Flynn's Paws: My Thoughts, My Gripes

Month: January 2010

  • 20100127-Adobo Style

    There is great Filipino dish called `adobo`, which is a meat stew. Here is a simple recipe:

    • Brown chopped garlic and onion.
    • Boil your favorite meat stuff (usually chopped chicken style) in water.
    • Add soy sauce, pepper and bay leaves.
    • Let simmer for a long time in order for meat to cook, bringing down water.
    • Voila!

    Here is another receipe but with different directions that many be more palatable to Asian countries:

    • Follow the simple recipe but instead of using chicken you could WOK your dog. Get it? Walk? Sheesh!

  • 20100126-Weathery Ways

    The whole day was cloudy and cold. After lurking online, I viewed a dedicated blogger’s new YouTube.com video site and came across links to some pranks.

    Then at around 16:40pm, the SUN came out and shined VERY brightly through the west-facing windows upstairs into my computer room! I believe my laughters at those video pranks have reached the high eavens; thus the weather appeared to have cleared up to light blue skies overhead.

    The haziness was slight at first then long horizontal clouds started to blot out the setting sun. I recall this event because Maw had enough sunshine to pull out around five pieces of small white hair from my head. Then the brightness of the sun dimmed to as if it was this morning – behind gray clouds.

  • 20100126-Trying Theme

    It’s way past my bedtime because I’m trying another theme here at WordPress.com:

    INove by mg12

    A simple yet very stylish, widget supported, and feature rich theme.

    Tags: white, light, two-columns, fixed-width, theme-options, right-sidebar, widgets, rtl-language-support, sticky-post, theme-options, translation-ready

    There are eight selections to choose from via the` iNove Theme Options`:

    • Menubar
      • Show pages as menu.
      • Show categories as menu.
    • Sidebar
      • Hide sidebar from all pages.
    • Notice HTML enabled
      • This notice bar will display at the top of posts on homepage.
    • Banner HTML enabled
      • This banner will display at the right of header. (height: 60 pixels)
      • Who can see?
        • Registered
        • Users
        • Commentator
        • Visitors
    • Showcase HTML enabled
      • This showcase will display at the top of sidebar.
      • Who can see?
        • Registered
        • Users
        • Commentator
        • Visitors
      • Title:
    • Posts
      • Show author on posts.
      • Show categories on posts.
      • Show tags on posts.
    • Comments
      • Submit comments with Ctrl+Enter.
    • Feed
      • Show the feed reader list when mouse over on feed button.
    • [Save Changes]

    For the banner, I had to create my own image via Microsoft Paint by pasting an iStockphoto.com image and typing in the fonts at 8 pixels. Again, I modeled this banner after my favorite religious `daily companion` website online.

    PROs:

    • `Top` linked located on the bottom right of each page.
    • `Copyright` and credits on the bottom of each page.
    • Top navigation bar with drop-down menus!
    • List styles spaced nicely by height and indentations.
    • Blockquote in light blue background and double quotation image on upper left hand corner.
    • Cellpaddings for tables spaced nicely.
    • Horizontal row spaced nicely.
    • Normal background color of white with black and blue fonts.
    • Search bar and RSS feeds towards top of page.

    CONs:

    • No time stamps for each posts, not necessarily for pages.
    • Basic boring colors of black, white and gray.

  • 20100125-Going Deaf

    Well, there is definitely something wrong with my hearing. Recently, I’ve not been able to hear the faucet turned on or the toilet still flushing. Maw would let me know about those many times. I do not even remember turning off the faucet well or know that the rubber flapper to the toilet is ajar.

    There has been pain from the application of alcohol into my right ear hole a few days back, after a bout of nose blowing for two weeks of the last weeks of 2009. If only the banksters returned MY MONEY NOW, then I could seek medical attention like every poor, unemployed and homeless AMERICANIZED CITIZEN, BORN AND RAISED!!!

    I hope my constant nose blowing and ear popping from depressurizing won’t result in a possible loss of my precious hearing!

  • 20100125-Cloudy Day

    The whole day has been cloud and maybe some rain fell, but I’m not too sure. All I saw were lots of LONG, horizontal layers of clouds from gray-blue to white. During the mid-afternoon and then towards sunset, there were small patches of blue skies, the color of light with mistiness. The wind blew icy cold. The air was crispy clear. In the evening, I imagined the smell of pot in the air from the next door neighbor.

  • 20100125-No Pain

    Well, there’s definitely something wrong with my nerves. I was scraping some CALLUS under my right big toe but more on the bone outside. And the blade cut into the flesh, causing a bleeding. I rinsed the area with water and then poured iodine on the wound. Maw placed a bandage tape on the wound after Neosporin.

    There is still NO pain from the incident. This is the same big toe that had been numb for awhile. If only the banksters returned MY MONEY NOW, then I could seek medical attention like every poor, unemployed and homeless AMERICANIZED CITIZEN, BORN AND RAISED!!!

    I hope tonight’s injury won’t go gangrene or a loss of my precious big toe!

  • 20100125-Move Over

    [Flynn’s comments: I received an email from an administrator regarding a law in California. People will get tickets at every corner, it seems. The gestapo jackboots (while pointing the radar gun of radiation at unsuspecting motorists) will stand in the middle of the road (probably in the hopes of getting run over by the angry mob of myopic or even psychotic motorists), pull over the perpetrators of moving vehicles and give them tickets, which fund the bankroll of the cities.]

