Random Thinking

As many of you probably know, there is a proposal to build a high speed rail from Los Angeles, California to Las Vegas, Nevada. A high speed rail would reduce traffic, reduce energy use and pollution, and would be reasonably cost efficient. The proposal is to use an existing rail station near Disneyland on the Los Angeles side and bring the train into the city of Las Vegas on the other end. I am a proponent of high speed rail and would love to see one in the northeast corridor as well.

But that brings us to the humor of Fox News. A woman named Megyn Kelly, who is a correspondent for Fox News and is a former lawyer seems to be against the high speed rail but for a rather odd reason. Here is her quote:

KELLY: It’s a super railroad, of sorts — a line that will deliver customers straight from Disney, we kid you not, to the doorstep of the Moonlight Bunny Ranch brothel in Nevada. I say, to the Moonlight Bunny Ranch brothel in Nevada. So should your tax dollars be paying for these kinds of projects?

A good question although one might wonder if there is a high demand for transit to a Nevada brothel for families who have just spent the day at Disney. But ignoring that, there is one other slight problem with Megyn’s theory… the Bunny Ranch is nowhere near Las Vegas. In fact, it is near Carson City which is more than 400 miles away from Las Vegas. That’s right… the rail will leave passengers about an 8 hour drive away from the Bunny Ranch which isn’t quite at its doorstep.

But perhaps Megyn just got her brothels mixed up… the only problem with that theory is that prostitution is illegal in and around the city of Las Vegas. The law is very strict in Nevada… in order for prostitution to be legal, the county must have less than 50,000 people. Clark County where Las Vegas is has close to 2 million people.

So perhaps when Megyn says, “I kid you not,” she actually means, “I don’t know what I am talking about.”

From 20 degrees and 14 inches of snow to 75 degrees and sunny in only 5 days. I love March.

The piles of snow are down to this little bit and by tomorrow even that will be gone. I won’t be missing it.

The early crocuses don’t seem to have suffered from being buried under a foot of snow.

So what do you do on the first warm day of the year? Bring your car to the car wash, of course!

Time for this week’s song from my iPod:

Blink-182 is a pop punk trio from Poway, Claifornia. The group was formed in 1992 and is made up of Tom DeLonge (vocals, guitar), Mark Hoppus (vocals, bass) and Travis Barker (drums). Scott Raynor was the original drummer but he was asked to leave the group in 1998 because of a drinking problem. When the group started, Hoppus was told by his girlfriend that he was spending too much time practicing and had to choose between her and the band. He originally chose her but a short time later changed his mind and chose the band.

The group has had huge commercial success with their 1998 album, Enema of the State selling over 15 million copies. Their two albums released after that both went platinum and were #1 and #3 on Billboard’s Top 200. Their most recent album was a greatest hits album released in 2005. The song “Not Now” was originally planned for their 2003 album but didn’t make it so was added to the greatest hits album two years later. According to DeLonge, “This song is…about when you die and you’ve just figured out you’ve died. You’re standing there looking at your lady and…you’re trying to say ‘goodbye’ but it’s too late…She can’t see you and she doesn’t know you’re there.”

The group broke up in 2005 because of tensions between the members. Tours (including a charity performance) planned for 2005 were canceled and the group officially broke up in February 2005. However, at the Grammy Awards ceremony last month, the group announced that they had reformed, would tour this summer, and that a new album would be released in 2010.

Not Now
Come here, please hold my hand for now
Help me, I’m scared please show me how to fight this,
God has a master plan
And I guess
I am in his demand
Please save me this time I cannot run
And I’ll see you when this is done
And now I have come to realize
That you are the one who’s left behind

Please stay until I’m gone
I’m here hold on to me I’m right here
Waiting

I see, a light it feels good
And I’ll come back soon just like you would
It’s useless, my name has made the list
And I wish, I gave you one last kiss

Please stay until I’m gone
I’m here hold on to me I’m right here
Waiting and take
My one last breath, and don’t forget
That I will be right here
Waiting

Please stay until I’m gone
I’m here hold on to me I’m right here
Waiting and take
My one last breath, and don’t forget
That I will be right here
Waiting

Daddies make great beds for children and pets

Mikey has been sick since Sunday night. He has been running fevers, had trouble sleeping, and has had a runny nose with cough. Monday we were snowed in so we finally got him to the doctor on Tuesday. The diagnosis was strep. So we started antibiotics and hoped that would be the end of it. But Wednesday he had a petechial rash all over so it was back to the doctor. He said to keep him on the antibiotics and ordered a blood test to make sure it wasn’t a problem with his platelets. That came back OK and the rash went away on its own.

But that wasn’t the worst. The worst is that Mikey hasn’t been sleeping and when Mikey doesn’t sleep he makes sure that no one else sleeps. He wakes up and comes in and wakes me up. He drags me to his bed and makes me lie down with him but then wakes me up every 30 minutes if I happen to fall asleep. So I haven’t had a good nights sleep since Saturday night. Thankfully, the office has free coffee so I have been running on caffeine all week. But he seems to be better tonight. He hasn’t had a fever all day and he fell asleep on his own and has been asleep for a couple of hours. If he sleeps though the night I will be very happy and so will Michel.

I meant to post this picture of my little girl. She was dressed up for a Sweet 16 party for one of her friends. She had a lot of fun and ended the evening by turning her friend into a newt.

“Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble.”

Beth is a bit of a Goth so she and her friends dress differently than most of the kids at her school. For some reason, her being different makes other people in her school act a little oddly. A young man who annoys Beth on occasion said something to her in the hallway at her school, so Beth flipped him off. He shouted back at her, “You put a hex on me!” For some reason he was convinced that Beth has magical powers. Well, guess what happened… two days later he was hit by a car, although he wasn’t seriously injured. Of course, now he is totally convinced that Beth is a witch.

But how wrong he is… everyone knows that it’s Beth’s mom who is the witch!

They say March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. So far this year March has lived up to the first part of that expression. We are buried in snow.

The plows have come through and buried our driveway and I have to get outside and shovel.

The kids schools are closed. Mikey wouldn’t have been going to school, anyway, since he was running a fever of 101.3 last night. He didn’t sleep well last night and that means I didn’t sleep well either.

The crocuses have been buried by the snow so we will see how they survived when the snow melts. It’s supposed to warm up starting Wednesday. One of the nice things about March is that it doesn’t stay cold so hopefully all this white stuff will be gone in a few days.