Spelling my name in analogies, pulling your eyelids down...

Hmmmm.....

Well, honestly, if he's at my house, attired thusly, he ain't gonna be there for his spelling skills anyway, ya know?

POLT

Call me in three months time, and I'll be fine (Part 10)...

Thursday Three

Let's take a look at what made my week these past 7 days.

1) Resuming my walks.

I'm still not walking like I was before going to Richmond, but this past week I did take 3 walks, and in the two weeks prior to that I think I only took two, so it's a big improvement.  And I actually do enjoy it when I'm out walking.  I just have to remember sunscreen, since I got a bit red from my walk on Monday.

2) Gas getting below $3.50.

Not sure how bad it is where you are, but gas finally got back down.  And since I took this picture, it's fallen again to $3.45.  Still not the 89 cents a gallon I remember it being when I delivered pizza in 1988, but hey, it's better then $3.99, no?

3) Getting the air conditioner in.

I've had the one in the bedroom for a few weeks, I can NOT sleep when it's hot/humid.  But downstairs, with the ceiling fans, I've been doing fine.  Until this past weekend, when the humidity hit and hit hard.  So I got it in the window Monday, and I've used it twice so far.  HATE humidity, blech!

So, what made you life better these past seven days?

POLT

Cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots (Part 225)...

WifeBeater Wednesdays

This week's theme: Track Athletes In Wife Beaters!

POLT

Follow-up....

So how did I do on my To-Do List for today?  Well let me tell ya....

Got up at 750Am.
Showered, dressed,
Ate breakfast while I harvested crops on Farmville and then started two anti-virals,
Cleaned the junk out of my car to prepare for it's cleaning,
Went to Post Office, mailed letters and got roll of stamps,
Met mom at Credit Union and then drove over to get the cars cleaned,
Upon returning home, I sprayed the weeds in my driveway,
With mom, but the new border up around the front garden (which took a LOT of bending and squating and dear GOD my knees and thighs are sore now!),
With mom, but filled the trench in and put the plywood down in the basement,
With mom, put the air conditioner in,
Mom went with grandmas, I ended up reading and taking a short nap in bed,
Walked to moms,
With mom, took Angel to the groomers,
Went to Hallmark and got June's cards,
Went to KFC and got lunch, returned to mom's and ate it,
Walked home,
Threw a load of clothes in the washer,
Watered the plants in the front garden,
Put clothes in dryer,
Took short nap on couch while watching TV,
Entertained a fuckbuddy during a short surprise visit,
Folded the clothes,
Made a tv dinner for supper and ate it,
Putzed around on the computer.

And now, kids, I am ready for bed. I have been exhausted since the late morning, but legs are killing me.  I thought I was doing better with the walking, but 1) I haven't been walking a lot lately and 2) bending and squating is using your legs in a different way than walking, so I supposed that's why I'm not used to it.

Anyway, I'll be in bed soon after 9, I'm sure. Yeah, just one of the fun reasons to get old.

POLT

In the air I'm in my underwear, my under the underwear...

Last night, after doing a load of laundry, I put the shirts away and then pulled out all the undies. I shoved them in the drawer and then thought....hmm, do I have too many pairs of underwear?  So I pulled them all out and threw them on the bed.  So tell me, DO I have too many pairs of underwear?

Yeah, I couldn't tell either, so I actually folded them all (for the first time in my life), and put them on the bed and took this photo.

So yeah, I have 56 pairs of underwear.  Is that too many?

POLT

The back of your hand somewhere on my behind (Part 112)...

Tooshie Tuesdays

This week's theme: Athlete Tooshies!

Cyclist

Baseball

Soccer

Surfer

Tennis

POLT

All the errands in the world won't save us now...

Since today is Monday, my regular day off AND a holiday, I get to take another day off as my holiday.  And I've decided to take tomorrow.  And it's a good thing I won't be working, cause I made a list of things I need to get done, hopefully all tomorrow:


- Mail some letters and get stamps at the Post Office, 
- Buy all my cards (b-day and anniversary) for the month June, 
- Clean out my car of all the extraneous junk in it, 
- Take car to the carwash to get it cleaned up, inside and out, 
- Put in the big air conditioner I use downstairs, 
- Put up a small border around the front garden (I already bought it, just have to get it in), 
- Do the load of laundry I didn't do today, 
- Clean the toilet, sink, and possible tub, 
- Take a walk, 
- Fill in some of the trench in the basement and cover that section with plywood I have waiting down there.


