The Countertop Chronicles

Maybe not a Jacqueline Mackey Paisley Passey level of a catch, but at least someone thinks I’m pretty good.

82 As a 1930s husband, I am Very Superior Take the test!

Crap, another damn meme

Things Done & Not Done

highlight those you’ve done…or just make them bold

01. Bought everyone in the bar a drink

02. Swam with wild dolphins - well, I’ve kayaked with them

03. Climbed a mountain A bunch

04. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive

05. Been inside the Great Pyramid - had a chance, went skiing instead.

06. Held a tarantula

07. Taken a candlelit bath

08. Said I love you and meant it

09. Hugged a tree

10. Bungee jumped

11. Visited Paris

12. Watched a lightning storm at sea

13. Stayed up all night long and saw the sun rise

14. Seen the Northern Lights

15. Gone to a huge sports game Game 6 of the World Series - Mets v Red Sox counts??? Yeah, Billy Bruckner Baby.

16. Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa

17. Grown and eaten your own vegetables

18. Touched an iceberg

19. Slept under the stars

20. Changed a baby’s diaper

21. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon

22. Watched a meteor shower

23. Gotten drunk on champagne

24. Given more than you can afford to charity

25. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope

26. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment

27. Had a food fight

28. Bet on a winning horse

29. Asked out a stranger -

30. Had a snowball fight

31. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can

32. Held a lamb

33. Seen a total eclipse

34. Ridden a roller coaster

35. Hit a home run

36. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking

37. Adopted an accent for an entire day

38. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment

39. Had two hard drives for your computer

40. Visited all 50 states

41. Taken care of someone who was too drunk

42. Had amazing friends

43. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country

44. Watched wild whales

45. Stolen a sign

46. Backpacked in Europe

47. Taken a road-trip

48. Gone rock climbing -

49. Midnight walk on the beach

50. Gone sky diving

51. Visited Ireland

52. Been heartbroken longer than you were actually in love

53. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger’s table and had a meal with them

54. Visited Japan

55. Milked a cow

56. Alphabetized your CDs.

57. Pretended to be a superhero -

58. Sung karaoke

59. Lounged around in bed all day

60. Posed nude in front of strangers

61. Gone scuba diving

62. Kissed in the rain

63. Played in the mud

64. Played in the rain

65. Gone to a drive-in theater

66. Visited the Great Wall of China

67. Started a business

68. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken

69. Toured ancient sites

70. Taken a martial arts class

71. Played a Computer game for more than 6 hours straight

72. Gotten married

73. Been in a movie

74. Crashed a party

75. Gotten divorced

1. What is your occupation? I’m a lawyer and a lobbyist. More of a lobbyist than a lawyer these days, but I do have 4 cases currently pending. Does that make me the most evil person in America?? If you knew who I represented. . . .it might (here’s a hint - its no the tobbacco companies - but at one point or another, I’ve represented every other member of the extended axis of death in the movie Thank You For Smoking (which is fantastic by the way)

2. What color are your socks right now? what socks??

3. What are you listening to right now? My dog playing with a squeeky toy and my son making a fort out of clothing storage boxes.

4. What was the last thing that you ate? Pancakes and bacon. Breakfast for dinner. Mmmm

5. Can you drive a stick shift? Of course

6. Last person you spoke to on the phone? My wife. She took our oldest to the beach today, while I took Rex the dog and the youngest down south to meet with a trainer and work him on some pigeons.

7. Do you like the person who tagged you? I wasn’t tagged, but everyone’s favorite dead head - zoombababoobapsilocimbeembadoom did it, and I thought why not I. besides, no one ever tags me on these kind of things.8. How old are you today? ageless

9. What is your favorite sport to watch? On tv or in person??? In person, baseball. On TV, football.

10. What is your favorite drink? water, grapefruit juice, bourbon, coffee, Dr. Pepper

11. Have you ever dyed your hair? Nope

12. Last time you hugged your child? 5 minutes ago

13. Favorite food? Lobster, real pizza (NY) eggplant parmigiana, bacon, apple jacks

14. What was the last movie you watched? Clash of the Titans (last night with my oldest son)

15. Favorite day of the year? Any day during the weeks leading up to Christmas (though I don’t particularlly care for Christmas itself, probably because its the realizatino that I need to wait another year for the season to arrive (and the fact that these days stores drop the Christmas stuff on Christmas Eve and you walk into the mall on December 26th and its all lovey dovey valentines day. Yuch!

