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I'm sitting here listening to a variety of music on my stereo waiting for 2024 to show itself out as 2025 comes knocking at our door.  Latest to tweak of stereo was changing the speaker wire to the same gauge and the same length and wiring it to the the 1974 pioneer receiver.  Made a difference as now both channels are the same volume without tilting the balance setting to the left. The best stereo is one that allows the ear to grab on to an instrument and follow that sound all the way through the piece.  I believe the word for it in technical terms is isolation.  And one thing the Pioneer does better than any set up I've had in the last 6 years is isolation.  I can pick an instrument and follow it through and listen to how that instrument interacts with everything around it in while listening.  It is delightful!  No better way to bring in the new year. A 50 year old receiver with 20 year old speakers.  The speakers were bought extremely used. ...

 Democracy.  Aristocracy.  Mediacracy.  Meritocracy.  Mediocracy.  Bureaucracy   I find it interesting that the two 'advisors' to the president are proponents of H1B visa.  Ramaswamy and Musk.  Musk is South African.  Ramaswamy, a first generation American born to parents of Indian descent.  They are in favor of importing talent into this country because as Musk says our education system and cultural identity has turned the United States into a culture of mediocrity; no longer a culture of excellence. Was the United States ever a culture of excellence?  Remember cars built in the 70s and 80s?  American cars were garbage.  Because American being trash ceded an industry to the Germans and the Japanese.  We made electronics.  They got to be too expensive to make here so we off shored to countries that could build a better product for less money and destroyed manufacturing as we know it in our country. I think t...

He died and is being remembered kindly, if not fondly. He was a terrible president. Record inflation. Disastrous foreign policy. Should have stuck with being a peanut farmer. The only thing that rehabilitated his reputation was his work with habitat for humanity. Building houses for poor people. Kinda like George bush. He was a terrible president. The only thing that's rehabilitated his reputation is his work with veterans and his artistic renderings of veterans in books. Joe's legacy will be the sewer. He's too old to rehabilitate is reputation. Will be remembered as a corrupt yet well meaning elderly man with a poor memory. Can't raise any money for a library. When he dies, they'll bury him and he'll rot in a box like everyone else. A peanut farmer will never become president again. Jimmy carter was the last regular guy to pull of such a stunt. Talk about punching above your weight. He did.

It bothers me that all forms of the word retard have been cancelled by the all too easily offended woke mob. Retard and retarded are perfect adjectives to describe people who are slow, stupid and clueless.

 There's a lot of online angst about gratuity in restaurants.  Some expecting a minimum 25%-30% tip from patrons for the service provided by the waitstaff.  I have a policy.  I don't tip at places where I have to wait in line to order, collect my food from a pick up area or throw away the refuse from the meal.  All those people working are doing their basic jobs. Somehow, the food service industry is trying to convince the public that they food servers work for me and not for the restaurant.  Really?  And some restaurants are voluntelling the customer base of leave a 25-30 percent tip or don't dine here.  Like the server works for me instead of the restaurant.  Is that true?   If you ask me this is fuzzy logic where the restaurant owner absolves their responsibility to pay a decent wage to the their employees and puts it on the customer.  Is that really how this works now?

 I squeezed in an annual physical with one of the last appointments available for the 2024 calendar year.  So far nothing surprising to learn.  The doc ordered a battery of blood work with a few add ons at my request - PSA, thyroid and something for lithium toxicity.  After the appointment I went down to the lab. Some chick with an orange hair and a nose ring called me back.  I was like for fucksake.  Are you kidding me?  Not happy about the situation I sat in the chair - she didn't close the curtain.  I was like really?  She put the tourniquet thing on and selected a vein.  Slid the needle in.  I didn't feel a thing.  It was amazing.  I was like "WOW!"  She goes what?  I told her I didn't feel anything.  I told her she was amazing and her face lit up.  I inquired how long she has been doing this and she said about four years and went to tell me about her 'technique.'  I told her no one has ever do...

Thompson's death is the david vs Goliath of the citizenry vs corporate America. It would be even better if the little guy took down potato head.

As I watch content with celebrities in them, the only thing that comes to mind is "I HATE YOU." I'm done with media.

