Well, I ought to just bite it and accept

I'm still looking around for other places, but I'm just not finding anything quite else that will work in the longer-than-short run. Six months from now, what will I be doing and earning with another company ... proabably not what I am with this one, so ... I think I might have to stick it out despite a few circumstantial shortcomings.

Of all the jobs I've had, this one has some of the most minor nits I could pick ... so I won't. The only real complaint I have about the place is smoking. It bothers me.

Regardless or in spite of my stupidity ... I plug along and am "doing okay" according to those in charge. I'm not fast where I need to be, but I can do well, just not at lightning speed as would be better.

body

I was bodychecked at work today ... I guess I'm fitting right in ... next thing I know, I'll have a nickname ...
numbnuts, pokey, mute

something like that

I also think I am the third oldest common person there. There is a very old person working there for a few hours, but that person isn't there for long, so I shall discount that person from the heirarchy of age.

One guy there I would annoint Arrogant Worm, if it weren't the name of a band. In light of this, I will consider the nickname, Tweety. He's a ke-oot little birdy in his giwuld cage, he knows his name, but does not act his age. I think he's safe in there from that old puddey tat. I think of Tweety because at the end of the cartoon, you want Sylvester, who's obsessed with getting Tweety, to outright slay Tweety. There! I won't be able to get the birdie.

What's the madder Missder Puddey Tat? Don't you wanna eat me enymore? As the Tweety eggs him on, Sylvester is driven mad.

Dead Tweety Storage

Thin deer

I saw a deer near the highway, munching. It was unhealthy, as I could see some bone structure. Shame. Thankfully, unlike many highway deer, it was alive. It appeared to be female and mixed in well with the brown stuff previously known as grass.

Hotel

I bet that would have been nice, but I now have a cheaper way ... no hotel at all.
I have another interview on Friday, so no hotel for me. Thankfully I called well in advance to cancel.

Well, it's an interview ... I'll just be a tired mug for it.

angry again, angry again

You don't post; you don't load ... what do you do? You don't post; you don't load ... what do you do? There must be something inside. +

This was last night. Grrr!

+ Adam Ant, "Goody Two Shoes"

The question was

What do you do for a hobby?
It should have been, "what did you do for a hobby".
I haven't much time anymore.

unnecessary chatting

I tried to report spam to Monster, as is a nice thing to do.

I tried using the "report monster spam abuse" and ... contains html code, blah blah blah

 

I tried another location... blah blah blah

I chatted with Monster:  "exceeds character limit"

finally I sent an email to a person there, she got it and thanked me

 

I wasted 15 minutes helping monster limit spam.

It should have taken moments, not minutes.

Well, I'll have to outdo him!

Oh, yeah? Well, I found a hole in the ground with a label marking it as the porthole to Hell. Yeah! Prove me wrong!

So, they "found" Jesus' tomb with family, huh? I find that as likely as me being the golden goose pooping out gold on a daily basis. What they have is a tomb with names Jesus, Judah, Maria. I was thinking of all the billions and trillions of people who have existed, yet there was and is no documentation on them. So, in the world of billions, presently, likely billions to trillions throughout human existence, there is a tomb with people. Gosh ... startling. This is much like seeing a famous person in cottage cheese. You see it because you want to see it.

Beyond the miracle of life hereafter, a concept that apparently is lost on James Cameron, Jesus the person was tried and executed in a typical and horrific manner of crucifiction. This, for many people of the world including Muslims, is regarded as fact. Still more people believe that Jesus, son of God, rose from the dead leaving no body, only the death shroud.

So this Jesus, who was killed, had a tomb for Himself, child (ren) family, and wife? Uh, not if he died. If he really were a father, as suspected, bibically speaking and judicially prudent in those times would have been to eliminate Jesus' son from being a great threat like Him or Barrabus. They would have probably enslaved or killed overtly/covertly, Judah the suspected son of Jesus the heretic rebel rouser.

Dear James Cameron,

Terminator 3 blew chunks. Titanic was a long, boring, stupid chick-flick. Don't package a befuddled mass of illusion and desperation into a "documentary" about where Jesus lies. The "lies" is right, but rather about the perspective shown, for there are no facts as you claim.

So, did the hunted Jesus have a publicist following Him around to give then-tabloid bits of miracles and whereabouts, but elusive enough that the Romans couldn't find Him? This same person then did spin-doctoring to make it possible for Him to be otherwise saved? I think not, buddy. I wouldn't make a movie about Muhammad, because:

I don't follow his thinking, raitonale, edicts,
view the act of making loose-fitting parts into a movie of a critical person/icon insulting to those whom it serves,
realize the backlash of violence and hostility that it would cause -- and for no positive change whatsoever.