    Move over law

    A Move over law is a law which requires motorists to move over and change lanes to give safe clearance to law enforcement officers on roadsides. Forty three U.S. states have passed “Move Over” laws, which were created in response to officer roadside fatalities in the line of duty.

    Most Move Over laws require drivers to move over or slow down for emergency vehicles with their lights flashing. This includes police cruisers, Sheriff‘s or Highway Patrol vehicles, fire trucks and ambulances.

    Currently Hawaii, Maryland, and New York are the only states, as well as Washington, D.C., that do not have a “Move Over” law. On June 17, 2009, Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell signed House Bill 5894, establishing a Move Over requirement in the state. Connecticut’s Move Over law took effect on October 1, 2009. [1][2]

    Here are more sources in case you haven’t heard:

  • 20100123-Buzzing Noise

    After blogging late and going to bed VERY late into the morning, my head was buzzing VERY LOUDLY! I heard loud buzzing sounds in my left ear hole, too.

    I got pissed off big time and started blasting outward and anywhere, knowing this was a very severe case of HAARP activity. Then in a few minutes the sound quieted down a bit.

    And that whole Friday happened to be VERY nice. The sunshine came out warm and there were lots of fluffy, puffy clouds of white against crispy clear blue skies.

  • 20100124-Cloudy Day

    The whole day was gray and cloudy. I believed it might have rained too, again. The air was freezing cold to me. But the parakeets are kept warm with their mini-heater, which has three settings – cold, warm and their favorite setting, hot. That mini-heater was originally used at my work for about a year or two before having to give it up because the `facility department` figured it was a fire hazard. Sheesh.

  • 20100124-Playing Piano

    After the incident with the boy this afternoon and after mopping both the living room and sewing room, I managed to have enough, PAIN-FREE strength to play the piano in a LONG time. I went through some oldies, anime musics and my favorite classics to romantic.

    I came across a piece titled ‘Papillion’, which I will practice to some sort of perfection. I started out slow and then sped up. It sounded good. But there are twelve variation, most of which are FAST. Those I won’t be able to play well but there were lots slower ones of cantible, pico and lento.

    Then later I went upstairs, searched online, downloaded better versions of `Chi Mai` for piano, a better copy of the Russian National Anthem and two anime sheet musics, printed those and play them on my piano downstairs.

    I tried to keep pace with the metronome set at 65. But my fingers kept slipping over the keyboards because the stretch of my fingers barely reach over to one octave.

    The arpeggio to the `Chi Mai` music is VERY easy. But in order to make the simple tune sound pleasant, I had to perfect this. It will be easy to memorize with patience.

    Then I started to feel pain in my neck and shoulders and knew it was time to stop and take a shower with my new salt-based, exfoliate, which contains the usual neuro-toxins found in pesticides, which helps to kill the cooties in our hair follicles.

    Later I tried playing the guitar and also felt NO pain in the digits of my finger. I believe all the washing and drying and moisturizing helps to numb the area, making my current skin condition on the tips of my fingers all rough with skin sticking out.

    Paw was too busy watching his sports on television in his bedroom. Maw was exercising while I played piano. And my other audience was the seven parakeets, who actually sang loudly. They made a strange singing noise I’ve never heard before when I was playing the Russian National Anthem: It’s was very strange.

  • 20100124-Sticking Out

    This morning I awoke to the voices of my bio-units talking and felt my left arm painfully over my head. I found myself scooted down into my vest jacket, which was almost covering my cheeks. My tummy was exposed as per my bio-units.

    I guess taking Benadryl the night helped me get to sleep and a sound sleep it was! Also, Maw had massaged my scalp and neck. And that also helped me sleep well. She reported later on that she felt much better after I too, massaged her scalp and neck.

    I got up and saw in the bathroom mirror my hair sticking out like a crazy woman. It looked like hair was on fire and most especially on the left front side! This never happened before and I suppose it is because my hair is butched short. I smiled.

  • 20100124-Missing Parts

    Which is worse – losing one’s mind or a $300.00 part for a car? I’d say getting old and forgetting where old items were placed are worse. It’s equally sad when someone forgets where he is, who he is, the people around him and places, too.

    A few minutes ago, the boy came over and delivered three LARGE bagels with melted cheese. These were nicely staked inside one of Maw’s plastic containers, which she KNEW was missing. Her memory is sharper than mine, which is no better than Paw’s.

    So the boy went through our garage and to the exact spot where he claimed the missing part was originally located. Then he went home and in a few minutes, called and accused us of purging even possibly his bicycle helmet, which may have been give to either Robin or his sister.

    Now, how many people went in and out of his house? Perhaps, his in-laws are taking things without his knowledge. Maybe his wife threw away some of his stuff after he threw away some of her belongings. But that was a long time ago.

    So I hung up the phone, not appreciating the fact that we old timers with old memories were accused of losing his property, which he claims to have forgotten to take with him during the move into his new house over three years ago.

    All I recall is placing a bunch of boxes with his stuff in front of his house long ago because he wouldn’t open the friggin’ door. I also recall him retrieving a BIG, yellow-colored, plastic container (which was formerly the city’s recycling bin).

    He tends to forget where he placed his keys. So that should be something to consider in light of this afternoon’s disturbance of the peace. Maw was sleeping on the sofa at that time, by the way. She pretty much ignored him, knowing that his intrusion wasn’t really about us, after all.