Heaven knows that the lifestyle of a Cantankerous Old Coot isn’t easy. It might seem glamorous and all but fame and fortune aren’t easy. And then there is actually living up to the title. You have to be on your toes every minute, With all those messages urging you to take the well-worn path of ordinary, charting your own course through life takes determined and dogged commitment. You have to fight the urges to just settle for what everybody else does and do something special. Travel is no exception.
Travel these days means cruises. You can’t avoid the commercials showing happy people eating or playing on cruise ships. It’s like water torture except with pretty pictures. It is so hard to resist. What’s not to like? Lots of food in exotic locals while you are safely isolated from any of the harsh realities of actually visiting a foreign country, trying to understand a foreign language and deal with a foreign culture. You are quarantined in luxurious digs surrounded by shlubs just like you. And you have a crew whose job is to make sure you are happy while you float through alien cultures without ever having to engage. And did I mention the food?
Another week of “non-funny” political news…this is getting old. Looking at silly government stupidity is a lot more fun!
This week I have a show for you that is duplicated across 4 sites…JuicyMaters, Common Sense Conversation, and Haylestorm Interactive, along with being here at Cantankerous Old Coots. It’s not that I’m too lazy to do separate shows this week…though that IS an incentive…it is that it is a message everyone who uses the internet needs to be familiar with.
Anyway…some of you might have noticed many sites on the internet were protesting something called “SOPA” Wednesday. Some sites like Wikipedia were completely gone for the day. Some sites, like da Coots, had an opening page about the protest that visitors could click through to get to the site. And then, there were site owners who did nothing. Ralph, Justin, and I felt the issue was important enough to take Coots dark. Here is why:
Bob comes to us with a skeptical
attitude and a full cup of Cantankerousness. He also writes about homesteading and yurts over
at JuicyMaters.com and rants about politics at Common-Sense-Conversation.com
Don't forget about "The Political Coot" right here Tuesdays at 8pm Eastern.
Hello folks. Today’s podcast is inspired by a post over on my friend Maria Muir’s site. It is about the absurd lengths the TSA is going through to make sure citizens get violated, I mean secured. Go check Maria’s stuff out at MariaMuir.com. She will love the traffic. The link to the article is after the podcast!
This pic is just a portent of what will be expected in the airport in the next few years. I can picture the agent (a large woman with a german accent strangely enough) saying, “Now you will stand like this while we check you for incendiary devices in your lower intestine!” Scary thoughts.
Hello everyone. Well, why you are waiting for the next installment from the coots, it has come to my attention that Monday has been gathering cobwebs around here. I guess it is either up to me to change that or delegate it to someone else.
As for today, Facebook has informed me that this is the day that Bob was dug out from under a rock somewhere in the back country and mercilessly prodded into a lifetime of Cantankerosity.
Finally, a thing that Facebook is actually good for. At any rate we here at the Coots, well at least me and I would assume Ralph but his cantankerous button has been turned up to high lately, would like to wish our colleague Bob a Happy Birthday.
I will have to come up with some fancy song like in one of those restaurants who can’t bring themselves to go traditional because of pending charges from Michael Jackson. Wait, Michael is dead, who got all of the Beatles songs and Happy Birthday rights?
Well folks, in the grand tradition of sites everywhere I am participating in yet another year end post. Today I have a few awards to hand out.
We will start right here with the coots:
Justin, that’s me, gets the Laziest Coot with the most Crap to Do award. I award myself this because it seems the hours that used to be productive are now stolen by a 1 year old and cleaning up the house. I can only hope that 2012 will allow me to get more sleep and concentrate more on my business and making some dough. Both bread and money.