Stick to what you do best ... fiction, plainly stated as such ... fiction, like Dr. Seuss or Mannimal or Abyss. Abyss, I liked, though a love story, it was cleverly crafted into a re-watchable near-epic with explicit morals and the larger picture being love conquering all. Keep with that or the eye-catching flash of Terminator. Don't mess with sculpted manure as "ecobio-American-art". Look, it's interestingly shaped, topically safe bovineporcine patties. It's poop. The fact that it's shaped like cupid and will eventually "melt" with rain to make healthier flowers, is in no way a distraction from it being poop.

thought it was a lie

"alligator suede", from a song

Dudes ... uh, alligator has skin, not conventional hide. There is no suede there. That doesn't stop stores from selling what they call suede.

Slow down

I got paid ... have only one day off ... opened a bottle and had a glass ... ah, bliss, Wednesday I start all over again.

hours and hours

I had a later (not really late, only 9) night followed by an early morning through a long 11 hour day, the next day I am due at 2. I decided that I needed a hotel room. Where to go; where to go? I check in the town itself ... yikes, near Indy prices, so I extended my search. It appears that for 30 minutes travel time, half my distance home, I could save $20, so I think I'll do that. I never thought that I'd have to splurge on a hotel room for a job, but I thought that I'd rather do that than sleepily wreck the wreck-of-a-car.

I could go with motel, but all the hotels are noon checkout time, so I'm spending money on free breakfast, larger bed, wireless connection. I hope that all equaits to a comfortable sleep.

got the blue in the front ... got the blue in the back

I wasn't like that

Word 'round town, there was a stick
(yeah, yeah, yeah)
3 boys ... n-----ers in a pickup

Oh, wait. We stopped a clown car with a lone white guy. Driving while white? Dude ... we were looking for a car that could exceed the speed limit, sorry.

I see squad cars patroling the highway and a many speeders that catch. I have been lucky to be a slower car and not one that they would suspect could break the speed limit, let alone lead the pack.

Safety rules

Don't play with fire, always cut away from you and do not point a can of spray at yourself while adjusting the nozzle head.

spritz...

I was at work, quickly grabbed a bottle, moved the head to meet the line, push (accidently) ... phfstst (into the nose)!

Great! Just great.

Thankfully it didn't have a distinct smell.

Left scratching my temple

A woman at work has me a bit confused

make next left right
use brain make big words, fumble on thing called wet slobbery thing ...
duh, tongue

bumble hi, reciprocated, underscored
now ... why?

Sights can be confusing
do I ask or do I guess?


.........

Yes, all of that is jumble. It's a fair respresentation of a bit of the murky "crystal ball" in my mind ... sort, sort, sort ... ask again later. My lips move, but I can't hear what I say. My mind is confortably numb (with ideas -- no, scratch that, questions).

They don't serve my kind

I'm a droid, and I'll have to leave. There's a placement agency that, 'don't have work/place people with your background'. Gee, thanks! I didn't want any trouble, so I left them alone.

Another week -- longer

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday
4-9	Off	4-9	9:30 – 8
Friday	Saturday	Sunday	Monday
2-10	12-8	12-8	11-4

Every day I learn a little more, but then I didn't know much.

coughing on my end

I was on the phone and the resident smoke of three cigarettes, not to mention the stink on the phone got me to cough and hack while on the phone. Though smokers apologized for the inconvenience ... it is rude. Tip: if you're asthmatic, don't work where I do.

Hot music

Radio station sign ... melted. Apparently the lights shorted and the sign for the Rock station completely melted the sign. Wow! They do mean hot, don't they?

What?

Turn up my headphones!

I asked one person how they were doing and got basically, "Goony goowho". What? The second thing the person said was understandable English, not the first. That person works where I work. It was strange.

A couple of other people have a bugger of a time hearing with the ambient noise and dull, incessant hum of work, harsh white noise that dulls the ears. I have to stand nearly lips to ears to one person who has a tough time hearing. You'd never imagine how much noise is there. It isn't loud, per se, but constant. I'd say maybe a 15 dB or so constant level + or - 6 dB.

The other thing at work was to quickly make an order when you hear ... "askdfjo tah -- now!" Huh? I should have taken Klingon in college.

I dared, I lost

I dared to scan more of some material so that I could better organize it and reformat it. I know that there is a peek limit where my machine gets flakey. I thought I could push the limit. In this case, my laptop didn't present the issue ... my scanning did. The material didn't sit flat, so ... there are EKG readings where there should be text. In all ... I got 12% of what I wanted ... the rest, wasted. I knew I should have stepped lightly, but no .... I had to be bold and impetuous.

I wasted 30 minutes on it. I quit and will start again some other time. Thankfully it is not critical.

iAviso!

I read a blurb that Vista isn't going to offer Outlook. One user noted that it was like the 98 to 2000 Windows update. Wow ... look, with new "shinier" (TM) technology. While using Vista, it will do a courtesy check to make sure you have an authentic install of it. This will be conducted every 2 minutes while you work. With new features such as useless animations and roating windows.

