Major cleaning effort here at The Castle. I have just finished cleaning the toilet and scrubbing the floor in the bathroom. Next is sweep and scrub the kitchen floor. All the while my iPod is playing my Rock Mix through the Blu-Ray sound system. I am most certainly enjoying myself this morning.

Yeah. And if you believe that, I have the title to a castle in England I can sell you. However, you might have to evict the squatting royalty perched on what they call their throne.

Arrogant elitists. What pain they are.

(RS) “We recycle everything that we remove — the water is extracted and the remaining fats and oils are turned into products like soap, biodiesel and fuel,” a CountyClean spokesman told AFP.

Fats from sewage used for soap? I am beginning to believe I might have to make my own soaps from now on.

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I’d like to think that as a counselor what I do speaks so loudly that my clients don’t need to hear what I say!

So, my HDTV died. It is an off brand I never heard of (SANSUI), but it was on sale. Lasted just long enough to get past the warranty. I ordered a Samsung-46″ LED – 1080p – 120Hz – Smart HDTV. I am going to go pick it up myself. However, it may not fit in the back seat of my Ford Focus, so I might instead pick it up when I pick up some furniture I am getting from the Ex-GirlFriend™ tomorrow. She managed some new stuff and I would like to have more than just two recliners.

(RS) A Michigan man on Tuesday was surprised to find a pipe loaded with marijuana inside a Burger King Kids Meal for his 4-year-old grandson.

“He handed the kid’s meal that he had gotten at Burger King to his 4-year-old grandson and when they opened it up they found a loaded marijuana pipe inside the kid’s meal,” police told Toledo News Now.

Yup. I remember those days. Good thing my ass was attached to the rest of my body back when marijuana was a staple of my life, or I would have left it in a bag as well.

Actually, when I was in the Navy, down at the Nuclear Power Training Facility in Orlando, a friend and I once got so stoned that we hide an ounce of marijuana we had just purchased in a floor speaker that he had in his van. We were so stoned that we both forgot it was there. We figured we traveled on and off the base for months with that bag in the speaker. In fact we drove from the Orlando base all the way up the East Coast to Massachusetts without realizing it was there. Not until we actually set up his speakers in the house we were renting did we discover it!

(RS) A study at University College London in the UK has found that conservatives’ brains have larger amygdalas than the brains of liberals. Amygdalas are responsible for fear and other “primitive” emotions. At the same time, conservatives’ brains were also found to have a smaller anterior cingulate — the part of the brain responsible for courage and optimism.

I always thought Conservatives were cowards!

I watched the beginning of “Batman Returns” and just realized that Paul Ruben has a cameo as the Penguin’s father.

I managed to get my lawn mowed just in time today. It has just started pouring outside! It does put a crimp on my going for Leg 11 of the Tour De Rook.

If you could see my face, it would have a sad on. A really big sad.