The pair far surpassed their $20,000 goal and their campaign still has 24 days to go.

Amanda [...]]]>

It is a sad state of affairs when the local police have nothing better to do that shut down a kid’s lemonade stand. Correct me if I am wrong here but isn’t the “lemonade Stand” part of your and everyone’s childhood?

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It is a sad state of affairs when the local police have nothing better to do that shut down a kid’s lemonade stand. Correct me if I am wrong here but isn’t the “lemonade Stand” part of your and everyone’s childhood?

How far are we going to let the government get involved in our everyday lives? How many freedoms are we going to give up?

What the hell is wrong with all of you bloody sheeple that you actually let this shit happen. It is truly getting to the point where I am ashamed to be an American.

Peace Out

Dragon

Kids’ lemonade stand shuttered by police chief

Cory Doctorow at 5:05 PM Monday, Jul 18, 2011

The police chief of Midway, Georgia, has shut down a kids’ lemonade stand because the girls (10 and 14) who were operating it didn’t have $180 worth of permits. The proprietors were saving up for a visit to a water-park.

By a city ordinance, the girls must have a business license, peddler’s permit, and food permit to set up shop, even on residential property. The permits cost $50 a day and a total of $180 per year. City officials said it’s their job to keep everyone safe and healthy, and there can be no exceptions to the rules.

“We were not aware of how the lemonade was made, who made the lemonade, of what the lemonade was made with, so we acted accordingly by city ordinance,” Chief Morningstar said.

Midway Police Shut Down Girls’ Lemonade Stand for not having a Business License (via Consumerist)

via Kids’ lemonade stand shuttered by police chief – Boing Boing.

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Documentary about the bricks of St. Louis – Boing Boing.

The people of St. Louis sure love their bricks, and rightfully so. Unfortunately, poachers from other states like Louisiana and Mississippi love St. Louis bricks, too, and are stealing them.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day to one and All!!

May the Beer be Good and the Shamrock bring you good fortune.

Yeah easier said than done.

So for the last 2 days I have been calling my landlord’s maintenance line because the bathroom sink is now leaking, no make that [...]]]>

Now with all the rest of the bullshit I have going on in my life I still have to maintain and get things done right?

Yeah easier said than done.

So for the last 2 days I have been calling my landlord’s maintenance line because the bathroom sink is now leaking, no make that flooding into my basement and about a dozen tiles including the soap dish have just decided to travel off the wall and make a home in pieces in my bathtub.

Yeah, not so good. I managed to save a lot of things in the basement that were victims of the biblical flood that hit the basement.  Some not so much. But nothing of any real value has been damaged. So we are lucky there.

But I digress. I have been calling for 2 days now to a fucking voice pager and as of now have not heard a bloody peep from him. I am so pissed. Do you have any idea how bloody frustrating it is to get up in the morning, take your shower or bath. Dry off then haul all your other bathroom equipment into the kitchen (which is on the other side of the house) to use the sink? Well let me tell you. It is a pain in the bloody ass.

And then on another note. I was enjoying a fine meal the other day and bit down in the wrong way and broke several of my lower teeth. Now don’t get me wrong I have never been the best on visiting the dentist. I hate them. They scare me more than anything in the world. I can stand a lot of pain in a lot of ways. But the thought of going to a dentist and the sound of the drills and the imagined and real pain brings me to my knees and makes me scream like a little girl.

Now that being said I have to see if I can get into the dentist and get the last of these broken lumps of enamel surgically removed and a bottom plate made for me and have my insurance pay for them before I lose the insurance at the end of the month. There are no appointments for the next 2 months open so I was told this morning to just come in at 7am when they open and see if I can get seen as an emergency case. Then take it from there. I already know from Red’s experience that my dentist can not do anything as he does not do surgery in his office so I have to be forwarded to the surgical center here and then back to the dentist for the plate.