Windows uses the Loren Michaels philosophy; if they laugh once at the joke, it will be especially funny twenty times in a row. Don't make a product better ... just make more, more, more! More plugins that you can buy! More codex that aren't installed! More settings to fine tune! Help now even more useless! That's right! With Vista you get more!

you got2

I had a "conversation" with a person on the phone. What I wanted to say was, "You got to learn to speak English". They weren't speaking a true foreign tongue, but rather urban ... "you got ... hav dat ... sum" almost like Lil' Jon calling in. I don't speak friggity diggity urban!

Better still, having three people and no ideas. "Whadoyouallwan ... hol' on ... yeah. Whatyougo ... hol' up . .. wha?"

So ... is there a human there who can take over the conversation please?

February Winter morning

February Winter morning
Originally uploaded by MDH, II.

Local schools were delayed and some cancelled. It might have been the right choice. The kids, if they awoke, got to see this bright, lovely scene.

AIDS and a cure claim

As covered on MSNBC, Gambia's president claimed to have an AIDS cure. While the call to stop other treatments is dangerous, two other requirements make sense. Since some of the country is Muslim, he calls that patients stop drinking alcohol -- huh, go figure. He also requests that they stop having sex. Now that there is a good idea. Since much of Africa's continent is populated with people resistant to prophylactic use, abstinence makes sense.

That's kinda of like a third-degree burn patient with necrotic tissue on the hands suggested not to be the sous chef or barbecue expert. That's pretty sound advice.

The World Health Organization (WHO) reminded people that there is NO CURE FOR AIDS. Since better financed countries have been working on any cure for more than ten years, it seems unlikely, to say the least, that topical pastes and bitter drinks can cure AIDS. It seems to me that the "medicine" also didn't need refrigeration.

multiple ... positions ...

ahahahahahahahahahaha! You so crazy!

Are you sure that you read this ad before you sent it?

Maniac?
(S) He's a maniac, maniac on the floor.

Over the snow ledge

snow ledge
Originally uploaded by MDH, II.

There's more snow. It's not as scary when you stand. This is 3" stand of packed wet snow.

by viewers unlike me

So, the trend that I see in my limited TV watching is: shock and repel. Let's take the Snicker's commercial. It's shock and repel. It was stupid and then topped itself with homosexuality. Okay, how many times has your heterosexual friend leaned over to eat something dangling out of your mouth ... [wait for it] ... NEVER. The Geico commercials are fair and balanced with stupidity between two reckless and pounded ideas: speaking gecko and caveman. The caveman at the airport or any other such nonsense ... SCHTUPID! If they can save you that much money, how do they afford the commercials?

I'm waiting, for I know it'll be soon, that some commercial will have animals humping in the background, unrelated to the product or service. This will be memorable and will be aired over and over again. The SUV and truck commercials tout environment and mileage while driving over rugged mountains tearing through agave plants. There's a Nissan commercial with a couple who speed through town, because of the woman's question, "Do you think we'll make it".

Commercial pastureland, in a manner of speaking, if it looks, smells, and acts like manure -- it probably is. Of course, the TV shows are pretty fairly manure too, so they go together like a soap opera marriage -- infidelity rampant.

Tread?

Names for businesses:

Tire shops:
Tread on thee
Where Tire Meets Road
Wheeled Around
Mounted, Inflated, Balanced (MIB)

Meats:
Pieces of Ewe
Bakin' Bits
It's the Thighs That Count

Fresh Market Vegetables:
Something Ewe Can Chew On

un-country boy

Bob Denver's, "Thank God, I'm a Country Boy" was on the radio ... on one of the five area-available channels. Yep ... I'm dislocated, like a football player's shoulder. I hurt, aching and silenced after time heals. I'm not a country boy. I've wearied of rap and don't really want to revist the 60s and 70s for the next ten years. It's interesting that one guy was called to go to what he called, "BFE", which is close to the feeling of remoteness of this town. It's strange that it has the features of a larger town, yet Mayberry in other ways.

I'm waiting to hear a hurried, high-pitched man's chant to, "Nip it in the bud."

offer

It isn't a long drive to work, but I have two days that end and start within ten hours of each other. My question was, "does it make sense to get a hotel room up there". I asked around to find out what hotel was fair priced and okay. A woman I asked first didn't know, but unflirtatiously offered her place. I felt odd, so I said I'd think about it. Well, I just don't think it's a good idea, so ... I can drive there, back and there again for my follow up day is shorter.

"You here a short while and we're family", said a different southern-belle woman, naturally calling for me to, "Smile ... laugh, do something." I'm a bit tense at work, as I'm just not fast. When I try to be fast, I'm sloppy. It's funny to see the veterans (of the company) there doing the job like hacky-sack -- mindlessly doing it with finesse and jovial conversation. I'm still thinking ... step A, step B, step C, step D ... read specifications ... step E. At the end of the night, I feel dull, not sharp, stupider, not smarter, weary, not invigorated. It is a different monster altogether than teaching.