16. How do you vent anger? I masturbate

17. What was your favorite toy as a child? John, my stuffed dog. Or my GI Joes.

18. What is your favorite season? Fall

19. Ocean or pool? pool

20. Cherries or Blueberries? blueberries

21. Do you want your family & friends to participate? huh??

22. Who is the most likely to respond? huh??

24. Living arrangements? wife kids and dog

25. When was the last time you cried? When my dog died in February

26. What is on the floor of your closet? Carpet, shoes

27. Who is the family or friend you have known the longest that you are tagging? I’m not tagging anyone

28. What did you do last night? Put a scope of my rifle, loaded some ammo, tuned my son’s bike, made love to my wife,

29. Hawaii or Florida? Neither. Colorado

30. What inspires you? My kids

31. What are you most afraid of? Something horrible happening to my children.

32. Plain, cheese or spicy hamburgers? cheddar bacon, thank you. Mmmmmmm…… baaaaaaaaaa-connnn [drooooooooooooool……]

33. Favorite dog breed? I like BLACK America Field Style labrador retrievers. Other than that, I’m a big fan of German Short haired Pointer

34. Favorite day of the week? Friday

35 How many states have you lived in?

1) New Jersey
2) Tennessee
3) Rhode Island
4) Vermont
5) D.C. (not a state)
6) Virginia

I also lived in London England for a year

36 Do you like these questionnaires? sometimes

37. What kind of car did your very first date drive? Well, my first date happened when I was in 6th grade, and neither of us had a car then and well, by the time we were 17 and able to drive - I had no idea where she was living. But at that point I had a Mercedes 240d and the first girl I dated who actually had a car had a Toyota sedan. Back seat was big enough.

38. What is the last book you read? Carbon Finance

I’m also reading a bunch of dog training books, but those are going step by step

39. What are your hobbies? Politics, guns, dogs,hiking, kayaking, biking, kids, going to baseball games, having sex.

40. Can you still make the Hula Hoop stay around your waist? I have no idea. Dont know when the last time I hula hooped was .

The best positions

a psychonanalytic procedure in which a person is encouraged to give free rein to his or her thoughts and feelings, verbalizing whatever comes into the mind without monitoring its content.

1. State :: of the Union
2. Lively :: up yourself and dont be no drag; Lively up yourself, cause this is the other bag
3. Valet :: Parking
4. Traction :: Control
5. Official :: Designation
6. Red hot :: Chili Peppers
7. Powder :: Eskimos have 20 words for snow
8. Replies :: quickly
9. Flagrant :: abuse of discretion
10. Tweet :: y bird

This weeks bizarness

1. Thug :: A Lug and Hug a Bug
2. Slurp :: Eeee - Grape Please
3. Alley :: Cat Blues
4. Sweater vest :: Its cold today, I shouldn’t still be wearing one this late in the year. Where did Spring go??
5. Targeted :: And denied - by the Izaak Walton League. Headed down to the range to do the long awaited post on the Uncle AK, and lo and behold I didn’t have this years membership badge with me
6. Snazzy :: Like a Scooby Snack
7. Oy! :: Vey!
8. Jury duty :: Not for me, thanks.
9. Low fat :: Whats that?
10. Responsibility :: family is fun. Kids under the weather.

Zoombaboombalaloomba likes to do these every week. Thought I’d give some unconscious mutterings a try myself.

1. Questioning :: Authority
2. Immunity :: from prosecution
3. Online dating :: free sex
4. Calcium :: Carbonate
5. Dressing :: for the weather, make sure to wear a tie. Why don’t I ever wear socks?
6. Bucket :: of shit
7. Stain :: Its Been Awhile
8. Advanced :: Authorization
9. Dramatic :: license
10. Self-medication :: no more

Jay G wanted folks to show their mug . . . well, here ya go.

I too have two main cups.

One for the drive in

And a very fitting one for the office -

Sebastian posted today about a great Flickr group: theitemsthatwecarry. He was most impressed by the fact that someone there had posted their Glock.

Well, thats all well and good . . . but I’m a 1911 man and low and behold, happened to be carrying mine while perusing his blog. Well, that means only one thing . . . I ought to post my own 1911 positive entry.

Anyone know if Kim du Toit ever put up the results of the latest Crossing the Wilderness?

He indicated a couple of weeks ago it would be a few days late, just wondering if I missed it.

