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Golly Jeepers, It’s the Creepy Geezer’s Meme

Published on May 31, 2008 in Baby Boomer. 2 Comments

It’s the Geezer Meme! Because we’re not giving hickies anymore and we don’t have PMS, and we don’t want to rock the world for peace anymore.

So here’s the Geezer Meme. Most of these questions are yes or no, but as always it’s much more fun if you flesh them out. Or change them. If you are under 40, go away. Seriously. Talk about babies or puking or SATC or all three.

Have you pre-planned your funeral? Is it paid for?
Do you still attend time-share presentations to get something free? When and what was the last one?
Would you want somebody to exercise your DNR if your heart stopped beating during a colonoscopy?
Do you know where your car keys are right now? Exactly?
Does your pastor know your name? Including your first name?
What were Clarabell the Clown’s last words?
Do you find yourself watching birds more often?
Are you flattered when carded to buy booze?

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It’s Not Like Our Family Had Sexual Identity Problems

Published on May 30, 2008 in Family. 4 Comments

My mother’s first name and the names we called her two sisters, seemed normal. When you grow up hearing names, a kid just doesn’t think anything about it.
Until you mention the name to a kid at school.
My mother’s name was Cass, her sisters were Aunt Tim and Aunt Zig.
Cass. Tim. Zig.
Sooooooooo?
Cass was not short for anything. Her name was Cass Eugenia.
Her older sister, Tim, was christened Tamson, a name I only heard her husband and one other nephew call her. To everybody else, she was Tim.
The oldest sister, Zig, given name has tons of nicknames. Elizabeth.
Cass. Tim. Zig.
Maiden name? Zeigler, not i before e, prounounced Zig-ler. Not Zay-gler.
Soooooooo?

Only In America: $3.999 isn’t $4.00. What I’m Doing to Reduce Gas Cost at Casa De BowWow

Published on May 29, 2008 in Baby Boomer. 8 Comments

It takes a lot of gas to run the 42 mowers for the Mexicans I have pushing around mowing the yard. (We had to upgrade to power mowers this year because of the competition from the neighbors over the next hill.)

It was time for action.
This is before:

And this is after:

The front forty was done with a special non-petroleum based asphalt. A nice man, called himself a “traveler” stopped by Casa De BowWow last weekend. I was deforesting the back forty and he said he would pave the front forty for me. Didn’t take him long at all.