The World According To Wayne

About this blog!

I will post more at some point when I feel like I have something interesting to post about. I have just been pretty crazy busy with work the last few months.

How many Christmas songs did you identify?

1. The apartment of 2 psychiatrists.
2. The lad is a diminutive percussionist.
3. Decorate the entry-ways.
4. Sir Lancelot with laryngitis.
5. A B C D E F G H I J K M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z.
6. Present me naughty but dual incisors for this festive Yuletide.
7. The smog-less bewitching hour arrived.
8. Exuberation to this orb.
9. 288 Yuletide hours.
10. Do you perceive the same longitudinal pressure which stimulates my auditory sense organs.
11. The red-suited pa is due in this burg.
12. Stepping on the pad cover.
13. Uncouth dolt has his beezer in the booze and thinks he is a Dark Cloud’s boyfriend.
14. Far back in a hay bin.
15. Leave and do an elevated broadcast.
16. That exiguous hamlet south of the holy city.
17. Behold! I envisioned a trio of nautical vessels.
18. Listen, the winged heavenly messengers are proclaiming tunefully.
19. A joyful song relative to hollow metallic vessels which vibrate and bring forth a ringing sound when struck.
20. As the guardians of little woolly animal’s protected their charges in the shadows of the earth.

Click here for the answers.   Let me know how many you can get right.
I borrowed this from Mattlake.com Thank you Matt for this excellent Quiz..

To my 3rd child and second Daughter Michelle

In her home coming dress.. Isn’t she cute?

Happy Birthday Michelle,

I love you.

I made this last weekend and was really pleased with how it came out.. so I thought I would share.

1- 15 oz can of chicken broth
1 1/2 cup water
1 teaspoon ground Corriander
salt
4 cloves garlic minced
Celery chopped small ( I used 3 stalks)
1/4 teaspoon ground cayenne pepper
a little bit of hot sauce.. (I did just a couple shakes of the bottle) to taste
4 cans 14 oz black beans  (mash 2 cans and use 2 cans whole.
1 tablespoon of oil (I used olive oil)
1 lbs or so of Andouille sausage.  (I’m sure you could use most any other type also)
1 large onion chopped small

Place oil in a large pan over med high heat.  Chop Andouille sausage into small bite size pieces and place in pan with oil. (Make sure that the sausage is precooked.  If not you will need to cook it until done)
Just lightly brown the sausage.
Add chicken broth, water, Garlic, salt, Corriander, cayenne pepper, and hot sauce and bring to a boil.
when its boiling add the mashed black beans and mix well.
Add the rest of the ingredients and let boil for a few minutes.
Reduce heat, Cover, and simmer for a least a couple of hours.  Longer is better.

I served it with some homemade bread.

Enjoy

To know why there is no way in hell that Sarah Palin should be any where near the white house.

Click here for all the reason you should need.

I don’t have a big issue with McCain, but to put that woman a heart attack away from being president is a crime.

Back in 97 I met the artist Bob Eggleton at Arisia in Boston and had him sign my book.  He was a super nice guy.  While talking to someone the other day about dragons it got me thinking about the amazing signature that he did for me.  maybe its a normal thing for him to do this type of stuff, But for me it was amazing to watch he draw.  One of the things I have always wanted to be able to be an artist.  Sadly I have almost no talent in the area.  I think that love started when I was young.  I used to spend a bunch of time at my friend Kenny’s house.  His mother and 3 older sisters were very talented artists.  His oldest sister Karen especially helped spark my love of dragons, And fantasy art.  She also had a hand in sparking my interest in reading. I can remember very clearly her reading me books.  I remember one called “The Borribles” the best.
I loved to watch her draw.  One of the few things that I remember about JR High School is that I sat next to Ben Edlund in homeroom.  I think it was 7th grade.  I can clearly remember sitting in home room and watching him draw the cover art to “The White Dragon” by Ann McCaffrey.  In my memory I remember him drawing it from memory but he could have had the book there.  I’m pretty sure I’ve blocked out Jr high for the most part.  It was not a great time for me. The cover art for “The White Dragon” is also done by another of my favorite artists Michael Whelen. Who I also got the pleasure of meeting at Arisia one year, But unlike Bob I stood in line for him to sign my print of Dragon Lake and kind of froze up when it was my turn.
I was lucky enough to catch up to Bob out in the halls and I was able to talk to him for a short time.
So today I went and dug up my book Alien Horizons by Bob Eggleton and scaned the page that he signed for me.  I can clearly remember him drawing it and not being sure what it was until he was mostly done with it.
Its nice to have it scanned also just in case anything ever happens to the book.  Enjoy.

