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Hey I almost felt retired today and I liked it. Ok I had to ignore the guys in the back yard and the dogs barking next door and a few phone calls, but I actually got to have a cup of tea, read the WSJ and IBD and take care of a lot of portfolio issues I have ignored for the last several weeks.
Later in the day, I got to bring Man Child to his workout. While waiting for Jack, I was listening to XM Sirius Radio and the song "Our House" came on. I am sure all of you must have heard the big hit by Crosby Stills and Nash circa 1970ish. The lyrics really annoyed me.
"Our house is a very very very fine house.
With two cats in the yard.
Life used to be so hard.
Now everything is easy cause of you."
Ok, I gotta know who puts cats in a yard? Really. No one puts cats in a yard. Maybe Sigfried and Roy, but we all know how that turned out. Come on cats in a yard. Cats won't stay in a yard. You let a cat go in a yard and he is gone. Up the wall over the wall in some other fools yard.
We have enough trouble finding two cats in a room none the less a yard. Can you imagine that. Devin would say to me, "Bring in the two cats in the yard." There goes two hours of my life. Heck it is annoying enough when she just yells down stairs, "Where are the cats?"
Ok I never know where the darn cats are so I have two choices, I get up and begin to look for the three cats or make up an answer. "Oh hun, Jethro is under the guest bed and the other two are in Jack's room." This usually works because she is just taking a survey, she usually does not really need to bear witness to their existence.
So come on, two cats in the yard. Life used to be so hard. Yeah its hard trying to round up two cats in the yard. I got news for you, shaking the cat food box only lasts a few days, as they catch on to that in a hurry.
But what really annoys me about the song is they did not even need the word cats to make the lyrics work. I will show you what I mean.
Our house is a very very very fine house.
With two DOGS in the yard.
Life used to be so hard.
Now everything is easy cause of you.
Dogs work just a good as cats and it makes a hell of a lot more sense than cats. Really when you sing the lyrics with cats, not one really pictures two cats. Two black cats, calicos, Burmese, abysinians, yeah now you are picturing cats, but just cats in a yard and your mind goes blank because you hardly ever see two cats lounging around the yard.
Don't get me wrong, about a week ago I saw a cat in a yard in the neighborhood, but it was sneaking and worming its way around some bushes.
Now I say two dogs in a yard, you are going to think of your favorite childhood canine and another dog if you were pet deprived. You can see the dogs and the dogs are laying in the yard. If you have vast experiences with dogs as we do you might visualize them running in the yard and chasing a Frisbee (OOOPPPS Jaycee just looked up when I typed that. She loves Frisbee). I can see them laying across the grass. I can see them defecating in the grass. I can see Jaycee wiping her hiney on the grass.
Ok I went a little too far, but you get the idea. So I think, when we hear that iconic song forever more we all sing it with dogs instead of cats.
Our house is a very very very fine house.
With two DOGS in the yard.
Life used to be so hard.
Now everything is easy cause of you.
Hey did you see the debate last night? Me neither. I know who I am voting for. So a "binder full of women"? That is the best social networking and the media can take away from the debate? Weak.
Romney could have suggested he wished he had more women to throw under the bus as just a few hours before the debate Hilary took the heat for not having enough security in our embassy and Susan Rice took the hit for poor intel? Who is their boss?
Ok the clang of swords over pensions got a little airplay. When President Obama was challenged about his Pension, he quickly came back with a comment implying it was not as good as Romney's. Mr. President, he does not have a tax payer funded pension. Mitt, he teed it up for you and you could have hit it out of the park.
Hey I enjoyed watching the elimination round with Dancing With The Stars. Susan Boyle and Donny Osmond (He has my email ya know) were much more entertaining than Obama and Romney. She looked terrified to be on stage. Bristol Palin went home, too bad, she seems like a nice kid.
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