No I am not singing George Jones.... *glares @ my pickneys*

it's the end of the farking school year...

Spud has projects due.

15 pages on pro/con gun control with statistics for logic
10 pages from Spanish --has to pick a country and do a PPT
5 projects (2 from last week and 3 new ones) for American History
1 English Exam
1 Chemistry paper on pro/con nuclear energy..
Here is an except of his opening paragraph:
I think that until we can find a safe way to operate nuclear facilities and a responsible way to dispose of the waste, we should explore other options before committing valued resources to this historically dangerous source of energy.

We still have not fully explored the use of either wind or solar power to the fullest extent. Use of either is much less dangerous and has little waste than the use of nuclear fission or fusion.

Since Chernobyl, there have been at least 9 other incidents that have caused the closing of nuclear reactors, including 2 here in the United States. The last one was in Tennessee that resulted in closing the plant for 7 months. While none of them has had the instant effect such as Chernobyl did, there is no way to track long term effects either on the environment or humans.

Here in Nevada we have the added distinction of being the designated dumping ground for the waste products. Yucca Mountain Repository has been identified and contracted for underground storage of nuclear waste material. It is not currently in use due to numerous court cases blocking this proposal. We live only about 65 miles from there. Prypiat, Ukraine was 62 miles from Chernobyl and only 50K people lived there. We have almost 10X that amount within the same radius. The evacuation alone would be a separate disaster, not to mention the fallout over much of the West Coast.

I think that until we exhaust our current energy means or explore new ones, like ocean power, we should really put the nuclear ones on hold. That and the fact that our current president can't even say the word correctly.

and he has to expand on that.

Oh did i mention 3 tests in Chemistry as well?  the final exam is not even available until the 26th. 

...then there is algebra.. which he is finally getting all his work done on time.

and finally animation.. his final project is to create a 3 frame story board complete with animation. 

Like HELLO..do ya think you could have posted all of this a week ago so that they'd at least have the time to gather the material????

Oh not to mention.. the pelethora of recruiters that are sending mail, calling and in general wanting him to commit to look at their schools.  We've narrowed it down to either mid-atlantic/Eastern seaboard, Pacific NW or Cali.  Even though GA State and Tulane have come calling..no way my baby is going to tornado/hurricane alley.  Georgetown has sent a letter of invitation as well as NYU and Drexel.  We called Northwestern and told them thanks but no thanks..i don't think i'm ready for Chicago.

and yes we are basing where he will go to college with places I can possibly live in, still work for AV and make a decent living.

Did i mention that Iowa State offered full room/board and living stepend.  I think they are still trying to recruit minorities.  But Chemistry/Science majors who aren't going into medicine are become scarce so he's a commodity.

I know that this time next year I'll be kvetching that it's graduation and I'm too busy..

But its my blog and kvetch if I wanna

I realized last night after watching all 3 movies, back to back, on Sci-fi that I have "Crystal Skull" jewelry in my Ebay store.  YEAH.  So i made a new category this morning.

I also realized how much I really loved those movies and can't wait to see the new one.

and that I love the fact that I actually know someone who is in power in one of the casinos so that I can get "special" invites to things I really want to do.

Not just Playboy club invites or golf outing invites..

but a special showing @ the IMAX 2 days before all the other theaters open.. 150 specially invited guests will be viewing the new Indiana Jones movie.  The Spudmeister and I will be among them.

And will we see headlines one day that say "Calista Flockhart accidently stabbed Harrison Ford with her hipbone" as his cause of death.

There is an old saying back home, that if you go to Time Square for an hour, you are bound to see someone you know.  It's so true.  I'll never forget going down to get some B'way Tickets at TKTS (the 1/2 price joint) and ran into my friend from college, Al.  Al was the b/f of this girl I was in school with her sister.  Seems she and AL used to go to one of the cemetaries in Queens at night so they could be alone.  One hot summer night (NYC has humidity) after they tripped the light fantastic.. he'd gone back to the car to get a towel to 'clean up' and a loose headstone fell over and crushed her.  This was in the days BEFORE cell phones. and he had to run to the closest bodega to get help.  While it was sad. ot was very funny.

So yesterday I'm walking through the Palms and I hear "Penney" .. Penneeeey.  I mean really who could it be.  Turns out it was my old B/F Farrel-head's oldest daughter, Collette.  Yep yep the same one I had my midlife crisis with.  The same one that I split up my 14 year relationship over only to dump him 6 months later.  We stay in touch via email but i only check that mail oh every 2 or 3 months only because I'm old and forget to check it.  Her daughter is now 12..seems hard to believe and she's 31.  Gawd it's been 10 years.

Anyway we are meeting up for lunch today before they leave to go home to Cali. It will be fun seeing her mom, Farrel-head's ex, and his other kids with their kids. Apparently Colette was the only one brave enough to go to the Palms.

and the Italian place we're headed to is Torino's .. a small joint on Flamingo.  I have no clue how it is.. but it's
1) Cheap
2) Close to my house
3) Cheap.

Hey it's the company I'm after..not the food. Hopefully the ambiance is GREAT. 

I need a recommendation for an Italian joint for lunch/brunch tomorrow.  must have AC. 

I really thought I was past that sleep/wake/sleep/wake pattern. 

I finally bought Princess Bride on Wednesday because no DVD library could be complete without it.  So I shut everything down yesterday at 3pm and we watched PB.  I planned to take a nappy afterward but ended up just goofing around.  I played Tetrus on Xbox360.. and then watched our usual line up. 

Thursday is just not the same without Scrubs..but Zack Braff posted on his myspace that ABC will be showing 18 new episodes.  And he explained why Kelso was in the "Princess Bride" talk off.. it was filmed 1st ..

Anyway I fell asleep to the VH1 Rock Docs Sexumentary.  Saw Larry Levinson .. was pretty cool to follow the way back machine.  Tho i wasn't happy that some of the folks were dogging out the buffet and spa area since I'm almost positive they all used it.  And there was MORE than bologna on the frigging coldcut area. 

and now I found myself wide awake @ 3am.  I have a conference call with that red hot dollie, Ms. JayneWayne.. woot woot. @  730am ish.. then wait for payroll .. and off to  HD Expo @ the sands. 

Perhaps we'll go to the Helldorado thing downtown tomorrow. 

Anyway.. Why was I up at 3am?? who knows but i'm yawning now.

Of course you know I had to make a comment since the writer of the article and some of the commenter's were dogging out the artist and his subject matter saying things like "Who'd want to hang that in their livingroom" etc.

Well the truth is .. i'd rather show this paiting of a REAL woman than some of those stingy haired airbrushed models that grace the pages of magazines.  Real women have curves and LIFE lines.  This is a picture of a woman who has LIVED a life and is resting peacefully on a shabby chic couch at home in her own skin. 

Here is the full article.