.: About the Ringmaster :.

Edward Emmett Karn, Jr.

Aka: Edwyrd, Zenlogic, Freebooter, johnlogic, zxc.

Born: just when the U.S. started going to hell.

In the almost 50 years I have been on this earth I have done many things, been many places and met many people, good and bad……In life, so far, I have learned that nobody knows anything for sure, that there is no sense in sweat’in the small shit, I know that I will not panic in a life or death situation, that I will fight to live, I know this from experience. That if you have no problems, you are probably dead and If you let the herd manage your life you will never be happy.

In the immortal words of Popeye, "I 'yams whats I ams, and dats all that I 'yams"

.: Man of LaMancha :.

Miguel de Cervantes:

I shall impersonate a man. His name is Alonso Quijana, a country squire no longer young. Being retired, he has much time for books. He studies them from morn till night and often through the night and morn again, and all he reads oppresses him; fills him with indignation at man's murderous ways toward man. He ponders the problem of how to make better a world where evil brings profit and virtue none at all; where fraud and deceit are mingled with truth and sincerity. He broods and broods and broods and broods and finally his brains dry up. He lays down the melancholy burden of sanity and conceives the strangest project ever imagined - -to become a knight-errant, and sally forth into the world in search of adventures; to mount a crusade; to raise up the weak and those in need. No longer will he be plain Alonso Quijana, but a dauntless knight known as

Don Quixote de La Mancha.

Of Snow and Dogs

Posted By zenlogic on February 14, 2010

Well – its mid February and the snow is piling up, looks just like the winters when I was a kid, nice. I see the east coast is getting hit pretty bad, I feel pity for them, they aren’t set up like Minnesota or the western snow states or even those weird north-eastern Stephen King states. Here in Minnesota, if we got that much snow we wouldn’t even slow down, of course we are ready for it, whereas the east never needed or spent the money on a lot of snow removal equipment or had to live with six or seven months of cold and snow, like we do. I really feel for them, I do, I do.

Maybe the ones that are hurting will take away a little lesson from all this (I doubt it), get ready for it, have food and water (At least three months) – a generator and light handy. It does not cost much and when the snow hits the fan again or some other natural disaster or whatever else there is – lost jobs, giant rabid infected mutant rabbits, zombies, what have you, they can take care of themselves.

Yep, we live in a small city, last snowfall we had, just last week, we got 15 inches, measured in my lot with a yardstick, between me and the snowblower and the kids and their shovels, we had it all moved in an hour. The roads where never closed and people made it to work and went on with their everyday life. Nice, but again Minnesota is set up for winter, the east isn’t. I feel sorry for them. Here it ain’t cold till it hits freezing, then if the sun is out we call it brisk.

My god, I’ve seen people go swimming in the lake and sunbath at the beach in December around here. Nuff said, here are some pics of the snow around our place, just for fun.

Here are two views of the front, this is the west face.

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This is a view out the back, east, at my Blacksmith Shop.

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Now to the dog part of my post.

When we moved here, we had to leave our dog behind, this broke our hearts and we had to pay a deposit for Joyces cat. Our landlord was very adamant about no dogs, so we went on with life without the the joy of having a mutt around. It has been almost two years and the landlord has seen we take good care of the place and we are good tenants, so he finely relented and let us have a dog. Yeehaw!

Now I really respect the No Kill Humane Societies other rescue groups and encourage every one who wants a dog to get mans best friend from them. No sense in getting a new untrained puppy when you can get a really nice older trained dog for way less then a puppy from a mill. So thats what we did, I took the wife and our youngest son over and we played with the dogs till we found one we agreed on, turned out to be a nice boxer /lab mix by the name of brandy. She is a really good looking dog, a year and a half old, in great health and nice. But it turns out she is an attention whore, she just has to have attention all the time, which is okay, We have 13 people in this circus and there is always some one to play with her. I think we made a good choice, have had her for about two weeks now, she is quiet and lets us know when she has go out, shes big and gentle and loves to play, she is not afraid of people or other dogs and gets along with the cat and most important of all she gets along with my three year old and all the other kids here. So have a look and remember if you want a dog, try the humane society before you go out and put down huge money on a puppy.

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