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  • 20110408-Donated Again

    After attending this morning’s mass, eating breakfast and listening to Maw tell childhood stories AGAIN, I proceeded with the next Lenten Season phase: the closet! That’s right! I wanted to donate unused PLASTIC hangers, not wire hangers, which Goodwill doesn’t accept.

    The donated hangers are the “opaque” white-colored hangers and the smaller ones meant for skirts. The “thicker”, clear-colored hangers; pastel-colored “tube” hangers, wooden hangers, dark brown and black hangers are kept in case of there may be an expansion of wardrobe than the allotted spaces in the closet.

    In doing so, the usage of plastic hangers have been almost evenly distributed among three closets — Maw’s of classic styles, the “guest” of mostly “party” clothes and mine of mostly casual and work clothes. She got the small, white hangers that holds both pants and shirts. I got the clear for shirts and plastic for pants. The rest are tubes.

    So at around 12:00pm, the three of us traveled to the Milpitas branch and dropped off four bags at the Goodwill Store. I got my receipt, which is usually hand-written by the donor of usable items. I got rid of the snowboard clothes, one jacket, one pants, three pairs of gloves and one pair of knee pads. The rest of tightly fitted, double-knitted tops and and OLD, lacy lingerie.

    Then we ate noodles for lunch at Valley Fair and each got a cup of Tutti Frutti: Frozen Yogurt. Maw got Cappuccino, Paw got Mango with Mixed Nuts topping and I got “Death by Chocolate” with coconut topping and party-colored sprinkles for a total of $12.07 (or $0.39 per ounce).

    Afterward, we tried shopping for Maw’s duster as per Inday’s $1.00 to $2.00 shopping spree at a Goodwill Store. But the place we tried was a “recycled fashion” and indoors smelled of deep fried cooking oil stuck on the clothes and in the air! We left within a minutes of wandering around and looking for something to buy unsuccessfully.

    It’s better to donate by personally driving the items to a local recycling place and let the company figure out if the items are reusable, resell-able or meant for the flames. I still have a long way to go. The closets and drawers is still full of “eye-candy”, which will never be touched or seen in a long time.

  • Bye, Bye Binky

    At 10:55am, Binky the parakeet flew away. Paw was bringing out one of four vertical electrical fan outdoors for me to clean with an air compressor, when suddenly Binky got spooked and SCOOTED through the opening of the back screen door! My back was to Paw as I faced the shared fence of the neighbor. I saw how she went straight ahead towards that high wooden fence, hanged right along the length and towards Shrimpsei’s CB, up and over the fence and southward to her destiny.

    She will be missed.

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    For the past few days, she has been easily spooked. Her eyes would be wide opened enough so that the black ring around her eye would show up. Maw had discovered the missing bird a couple of hours ago. Paw was cleaning the toilet upstairs when I broke the news to him. *Paw had said: “She was not happy in the cage.”

    Even the boy who came for lunch around 12:57pm didn’t notice the busy bird. That goes to show how his mind doesn’t care, so much so that he doesn’t care to tell his wife out sentiments of her “soft tyranny” and plain disregard for our Filipino tradition.

    *On 4/9/2011 evening during dinner, Maw had said: “I had a feeling she would fly away. She keeps getting lost upstairs, even if that lace material over the stairways didn’t work.”

    Her nose (or cere) is dark brown and raised outward almost too horizontally forwards. She is speckled of light green and mostly yellow. She is a striking resemblance of the late TC (or TechCu), her grandmother. For whatever reason, Bully-Boy kept landing on a wooden frame and bowing to an old photo of two parakeets kissing — Big Budgy and Persimmon (or Percy). I guess Percy (Binky’s grandfather) wanted her to come along to heaven.

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    *Addendum: Last edited by FLYNN on 20110408 at 04:18:06 AM UTC. Draft saved at 8:09:33 am (on 04/10/2011).

