Finally free from the ups and downs...

I've thought back over the past year, and have decided to give a thumbs up or thumbs down to some of the events of 2005.

Bushie's 2nd Inaugural (as if the prospect of the first one wasn't horrific enough)









Madonna puts out an excellent CD, especially after the crap that was her last CD.



















Queer As Folk ending.











"Reality TV" still rules the networks.











I discovered I get Logo...


















...and NFL Network!














"My Sweet 16" on MTV, nothing but a bunch of spoiled brat rich kids, whining cause daddy won't shell out $3,000 dollars for that dress she HAS to have for her party. The show is obscene and why anyone would want to watch a rich girl whine and perform all kinds of antics just to get her way is beyond me. Course, i suppose whatever it is that does, explains Paris Hilton....







"Wake Me When September Ends" video, certainly the best of the year (course I've only seen about three videos all year cause nobody shows them anymore, but I digress...)
















"Star Trek: Enterprise" ending, putting it, and the viewers, out of our misery, but such wasted potential...








...and the first time since 1987 there's not new Trek episodes.













"Intelligent design" ousted in PA...











...but made law in Kansas.









Switching job duties with a co-worker which increased my stress at work.









DC Comics put out awesomely written and artisitic comic books, kicking Marvel's ass, and Identity Crisis and so far Infinity Crisis, living up to the hype.













Young Avengers from Marvel has a young gay superhero couple in it...and they're treated as heroes, they're sexuality not being an issue, as it should be.













Grandma Polt (she's 81) had open heart surgery in early autumn.


















Grandma Polt's miraculous recovery, almost back to 100% in a few months.















Only now that he's moved, fully appreciating how important Mark was to me.

















My iPod, nuff said.













Peter Jennings dies of lung cancer and yet, Bill O'Reilly is still sucking air.








Batman and Fantastic Four movies didn't really suck, and were rather entertaining.










Finding out a dentist can bruise the nerves in your teeth when he puts in filings, thus resulting in reoccuring, intermitent tooth pain.















The media finally reporting and the public finally seeing the wholesale corrution we shamefully call the Bush Administration...

















...A year too late to do any real good.








I didn't gain any weight this year.


















Congress wasting time on drugs in baseball and not delaing with
the REAL issues that affect Americans.









Movies like Eating Out, Mysterious Skin, and Brokeback Mountain.














Movies like Bewtiched, The Dukes of Hazzard, Stealth, Elektra and that damn Herbie remake.









Getting to see "Rent" both on the stage and in a theater.














The national frenzy over Terri Schiavo, and how the Religious Right abused her tragic situation for political gain.









The Toronto trip, surely THE best time I've had there, thanks in large part to Ed. (The trip was SO great, it deserves a bunch of thumbs up!)









Hurricane Katrina and all the death and damage that resulted.











Gas prices top $3.00 a gallon











My cousin giving birth to little Cam.


















Continued money and health issues, which are entirely my fault cause I'm so damn lazy.









Finding out i can make deviled eggs!









Meeting someone special online...














...but, having him live so far away.








South Africa, Spain, Canada, and Great Britain joining Netherlands, Belgium, Iceland, New Zealand, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and Finland in extending the legal rights enjoyed by the majority of their citizens to ALL thier citizens.







The United States Of America working to deny some of it's citiziens the legal rights enjoyed by the majority of its citizens, going to far as to attmept to amend the Constitution to make the discrimination legal.






Dallas Cowboy and the playoffs, who knows if they'll get into the playoffs or not, so this one's gotta be both thumbs up and down, depending on Sunay's games.









I started this blog! WHOOO-HOOOO!!!

HAVE A HAPPY AND SAFE NEW YEAR CELEBRATION!

POLT = listening to "Vacation" by The Go-Go's

Toronto, it's like no other city I've ever seen. It's like Albany, only cleaner. - Canadian Bacon

Take offense at my innuendo, you can...

Checking out my Clustr Map I discovered that I have a hit from extreme Southern Iraq. From INSIDE Iraq! Now this could be someone from the US military (although, I'm not sure any of them want to visit the Palace), or it could be an Iraqi with Internet service. If it's the latter, I wonder if that means the NSA, with Bushie's approval, will now be (sans warrant, natch!) listening in to Uncle Polt's communications? Hmmm, mayeb I outta start speaking more cryptically when i'm on the phone, just so they THINK there's something going on, lots of innuendo and double entrendre and the like. If they're gonna waste time and tax money doing something illegal like this, there's nothing to say I can't help them waste it by pretending something's going on!

But if the NSA is checking out the Palace, because of the Iraqi hit, then just so they know, this whole post is coded to pass on all the government secrets I am privvy to.

Oh, and the dark brown fox only eats bon-bon's on the holidays. And the weather in Majorica is fine this time of year, you WON'T need an umbrella. *nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say no MORE*

POLT = listening to "Dude In The Moon" by Dastrix

We're costumed heroes, we're already not playing wit a full deck. - Wonder Girl, Young Justice #48

Before I was a rap singer, they call me Sticky Finger...

