Before
- Obviously Michele Bachmann wasn’t there when the Republicans read the Constitution at the beginning of the year. #TCOT #TeaParty 8:40 PM EST
- Wow, what a leader. That’ll kick off my #SOTU and absence from tweeting. 8:42 PM EST
- No one’s talking about Joe Wilson? Will he be gagged? #HeresHoping 8:50 PM EST
- That’s the entire #SOTU, Obama shaking everyone’s hands. 9:09 PM EST
State Of The Union
- Bill Maher said it best. The common ground seems to always be where the Republican is standing. #SOTU 9:15 PM EST
- New jobs will come from China… and be there too. Where are those cars and computers made? China. #SOTU 9:24 PM EST
- So we’re supposed to stroke research and development by not spending? Got it. #SOTU 9:25 PM EST
- But when parents have to work 12 hour days just to make ends meet, it’s kinda hard to teach those good principles. #SOTU 9:31 PM EST
- Wasn’t there a hiring freeze for teachers in most states? #SOTU 9:34 PM EST
- Yes there are many illegal immigrants in our schools, but the DREAM act killed their chances of being citizens. #ThanksRepublicans #SOTU 9:37 PM EST
- These other countries actually invest in their infrastructures. We should take a lesson from them. #SOTU 9:39 PM EST
- Obama hasn’t even mentioned NAFTA or lack of terrifs which hurt jobs in this country. #SOTU 9:45 PM EST
- Debt began a decade ago? Try three decades ago with the Republican hero, Reagan. #SOTU 9:48 PM EST
- We knew he’d say it. “The state of our Union is strong.” When is it not strong? Why is it always sugar coated? #SOTU 10:14 PM EST
Republican Response
- You didn’t cut spending a few years ago. Huge debts are due to Republican spending. 10:28 PM EST
- And even more people would lose their coverage if #HCR wasn’t passed. And the health insurance mandate? A Republican idea. 10:29 PM EST
- You thought endless borrowing was alright under Bush. 10:33 PM EST
Tea Party Response
Barely worth mentioning, but I’ll make a few points that I didn’t on twitter since the Tea Party Express website was slow:
- So the economic collapse had nothing to do with failed Bush policies or lack of government regulation which helped to ship jobs overseas?
- The stimulus saved jobs that would have been lost. That’s a fact. And the stimulus would have done a lot more if 1/3 of it wasn’t tax breaks.
- Did I miss something? I don’t hear anyone telling me what light bulbs to buy.
- Nothing was stopping businesses from dropping health insurance before, so why didn’t they? It would have been a lot cheaper.
- I remember gas being a lot more expensive under that oil man Bush.
- I’ll pay $100 million in government regulations if I can drink clean water, eat clean food, and buy safe products. Thanks.
- We can start making things again when we reinforce tariffs and stop giving tax breaks to companies who ship jobs overseas.
My car is basically brand new. His name is Orion. He’s a Toyota Prius. I’ve had him about two years now. He has about 20,000 miles on him.
So I’m driving to work, like usual, I had just dropped Brian off, when all of a sudden my accelerator stopped working. I just thought, oh Prius! I tried to use it again and it wouldn’t accelerate. It then flashed warnings at me. Check engine as well as the big fat red triangle with an exclamation point (that means BAD). So I pulled over. I’m on 270 I thought I can’t break down here, I got to get to work.
I just restarted the car. The warnings were still there, but I tried to get it to work. I was like a mile away. I drove it as far as it would go then it stopped going. Oh joy! I’m in the middle of the frickin road! I call Brian and freak out on him cause he just changed the air filter last night, thinking he did something. He told me to call Geico, so I did.
They were really cool. They called a tow truck for me. For free. They said an hour, so I called Bri to let him know. He was on his way, he called a taxi.
I waited there, must have been like 20-30 minutes just sitting there in the middle of the road. A cop came by but didn’t offer any help. Got lots of honks. But I actually had a woman in a minivan stop to see if I needed help. Just thinking, man, people are not like what they used to be.
