Strangest cat in the litterbox. Multi-stater, living in pennsyltucky. Likes running, mountain biking, reading and being a smart ass. Not known for having a beautiful or distinguished haircut. Prefers the rocky shoreline of Mt. Desert Island to the pristine sands of Revere Beach. Not known for approving the public appearance of over-sized people in spandex. Knows what little kids do in the pool.
36 Comments
February 7, 2007 at 2:22 am
The “about” reads as my own self description — especially the haircut and the pool parts. Your blog is very informative. Most blogs are blah but yours contained some thoughtful insights and comments.
BTW: thnx for the add. this is not just for the sake of reciprocity!
Sonja
February 13, 2007 at 6:31 am
This is both fun and serious blog.
Keep keeping on.
Cheers,
middleXeast
March 21, 2007 at 12:37 am
I love what you’re not known for!!
Spandex is diabolical.
I could do something with your hair though…
if you let me.
March 30, 2007 at 6:34 am
You are so courageous! I’d never ever would open my ‘about’ page to public comments. (Not that anyone is commenting at my blog anyway…)
Keep up the good work!
June 15, 2007 at 1:47 pm
Are you Lehigh Valley or Pa based? If you get a chance, drop a line and tell me a little about yourself. I’ll add you to my blogroll if you’re in the area.
November 1, 2007 at 9:50 am
Thats is a GREAT “about” section. HA
November 9, 2007 at 3:40 pm
i a total retard
no point saying nothing because i ain’t going away troll
December 7, 2007 at 5:33 pm
Finally got around to checking out your blog… well done and props to you. Will be a regular visitor. Thanks for commenting and letting us know where you are on the webz.
December 29, 2007 at 9:56 pm
Appreciate your encouraging words and positive comments on my blog! I plan on blogging again soon but would like to write and then blog about it
Hope your holidays are going well. Happy New Year!…and as far as the music meme ?? thing …is concerned…I hope to do this some day. Just need to get caught up again!!
January 5, 2008 at 5:16 pm
Super blog – will be a regular. Thanks for checkin’ out my attempt .
January 10, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Great blog, my friend. Nice to see someone getting some great insights out there early and often. Thanks for your comments at mine as well.
I’ll stop by here regularly if you don’t mind….
February 4, 2008 at 10:37 pm
I have a friend that says spandex is a privilege, NOT a right.
February 5, 2008 at 11:09 am
Momma – you have a very wise friend.
February 11, 2008 at 12:38 pm
I just now added you to my blogroll. Sorry it took so long, I could have sworn you were already there since I usually add people I like when they make the comment.
April 22, 2008 at 9:39 pm
Thanks for the reminder to put Emily LeVan’s site on my list of links on my blog. I had meant to do that and took care of it tonight! Glad to see she has lots of fans out there and also to see she got through everything on Sunday at the Trials. She’s just amazing.
May 2, 2008 at 2:08 am
okay kitty…you are freaking hilarious…I think you would have loved my post on Danica’s win…how did you find me? I’m glad you did. Your blog is a riot. see ya on the flipside.
May 2, 2008 at 2:10 am
incidentally…you have a great blogroll as well…I’ll have to come back when I’m not obsessing over work…up you go on my blogroll…
May 7, 2008 at 12:01 pm
great blog –
your comments on stuffwhitepeoplelike are priceless -
June 28, 2008 at 1:06 am
Hey! Thanks for checking out my blog and hopefully enjoying it. I like your blog, but I do have to say that the little animal on the banner will most likely give me nightmares tonight. And so will the strange little goat person that you have as your avatar. You must be what my Mom calls, “A wierd one.”
Lol, great blog! Happy Day!
J
http://www.peglegstarfish.com
June 29, 2008 at 8:32 pm
J – your mother may be right. But that’s not a goat!
September 5, 2008 at 11:04 am
Love your header pic!