In any case, here’s my submission

26 inch Browning BPS in 12 gauge
Ruger Blackhawk in .45 Colt

Do I really need to say anything else? They work. Food and vermits (2 legged and 4) are easily handled easily with both. Don’t imagine I need to engage in long range battle, any attack will be launched at close range against me, but if I keep my profile down shouldn’t be too much of a problem with hostiles. Plus, the BPS can unleash a mountain of firepower if need be and still supply me with plenty of food (and a wide variety of it too - birds, large game, etc).

I’d take about 300 rounds of .45 colt, 400 rounds of 12 gauge slugs, and a mix of bird, turkey and duck shot with the remaining 1100 rounds. Don’t imagine that

My Buck 110, a small hand ax, and my leatherman (the original model I’ve had for 20 years) would be the knives (hey, what do you know, those are the knives I carry now)

I’d take a Labrador retriever with me.

Everyone else is doing it, I might as well too.

1. Name a movie that you have seen more than 10 times.

Star Wars (300+)

2. Name a movie that you’ve seen multiple times in the theater.

Star Wars (when it was first released as a five year old, when they re released it before ESB and ROJ, and then when they re-released the enhanced version in the mid90s).

3. Name an actor that would make you more inclined to see a movie.

Harrison Ford

4. Name an actor that would make you less likely to see a movie.

Rosie O’Donnell

5. Name a movie that you can and do quote from.

Star Wars

6. Name a movie musical that you know all of the lyrics to all of the songs.

Monty Python’s Meaning of Life.

7. Name a movie that you have been known to sing along with.

Monty Python’s Meaning of Life

8. Name a movie that you would recommend everyone see.

Star Wars

9. Name a movie that you own.

Star Wars

10. Name an actor that launched his/her entertainment career in another medium but who has surprised you with his/her acting chops.

Harry Connick Junior

11. Have you ever seen a movie in a drive-in? If so, what?

Yes. Lots, couldn’t even start.

12. Ever made out in a movie?

If you consider her lips on my dick as making out . . .

13. Name a movie that you keep meaning to see but just haven’t yet gotten around to it.

THX 1138

14. Ever walked out of a movie?

Yes. Lots

15. Name a movie that made you cry in the theater.

Not cry, but certainly brought me to the verge - We Are Marshall.

16. Popcorn?

Jujy Fruits

17. How often do you go to the movies (as opposed to renting them or watching them at home)?

No a days, almost never. I took my kid to see Cars and Flushed Away. If a big action movie plays at the Uptown Cinema, I might go.

18. What’s the last movie you saw in the theater?

Either Cars or Pirates of the Caribean II.

19. What’s your favorite/preferred genre of movie?

Well made movies

20. What’s the first movie you remember seeing in the theater?

Star Wars or Puff the Magic Dragon. Don’t know which was first.

21. What movie do you wish you had never seen?

The Crying Game

22. What is the weirdest movie you enjoyed?

There are lots.

23. What is the scariest movie you’ve seen?

None.

24. What is the funniest movie you’ve seen?

Blazing Saddles

First, new blogger sucks. Can’t wait to complete the switch over here.

Now, Bitter has tagged me with the Five Things Meme so here goes.

1. Not a homebrewer anymore (like Sebastian, but I did brew for a good ten years, was pretty dam good at it, and in fact worked through law school at Catamount Brewing Company in White River Junction, VT. For those who arte interested, my three specialties (and I still have the recipies - though sadly not the yeast anymore) were a Spring Bock, a killer Dunkleweisen, and a Fat Tire clone.

2. I woked for Friends of the Earth, UK in the Sustainable Development Research Unit but generally can’t stand smelly environmentalists.

3. I once made a go at being a professional photographer - but quickly discovered without the unlimited financing of my parents I would never be able to eat let alone afford film.

4. I too think the NRA Firearms museum is swell, and recommend that everyone visiting DC make a trip out to it and the Dulles Annex of the Air and Space Museum (only 3 or 4 miles down the road) - which I think are the two best museums the DC area has to offer.

5. While most of my professional career has focused on environemntal law and related issues, I also spent some time representing rape victims (and worked with the DC Rape Crisis Center) in premise liability actions. The partner who I worked for at the time was perhaps the biggest pervert and one of the shadiest attorney’s I ever met, yet he represented his clients to the best of his abilities and I would trust him far more than the vast vast majority of the so-called ethical AV rated attorney’s at the worlds largest law firms whom I deal with every day now.