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More content from Xenia
A story on the origin of the yodel. Read the comments too–so you’ll better understand why I sometimes refer to her as a future lesbian pornographer.
Another picture of her and her friends on top of the roof wearing their porn prom dresses.
Boomershooter home from Iraq
I personally knew six people before they went to Iraq in the last couple of years. Greg and John were over and back without me knowing they were headed that way. Both made it home safely. Adam and Walter went over about a year ago. Adam came home in a body bag and Walter was seriously and permanently injured (initial reports were overly optimistic about his recovery). Our nephew Jason lost an arm, vision in one eye and other injuries. That leaves one person unaccounted for.
Boomershooter Scott, who I worked with at Microsoft in ’98 and ’99, was headed over in 2004 and after all the bad news about the other guys I knew I dreaded even trying to check up on him. Finally I got a hold of his Microsoft email address and sent him a message a couple weeks ago. No response. That could mean anything. My old email address at MS didn’t bounce so it could be he wasn’t working there anymore either. Yesterday I called him at his old MS number. There was no answer so I left a voice mail message. Again, that didn’t mean much–my old number went to voice mail too.
Four hours and 35 minutes later Scott called me. He’s back at Microsoft and in one piece. He lost friends and others that went with him to Iraq were severely injured but Scott is okay and planning to attend Boomershoot 2006 with another Iraq war vet. While in Iraq they had Internet access and spent time looking at Boomershoot.org.
I’m very relieved.
Celebrate diversity
Father-Daughter style. Father is carrying an STI Eagle 5.1 in .40 S&W with an 18 round magazine using a Milt Sparks inside the waistband (IWB) holster and a spare 18 round magazine in an offside dual magazine Sure-Fire flashlight holster. Daughter is carrying a Star M43 FireStar in 9mm with a seven round magazine using a Kramer IWB holster with a Kramer spare magazine holster on the offside. This was the first gun daughter Xenia ever fired when she was five years old.
Xenia puts her porn pictures to work
The pictures Xenia took the other day of her friends in porn prom dresses was for her English class. Here are the results. It’s Grimm’s Fairy Tales interpreted by Xenia. I’m amazed. I could never write poetry or do artsy type stuff. And I hated all my English classes–too many arbitrary rules to remember with too many exceptions. It just didn’t make sense to me. Give me math and science any day. I sometimes wonder if Xenia is my daughter… but many people tell me that she does resemble me. And of course when she sits on my lap and talks to me about things there can be no doubt.
Xenia’s porn pictures
When Barb and I came home from running some errands yesterday we found Xenia and a couple of her friends on the roof of the house. Xenia was taking pictures of them in their porn prom dresses. She posted the pictures here. I think she is going to be a fine lesbian porn photographer. I’m so proud.
Hooters gets my approval
I’ve never been to a Hooters but I think it’s time I visited. This is why:
Jason had a visit from…The Hooter’s girls (four) who delivered a calendar filled with pictures of girls and their bikinis. The calendar was signed by many of the models. Jason was impressed that the months were not in order. I was impressed that he noticed the months were not in order.
Jason is our nephew who was in Iraq and is now recuperating at Walter Reed.
Thanks Hooters girls for supporting our troops.
People don’t really change
A friend in High School had a very unique personality. Very smart and a wacky sense of humor. He was just there for one year when we were sophmores. We sort of kept in touch for a year or two afterwards but nothing after we went away to college. At the High School class reunions another friend of his and I would talk and say to each other, “I wonder whatever happened to Ken…” Around our 30th year reunion Ken made contact and we have exchanged a few emails. Every year he and his family make a Christmas video and I can see his personality from nearly 35 years ago in those videos. Here is his video for this Christmas.
Our quadruplets
It’s not well known and I really hadn’t ever planned to tell anyone
but Xenia spilled the beans on her Live Journal so there’s no point in
continuing to hide it. For the last 17 years we have told people
we have three children, James, Kim, and Xenia. This photo is of
Xenia:
Yeah. Identical quadruplets. This will explain certain
other things people have long wondered about. Xenia maintains two
Live Journals and her own website,
gets nearly straight A’s in school, has a boyfriend, and almost never
gets in trouble (she always has at least a couple alibis). In
addition to it being rare to have identical quadruplets this set is
even more rare in that they have identical fingerprints. I
figured this might come in handy someday but now that Xenia has spilled
the beans that game is pretty much over. Oh, well… Merry
Christmas everyone.
No long commute this weekend
Working 300 miles from home is a drag. Incredibly depressing at times and always lonely. Then there is the five hour drive home on Friday night and the five hour drive back to the Seattle area on Sunday afternoon. But this weekend Barb was able to get Thursday and Friday off. So she showed up about 16:00 on Thursday and made life so much more pleasant. I got an extra night and day with her. And we had access to the treats of the Seattle area. So we saw a movie (The Family Stone), went to some nice restaurants (there is this great Japanese buffet in Redmond Town Square), and visited with a friend Barb hasn’t seen in about ten years. Most of the time however was just spent in bed. No kids, only very minimal chores to do and so we could just focus on each other. Very nice.
Ice crystal beauty
It’s been cold in Moscow recently– then the fog rolled in. The result was everything became covered in ice crystals. Xenia has the pictures.
