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Terra Nova

  I watched about half of Terra Nova last night on Fox.

”Terra Nova is an American science fiction drama television series that began to air on Fox on Monday nights. It premiered on September 26, 2011 with a two-hour episode.^[3]

Plot

The show begins in the year 2149, a time when all life on planet Earth is threatened with extinction due to dwindling worldwide air quality and overpopulation. At Hope Plaza, a massive ring shaped structure in Chicago, scientists discover a rift in space-time that allows people to travel 85 million years back in time to the late Cretaceous period on the prehistoricEarth of an alternate reality, offering a chance to save humanity. The Shannon family (father Jim, his wife Elisabeth, and their three children Josh, Maddy, and Zoe) join the tenth pilgrimage of settlers to Terra Nova, the first human colony on the other side of the temporal doorway.^[4]

The Shannon Family starts a new life in Terra Nova while having to deal with carnivorous dinosaurs and the Sixers (a splinter faction that has been opposed to Terra Nova ever since arriving in prehistoric times during the sixth pilgrimage)…”

 

 

     That should be the type of TV show that I like.  But it just did not do anything for me for some reason.  I am not sure why it did not appeal to me. 
    There is just so much other stuff on TV. 
    I remember when there was no TV.  I can remember waiting for the first TV broadcast.  Then later we had 3 TV stations and then later our first UHF station.  A few years ago before cable and the Internet and a show like Terra Nova would have been great.  Now it is sort of oh hum.. big deal.. who cares.

    The photo above is from December of 1950.  The TV was black and white of course.
On the left is my mother’s father.  Yes, the one that was in the KKK back when he was much younger.
    That is me on the right.  We were watching cartoons. 

I needed to stay home from school because of a cowlick

                                          God is not fair.  Well since I do not believe in God I guess I got to say that life is not fair. 
When I was a baby I was a cute baby.  When I was a kid I was a good looking kid.
  But just when I got to the age were I was interested in girls and I wanted them to like me I was no longer a cute boy.  The girls were not interested in me. 

  The photo on the left is me at 9 years of age.  It was taken April 15, 1949 in Kansas City, MO.
 

  When my voice changed I had a “bedroom voice” and when I would talk to girls on the telephone they were hot for me…  until they saw me.  Bummer…
  Then I made a big mistake by going to a Catholic all male high school.  No girls.  If I could go back in time I would not make that mistake.
 
  I blame the Republicans… Well I blame Republicans for everything… I got to blame someone right?
 
Is my hair parted on the wrong side in the photo?  My mother said I had a “cowlick” and my hair had to be parted a certain way.  
My mother for the longest time also said I had a “heart murmur” because a school “nurse” told her that I had one.  When I would see a doctor she would tell the doctor that story and the doctor would laugh and say that I did not have a murmur. 
  I hated to go to school.  I guess I was not very smart about it.  I should have told my mother that my cowlick or my heart murmur was causing me problems and I needed to stay home from school. 

New ceiling fan

  The apartment people put in a new ceiling fan today.  I had decided that I would just run the fan on medium speed from now on and not pull on the chain to turn off the fan or change speeds.  I also decided that I would turn on and off the light using the wall switch and not pull on the chain for the light switch.  The switch is what broke and my guess is the weak link in the ceiling fan.
  After the apartment install guy left I found that the wall switch does not work.  So I will have to pull on the chain to turn the light on and off. 
  I got a feeling I and others are going to be turning on and off that wall switch for a long time.  It is going to take me a long time to remember it controls nothing.

I used the dishwasher today, I use it everyday, and now almost falls out of the spot it is in.  When I pull out the trays it falls forward.  It is not bolted down secure now for some reason.  So I will have to turn in a work order for that problem.  It should take just a minute or two to fix that problem.
  The apartment people are very nice hear and they always respond right away to fix any problem that I have had.

  I am a big fan of ceiling fans.  I think that is one reason my electric bill has been so low.
  The apartment will let you fill out a written work order or do it online.  I do it online.
  I could take a written work order over today because I will be taking over the check for my rent.  I pay $599.00 a month.

Texas Lottery

  I ended up with three Mega Million lottery tickets.  The cash value of a win was $72 million dollars.  I spent the day looking at the cost of islands.  One island was off the coast of SC.

  No one won the $72,300.00 jackpot and it is now worth $82.7 million.
  I wasted some time looking at islands. 

  I will buy a ticket for the next drawing.  I could get a pretty good island for $82M. 

Hate waking up

  I never sleep over a few  hours.  But when I wake up my entire body hurts.  After I am up for a little bit the pain starts going away and I feel better.
  I think it is the fluid that builds up in my body when I lay down.
  I wish I could sleep like the Coneheads (standing up). 

  My sleeping is all messed up.  In a few days a new month will start and I am going to try and eat better and lose some weight.
  I hate to go on feeling like I do now.
 
