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Marriage Minutiae Posted: Monday, June 01, 2009 10 Hours 1 Second Ante Meridian There are no comments for this entry. Click this link to read and leave comments Last week Obi-Wife found her wedding dress. I am glad it happened. It was a major source of stress for her. Why I have no idea, but I don't have to know. either. Im just glad its over. So whenever Obi-Wife asks me about a wedding detail I usually say I don't care. Now you'd think that would be the right answer, let her do what she wants. You are sadly mistaken. This of course means, I don't care about the wedding or anything involved with it. That's not the case either. Its just that I don't want to be involved with all the minutiae. I just want to get married, get laid and then get started on our new life together. Women can worry about which coast the shrimp comes from or something else of that ilk. " I just want to get married, get laid and get started on our new life together " Obi-Wife is always worried about details and getting things perfect, especially when entertaining. I on the other hand have told her many times, "Its not their day, its your day". She should be worried about what she wants and damn the rest. I cant change her and I am not trying to. I just want her to focus on her for a minute. We are going to spend the weekend in Aspen Colorado Fathers Day weekend. I am going to promise not to worry about business, and she is going to promise not to worry about the wedding. One thing is clear, weddings are a creation of women, for women and men should not even be involved at all. Ever. There are no comments for this entry. Click this link to read and leave comments Living For The Weekend! Posted: Friday, June 05, 2009 45 Minutes 15 Seconds Post Meridian There are no comments for this entry. Click this link to read and leave comments Being on the road has its good points and bad points. You get to see new places, meet new people and work in different environments. What gets old though is being away from home. I hate it. I am flying back to my old dilapidated cottage in the country for the weekend and a rather large BBQ with all of my friends so it will be a good weekend to be at home. Getting some would be nice too but I think its that time of the month. Daedalus rolls his beautiful brown eyes until they get stuck. Crap. There are no comments for this entry. Click this link to read and leave comments Look At All These Rumors, Surrounding Me Every Day.. Posted: Monday, June 08, 2009 1 Hour 2 Minutes 58 Seconds Post Meridian There are no comments for this entry. Click this link to read and leave comments The flight back home was chock full of turbulence and, as a bonus, chock full of The Baseheads. They were flying in to town to for their daughters graduation I was headed home for the same reason, and a few others. It was tripped out we were booked on the same flight. About 45 minutes into the flight Mrs Basehead comes up to Business Class where I was sitting (leg room): "Daedalus?" "Yes?" "Have you joined the mile high club yet?" "Ummmmm no?" "Would you like to? Oh wait a second, your engaged so I cant help you there! Sorry!" Mrs Basehead, after embarrassing me on the plane gave me a big kiss on the cheek and hurried back to the back of the plane. They are the most whacked out people I know, and also some of the nicest. I get home Friday night and passed out. It was a long day. Saturday morning, Obi-Wife told me that its exactly three months until we get married: Good News:   I am excited. She is too. Bad News:     No sex this weekend. Its that time of the month. Worse News: No sex on out honeymoon either. It will be that time of the month Jack Bauer Voice: Dammit! Dammit! Dammit! Why do I have such lousy luck? Daeda Daedalus rolls his beautiful brown eyes. No booty. None. Saturday's graduation double-header started out in the early afternoon with the little Basehead graduating high school. Watching the kids graduate is always joyful as I have sat through many for my own children. Saturday afternoon, we went across town to another graduation reception. Now, usually these things are held for the KIDS and their friends and family. This one however, was the other way around. I am sitting here in the hall listening to the musical styling's of the Timex Social Club. "Look at all these rumors, surrounding me every day.." I am tripping. WTF year is this 1985? Crap, that's the year I graduated from high school. I asked Obi-Wife who was the party for, him or his daughter. I couldn't tell by the DJ who was about 50 himself. I think he played about 5 songs minted after 2004. Such would not be the case at my house thanks to Pandora. Sunday we hosted a party for the youngest Basehead a half-dozen of her friends and a half dozen of ours. It was cool and we packed the house full of people. Not a bad turnout for something slapped together last minute. Its always good to spend the day with friends. We had a great time. I am a very blessed man to have the friends that I have