Hello again!
For those of you who regularly follow my blog, The kitchen/dining room floor is about 3/4/ done. For those of you who do not regularly follow my blog, I have pulled up the sticky-back press-on-type floor tiles in the kitchen and dining rooms and am replacing them with real tile. Actual tiles that are cemented in place and grouted. Tough work, but well worth the effort. It will be beautiful, once it's done. But for now the floor is partially covered with tiles and the refrigerator is sitting in the living room, along with our dining booth. This renders three rooms basically uninhabitable. It will remain so for about a week.
For those of you who look at dates on blogs and think to yourselves "Geez, Walt, you talked about this in your last blog, and that was two weeks ago. What the hell is taking so long????", two things. First, I am an Owen Male. The Owen Male is a unique subheading of the Standard Male. The Owen Male often has many projects going at once. Some of these projects may have been "going" for years. Basically, Owen Males are well known for starting projects, then taking forever to actually getting around to finishing them, if ever. So, being 3/4 done at this point is right on schedule. If I were to follow Typical Owen Male Form, I would leave it like this for six months to a year (possibly longer), then eventually get back to finishing the job some time in the distant future. No, not me, not now. I will have this job done within a couple of weeks, depending on drying time, or strike me dead (which Sheila will do, if I don't...)
Second, we went to Colorado for a few days. We went around my old stomping grounds, visited Royal Gorge and Garden of the Gods. It was a nice break. Of course, I could not get the tilework done while 800 miles away. So, I have an excuse. I have added a few pictures to whet your appetite. The remainder will be on our travel page shortly.
Back to this whole Owen Male thing. I am still an Owen Male in many, many ways. First, we pulled up the carpet in the front room about 5 years ago. After an intensive week of sanding, bleaching, staining, sealing and waxing, the underlying hardwood floor was absolutely beautiful. All that was needed was a paint job on the walls and replacement of the baseboards, and the room would be done. I got the painting done about a year ago, and I finally replaced the baseboards about a month ago. I got it done, just not in a really timely manner. That is the Owen Male Way. I'm working on improving it, but it would be impossible without Sheila. She is the one who kicks me in the complacency. That's why the tile is actually going to be done less than a month from start date.
On to another subject. Protein. Body fluids often contain them. For example, a human male will produce about a tablespoon of semen with each ejaculation. It contains a large amount of protein. In addition, the human body contains about a gallon of blood. Blood also contains a fairly large amount of protein. I bring this up for a simple reason. President Clinton was impeached for lying about spilling around a tablespoon of protein-laden body fluid. Now, we are not even considering impeaching Bush, and he lied about WMD's and spilled 700+ GALLONS of protein-laden body fluids.
Clinton - 1 tablespoon, nobody hurt. Not even a little bit.
Bush - 700 gallons, 700 soldiers killed. (this is doesn't include the 9000 or so Iraqi civilians accounted for at:www.iraqbodycount.net )
It just doesn't make sense. Oh, wait, yes it does. In our current climate of sexual repression, any amount of violence is acceptable, while no amount of sexuality is... So, it's okay to kill 10,000 people, but not okay to get a blowjob. Hell, it's not okay to see Janet Jackson's breast, complete with steel pastie, on national TV...
God we are so fucking backwards!