Back to the offer, I'll have to decline and then drive all that time. The other side comment she made was, she'd like the company, her roommate moved out. Huh. It means nothing, but is unsettling in my mind. My back is starched and I'm thinking to remember or remembering to think.

Winter rose

Winter rose
Originally uploaded by MDH, II.

It was definitely feeling thorny all Winter long ... that's why it will grow so well in spring and summer, where everyone can see it bloom

Plan G (partially built)

Since I have troops in and around Iraq, to win in the light of seeming defeat, I would publicly announce the bounty on insurgents: $10,000 to $200,000 per person, relatively comparable finder's fee for weapons cache's, followed by public stonings and beheadings, and subsurface burial, so that each person may walk over the face of the dead, of any persons involved in retribution acts against informants. After that, you could use an ancient Egyptian technique of obliterating records of that person's very existence. So, in essence you make the penalty for violence sickening enough that you choose to follow.

Because the US represents a foreign force in all respects, it is critical to make the efforts a community effort and not just the US troops hunting down and killing insurgents. With this community spirit of finding, condemning and terminating/expunging insurgents and radical forces, the community will have a focus. While the violence will again escalate, the comminity will be responsible for the cleaning up, which is what it wants and the US wants. After some time of this, US military protected groups can come in and help rebuild some infrastructure to allow power and water continuously as opposed to the 20% opperational capacity it now runs in urban areas. More rural areas are still under 10%.

In this case, while the forces and resources needed are greater, the resources could be better spent. Also, with the community taking a greater direct action, the role of the military would be more supportive and less direct, which would ease the nation into self-control and border awareness. I would set timetables.

In four years, 80 percent military removal
* to accomplish this:
** shifting of naval forces to cover "rogue" nations and shipping
** declaration of intentional underestimate deployment into Middle Eastern region
** re-classification of roles/tour
*** specialist -- 9-10 months singular locale, then rotate out to non-middle Eastern region for 3-2 months
**** earliest recall 6 months
**** if volunteers to redeploy after 3 months, increase in pay
*** generalist (Pvt/PVC) -- 2 week phase in, then 11 months, 2 weeks phase out
**** earliest recall in 3 months, pay increase for voluntary redeployment within 1 month
--- this increases military personnel to focus and specialize in areas
** train on and off site, police in Iraq
** police stations will be rebuilt like Saddam's buildings, penetrable only by bunker-buster bombs.
** portable gas spectrometers (successfully developed in 90s) will be in place in unmarked vehicles to inspect areas for possible weapons, starting with urban sweeps and moving outward.


** begin required multi-lingual training, in that all recruits will be introduced to other languages for projected deployment (e.g.: Farsi for Iraq, Korean for Korea, etc.)
** job placement for honorably discharged personnel

--- secondary ----

other nations will join the struggle with the US possibly poised to quickly be one of the world's largest, most efficient oil producers, who will then help "set the price" on oil. If Iraq slides and never gets back to oil production, the US will produce oil and set the price to ensure that "rogue" oil-producing nations financially die.

To secure itself, the US will have a seven year plan to print every citizen, figers and toes, and in ten years DNA.

So ... how does it end?

Phil Collins ... menegerie of 80s video concepts

To this day I still use, "So how does it end?"

Salt

At my hands-on job, I work with salt (sodium chloride, potassium, etc.). I have checked my blood pressure and it is fine, yet my pulse is running high, as of late. I smell fairly clean, but my hands -- yuck. They smell like work. I tried soaps, shampoo, windex ... all to no avail. Today, it is time to try something new.

Last night I had a burning sensation in my fingertips from the handling of the heavy-salt items. While the cold preventions bacterial growth, the salt kills even more. I think the more I handle it, the more it'll sting. I'll look for disposable gloves soon. I washed my hands repeatedly and moments later -- ouch! There is one item espcecially that is overly salted. It is not something I use in my general life outside of work.

I'm a vegetarian now ... I could not "go back" after smelling it and working with meat during the day. Granted, it's processed, then processed, then processed, but still ... stink, as is the basis of my non-meat eating ways.

MR noted another commercial

"Well", it cleans well.

I forgot this existed

This reminds me of my grandma who smoked heavily and that my father used to buy cigarette cartons for her.
"I've ... gotta ... telya" +

The good news is that regionally, this area is going "smoke free" soon and so other areas will be "up in smoke". Would like charbroiled or hickory with that salad? Every soda and shake now with authentic smoke flavor for your enjoyment. I mention this because where I work, there is a lot of smoke. It wouldn't be like that at all in good ol' FW.

Someone might try to light up then be hit on the nose with a newspaper, "no!"