  • 20110407-Junk Away

    Maw and I just came back from EarthCareRecycling.com off Trimble Road and 101 in San Jose, CA. It’s a small place. And per the location online, I counted “6 driveways” from the left. It looks like an alley way. She was nervous with my driving because the tires to my car are under-inflated and for that fact that I was swearing due to talking and motioning with my free, right hand.

    I like this place because they recycle computer-related items and more, including home/office electronics, small appliances and other acceptable items, such as vehicle batteries, shipping peanuts, bubble wrap, aluminum, and stainless steel.

    A Mexicano handed me a pamphlet listing other places for recycling — cardboard, eye glasses, fluorescent bulbs, hazardous items, such as pain, solvents, etc., household batteries, large appliances, medical pills, paper and tennis shoes, too!

    So instead of throwing junk directly into your recycling bin or garbage can, just go online and do a general search of your nearest recycling center, which may offer FREE pick-up if you don’t have your own transportation.

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    Today, I was dusting the blinds and vacuuming upstairs. BUT during my Lenten Season project, I also wanted to clean out the drawers and closet, which I did furthermore! I found old instructional materials for items that are no longer on our property and other old receipts, which I’m archiving right now and in color, too! I can’t let a good thing from the past go to “waste”. Get it? Hahaha!

    In do so, I found lots of old phone wires, two old telephones, lots of Class 2 Transformers (9 volts), one router, two DSL modems, one mini-zip drive with its FLOPPY DISK program, and other Ethernet cables and connections. I put those in an A&F “brown, not white” bag, one flowery wine bag, one Starbucks brown bag and a blue Cirque du Soleil bag, which I gave to the Mexicano, who said they don’t give out receipts.

    So this blog entry is my receipt of making sure the environment stays clean and ultimately the landfill doesn’t get clogged up with our junk.

  • Topped Secrets

    “Our servers are undergoing maintenance. We apologize for this interruption. Please try again in a couple hour.”

    In the meantime, try to “deny ignorance”. Tune into your next meal of political desserts, full of colorful sprinkles, like rhetorics from a clown whose big ears, big nose and bigger feet are too large to fit any shoe willing to walk on down the road to perdition.

    Author’s note: This site may well be “governed” by comical bites. After all there is a shut-down looming on Friday. Then again it may be well Saturday, Sunday, next week or ever.

  • Day 6: Left Uncounted

    The weather was very pleasant. As a shut-in, being in front of the computer does wonders. Looking out the window and past the tall trees, I saw birds flying in the skies small puffs of sylphs appeared. During the sunset, a large sylph was creeping along the west hills of the Bay Area. At around 6:30pm,. I tried to take a quick nap but Maw hollered from downstairs for me to drive her to the hair salon so we could pick up our 4 ounce “It’s a 10!” hair product for $17.

  • Day 5: Left Uncounted

    The weather was beautiful! The sun was shining bright and the skies were crispy and blue until the twosome decided to come around 2:00pm suddenly the clouds hid my sunshine and the winds blew cold. They gave us three T-shirts from their vacation and two rum cake — banana flavored and golden original. The girl left in an hour to do her “smog check” and the boy was picked up another hour later. He got his white hairs pulled out and they left with their mail and our piece of mind, as usual.

    I tried napping but my lower back bothered me for a few days now. Maw’s joint areas of the hip were acting up and probably from the strong coffee BEANS that activated the flare-up of GOUT!

    Earlier this morning, I had installed toys and two wooden branches for the parakeets. They enjoyed playing outside their cage. Of course, I locked them out so they had no choice but to deal with being “let out”.

  • 20110402-What Next

    According the “El Rushbeau” from this morning’s radio on 560am, there are two simple ways to deal with the deficit and/or balance the budget: more taxation or less spending. I wonder to myself: “Why can’t we have both worlds? Can’t the smart people implement both an increase in taxes for the “super” rich and less spending for the dirt poor and illegal ALIENS?” The political circus has nothing to do with Demoncraps or Reptilicants. Obviously, no one wants to explain why the government MUST be shut down as planned. It’ simple: Don’t spend what you have and stop borrowing from people like me, ever again! It’s like asking the hard-working, tax-paying American citizens to pay the union thugs for protection money against Islamic extremists and socialist fascist swho want nothing more than to remove the concept of working honestly in a capitalistic economy.