I'm beginning to question whether it is okay to pay people to pretend to be someone else for the sake of entertaining us or telling a story. Paying people to lie to us, to entertain us through playing make believe. Look at all the problems these liars cause to society? Celebrity worship. Having them placed on a pedestal in society that they manufacture for themselves? Would life be terrible if stories weren't acted out by phonies but read in books? None of them have given anything of value to society besides a temporary diversion to the pathetic existence that is our reality. Is this really a legitimate career or just another scam we fall for? Or…. Are they really nothing more than professional serial liars?

As a family we didn't get a vacation this year due to how expensive everything has gotten.  Living in a Joe Biden economy sucks.  A trump economy probably won't be any better.  We were gonna go on a mini trip  last weekend to DFW to play mini golf at the tiger woods mini golf place and eat at Portillo's.  That didn't quite work out because I through out my back on Thursday and could't walk. Prior to the back issue I had purchased tickets for the Dallas Winds Christmas concert which was held on Tuesday.  I wasn't too thrilled about the situation and decided to take it easy and see how I felt the morning of the concert.... My oldest and I drove to Dallas on Tuesday morning and played two rounds of mini golf at the tiger woods golf place, ate dinner at portillos and took in the concert on Tuesday evening.  We spent the night and drove back to home base Wednesday. The concert was a treat.  I think every concert by the Dallas winds is a great concert. ...

I'm a rotten person. Mean. Selfish. Lacking empathy. Maybe a narcissist. Some people are disposable.

It's going to become a thing. I'll say I told you so. Bang. FAAFO.

Below is a link to my very first classical record. Beethoven's 6th symphony. My dad picked it up at a grocery store. Part of a series by Funk and Wagnalls encyclopedia effort. Here is the work that started my love of Beethoven.  Symphony No. 6 (Pastoral) - Ludwig van Beethoven, Sir Charles Groves [Vinyl Rip] youtu.be Enjoy. 

I was watching a subcommittee hearing about the industry to which I am employed.  It was interesting.  While they did raise some "concerns" about the industry, I am absolutely amazed at how limited the committee member's understanding of the industry and how it works.  The contempt the committee members have towards the industry is palpable.  Shocking, really.  They were inferring practices that they've made up in their head due to their lack of understanding in technology, etc. If the committee members don't like the way the industry works, regulate it.  Like the good old days when a round trip ticket from Point A to Point B cost 450 dollars in 1979 money.  Now you can fly from Point A to Point B for 29 dollars in todays money.  And you wonder why the industry employs tactics to nickel and dime customers to make money...  A 29 dollar ticket to Point B isn't profitable.  They gotta make the money up somewhere.  Tack on a 15 dollar s...

Another stupid person. People don't know how to think and expect to crowd source their entire lives. What a bunch of losers. Free loading off the experience of others is what I find most annoying of the 2020s. I assume it's only going to get worse. Free loading sons of bitches.

 It is interesting to hear the outcry for the CEO who was recently shot.  It's interesting to me that those who chose to march on J6 are being jailed for not 'respecting our institutions.'  It's also interesting that none of the BLM rioters were really held to account for their actions.  As a matter of fact, people like Kamala Harris wanted people to raise money for bail to liberate the BLM vigilantes.  Here's the deal - and I think where BLM got its traction.  People are tired of having things done to them by institutions or people that are part of institutions that they fundamentally oppose.  And some people just crack when they've been pushed just a little too far over the edge.   What I see with all these things is class warfare.  The asshole CEO who makes policy that affects someones life or death.  That asshole's company probably has a policy in place that kept a family member from being treated or receiving a benefit they were ent...

My Dad asked me to get him a wreath to hang on the door at his place.  I picked one up and brought it to him.  While I was there his was in the middle of a therapy session with someone.  They were playing some game with tiles and numbers on it.  The therapist tried to get me to play along with them.  My Mom was going to play too.  Nope.  I told my Dad I'd hang the wreath and let them continue their therapy session.  The therapist didn't seem to like my resistance to participating in the number game.   I wasn't about to put myself in a position to play a game when I have hard enough time remembering things and learning new games.  I don't want to look stupid because I can't remember the rules to the game and have to ask repeatedly to be able to play. I don't play games anymore at home either.  There's this game called Quirkle where you match tiles with colors and symbols.  I've played it a handful of times and I don't understand...

