Sometimes you can't understand the world.......

I was quite confused this morning. I must have changed the time on my alarm clock this morning because when it rang I got up and washed up and stumbled over to St. Mary's. But it was locked up tight. I couldn't understand it. Then I looked at my watch and saw that it was 9:00 instead of 10:00 so I was an hour early.

That never happens. I am never early.

So I decided to go and do some quick grocery shopping to get stuff I needed for tonight. We are getting ready to show our line to Japan for the next season so I might be too late to shop on the way home. I get all of my stuff and get to the check out line. As I am standing there I looked over and saw the Sunday Daily News. This was the front page:

This is what I had to look out before Mass.

Today was the feast of the "Cross Triumphant." Celebrating the Cross and what it stands for. The cross that Jesus died on. That he was martyred on by the forces of evil of his day. Today there are martyrs who are being killed by the forces of evil of our day. This man was not a soldier. He was not a journalist. He was an aide worker. He brought help and succor to the destitute. He was doing good works and saving lives.

He was killed by President Obama's friends. You know the ones that can not be mocked. The religion of peace. The ones he supports in every way he can. The one who he demands we not speak against. That we not slander.

This is what we have come to in this country.

An innocent dies. A good man is martyred by terrorist animals. Our President goes off to golf and fund raise.

Winter is coming!

So one of the few prerogatives as a man that really means anything to me is that I get to control the remote control. And peeing standing up but that's another discussion.

Anywho I have to control the remote because if the wife gets control of it we end up watching some stupid chick movie with Sandra Bullock or Julia Roberts or some shit like that there. Now don't get me wrong. Our viewing schedule is heavy with stuff like Justified and Sons of Anarchy and Hard Core Pawn but we watch stuff she likes such as all the Housewife shows and Army Wives and Desperate Housewives and any fucking show with Wives in the title. I watch them cheerfully or at least I try not to snore too loudly. Although last night I started to snore through the Biography channel special about Frank Niti. I have been very tired.

So I have been trying to lay the ground work for the HBO series "Game of Thrones" based on one of George RR Martins novels. It is a very complicated plot and if you have not read the book you have no chance of following it. Which is a problem because the wife is so ADD she has trouble paying attention to the Road Runner cartoons I love to put on. I often have to pause the show to explain who is who and what is what. That was a big pain in the ass in "Boardwalk Empire" and she was interested in that since some people who worked on it shop in the store. So I have careful to try to get her interested in "Game of Thrones."

Now HBO has helped because it has set up a bunch of little snippets explaining the various "houses" and characters and the setting and what not. So we have seen them all and I have explained how they fit into the show. And they took a page out of the current style of Science fiction writers and put up the first 15 minutes of the first show. Sort of like SM Stirling's or Eric Flint printing chapters or snippets of their newest book.

Well we watch the whole thing and it is great. Outstanding photography. Great action. Scary shit with supernatural forces and stuff. Obviously a multi-million dollar production of one of the most popular fantasy series of the last two decades based on a series of best sellars. And after all of that the wife turned to me and said:

"I don't like it. Their hair is too dirty. I can't watch a series where everybody has dirty hair."