We Miss Our Holidays

Yeah, it was fun, getting all those days off, making January even more of a pain in the ass.

At least we have MLK day.

I celebrated the same way I celebrate all holidays; I slept late.

Sometimes my body betrays me and I get up at 8:30. I'm working to get this made illegal.

Speaking of illegal, Mrs. lefty watches a show called "Jail." The long and short of it is that after people are arrested for something or other, they come to jail. The entire show is the process of coming to jail and getting yourself out of jail. While this might be interesting, the overarching sad point is that jail is a babysitting service for drunks and druggies. These people consume their drink and/or drugs, then go out and cause mayhem, without an ounce of responsibility. The taxpayers have to fund the babysitting service. It's funny to hear people upset at decriminalizing drugs when there's a separate standard for alcohol.

Addicts in drug-ravaged Philadelphia reveal gruesome risks to get high: ‘You could paralyze somebody’

So they hire a 'hitter' to do it for them. Show us a need and we'll provide the resource!

 

Mother Nature sure is pissed. Unfortunately we don't know at whom. She'd have to be Mother nature because Father nature wouldn't be this screwed up. He'd be pretty predictable and every now and then, it would rain beer. No global warming, no snow in Texas. No precipitation on game days. People would LOVE Father Nature. But no... we have Mother Nature, and everything's fscked up.

Depending on which source I use, we're getting no snow, a dusting of snow, 1-2" of snow, or a foot. The only thing more confusing than Mother Nature is weather forecasts. After being outside, Dog looks like the Abominable Snow Span. She was raised in a warm climate before we adopted her and we have to keep the gates locked so she doesn't try to go back there.

• In the past day, I've seen  someone with the last name Bull, and someone called Coffindaffer. Man, those must have been some rough childhoods.

‘I Was Desolate’: John Fetterman Worried Revealing Mental Health Struggles Would ‘End’ His Career

So he lied. And stayed in office. And in the hospital. Voters (and non voters) are ripe for the picking. You can do absolutely anything you want to us and we'll just crack open a beer and watch The Masked Furry. This person needs to be removed. NOW.

Speaking of treats, Wife showed me she loves me again (no, not that, you prevert).  I got a fresh vat of homemade vanilla buttercream icing. It's a tradition. Ok, eating it is a tradition. We don't bother with cake because cake is just a vehicle to carry icing. So we sit there with a spoon or two, under the pretense that we'd never go face-down in the bowl. We're only lying to ourselves - who gets hurt? I started doing things like this to freak out my mom, but great mom that she was, she would make chocolate buttercream icing and put it in a container for me. She used to get some instant coffee and blend it in and you have never tasted anything like it. It must've been embarrassing going to the store for instant coffee. That's a lot to get past. And I will forever miss chocolate buttercream icing.

The other day Wife got her hair cut. I thought Mom would like it. Oops. Not anymore.

I guess it's going to take a while to get past this.

EXCLUSIVE: CIA's secret office has conducted UFO retrieval missions on at least NINE crash sites around the world, whistleblowers reveal

Something's starting to hit the fan. I'm just not sure what.

No new year edition would be complete without Famous Deaths 

Denny Laine - Wings

Carla Bley - jazz composer, pianist

Rudolph Isley - The Isley Brothers

Roger Whittaker - singer-songwriter

Gary Wright - singer-songwriter

Jimmy Buffett - singer-songwriter

Bernie Marsden - guitar, Whitesnake, UFO

Robbie Robertson - guitar, The Band

Sinead O'Connor - singer-songwriter

Randy Meisner - Eagles

Tony Bennett

Tina Turner - singer-songwriter

Gordon Lightfoot - singer-songwriter

Tim Bachman - BTO

Robbie Bachman - BTO

Harry Belafonte

Ahmad Jamal - jazz pianist

Keith Reid - Procol Harum

Jim Gordon - Derek and the Dominos

Gary Rossington - Lynyrd Skynyrd - last original member

David Lindley

Wayne Shorter - Weather Report

Burt Bacharach

Ton Verlaine - Television

David Crosby - CSNY

Fred White - EW&F

Dennis Budimir - the Wrecking Crew

Anthony Top Topham - the Yardbirds

Mo Foster - bass, Jeff Beck, session

Russell Batiste Jr - The Funky Meters

Tom Smothers - comedian, guitar

Norman Lear - tv writer

Richard Moll - Bull on Night Court

Suzanne Somers - Chrissie - Three's Company

Paul Reubens - he was Pee Wee Herman

Lisa Loring - the last of the Addams Family - Wednesday

And my hero: Jeff Beck (78, bacterial meningitis)

The only good news was that most didn't commit suicide.