Out of Office Reply

There might be some turkeys in this picture, you never know...

Going to unshackle myself form the computer for a bit, got to get out and see the grandpuppy across town. Been a while since I've seen the kids and really get to missing them. I am really looking forward to Thanksgiving (the real one, not the fake Canadian one - I think their Thanksgiving has something to do with the establishment of Hockey as a sport) when we're all together.

Got kind of a head start on the holiday, the squadron I work with has a dinner to celebrate the upcoming holiday on Monday, so I smoked some turkey roasts yesterday. That'll be my contribution to the feast, anyway and it gets me in the groove to do some more for our own family celebration. We're taking a page out of the Canuck book and celebrating on the wrong day - Friday vice Thursday, so my son and his wife can have T-Day with her folks. As long as I get some Turkey I am not too worried. Hell, might even start celebrating the Canadian version too, can never have enough holidays with food involved.

If you buy off on the Plymouth rock story we actually celebrate the arrival of the Christian Right on the shore of this continent. The rest, as they say, is history, though in fact the Christian right is still alive and well. It wasn’t all bad, because besides bringing us a jesus right or wrong attitude they also came up with the classic arrow through the head gag. Hard to believe considering their rule number 1, “Thou Shalt Not Have Fun of Any Kind.” Anyway they set up shop, much to the chagrin of the neighbors, and took a short break from killing Indians to have dinner to mark the occasion of how incredibly special they were and how hotteth Sarah Miller looketh upon that day. Even then men ran things with their pants. Oh, about the Indian thing, that one ain’t my fault. You can thank “Wrongway” Columbus for that. Right up to the last minute Ol’ Chris thought he had found India, hence called the folks he met Indians. Talk about your classic denial. Now a days, whitey is to refer to them as Native Americans, as though there is something disparaging about being called Indian – I suspect there are about 3 billion folks on the Indian sub-continent that don’t mind being called Indian a bit. Keep pushing the divisiveness, it’s good for the country. So this is one great big Euro-American bastard signing off and wishing you all a nice weekend.