Posts Tagged ‘family’

…After seeing this question at The Reclusive Leftist concerning Meghan McCain Picture:

Having covered-by-proxy the feminist bases, I’m now going to indulge my curiosity and ask the group at large (including everyone in Finland — hei, ystävyys kotona Suomi!) the thing I’ve been wondering ever since I saw Meghan’s picture: what’s up with her boobs? I’m not criticizing or attacking or snarking; I’m just trying to figure out what the deal is. Are those implants? The shadowing is very weird.

I’ve avoided telling this story because it sound wrong but she has given me courage so I’ll repeat the story as I told it in comments over there:

I can’t tell that story without my Passion of the Christ story…so here goes…

My mother is VERY Catholic. When the Passion of the Christ came out I took her to the first showing, as we sat down, a man with a seeing eye dog sat in front of us. Considering the movie was in Aramaic and Latin that was rather odd, but anyway…

…when the movie was over everyone left very somberly. I asked my mother what she thought, she said she was VERY impressed…

…she couldn’t believe the dog had sat quiet through the entire movie. When ever the subject of the movie she talks about the dog, she still can’t get over it.

Last year my son and I went to a Sarah Palin Rally in NH. She was really impressive and authentic. At the end she was signing autographs (both my son and I failed to get one) as the crowd thinned I saw her from the waist down for the first time…

…and I still shake my head. I’m from a big Italian family, I went to a Catholic school I have known and do know more women with 5 kids or more than most people these days.

Her hips are the wrong shape. When you’ve had 5 kids your hips have a particular shape, her’s are wrong, they just don’t fit the paradigm. It still makes me shake my head. It’s like Babe Ruth’s legs; they make her look weird. They’re just all wrong!

I think Sarah Palin is awesome, I would support her as a national candidate over any other candidate. No pol has ever matched my positions as close or impressed me more…

…just don’t get me started on her hips. I’m my mother’s son.

My son still laughs at me when I go on about it. I don’t talk about the BBC interviewing me on camera, I don’t talk about the disgusting counter rally of teenagers, or the professionalism of the secret service that really impressed me. Not about her fine speech and the fact she radiates competence. Not that she reminds me of my mother and big sister as the type of person who gets things done.

I go on about how her hips look weird on her. Sometimes I’m just Sheldon Cooper without the Ph.D.

Yeah I know how it sounds but it doesn’t matter they just look Wrong that’s my position and I’m sticking with it!

Home town story

Posted: October 16, 2009 by datechguy in personal
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Fremont Nebraska notices a former resident’s book:

It began with a couple of stories.

Former Fremonter Dave Carden wrote accounts of his wartime experiences for an online social/working group called Blueshirt Nation.

Readers asked for more.

Eventually, that led to a new book called, “The Army Insider: Up Close and Personal,” published in August. Now, area residents who like military history, stories about small-town life or autobiographies can read those in Carden’s book, found online at Amazon, Barnes and Noble and about 5,000 search engines

The book is available here. My review is here.

Drugged up a bit and laying down…

Posted: October 13, 2009 by datechguy in personal
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…as my wife finally got me to see a doctor. It’s such a rare thing that when I went to the pharmacy to pick up the prescriptions the phama tech who knows me well because I’ve been picking up stuff for the wife and kids for years couldn’t take care of me right off since I wasn’t in the system.

I was not going to bother posting and was safe in bed until some foolishness from my oldest forced me up for a while today.

I love my children really I do but when I’m sick and trying to deal with real problems that can have long term effects on our family’s immediate financial future I don’t need my wife panicked because of a foreboding e-mail from the son at work about a dire problem with no details other that it is dire.

Well the two hours of worry that ensued largely due to his forgetting his cell phone’s location must have brought a smile to my late father’s face as he looked down from above and said: “See how you like it.”

Well a plan of action is now in place to deal with the significantly smaller than expected issue and all is well in the world again except my lungs as I’m still coughing up a storm but I have one comforting thought…

…Based on my son’s current social life, my overall health and the lifespan of my father, in a few decades God willing I’ll be looking down with my father at this performance when it repeats in a slightly varied form sometime in the mid 21st century and together share a laugh saying “See how you like it!”

The last few days …

Posted: October 6, 2009 by datechguy in oddities, personal
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…hits are way down.

Maybe it’s my breath.

On the Bright side the son’s hand is finally out of the split and cast for the first time since May.

I’ll take that trade.