La vida no es la que uno vivió, sino la que uno recuerda y cómo la recuerda
“I don’t think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president.”
One of the aspects of American democracy that works great is when the military doesn’t intervene in politics. In no way do I support McCain, but having retired generals criticizing presidential candidates sounds too much like Latin America (even if they are retired).
Then again usually it’s poor Third World countries that suffer this fate. Wait, are we a Third World country yet?
Driving 55 miles per hour makes me seem like a grandma but it saves a lot of gas. Try it. I highly recommend it (especially if you drive a Hummer).
The Bulldogs won their 1st College World Series tonight! Great run dogs!
The problem with charter schools is that they are “results by any means” cheap bastards. Our local charter school district has been hiring temporary speech specialists since 2004, not because they can’t find a qualified candidate but because it is less expensive to hire a temp. How is this in the best interest of kids? One can only imagine what goes on within a charter school considering that it lacks many of the checks and balances of the regular public school (a union). In Porterville it is common practice for the charter school to hire non-credentialed teachers. Even worse yet, the school district reeks of nepotism with many members of the same church on the payroll. Bad, bad, bad.
Gardening is becoming my favorite pastime strangely enough. I’m not going to turn my front yard into a vegetable garden no matter how much El Chavo! tries to convince me. That doesn’t go with the cookie cutter subdivision suburbia wonderland in which we live in. I’ve lived on the other side of the tracks with the rose bushes, chain-link fence and chickens in the back yard. Anyhow, I’ve starting incorporating a lot of xeriscaping. I’ve planted many plants that don’t need much water. I’m also using drip irrigation to water the plants, shrubs and trees. Even the lawn in the back is bermuda which is very drought tolerant (I’m hoping the hybrid bermuda takes over the common soon). I guess the only plants that I can be criticized on are the four Japanese Maples that I planted in the back yard. They need plenty of water but oh how beautiful they are. Maybe I’ll post some pics one of these days.
watch/read: Need4sheed - Nice win by the Pistons vs. Celtics
You know I can’t stop rooting for the Tigers. I guess the gold thong is working. From making Barry Bonds cry to getting the Tigers to play right, Jim Leyland is the man.
The Tigers are pathetic.
A third baseman that can’t make a throw to first and a first baseman that can’t catch a ball from third. I hope the future will prove me wrong but why did the team get an overweight Cabrera to replace Inge? Why did we trade away the future for Cabrera and a pitcher that can’t throw strikes. Dombrowski seems to know what he’s doing but unfortunately it seems like he blew it this time.
I’m done wasting minutes watching the Tigers disappoint.
It’s been a while since I’ve written on here. It’s not that I don’t have anything to say. I have tons of things to say but I think I’m lacking the motivation to write it down on paper or type on the computer.
Married life is great. I recommend it to everyone. Really, I do.
Having Netflix is really worth it. The local Hollywood Video or Blockbuster don’t carry nearly enough titles, especially documentaries. In the past few months I’ve watched the Martin Scorcese documentary on Bob Dylan No Direction Home. Awesome I must say. How could people boo Dylan for going electric? It’s madness. Fucken folk music hippies. It reminds me a lot of when Zack de la Rocha left Rage Against the Machine. I remember reading some of the forums where people wanted rappers like Eminem to fill Zack’s place in the band. They didn’t recognize that Zack was the driving force behind the band. You can just substitute some other rapper and continue being the same. Artists change. As a fan you can’t expect an artist to stay stagnant, they have to evolve. Zack tired of RATM and Dylan the same in the political-change vanguard. It’s a but funny really.
Another good doc that I (er I mean we) saw was Who Killed the Electric Car. Excellent. It’s outrageous that GM had a solution to a huge problem that affects all of us now and yet they decided to eliminate to solution in order to continue to fill coffers of the oil companies (and their own of course). Why reinvent the wheel with hydrogen cars? The technology for electric cars has existed for 100 years! Who knew some of the first cars were run on electricity.
You cannot expect everyone to switch over to hybrids overnight but there are many things we can do to save gas. The only problem is that nobody does them. Driving 55 miles per hour on the highway will save you tons of money but unfortunately you will get flipped off many a times.
I’ll continue this later…