Changing tactics

Another day closer to comitting ... time grows short for me to take classes to re-certify my teaching license. Today I was missing a couple of things and in my attempts to find them, I disassembled more of my teaching life things, pushing me more to another field. Vocation change approaching ... probability now 92.6% and increasing.

Driveby chilling

It missed me, but Cerpicio and Paula were doing a driveby and sent me a clear message -- a picture of my car.  I didn't get it though, thanks to Verizon Wireless (decaff?).  They were looking for houses and found a couple of the claims in the fliers to be, well, laughable, like:

 

"beautifl view" of what?  All around were houses and pavement.  There weren't any trees or anything, what could they see ... oh, the barn-shaped shed.  Great!  Anyway, they spent some of Saturday house-hunting.  I hope they found some neat buys!

Phone

Hello, this is debt welcome to You Owe.

 

Hello, debt?  This is [me]; long time user, first time payer. 

 

Great.  To what do I "owe" this pleasure?

 

You see, I was kind of wondering if I could like, not be a payer anymore ... you, know, like, um ... not pay.

 

I don't follow you.

 

I'd like to um, be indebted, that's not bad, but you know, like just never really pay it off.  Could you like transfer my account to that?

 

Um, sorry.  You're telling me that you want to get more debt, spend and pay back nothing?

 

Uh, yeah!  That's just about right.  Gee, I'm glad I called.  You wouldn't believe at what I was told by others.  They just didn't understand.

 

Caller ... caller ... caller!  You can't just overspend and run into debt that you can't pay back.

 

Why not, banks and cards let me do it.

Psychadelic Flinstones

Psychadelic Flinstones
Originally uploaded by MDH, II.

picture taken 6:20 pm of a Tivo'd commercial of Flinstone Cereal. It just looks a bit bizare. Regardless of its angle, it's just weird, like Al.

Secret code

Ovaltine
Originally uploaded by MDH, II.

Be sure to ... be sure to what? The fate of the world could hang in the balance. I had to figure out the code.

... r - i - n ....

t - i -n - e.

B-e s-u-r-e to d-rink you-r Ovaltine.
I cruddy commercial?!

Worth watching

As always, thing go awry, internet may soon be a pay-only service ... no longer the internet.

 

http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=18042

Dogs with chocolate mustaches

Spilt milk bad, right? Nope! Dogs came running and tearing through the house, tipped the table, knocked over the milk and lapped it up as quickly as possible. It was chocolate milk, so their breaths smelled of chocolate. How odd!

Flat pool

Flat pool
Originally uploaded by MDH, II.
Surveying the mess -- there was only one rational conclusion. The dogs were found wet from deflating the pool. Theis let Charlie play in the tiny pool of remaining water, getting his hair wet, while Keith was sorting out if he had more patches. This was time, he thought, number four for the pool to be bitten.

The culprits may be found here.

Blocking Drive

blocking drive
Originally uploaded by MDH, II.

After a day and a half, you'd think that they would be done, everything clean, clear and finish. Well, they are "done", but the place/street smells like melted polystyreine. There's, what looks like spittle that won't evaporate and of course, the dummies took a long while to finish. Overall ... I'd say I'm not a satisfied customer. Did I get to elect for this Larry, Daryl, and Darryl group to come in? I did not!

All that work and all I got was this smelly street!

What I was missing yesterday, I got today

Noise, noise, noise. Digging, churning ... raising, lowering. Are they making progress .. who knows? I am tired of it though ... more than 8 hours and you're just screwin' around.

Help! We're being oppressed

Day 1, Day 2

House arrest?

I'm done with Iexplorer

I now get little (seven) warnings about moving to safe sites. It makes my browsing impossible. I therefore now use Firefox, as has Monkeyjack, Cerpicio, and Ransackary.

Heading to Platform 9 & three quarters?

pickering2
Originally uploaded by Splashmonkey.

The similarity here is uncanny ... Harry? Harry Potter? Is that a lightning tattoo on your head? Yes. I had sick, sick parents.