I've enlisted mom's help in getting some of these done (she wants to get her car cleaned there too, so we're taking both our cars), and at some point in time, I'm going to buy her lunch somewhere for her help. We're supposed to leave from my house at 9AM...we'll see. 


But now that I've put the list here, hopefully that will be incentive enough to get it all done.  I'll report back tomorrow night on how much I did and did not get done.

POLT

Your wantin' my body, I don't mind (Part 355)...

MONDAY'S HOT SHIRTLESS GUY PHOTOS

This week's theme: Hot Shirtless Athletes.

Baseball

Soccer

Wrestling

POLT

You're an angry bird walking in circles...

Since before Christmas, thank to my longtime friend Johnnie, I've been addicted to Angry Birds.  And while all the versions (except for Angry Birds Space, which sucks runny bird eggs) are fun, not all the Angry Birds are equal.  So here's a list of all the different Angry Birds (excepting, again, the ones from Angry Birds Space) and their rating on Polt's Awesome Scale.

Best start here.

Black Bird (aka Boom Boom)


This guy is the best because regardless of the kind of material they're going against (glass, wood, stone or pig) he simply blows them all up and out of the way!  He doesn't go as far as some birds, but with his destructive power, who cares?


Big Red Bird (aka Big Brother)

This big boy just slams into things and knocks them down, over or to pieces.  He quick destructive, and a great bird to use.  But he flies even less far than the Black one, and isn't explosive, so that's why he rates below the Black one.














Yellow Bird (aka Speedy)

This guy can fly farther and faster than any other.  And with his increase in speed, he can blast right through wood like it's not there!  Doesn't so much against stone at all, and for whatever reason, even a small pain of the glass stops it, even though the glass is destroyed.  But honestly, you can go through wood but not glass???










Little Blue Bird (aka Triple Threat)

This little guy can split into three individuals, hitting three different things.  Also, he wreaks all kinds of havoc on the glass obstacles like nobody's business. But he's basically worthless against wood and even less so against stone.














Orange Bird (aka Blow-Up Bird)

This is a weird one: he swells up to a big balloon shape.  And that's really a great thing, if you can get him positioned properly.  But it's sometimes difficult to do so.  And sometimes, he doesn't move things (like the snow squares in the Christmas holiday version), HE moves.  So his whole gimmick is then worthless.  But if you can get him properly positioned, he's quite helpful.



Blue Parrot (aka Freak-Out)

He's only in the Rio version, and I suppose he's a character from the Rio Disney movie, having not seen it, I don't know.  He doesn't fly very far, and is quite awkward, and all he does it, when he hits something, he flails his wings around and knocks things over.  It's okay, but not all that.






Red Bird (aka The Regular One)

This guy is the first one you deal with.  And he's....okay.  Fine.  Kinda meh.  He doesn't DO anything like all the other ones.  He's kinda....there.  Which is, well, as I said....fine.
















Green Bird (aka Boomerang)

This guy swings back like a boomerang, which can be helpful getting to things on the far side an of obstacle. But he's very difficult to control at times and really, honestly, not worth the hassle.
















Two Blue Parrots (aka The Chain Gang)

Again, these are probably from the Disney movie that I refuse to see, so I don't what the hell is up with them.  But they're chained together at the ankle.  When launched, they're very awkward flying about and the only thing  they do is, when instructed, fly in a straight line right out of the screen.  Anything in their way is presumably sliced up by the chain between them.  It's an okay thing, but nothing spectacular, and they are very difficult to control.  I'm glad they're not used too much.








White Bird (aka Egg Pooper)

This guy drops eggs which explode on contact.  Sounds not too bad right?  Wrong.  Getting the hang of how the eggs fall (straight down, no sideward momentum at ALL) sucks.  And the bird itself doesn't fly very far at all.  And why do we need exploding eggs when we have a Black exploding bird that explodes more powerfully?  The only upside to the Egg Pooper is that after dropping the egg, the bird itself flies off at an upwards angle, and take out some other obstacles if positioned properly.  But that too isn't easy to get the hang of.  And it really doesn't make for all the other White Bird lameness.