+ "Land of Confusion" by Genesis

food sex

Wendy's "Blister In the Sun". A song about sex for selling food. Hmmm... correlation?

How you can claim

sex is killing you. You see, it was a meat-packing injury. I believe that's the right term for bruising. Ouch. The job title you'd have, of course, would be HB (hot beef) Installer.

notation more for me

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday	Monday
19th	20th	21st	22nd	23rd	24th	25th	26th
11-8	off	2-10	11-8	2-10	12-8	12-8	11-4

pictorial hints of work

a "small" sample of what I do now

I got this one free, it's my first that I have had.

It smells like work. I won't name the company. I was asked today if this is what I want to do. I responded, "yes" of course, but this core is but a part of what I would be doing ultimately.

divorce granted

Kidd and spouse seeking divorce. Well, I'd say, "granted", but you have to hash out custody and property.

The wife claims he beat her before they married. Huh ... she still married him, then shut up. He bought half-million dollar jewelry to say, "I'm sorry". Being a "serial adulterer" just means the person is a jerk and notes, "divorce needs to happen".

Let's see if I get this right. The entertainer, basketball star, beats you with fists and objects, including while you're pregnant. He's having a number of "extra-marital affairs". You stayed with him all that time ...
[thinking (computer voice "working")]

Relationship was over before marriage. Proceed with divorce. Pity is denied.

Next.

Blazer vs snow

On the way to work I got to see two vehicles ditched from bad driving. Thankfully I was not one of them. I tried to stop at an intersection on the highway, but ... the snow didn't allow me, regardless of ABS, so I slid through hitting no one.

I saw a blazer down the ditch, across part of a tract and into an animal fence (cattle or the like). I guess the SUV didn't do well with that driver.

news of the weird

The phone rings and I answer.

A woman is calling on her cellphone. She is trapped in the ladies restroom and can't get out. I didn't laugh, but was rather befuddled how you can do that, but ... I called a woman to go help her out of the restroom, whatever that means.

60s & 70s

The town where I work has few radio choices ... so if you like the 60s and 70s, it's the town for you. There is also a sports channel, a Gospel channel, and a country channel.

"So what kind of music do you play here, anyway?"
"Oh, we got both kinds, country and old pop."+

I know this because I heard "Disco Duck" before I left. The working center, where I spent my time, is crazy when it's busy. I hope I get faster, better, more accurate ... bionic. I'd then like my own sound effects.

+ paraphrased from Blues Brothers

Stupid & Stupid

Stupid body clock: 6 am, rise and shine. That really doesn't help me when I still struggle to fall restfully asleep.

I am slow and not very good at parts of my job. Supposedly, they are alright with how I'm doing, but I am not happy with me. I returned home feeling -- "stupid" with an Uncle Sam pointing at me "St-you-pid".

CBN

I'm sure at one time CNN had news as the center, but talking about an L.A. sign writer, "I'm sorry Jenny". It's time to turn off the network.

This company keeps calling me

This is an aforementioned impossible sales mission job. Skip that! Apparently Jeffy had this job for a month ... 12 hours a day, solid. I saw a 6'4" or taller man who clearly had one bench seat to himself, rotund front, in the truck. Get new business or hit the road. It was MI: LX (60, like the hours). There was the lackluster automated call, that concluded that I had a GED or HSD and that I had passed the preliminary qualifications. I guess that meant that I was living, over 18 and had some high school-like education. The fact that my education went beyond that is unimportant.

How I succeeded with taxes without really trying

I used OnlineTaxes. It was cheaper than TaxCut, and TaxCut didn't work for me. It was far cheaper than TurboTax, so if you haven't done your taxes and your taxes are fairly simple, I suggest you use OnlineTaxes. The state surrended my money in around 6 days and the feds surrendered my money around 10 days.

the smoking I smell isn't rare

About 80% of the people where I work smoke. Yuck! It is an appetite suppressant for me. I am surprised that they smoke where they do, but it isn't my company. I would definitely change that, though it would peeve people.

I learned new things today and am more tired today that yesterday. It's going to snow, it's going to be another same-length workday and I will likely be a wickedly tired man at the end of the day.

Sometime, I'll put a name to this company.

which to use

regarding work, I'm not sure which to use:

"Too old, too old for the training." +
"The rookies are worth as much because they haven't put their time in." ++

+ Star Wars Empire Strikes Back
++ Platoon

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spellcheck

Well, the new blogger has a lot of neat and simpler interface features. The spellchcek is, by far the neatest change. The elements interface makes it especially easy, so that too is good. The old spell-checker was slower and less clear. This new one is simply -- a great MS, like spell-checker, but better. The in-question words are highlighted, then you choose to correct or not to correct.

Great job team, whomever is responsible for the number of changes!

hint about work

I won't disclose where I now work, but ...
I know that where they are, their business has benefited by being there for a long while. The access to the business is a little awkward, so visitors overcome the situation and go there anyway. That's great!

