Emergency....

... Edition of the Cute Kid Pic of the week!

I took these yesterday and they were just too adorable NOT to share with you lovely people of the Intertubes.



This was yesterday morning, after I had already posted the Cute Kid Pic. I fed him and put him in his bouncy seat, let him play with the dangly rattle things there, while I fiddled away on the laptop. Killing time before class, you know?

I look up five minutes later, and he is OUT COLD. So cute.

Also, after coming home because power was out across campus all day, we played and watched movies together and fun was had by all.

Til Mommy ran out of cereal. So we improvised. We introduced pears!

And he LOVED IT.






And once again, fun was had by all. He conked right out and took a two and a half hour nap, and Mommy did the exact same thing.

I wuvs my little man.

W00t!

So, all my classes are cancelled today. Well, my morning one is.

Apparently, somebody cross-wired one of the transformers at the power sub-station next to the library on campus. Said cross-wiring caused a fire and knocked out the sub-station.

Half the power in town (everything on campus) is out. Some of the buildings are running on the emergency back up generators, and others are completely dark.

No daycare. No classes until this afternoon... Which I can't go to anyway, because the daycare is closed...

Fun times, fun times.

Cute Kid Pic

It's that day again, folks. Time for the Cute Kid Pic!

These are some pictures I took of Daniel when I dropped him off at daycare a few days ago. He loves the exersaucer thing they have there. He really likes to stand up and jump around, and the exersaucer has adjustable height so he can do just that.





Very colorful, with a variety of different toys he can grab, spin, and generally amuse himself with.

SO FREAKING CUTE!!!

Halfway Through

Okay. I am a little more than halfway through my first semester in college. It's an interesting experience, it really is.

Except that I'm losing every last cell in my god damned mind.

I've hit that mid-semester slump. I don't want to go to classes, I don't want to be on campus. Half the time I don't even want to get out of bed. I'm losing the energy to dedicate to actually doing the work, and I'm fighting with people all the time, which only makes things worse.


Oh yeah, and did I mention I'm attempting to quit smoking? Oh god.

Life is standing on its head right now, and I'm just trying to survive.

And yeah.... I'm gonna quit making excuses as to why I haven't put a post up in forever, and I'm actually going to try and post more regularly. Promise.

Tune in next time, kids. Same Snark time, same Snark channel.

And the award for "Weird-Shit Crime" goes to...

Wheelchair user, 92, arrested for smuggling coke

MADRID, Spain (CNN) -- A 92-year-old woman with cocaine strapped to her body flew all the way from Brazil to Spain before police arrested her, in a wheelchair, at Madrid's airport.

They found 4.3 kilos, or nearly 9.5 pounds, of cocaine packets strapped to her legs and torso, and also arrested a 44-year-old female companion, who tried to escape on another plane, a Civil Guard spokeswoman told CNN Tuesday.

.... I got nothing. I just.... It's pure genius, it really is, all illegality aside, but...

Nothing to say. Move along now.

America! Fuck yeah!

Now for one for all you patriots... with a sense of humor, of course. From Stephen Lynch (who I was supposed to go see last week but they postponed the concert until December and I'm SO pissed off about that....), I bring you, "America".



Stephen Lynch - America

Alright.
Hey, hey what do you say?
I come from a place called the U.S. of A.
Ho, ho what do you know?
Hop in my car and let's go.

Well this is a song for America,
Home of the red, white, and blue.
Land of Marilyn Monroe and James Dean,
Apple pie, baseball, and Shell gasoline,
And if you don't love her fuck you.

Beloved by all from Tikrit to Beijing,
If the world were a school we'd be homecoming king.
Worshiped by France and by North Vietnam,
Afghanistan thinks we're the bomb.

Oh, this is a song for America,
Home of the red, white, and blue.
Land of Marilyn Monroe and James Dean,
Apple pie, baseball, and Shell gasoline,
SUVs, handguns, and US magazine,
And if you don't love her, fuck you.

Our human rights record is something of note:
We freed all our slaves and gave women the vote.
Everyone's equal forever, always,
Unless you're one of them gays.

Oh, this is a song for America,
Home of the red, white, and blue.
Land of Marilyn Monroe and James Dean,
Apple pie, baseball, and Shell gasoline,
SUVs, handguns, and US magazine,
Low-carb diets and fast food cuisine,
And if you don't love her fuck you.

To all war-torn nations, to those in turmoil,
We'll help you kill despots, we'll help you drill oil,
And if you don't want our help, that's ok
We're coming in anyway.

