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Snarly Old Man


Last Updated: 11/20/2009

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Gender: Male
Status: Single
Age: 52
Sign: Aries

City: Southwestern
State: Virginia
Country: US
Signup Date: 12/26/2008

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November 16, 2009 - Monday 

Current mood:snarly
Category: Blogging
Snarly (you say) WTF are you doing in the Dominican Republic???  Well, I say the same thing!

I didn't pick this spot to go on a vacation.  I'm too broke for that.  No, the j.o.b. sent me.  I'm doing a little IT support.  Even had to work yesterday (Sunday).  That sucked.  I would have much rather roamed around the island with the taxi driver outsided the hotel that said he could take me to "Chica Beach" and find me some "nice clean girls".

I asked one of my coworkers who have been here for a couple of months what exactly the Dominican Republic had going for it.  His reply: "Baseball, cigars, rum, first place Columbus landed in the New World and prostitution."  I guess that explains the taxi driver's desire to find "nice clean girls" for me.

So far it seems to be a idyllic paradise.  My hotel room window overlooks the Carribean.  It also overlooks the hotel pool.  The weather is great - 80's and 90's.  A little bit of humidity (every time I step outside my glasses fog up).

Last night the other folks down here from the j.o.b. were planning on going out to the Hard Rock Cafe.  Somehow I've managed to avoid those places so far in my life, so I passed.  Instead I dined on some Dominican goat stew with about five different kinds of bread.  Hmmmm....  maybe I should get over my Hard Rock hangup?

Woke up in the middle of the night with a sore throat.  I thought maybe it was from the freezing cold air conditioning in the hotel.  But now I don't think that was it.  Hey, how about this.  I was stuck on a metal tube with recirculating air all day Saturday with people who had no business travelling, they were hacking and sneezing and coughing like a tubercular sailor. 

When I got on my Atlanta to Santo Domingo flight I saw a passenger wearing a mask.  Not a mask like she was about to hijack the plane, but a mask like a doctor's office gives you if you may be contagious and they don't want you to infect all the other patients they have stacked up like planes circling O'Hare airport in Chicago on a snowy Friday afternoon.  Thinking back on it, she was probably the smartest person on the flight.  I'm betting she was wearing the mask to AVOID all the germs in the recirculating air.

Somebody asked me in my status comments what The Drink of the Week was going to be.  I'd say it would have to be this:

Dominican Goddess

Ingredients:

    1 1/2 oz Rum (Brugal or Bacardi)
    1/2 oz ruby red Grapefruit juice
    lemon-lime flavored Soda water (seltzer water)

Mixing instructions:

Mix Ruby red grapefruit juice and lemon-lime vintage seltzer water. Add the rum (as much as desired) and shake.

Creator/contributor's comments:

Add a pinch of salt for extra tingle. Garnish with a slice of grapefruit and/or lemon.

The one Dominican Goddess I have seen so far works behind the front desk at the hotel!  I think I've found where I want to retire.  Now all I have to do is learn Spanish.  And win the lottery.

I'm typing this on a 10 year old laptop that the IT department at the j.o.b. hands out to travelling techs.  If you find a typo - f'ck off!  I  don't need to know about it.
11:06 AM 
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November 11, 2009 - Wednesday 

Category: Blogging

Random Thoughts for the Day: (That I stole from an email I got.  Thanks Leigh Ann and Myra)

1.    I think part of a best friend's job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die.

2.   Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong.

3.   I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I was younger.

4.   There is great need for a sarcasm font.

5.   How the hell are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?

6.   Was learning cursive really necessary?

7..   Map Quest really needs to start their directions on #5.  I'm pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.

8.   Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died.

9.   I can't remember the last time I wasn't at least kind of tired.

10.   Bad decisions make good stories.

11.   You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you know that you just aren't going to do anything productive for the rest of the day.

12.   Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after Blue Ray?   I don't want to have to restart my collection...again.

13.   I'm always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten-page research paper that I swear I did not make any changes to.

14.   "Do not machine wash or tumble dry" means I will never wash this -- ever.

15.   I hate when I just miss a call by the last ring (Hello? Hello? Damn it!), but when I immediately call back, it rings nine times and goes to voicemail. What'd you do after I didn't answer? Drop the phone and run away?