I don't disclose the place because I don't want me associated with them -- it just might turn out badly. So, sometime, I might write about it and include the name. For now, it is a mystery for some.

Suweeten Alabama

Sweet Home Alabama ... movie. I overheard it.

How many variations of the song can you put into a movie -- watch and find out the answer.

bit of play

Jared looks surprised to see Star Wars while he's wielding a lightsaber

Monkeyjack has his gun aimed and Charlie is trying to play ball -- knock out Daddy!

Winter again

Snow in shutter ... more waste, colder than the artic

broken plastic on side lights on the van -- shattered from cold, maybe?

birds getting fatter

lazy doves, one on one leg

taller than some dogs, the snow makes the feeder a possibility for the squirrels

just sick

Tennessee, backwoods got woodier. A law issuing death certificates for fetuses. So, by law, a family who has a miscarriage or stillborn would get this painful reminder too?

F - OFF!

My solution, flawed, but better:

Find familes for children. If you have enough families for children, then you could outright ban abortion. Since there aren't enough families, you are going to have abortion. Fix the problem by finding families for the children. THAT IS THE SOLUTION. Waving pictures of dead babies doesn't work and is sick, it isn't a solution either.

-- "F- Off" might mean "fudge, forget, Farsnworth", or something more foul

I started the drives at 6:00 a.m.

I spent a really long time ... got them done and was tired and sore. The city didn't even touch the street until after 5:00 pm. I cleaned the end of the drive twice. The plowed mess was solid crap that spent the rest of my minimal energy after a day. I spent a tank and more of fuel. The neighbor who was expecting his son-in-law to plow the drive eventually asked me to do his after waiting and waiting.

We are supposed to get more snow tomorrow through Sunday. Great ... just great!

media to avoid

"Who Moved the Cheese?", unless you like a sarcastic, "no, duh". It was a terrible story. It was a allegory to change in your life. Two mice, two mice-sized humans are in a maze. They have different ways of doing things. One human adapts the tendencies of the mice and does better. The end. This could have been a one-page story, but it was a retch id mess. Much of it was introducing the story, then noting how good it was, then the story, then more promotion of how good it was.

The simple bulleted items: adapt to change and avoid non progressive habits
....
"Discover Your Sales Strengths" (audio book) was more than a waste; it was an insult to your intelligence. The narrator had a peculiar speech error, which made the person pronounce 'strengths' incorrectly. Since it is in the title and a common word in the story ... funny.

POS, is a generalized assessment of this thing.

non-smokers know

A person introduced her/him[self] as a smoker. That person didn't have to tell me ... I could smell it on the breath. Upon looking at the person ... tell-tale muscle expression on the mouth. I wonder how the person will feel years down the road ... ill, well, cancerous?

first day -- training

I learned quite a bit, tomorrow -- moor bweifing.

The surprising thing was seeing "the back" where the action is. I did not know so many ruddy people worked in the back. There were around 20 or more hidden people you never saw. They are "the backbone, the nerve center of a great"+ business that makes mucho money for the business.

+ Blues Brothers

not a convinced Toyota buyer

I drove by a Toyota dealer today. There was a test driver who was stuck in the piles of snow around the dealership's entrance. I don't think they made a sale to that guy. I saw six guys around the car that was dangerously in the way of traffic. The helpers had shovels, but the driver wasn't able to get up that hill to the lot.

Me, I like Toyotas and this wouldn't put me off, but I think thsi guy was not impressed.

Al Gore, illusionist

I saw an Inconvenient Truth, as it was highly rated by some. Well, it's full of charts and other visuals, which are neat, but the documentary, as it were, is choppy and sloppy. I liken Gore to an illusionist drawing your attention to over dramatic scenes and with graphs, that at one point in time, "there are many factors", but never goes into detail. There was an audience in the movie who were captivated by this Tennessee lawyer who confounds and baffles with visuals.

I would not recommend this movie, as it lacks fluidity and tries to look authentic with visuals. The only clear statement that is incontrovertible is that CO2 emissions will increase over the next decades. How much and how this will effect the environment is not so clear. Nations like China and India will be entering the cycle the US did in coal use and greater vehicle use. The thing touched was change -- toxifying the Earth with chemicals -- that is fact. At no time before industry did the Mississippi burn.

At no time did the ocean hold syringes until industries were allowed to dump trash in the ocean. We are consuming the toxins which we poorly dispose. If we dump waste into water that animals consume, it comes back to us. There is our problem. The CO2 and ozone are hot topics, but what happens is pure conjecture.

evolution of backward

Kansas repealed the idea of intelligent design. What the state lacks is consistency ... pro-evolution, pro-intelligent design, pro-creation, then back again to the others in a circus of "I don't know". What a lonely bunch of buttmunches the school has for decision making, if that's what you call it.

