woman, not only wanted children and continued
to seek more, as a single mom, with no job, which opens
a whole another box. Where did the income come from
to pay for these very expensive treatments. Who paid for
all of those? Her disability check? Where was the income
for the first 6? And now she has 14 without any job
insight. Even her mother is overwhelmed with this task.
Which by the way, she lives with her parents. Father left
for Iraq. Her mother is bailing too.

So there she is, mother of 14, no changing that. It is what
it is. But we got to question, how did she get that far?
Isn't there any background check, like for adoption? To
make sure these children coming into the world are safe?
Are going to be well taken care of? Does this mean that
a person who has lots of money for the treatments, can
just walk in, given the treatment and walk out, with a baby
9 months later? A sex offender? A baby auction person?
Can they all do this with no one checking? How do they
know if the woman is stable enough, and won't abuse the
child? Weren't they concerned about the father?

Why was a woman allowed to have these treatments, with
very small babies at home? Why was she allowed, when there
was not a home of her own? Why was she allowed after having
6 children in 6 years and the youngest just over a year? Why?

Why wasn't there a psycho sessions talked about before the
last treatment? Heck, why not after the second baby.

Now we get to the money part. I am not talking about the
money at the clinic. But who is going to pay for the support
of these children? Is the California law/policy still in place for
the husband who remains married after a wife has children by
another man, still responsible for those children born under the
marriage that is still in place? Meaning does the ex-husband,
who did not get a divorce for 7 years, is he responsible for
the support of the first 6 children? And what about the donor?
Will the state search for him, being there is so many children,
and he fathered them all. After all someone has to pay. Who?
Is the state of California, which is in so much trouble financially,
take on the task of supporting all these children? Will they take
measure to send out part of the children to be adopted? Will the
grandmother bail as she said, as she was way too overwhelmed?
Yes, there still a lot of questions here.

Polite People don't....

Polite People don't call after 9pm.
Anytime the phone rings in our house
after 9, it jars us. Because we wonder
who is hurt or what is going on.

We don't call people after 9 pm unless it
is a prearranged deal. We don't call
people with children after 8 pm. As we know
they are in the process of getting the kids thru
baths, beds stories and etc.

We just don't feel comfortable with late calls.

Also we don't like people who call and just say
hi. Now how am I suppose to know who it is, that
calls and says just hi? When I call, I say hi, this is......
I don't think it is fair to the person on the other side
to have to play guessing games.

But then again, I guess I am just old fashion.
As the young crowd call at all hours. And that is
fine, if they are both single, and it doesn't disturb
the whole household.

weekend silliness

One of the cartoons I follow is Pickles.... and the grandmother talks about
C.O.L. (cat on lap) well, I have d.o. s. and that makes blogging harder

d.o.s. (dog on shoulder), she seems to enjoy sitting here and some times sleeping.

Can't say she is keeping an eye on what I write, as the wrong end is pointing that

direction..but then again that might be how she espress her opinion of the blog.

Kramer had it right....

Remember when Kramer on Seinfeld had
his own television talk show in his apartment?
Well, I guess he was on to something after all.
Well, actually it was the writer, Larry David.

After reading the paper, in the entertainment
section, I see where this man, Bob Kushell,
has the use of his brother-in-law's garage. And he set
up a talk show set and actually has stars who he
interviews in this garage. He runs this whole
show in the garage and then broadcasts it
on internet.

The name of the show is Anytime with
Bob Kushell. So where ever you take your
computer/laptop, you can watch the show.
He has stars like John Stamos for ER,
Howie Mandel, Christina Applegate, and
the likes of Jon Cryer and etc.

He did write for different shows like
3rd Rock from the Sun and etc. and came
up with the idea while they had the writers
strike.

If you want to catch this show (I have dial up
so I won't) watch on Thursday on the site
www.crackle.com

So, you see Kramer knew all along it was a
good idea.

We have had just about all the fun we can handle

It is looking like the King will
be joining the unemployment line again.
He has had his days cut to the bone.
And talk of the store closing until summer.
It is all up in the air at this time.

So we decided to break down and invest
more in to an antenna for the DTV. We have
cable but that is going to have to go. As it
is, in the 4 months we have had it, we have
had to go thru many outages as they fix
the new system, getting ready for digital.
And also they raised the price. We got the
lowest they had, but still, it is getting more
than we can afford without the King's job,
and especially with the new school levy
coming up at the end of the month.

We decided our 1970 something antenna,
which we got at St. Vinnie's for $5, has to
go, as we weren't getting anywhere with it.
All we could get was Channel 4.1. and .2.
Rest no signal.

We invested in a reasonable and proven
antenna, that can receive 13 or so channels.
So yesterday the fight started. Yes, fight.
Both with the antenna and somewhat with
us. The more frustrated we became, the
bluer the air was. The King made a bracket.
Put the antenna up, and we got 25 per cent signal,
after walking around the yard with the antenna
in hand.. it was 25 to 33. Then in frustration, the
King bent it down as he pulled something out
of his pocket, and it was at 65 per cent. I
yelled out, hey there it is... yea, right.