Anyway, Bri finally got there. Then a cop shows up. This time one who wanted to help. He said we should push the car over, out of the road, so we pushed it over to the side.
I hugged Brian and walked to work. All that’s left is waiting for the tow truck and then Toyota.
So Bri went to Toyota with the car. About an hour and a half later they diagnosed the problem… it was rat crap. Rat crap had gotten into my engine.
Apparently rats and mice like to live under cars at night. While they’re there they poop and sometimes chew through wires. No wires were chewed, luckily. Just the poop got sucked into the air filter and had a hole in that, then into the engine.
Weird, huh? The bill will be around $200. They had to replace the air filter (which Bri had JUST replaced the night before) and clean out the engine.
Crazy… Size_t will now be in charge of watching for mice at night.
Alright, I’m setting more realistic goals this year:
- Eat a lot less meat, including less seafood (this is gonna be tough! I’ll be blogging about this later)
- Ride the scooter when I can
- Host more parties and get togethers
- See far away friends more (including the Tricia)
- Snowboarding, master the bunny slope and the lift, turn left (I’m like Zoolander)
- Go on at least two fun trips and a vacation (maybe)
- Make more friends (always a goal)
- Work on my Wiki
- Don’t shop at Walmart
- Get into better shape (either by Brazilian Ju Jitzu, running, snowboarding, etc, just keep it up)
Here are my tweets from the trip Bri and I took to Atlantic City. We spent New Years there.
Thursday December 30, 2010
- Had lunch at Chipotle, getting gas, and continuing on the road. 3:37 PM EST
- Just went through a small, depressed town. I don’t know where all these people work considering the KFC went out of business. 4:49 PM EST
- Checked in, relaxing, then hitting the comedy club. #AtlanticCity 6:03 PM EST
- Front row for the comedy show. We didn’t get picked on too badly. I’m a snowboarder who smokes. Alright. 10:44 PM EST
- Maybe this city will make more sense in the day… and when the alcohol is gone. #atlanticcity 10:56 PM EST
Friday December 31, 2010
- Continental breakfast sucked. Maybe tomorrow they’ll have stuff. 9:41 AM EST
- $20 to park? What do they outline their parking spaces with gold? I don’t think so, I’ll walk, thanks. 11:46 AM EST
- Just got a massage. Now walking the #Boardwalk looking for food. These seagulls are like torpedoes! 1:23 PM EST
- Waiting for the shuttle to take us into town. All you can eat lobster and seafood awaits. #NYE 7:02 PM EST
- Just had probably the most expensive meal of my life. Lobster is overrated. 9:24 PM EST
- The DJ here sucks. And it’s not because I’m drinking. Beers are hard to get here anyway. 11:22 PM EST
- Alright, I’m getting crazy now. I’m going to stand up and hold my Bri Bri for the rest of the year. 11:58 PM EST
Saturday January 1, 2011
- HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL! May 2011 be an excellent year. 12:01 AM EST
- Ugh, biggest regret of the year so far is buying that pretzel. #2011regrets 12:20 AM EST
- Ready to catch the bus to the Tropicana. Grab some lunch and walk around. 1:01 PM EST
- Stoke up a deal to get shot glasses. They’re ridiculous here. 3:53 PM EST
- Just got run over by some dude who stole something. I’m done with this ghetto city. #atlanticcity 5:15 PM EST
- Won $17, which paid for dinner tonight. 6:00 PM EST
- Third Eye Blind concert at Showboat. 7:06 PM EST
- The bass is making the seats bounce here at the #3EB concert. 9:51 PM EST
- I just guessed Air Force One just by the intro music. Brian’s disgusted. #GetOffMyPlane 12:32 PM EST
Sunday January 2, 2011
- Continental breakfast and now on our way home! Puppies await! 8:50 AM EST
- Going through a little town flooded with solar panels. They’re on every other telephone pole. #awesome 9:32 AM EST
Pics and story will be up, maybe tonight sometime. No promises.