Truly OZ, Kansas doesn't know what it's teaching. I suggest it be renamed SASNAK (backward) or ASSKAN (I think you get this one). Testing the students ought to be fun.

What is responsible for development of micro features consistent with different genus be present in only one species of each?

God, I don't know; science maybe?
Correct.

STOO PID

I was driving this morning and jammed my thumb. It was a stupid thing to do. This evening ... pulse, stiff. Crud! What a complete moron! My thumb is returning to normal with pulse and stiffness.

finalist

The above was posted for humor. I didn't probe into the job ... ha ha ha.

I got the following response from an application:
"We have narrowed it down and have made our selection. Unfortunately I must inform you that you were not a finalist."

Finalist? What kind of contest? It was a contest? Crud! I knew I should have bribed a judge.

Winter Whoas!

An hour after snowblowing, there was snow covering where I had been. Snow, wind ... these are not strangers to our land. It is, however, a great punch after many winter weeks of light, light winter.

What I want

is a snowblower/thrower that picks up winter by the collar and punches it, kicks it while it's down ... in a sense, a machine that drop kicks and beats the season within an inch of its life. I'd like to see snowbanks with a long stretch of goo dropping from its nose as it sits sorely recouperating from a haltingly fatal beating after starting a wicked fight.

Snow vs Drifthog+: the most one-sided fight you'll experience

+ Drifthog is conceptual name for snow-battling equipement

Special Valentine News Report

After years of exhaustive research, there has been no conclusive proof whatsoever of fidelity and the purchase of jewelry. While the purchase of unbroken bands is tradition for relationships, marital vows are broken unlike the ring bands. "Bigger and more expensive is better", claimed by retailers may not be true. While the overspending, like vehicle prices or home improvement projects are well noted, many people receiving the jewelry can remark usually of who got the piece for them, but attach absolutely no meaning to the piece at all.

Jewelry, it appears, does not guarantee fidelity, respect, admiration, or physical contact. It appears to continue a business of buying and buying, usually more than the purchaser can afford, for "a week's paycheck and a peck on the cheek". + There are no statistics that relate positively, generally, that more yields more. In contrast, though sappy and dreary, many males have coupled their cards with voice-cards playing the song "More Than Words" by Extreme. Hint, hint ... I bought you this, I think you want what I plan (to do).

So those would-be lovers in pursuit ... make yourselves happy, live well, live together, and love. The buy, buy, buy, buy your way to my heart may not be the best course of action. If you think winning affection through debt happens when you court, what happens on each holiday? Christmas, Anniversary of first date (also other firsts), birthdays, Easter, Arbor Day are all "buy me something" days. If you haven't been married, then this was just an FYI.

If the woman you're "in to" behaves like "material girl", this does not disipate after marriage. If you have a job, get another one.

While the allure of over-buying is tempting, better is romance. The industry can't sell, "do something spontaneous, meaningful, catered to your lover's interests". Leave the world behind, extricate yourselves for a bit of time and do something for each other. A long walk, ending with a surprise ... an evening of chick flicks (yes, more than one) with a real fine dinner, candlelight and hugging/holding ... holding hands for 24 hours (yes, in a row) in public, making everyone aware you are a great and loving couple; these are a few ideas.

People -- demanding stuff builds resentment, please don't do it. Expecting a trip to Paris of a guy pulling in $40,000, is unrealistic. Hope high, aim low or "aim small; miss small" ++. A man with a vocation/occupation shouldn't say, I love you with a McDonald's dinner and two fries twisted together making a heart, but less financially stable people will do something a little less fairy tale-like and might do a cheesy, though thoughful (heartfelt) gesture.

Happy planning and have an enjoyable Valentine's day with your loved one! If you are really in love, not just lust, follow your heart, do soemthing special, make that person know you love them by example, not force.

Happy Valentine's day, several hours early!

+ "Come Dancing" by the Kinks
++ Patriot, staring Mel Gibson

mirror, mirror

"Our engineers have put together a solar sail, we have high hopes that it will provide enough energy to keep our life support systems going." +

So this town in bitter cold Switzerland doesn't get sun. They plan on putting up a giant mirror. 198 people in the town have that much money? Our scientists have great doubt of its success.

+ Star Trek Voyage Home

Aeon Flux

Well, Aeon Flux, an X-Rated comic was made into a PG-13 movie. I think you understand the leap of faith here.

I got more out of the movie than I thought I would. I think I understood something to be a plot. It is an interesting attempt to bring a comic to film. It was all eye candy, with some odd twists in the story.

[SPOILER]
It is a novel idea --- cloning, because the small fraction of humanity left is sterile.
I won't spoil anymore, but the question of living forever.

....
I got a chance to watch Charlize Theron. Now, this isn't a role where acting is important, so I don't know if she's a good actor. I was able to quickly answer questions.
Is she attractive? Does she look good in skin-tight clothing? Does she have a nice voice? Does she show some potential for being a clever, enjoyable person?

