Leaving traffic stuck for hours

Glue Spill Closes Road

PENDLETON — A semitrailer carrying large drums of glue spilled part of its load onto a state highway Tuesday, causing the road to be closed for about three hours. Police officers diverted traffic off Indiana 67 and 38 and U.S. 36 after the spill. Workers and customers were evacuated from businesses within 100 yards of the spill, and about 10 people were treated at the scene or a nearby hospital for skin, eye or respiratory irritation, Madison County Emergency Management spokesman Todd Harmeson said.
The spill happened about 10:30 a.m., when two 55-gallon drums of Bondmaster glue the truck was carrying tipped over and leaked onto the highway. A passing motorist alerted the truck driver, who pulled off, and police, fire and emergency personnel responded to the area about 20 miles northeast of Indianapolis.

wastes enough to travel lightly

Good Eats, with Alton Brown is entertaining, but I rarely watch it. In passing I saw a bit talking about yeast. In describing their use in cooking "they consume mass quantities of carbohydrates and in return they produces copious amounts of carbon dioxide". At this point, a sock puppet who was just then fed flour (carbohydrates) then belched and farted. It was great to hear that with the foul language they air on TV, they finally made the leap into natural sounds -- like farting and belching.

Me, I'd rather watch a show with no harsh language, but wasn't afraid to use toilet humor and natural sounds within the show, as long as it was contextual and not the theme of the episdoe or show itself.

Some little bits that cracked me up

I was eating with the folks when they brought up two things that made me laugh. Mum was talking about scientists getting closer to cloning, which angers her. She likened this to View to a Kill, James Bond movie. Christopher Walken is a genetically enhanced and selected post-Nazi era sociopath, whom mom thought was clone. While father couldn't come up with the title or actors, he remembered the character name: Zorin. As many times as I have watched bond movies, I would never have remembered this. That was funny.

The thought of clones really made me laugh, especially when you think who could afford cloning you generally wouldn't want cloned. Think of more Bill Clintons, Bill Prestons (Keanu Reeves), Dan Quayles, Dennis Rodmans, Prince Charles, Paris Hiltons (not a brain among them), Jim Bakers (televangelist), Oprah Winfreys, Tim Burtons, Courtney Loves. I stop here, for I'm laughing, but those with so-so mental stabilities might also be cloned as well as cloned Kim Jong, bin Laden well training their "equal" in the ways so that nothing changes. Stalin would have loved clones.

Proponents and opponents would clash on many things, especially on the thought that 18 year old models' clones would turn out the same way (most horny guys would be willing to gamble on that) and the evil of creating clones for non-living purposes. One of me is scary enough, "I do not want a [clone] like that, Daddy!"+

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Verucca Salt.

Jumpin', what's that sound?

Jump! Panama! both from a once-kick tail group that remastered old classics and made new memorable licks and tricks.

Van Halen

More age signs

Ace of Spades , Under Pressure (not Ice Ice Baby), Under Cover of the Night, In My Dreams, Cult's Fire Woman, man -- I can relive that time period ... if I'd want to do that.

I'm the new fool in town!

Straight gangster mac!

Humpty Dance!

dimples notwithstanding

"Competition is paying the price!"

I'm old.

L L Cool J, "police looking for supsect with dimples", later to "Momma Said Knock You Out!"

Proud to have him singing

"With a four speed on the floor, they'll be waitin' at the door
You know that ain't no **it when you're gettin' lots of ti*
greased lightnin'"

Yeah, that's the song I want my 13 year old singing and put on video YouTube. Yeah ... wait, no I think not.

Really long shift

So, I sleep then on Fridays and Saturdays?

M - R, 6 am to 4:30 am? Why go home at all?

Southern traditions

My folks' friend is now residing in an apartment on a retirement community campus. She had been on the campus for assisted living, but moved on to indepedent living. In the course of learning about her, I understand that she is not the picture of courtesy. Through many anecdotes, it's clear that she holds many bigotries and racist agendas, denying a person merely based on skin. An example of this was her psychologist who reviewed her case so that she could move from assisted to independant living. He is American, but was from Pakistan. Since he wasn't white, she claimed she didn't understand him, though his English might have been better than hers.

Her other derrangement stems from her preference for her dead daughter. When her living daughter visits, very often conversations go back to the dead daughter and how she was better than the living daughter. How cruel and sick. I'm no longer confused as to why her daughter tends to visit rarely, though has a passion and love for her mother. It is my understanding that her daughter had died years (5-12) ago. I understand pain and the difficulty moving on. I don't get punishing the one who lived.

Maybe in the south, they feed people racial hate and resentment with each and every meal. Not all southerners are racially bitter, but often my experience with southerners are stereotypical, wishing for the good ol' days where all folks knew where the races and persons stood. White men on top, white others second, all others below animals. This reminds me of the rift of power in the middle east.

Hold it! One more move and the terrorist gets it!

Hold it fellas, he's not bluffing!
You know, he's just crazy enough to do it!
......
Well, now, if only he would have done this earlier, we would have been relieved. I dare you to kill yourself harming no other people.