I have no idea what to call this one...

I have found out a few things recently that I didn’t know and a few that I did know.

Well there really are a lot of things that I do not know but these were wow really things.

One – I didn’t know I sort of had a person watching my back. I can’t say who or why but I was surprised

Two – some of the minions get withdrawal symptoms when I don’t write. Sorry didn’t mean to cause the shakes for you all I’ll try to do better about posting again

Three – there was this other thing that I didn’t know today and it was really pretty cool but I’ve already forgotten it, I know it’s that bad.

There are an infinite number of things that I do not know but we all have other things to do rather than read an on going list of things I do not know.

In other news

The hippy mower is too much fun and by fun I mean really fun, I like it, My yard isn’t really level though and I want more clover. But clover brings bees and I’m sort of a feared of the bees because they bite and by bite I mean sting. The stinging hurts like a lot but the clover is fun to mow because it’s like green confetti and that makes me smile and I like to smile so I mow the clover and I want to mow more clover. I need to buy some clover seed. Yup yup.

There is this other grass in my yard too in one spot that is really cool too but I have no idea what it is but it’s like standing on Astroturf it’s so densely packed. So if you know what kind of grass that would be let me know and I’ll buy more of that too. But that doesn’t really solve the level problem. I’m working on that too by making dirt.

Yeah I’m one of those. I’m still on the fence about the goat but I’m thinking the goat would hurt the fence.

In still other news

I have a friend who likes to poke bears with a stick it’s more detailed than that but for now it will do… I may make it a WTF entry

Litter box thought of the day.

I really need a note for this chore. You would think every day scoop the poop, scoop the poop, I just don’t look forward too it.

Good thought of the day… I made fresh guacamole today …yum

That’s all for now, other stuff tomorrow

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Listening to: Barry Polisar

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What's taters precious?

So recently someone was asking me if I had a grill. I said I used to have one but it belongs to someone else now. They looked at me for a minute and the puzzled look on their face said, how does your grill belong to someone else now? Then the elevator got to the top floor oh yeah you have one of those exes. Their next question was a bit strange only because they know I’m a vegetarian, how do you grill?

I don’t really have a need to grill anything.

The second elevator got to the top floor, Oh yeah I guess you wouldn’t

I have thought about getting one because Stunt boy eats the meats and he likes the grilled meats as well. Doodle likes that stuff too but she only comes over a few times a month to eat and I liked the grilled veggies like grilled corn, veggies kabobs and I want to grill some bananas but I haven’t yet.

Seems like an awfully be price tag to grill up bananas though, but maybe some day. You never know

There are some pros and cons of hanging out with a vegetarian. Now these are generalizations and do not apply to all vegetarians. And on a scale of good to bad I’m more toward the bad side of the vegetarian world or as like to call it the normal side of the vegetarian world. To put it perspective my normal is what Vegans would call bad and would probably call me a lot of bad names too.

So starting off with the cons you know so we can end on a good note.

Cons

Vegetarians as a whole do tend to be to a bit judgey about the whole eating meat thing you’ve probably heard the chants and drums, Meat is murder and smelled the patchouli too. Eat what makes you happy is what I say and that’s why vegans call me bad names.

Some of us can be a little picky about ordering in restaurants. Many of us will drive a waiter to spiting in your food. Question after questions, Is that flavored with suet, Was that made with vegetable stock or chicken stock or were those fries done in the same oil as the chicken nuggets.

If you work in a restaurant if someone is asking this ask one question do you have allergies? If they say yes tell them the truth, if they say no, tell them what will get them to place an order. My advice is this, if you are that picky about what you eat you need to eat at home and leave the carnivores and normal people alone.

Some of us will make retching noises when we smell cooking meat, but really it doesn’t make us sick, well most of us. Hamburger does smell bad sometimes but mainly if you are doing ribs or a nice prime rib I’ll stand in the wind to smell it cooking I’m going to eat it.