  I also am bone tired all the time.  Just walking over to the office to the mailbox is hard.  I am so tired and so weak that I have to will myself to take each step.
  I think the problem is the medications I am taking and my weight.
  I been saying for months or years that I want to lose weight but so far no luck.

Ceiling fan

  I broke the pull chain switch on the ceiling fan in my room.  I gave the ceiling fan a good workout this summer.  They are going to install a new ceiling fan in a few days.  I hope it is one that has three lights in it but I think it will be just like the one I have now that only has one light.
  I think using the two ceiling fans in this apartment was a big help in holding down my electric bill this past month.  My bill is only $115.00 and I think that is very good.  It was very hot this past month here in Fort Worth.
  Darlene’s bill was $160.00 for the same month.  She has a one bedroom apartment and I have a two bedroom apartment.

  I got a Mega Millions ticket for tomorrow.  The cash value is $72M.  Russell, my grandson, says if I give him $5M I would never have to hear from him again. 
 
  I guess I am one of those people that the RepubliCONs hate so much.  I got a notice that I am going to get some help with paying for my medications each month because I make so little money.  It looks like that the government and I am not sure just were the money comes from (state or federal) that is going to pay a little on my medications costs.  My guess is that for the entire year they might pay about $50.00 of my cost. 
  Now I have Medicare and a part D plan.  I paid all my life into Medicare.  I still pay about $100.00 each month.  So my insurance plan pays for most of my medications with only a small amount left over for me to pay. 
  Now my “Extra Help” coverage is “Level 4”, means they pay very little, and that means that I have to pay a deductible of $63.00 each year and then I have to pay 15% of the medication cost.  Now keep in mind that my Medicare part D plan pays most of the medication cost so there is only a little left over for me to pay.  Of the medications I take three of the medications have about $2.00 for me to pay for each and one is $18.00 for the medication (Avodart).  So I would have to pay at the most 15% of that $18.00 if I understand this paper work correct.
  But so far as the RepubliCONs think that makes me a welfare lazy ass low life drain on the American way of life and I am cheating the rich out of something.

Disaster funds

  It looks like a deal has been worked out between the evil empire (Republicans) and the Democrats.
  The RepubliCONs are just trying to do everything they can to fuck up our government and fuck over Americans.  Their current plan is that anytime any extra funding is needed they will not approve the extra funds unless the Democrats cut money from projects to help widows, orphans, the elderly, the sick and children. 
  The RepubliCONs are refusing to pass any money for disaster relief unless the Democrats cut some program.
  The Democrats could see where this was headed… It would set a precedent that would mean every time emergency funding was needed the RepubliCONS would hold hostage the nation until the Democrats would cut some social funding.
  FEMA needs more money because of the disasters well cut school lunches or Social Security or Medicare.
  What the Democrats should say is “Yes we need to take in money to replace that extra spending so we will cut the tax cut given to the rich and we will put into effect an excess tax on Wall Street and corporations.   Why is it that the poor have to pay for everything now?  It seems to me that if someone has to pay for something it should be the people that have the money.

Walking and talking about the GOP Debate and more...

  Here is a video that I made this morning as I was walking to get some breakfast.  I talk about the GOP debate the other day but you know me...I end up talking about other subject as my feet roam and my brain roams.

I been hiding in a bunker

  I just came out of my underground bunker.  I went into it to protect myself from the dead NASA satellite.  Before I went into the bunker I took out an insurance policy that would have had to pay out had I died from the satellite falling on me.
  I am alive.  I guess I will buy the I survived the satellite t-shirt and hat.
 
  Now they are not going to fool anyone…That satellite did just not fall out of orbit.  It was a sign from God.  It was a sign from God that the end of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy on homosexuals did not please God and he sent us a sign.
  Just wait until we find out where God sent the dead satellite. It will not land on the heads of Republicans.  It will come down on the liberal Socialist Communist Democrats. 
  You know God loves the Republicans and would not send the satellite to harm them.  Remember the Fox News debate the other day?  The audience booed a gay American soldier serving in combat in Iraq.  Now those are real true Americans those Republicans and those Tea Party members.  God loves them and will protect them.

  So my guess is that the dead NASA satellite, pulled by the hand of God from orbit, is going to land on some liberal college professor or one of those liberal Hollywood people.  But you never know where God is going to send his punishment. 
  It would be great if God had the satellite land on The New York Times or CNN.  But we can be sure that God is not happy that gays can now serve in the United States military.

Winter time in Fort Worth

  It is 59 degrees in Fort Worth right now (0400 hours).  It feels like winter time.  I forgot what weather like this felt like.
  I am stuck in Fort Worth.  I got family here.  I can not afford to movie again.  Each time I move it cost so much and I end up starting over but I hate the summer weather here in Texas.  It is to hot here in the summer.  I hope next summer is not like the last one.