Friday, leading up to Christmas. Working through injuries, hired people on to make time, skipped going to my uncle's funeral and skipped parties all over the place just to finish these items. My supplier calls all chipper, and tells me that they have the things after all! (arrgh!) The life of a retailer in December. Saturday morning....first cup of coffee down.
Man my left hand hurts. Lets see...drill bit went through it "there", hammer bounced off it "there", sharp edge of metal dug in and cut inside the curl of the fingers "here", oh, and a second one of those "here" that I overlooked until now. Typing is a little slow....grin! Found that duct tape makes an excellent bandage. Hmm...maybe I should wear work gloves more often. Its kind of funny...I bought a package of a dozen work gloves, and the right hands are all clean and still in the glove pile, but the left hands are all worn, battered and torn up. How can you tell which hand holds the cutters?
Well, enough of that bitching...just finished a really nice Roman style helmet for a friendly customer in Toronto. There are a whole bunch of things I don't like about it, but hey, its a prototype... I rather like it....it represents a week's work, and more importantly, a new file of templates. In the same week I finished off a nice shield....customer sent me a nice griffin for me to enlarge and cut out into a stencil. She eventually decided on a white griffin on a blue background...doesn't look bad at all. I am going to try to put these up on my web site (if I can get my ftp working!)
My garage door is finally mounted and sealed off to the weather. Now all I have to do is mount the springs and cables, and I can have a "roll up" door instead of a wall! Should be a little easier with the heat on inside...this 9 degrees below zero weather we have been having tended to preclude any outside work.
And Brenda wants some Christmas ornaments dug out of the back room. So better get off this blog and get to prettying up the place for Christmas parties. Looking forward to a week of parties all next week, and then the big new years party in the hot tup! woo hoo!
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Artist: Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy
Album: Hypocrisy is the greatest luxury
Song: Television, the Drug of the nation
One nation
under God
has turned into
one nation under the influence
of one drug
chorus:
Television, the drug of the Nation
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation
(2x)
T.V., it
satellite links
our United States of Unconsciousness
Apathetic therapeutic and extremely addictive
The methadone metronome pumping out
150 channels 24 hours a day
you can flip through all of them
and still there's nothing worth watching
T.V. is the reason why less than 10 per cent of our
Nation reads books daily
Why most people think Central Amerika
means Kansas
Socialism means unamerican
and Apartheid is a new headache remedy
absorbed in it's world it's so hard to find us
It shapes our mind the most
maybe the mother of our Nation
should remind us
that we're sitting too close to...
Chorus:
Television, the drug of the Nation
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation
(2x)
T.V. is
the stomping ground for political candidates
Where bears in the woods
are chased by Grecian Formula'd
bald eagles
T.V. is mechanized politic's
remote control over the masses
co-sponsored by environmentally safe gases
watch for the PBS special
It's the perpetuation of the two party system
where image takes precedence over wisdom
Where sound bite politics are served to
the fastfood culture
Where straight teeth in your mouth
are more important than the words
that come out of it
Race baiting is the way to get selected
Willie Horton or
Will he not get elected on...
Chorus:
Television, the drug of the Nation
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation
(2x)
T.V., is it the reflector or the director ?
Does it imitate us
or do we imitate it
because a child watches 1500 murders before he's
twelve years old and we wonder why we've created
a Jason generation that learns to laugh
rather than to abhor the horror
T.V. is the place where
armchair generals and quarterbacks can
experience first hand
the excitement of warfare
as the theme song is sung in the background
Sugar sweet sitcoms
that leave us with a bad actor taste while
pop stars metamorphosize into soda pop stars
You saw the video
You heard the soundtrack
Well now go buy the soft drink
Well, the onla cola that I support
would be a union C.O.L.A.(Cost Of Living Allowance)
On television
Chorus:
Television, the drug of the Nation
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation
(2x)
Back again, "New and improved"
We return to our irregularly programmed schedule
hidden cleverly between heavy breasted
beer and car commercials
CNNESPNABCTNT but mostly B.S.
Where oxymoronic language like
"virtually spotless", "fresh frozen"
"light yet filling" and "military intelligence"
have become standard
T.V. is the place where phrases are redefined
like "recession" to "necessary downturn"
"Crude oil" on a beach to "mousse"
"Civilian death" to "collateral damages"
and being killed by your own Army
is now called "friendly fire"
T.V. is the place where the pursuit
of happiness has become the pursuit of
trivia
Where toothpaste and cars have become
sex objects
Where imagination is sucked out of children
by a cathode ray nipple
T.V. is the only wet nurse
that would create a cripple
Chorus:
Television, the drug of the Nation
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation
(4x)
Its a good thing I don't work with tools like hammers and cutters. There would be a sudden, sharp decline in the public service. :D
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