It is storming.  I love to hear the rumble of thunder.  It’s 7 AM and I have not been to sleep yet.  Yesterday I finally passed out at noon.  Not good to be sleeping like crap either.  I’m just all kinds of screwed up right now.  I did find a house.  HURRAY!  Can’t wait to get moved.  It is on the lake and will be putting up a dock so I can fish.  It will be nice to just sit out there, hot cup of coffee and my notebook and just relax.  Being away from the city will be nice.  I miss the country and when I lived in Durand I really enjoyed that little town.  It was so quaint, and QUIET!  One of these days after I get my “big reward” I want to buy a big farm out in the boonies.

Well, I need to lay down and try to fall asleep for a few hours.  It is supposed to get really nasty here from what they said.  I don’t want to be TOO sound asleep if the weather goes south.

I am so incredibly sad to hear about Jani Lane’s death.  I think I speak for so many of my age group that Warrant defined our teen years and into our partying years.  I know that I can attribute MANY memories of my youth to different Warrant songs.  They are on the soundtrack of my life.  Many good times had rocking out to their music, and so many concerts we went to – hanging out back at the Newport hoping to get a glimpse of the “down boys”.  LOL  Good times.

It is just so sad and I honestly sat down and cried when I read the news.  47 is too young to pass on to the other side.  RIP Jani.  Thank you for some awesome memories.

I just want them to go away.  Now that the forum and blog are gone, I can honestly say that I feel a burden has been lifted from my shoulders.  I don’t miss dealing with the morons that go along with having a TC community.  They are not people that I would spend time with in real life.  They are socially stunted and broken.  Nearly all of them have issues.  I don’t want to be bothered with their shit anymore.  Writing about that old asshole is the worse mistake of many years.  Now, I just want to walk away from it.

All this shit needs to stop.

An Arkansas School Board member recently launched an inflammatory anti-gay tirade on Facebook that ran the gamut from basic bigoted slurs, to encouraging “fags” to commit suicide and announcing that he’d disown his own children if they were gay.

In response to a massively popular Facebook initiative to show support for gay youths in the wake of a recent wave of suicides, Clint McCance, a board member in the Midland school district in northern Arkansas, wrote this screed, provided to the Advocate:

“Seriously they want me to wear purple because five queers killed themselves. The only way im wearin it for them is if they all commit suicide. I cant believe the people of this world have gotten this stupid. We are honoring the fact that they sinned and killed thereselves because of their sin. REALLY PEOPLE.”

The reaction to the post was both positive and negative, the Advocate reports. McCance responded to one detractor, saying:

“No because being a fag doesn’t give you the right to ruin the rest of our lives. If you get easily offended by being called a fag then dont tell anyone you are a fag. Keep that shit to yourself. I dont care how people decide to live their lives. They dont bother me if they keep it to thereselves. It pisses me off though that we make a special purple fag day for them. I like that fags cant procreate. I also enjoy the fact that they often give each other aids and die. If you arent against it, you might as well be for it.”

How can someone especially someone who is in education even say these things about children?  WTF!  I watched him on Anderson Cooper, and this idiot is just further proof that our world has gone completely mad.  People are horrible and just don’t care about hurting each other.  Stop the world…I want off.

The boys’ birthdays were yesterday and today.  Hard to believe how quickly they grow up.  Seems like just yesterday the youngest was an infant.  Time flies.

Winnie will be home in a few weeks.  I really need to start preparing for her arrival.  I’ve got to find a crate for her.  It’s weird though – the neighbor down the way may be getting rid of her boxer.  She asked me if I wanted her, and of course I said YES.  Three dogs? LOL I must be nuts, but I can’t bear the thought of her going somewhere that she might not be cared for.  She’s a beautiful dog, and Willis loves her.

That’s it for now.  I know this entry is short and insignificant, but will write more later.