16.   I hate leaving my house confident and looking good and then not seeing anyone of importance the entire day. What a waste.

17.   I keep some people's phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call.

18..   My 4-year old son asked me in the car the other day "Dad what would happen if you ran over a ninja?" How the hell do I respond to that?

19.   I think the freezer deserves a light as well..

20.   I disagree with Kay Jewelers. I would bet on any given Friday or Saturday night more kisses begin with Miller Lites than Kay.

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November 10, 2009 - Tuesday 

Category: Blogging
If you are living on this planet you have probably heard about at least two of these people.  What do they all have in common?  They were all students at Virginia Tech.


 

Major Nidal Malik Hasan, MD, is a U.S. Army psychiatrist who is currently the sole suspect in the November 5, 2009 Fort Hood shootings.  13 dead.



Zhu Haiyang, 25, a Chinese Doctoral student stands accused of the murder and beheading of Yang Xin, a 22 year old Chinese graduate student.  The murder took place on campus in January, 2009.



Seung-hui Cho was a senior-level undergraduate student at Virginia Tech who killed 32 people and wounded 25 others in the shooting rampage which has come to be known as the "Virginia Tech massacre".

What the hell are they they putting in the Kool Aid at Virginia Tech???



 
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November 9, 2009 - Monday 

Category: Blogging
My inbox has been deluged by all you fine folks wanting The Snarly Old Man to write more blogs.

Well, ok, I got two emails.  That was about a month ago.  Other than that nobody noticed I had stopped blogging.  Anyway . . .

Let's talk about the "alleged shooter" at Ft Hood, Texas.  Major Nidal Hasan, a Muslim, and a psychiatrist for the U.S. Army, went bat-shit crazy as he killed 13 and wounded 30 others during his murderous rampage.

If you want to save some time I'll tell you how all this is going to play out.  You won't even have to read the news.  He will plead temporary insanity and spend the rest of his life in a rubber room somewhere. 

What SHOULD happen is that he should be wheeled out in front of a firing squad right now and put out of his misery.  Save some money.  End this thing right now. 

Of course there are those who want to study Nidal Hasan to see what caused him to snap like he did.  I can see that.  Really, I can.  Maybe if he is put under a microscope and studied for the next 20 or 30 years then we may be able to identify somebody BEFORE they do this the next time.

But wait, Major Hasan WAS identified THIS time.  It's just that we are all too politically correct to do something about it.  People are popping up all over saying just what a nut case this guy was.  Fellow students at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences wanted to turn him in but were concerned that they would be seen as insensitive because he was a Muslim.

The federal government was even aware of his rantings online.  But yet he was still the one providing psychiatric care to soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan who had post traumatic stress disorder.

The bottom line is this; Everybody has a right to practice their own religion.  However, when they start espousing radical viewpoints such as Major Hasan maybe, just maybe, we should err on the side of caution and keep a very close watch on them.   
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October 18, 2009 - Sunday 

Current mood:  grumpy
Category: Blogging

Carribean Dream

Ingredients:

    2 parts Orange juice
    1 oz Rum
    1 oz Peach schnapps
    5 ml Grenadine

Mixing instructions:

Mix and Add Ice



Now, guess this song, and you win.... well, nothing.



 





I beg your pardon, Mama, what did you say?
My mind was drifting off on Martinique Bay.
Its not that I'm not interested, you see;
Bumf'ck, Virginia, is just no place to be.

I think Jamaican in the moonlight.
Sandy beaches, drinking rum every night.
We got no money, mama, but we can go;
Well split the difference, go to Coconut Grove.

Keep on talking, Mama, I can hear
Your voice, it tickles down inside of my ear.
I feel a tropical vacation this year,
Might be the answer to this hillbilly fear.

Yes, The Snarly Old Man took a few days off.  Slept late, went to the mountains, soaked in hot tubs, bought new hiking shoes . . . and got rained on for about the past two f'cking weeks in a damn row!  I could have got rained on right here in BF Virginia!  Coulda saved some money.  Why the f'ck do I think that taking a week or two off and going to the mountains is going to make a damn bit of difference.  I might as well just get up every morning and go to the j.o.b.  At least there I pretty much know I'm going to have a crappy day.

