08:45 – I just got back from dropping off Barbara and her friend Marcy at the tour bus stop. They return next Saturday, so it’ll be wild-women-and-parties until then. Either that or the Heartland marathon. I just checked, and on this iteration I’m through series 3 episode 5, which means at 6 or 7 episodes per evening I can make it partway through series 5 before Barbara returns.
Saturday, 14 September 2013
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Six or seven episodes per evening? What’s that, about five hours or so? I can only manage two episodes of a series on any given night, as I’m doing now with the most recent season of “Sons of Anarchy.”
And at the current rate of my nine seasons of the X-Files download it’s gonna take about three weeks to get them all. Yikes. 75 GB.
56 today, mostly overcast, patches of blue sky over the southern direction of the Lake.
Yeah. Episodes run about 44 minutes each, so seven of them is about five hours worth. Amber Marshall will probably be on screen for maybe four hours of that five. And I’d watch Amber reading the phonebook, literally.
Cute, but too petite for this old Neanderthal; and I like ’em with some mileage on ’em; or, as one of the characters last night on “Sons of Anarchy” said, “…some patina on my fine metal…”
I will check into the series, though, and also that “Homeland” show; just as soon as all the X-Files stuff gets here.
Also ordered a ‘best of’ DVD of the Arli$$ show from some years ago; I had seen a couple of episodes back then and LMAO; it’s rare to find comedy that OFD finds funny anymore.
it’s rare to find comedy that OFD finds funny anymore
I guess you have not been paying close enough attention to our government circus run by incompetent clowns.
Oh wait, you have. You just don’t find it funny.
I find it occasionally funny, but it’s very dark and bitter humor. For example, old Soviet Union jokes that the regular people over there used to tell each other really ring true here now. On work: “We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us.” And suchlike. I’ve finished one biography of Stalin, by Robert Conquest, and am almost done with the one by Edvard Radzinsky, who grew up in that system. You begin to notice that more than a few of the old Leninist and Stalinist Bolshevik tricks are in use by our current regime all the time now.
Anyway, next up a re-reading of the Gulag volumes and also the Red Wheel series, followed by Epstein’s “Deception” and the new blockbuster revelation by Diana West, which the Trotskyite neocon asswipes are mounting a full-scale dirty assault against: “American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character.” What an eye-opener this is proving to be; highly recommended. And what a fox, too:
http://dianawest.net/
Hey OFD, is that background check through yet? Seems like even the gubmint shouldn’t take this long, given that you’ve had this stuff done before.
I remember when I had this done; my mother was still living in the neighborhood where I grew up, and she told me that dark suits went knocking on all the neighborhood doors, looking for someone who knew me back then. Of course, pretty much all the neighbors had changed. I always wondered how many of them were tempted to just make stuff up…
Having received a uber secret clearance myself (long since expired), and having a couple of friends that have to maintain uber secret clearances, I have been researched and been questioned by researchers. It does indeed take awhile and some of the questions are really stupid designed to gauge your reaction to the question, not for the actual answer. One wrong answer from one person will not torpedo the applicant. Multiple consistent answers from several people will cause the application be denied. Like most government workers the process gets dragged out as long as possible to preserve the job, not to actually accomplish much.
Heh. When I was a senior in college, two FBI agents came knocking on my parents’ door. Mom and Dad thought I’d applied for a job with the FBI and they were doing a security clearance. In fact, my girlfriend, Karen Taylor, had taken up with Jeffrey Carl Jones (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Jones_%28activist%29) and I’d reported him to the FBI. They still wanted him badly for his activities with the Weathermen, so they came looking for him at my college. Meanwhile, he and Karen, along with me and Barb Deem, Karen’s best friend, were on a road trip. I was carrying my .44 and just looking for a good excuse to shoot the SOB.
Colleges were a lot more laid-back about students carrying firearms in those days. The FBI had told the college administration what was going on, and that Jones had threatened to kill me the next time he saw me. I got called in to the president’s office. I told them I wasn’t afraid of Jones, who was a cowardly weasel, and anyway I was carrying my .44 (legally, because I had a carry permit). The college president said okay and told me to be careful if I had to shoot him.
Heh. I’m just enough younger than you that the weenies were taking over by the time I was old enough to drink or carry firearms. Plus, I grew up in New York*, where even upstate the laws are largely made by city scum. Pistol permit age was 21, meaning I was almost done with my second college degree before I could even apply for a pistol permit. I’d been old enough to be drafted for three years by that point, I’d actually been in the Army for three years by that point, I’d been a commissioned Army officer for almost a year by that point and I’d killed four or five men by that point, but couldn’t be trusted to carry a pistol until the magic age. (Conceded, that last point may have been considered a strike against, even though they were a rapist and a few muggers, but whatever.)
* To the extent that I’ve grown up at all, a process I fight with everything I’ve got.
Incidentally, it was just after this that I lost any respect I might have had for the FBI. We got a call from the FBI in Pittsburgh, saying that it had all been a false alarm. Apparently, some guy walked into FBI HQ in Pittsburgh and identified himself as the guy we’d been involved with. The FBI fingerprinted him and said he was not Jeff Jones. The problem was, they never gave Karen, Barb, or me a chance to see the guy who’d walked into the FBI to give himself up. I asked if they at least had a picture of the guy that they could show us. The FBI guy admitted they had a picture of the guy who’d given himself up but refused to show it to us. They said that according to their records the guy was not a known associate of Jones or the Weather Underground, so they didn’t see any reason to show us the picture. Geez.
“Hey OFD, is that background check through yet? Seems like even the gubmint shouldn’t take this long, given that you’ve had this stuff done before.”
Yes, that background check is through. But laughingly, the position itself has since been eliminated and I only found this out last week, after three months of bullshit. I am now on the hook for a second position at the same place, with slightly different responsibilities, and more background check stuff is allegedly being done for that. So I’ve long since been doing the usual 30-40 hours a week of job search stuff anyway and have paperwork in at quite a few sites now.
While continuing to collect UI bennies from the state, which should last until Thanksgiving, but we hope it doesn’t get that far. This has been an epic fail so far on the part of somebody.
the position itself has since been eliminated and I only found this out last week, after three months
Dude, that sucks! I know that you are probably not interested in Pittsburg but the place where I host my website is looking for a few people:
http://www.pair.com/about/jobs/jobs.html