Reminded me of the old days when we use to
do antenna on the roof top. And when the one
on top was almost falling off the roof, and
standing on one leg.... and have the one in the
house yells, THAT'S IT.. and if you breathed,
they would yell, what the heck did you do? It
is gone!

Today was a new day, and we had new nerves,
so we went out and tried today. So up went the
pipe into the air 10 feet. Back to the same thing.
Went out and turn it ever so slowly, and then got
mad and spun it around backwards... the signal
was still at 35.

Decided to try the other side of the house where
the dish use to be. And yes, we did have a stronger
signal. 55 to 69. But still no 2,6, 22,28..or even 7.
We got the walkie talkies out so he could talk to
me as he turned. Still nothing...

After all the work of about 4 hours, and starting to
put things away, I had these rabbit ears for a radio,
and for a kick, I hooked it up to the box... I got a
perfect picture with 24 per cent signal. Channel 4.1
4.2 and 4.3. I didn't know if I should laugh or cry.

When the King was talking to a guy who does
this for a living, the guy said everyone was
having trouble today.. and they think it had some
thing to do with the ice on the translators towers.
Well, that frosted me... all that work! and why is
it when we had the antenna last year, we didn't
have problems with the ice on the towers?

And if I see that guy who is on television who says,
oh, it is so easy, just plug this cable into here, and
the antenna one into here and there you are. Being
I try to keep this blog fairly family friendly, I won't tell
you, what we think of him and his as easy as that bit.

Yep, I know the King has had it, and we are leaving
it alone for a couple of days, so we can regain our
tempers for this. We have had as much fun as we
can stand for a while.

What the ??

What the??

As I watched the Super Bowl on Sunday,
I could not figure out why CTV was in the
corner. I could not understand why CTV
was in the cards that the audience turns
to make a sign.

When I saw the Lay's commercial about
how it was made with Canadian potatoes,
I was irritated, after all I live in one of the
bigger potatoes states, Idaho. I was
thinking the heck with Lay's, if they can't
use the good old USA potatoes.

I even was puzzled as the game went by,
with all these Canadian ads. Then in the
back of my mind, was a notice that the
cable company was having trouble with
KHQ-6... and this was an NBC channel.
so was this the answer to their problem,
we get our station from Canada?

And when on Good Morning American, talked
about the most popular ads, I was upset I missed
some of them. And couldn't figure out why I didn't
see it.

Today the answer came on the front page. It seems
who ever Northland Cable gets their feed from, had
switched. Even as I read the article, I still not sure
why. And I guess for now it is just for the Super Bowl.
So no big deal.

Besides in a couple weeks it won't matter anyway.

What is the Difference?

In our local paper there was an article about
how a young woman had taken some money
from the employers she worked for. She is
alleged to have taken the money for personal
reasons. So she has been charged with
embezzlement. And she will go to jail for this,
if proven. Which from the article it looks pretty
much given, as she has confess to taking the money.

In New York, and other larger cities, we have employee's
of different titles of CEO's who have taken money from
the company and the US government, used it for hundred
of thousands, for remodel of bathroom (waste basket cost $1,500) and
another redid his office, another gave bonuses to his
fellow employees and etc. This is called "mismanagement
of company funds" and there is no jail time for such things.

I guess the woman in the first one, should have used her employers
money for better health insurance, (as that is why she took the
money) of which would have paid all of her health care in full.
Then maybe it would have been mismanagement of funds also.

Personally, I don't see the difference here of the two examples.
Except the first one was less than $50,000 and the others were
millions to billions. So I guess the more you mismanagement,
the less accountable you be come. And if you use it for something
to make you look good at the job then it is ok too.

MORE TO THE STORY.....

Everyone has read the story or seen parts on
the news, of the woman who had 8 children all at once.

And then as Paul Harvey said, then there is the
rest of the story... which I don't think we have
all of the facts yet.

First to come out was this woman has 6, yes 6!!!
children already! Of which the youngest of the
bunch at home is twins and they are 2.

There is talk of the ethic of this birth. They
are talking about how the Drs. chose to let
her go with the 8 as well, as with putting 8 eggs
in her ..in the first place.

My take on it is, it should be considered unethical
because the Dr. gave her any at all. She should not
have had this treatment. She had 6 children at home.
No need for an infertility treatment. Especially with
the youngest ones being twins. And they are only 2
year old!

And then today, there was rumors of how she has had
this treatment each time she had children. So we are
talking 5 different times. Just how many times does
a woman have these types of treatments? Isn't two
enough? Where is the ethics on having 6? Even if
she only had one each time?

WHY so many this time, she obviously took the other
5 times with ease.

And we haven't even gotten to the support of these
children. We hear remarks from grandparents but
where is the father?

And then there is rumors of a remark that she (the
mother) loves to be pregnant, and wants all the children
she can possibly have. Nothing about motherhood and etc.
But shouldn't they had her going in for a psycho evaluation?
Instead of a infertility treatment? For God's sake, her body
hasn't even got over the twins yet. And the Doctor went with
another treatment in 15 months of the last one? I would really
question not only her motives, but the doctors as well.

How much more is to come on this story?
And being she and the doctors decided this... I sure
hope when it comes to financial support, she and the
doctors can do that... because I don't think society
should have to pay for their greed. And having
more than the 6, was greed.