I'm back!
Currently listening:
Dirt Band/An American Dream
By The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Release date: 2002-02-15
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October 13, 2009 - Tuesday 

Current mood:  grumpy
Here is my theory.  Humans affecting the temperature of the planet where we live is bullshit.  Of course, it depeneds on which scientist you believe.  Check out this article titles What Happened to Global Warming.

Now, this article about Saudi Arabia requesting financial aid probably puts the proper light on the subject.

If, because of "Global Warming", the world reduces its dependance on Saudi oil, then they will be put back into their proper place in the world overall and the Middle East in particular. 

THAT is what "Global Warming" and "Going Green" is all about.  Because of that I may just go get a bicycle to ride to work.  I'd be glad to do whatever I can to rid the world of the influence of the people who now control out energy supplies.
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October 9, 2009 - Friday 

Current mood:  relaxed
Category: Blogging


Snarly Old Man is in the mountains in this cabin.


 

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October 8, 2009 - Thursday 

Current mood:  grumpy
Category: Blogging

Is the U.S. Preparing to Bomb Iran?

Is the U.S. Stepping Up Preparations for a Possible Attack on Iran's Nuclear Facilities?

(Click here to read the rest of the story)

O.K., I know you are all perched on the edge of your seats waiting to see what The Snarly Old Man has to say about this little nuggest of information.

I'm torn on this one.  I don't think the American government could be so stupid as to let this "accidently" get out.  I think there is a reason for announcing to your enemy that you have a 30,000 lb bomb that can penetrate 200 ft into the ground, that you are ready and able to deploy.

Here is what it looks like when 800 pounds of explosives are used:



The Mythbusters Blow Up a Cement Truck

Imagine 37.5 times the explosive power hitting your secret nuclear research facility.  Don't you think that would maybe cause you to rethink your decision to announce to the world that you are developing nuclear capable missiles?

Or maybe the government is that fucking stupid.  I wonder which one it is?

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October 7, 2009 - Wednesday 

Current mood:  amused
Category: Blogging

 


 

Let me make one thing crystal f'cking clear.  I post this bullsh't whenever I feel inclined to do so.  I do it for my own amusement.  I don't do it on any schedule so somebody can read it with their morning f'cking coffee or while riding the bus to work.

It may look like I just sit down in front of my computer screen and spew this stultiloquence out without a moments thought each morning.  The truth is I agonize over each and every syllable that goes into this "blog". 

I have to wonder whether what I type here is going to offend somebody.  I may write about racism, just to get an intelligent discussion going.  But you know what?  When I head into the j.o.b. there are going to be people there who think I am the world's biggest jerk because of what I just wrote.  They don't realize that The Snarly Old Man is just a persona.  The Snarly Old Man is a figment of my imagination.  He is the one that does the dirty work and writes this fiddle-faddle and then puts together witty responses to your comments.

There may be a blog one day about a date I went on the previous night.  Now I have to worry about whether there will be a second date or whether that person will ever speak to me again.

Right now I could be going through all the yet to be unpacked boxes here in Snarlyville, trying to find my U. S. Passport instead of worrying about what time I post this tommyrot and whether it fits into my dear readers schedule.

Heaven forbid somebody miss their daily dose of the Snarly Old Man.  I'll tell you what, you have concerns about what time I post this gibble-jabble?  Here, let me get my notebook, I'll write that shit down.

 

 Now quit your f'cking whining and leave me the f'ck alone!
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October 6, 2009 - Tuesday 

Category: Blogging
Top 21 countries in the world    to live based on data from        2007, according to the UN


 1. Norway
 2. Australia
 3. Iceland
 4. Canada
 5. Ireland
 6. Netherlands
 7. Sweden
 8. France
 9. Switzerland
 10. Japan
 11. Luxembourg
 12. Finland
 13. United States
 14. Austria
 15. Spain
 16. Denmark
 17. Belgium
 18. Italy
 19. Liechtenstein
 20. New Zealand
 21. United Kingom

How well do you know The Snarly Old Man?

I've lived in or visited 6 of these countries.  Which ones do you think they are?

October 7, 2009, The correct answers are:

Iceland, Canada, France, United States, Spain, United Kingdom.

Since nobody got it right, I'll be keeping my Snarly Old Man T-Shirt.  Wahahahahahahaha!!!!
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