Can I get all this accomplished in less than 2 weeks? Who the fuck knows. But I am sure going to try. So it seems I have to get to the Lawyer at 10 am tomorrow and then I am going to sit in the dentists parking lot on Friday until they  open and see how it goes. Wish me well. I can already hear me screaming from the pain . Oh lord I hate the thought of this. But if I dont do it now I am going to be eating soup for the rest of my life.

Hmm I wonder if I can rent myself out to any and all of my friends to do what ever projects they need done or help with for money?

Well I can and will do anything except the illegal things. lol

But it is a thought. Might be a way to raise rent and utilities money for at least another month.

Any offers or takers out there? I work cheap (LMAO). Just can not do anything that requires talking for a long time (COPD) or any heavy work as the old lungs won’t hack it. And I have a pickup truck ( unless it gets repossessed for non payments). But for now I do have one. So can haul shit as well.

Ahh well tis but a dream. Unless you feel the need and want to help out.

Love to the world it fucking needs it.

Peace Out

Dragon

Give her a break people.

I know damn well [...]]]>

I have to give Amanda Kudo’s here for this blog entry. She has a point. And I don’t think the so called “complaining fans” fully understand how hard it is for someone like her to make a living in her chosen field.

Give her a break people.

I know damn well if you were in her situation and the same opportunities presented themselves to make a little extra money to help offset the expenses of traveling the planet to Entertain “US”, you would do the same thing.

Don’t change Amanda. Do what you need to. Your true fan base will understand and continue to support you in all you do.

amanda fucking palmer » blog

Peace Out

Dragon

Besides these guys played [...]]]>

I was never a big fan of the Ukulele. But after listening to these guys, and of course the One and Only “Amanda Fucking Palmer”. I have changed my mind. These little instruments can do an amazing job if the person on the playing end knows how to play one.

Besides these guys played one of my favorite songs. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

Hope you all enjoy it as well.

Peace out

Dragon

Sexy Monday Ukulele Joy via the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain.

Take me for example. I belong to several, Twitter, FaceBook, MySpace, My Blog here, and a few others. Sure I update them as often as I can.  And I enjoy the [...]]]>

I have come to realize over the last 12 months that the social networking sites you belong to are sometimes not your friends.

Take me for example. I belong to several, Twitter, FaceBook, MySpace, My Blog here, and a few others. Sure I update them as often as I can.  And I enjoy the social interaction from them all.

Now where I have a problem is this. People taking the information from your social network that you post and making sure that people that do NOT belong to your network are informed of what is going on in your life.

Yeah I know what your thinking. “Then you should not have posted the information”.

I suppose that could be true. But on the other hand are my social sites not a place for me to just vent, bitch and communicate with friends?  I think so. But I do not in any way give permission to anyone to republish my information to people outside my “circle of social contacts”.

All this stems from an email I got from my father the other day.

As most of you who know me are aware of I have had health problems for the last several months. I have made it public via my sites and kept people updated. Now there have been a few people that I have not given all the information to (none of these are part of my social networks)  as I was not totally aware of all the facts. And that being said did not want to cause undue stress to those individuals until I knew for sure exactly what I am facing.

So back to the email from Dad. Now bare in mind I have spoken to him regarding my health problems. Not all of it because I did not know all the answers. But regardless he informs me that he just received an email from another relative that I have not spoken to or seen in over 30 years. He tells my dad that he has seen a picture of me on Facebook and that I look very old and that he has been told that my health is in serious jeopardy.

So that prompts the email from my Dad asking me WTF? And that we need to have a serious talk??

Bless him I love him to death but there is nothing to talk about at the moment. I have no bloody idea where I stand as of yet. The details are too long to go into here. But suffice it to say it involves dealing with the government and disability and attorneys and all sorts of bloody red tape.

I guess the point I am making here is that if you dont want people to “tattle on you out of school“, then do not post it on the net.

So who ratted me out to my relative and caused the email from my Dad? I do not know who. But I have a few good ideas. It is times like this that I just want to pull the whole “Social Network” plug and take my life off the internet. Go back to life before the net and perhaps enjoy what the world has to offer me outside of this 19 inch LCD screen. I mean there is a whole world out there full of people to talk to and things to do.

