Oddessey2000

2009 is on its way out! And, good riddance to bad rubbish! OK I admit it. I am feeling a bit crabby this New Years Eve. 2009 was not a good year. Today in particular I got a chain style email that set me off. I am just sick of Racist and classist emails forwarded to me by people who have NO CLUE what the message is or of the fact that the entire email is a complete and total fictional fabrication. I'm no bleeding heart liberal but keep your hate-filled, uneducated, rhetoric to yourself. Send me something that you have researched just the ABSOLUTE MINIMUM to ensure its not a pack of lies and I can accept it on that merit. But, when because you have some deep seated hate for a different skin color or someone from another country or another religion, and you want to promulgate emails about fictional bills being considered in congress and how bad these people are and everything else.....well thats just wrong. And for the next email to come down the pipe to be one about the 11th commandment (I'll explain in a bit.) The email I talk about its the one they send directly after this hate filled diatribe I receive. It is the email about Jesus. You know the one, some cute poem about how Jesus loves us....about how Jesus loves everyone. The catch is if YOU LOVE JESUS you will forward this email on to everyone in your address book and anyone else you can think of that might/ or ESPECIALLY MIGHT NOT want to receive it. thus the 11th commandment. Thou shalt forward ALL emails about Jesus to EVERYONE. Hey I warned you, I am feeling crabby. I am just tired of class ism and racism that is constantly shoved down my throat in the form of statements and accusations that are out and out lies. It is worse than the old Microsoft and AOL are getting together and will give you $486.14 for each forward you make, and $113.72 for each they forward and ..............................so on and so forth. At least with those they weren't hate driven and were only carried on by ignorance and a hope for a free lunch. Now it is hatred at the start and racist hatred carries it onward. Just stop sending me these lies please.

What a way to sign off on the new year but it is where I am at now.

Yes. Matthew and I got to got to the UFO house. I'll get to that later too in depth.

Right now I just wanted to say a few things about my family. My kids? Well Steph and Mathew are one there way back to Memphis to go home to Utah. short vist. lots of pics. But a wonderful time. I got cool gifts. I GAVE cool gifts. we hung out (the best gift).
I'll miss them. Well if your read the prior entry, you will see that Katie is ....well she is um......well whatever she is it should be bottled and sold. Gio is feeling quite better.I want to get into what Christmas and gifts were like but we will see in another entry.

Mary? I love Mary. she really puts up with me and just looking at her fills me with love and things I shouldnt talk about. I am a very lucky man.

Can you tell I am in a good mood?

We are currently in Stephani and Matthew's room at the Drawbridge. Katie just yelleld out loudly ,"COOL!" we all turned to se what her excitement was over and she says ," If I stick the earbud from my IPOD TOUCH up my nose and open my mouth I can hear music coming out my mouth!"

I have written about this particular little dilly a few times here in my blog. Maybe more than a few and even several. I think it is the coolest most important landmark in the Northern Kentucky/Greater Cincinnati area. I mean if you look at the image for the link to my photogallery, you will see the Rabbit Hash General Store, and not even THAT surpasses our UFO house. I'm not kidding either. Since I was a kid this place inspired my dreams. When I worked at NKU I would take new International students on lunch tours to see it and either get white castles or cheese coney's for lunch. My children have seen this house up close more than I ever did as a child. I would try to finagle at least a drive by in the area. The kids tended to always be on my side.

Mom on the other hand isn't really impressed. I think it became more an annoyance to her for us to go by. I know my dream of someday buying that house and moving it by helicopter to my own property was never realistic, was less than a dream but a pipe dream. However, I do worry that Joee and Gio will never remember having seen it with us moving to South Texas for good.

Then there is my latest dilemma. Steph and Matthew are in for one day only on the 28th. I am sure we will see them again in Texas but not in Northern Kentucky unless there is a funeral. And, lord knows THAT is NOT an appropriate time to take someone to see the house. See, Matthew has never seen it at all. And although I am sure if I dug in my heals I could get to drive him down there to see it but I'm not sure. I know its awfully weird but that house is important to me and its unimportant to me that those who I take to see it think it is pretty "neat" too. I think I would be rather hurt if I took someone and the felt I had wasted their time. So there in lies my dilemma as I stated before. Do I dig in and ensure he gets to see it or do I save my pride and keep my dreams intact? Its a tuff one I tell ya. I do know that Mary said Steph and Matthew were going to drive down to Rabbit Hash. So, maybe thats more Stephani's place and the UFO house dies with my leaving to Texas.


The upshot is that whatever happens , because I have been blogging so infrequently of late, They will likely have come and gone before anyone even reads this so it won't effect the outcome either way.

The story lives on yet again. OK, for a few years now I have been sharing this to spread a bit of Eddington brand holiday cheer.  I find it just as fun to remember as I did putting it together and the people who comment on it this year so far seem to enjoy it just as much.  So leap right in and enjoy.
50 Steps to an afternoon of
not quite getting the perfect
Family Christmas Card Picture.



We dointendt to make another try at it this year. wish us well.