Maybe Bob Dixon Needs To Be Worried......
Springfield passed a new tax.
Those damn tax and spend liberals!
They're taking over the city!
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
11% Of Springfield Voters Pass Pension Sales Tax
It's all about voter turnout.
SUMMARY REPORT Greene County, Missouri
Special Election
November 3, 2009
RUN DATE:11/03/2009 08:41 PM
VOTES PERCENT
PRECINCTS COUNTED (OF 66) . . . . . 66 100.00
REGISTERED VOTERS - TOTAL . . . . . 165,185
BALLOTS CAST - TOTAL. . . . . . . 30,423
VOTER TURNOUT - TOTAL . . . . . . 18.42
R-12 Springfield School District
YES . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,045 64.97
NO. . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,729 35.03
R-3 Republic School District Question
YES . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,131 73.78
NO. . . . . . . . . . . . . 402 26.22
City of Springfield Question 1
YES . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,965 54.55
NO. . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,803 45.45
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Results are not official until certified by the County Clerk
Monday, November 02, 2009
Setting Your Atomic Clock For Standard Time
1. Remove the battery from the battery compartment for 30 seconds and then re-install.
2. Press the SET button for a few seconds until the hour starts flashing in the display.
3. Press the ADJUST button to set the hour.
4. Use the SET and ADJUST button to set the rest of the time and date. The setting sequence is hour-minute-second-month-date-year.
5. Press the MODE button to exit the setting mode.
TIME ZONE SETTING:
1. Press the MODE button to enter the Alarm Time Mode.
2. Press the SET button to change the time zone.
3. Press the MODE button to exit.
If I help just one person set their atomic clock then my life will truly be a purpose-driven life.
A Deck Of Cards
There's a lesson here--- you play the cards you are dealt, you make do with what you got, and you don't eat steak when you can't pay the gas bill.
Vote tomorrow.
Sunday, November 01, 2009
The Latest Addition To My Bucket List....Sexual Fantasy 254,195
Wear my rattiest, holiest pair of levi's --you know, the ones with the holes in the butt, and not wear any underwear, and walk through a major discount chain's frozen food aisle with my girlfriend while we walk really slow so people can take pictures of us with their cellphones and post it on their websites. Hot.
Somehow I Passed A Milestone
Which isn't to be confused with passing a kidney stone (although I have passed them too) or passing a truck or even passing gas..
But sometime in the not too distant past, riders of the Bus Plunge passed the 100,00 mark. It slipped completely by us, but, as frequent bus riders will know, I've been busy.
PS-- While one of the contenders who want to replace Roy "Rely On Your Beliefs" Blunt may try to palm himself off as just a "hillbilly", a frequent bus rider wants to know if he wouldn't be more accurately known as "Southern Hills Billy" or "Cooper Estates Billy" or even "Greenwood Billy"? Catanese possiblly references the same question. Just cause you wear a white hat doesn't mean you are a good guy*
*Long won the day based on pure speechifying. It'll be hard for any of the candidate's to top Billy in this department. But throughout his humorous and off-the-cuff repertoire, Long has a tendency to make some statements that could come back to haunt him. He mocked the plight of the uninsured ("Get out the crying towel") and claimed that 26 million people under 35 probably don't want health insurance anyway. Claiming that President Obama's healthcare plan might have taken his mother's life back in March of 2008 is also quite a strong charge. It's all done in the loving-aw-shucks Long way, but in a competitive race where a sliver of moderate Republicans could matter, those statements may rub some the wrong way. Source:KY3 Political Notebook.
Putting Up Crown Molding....Don't Bother Me, I'm Busy....
We started putting up the crown molding in the computer room this afternoon. Earlier I related to you bus riders how came into possesion of it and how I painted it in the garage while the PvtRN's Honda was at the paint shop getting a new paint job (Thanks to all the good folks at Shelter Insurance for convincing me to buy uninsured motorist coverage!).
Earlier this week I practiced with Trey and Austin putting up the crown molding. I even ordered a special part for my miter saw that would allow for accurate cuts in the crown molding.
This afternoon, instead of watching the race at Talledga, and convincing Trey and Austin that there is more to life than playing video games on the computer,,,as the following pictures attest, we commenced to install the crown molding.
Here are some "before" pictures: 
That last picture is of Trey sitting on the ladder as he was telling me how hungry he was for Ramon Noodles. We went to Lowe's instead to buy a protractor because I was having a hard time figuring the angles. Turns out it wasn't the angles (they were all 90s), it was the angle we were putting the molding on the wall. Trey learned a lot of geometry today. He could see how to cut angles on the saw I couldn't.
We started at 1 pm and finished about 6. We probably would have been sooner but this old bus driver couldn't "see" how a cut needed to be done and cut three board before he finally decided to use some scrap and cut some practice cuts.
The finished project, after painter's caulk and touch up painting and special thanks to Trey, Austin, Blake and the PvtRN, turned out fantastic!
Here are some photos of the finished installation job:
It looks good!
Meanwhile, while the paint was drying, I was patching a crack in the living room ceiling. I am going to put crown molding in there also after I get done painting the ceiling. Here are some photos:
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