Someone at PNNL earns some brownie points
I previously reported PNNL screwed up a corporate American Express account I had at PNNL by not forwarding the bills to me after my wrongful termination. I received a bill from American Express last month then tried to call AE a couple times and had the call dropped or otherwise wasn’t able to get things straightened out. Honestly, I didn’t put much effort into it. I would get so angry over it that I just wanted to ignore it. I got another bill on Saturday and opened it up yesterday. Surprise! The bill has been paid. I presume someone at PNNL read my posting (I know some of them do read my blog) and made sure it got taken care of at that end.
Whoever you are, thank you.
Jason’s blog has moved
The new address is http://captjason.blogspot.com. I have also created a backup site that I will update about once a week so we don’t lose all the postings and comments if something catastrophic happens to blogspot.com. The backup site is https://www.joehuffman.org/Jason.
This post will stay at the top for one week. See below for newer postings.
Outstanding photography
I have been a fan of Oleg Volk’s photographs for many years. These are some fairly new ones:
http://www.olegvolk.net/gallery/arms/guncontrol4677
http://www.olegvolk.net/gallery/arms/swordmaidentwo5009
http://www.olegvolk.net/gallery/arms/allpink4803
I think my daughter Xenia would especially like the second one.
Perhaps I’m easily amused
As long time readers will know I watch my log files pretty close. In the last month or two I have had occasion to be amused at some of the things I found. For example I found the U.S. Justice Department doing a Google search for {“sheriff’s office” “clearwater county” idaho}. I sent an email to the sheriff with the details. In addition to just being a neighborly thing to do, Boomershoot is held in Clearwater County and I like staying on the good side of the people in the office.
I found another search by the IRS for {nancy amos}. I don’t know if they were looking for the same Nancy that is my sister-in-law, but I was amused to send her an email telling her that it was.
Today I ran across something far more amusing. Someone, at the IRS, did a search for Ayn Rand quotes:
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| IP Address | 152.216.7.# (INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE)
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| Browser | Internet Explorer 6.0 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) |
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| Referring URL | http://www.google.co…en&lr=&start=50&sa=N | ||||||||||||||||
| Search Engine | google.com | ||||||||||||||||
| Search Words | quotations from ayn rand books | ||||||||||||||||
| Visit Entry Page | http://blog.joehuffm…Ayn Rand Quotes.aspx | ||||||||||||||||
| Visit Exit Page | http://blog.joehuffm…Ayn Rand Quotes.aspx | ||||||||||||||||
| Time Zone | UTC-5:00 EST – Eastern Standard EDT – Eastern Daylight Saving Time |
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| Visitor’s Time | Dec 5 2005 12:54:12 pm | ||||||||||||||||
| Visit Number | 51,048 |
The irony of the IRS being interested in what Ayn Rand has to say is quite delicious.
We have a finalist
Xenia called earlier and told us both of her and Meghan’s entries made it into the finals in state drama competition. The competition will be over within about 15 minutes. It probably will be another hour or so before we hear the results. She was really excited–I could barely understand her. Break a leg Xenia!
Update: She got third place in ensemble pantomime and a medal. It was a skit they created on their own.
Update2: Xenia has her own post up with lots of pictures. Caution–pictures of teenage girls in nightgowns and beds. (That should generate some traffic for her.)
Update3: I fixed the broken link to the teenage girls in nightgowns and one wearing a bra on her head.
Time to buy Fleetwood Mac and Stevie Nicks
They visited Jason today.
It was just a few days ago that Barb was asking, “Where’s Bob Hope and Bing Crosby?” A subtle slap at current celebrities that are not visiting the troops.
Here is one way if you want to show your appreciation. I already have a couple of their albums. I just put on Greatest Hits. I’ll be listening it to them as I go to sleep tonight.
Xenia’s gone to Southern Idaho
State drama competition is in the state of Southern Idaho and that’s where Xenia is going to be for a couple days. It snowed last night (see her pictures of it here) and that made the roads very slick. Barb and I are somewhat worried about all the road travel but it’s really important to her and it’s not very often that kids on a school trip are injured–the drivers know they have an extra responsibility and have commericial drivers licenses.
I talked to her a little bit ago. “Good luck!”, I said. Then I remember that was wrong and followed up with, “And break a leg!”
Traveling home
The pass over the Cascades on my way home to Idaho had a rock slide a few weeks ago and travel is restricted to just one lane in each direction. Even when the pass is wide open significant (one or more hours) delays occur during the holiday travel season. With only two lanes and a speed limit of 35 MPH on the temporary road around the slide zone they are asking people to not cross the Cascades over the holidays. I’m going home anyway. They are saying worst case delays could be up to 16 hours and 40 mile backups. That means my normal five hour drive could become 21 hours. Ouch.
I might not blog much in the next few days with all that is going on.
Preparations for my trip eastward include:
- Six gallon gas can in the trunk
- Full tank of gas
- Sleeping bag
- Spare clothes and shoes
- Tarp
- Food
- Water
- Gloves
- Coat
- Rain gear
- First aid kit
- Guns
- Jumper cables
- Flash lights
- Ammunition
- Good snow tires
- Tire chains
- Computer (work and entertainment while waiting)
- Inverter (to power the computer)
- Cell phone charger
- Magazines
Details on the slide and projected delays: RockSlide.pdf (110.51 KB)
Xenia is going to state drama competition
We knew from the teacher’s reports, Xenia’s enthusiastic descriptions, and the effort she was putting into it that her entries in the District competition were going to be good. Both of her entries won first place in District Drama. It’s on to STATE!