Star Trek – My Two Cents May 9, 2009

OK, it’s cheesy, but I used to be a fan of Star Trek, until the last couple of movies. When I couldn’t get past the politics of the script writers, and the action sucked, I stopped watching. Most of the NG stuff was like that. The last movie bugged me when I watched it, and when LP watched it a few days ago on DVD I almost threw-up in my mouth a little. The pro-socialism, look how civilized and cultured we are because of it, prime directive bullshit was too much.

So, I was understandably nervous going to see the new one, which I have to say…………………….totally rocked!! I even forgot that the beginning made me sniffly (which if you know me – I don’t like sniffly unless the rest of the movie is awesome). No politics, no babbling about how great communism is; just action, humor, and a great movie. Bad guys were even shot without the stun on!

Definately not your parents Star Trek, thankfully.

Declaration of Separation April 12, 2009

I’d like to thank Sunni for the link to this wonderful site. I encourage everyone to go check it out.

A Brief Book Comment March 19, 2009

The latest book I read, I totally loved, so I thought I’d recommend it to anyone who reads this blog.  I just finished How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill, and it was easily one of the best history books I’ve read. It adds a little to the joke,”The Irish would have ruled the world if it wasn’t for the whiskey”.  Being of Irish background and having little to point to in regards to ancestral pride, may have helped in the enjoyment of this book.

For a very brief 350 years after the fall of the Roman Empire and before the vikings found them, the Irish were the only literate group in Europe, who also happened to have almost all of the books in Europe.  The books were imported with the monks after St. Patrick, and huge libraries were kept on the island as the rest of Europe self-destructed in war.  So basically, many of the ancient Greek and Roman texts we currently have may not have survived if copies hadn’t been saved in Irish monasteries.  There was also a very interesting discussion about the Irish version of Catholicism, some of which was spread around the peasant population of Europe.

I also found out many of the values passed down to me from my family are actually values that the Irish have appreciated for a VERY long time, some of them for more than 1500 years.

So, all in all a very interesing, well researched book, obviously written by someone who enjoyed the topic.

2008-2009 December 30, 2008

As this rather crappy year comes to a close, and a new one that promises to be worse rears it’s head I thought I would take a moment to review 2008 and discuss 2009.

In my life 2008 was a better year than 2007.  No dogs died, and we got a new little furry who is just absolutely wonderful.  We moved into our house, and not into a tiny apartment for the winter.  I also had a wonderful part time job over the summer and got to work with some great people.  For me, this helps make up for the slow car crash that is the economy and the second coming of Christ… err….Obama being elected president.

Some great new research came out of our various scientific fields, giving me hope that some brains are still functioning, while the continued wars in Afghanistan and Iraq tend to show otherwise.

Now some rabbitty predictions for 2009…..

We’ll get the house finished.

The DOW will drop  below 5,000 points.

The new assault weapons ban will be voted in.  There will be no enforcement in the mountain west states, Alaska, or the south.  Enforcement in other areas will be difficult, resulting in additional violence all over the country and more political prisoners.

Businesses will continue to fail.  At least 250,000 small businesses and 15 large box/mall chains.

The Montana smoking ban will be widely ignored, and enforcement will stop.  In 2011 they will either change it or eliminate it.

The sand angel will become a snow angel (at least temporarily).

Lastly, the ever exciting New Years Resolutions! Since I cheated a bit and did some resolutions at Samhain, I’m slightly ahead of the curve.

Lose weight (I did lose some this year, but not near what I wanted to.)

I have to stop drinking in bars.  Period.  I’m a resonable social drinker outside of them, so I should be OK there.  If not, all drinking ceases.

I want to pay off all of my debt this year, eighteen months max.

I want to get a new career started up before this coming summer. (I’m sure I’ll still keep my other two jobs I currently have, at least for a while.)

So, good ridance 2008, and 2009……………………………..bring it!

Hello, welcome to my world. August 6, 2008

For some reason, I have developed a need to babble, generally in the written form, or sadly, to my steering wheel on the way to work. So I thought a blog would be a better outlet to this need than having the neighbors plotting my incarceration at the funny farm. Since this blog is for my own benefit, and not necessarily for the benefit of those reading it, the entries my be erratic. If you do chose to read the blog, follow the white rabbit down the rabbit hole.

WR