EARLY MORNING EXCITEMENT IN THE DOGYARD

It's 8:28 a.m. and Patrick is here with me and Junior and Stephen are asleep on a couch downstairs.

Random Thoughts for today:

Junior aired up the tires and greased the chains on our mountain bikes yesterday.

The Big Dogs put up a big ruckass this morning--Barking and running around and looking up at Gunner's tree next to the chicken house. Must have been a wayward marsupial or ringtailed masked marauder--but I guess it escaped the wrath of my Siberian buddies.

Got a HUGE surpise in the mail yesterday. All wrapped up in purple paper, a FATHER'S DAY PRESENT!!!! And from Junior's mother, no less. It was a 1976 VFW Card from Sunshine City Post 6827, St. Petersburg. Complete with "Early Bird" Woody Woodpecker Rubber stamp on it. Also included was this tiny soo-vah-neer slide viewer thing , from the Maui Surf, which I assume is a hotel in Hawaii--the slide is of my Mother and Father seated at a restaurant table!! I really don't remember this thing. What a great present!!

Had a little forum fight in our local caching forum. Fellow was calling one of our fellow cachers, a guy everybody really likes becausee of his hard work in the sport,"Hitler" "communist" "dictator" and saying he hated him. Decided to call him at it in the forum, and discovered he had the mental ability of a four year old.

The sad thing is he used his status as a Desert Storm Veteran and the fact that he was raisisng his kids because their mother abandoned them to somehow give his rant credibility.That's sad. His resume' is irrelevant. I'm a vet, and I raised Junior when his mother abandoned him to me largely because the state approprated her child support because she had defrauded the welfare system, but that doesn't give me license to slander people. I feel sorry for this guy.

I honor my fellow vets, but that doesn't mean we are any better than anyone else, or have some elevated status just for having served. We can be assholes just as well as the next guy.

When I call people communists, it's because politically and economically and historically, they ARE. Not to name call. And to compare someone to Hitler becase they wouldn't break the rules to allow you to hide a geocache is just plain sick. This vet needs help.

Patrick misses Shaye already.

All of a sudden my copy and paste feature no longer works, I don't know why...Blogger still is not allowing upload of photos--everyone is affected.