Elton John has spoken out about the legalization of marijuana stating that it is one of the biggest mistakes of all time. I believe he is 100% right. Nothing good comes from smoking pot. Nothing.

 The CEO for United Health Care was shot in New York this week.  The news immediately starts with "stories" about how big corporations need to protect their CEOs and that it cost something like 250 thousand dollars to provide a body guard for the big boss.  Okay.  Fine. Why don't they do investigative journalism and try and figure out why someone would want to shoot the CEO of United Health Care - or any other company for that matter?  

I'm driving from San Antonio to West Virginia. It's 22 hours. Two nights. Where should I stay? Pull your head out of your ass and get a map out and look. Jesus fn Christ people are stupid.

 There's a group for people like me who are in the sandwich generation.  Taking care of aging parents and taking care of our kids.  We're taking it from both sides.  Any this is a support group for people to vent, share experiences and also a group of resources to navigate the complexities of taking care of aging family members.  Elderly family members.  Old people.  Who are no longer capable of caring for themselves. Some of the posts in the group a very emotional and occasional cause an emotional response from me.  They're parent unable to use their computer or telephone because of the arthritis in their hands and the macular degeneration in their eyes.  The people with dementia lamenting the loss of their parent they knew and loved their entire lives and being unable to comprehend they are becoming.  Unable to move, unable to speak.  Unable to eat.  Unable to recognize you.  Or the parent that has dementia and still goe...

 Which attribute is the biggest curse?  Being old, short, bald or fat? I rank them this way from least worse to boat worse… Fat, old, short, bald.   The worst of all is losing your hair and going bald  worse yet is losing your hair and getting to the point of having a ring or halo around your head  hey chrome dome   Being fat can be changed with diet and exercise. Being old is a fact of life.  Hopefully I die before my mind is defective and before I am a nuisance and unable to control by bladder or bowels.  Short - that’s something that makes you unattractive to a woman. Women don’t date short men.  Sorry. That’s the worse of the genetic lottery.  Judging by the amount of men that start shaving their head once their hair starts thinning, being bald is the kiss of death and men do everything to compensate for it by growing a beard, leaving stubble or taking it down to the skin.   Do you know why marriage rates are on the decline? ...

 I do not understand the world we live in. I check in at the doctor and it’s a dude with a beard named Eliah. Eliah is a nonbinary version of Elijah. Non binary.  Bullshit.   Unsure which way this person swings.  I’m guessing originally a woman but I don’t know.  These people are mentally ill. They should seek treatment or be institutionalized.  This is not normal and is beyond the fray of what is acceptable to me in biology. Gender expression is the one thing. Gender dysphoria is another. We are entering an arena that I call gender dystopia and this will lead to gender warfare of normal people against the freaks.  Pull yourself together and tame the demons in your mind. You’re not brave. You’re weak.  Pathetic. And you give in to the darkest corners of your mind. 

 There was a guy that duck taped a banana to a white wall and called it art.  Another guy spent just north of 6 million dollars for the art piece and ate the banana.  He spent 6 million dollars on a banana and the rights to make the same piece of art just like the one he bought anywhere he wants.  $6,000,000.00.  One of these guys is really smart.  One of them isn't.  Which is which?

Like seriously? People are so dumb. Tell me where to go. I'm stupid. I'm not stupid you're stupid. Maybe we are all stupid. These people can't find their way out of a paper bag. They'd be sitting in it lost - can you tell me how to get out of this bag? Time to start trolling the internet. People this stupid deserve stupid answers. Localish? Go to Burt's barbecue on Far West Blvd. it's disgusting.

These are the ignoramus's I'm talking about. They’re too stupid to go into a Costco with their friend or buy something they’ve been give.   Morons like this are incapable of thinking and acting on their own that they have to ask for help. This level of stupidity is appalling. 

You now what DEI hiring creates?  NWA.  Especially among women.  They are condescending, mean, arrogant and out right nasty.  It's like they know they are in their position because of the color of their skin and not on the content of their character or the merit of their work.  It scares she shit out of them because they know they didn't earn their position and don't deserve to be there.  They were installed to meet a quota.  They do not understand the art of developing relationships.  Instead they bark orders at other people and are not interested in discussion, negotiation or pushback.  Do it my way on my time because I said so.  One of these DEI hires at workplace sent all tenants an email with a response due on December 15.  In tenant meeting DEliela called out everyone who has not responded and highlighted those that have.   The venom in her voice was unmistakable.  Guess what, bitch - it's December 5.  No one ow...

