Flynn's Paws: My Thoughts, My Gripes

Day: January 22, 2008

  • 20080122-Hailing Stones

    Well, my plan was to upload lots of videos of this afternoon’s hailstones from 01:11:11PM to 01:19PM. But one video took way too long to upload and the video quality is not as clear as when viewed from my computer monitor. I think Youtube.com is not that great a service if both the time and quality of the end results, well, sucks overall.

    After viewing the boy’s hairball of a haircut from his father’s blogsite, I was totally laughing out loud (and by myself, of course) but in an appreciative way — a smile for once and on an otherwise gray, cloudy and rainy morning. Both my arms were up in the air from such a refreshing, poufy sight and sure enough, down came those hailstones the size of small green peas. The sound was almost deafening as these small wonders struck against our roof above and the ground below.

    Then as soon as the hailstones started, the sun shined and lots of fluffy, puffy white clouds came out after all. I took more pictures of these beautiful events with my Canon PowerShot (of four pixels). The heat from the sunrays actually felt good as if summer had arrived and warmed my bones through the upstairs windows, my looking glass to the outside world.

    Copyright © 2008 by Fluffy von der Flynn. All rights reserved.

  • 20080122-Special Someone

    In a vain attempt to find that ‘special someone’, I remember requesting for assistance of ‘them’. This was from many years ago. ‘They’ claimed that I would be set up with that person. And tonight I’m blogging to tell y’all about nothing.

    So to keep this blog short, I do not know who or what that entity may be because I told ‘them’ I couldn’t just ‘marry’ anyone and into a family that could abuse me or my kindness. This never ending story is to be continued, of course, by the foul-play of TPTB.

    Copyright © 2008 by Fluffy von der Flynn. All rights reserved.

  • 20080122-Interest Cuts

    Today, the Feds cut the federal funds rate to 3.5 percent and the discount rate (or the bank interest rate charge by the Feds) to 4.0. To me this means businesses could borrow more at a cheaper rate even though they are up to their eyeballs in debt. It’s interesting that these cuts do nothing to help the poor rise above already hopeless state without better job opportunities or bank accounts to their names.

    If the Feds really want to help the economy, they should cut the interest rates on predatory lending by capping the interest rates to no more than ten percent on any outstanding line of, say, credit cards. This could ensure that consumers are able to pay down their debt AND at the same time buy more useless, inanimate junk, err I meant, profitable commodities, like fat ass, junk food and expensive, dry clean only clothing.

    The Feds could take the extra step and further cap the practice of predatory lending on poor, black folks (mostly) by the removal of all adjustable rates and the replacement with fixed rates on any outstanding mortgages. This could stimulate in the minds of high brow airheads to purchase over-priced cardboard boxes, err I meant, real property, such as time-shares, condos, single residents, etc.

    Furthermore, with the falling prices in stocks, this should signal the investors to buy more securities. But unfortunately, the funds used to buy these stocks is nothing more than worthless chattel paper, on top of which is the dollar is rapidly declining in value against the Euro’s, for example.

    I think it’s time for TPTB to give up their interest on always being on top of the backs and shoulders of hard working, poor American citizens, some of who are illegal by the way. This means that some government benefits of food stamps, health care and social security happen to find their way into the hands of those who have not lifted a finger while buying nice jewelries and fancy clothes to wear and courtesy from us TAXPAYERS.

    Copyright © 2008 by Fluffy von der Flynn. All rights reserved.

  • 20080122-Daily Diary

    At 01:11:11PM and after raising my hands of thinking to DB – ‘What did Matt do to his hair? Not that it’s bad but damn fluffy, puffy big AFRO!

    Much downpour starting 01:14PM to 01:20PM – filmed hailstorm less memory card though!

  • 20080122-Dream Journal

    First dream:

    I dreamt I was outdoors and there was another person to my left. I was taking lots of photographs because I could see through the green colored, square shaped automatic focus of my digital camera, just like my current one. In front of me were lots of tall buildings of maybe at least two.

    In between the two largest buildings was an angel. This single angle appeared to be another taller (about half the size of the tall building). The angel had short hair. The coloration was not detectable. One of its wings seemed slightly folded in because I kept trying to fit its wingspan inside the screen of my camera. The angel almost looked like it was metallic liquid in appearance.

    Second dream:

    In this dream, I had given birth to my child. I briefly saw the ‘father’ of my child but for whatever reason kept digging around somewhere as if looking for photographic evidence of who is the ‘father’ of my child. I don’t remember being pregnant or have the pain associated with child bearing. I left the child somewhere inside the house while searching for something.

    I kept walking around very distraught inside a house. The first level seemed similar to our original floor plan of our home prior to remodeling with a second story. The downstairs closet was near the hallway and across from one of the bedrooms where my brother and I used to sleep. But it was really the closet for where the old heater used to be located.

    After worrying about vaccinating my child, I found myself upstairs crying to Twit, Brat’s current fiancee (really). She was looking at me and not saying much while I bawled about not being capable of taking care of my child. She then turned away from me. But she stopped, turned around and looked straight at me as I told her I’ll give her all the money in the world if she would be the mother of my child.

    The upstairs room where I talked to Twit had at least one other room and some sort of hallway. There were dark colored furniture all around and the walls appeared to be white in color. I believe there were cushions at normal height and for sitting down all around this particular room.

    Author’s note: I awoke around 06:45AM and prying myself from the computer at 05:00AM. I also zapped myself well at the first setting. I’m feeling sleepy.

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  • 20080122-Widgetting Stuff

    Well, I’m up past midnight. After using the almighty latrine since 01:00AM, I have been browsing the WordPress.com ‘FAQ’ section and discovered ‘widgets’ and how both ‘image’ and ‘text’ could be included into the sidebar menu, which was my first attempt by modifying ‘Text 1’ widget and to my dissatisfaction. My old Yahoo! 360 ‘avatar’ took up too much space and pushed down the other widgets.

    So I decided to add a separate ‘Text 2’ widget for my e-mail address for those who wish to ‘Contact Me’. I read how an increase of spam is possible by linking the e-mail address. The WordPress.com ‘FAQ’ does suggest an alternative on how to avoid receiving spam by separating both the ‘at sign’ and the ‘dot sign’ from the rest of the e-mail address. I merely placed the word ‘at’ and ‘dot’ inside the brackets: [@] and [dot], respectively.

    At 02:53AM, I’ve manage to add ‘Text 3’ widget near the top of the left sidebar menu. This was after modifying an image of ‘smilies’ I could use via WordPress.com. I tried entering the shortcuts into the text box and (to my dismay) got no smiley! After cutting and pasting the image of one smiley from a word document into a ‘paint’ program, I saved the image as .bmp in error (thanks to the WordPress.com message) and then .jpg properly and uploaded the first widget, ‘Mr. Green’, into my account.

    I plan to upload the remaining twenty-one ‘smilies I could use’ as I continue to edit this particular blog. Oh great, I should have copied and pasted the ‘link’ to each one of my smiley for ease of updating my ‘Text 3’ widget, which represents my ‘Current Mood’ of the day. So face a smiling green face will do for now and I’m not sleepy either!

    Copyright © 2008 by Fluffy von der Flynn. All rights reserved.