Vegetarians know things you don’t want to know about your food. It’s very hard to find stuff talking about vegetarian diets and recipes without facts about why this is better for you than the omnivore diet or how replacing some animal product with this vegetable one is better. The biggest example is gelatin and pectin they do the same thing solidify foods one is an animal product and one isn’t. Most of the world knows where gelatin comes from but if you don’t ask a vegetarian and they will tell you and then you’ll be sick but you’ll go ahead and eat that jell-o or marshmallow then next time because it tastes good. If you don’t know I won’t tell you and the stuff that makes candy sour… well no one likes that answer so I’ll keep it to myself.

That’s about it on the bad side.

Pros

Cooking doesn’t take all that long for us unless it’s rice and that takes us just as long as it takes you.

If you order a pizza will all meat toppings and you live with a vegetarian that left over pizza will still be there when you get back from work, the gym or where ever it is you went. The same goes for the last what ever meat thing in the fridge you don’t have to hide it down in the veggie draw to keep your vegetarian friend away from it. It will be there later

You can generally get enough to eat for two people ordering one entrée and a few sides if you surrender the salad or at least part of it to the vegetarian.

Usually we like to cook so you can get out of that chore if you hate it.

We will usually have a compost pile or bin so if you need dirt for your flower garden find your friendly neighborhood dirty ol’ hippy freak and we will most likely give it to you for free because, we’re friendly and stuff like that. And we’ll have more in a few weeks.

If you are ever stranded out in the middle of nowhere there are to possibilities. One the vegetarians will be able to find food that will keep everyone alive or two they will die first because they aren’t eating what ever food you’ve found then if you have to cannibalize, there is no easy way to say this we just taste better. Think about it, mainly and the animals that you eat are vegetarians and they are yummy. Why wouldn’t a people vegetarian be yummy too? Just saying, but we do taste better.

In other news

Hitting the snooze button this morning wasn’t even any fun at all.

Litter box thought

I really need to put a note up like the one for the heat, be right back… miss me? I knew you would. I don’t like poop but you may have known that already.

That’s all for now, other stuff tomorrow

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Listening to: TV

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WTF Wednesday #10

WTF Wednesday number 10

How on earth did Russell Brand become famous? One day no one on earth other than his drug dealer and his parents know who the hell he is then the next day he’s famous. Granted it had been growing slowly but seriously why? WTF people are we getting that hard up for comedy that this guy is it?

I know I’m not the only one fed up with him. Hell, Mother Nature has been trying to kill the bloke since he married Cat E.

They, he and Cat E, go to India to marry... earthquakes floods and disasters like the day after.

Everywhere this guy goes there Mother Nature starts pooling her resources to try to kill this guy. I know I don’t want him coming to my house and spending any time. Seriously do the google searches Russell’s location and natural disasters. I think he was in Japan too. Just saying.

But the tabloids are saying the Cat E is nearly done with him. So we know that it is the whole truth if the Star, The Examiner and the Enquirer say it is true. They would never make up a story just to sell papers.

I wonder if Russell is the creation of these rags in an attempt to see if they can make a horribly not funny person famous.

Also on the Russell front and if you are as sickened by this guy as I am you may have missed this bit of news but the daft bastard has a plan to try to crash Will and Kate’s wedding next week dressed at the Queen.

Brilliant

I wonder if the SAS might accidentally snap his neck like a twig. Then what can you do really at that point. Scold ruthless trained killers for killing some twit for being a security risk.

Now boys you aren’t supposed to snap the necks of every person who tries to crash the party, but in this case we’ll let it slide. I wonder if that would make the news or not? Would they replay it with that warning, some viewers may find the following story upsetting so you should leave the room for the next few minutes while we show you in graphic detail the twist and snap and then an idiot slump to the ground dead.

Now he is trying to infect children with his nonsense dressing up as the Easter Bunny for a movie, well speaking for the EB. Look buddy I had that gig long before you so back off.