Worst end here.

So, do any of you play Angry Birds, and if you do, do you agree or disagree with my opinions?

POLT

Drive my mini-Cooper and I'm feeling super-dooper (Part 178)...

Superman Sundays

This week, we've got two Superman athletes: Dwight Howard flying through the air and a track star who wore a Superman S on his shirt the whole season and ran like with super-speed.

POLT

Let's get unconscious honey (Part 308)...

UNCONSCIOUS MUTTERINGS

These come each week from http://subliminal.lunanina.com/


I say ... and you think ... ?

1. Nervous :: Energy
2. Style :: Fashion
3. Yarn :: Knit
4. Bangs :: Haircut
5. Horoscope :: Sagittarius
6. Talkative :: Boring
7. Siren :: Alarm
8. Quilt :: Comfy
9. Smudge :: Ink
10. Clicking :: TV Remote

POLT

Goin down on you, x-ray vision seein' right on thru...

I remember this ad!!!

It was in the back of a comic book, with a whole bunch of other cheesy, cheap little gizmos.  But this one caught my attention (this one and a thing that supposedly turned blank paper into money...just so long as you already slid the dollar bill into the 'secret' compartment before showing your friends).  I mean, who DOESN'T want, as a ten-eleven year old boy, to be able to see through the clothes of the people around you?

So I saved up my allowance over several weeks (hey, I was only getting $1.00 a week allowance back then, and I still had to buy the comic books that came out each week), and eventually sent away for the X-Ray specs and money changer.  And I checked the mail religiously every day after school to see if the package arrived.

Finally after was seemed like YEARS (but was probably only a few weeks) the package arrived.  I tried the specs on...and man was I disappointed.  It was just like a pair of plastic frames with something that looked like a feather in each frame.  And when you, as the instructions said, looked at your hand through the glasses, it distorted your fingers enough, overlapping them, so that it looked like your could see a bone under your skin.

Oh it was complete and total crap (much like the money changer).  And I was very upset.  What a waste of $1.99!  But it was at that point in time when I learned, if anything seemed too good to be true, it probably was.

POLT

My baby's got a secret (Part 160)...

Secret Saturdays

These come from http://postsecret.blogspot.com

This week's theme: Athletic Secrets!

POLT

Some boys kiss me, some boys hug me (Part 318)...

Frenching Fridays

This week's theme: Athletic Kisses.

Hockey

Soccer

Baseball

POLT

Call me in three months time, and I'll be fine (Part 9)...

Thursday Three

What happened this week to make my life funner?  Let's see.

1) Fully updating iTunes.

After about a month, I finally got ALL my CD's onto my iTunes.  It was 7442 songs.  Yeah, guess that explains why it took so long, eh?  Don't know how many different CD's I put on there, but the above photo is of ALL those CD's stacked on a dresser in my attic.  That'll give you an idea.

2) The front garden.

On Monday, mom and I finally got the petunias planted in the front garden.  yeah, in the above photo, they don't look like much, but I'll be taking periodically photos of them, and posting them here.  And you'll see how much and quickly they grow!  I really enjoy having those planted and growing.  They make the house more...homey.

3) Getting the dryer moved.

After living in the house for almost three years, mom and I FINALLY got the dryer moved next to the washer where I've always wanted it.  And it didn't take long to do it.  And there were no major messups (like usually happen when we try to do something).  So it's all good.  And now, I don't have to lug my wet clothes from the washer to the dryer.

What made you're week great?

POLT

Cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots (Part 224)...

Wife-Beater Wednesdays

This week's theme: Water Wife-Beaters!

With a sweet tooshie thrown in to boot!

Damn...hairthing AND ab ridges!  Sweet!

POLT

I take, a photograph of you....

In Richmond, when I was taking some photos or Kris and I, he was too.  And one of his came out a whole lot better than any of mine I thought.  And bless his heart, he emailed it to me yesterday.  

Doesn't he have just THE cutest smile?

POLT

The back of your hand somewhere on my behind (Part 111)...

Tooshie Tuesdays

This week's theme: Pool Tooshies!

POLT