A Very Merry Un-Blogday to You, to You!

Just got home from taking Fabio for his basketball physical. He is perfectly healthy. He is still in the top 96 percentile in the height department for his age. I am happy that he takes after Cha Cha's side of the family because I am the tallest one in my family (parents, brother, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins...) and I am only 5'9" (MIDDLE by most American measurements but Bigfoot surrounded by my clan). Thanks to Cha Cha's lineage there is hope for the Helser descendants getting out of The Shire.

Today is Bram Stoker's 165th birthday and it's my guess that he is still alive somewhere. I bet Dracula is on television today or tonight somewhere. In case you are unfamiliar Bram Stoker is the Irish gent who wrote Dracula. His real first name was Abraham; can you imagine President Bram Lincoln? Bra would have been better for Lincoln. Filmmaker John Borowski is on the newest load of Dirty Laundry Podcast and I have to wonder if it's a coincidence or fate with it being Stoker's birthday since John's first three films have been documentaries about serial killers. Count Dracula has to be one of the most famous serial killers of all time. The main difference between he and Borowski's subjects is that Dracula was fictional and H.H. Holmes, Albert Fish and Carl Panzram were not. One of my favorite parts of doing the podcast, with spending time talking to Cha Cha as my #1 favorite, is that I have met so many really great people that I consider good friends now.

I noticed that fuel prices went up pretty quickly after the election was over. I also heard that gun stock, the kind that you buy to benefit from a company's profits not the kind that you hold the gun against your body with, sales went up. I cannot help but think that the fuel prices were lower pre-election to get us to vote a certain way and the stock sales are due to people buying stocks because they are counting on gun sales to rise for fear of tougher regulations coming soon. Everything is about money in this country and I think it's a shame. I voted the way I did despite all of these issues.

The Matt Hatter!!!

Does the Tea Party still exist? I think I want to start the Sun Tea Party. Maybe the Earle Grey Party. I also like Chamomile. Maybe we could combine the Green Party and the Tea Party and, do I need to say it?, The Green Tea Party!

I think I am going to make a big salad and get some stuff done before I have to get some other stuff done. Thank you, as always, for sharing some of your time with me reading the blog. I hope you have a great day and night. I am pretty sure I will be back here tomorrow sometime. TTTT...MITM (salading out). TA! Salad really should be a verb don't you think?