Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Yeah, my wife’s cooler than your…wife…my wife’s cooler than yours…
My wife’s cooler ’cause she bought me a…uh…you know, a wine cooler for my birthday…
My wife’s cooler than yours!
But this post is not about that addition to the family. By sheer coincidence, this morning was the morning I popped in to work bright and early, office still mostly deserted, but I saw there was a dude-conversation going on involving one of our senior programmers, who was sharing the details of his weekend. His first weekend with the new dog.
Which his wife…well, this has been a pet peeve of mine for a long time…heh heh, yeah, a “pet” peeve. Yep, he was informed Friday that he had a dog. Informed. I came up with a classy way of commenting on it, after really racking my brain about it, because I’ve met his wife and she’s a nice lady. My classy comment was: I’m glad for you, glad for the new dog, glad you’re her husband. Isn’t that a nice way of saying it?
I’m glad he’s her husband, because over in the corner of the universe I call home — that’s just a way of petitioning for a divorce. And a mighty peculiar one. No, chicks don’t inform dudes that they have a new dog. That just means the house is not a home. For him, at least. That IS a demand for a divorce, isn’t it? How could it not be one? A message to your husband that “our house is not a home, for you” must be a divorce decree, am I right?
So we discussed this in some detail. There had been, in his case, a previous attempt to engage these sorts of shenanigans. “Shenanigans,” yeah that’s right, the other fellow had been deployed to Iraq and he said, DO NOT pull that crap while I’m in Iraq. He was very clear on this, the wife & kids pulled it anyway, and that time it worked. The new cat’s name was “Shenanigans.” So both these guys were one-for-two on this shit; in both cases the wife tried it twice, got away with it 50% of the time.
I’ve got no place to brag about this stuff, though. These guys weren’t fooled. They feel like they were, but they weren’t; their wives just took advantage of their absences as they were preoccupied. With providing a livelihood for the households. Which the wives then contaminated. Genesis 3:1, remember that? The wife got a bright idea, from outside the household, and then told the hubby how it was gonna be. The result: Nothing good. Yes, in that fable there is wisdom.
Which leads me to my question. The response sorta creeped me out a little bit: Does ANYBODY know of any situation, directly or indirectly, in which it went the other way? The chick was off somewhere, on a trip or off at work, and the dude “informed” her that they now had a dog or a cat. Anybody ever hear of that happening? Anybody at all?
The answer, as of the moment in which I’m writing this, is nada. This seems to be purely a chick thing: Get a four-legged varmint, tell the stud how it’s gonna be. Repeat The Fall.
So I guess the thing to do, is to open up the question for the comment section. Let my readers contribute their experiences, see if there is an interruption in the pattern.
Meanwhile, Mrs. Freeberg and I don’t have so much as a goldfish. Instead, we got a wine cooler. Awesome!
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- P_Ang | 07/28/2015 @ 06:45I AM the wife who came home to find my first anniversary “present” – a Keeshound. My husband “pretended” that my tepid “that’s a nice dog” was the perfect excuse to get the dog he wanted. Yeah, we’re still married – 41 years.
- LindaF | 07/29/2015 @ 12:55I’d agree. Both spouses in a marriage need autonomy to get things done, but when one or the other consistently disregards the other’s wishes about big stuff, there is no marriage. I divorced my second wife for her lack of respect for me, which was manifest in a myriad of ways similar to the Senior Programmer. Best decision I’d made to that point in my life.
- Frank the Wanderer | 07/30/2015 @ 07:26Gee sweetie, while you were away I got “us” a vasectomy/tubal ligation!
- CaptDMO | 08/03/2015 @ 15:13The Freebergs got a whine cooler … and were never heard from again.
- cloudbuster | 08/07/2015 @ 08:15Yeah, guilty! It does what it’s supposed to do.
I’m also pulling double duty at work. Also, the home-built desktop PC reached the end of its useful life and caught fire. Really. At least the power supply did. So, the blog has suffered a bit…
- mkfreeberg | 08/07/2015 @ 09:22…and in my long and storied experience with hardware, when the power supply goes, there’s a 50/50 chance it took something else down with it. Motherboards are very susceptible to surge shocks, then video cards, then memory, then SSD’s. Hard-used processors can sometimes burn out in a minute or two between when fans stop turning and the system actually shuts down. Oofa.
- P_Ang | 08/09/2015 @ 03:32Yeah, 50/50 is my guesstimate too. All I really care about is the hard drive, but I’ve got backups of most of that.
- mkfreeberg | 08/09/2015 @ 07:25Backups are good. I’ve never seen a standard arm n platter HD go out from a power-supply failure, although I’ve seen SSD’s burn out and lose large sections. Standard HD’s fortunately don’t have the manufacturer problems they used to have with sections of the disk going bad, but they still are extremely vulnerable to drops and jolts. I don’t buy SSD’s myself…too expensive…but I do recommend SSDs plus backups to people with laptops who are worried about their data. Desktops I tend to recommend standard HD’s plus RAID for consumers or server backups for businesses. I still don’t trust cloud storage.
- P_Ang | 08/11/2015 @ 06:57