Unrelated Thoughts

Myr has Science fair tomorrow. She finished her project this past weekend and stapled everything to the board tonight. It looks good. She made boats then sank them by putting too many marbles in them.

Two of my favorite country songs have connections to rock groups/stars I don't particularly like. Johnny Cash's version of "Hurt" is incredible, thought. Light years better than the version by Nine Inch Nails. "Picture" is sung by Kid Rock *sob* and Sheryl Crow. It is, however, a wonderfully country song and I always turn it up when it comes on. I may not have liked anything else I've ever heard by the man, but he can sing a damn nice country song. Of course, I've always said that most Heavy Metal Ballads are just muscled up country songs.

I joined this writing group at the closest Barnes and Noble. Tomorrow we are to bring work to critique. I need to finish something tonight... something more than I have done, that is. If I get it done tonight, I may post it to noveltry. We'll see.

I love my reference collection. And my extensive (and not always well used) library of writing books. There always seems to be one more dictionary or thesaurus I could use. One book I really love but don't use as much as I thought I would is the Visual Dictionary. I don't use it enough to have justified the $50 asking price new, but I got it at a used book store for like, $15 bucks.

Joke (From finabair):
Finabair: So this 6''9" northern Iraqi goes to a local dairy to get a job right after the war was over....
Partly: oh dear....
Partly: And?
Finabair: But unfortunately they did not have a job for him...
Finabair: Seems they were only into small kurds that day.
Partly: LOL
Partly: A CHEESE joke.
Partly: I love it.
Finabair: *nods* Got it from my bro. In WI, y'know.

My dad was a Marine. I was just surfing around and ran across this site about the Belleau Wood battle in WWI. It was the battle where the Marines really came into their own. They fought 20 days for 800 yards of turf. They lost over 3000 men. They won. At the site is the famed bull mastiff-shaped Belleau Fountain. Discovered by American troops around the same time that the Marines were given the nickname "devil dogs" by vanquished German troops, the fountain – according to legend – adds 20 years to the life of any Marine who drinks from it. More Famous Marine Lore: As they they trudged across France toward their encounter with the Germans, the Marines of 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, under the command of Capt. Lloyd Williams, came across exhausted French troops who urged them to turn back. Replied Williams: "Retreat, hell. We just got here." Gotta love those Marines.

And in parting, the refrain from another country song I like:
Justice is the one thing you should always find
You got to saddle up your boys
You got to draw a hard line
When the gun smoke settles we'll sing a victory tune
We'll all meet back at the local saloon
We'll raise up our glasses against evil forces
Singing whiskey for my men, beer for my horses

Junk

This just came in the E-Mail. How can I afford to pass it up?

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It sounds like the answer to all my problems when I don't want to put the effort of actual work into them. And because, you know, dishonesty and blackmail is the only way to success.