September 23, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Good info about Sarah Palin. One major correction. I moved from Alaska last year after being a resident for almost 5 years. The check for $3269 is not an entitlement. It was actually the total from two different pots of money: 1) the permanent dividend fund: $2069 and 2) a one time energy rebate: $1200. To be eligible for the PDF, Permanent Dividend Fund, a person who moves to Alaska must establish residency for a period of 18 months. Each year thereafter, the resident must reside in Alaska at least 6 months plus one day to continue to be able to receive the money. There are exceptions to these rules such as for those serving in the military and people who travel for work but maintain a primary residence in Alaska. If a person is incarcerated, owes back child support, etc., the state of Alaska confiscates the money for that year. The PDF comes from the State as a part of the money received from oil and gas sales from the previous year. That total was actually $2069. Palin gave an energy rebate (extra money received from the increased royalties from the oil companies windfall over the last 12 months) this year of $1200 to every Alaskan resident who qualified which brought the total to $3269. So on September 12th of this year, a family of four received a sweet check for $13,076!! Is anyone surprised at the supposed 80% approval rating? The year before, there was no energy rebate and the amount was around $1000 per person (I got the money but forgot the exact amount). Palin deciding to spend the money as an energy rebate was a somewhat political move. In the eyes of many people, that action did make her look good. The retailers like her because she helped them to get in the black. What resident is going to turn away that kind of money? However, it could be fairly argued she should have developed/funded programs that could help with sorely needed human resources. The state’s educational system is horrific with barely 50% of all high schoolers graduating. Many of the medical, nursing, engineering or any other highly skilled technical professionals that practice in Alaska have to be brought in from other states. It is a problem when professionals only come to an area for contract work and then leave. For starters, that costs employers a lot of money. Alaska culturally, does not place a premium on higher education (one would think that the governor’s son would be heading off to college or a military academy). Alaska has the nation’s highest suicide rate with a dearth of resources, (only ONE public psychiatric hospital in the entire state). Alaska has a rampant substance abuse problem and an incredible need for youth and adult inpatient treatment programs (getting a treatment slot for a patient often requires sending them down states, a major problem for people who are then culturally and physically away from home and usually in an environment 50 to 70 degrees hotter than what they are accustomed to). Get the picture? Assuming that 300,000 people received the $1200 energy rebate (about 1/2 of the state’s population), Palin gave out $360,000,000. I know that retailers enjoyed the flush of money that came thru. But sadly, that boon rarely translates into longterm gain. There is not a boom in house purchases, banking investments or other longterm goals. But, people go out and buy the newest ATV’s, snowmobiles, trucks, sometimes boats, every imaginable gadget; they drink it up, smoke it up, whatever, and those who were stone cold broke before they got the energy rebate are still broke before the end of the year. My friends who live in rural Alaska (called the bush) tell me that they were spending $6 to $7 dollars for a gallon of gas. Some small, native Alaskan villages, like Adak, were on the brink of closing as they could not afford to maintain city buildings and services due to exhorbitant prices of energy in those isolated communities (which BTW make up almost 50% of the state’s population). How about giving out energy grants to those often neglected communities? How many treatment programs could have been funded with that money? She would not have to ask for congressional earmarks if she had spent that money more earnestly. Palin could have funded and built the bridge to no where had she wanted to out of that $360,000,000. Remember, that energy money was discretionary and her choice as to how it was spent. Even if she did not give the energy rebate, the PDF was still $2069, which is higher than it has EVER been. She had a choice to create and fund a longterm program in any number of high need areas and she did not. Anyway, she is a politician and made a political move. I gues she was just getting herself ready for Washington.
P.S. As an aside, she may have travelled to Alaska from Texas, after her water broke because she needed an Alaskan birth certificate for the baby to qualify for next year’s PDF (if you go down states to have a baby, the baby then has to wait the 12 months to qualify for the money).
October 25, 2008 at 10:15 pm
Tracey – great info about Alaska.
November 14, 2008 at 6:58 pm
Thank you for the plug on the mudflats blog.
February 8, 2009 at 11:42 am
Hi! You must see my “beautiful and distinguished haircut”; I didn’t publish my photo for lack of space. Regards, Dan.
[Ed note: just as well as my haircut is ugly enough for the entire planet. You also provided no link so I cannot look even if I wanted to.]
February 8, 2009 at 4:58 pm
http://danmihalache.wordpress.com
March 13, 2009 at 10:05 am
Cool blog, thanks for visiting me!
April 2, 2009 at 11:21 am
You DID believe me!
April 7, 2009 at 12:13 am
like the blog! cheers for stopping by!
April 20, 2009 at 8:43 am
Hi Sauerkraut,
This is a great blog! Keep up the good work, man!
April 24, 2009 at 5:08 pm
I’m glad I finally found you. You have made me smile today.
[ed note: kewl !!]
April 26, 2009 at 6:30 pm
Hey, thanks for the Boob of the Week nomination.
I think you’ll be interested in checking out our latest Boob of the Week installment at http://twobigboobs.wordpress.com/2009/04/26/boob-of-the-week-volume-4-hate-filled-rant-edition/
Keep up the great blogging,
Chef @2bb
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May 9, 2009 at 9:00 am
lol.. love the header and love the about-me.
[ed note - welcome! and be welcome anytime you get homesick
]
May 11, 2009 at 10:28 am
Thanks for reading me, but there’s no Search here nor any Archives, Eek!
[ed note: just click on the calendar over there on the right -->> all my posts are there. Or hit the Home button up there to get to my front page. Or is that not your question?]
May 28, 2009 at 9:06 am
Wow, both a Maine and Revere, MA reference in one paragraph.
[ed note: and don't forget... lynn, lynn, the city of sin
btw, I watched the last conflagration at the old shoe factories. missed out on Chelsea's, however.]
October 5, 2009 at 2:16 am
Do you *really* think I should cut my hair???? Itd be the first time in 11 years.
[ed note: sure. think of all the extra time you'd have not having to get the kinks out.]