tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36045082009-05-31T08:29:06.015-04:00CroMagnonA small town guy from North Carolina trying to get by in the modern world with caveman viewpoints.Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05496360168447852242noreply@blogger.comBlogger89125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604508.post-84638635604932849082009-02-04T15:47:00.003-05:002009-02-04T15:51:29.967-05:00Holy crap. President Barack Hussein Obama is putting a cap on executive salaries? The most any executive can make now is $500k/year? Is this legal? Where in the Constitution does it say that the CinC can interfere (I can't think of a better word) in the free enterprise system like this? Yet Congress votes itself over $90k PER MEMBER to use for their "constituents" and no one bats an eye. IsStevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05496360168447852242noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604508.post-69200076903769882332009-01-27T23:50:00.002-05:002009-01-28T00:01:54.608-05:00I am a big fan of the right to bear arms. It's in the Constitution; it's the law of the land. Besides, it's a damn fine idea. Like Heinlein said, an armed society is a polite society. However, I don't personally own a firearm. Sounds like a contradiction, doesn't it? Let me explain.Anyone who comes here probably knows what The Better Half and I do. If not, I suggest you read some of the Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05496360168447852242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604508.post-72998931091795351192009-01-18T21:37:00.003-05:002009-01-18T21:48:27.704-05:00Happy freakin' New Year, y'all! I'm a couple of weeks late; sue me.I saw bigotry in action in, of all places, church a couple of weeks ago. I won't go into details, but suffice it to say that it nauseated me.I've had several people ask me what I do during the day. Let me give you a capsule synopsis of a usual day in my life. I'm usually up between 5 and 5:30 AM in the morning. I have a Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05496360168447852242noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604508.post-67612735956476367872008-12-10T14:33:00.000-05:002008-12-10T14:34:10.779-05:00The demons won.Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05496360168447852242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604508.post-74121465651866915512008-12-05T15:49:00.004-05:002008-12-05T15:53:16.531-05:00Merry freakin' Christmas, everyone. Ho ho frickin' ho. Sorry, not much in the Christmas spirit this year. Too damn much going on, at home and work, not to mention several personal demons that are giving me a hard time right now. I'm trying to get better, but only time will tell.Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05496360168447852242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604508.post-66986187432644652682008-09-04T15:05:00.002-04:002008-09-04T15:18:03.959-04:00I know, I know, it's September. Seven frickin' months. I've been busy, okay? Gee, Cap'n Caveman, what's kept you so busy? Alright, kiddies, gather 'round and let the old guy fill you in.First, Sarah was taken to the hospital in late February. She had a very high fever and was in respiratory distress. After two weeks in pediatric ICU (PICU) she was diagnosed with -- are you ready for this? -Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05496360168447852242noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604508.post-52887913363095495602008-02-19T23:25:00.002-05:002008-02-19T23:33:04.091-05:00Still alive. At least I think I am. It's been very busy here the last little while. My little girl has had a couple of surgeries, again. She had both hips operated on right after Thanksgiving to try to get her leg bones to seat correctly in the sockets. So far everything seems to be positioned correctly. She looks so much longer now! If she could stand, she'd be more than three feet tall.Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05496360168447852242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604508.post-15611155176956924762007-03-16T17:34:00.000-04:002007-03-16T17:40:21.250-04:00I'm baaaaaack!I read the comments left on my last post in December '06. Thanks for the offer, guys, but I don't do politics here. Politics to me is a crashing bore. I know, that would pass for blasphemy in some circles, but it's true. I spend my time working, taking care of my family, and attending church and Knights of Columbus functions. I really don't have time for politics. Plus, and Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05496360168447852242noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604508.post-1165269712795928242006-12-03T16:58:00.000-05:002006-12-04T17:01:52.810-05:00Wow. Life has a way of interfering with blogging, in case you hadn't noticed. Almost two months since I've visited this place. Good thing I don't make a living blogging, isn't it? Anyway, nothing of note in the last two months has really happened, which probably explains why I haven't put anything here. Well, nothing of note, except that The Better Half™ and I celebrated 20 years of marriageStevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05496360168447852242noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604508.post-1160756832726672302006-10-13T12:25:00.000-04:002006-10-13T12:27:12.740-04:00Breaking news -- Air America declares bankruptcy. He. Hehehe. Hahahahaha. BWAHAHAHAHA!!!! *gasp, choke* I'd say more about this, but I'm laughing too hard to make coherent sentences.Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05496360168447852242noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604508.post-1156260235159748832006-08-22T11:08:00.000-04:002006-08-22T11:23:55.210-04:00Steve Centanni and Olaf Wiig, still missing. No news is good news? Somehow, when you have Islamofascists involved, no news usually ends up being bad news. Keep Steve and Olaf in your prayers.What's been happening since the last post last month? Last month? *looks at last post again* Yep, last month. OK, I'm slack, sue me. Now where was I . . . oh yeah, we have another guest at the cave. Ray is a Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05496360168447852242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604508.post-1152550521267768742006-07-09T21:44:00.000-04:002006-07-10T12:55:24.810-04:00Late to the party again. Come to think of it, that's the story of my life lately. Anyway, it seems that Jeff Goldstein at proteinwisdom had a commenter actually threaten harm to his kid. After reading about it (and after waiting a couple of hours for my blood pressure to return to normal; not an easy feat at my age), I have to say that Jeff shows remarkable restraint. If some rat bastard feltStevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05496360168447852242noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604508.post-1151980174044487372006-07-03T22:18:00.000-04:002006-07-03T22:29:34.096-04:00Well, little Z left a week ago last Thursday. Now we only have "our" children at home, the three boys (Huey, Dewey and Louie) and little Sarah. So The Better Half™ presents me with an idea -- why don't we get a dog? Just what we need, right? I'm against the idea, but once again I'm outnumbered one to one, so welcome Rex to the family. Three pounds of fur and teeth. I can't contain my Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05496360168447852242noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604508.post-1150940571411602262006-06-21T21:10:00.000-04:002006-06-21T21:42:51.493-04:00Gee, time to blog. Who'd'a thunk? Only have a few minutes, so here goes.We've had a little one here at the cave for the last few months. Z came to us when she was six months old. She had suffered third degree burns over 40% of her body, waist down. After spending two months in the UNC Burn Center, she was sent to us because that's our specialty, medically fragile infants. I'm happy to say Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05496360168447852242noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604508.post-1150752764918321812006-06-18T12:26:00.000-04:002006-06-19T17:32:44.930-04:00Holy guacamole. I haven't put anything in here since February?? OK, I'm slack, sue me. Actually I have a good excuse this time -- I'm lazy. No, that's not it, The Better Half™ had shoulder surgery, so I had to take a couple weeks off work to function as Mr. Mom and Mr. Nurse while she started recovery. Turned out she had a bone spur on her shoulder, and said spur had pretty much ripped up Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05496360168447852242noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604508.post-1140491572573614552006-02-20T22:01:00.000-05:002006-02-20T22:12:52.583-05:00Whoa. Hard to believe it's been over a month since I last put anything on here. Time flies like the wind, but fruit flies like a banana. I know, bad joke. Bear with me, it's been weird lately.Where to start? Well, The Better Half™ has been diagnosed with deterioration of the cervical discs. She has an appointment with a neurosurgeon this week, and then we'll have a better idea of what can Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05496360168447852242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604508.post-1138659114190407882006-01-30T17:04:00.000-05:002006-01-30T17:11:54.203-05:00I found this in my files yesterday, and I couldn't resist putting it here. Enjoy!In the Beginning was the PlanAnd then came the Assumptions.And the Assumptions were without formAnd the Plan was completely without substanceAnd the darkness was upon the face of the workersAnd they spoke among themselves, saying"It is a crock of shit, and it stinketh."And the