Well, first off – laundry. Drying my bedding except my comforter now. The comforter and two towels are in the washing machine.

I am contemplating doing some Mindfulness Meditation as I await the dryer’s buzzer. I believe a good primer for Mindfulness Meditation is “Wherever You Go There You Are” by Jon Kabat-Zinn.

Maybe around noon I will take another bike ride. Weather.com and NOAA are forecasting sunny skies. I will see.

Oh, and I am planning on cleaning the rest of the house; vacuuming and mopping.

And then, when all that is said and done, I plan on overthrowing Western Civilization as we know it, replacing it with a John Cole utopia.

Now get off my damn lawn you rotten kids!

Yeah, I know. I know. I said yesterday that I would write a post about my health. Well, it is now today (yesterday’s tomorrow, in case anyone is interested) and I am finally getting around to another post about my health.

Over the years I have struggled with a lot of physical problems. If I had to take a guess, I would say part of it was the result of years of stress working at Cochran Center (a now defunct chemical dependency program) under a supervisor who was beyond toxic as well as some accidents and the lack of health insurance at various times in my life over the last 8 years. Normally I do not write about work, but this was from years ago, so I think it is safe to write about the horrible conditions I worked under back then.

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And it is stories like this that make me embarrassed for the human race.

(Today) A tea kettle that bears a potential resemblance to Adolf Hitler has landed J.C. Penney in hot water.

A California billboard advertising a Michael Graves-designed kettle for sale at the store has some wondering whether they are being saluted by the Nazi dictator instead of waiting for tea to heat up.

The billboard, first noticed by Reddit users near the 405 freeway in Culver City, had readers questioning whether the similarity was just a coincidence.

www.jcpenney.com                                                          The controversial kettle.

On Tuesday the company made it clear that any resemblance is completely “unintentional,” repeatedly tweeting the clarification at those curious about a Hitler connection.

“If we had designed it to look like something, we would have gone with a snowman or something fun,” the store tweeted at numerous followers.

Hat Tip to Mustang Bobby.

Chris Matthew’s programming. I love Obama.I hate Obama. I love Obama. I hate Obama. I love Obama. Mostly now I hate Obama.

— Just Hussein Jo (@desertcronenm) May 28, 2013

I love a short work week. It was a good holiday weekend. I had fun down in the cities with a special friend. I was able to get my housework completed yesterday. I am ready to face the week. I hope all your weekend plans went well. If not, then I hope that you learned the lesson the challenge was designed to teach.

And really? Snow in May? While I am watching Notting Hill? Somehow, though, snow during the particular scene you are listening to seems appropriate.

Off to work I go. Yes, it is time for me to fulfill my obligation to the bank account. It is a hungry beast, requiring daily nourishment. Sigh. The life of a state worker………

That is right. It is a YouTube about a cat. I know; how original. Tough. Suck it up and watch you heartless bastards.

It will never be featured at the George W. Bush Presidential Library, I can assure you.

But thankfully only his two terms as President are dead; he’s still alive. So……..

Fuck You George W. Bush.

Thousands died because of your failure early in your first term and hundreds of thousands (if not more) died because of you incompetence after September 11th, 2001. Innocent men, women, and children in Iraq died because of your lies. Brave American service members sacrificed their lives because of your lies.

You will never be anything more than a Miserable Failure.