Seriously.  And it took this long for him to really make his trip presence known?  

A US Military Headquarters in Africa?  Get him the hell outta there.  Seriously.  How many continents does this guy want to mess up further? 

Along the same lines - C'mon Milwaukee.  Moving Michael McGee ahead in the primaries?  The dude has been incarcerated for the past 9 months and he's not in there for freedom fighting!

People, show me you're smarter than you appear.  Seriously!

My door knob clicker thing has been sticking for the past week or so.  I thought since I was seeing a handy-man he could come and take a look at it.  But he got cold feet and so I guess we're really not seeing each other... But that's a different blog. It belongs to the I always get dumped right before Valentines - ALWAYS!

Well tonight, what I thought was going to happen on my way to work, happened at a much better time... When I was taking the cat crap out to the garbage.  It wouldn't open.  I had to call my land-lady Diane and tell her, "Hi Diane, it's Rachael.  I am locked in my apartment."  I'm sure she already thinks I'm crazy and this solidifies it!  But I explained the handle broke and I couldn't get out.

She called GEORGE to the rescure.  George is my building, the building next to mine, and the house next to that handy man. He's probably in his early 50's but he looks about 72.  He's Awesome.  He can be found smokin' a doobie in the summer, while washing his motorcycle, with "Lady in Red" by Simply Red; or "Jesse's Girl" by Rick Springfield BLARING so loud it will wake you up on a hung-over Saturday morning.

George also is the "squirrel-catcher" - his house is the third mentioned above.  It has some roofing issues and squirrels like to also make it their home.  Because they're not paying rent George spends his summer days setting live traps in the parking lot outside my windows.  He catches them, places the traps on the top of his van and drives them to the South Side.  A many-a Eastside Squirrel is now a resident of Southshore Beach.

Back to the story - in order to open the door, George took his Pick'n Save card to pop the lock open.  He burst in and said, "This is why you always dead bolt it. Ha ha ha ha."  Yep - he showed me how to properly break into a domicile.  Then he took his "10 in One" screw-driver tool and went wild.  He highly recommends this too which is actually a 12-in-one tool.  You can get one at Brady Street Hardware.

SO - George to the rescue!  Who needs a boyfriend anyway...

Posted Date: : Feb 3, 2008 2:37 PMI have been attending Sunday mass on a very regular basis lately.  Have not missed a Sunday since Chirstmas.  I'm finally excited that the Catholic Church seems to be fitting more closely with my ideals. And it might be that I'm getting older, but I do think some of the messages I've heard are trying to adapt to the mainstream.

They are preaching the need to worship a God, not matter the name you call him (this includes Pagens that worship the earth - the wisemen that sought Jesus after his birth were Pagens); that sometimes abortion is the right thing to do (when a mother's life is in danger); and that marriages do end and those who end them are granted forgiveness. 

Now all of the messages have been shared in the past 5 weeks.  Then today, the homily upset me.  It perpetuated the stereotype non-Catholics have about Catholics.  Archbishop Timothy Dolan had a holimy pumped in through the radio system asking for a special donation to his archbisopness.  I would have been embarassed if I had brought a non-Catholic, or one finding their way back, with me today.  It was not a homily.  It was a baltent PR appeal.

So, I wrote to him, his under-bishop, secretary and former Archbishop letting them know my dissatisifaction.

I'll keep you posted on whether or not my message merits a response...

God bless :)