But if anyone can explain his fame please but I think you’ll be just as puzzled by it as me. WTF?

In other news

Yeah I can’t get into it work certainly sucks at the moment and if I could talk about it you would ask me to stop talking about it. And that’s why I haven’t been writing the last few days.

Litter box thought

I don’t have a clue what is going on


That’s all for now, other stuff tomorrow

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Listening to: Kate Nash: Nicest Thing

Gamer Tag: invisible don

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Sunday Morning Press Conference

Those of you who are long time readers may remember these, those of you who are new to the readership every so often there is a press conference of sorts. As it would appear that there are quiet possibly tens of readers out there who don’t comment on things that are said in the regular issues. The interwebs refers to these people as Lurkers but we here at inviso-corp simply refer too all as the minions.

As always there are cigarettes and coffee in the back and we’ll use the standard protocol for questions and answers. Any questions on standards and practices… No … then without further ado... Invisible don King of the Bastards, all around good guy, newly ordained baby whisperer and all those other nicknames and monikers. Well begin with the reporter from the Herald

Herald Reporter: So you’ve been brushing up on your Boston accent. Reasons and is it good.

Invisible Don: I like to play around with the idea that I’m actually funnier in accent than I am in regular voice so I try things on. The accent isn’t bad but I don’t curse enough really to a be a good southie and if you can’t pepper the accent with a lot of the f bombs well you’re just going to get called out and possibly beat up. Yes the reporter from the Times.

Times Reporter: You started that WTF series about two months ago. How is that going?

Invisible Don: I think well, there are always things that make you think WTF. I’m trying to branch out a bit and not gripe bitch and moan about myself too much there and have for the most part stayed away from myself as the primary subject. Maybe there will be some money in it some day. Yes you from the London Times.


London Times Reporter: The Royal Wedding is coming up as a monarch have you been invited and what are your thoughts

Invisible Don: Well I’m no monarch the title king was given more as an insult and I’ve just adopted it as a gift rather than despise it. I am not on Will and Kate’s guest list but do wish them the best. I have some thoughts on this regarding Harry but really those things are best kept to oneself if you know what I mean.

London Times Reporter: Harry?

Invisible Don: Really I can’t it’s just a personal feeling and I have no basis for it. Yes you from Ohio, where

Cleveland Reporter: The Nine are off to a good start this season any thoughts?

Invisible Don: Not really April isn’t a time to start tossing out who will be playing in October. Yes you in the green dress, I don’t see your pass.

Reader: No pass just wandered in the coffee smelled so good. Is that pie?

Invisible Don: Oh please stay have some coffee and yes it is pie, apple pie.

Reader: Did you make it yourself?

Invisible Don: I did

New York Times Reporter: Cleveland stands no chance of making it to October and really you made pie?

Invisible Don: Well given statistics you are correct but your follow up question is more important so I won’t have you killed. I kid but seriously don’t talk out of turn. I really made pie all on my own too. Crust and all peeled the apples and baked it right in the invisible fortress.

NY Times Reporter: Why?

Invisible Don: Well stunt boy and I were talking while doing stuff around the house (watching Icarly) Sam says to Carly, you want me to be happy make me a pie. Stunt boy says, Pie is pretty good. So I thought I have apples and I have all the other stuff I need to make the crust. So I peeled the apples while we were watching the next show popped in and made the crust and presto (more like 2 hours later) there was pie. It isn’t really that hard. Yes you from the Examiner.

Examiner Reporter: Is it a good pie?

Invisible Don: I don’t know I didn’t have a piece yet. Stunt boy has and he says it’s wonderful.

Examiner Reporter: Why haven’t you had a slice?

Invisible Don: It was late when the pie came out of the oven and I didn’t want to have nightmares… I guess. Yes you from the Waverly Democrat.