Conflict followup

It will be a day long remembered...
It has seen the end of Hillary (or Kerry) and shall soon see the end of the Democratic reliance.
When the voters get wind of this ...
voting has been eliminated

---
now the counter-point

It appears that the Republicans have themselves a VP *. VP is hit viscously once, then again out of spite, while other Republicans who tried to enter who gunned down, dying but not dead.


*from Die Hard where the "RV" is a police SWAT tank that's blown apart vindictively with SAMs

conflict

Your sad devotion to the grand old party has not given you clairvoyance to the whereabouts of Bin Laden or key Al Qaida leaders or helped you conjure up rationale behind oil dependance ....
Gasp!
[Grand Old Party member choking life from distractor]
I find your lack of faith ... disturbing

- I know, order changed and things altered, but you got it, right?

Error in listing?

Nope. I am slowly phasing into my non-teaching life. My new name on flickr isn't really a typo or a had-to because others have my name, but rather an interesting distinction that I have. I'm not a junior, but am a second, my Grandfather (father's father) got the name first. His passing 6 months before I was born gave rise to my getting the name I have.

Mid-life change, not crisis ... for I see that I will forever be frustrated in teaching capacity -- limits, paperwork, poorer pay, stress, though summers are off -- during the school year you pay. I loved teaching, and will likely never be as fulfilled with anything else, I need to leave and save myself from the fury from within

Teaching to mediocrity, challenging the poorer student (for whatever reasons), annoying to the less-challenged students. Laning, as it was called, is the way, but more urbanites would ultimately be in the lower (or any euphemism here) group ... not necessarily because of their intelligence.

Ammendment to truck

The neighbors across the street got a worse deal. They don't have drive access. While the truck is here, it uses water from the hydant; the line of which crosses their drive, and other drives. That don't sound like too good of a deal for them, then.

I don't know. Somehow this doesn't seem like a good deal. If these numbers are right (8 straight hours of being in the same place), this looks like a bad deal for me. It was a bad call ... bad call.

The white truck has made many trips to who knows where ... probably for the jokers to scope women joggers, and do a circle &&&& to what they see, want, cannot have. There are probalby beer runs -- fast food runs, etc.

Morning breath

Wow!  I'm a zombie or werewolf at night!  I woke today with the scent of death on my breath.  I wonder how many brains I ate.  I think it must have been thousands with the degree of the stench.  Yuck!  Oral bacteria block party or more like Mardi Gras (week-long party)

Political mistakes lead to rough roads

GWB has made some ... questionable decissions, leading to a slump in some ratings (inarguably lower than the year before) giving the Republicans a rough road for Presidential election 2008. The Democrats have tied anvils and anchors to themselves by use star "runners" as Hilary and other notable fools. Ultimately, the US has to pick between baffoon 1, baffoon 2, unelectable person from lesser party 1, unelectable person from lesser party 2, unelectable person from lesser party 3. Gee! I wonder why poll turnout is generally low. I'd like to think that the person for whom I'm voting has -- uh, a good group of advisors, is smart in her/his own right and isn't pandering to lobbyists and those who paid to get her/him in office. Gee ... thanks, KKK for donating yet again and for your lovely, noose and noose bordered manifesto. Great. I'll get right on that.

Tip to GWB

get better advisors and drop the attitude of "I don't want to hear anything negative"
I'm surrounded by ***holes! Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Yes --- sir!

Sir. We can positively prove that there are insurgents in the area.
Okay, where are they?
Uh, they're around.
Point out one.

They're there ... they're just difficult to spot. "earn more sessions by sleeving"

-- Global warming:
While the process is natural, clearly it has been changed in speed, dimensions and range of impact by industrial use and unlimited chemical changes. America makes fuel inefficient vehicles. Many areas have poor/stupid public transit systems, requiring most to drive. The Mississippi River is still ignitable due to chemical waste. Regardless what paid scientists write or say, global warming is worsened by lifestyles of the industrially careless. Petroleum exhaust damages the environment. To indicate otherwise is completely reckless and stupid. No scientist with a brain would see changes, understand chemistry, comprehend relationships would ever agree that the present state of ozone depletion was exculsively caused by natural phenomenon. How many volcano erruptions have we had? Now, if there were saw two extremely large global erruptions or many smaller ones, I would agree -- yes, that messed up the environment, but that hasn't happened fools!