and for having the wisdom to get rid of the ones who really weren't. Everyone is happy for us and cant wait for us to get married. Not a single person has warned me about her, unlike some other attempts of mine to get married where I was getting warned by everyone who met her. LOL. This morning I flew out of town, leaving my tiny run-down cottage in the country for the mountains where I work. Sigh. I miss my life and my Obi-Wife already. There are no comments for this entry. Click this link to read and leave comments Unproductive Posted: Friday, June 12, 2009 9 Hours 53 Minutes 39 Seconds Ante Meridian There are no comments for this entry. Click this link to read and leave comments This week has been one of the most unproductive weeks I've had in quite a while. I haven't been sleeping at all. I am hoping a weekend in the mountains will do me some good. Time to fire some bullets. This week David Letterman fired a shot at Sarah Palin. Well, I think its safe to say that if Sarah Palin were a liberal Democrat, there would be protesting in the streets and David Letterman would be disemboweled and hanged. Being on the road has had its share of crack-ups this week. Twice I have stayed at hotels where hoes have set up shop. Yesterday while talking to Obi-Wife on the balcony, I watched them drive up, bring their clothes in, set up shop and a half hour later, a john showed up. Schwing! Leaving my past behind gets easier and easier. Wednesday I had an old friend call me out of the blue. After a few minutes of conversation I told her that I was getting married. She congratulated me and asked about my wedding as she and her daughter would come. I told her not only would that not be possible but that this would be the last conversation that we would have and that because we dated before, that we could neve speak again. She said she understood, wished me well.and then abruptly hung up. Whatever. My life is peaceful. I have my issues, personal, professional and financial but because I have peace in my personal life, everything else is fixable and finite. I cant thank Obi-Wife enough for her love and unwavering support, even during the rough times we are in right now. Sounds sappy doesn't it? I agree. However, its true. I look back on what my life was like five years ago. What a mess. There are no comments for this entry. Click this link to read and leave comments Writing Software Is So Much Easier Posted: Thursday, June 18, 2009 10 Hours 30 Minutes 22 Seconds Ante Meridian There are no comments for this entry. Click this link to read and leave comments I was informed the other day, that Obi-Wife has written her own wedding vows. Daedalus rolls his beautiful brown eyes as the wedding day approches the complexity is beginning to increase exponentially. Am I being overly dramatic here? Yes. Ok, enough already. I can sit here and thank the Lord all day how lucky I am to have someone in my life who really does love me the way she does. I know that. The problem here is now, I have to do the same. Now I haven't been told to or even asked to, but you know I have to. If I apply myself, I can be a eloquent writer. I have written speeches and presentations. As a software developer I've had to do it in order to get clients and subsequently their money for my services. I have spoken extemporaneously at parties and to use a comedic term, "I kill". At the risk of sounding pretentious, I am good at this stuff. I am after all, the most interesting man you know. " Writing software is so much easier than writing wedding vows. " The problem here, is that I am not motivated to write this kind of flowery language and I need motivation to do it right. I am also not really a people pleaser so the fact the everybody I love is going to be there doesn't faze me. So what will happen? I will do what usually happens in these situations. I will do research think about it and in less than five minutes crank out something good that will kill and make everybody tear up. Writing software is so much easier than writing wedding vows. I havent even tried it yet and I alreay know this is going to be agonizing. The fact of the matter is, it doesn't matter in the slightest what I say up there. All that really matters is what I did before, and what I will do in the future. I love Obi-Wife and I will perform my duties to the best of my abilities and get a little booty while I am at it. But getting there, with all the plans, stressasodes and now this is making the wedding more complicated than being married - and thats supposed to be the easy part right? Man. Weddings are creations of women, for women and to please and pacify women, and since I would like to get laid on my wedding night (although right now, odds are Obi-Wife will be on her period that day) I will not screw this up. There are no comments for this entry. Click this link to read and leave comments Gasping For Air Posted: Thursday, June 25, 2009 3 Hours 17 Minutes 5 Seconds Post Meridian There are no comments for this entry. Click this link to read and leave comments Obi-Wife