  • Governing Shutdowns

    Technically, the United States is supposed to be a democracy of representatives. By handing certain powers to the governors of each state, that ensures the nation won’t turn into my ideal of a communist state, a NWO if you will. Call me a Mussolini, a fascist of perfection.

    Alas, I hear that Obama is running for re-election for this upcoming presidential race for 2012. I wonder what “competent competitors” will ruin the fun, much like a circus. Lots of smart people know what is good for everyone. Of course, ideally everyone is supposed to be happy.

    But that is not always the case in reality, which explains profit among businesses whereby customers continue to foot the bill, when in fact higher prices need not happen for expansion of capitalistic endeavors and expansion, which is usually to fatten up wallets of TPTB and pals.

    I give up. I need a job. Obviously my blogging opinions won’t matter if everyone else is screwed up. So if TPTB knows better, go for it.

  • Good Earthlings

    If someone tells you to “Eat sh!t and die!” — tell them to go “Eat dirt and live!” That’s what I’ve been doing: eating dirt (or earth), which is really edible clay. It taste smooth when mixed well with filtered water. It does smell like a “clay pot” one would find in a local nursery. It’s slightly crunchy, too!

    Plus, I plan to soak my feet in that magnetic clay. Tonight, I just read the instructions and it looks easy. It’s a good thing I have some sort of mineral replacement, such as my “green powder” drink, to ingest immediately after the 20-40 minutes treatment to help detoxify my system further.

  • Day 4: Left Uncounted

    It’s been mostly sunny and clear blue skies the whole day. The air is still cool but at least the parakeets were able to get some fresh air. They looked sleepy and cold by mid-afternoon and I had to bring them inside after Maw had pulled out more of my white hair — around two dozen. She whacked me on the left side of the head for trying to annoy an RV parked on the side:- “Get a job!” I would yell softly but loud enough within HER “ear shot”. Whack!

    The day was spent mostly upstairs and reducing the receipts, the few remaining paper works left besides the colorful reading materials, which I have yet to let go. But it’s difficult to release what a hoarder’s insecurity won’t allow: Everything is mine! Don’t touch! Or you will stress me out further! Leave it alone! Go away! Stop looking at it! It’s not yours!

    And I looked through the closet and saw how some items looked like they could still be useful. I tried looking online to find out how to recycle old routers, telephones, wires, cables, CDs of old Microsoft programs and such. But it’s no use! Everything looks like it should be here with me until the day I die! Even the plastic bags and empty boxes just seem to want to stay inside the closet and never leave!

  • Day 3: Left Uncounted

    Most of the day was enjoyed upstairs completing my Lenten Season project. The first batch included a closed life insurance plant. The second batch included old income tax records. Those were scanned and archived with my NeatWorks Quick Scanner and shredded with my ShredMaster.

    What filled a metallic carrying case, a two-drawer, metallic cabinet and one plastic drawer took around three weeks from over a decade of precious papers to fill one Rogers brand “Extra capacity, built-in side rails holding files” plastic bin.

    With the help of Paw and his expertise in processing trash, I’ve used up around five Hefty Bags.

  • Humble Rumblings

    It’s difficult to keep quiet when the soul is excited to share affirmations of gifting each other with love and light. I like the photos of that South Asian country — it almost looks like the Philippines — the wide nose, dark skin coloration, compound-like domiciles and casual clothes, too. The monkeys though are eaten and not a lot of plant and wildlife are left in the nearby country of mostly humidity and heat.

    But like most things of this world, the more your brag (or tend to share online or in person) the reverse happens: What appears good for the gander may attach some bad along with the intentions. Again, my blog just flow without regard for content validity or otherwise. So don’t expect me to think for you and offer solutions that may not always “jive”. It’s how you interpret my random thoughts that’s more important and how you respond in kind regards.