Oh, this is a song for America,
Home of the red, white, and blue.
Land of Marilyn Monroe and James Dean,
Apple pie, baseball, and Shell gasoline,
SUVs, handguns, and US magazine,
And if you don't love her, fuck you.
Crack cocaine, Abu Ghraib, and nicotine,
Swindling CEOs getting off clean,
Housewives all hopped up on amphetamine,
Nipples get rated NC-17,
FEMA and levies and Hurr'cane Katrine
George Bush's great rolling war machine.
I think we're in trouble, don't you?

It might seem I don't think our country's so great,
But intolerance, bigotry, greed's what I hate.
Most folks are honest and decent and true,
Peaceful, compassionate, good through and through.
That's what it means to be red, white, and blue,
And if you don't think so fuck you,
If you don't think so fuck you.

Song O' Teh Week

Here at SFTSM, we are all about bringing you, the readers, what you want. This is a blog, so the first and basic rule is MORE BLOG POSTS. So, in an effort to give you what you want, I am starting a weekly post thing. On Thursdays it's the Cute Kid Pic, and on Mondays, we'll have the Song O' Teh Week. Get your work week started off right, yanno?

This week's song is called Dracula, by a band called Iced Earth. The song and many others like it make up an album called "Horror Show". I've written about the band and their many albums before.

I hope you enjoy the song, complete with lyrics. For more information on the band, the music, and the meaning behind the music, visit their website, IcedEarth.com.

Another school fight

From the land of sad news, I bring you....

South Carolina student dead, officer hurt after fight at school

An altercation between a South Carolina high school student and a school resource officer ended tragically Friday with the student dead of a gunshot wound and the officer hospitalized after being stabbed.
Police officers in body armor vests are on the scene after violence at a school near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

The incident took place about 8:25 a.m., and both the officer and the 16-year-old student were transported to Conway Medical Center, where the student died, said Sgt. Robert Kegler of the Horry County Police Department.

No information is available at this time as to why the student fought the officer or exactly what happened. But it seems as if the student went to the officer's office with the intent of starting some sort of drama.

It's sad that high school students are so full of rage in today's society with no real outlet. They feel oppressed, shunned, outcast, what have you, and with no way to vent these frustrations, they turn violent in the worst ways.

Was it worth it? No. It never is. Did it happen anyway? Sadly, yes.

Cute Kid Of The Week

Okay, here at SFTSM, we're going to start a new weekly tradition. Let's jump on the internet band wagon, shall we?

Every week (Don't know which day of the week yet, but we're starting out on Thursday. Who knows, I may even keep doing it every Thursday. I mean, Marko has the Monday Search Term Safari, and that crazy bald fucker has both gun pr0n and a car list he puts out every Friday. So, hey, what could it hurt?

Besides, if I post nothing else during the week, it'll at least SOME of you who faithfully check my blog something to see/read/etc. I know, I really need to get back on the ball about posting. I promise, I will. Swear. Pinky swear. Just... stop looking at me like that, will ya? Christ...

But okay. The Cute Kid of the Week picture! Maybe two or three, depending on my mood.

And of course, because you would expect no less of me, they're only going to be pictures of *my* cute kid. I could care less about everyone else's spawn. Who cares about them? *grins*

(I'm just kidding please don't kill me fellow parent bloggers, I'm just being Snarky)

Okay. So. Cute Kid Pic of the Week!



Now, how can you say no to something THAT DAMNED PRECIOUS? Srsly, ya'll.

Thanks for tuning in. More next week!

And, of course, more REAL blog posts soon. Promise. I'm stewing one now about the big debate of open carry.

See ya soon.

Don't Tread On Me!

I vote this becomes the new national anthem for the United States of America. Srsly, ya'll.



Sorry that it's not an actual *video* but you make do with what you have.

Liberty or death, what we so proudly hail
Once you provoke her, rattling of her tail
Never begins it, never, but once engaged
Never surrenders, showing the fangs of rage

Don't tread on me

So be it
Threaten no more
To secure peace is to prepare for war
So be it
Settle the score
Touch me again for the words that you will hear evermore

Don't tread on me

Love it or live it, she with the deadly bite
Quick is the blue tongue, forked as the lighting strike
Shining with brightness, always on surveillance
The eyes, they never close, emblem of vigilance

Don't tread on me

So be it
Threaten no more
To secure peace is to prepare for war
So be it
Settle the score
Touch me again for the words that you will hear evermore

Don't tread on me

So be it
Threaten no more
To secure peace is to prepare for war

Liberty or death, what we so proudly hail
Once you provoke her, rattling
of her tail

So be it
Threaten no more
To secure peace is to prepare for war
So be it
Settle the score
Touch me again for the words that you will hear evermore

Don't tread on me


Don't you agree?