A quick download of stuff on my mind.
OMG what happened to the price of concert tickets!!  So I was thinking tha twe might bo see AC/DC nov 21st in Columbus. Jackie and I both love them and who knows it could be the last time.. Brian is 61 years old..
Anyway so I went to look at the price of tickets… $89!!!!  Thats insane..   I still remember buying concert tickets for $15.. I think the last one I saw in 1987 they were $35 ish.    So needless to say we will not be going to see AC/DC..

I think we should elect officials via steel cage fight.  That way at least it would be entertaining and short.  The current 2 year or more election process is a joke.  Its a waste of time and money, And it the end its nothing but a popularity contest.  They all lie, they all make promises they can’t keep, And they all prey on the stupid and lazy in this country.

I got gas for $2.79  yesterday..   The people who get rich off of our (forced to some degree) addiction to oil are at least smart enough to see that we are nearing the breaking point.

I’m not much of a party person but I’m feeling like I would love to go to a good Halloween party this year.  I’ve been invited to one in Florida but that’s a bit to far.

ok time is up maybe more soon.

To my son James who is somehow 14 today.
Can someone please tell me where the years are going so fast?

Happy Birthday James.

Love, Dad.

I really havn’t had all that much that I’ve felt like getting off of my chest recently.  A large part of that has been because I’ve been working nights.  You don’t have a lot of free time when you work nights on and off like I have been.  When I’m working nights its pretty much just work and sleep.  The great thing about that is that I’ve lost some weight.  I just don’t eat as much working those hours.  On the down side my back hurts from moving cash registers around.
Why I’m up blogging at 3 am is because I haven’t had a chance to get back to normal sleep wise yet.  I slept a large part of the day yesterday, went to bed around 10 last night only to wake up at 2 am.  At least it looks like I’m done with nights for a long while now.  I’m kind of hoping that we don’t get such an extreme schedule next year. For most of the past year its been 6 am starts or working overnights, and mostly a combo of both.
I’m sure I’ve had a large number of things that I would have liked to talk about here if I had more motivation.
Besides my back hurting I have to get my teeth taken care of.  Its hard to find the time around work to get into any kind of Dr appointment.  I know I need to just do it. That is the downside of not working a job with set hours.  I can’t just call and say I’ll be a few hours late, and make things up.  Time off means missing a whole job and that in turn means missing hours.  Missing hours=no pay something that I just can’t afford right now.   The worst problem is that I have plenty of times when I could go deal with these type of things if it were possible to just call the Dr and say  “hey I have some free time today can I come in for a check up?” but of course you can’t do that.  Trying to get a Dr appointment now these days means weeks of notice.
Its been a bad summer for money too.  I was pretty slow the early part of the summer, I got hit with an unexpected bill that I had to deal with.  I made 3 trips back and forth to Ma this summer instead of the normal 2.  My oldest son came and stayed with us for a month this summer.  I enjoyed that greatly, But the extra cost of the trip to get him hurt.  I was supposed to have help paying for that trip, But I won’t dwell on that and I really never expected to see it anyways.  I thought that he might be going to come live with me but he decided not too.  He has friends and a girlfriend there, It’s not an easy thing to relocate when your in school.
In the feeling old department my oldest child Melissa recently moved out on her own.  Her and her boyfriend Sean moved into a really nice apartment.  I remember that first apartment scrapping by to pay everything but also very worthwhile.  I’m very proud of her she is a amazing young woman.  I really like Sean too.  I took the 2 of them out for pizza on the last trip to Ma and we had a great evening talking.
Its kind of strange that all of the kids are teenagers now!  It kind of sneaks up on you.
I’m very lucky in the fact that they are all really great kids.  So much running though my mind right now that there is no way to put down here.  Things that I can’t say, and things that I don’t know how to say.  I think that life is a series of choices, the choices you make are not as important as how you deal with the choices that you make.  If you make a choice its up to you to deal with the consequences of that choice.  We live in a time where everyone wants to blame someone else. People trying to blame there parents for there bad choices in life.. Yes things can effect your choices but ultimately the choice is yours and you are responsible.
I guess its easy to preach at 4 am in the dark.. LOL  but I do truly feel that way…
I think I will try and see if I can sleep for a couple of hours before I need to get up.

So if the guy on the radio last night knows what he was talking about we had a class 1 hurricane in Ohio yesterday.
We had no power for most of 24 hour, and there are thousands that are still without power now.
Whole large tree’s have been knocked down.
Over all its a huge mess and they are saying that this will go down in history along with the Xenia tornado’s.

All this Strange weather makes you wonder.