On the train!

It begins...

Update and tomorrow...

We celebrated my Grandfather’s 76^th birthday today!! I fried a Turkey and my wife made dressing with chicken. We had a cake and a card for him. His real b-day was on Saturday but they were on the road, so we did it today. Tomorrow, I am taking my Uncle Terry to DC for the day. We are taking the Amtrak train from Richmond to DC. We will not have to worry with traffic in the Northern Neck of Virginia as it can be horrible sometimes and also parking in DC can be a bummer. I will send a few pics via my phone during the day as well.

Have a good evening or morning depending on where you are located.

RMStringer

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System breaks down just when I thought that I had it made a message to you how ideal Nothing stays the same

Hunt out misguided angels search in vain amongst the ruins a message do you know how I feel Nothing stays the same stays the same

Search in vain silent dreams starting again wake up out of sleep far from far from your crowds shattered halls covered in squander

A message to you how ideal nothing stays the same the same the same a message do you know how I feel Nothing stays the same Nothing Stays - Cyberaktif

You have no conscience and it seems you never will - Cyberaktif

Deep fried turkey!

Turky fryer

My Family...

Well today at around 3.30pm my family arrived from Texas. They made the 1200+ mile drive in 2 days, starting out yesterday morning in Jasper Texas and staying last night 70 miles west of Atlanta Georgia. The got up early this morning to finish the drive to our house in Midlothian Virginia. I am really glad to see them as my grandfather and uncle has never seen our house here in Virginia.

I am leaving work tonight at 1.15am so I do not have to sleep all day tomorrow and we will be able to do a few things tomorrow. I hated to have to come to work tonight, but duty calls. I also took off Wednesday night to be able to spend more time with them. I am going to take my Uncle Terry to Washington DC on Tuesday as he has never been there, so that will be fun and will also be some great memories.
What is your opinion?

Mack's New Computer

Thanks to Mac Hall for letting me publish this on my blog.

The Beast 666 Computer

In the 1970s there were many whispered rumors about The Beast 666 Computer that Satan was supposedly constructing in Belgium. Our social security numbers were the Mark of the Beast (I used to date her, by the way), and these would be fed into the 666 Computer and then fluoridated or something, and then Satan would rule the world, mwahahahahahahahahaaaaaaa!

The founders of this rumor went on to invent Y2K, and urged us all to buy drums of water and sacks of dried peas because when the End Times come and Captain Kirk beams us up to his space ship as the planet explodes we'll all need drums of water and sacks of dried peas.

We now know that the whole bit about Satan and his magic laptop was always quite impossible, since within minutes of its completion the computer would have whimsically shut down and refused to do anything but light up.

Satan would have had to call out a Volkswagen-driving 30-something with thick glasses at $60 an hour to sneer at Satan's outdated hard-drive ("this is sooooooooo last week") and his dial-up connection.

Satan would also have learned that all the dossiers saved on his previous (hardly old) computer in Micro-Blop X-PMS are not compatible with the newer-than-new Micro-Snort Z-Xtreem bundled into his new computer, and would have to sacrifice his first-born, Vladimir Putin, to the computer gods to pay for a patch, which would take three hours to work through each time he wanted to look at, say, his MeMeMeSpace downloads.

Imagine, if you will, buying a new car, and after driving it ten minutes it breaks down, and must be rebuilt at great expense.

Imagine, if you will, buying a new book shelf, and as you transfer those favorite volumes from the old shelf to the new shelf your books simply disappear.

Imagine, if you will, transferring file folders from an old cabinet to a new, and they simply won't fit into either file cabinet.

Imagine, if you will, writing a letter to a friend, and the old pen won't work and the new pen comes with a lengthy instruction manual and then won't work anyway.

Imagine, if you will, writing out your week's work and meeting schedule in your daily planner, and then at a critical moment all your writing simply evaporates.

Imagine, if you will, mailing a letter to a friend, and finding that the postal service no longer accepts envelopes but instead requires a complex new packaging and you must spend a day at a seminar learning this new method.

Yes, I bought a new computer this week.

Satan's in the computer business, all right.

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The Catholic Sun

Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine,
There's always laughter and good red wine.
At least I've always found it so.
Benedicamus Domino!

-- Hilaire Belloc