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I started to post the real Friday Five to make up for my timewarp from yesterday, but after the first one I gave up.  That numeric progression trick is just too hard (i.e. I can’t think of that many damn songs).  That, and I couldn’t make up my mind on the first one (name one song you hate to admit you like).  It was a tossup between that Piña Colada song and The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald.

I got so carried away because it was so nice outside that I just drove 150 miles with the windows down and the radio blasting.  I think I may be deaf now.

Oh, and allow me to send out a great big “f@#k you very much” to those asswits who can’t seem to drive over 50 in a 70 zone.  If I believed in hell, I’d be inclined to think that there’s a special place there reserved just for them.

I’m taking the day off tomorrow.  After I wrap up some business here in town I’ll be heading back to East Texas for the weekend.  I’m going to visit my mother for an early Mother’s Day get-together, since she has to be at work next weekend.

While my mother has internet access, I may just ignore the computer for the weekend.  Unless something sets me off and I feel the need to rant.

Anyway, everyone have a great weekend and I’ll be back on Monday.

I’m sure that the decision by Cincinnati to drop its lawsuit against gun makers has been seen by everyone already, since it was linked by Instapundit.

However, I’m glad to see that they’re coming to their senses.  It was a stupid lawsuit.  It’s just too bad that it took them 4 years to realize it.  But then I guess I shouldn’t expect too much from politicians.

Just for kicks (and because I couldn’t get into the Hell Quiz that Bitter posted), here’s the Friday Five.

1. What was the last TV show you watched?
CSI

2. What was the last thing you complained about?
All the bureaucratic crap that I have to deal with at work.

3. Who was the last person you complimented and what did you say?
Hmm…  This a tough one.  I don’t remember complimenting anyone recently.  Maybe I need to work on that.

4. What was the last thing you threw away?
A bunch of dirty patches from cleaning the guns I used at the range last night.

5. What was the last website (besides this one) that you visited?
The Bitch Girls.

Update:  Hmm….  I was in a weird timewarp yesterday.  It was really Thursday, it just felt like Friday to me.  So I guess this really wasn’t the Friday Five….

It seemed like I spent the whole day tilting at the windmills of bureaucracy.  Fortunately we finally prevailed and it looks like my project is going to deploy on time (it’s been a long, tough trip).  The amount of red-tape and the sheer number of obstructionist asswits that we have to deal with to get a project deployed in my company is mindboggling.  I once saw a checklist that the project manager has to follow through all phases of a project.  It was 6 or 8 pages long with well over a hundred steps that had to be followed (checklists have to be filled out, approvals obtained, review boards satiated, etc).  And almost none of this had to do with the actual technical work (like designing the system, developing it, testing it, etc).  I find it amusing in a droll sort of way that the same company that imposes all this nonsense on us also complains that it takes too long and costs too much to develop web projects.  Anyhow, if you’d seen me after the last conference call ended at 4:00 pm, I probably looked like a wreck.  I just sat there in my chair for a few minutes, slumped way down, and stared at the wall. 

But I guess I shouldn’t be too upset.  I have lots of work to do and the company seems to like having me do it.  Now that this project is wrapping up, I’ve been assigned to three new ones (but I’m hoping that we can at least consolidate two of them into one), and I also have responsibilities for another project that is ongoing.  At least it keeps me in guns and ammo.

All of this got me to thinking about the phrase, “It’s been a long day” because that’s the way I felt when I left work.  Of course, the little Spock in my head immediately wondered about the illogic of it.  I locked the little bastard in his closet and left him to stew, because it was such a nice day when I got outside.  It was nice and warm, maybe just a little too humid, but I won’t complain about that.  According to my truck’s thermometer it was 91° F this afternoon.  Even so, I loved it.  I drove home with the windows down and the radio blasting.

To top it off, I decided to mow the lawn when I got home (mainly to prevent my neighbors from lynching me ).  But there’s something to be said for lawn work.  It doesn’t take a lot of thought and it gives you a chance to just do for a while, which is a nice diversion when you’ve spent all day thinking and reacting.

Ok, that’s probably enough bore blogging for me…

“Life is too short not to exact a bitter and bloody revenge”

This was encountered here.

The more I hear about public “education”, the more it scares me.  Jeff Medcalf is spluttering mad about some tool from the education establishment who trys to slam homeschoolers in an op-ed piece.

Rachel Lucas also comes across a mindnumbing example of political correctness run amok in the school book selection process.

The more I hear about this, the more determined I am to keep my future children out of public schools and homeschool them.  Provided that I ever have children, that is.

I was only halfway paying attention to the TV the other day and I barely registered it at the time, but it appears that TNN is bringing back Ren & Stimpy.  I have to admit that I’ve had an on again, off again relationship with that show.  Sometimes it was hilarious, sometimes it was just gross, and sometimes I’d just have to go, “Huh?”  It takes either a very disturbed person or a comic genius to come up with the Royal Canadian Mounted Yaksmen.  However, one of my favorite episodes was “Space Madness.”  My ice cream…

Ren & Stimpy’s Adult Party Cartoon is going to be the main anchor for TNN’s new animated show lineup.  They will also have Gary The Rat and Stripperella.  In case you hadn’t guessed from the name of the new show, it’s not going to be quite as restrained as it was on Nickelodeon. 

This is so very wrong.

A 73-year-old man who used an air raid siren to stun his wife into submission has had it confiscated by German police.

“My wife never lets me get a word in edgeways,” the man identified as Vladimir R. told Mannheim police. “So I crank up the siren and let it rip for a few minutes. It works every time. Afterwards, it’s real quiet again.”

Link via Pejman Yousefzadeh.