Yes there are people out there that will sell you out as well. But in the real world at least you are not publishing all your woes and troubles for other people to take and have fun with. You actually have to speak to them directly.

I guess I am just venting here and pissed.

If and when I want to update MY father about my condition. Then it should be ME that tells him.

Chances are that the person that gave up this information to my Uncle who then spoke to my father will read this. When you do please take the time to think about what you have done. I did not ask you to speculate on my health. Nor did I ask you to be my hearald and tell the world how I am doing. And just because we are friends/family does not give you the right to inform people abut me without my knowledge or permission. Do you have any idea of the repercussions that shit like this can cause? Probably not.

People do not think. They just react. Shitty but true.

Well I have vented enough for today.

Life sucks, then you read the news and realize it does not suck. It is a fucking Mess!

Peace Out

Dragon

Peace Out All,

Dragon

Today is the first day of the rest of your short, brutish existence as a sentient creature before being snuffed out into utter nothingness for all eternity. –Matt Groening

We are here for no [...]]]>

Enjoy or Not. Life is Fluid. I Like them.

Peace Out All,

Dragon

Today is the first day of the rest of your short, brutish existence as a sentient creature before being snuffed out into utter nothingness for all eternity.
–Matt Groening

We are here for no purpose, unless we can invent one.
–Kurt Vonnegut, Jailbird

“But I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose, which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell, possibly. It doesn't frighten me.”
–Richard Feynman

There ain't no answer.
There ain't going to be any answer.
There never has been an answer.
There's the answer.
–Gertrude Stein

Then I will tell you a great secret, Captain, perhaps the greatest of all time. The molecules of your body are the same molecules that make up this station, and the nebula outside– that burn inside the stars themselves. We are star stuff. We are the Universe made manifest, trying to figure itself out.
-Delenn, Babylon 5

All the molecules in your body were formed inside stars. We are the future of ancient stars.
-The 1997 Nobel Conference.

People and stars are made of the same stuff.
-Bill Nye the Science Guy

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.”
–Alice Walker

“There's always a little bit of heaven, even in a disaster area.”
–Wavy Gravy

LONDON (AP) — Cambridge University says famed mathematician Stephen Hawking has been rushed to a hospital and is very ill.The university said Hawking [...]]]>

Send any healing energy or Prayers you can to this man. If we lose him it will be a great loss to the Entire world!!
Stephen Hawking hospitalized, reported very ill

LONDON (AP) — Cambridge University says famed mathematician Stephen Hawking has been rushed to a hospital and is very ill.The university said Hawking had been fighting a chest infection for several weeks, and on Monday he was taken to Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge, north of London.

The 67-year-old Hawking gained renown for his work on black holes, and has remained active despite being stricken with motor neurone disease as a young man.

For some years, Hawking has been almost entirely paralyzed, and he communicates through an electronic device activated by his fingers.

Prof Hawking suffers from motor neurone disease and is wheelchair bound. He speaks with the help of a voice synthesizer.

He developed symptoms of the disease while studying in the 1960s and is one of the world”s longest surviving sufferers.

He has worked at Cambridge”s Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics for more than 30 years and since 1979 has been the University”s Lucasian Professor of Mathematics.

Prof Hawking was awarded a CBE in 1982, became a Companion of Honour in 1989 and is a Fellow of the Royal Society.

He lives in Cambridge and has three children and one grandchild.

Prof Hawking was born in Oxford but his family moved to St Albans, Hertfordshire, when he was eight.

He studied at St Albans School before reading physics at University College Oxford then moving to Cambridge to carry out research in cosmology.

One of Prof Hawking”s last public appearances was last September when he unveiled a £1 million clock erected at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

“Professor Hawking is very ill and has today been taken by ambulance to Addenbrooke”s Hospital, Cambridge,” said the University spokesman.

“He is undergoing tests. He has been unwell for a couple of weeks.”

Professor Peter Haynes, Head of the University”s Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, added: “Professor Hawking is a remarkable colleague. We all hope he will be amongst us again soon.”

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