The doctor put me on some different meds. He did this in early December, but due to my procrastination, and, um....the mail delivery over the holidays (yeah, we'll go with that!), I didn't get them until this week. Included in the package was strips for figner sticks. When it was first discovered that I was diabetic, the doctor then had me do finger stick, but I never really used them for any reason, and so the doctor said to stop it. But now, the doctor told me to check them every morning before I eat, so i get a rough idea of what it is.

Okay, I can do that. In fact, I'm glad I do it in the morning, cause I'm not quite awake, and I don't quite feel the needle prick my finger until it's too late. ANd that does help me wake up.

At any rate, Tuesday evening when I got everything together, I thought I'd take a reading then. Now mind you, before I took this, I had been drinking Pepsi, eating gummy Swedish fish (i LOVE gummy Swedish fish!), eating some chocolate, that sorta fun stuff. But that first one I took was 259. Pretty high. But considering what I had been eating, I wasn't worried.

The next morning, when I took it, it was 230. UGH. So that day, I didn'thave any Pepsi. Did have diet ginger ale, I can drink that, but I can't touch diet Pepsi, ewww! Anyway, I took a walk and ate light. ANd Thursday morning, thre reading was 186. Still too high, but better than the day before.

But ohmiGOD did I have a headache Thursday morning! That lack of caffiene was doing a number on me. So I took some tylenol and had a can of soda for lunch. And the headache went away. How sad is that? And that night i had a GLASS of Pepsi, not a full bottle or several glasses like I'm known to do. ANd Firday morning, the result was149, better still, but not good. but at least now I know what I have to do.

ya know, when he told me he wanted me to do these again, i scoffed, thinking, they'll do me no more good now than they did before. But that's wrong, they are helping me, by letting me see, daily, how things are going. I only hope i can use this tool to help get myself in better shape.

POLT = listening to "One More Time" by Daft Punk

They say it's lonely at the top, and maybe they're right, but there's a helluva view! - Steve Vance

A kiss is still a kiss...

FRENCHING FRIDAYS!




POLT = listening to "Mother Earth" by Dubtribe

That which does not kill me, delays the inevitable. - Mac Anderson

Maps are all around me now...

I changed my status on the Clustr Maps site, so that now I can get more detailed maps to see more specifically where my visitors are coming from. The only downside is, I had to replace and archive the old map. But, man I loved what that showed me! I had visitors from every occupied continent except Africa. I had all over the USA, including Hawaii and Alaska; all over Canada, including I think Yellowknife; I had England, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal and others from Europe; I had two from somewhere in the Middle East; one in NEw Zealand; one in Hong Kong; one from Moscow; two from around Israel; and just recently two from India! Man, who knew the Palace got around so much?

Kinda like it's owner, eh?

Anyway, keep the visits coming, and now I'll be able to more specifically see where everyone is, instead of just big huge red dot covering the northeast United States.

POLT = listening to "Rescue Me" by Madonna

Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps. - Emo Phillips

Get out the map and lay your finger anywhere, pt 2...

Here is this week's Random Mapquest Location:

222 King Street in Seattle Washington.

POLT = listening to "The World Is Made Up For This & That" by Fatboy Slim

Robbie's Canadian. You can tell by his youth. - Stephen Fry, Wilde

Most of the time, I gotta haul....

I told all my friends and family to not get me anything for Christmas this year, because I wasn't buying anything for them. I did get my parents, cause, ya know, they're my parents, and I got the kids in the family, cause Christmas is all about kids. But despite them knowing I wasn't getting anything, I still got gifts from friends and family.


That's quite a haul, eh, for someone who told people not to get him anything. I guess that shows what great friends and family I have.

POLT = listening to "All Of My Love" by Led Zepplin

The opposite of war isn't peace, it's creation. - Marc Cohen, Rent

The windows of the atheletic star's upstairs bedroom...

Ya know, there a quite a number of hot male athletes out there, and since this is MY blog, I'm gonna post photos of some I found!

Graham Ackerman - gymnastics (and an out gay man as well!)

David Beckham - soccer (Posh Spice is such a lucky bitch)

Shelton Benjamin - wrestling

Pavel Bure - hockey

Alexandre Despatie - diving (not only does he fully pack a Speedo, but he's Canadian also!)

Timothy Goebbels - figure skating

Lebron James - basketball

Eli Manning - football

Peyton Manning - football

Michael Phelps - swimming

Mike Piazza - baseball (definately NOT gay. nope. No way. Not gay)

Andy Roddick - tennis

Tommy Rowlands - wrestling (can surely pack a singlet, eh?)

Thomas Rupprath - swimming (check out those thighs!)

Marat Safin - tennis

Wally Szcerbiak - basketball

Todd Thornton - gymnastics

Ian Thorpe - swimming

Chris Tomlinson - track (nice hairthing)

Shane Watson - Cricket (Were this to be the official uniform of cricket, I'm pretty certain it's fans would multiply)

Blaine Wilson - gymnastics

POLT = listening to "Possession" by Sarah MacLachlan

Now I know I've got to *BUM BUM* run away, I've got to *BUM BUM* get away from the pain you drive in to the heart of me. - Soft Cell, Tainted Love