had a surprise for me for Fathers Day. She had booked a trip for us to go to Aspen for the weekend. They were having the Aspen Food and Wine event there as well as a bunch of other stuff. We had a great time. There were however a few glitches. The biggest one was that our hotel did not have air conditioning. Now, we stayed in a four star hotel right on the side of the mountain and all we got was a fan and some open windows. I had to realize that at 10,000 feet, there is no need for an air conditioner most of the year, except when I was there of course. Daedalus rolls his beautiful brown eyes. " The Chief Of Police in Aspen is Richard Pryor " The Chief of Police is named Richard Pryor. Now that cracked me the hell up. I can only wonder how many jokes he has had to endure because of his name. Now, I have been to Breckenridge, Keystone and Arapaho Basin during ski season but never Aspen. Now I understand why people want to go there and why they don't. Aspen is freaking expensive. Now I am not complaining because I am blessed enough to afford to be there but there are however, limits to "reasonably priced". We went up to the lookout at the top of Aspen Mountain. At 12,000 foot I was  at home, Obi-Wife however was gasping for air. Seeing how I weigh 100 pounds more than she does you'd think I would be one gasping. I had to tell her to breathe deeply and often. We had lunch up there. The view and the rarified and rare air was awesome. We also visited the Maroon Bells while we were there. More breathtaking beauty in nature. Amazing stuff.         We left Aspen taking the back way across the continental divide at 12,500 feet at Independence Pass. It was about 40 degrees, there was snow everywhere and I am wearing shorts and Doc Martins. Obi-Wife was freezing, as women are even at 100 degrees, however I took a picture of my Doc Martens in the snow. Snow in June. Sweet. Sunday we were in Breckenridge for more hanging out, taking in scenery, eating, walking, holding hands, and watching Obi-Wife gasp for air (again). On the way to the airport in Denver, Obi-Wife got sick. Real sick. Altitude and/or sudden changes in it, can do that to you if you aren't used to it. I screwed myself up before. But she is in such great shape (size 4) I wouldn't have expected her to suffer at all. All and all I had an awesome Fathers Day weekend. It was enough to make me not fixate on my own Father who died in 2002. A man for whom I really miss. There are no comments for this entry. Click this link to read and leave comments Ricci V. DeStefano: Sotomeyors New Haven Fire Fighters Decision Has Been Overturned By The Supreme Court Posted: Monday, June 29, 2009 10 Hours 59 Minutes 45 Seconds Ante Meridian There are no comments for this entry. Click this link to read and leave comments This morning the Supreme Court did something sane. They overturned the New Haven, Connecticut decision to throw out all applications because not enough blacks passed the test. With the majority opinion the City of New Haven was basically scared into throwing the results out because of fear of being sued by minorities in the city. " The City of New Haven was basically scared into throwing the results out for fear of being sued. " I just dont get it. Now I am going to make a bold assumption here that the test for promotion in question was largely about firefighting and perhaps a few subjects related to it. I dont see a reason for it not to be at this point. With that in mind, how was it engineered to be racist? How is firefighting racist? Now, it would be one thing if the "right mix" of minorities passed the test and then were denied promotion but that was not the case either. The African Americans, whoever they are simply didnt get high enough scores. We are talking about a dangerous profession where civilian lives are at stake. What is racist about New Haven wanting the best of the best, those with the highest scores, going on to supervisory positions? One of the people who got the highest score was a dyslexic, a condition I share, he had his books made into audio so he could study more effectively. Why cant the black firefighters and for that matter, blacks in general put similar effort into their remedial education so that they can achieve similar results? " Why cant Blacks in general put similar efforts into remedial education so they can acheive similar results? " Of course the Black Community thinks this and everything else including the air we breathe, is racist. I think otherwise. I think its the fact that they really dont want the airing of dirty laundry. Barack Obama is president. Proof, that perhaps with education, you can do something productive. I can only hope that this will perhaps derail Sotomeyor's ascension to the Supreme Court. However, if she doesn't get the votes, that's going to called be racist too. You cant escape these people can you? Daedalus rolls his beautiful brown eyes. QUESTION: Do you think that justice was served here? There are no comments for this entry. Click this link to read and leave comments