Happy Birthday wishes go out today to my son Josh who turns 27 years old today. Which is quite strange because I just turned 28 in February. We will pass next year!!

 

 

Each image painted
on the canvas of existence
is the form
of the artist himself.
Eternal Ocean
spews forth new waves,
"Waves" we call them;
but there is only the sea.

Many and disparate waves do not make the sea a
multiplicity;
no more do the Names make the Named more than One.
When the sea breathes they call it mist;
when the mist piles up they call it clouds.
It falls again,
they name it rain;
it gathers itself and rejoins the sea.
And it is now the same sea it ever was.

Fakhruddin Iraqi
from Divine Flashes
http://ladylilith333.tumblr.com/page/11

Abortion seems to be the only medical procedure that people want to deny you based on how you got in that situation.

Drove drunk, got in an accident and need an organ transplant? No problem.

Messing around with a gun, accidentally shoot yourself in the leg and need surgery? Of course.

Smoke tobacco for most of your life and need treatment for lung cancer? Yep.

Climb a tree, fall out and break your leg? We’ll fix that right up.

Have sex and get pregnant when you don’t want to be? YOU GOT YOURSELF INTO THIS SITUATION AND YOU DESERVE NO MEDICAL HELP OR COMPASSION! THIS IS YOUR FAULT AND YOU WILL DEAL WITH THE CONSEQUENCES!

Happy Birthday wishes go out to Tony Lee Dow, aka Wally Cleaver from the series "Leave it to Beaver", who turns 68 years old today. Dow, primarily know as an actor, is also a writer, directer, and sculptor. 

 

December 14th, four months ago tomorrow, the Sandy Hook School shooting occurred. In the four months since then, more than 3300 people in the US have been killed by gunfire. That's a staggering average of 27 a day.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2012/12/gun_death_tally_every_american_gun_death_since_newtown_sandy_hook_shooting.html

Add two more teens in Pomona early this morning. By contrast, 2200 US soldiers in Afghanistan have lost their lives in 12 years of war, many of those by roadside bombs. It's time for a change in this nation's gun laws.

 

Let's bring them all home!!!

 

Annette Joanne Funicello October 22, 1942 - April 8, 2013

 

Rode my bike to the beach from Anaheim Stadium on Sunday.  18 miles in all. It was cool and a quite windy the closer I got to the beach.  I'll be glad when the warmer weather gets here.

 

Karen and I went to a Rancho Cucamonga Quakes baseball game on Saturday evening.  There was lot of action and Quakes eventually won the game 8-7.  Afterwards we got to see fireworks, which is always a good thing.

Happy birthday wishes go out to Mary Lucy Denise "Marilu" Henner who turns 61 years old today. Henner is an American actress, producer and author probably best known for her role as Elaine O'Conner Nardo on the sitcom "Taxi" from 1978 to 1983.

 

Henner is on her third marriage and has two children and three step children. Henner has written nine books on health, diet and memory and is said to have an audiobiographical memory and can remember specific details of her everyday life since she was a small child.

 

Dragon Castle, Schloss Drachenburg, Germany.

I wonder if law makers have asked the average teacher or school administrator what they think about being armed and turning schools into armed camps.  There's a lot of liability that I would bet school districts won't want to take on.  If it's anything like the same-sex marriage debate, it would appear that law makers don't care a whole lot about what the majority of Americans think.  They vote based on their own beliefs or those of their political backers.  ($$$$$)

 

Happy birthday wishes go out to my son Brian who turns 37 years old today.  This time next month we will be out in Huntsville, Alabama, to visit Brian and his family and celebrate his graduation from the University of Alabama in Huntsville with a BA degree in business administration. 

I have to agree.  I like hot dogs.  I like hot dogs with mustard and relish, like Dodger dogs or most any stadium hot dog.  I like hot dogs from Tommy's with mustard, dill pickles, and chili.  I like hot dogs from Der Weinerschnitzel with mustard and sauerkraut.  You know who else has good hot dogs?  Five Guys. They split their hot dogs and grill them.  Add some mustard and pickles.  Mmm Mmm!!!  

 

I think I've posted this photo before, but I really like the thought of Karen and I walking hand in hand into a lake nude.  I doubt it will ever happen, but we all have our dreams don't we. 

 

Happy 40th Rachel!!!