Richard Hood started a sub shop in Austin TX in the late 70s or early 80s.  He had a falling out with his business partner and started his own sub shop in Round Rock in 1989.  It's probably the best rated restaurant on yelp for the city.  The man is a legend in Round Rock and has sponsored many youth sports steams, high school golf teams, tennis teams, the drum line, etc.  Always being generous when a member of the community asked for a sponsor.  The walls are full of pictures.  The tables and seats are crude by today's standards - being built out of 2x4s.  All tables hold four people and they line both sides of the narrow shop.  The place is just like it was in 1989. But people have carved initials into the tops of the tables or pictures. Hoody's sub shop is a lot like cheers.  You wanna go where everyone knows your name.  And if you've eaten at Hoody's a few times, chances are good the staff will know you by face, if not by name and re...

Please be patient.  Why do non-america adults with new driver licenses feel the need to advertise they're new to driving.  Just keep your mouth shut and drive you goddam car like a normal person.  You're not special.  None of us have any empathy or sympathy for you being an adult who doesn't know how to drive.  All you're doing is advertising to the rest of the work you're a fucking retard making your inability to operate a motor vehicle public knowledge.  You're not important.  You're putting a target on your back for assholes like me to harass you.  

Would happen to have any grey poupon? I was going to write a hit piece about Joe pardoning his crack addicted loser of a son for the period of 2014-2024. A far reaching pardon basically covering his money laundering and influence peddling operation that made his entire family wealthy. If crack pipe Biden was innocent of the crimes he is accused he wouldn't need a pardon. Basically admitting everything is true. The laptop, the ties to foreign governments- Ukraine and China, the tax evasion and fire arm application fiasco. All of it is true. Joe Biden didn't do anything with that pardon but protect hunter. In the process he has stained his legacy - if not destroyed it. He exposed his true colors being a liar and cheat his entire life. The man has no principles and expects others to follow the rule of law but not himself. Rules for thee and not for me is not only joes mantra, but it is the mantra of most everyone holding a position of power or influence. If anythi...

 Well - I've tried every combination with my rig.  Blending vintage gear, recent gear, different size speakers, with an external amp, without an amp using the receiver for an amplifier. I think I've found the winning combination for the space I spend the most time.  Are you ready for this?  It's my 1975 Pioneer receiver and my Paradigm Studio 40s - a hybrid between a bookshelf and a tower speaker.  All I can say is what a terrific system.   For the last week I've been carrying a lot of stress with work.  Tonight I dismantled parts of my set up and wired the speakers directly to the receiver and oh man - it sounds wonderful.  Absolutely wonderful. I was not expecting this to be the winning combination.  How could a receiver made in the 70s possibly compare to much newer and modern technology?  There's something cool about vintage gear that the new stuff can't match.  And all I can say is I've fallen in love with my system all over ag...

Trunk in the front is a frunk. That is the stupidest word ever. Frunk. Like seriously - it's some kind of Elon musk word where he gets a boner saying it. Kinda like the way he says Doge. When he gets that stupid smirk on his face like he just got done pounding his pud basking in the afterglow of an orgasm. Doge. Dogetard.

My thoughts over the last 12 months have been a mixed bag.  I've gone from thinking this year was a waste to feeling it was a solid year and I'm back to thinking the last 12 months may very well be an absolute disappointment of epic proportion.  What did I accomplish??  Nothing.  I took a disaster and made it less of a disaster.  BFD.  What successes have I had?  None.   Why anyone would want this role in this environment is beyond me.   I look back at the last 12 months and what have I done?  Beat my head against a wall.  Nothing to show for it.  No results.  No track record of success.  Derailed. How did I fail?  What I set up to fail?  Was I set up to succeed?  What could I have done better?   I"m tired of not meeting goals.  What could I have done differently to motivate my team?   We took one airport related delay this month.  ONE.  And our performance is in the toilet. Nob...