Waverly Reporter: You have been uncharacteristically up beat lately the readers are more than a bit curious as to the cause and what or more precisely who is at the center of all of this mirth.

Invisible Don: You know for a small town Iowa rag you ask a pretty fancy question, I like that, good things can come in small packages. I’m usually up beat I just don’t say it, (gasp from the crowd) well I’m not morose for certain but I will give you melancholy at times. Recently things have occurred that have me hopeful not that I was hopeless before just reserved.

Waverly Reporter: And as to the second part of my question, the what, or who is behind this new found hope?

Invisible Don: Ah, you caught that, I knew you would but was hoping you would leave it be. I’m not a liberty to disclose that information and you have been here a while and know that I don’t talk about such things here. We’ll just say that I’m happy and there is a reason for it. Wow a local paper you from the Roanoke Times.

Roanoke Times Reporter: Oh I’m just here for the free cigarettes and coffee. But as you caught me here, why are you waking up so early?

Invisible Don: I should have expected that much, clean living I suppose, who knew it had such awful repercussions. Ok well that’s all I think for this morning I have other things that need to be done in other places, hopefully you are sufficiently entertained and if not confused

In other news

March Mission was a bust and the Press conferences aren’t me thinking I’m really all that just doing a bit of creative writing which may or may not be all that creative but I’m trying to be more creative and I like doing it.

Litter box thought

Thinking about not so far away from here and swimming in my mind

That’s all for now, other stuff tomorrow

Happy Birthday if it’s your birthday and a very merry un birthday if it isn’t your birthday

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Listening to: Dire Straits and Lyle Lovett

Gamer Tag: invisible don

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Be like the squirrel ... or not it doesn't really mean anything it's just a title

So I was busy being healthy this morning. I know ugh… but before all of that I did wake up before my alarm again and I ignored it when it finally did go off and listened to the rain hitting the roof of the house. Part of my roof is metal so it’s a very different sound than other types of roofs. I find it to be rather soothing just hearing the rain falling.

Lots of thoughts swimming around in the brain in the rain and remembering something a friend told me about thinking and mornings. Trying to figure out things and stay within the confines of today and letting Aldo do his bit too. Some days it is really easy to just follow Aldo along the path and paired with where I’ve been sights, sounds and feels are all there and it is very easy to want to stay there but it’s one sided. So I come back.

The rain very nearly lulled me back to slumber but I want to get things done so I got up and got into the healthy mode. And then one of the lyrics from Jack wails out something about a cigarette and there I am thinking mmm … a cigarette would be really good.

What the hell, it never goes away and that thought will just randomly pop up in my head, you know what would be good right now a cigarette. Usually there is a trigger that is pretty identifiable now and it’s not a craving. This time it was the mention of them in a lyric but in a way that connected to my experience with smoking. In case you were worried I did not smoke anything.

Oddly I still have the pack of smokes in the freezer from when I quit. I’m sure they simply awful and possibly even unhealthier than they were two and half years ago when they were put into the freezer.

In other news

There is so much spinning around in the back of my mind and at the front part of the time. I know what I want I’m not exactly sure how to get there.

Random thought

I like sad songs even when I’m not sad, they don’t make me sad either … well mostly

Litter box thought

I’m doing this too early in the day I’ll probably have to do it again later.



That’s all for now, other stuff tomorrow

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Listening to: The White Stripes … meg is so cool

Gamer Tag: invisible don

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Wanna buy a goat?

So the last few weeks and months I’ve noticed the join us for don’t buy gasoline day on what ever day it is of the week month. Today was one of those days.

I didn’t buy gas but not because I was in support of the whole don’t buy gas day thing but I did notice a bunch of people who were so I’m going to call it a fail.

I also noticed that I wasn’t alone on the roads today either so people were using fuel too.


The thing is the hippy part of me really supports this sort of thing, you know damn the man, damn the man and hell no we won’t go. However a one day don’t buy gas thing isn’t going to make a bit of difference and the only way that a one day don’t buy will make a difference is if every car in the US was parked and didn’t buy a drop of fuel.