workers went unto their Supervisors and Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05496360168447852242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604508.post-1135282562898374812005-12-21T22:06:00.000-05:002005-12-22T15:19:50.610-05:00In MemoriamDerrick Jeffreys - Sept.20, 1994 - June 16, 2005. Almost eleven years. That's how long we had with Derrick. Well, to be truthful, the last three years he lived at Hilltop Home, a nursing home for children with severe head trauma and/or severe mental disabilities. Derrick died this year and was buried on Father's Day. The obituary was short and sweet. I mean, how much can you say about Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05496360168447852242noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604508.post-1132091094653593762005-11-12T22:19:00.000-05:002005-11-15T16:44:54.663-05:00Okay, it's been a while. A long while. No excuses, I'm basically lazy as a snake in August, but it has been a busy year. Let's get into the Wayback Machine and take a look, shall we?March, April, May - Not much, just another birthday for Yours Truly (49!) and various and sundry crap from the world as a whole. Well, not entirely true. Upon examination by a qualified doc, what I thought was a Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05496360168447852242noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604508.post-1131742900196208702005-11-11T19:00:00.000-05:002005-11-11T16:01:40.206-05:00Sarah had surgery on Tuesday to screw her hip back into place. She came home from the hospital yesterday, and I was never more glad to see someone than I was to see her back in her crib in her room. Last night we finally got her situated on her stomach (which is harder than it sounds, seeing that she's wearing a spica cast on both legs), and she settled down to sleep. I gave her her meds aboutStevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05496360168447852242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604508.post-1109266464352424032005-02-23T22:00:00.000-05:002005-02-24T12:34:24.356-05:00For those who don't know it yet, Mike Hendriks out of Charlotte, NC has a wonderful blog entitled Cold Fury. I stop by there when I can, which isn't as often as I would like lately, and on my last trip I found this entry, which should be required reading for everyone.My stepson Richard is about to enter his third year as a U.S. Marine, and I couldn't be prouder of him. He and I didn't always Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05496360168447852242noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604508.post-1109108452148857722005-02-22T16:27:00.000-05:002005-02-22T16:40:52.150-05:00Wow. What a month or two this has been! First, let me wish everyone a belated Merry Christmas and Happy New Year (hey, better late than never!). Things at the cave were about as they are every year - hectic, crazy, you name the adjective.I apologize for the sparseness of entries lately. Life has been interfering with blogging again. How dare it! Anyway, I have a legitimate excuse for the Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05496360168447852242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604508.post-1108661820862101912005-02-17T12:35:00.000-05:002005-02-17T12:37:00.863-05:00Saw in the news yesterday that a couple of skulls they found about 30 years ago had been redated and are actually 195,000 years old, plus or minus 5,000 years. My first thought was "Damn, they're getting good at dating those things." My second thought was, "Gee, I wonder if that was Great-Granddad?"Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05496360168447852242noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604508.post-1102991007145195312004-12-13T21:22:00.000-05:002004-12-13T21:23:27.146-05:00Wow, another month come and gone. Where does the time go? That was rhetorical, by the way. Now to fill in my faithful readers about the last two months.
SR is now ours, but her residence did not start out in an auspicious manner. The Sunday after her adoption was finalized, The Better Half™ was leaving for 8 AM Mass with little SR and Mike. I was dead to the world, as Sunday is my day to Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05496360168447852242noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604508.post-1099951785788958552004-11-08T17:06:00.000-05:002004-11-08T17:09:45.790-05:00Aaargh!!! Ya know, it's hard to find time to add to this thing on a regular basis. Unfortunately, now is NOT a good time to add anything, I just wanted to stop by and reassure my readers (hi there, Bugg and Red Falcon!) that no, I haven't fallen off the face of the earth, the Demoncrats didn't string me up after the election, and the Pope hasn't sent me off to Lower Slobbovia to be a missionaryStevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05496360168447852242noreply@blogger.com1