chemicals win

My sister had minor surgery -- ear, and took terribly to the anesthesia and was puking all night. My experience was much the same in that I had 5 days of puking, so that I was dehydrated. I hope she doesn't have the same reaction. According to my brother-in-law, she took ninety extra minutes to stir from the anesthesia and keep away. My, oh, my what a wonderful day, a 92 degree Saturday she will have.

On the light side, I got to entertain my neice, who otherwise would have been alone. Out of poker with four, I lost the largest amount and the most often. Thankfully we were using chips and not money.

namesake

My grandfather, after whom I'm named was a car salesman. It would be just too ironic if that were my end job, smoking -- virtual chimney, drinking whiskey instead of water and dying of three types of cancer. Hmmm, I think I'll not favor the cancer, any of them and not really interested in selling cars. My father reminded me of the silliness that his wife, my grandmother naturally, didn't know how to drive until she was forty or fifty some years old. How unbearable is that?

From that set of patches, you don't get a quilt, but rather my father's patchwork mind of logic with missing pieces, and cleverness without much creativity. I was blessed with unambition, general stupidity and a soft heart which is growing tougher and stone-like every day.

I shall not be famous and am okay with that, but I'd rather achieve more than MDH I, though he never knew there would be a second, dying before I was born.

Declined

I have yet to photograph a mural on a building. Sadly, this well done work is on a strip club. I noticed it while going to a restaurant. My neice was on the correct side to make the shot, but declined to take a photograph. Hmmm, I wonder if it's something to do with the smut? Anyway, she had a slight headache and is presently overly light-sensitive. I don't know if it is biologically or chemically based, or just a thing that will pass (most likely).

Daniel Radcliffe, of Harry Potter fame supposedly will perform in a play+ that has some late teen and adult themes to it. Sadly, there seems little to stop this poor kid from stripping, as part of the role, nude and have sexual climax while riding on a horse. What a sad bit. Scarier still, Richard Griffiths will be in the play as well.

If they were to offer Emma Watson such a role, I would hope that she'd have the good sense to decline. I know that many people worked like mad to get the Olsen twins to be naughty, but they had the right people around them to shield them from the weirdos. Perhaps Emma also has such people and a good-souled (rather than souless++) publicist. I mention this because women and girls are more often approached than are men.

Rupert Grint, underated in my POV, hopefully is and will be wise enough to stay clear of that. Later in life, he could do The Full Monty, which never showed genitalia and featured adult men, comically filled a void for the year in entertainment. That's a good bit different than sexual gratification from riding a horse, a beast the main character favors sadistically injuring. The whole thing reminds me of the so well declared Corpus Christi that the only ones who would go to it are those who aren't offended by the content -- leaving only bisexual antheist uh ... ah, yes, Hollywood and Sundance.

+ courtesy of MR, who reads FOX news, which covered the story.
++ what is the going rate for a soul these days. I believe I sold mine decades ago and am genuinely much ashamed for it.

poker chips -- mine

poker chips -- mine
Originally uploaded by MDH, II.

We played simplistic poker games and I -- wonder of wonders, lost. The introduced skill-less game of "Up and Down the River" is dubbed the [my name] always loses game and for good reason. I had called it dealer always loses, but everyone else tends to win. When I deal the stinker, I lose 96% of the time.

I deal it because it is simple and others like it. It gets a bah-humbug from me!

Free or charge -- AOL is hell

Supposedly AOL is considering becoming a free service. If that's enticing to you, well ... I have this island for sale and I work with a Nigerian prince generally. That's like free toxic waste. chances are they'll make it for new subscribers only.