The likelihood of that is slim to none and slim is out of town.

The industry probably needs an overhaul and we need to stop being stupid as consumers. Really does your car really run all that much better on higher grade fuel? Not that you think it does, really test the miles per gallon driven. I’m going to say it isn’t a difference that is significant enough to warrant the expense it costs to make 3 or 4 different grades of fuel.

Stop buying all but one grade of fuel forever, not just for a day, for always. They will stop making it at some point if the stations don’t need it because their tanks are full of it and can’t buy any more from the makers. Big oil still isn’t hurt yet because consumption is still the same but you may cause a little change in the price… some. Maybe.

The only way big oil gets hurt is if consumption really goes down.

Carpool not just to work but to the store, movies etc. few vehicles moving equal fewer gallons burned.

Ride a bike, walk, use public transportation if it available.

Get a community goat. I was out in the yard the other day thinking about an article I had read that there are some goat farmers who rent out their herd for the up keep of lands. The goats go out there eat the fields down and the farmer makes money and doesn’t have as much of a feed cost for the goats.

But that doesn’t really work for everyone. Mainly because their just isn’t enough yard to feed a bunch of goats and really not enough to feed a goat for very long. But if a block had a goat or two, then there would be enough grass and more people would be happy. Hell you might even be able to make a little feta cheese too or some yogurt.

So if the twenty houses or so on my block all stopped buying fuel for lawn mowers that would not be noticed but if twenty thousand homes all stopped buying fuel for lawn mowers that would be noticed and the flowers that weren’t eaten by the goats might even be prettier because they would have some free fertilizer

I don’t use power tools for my yard work. Every year a few more people ask me how I like using it and if it is all that hard to use. My answer is as long as you keep up with the mowing it’s pretty easy if you let it go too long then it’s harder.

I still hear a lot of people mowing when I’m mowing but maybe one day all I’ll hear is the baabahahah of all the neighborhood goats.

In other news

It’s supposed to rain tomorrow…I’m not sure and today was very busy.

Litter box thought

Stunt boys day to do the chore

That’s all for now, other stuff tomorrow

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Listening to: Something stuntboy is watching on Nick

Gamer Tag: invisible don

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I watched a movie and want to see another one

Ugh today was a long and complicated day hopefully tomorrow will be better.

I don’t talk about work here because I can’t and besides they aren’t really fun stories.

In other news

Watched the Social Network recently… Wow I’m not sure who the screenplay and book writers are connected to in the story but they are connected to someone who is not Mark Zuckerberg. So until I find that out and who they are connected to in the story then I’m not sure exactly what to think about it all.

My thought is if someone can’t develop an idea to its fullest potential but can think them really is the genesis of the idea. However, if you can’t do anything with it and someone else can and they make the other persons idea work. Who really owns the idea then? I’m not sure and I think that’s the point.

Jesse Eisenberg and Justin Timberlake are absolutely brilliant in this movie. Both are becoming favorite actors. I’ve yet to see either in a role that wasn’t well preformed.

In other news

There is another trailer of the Harry Potter last part on the CD of the first part of the last part which releases tomorrow. I can’t wait for July. Do I have time to read all the books again? Maybe, but I’m not likely to do it

Random stuff

I really think that crossword puzzle writers just want to hurt your brain and if you don’t keep doing them they are some how able to suck part of your brains away.

Stunt boy asked why do they say it’s good luck if it rains on your wedding day? I said I guess so you feel better about it raining on your wedding day.

What if your car started making phone calls on your phone? You know because your car can answer your phone now. That’s just a hijack and wifi connect from your car becoming a platform to abuse your car, your phone and your bank account all at once.

That’s all for now, other stuff tomorrow

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Listening to: Peter Gabriel

Gamer Tag: invisible don

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