new washer and dryer

IMG_0750, originally uploaded by hearsedrv.

After 18 years of using the washer and dryer my father in law gave us for a wedding present (we didnt get it until a few years after we were married since we were living in apartments and moving all the time)
We finally broke down and got new ones.

Front loading, energy effecient stackable ones!

These uses 60% plus less water than the old and half the time to wash and mucho shorter to dry!

I picked them up one at a time on sale from Lowes..one was a return and I got it over half off.

also makes tons more room in the laundry area as you can see they stack and I built a bench to fold etc on.

Wish my mom had these when we were growing up, she would have loved them. You can wash more clothes at once plus they dry as fast as they wash.

Runaway, 9, sneaks on flight to Texas

This headline makes you believe the story is that a kid snuke onto a flight...but the real story is deeper..

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070118/ap_on_re_us/airline_runaway_3

What gets me and what I think is the real story is the fact he stole not one car and was caught but it was the THIRD stolen car he had been caught in! 3 stolen cars and caught in a month! Holly cow! and his mom blames it on playstation 3 and the fact he hated where he lived! Wait just a redneck minute mom. Just what in the h e double hockey sticks are you doing as a parent. Your kid steals 3 cars? I say lock the mom up, move the kid to the marines (hes a bad ass and would be good at fighting the Iraq bad guys) and tell southwest to stop worrying about reality TV and get there ticketing correct.

And I bet donuts to bacon that his momma will not pay for the last stolen car because the neighbor had it running with no one in it. Oh its there fault for leaving there car running around my son who is known for car thievery, as a matter of fact I am getting a lawyer and suing them! and southwest and the San Antonio police and the Taliban...woohoo I hit the lottery!

Ok back to your boring lives, that is all.

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A tourist walks into a curio shop and sees a life-like bronze statue of a rat.
He asks the salesmen, "How much?"
The salesman replied, "12 bucks for the rat and 100 bucks for the story."
The tourist says, "I'll just take the rat, thanks."
As soon as the tourist leaves the shop rats started crawling out of the sewers. There were a hundred rats, then a thousand, and then millions.
The tourist was running as fast as he could. He ran to the end of the pier and threw the bronze rat as far out into the lake as he could. All the other rats jumped after it and drowned.
The tourist walked back to the store.
The salesmen says, "Came back for the story, eh?"
The tourist replies, "No but I was wondering, do you have a statue of a Republican?"

The war and history

I have been thinking alot about the war in Iraq lately. Being a fan of history and realizing that GW didnt take history I always thought he was just clueless due to that fact. But as I myself try to figure it out I come to a fork in the road.

I try to compare it to Vietnam. They are so close. In vietnam you had north and south fighting each other. One was supported by the russians the other by America. In Iraq you have two diffrent religous secs. One supported by alkaida the other by America.

So looking back on history one could say get out, look at nam we lost there after 9 years of bloody fighting. Or, you cant win someone elses civil war.

But then talk to soldiers that were in Nam. "they wouldnt let us fight the way we needed" or "It was a politcians war"

There are thousands of blogs discussing this by people that drink starbucks coffee and listen to NPR so if you want some deep discussions go read them. Me, I just say "we dont know the correct answer, history isnt much help" Either way GW goes (and I am writting this after he commited another 21k troops) he is gonna lose more than likely. If he trys to keep the fight going we will get a new administration in the next election and bail out like a cat at a dog fight. If he bails out now and iraq goes into a total mess (think Iran taking it over? could happen) he will be dished for that.

I dont want to say "support our president" cause personally I think his dumb ass got us in this mess, but now that we are in it we have to work together to figure out a way out.

I got in a fight with an older kid in the 5th grade. The sob was twice my size and was picking on all of us smaller kids. I stood up to him and we went at each other. The teacher broke it up and sent us to the principal. On the way to the prinicipals office we worked together to come up with a good lie to keep both of us from getting spankings. We hated each other 10 minutes before but still worked together to keep our butts from pain. Isnt it a shame that a 5th grader and 6th grader can work something out but those of us that Listen to NPR or Rush Limbaugh and have this great 4 to 8 year college degrees cant come up with some good lie to get our butt from getting spanked?

Ok back to you 8 dollar coffee...me I am gonna make a cheap bourbon and coke