I answer yess to them all. I wonder what she's like out of character? I watched the movie and she's stuck a bit in my mind. Hmmm. Drat that movie!

Oh, the review, if it's on, go ahead and watch it. It wasn't a great movie, but had loads of effects and a confusing, but conclusive story. There are questions about character's motives. I think, because it was based on years of comic work, the story is sound and they didn't have to pull ideas out of their sleeves.

Weather oops

I was early in declaring the storm a miss.

Presently, shifting high winds and mild accumulation. The temperature is cold and most of the schools have been cancelled. Dude, I so called that wrong.

Missed me!

"There's a storm a comin'", they called. "Billions of tons of snow heading your way. You'll be up to your armpits in Marsians." All of this huffing and puffing and I see exactly diddly here. It was a bad call.

local market

The local market is going through, what environmentalists call desertification. Here, while I'm on the road, you can see in the distance where I might want to be. There is the arid wastes and scrubland between me and the distant hills. The concern is, what is over the hill and did I waste my time. In any respects, the area job market has gone dry.

They found the right man

3-knife operator & binder
Indianapolis is in luck

I fit the profile

I was not in Spokane, Washington at this time. I am willing to take a polygraph test to prove that the fart was not mine. I have, in the past, let go of the foulest, nastiest, rip-roaringest, farts of mass destruction. This fumes incident was not me, I swear with my nostrils clenched and my hand raised (closing my nasal passages).

Sincerely yours,

Stinky Le Pew

Fair trial

Defense counsel for John Evander Couey remarked that he could not get a fair trial. This came after 14 of the jury members said they were fairly certain he was guilty. A known sex offender pleading not guilty, what are the chances of that? The defense requested another part of Florida because Florida did a great job in the election and in some criminal cases.

Couey has "deep passions" that rule his actions, but plainly denies ever raping the (lengthy, poetic, lustful description) victim. He also noted that had he been the perpetrator, he would have had more consentual sex with the child before burying her alive. He then thought about his statement and recanted, blaming "hunger" for his poor judgment and sought a snickers bar to fight the hunger. His counsel capitalized on this, noting that since Couey clearly showed gay tendencies wanting a snickers bar, that there wasn't sufficient evidence to continue the case.

The judge disagreed and ordered the counsel to "shut [censor blocking] up!"
........
Jokes aside, again make 2006 and thereafter the years of finding, capturing, convicting and executing sex offenders.

You may visit hte Jessica Marie Lunsford Foundation here.

New York, New York

CaQuincy and family live in New York. When I write about snow, they know it and live it. I think that dealerships should factory install plow mounts on all vehicles so you can move in winter.

toupee

The folks were commenting on the baldness ... of my tires. I wonder if they make toupees for tires?

Weatherman calls for smiting on Tuesday

Chance of precipitation ... 90% with 4-6 inches of accumulation. Whereas that isn't nothing in contrast to New York, it will mean more work for me. New Yorkers are likely used to the piling or the Snow Angel taking a dump on them on a fairly regular basis. This spot here in Indiana is a bit from from the lake and doesn't get nearly as much dumping. Still, I predict piles high and accidents abundant.

Hell Froze Over

Dixie Chicks, "back"? Later, charges were brought against them for using bad music as a weapon and for unlawfully re-entering the US. As negotiators are standing by, Celine Dion will return to Canada as part of the exchange between these two countries with different, yet equal WMDs.

People who like music are suing the music awards for allowing deaf and blind people to make the decisions on music. The awards committee responded by saying to a chair, that "no person blind deaf here is". Other members were upset that such harsh criticism was made of a group that clearly shares the ten-percent-of-brain-use over a body of sixty people. The group claimed that despite political statements made, they are, in no way less talented than before or than those others awarded.

Notable awards were also given to Geico commercials, Snickers commercial, and the Superbowl half-time election committee. As of this writing, I understand that with little atttendance and no viewership, the awards will be posted on we_are_talent-MuzakAwards dot com next year with pre-recorded videos to be played for acceptance.

After looking for a while

Lost + Gilligan's Island = funny video

Light reading and other jobs

Wow! I'm glad I got that off my chest.

So, in one company it is all underground and the other I make sure people are doing their drugs. I think I'm reading them wrong.



Yeah, I'm reading them wrong, but they're funnier my way.

click where?

So, let me get this straight ... I click her butt?

Open Season

I tried to like this movie. I tried to be entertained. Alas, I was neither entertained or interested. I found one background error that is really the whole movie.

There is a couple with a dog who are on the road. They are in a silver RV. The plate-constructed RV and the dog passenger play roles later, is on the road fine. When the camera pulls away to show the spanse of the road and the wilderness area, you can find the error.

The RV narrows to a tic tac driving within the lines of a page margin. While the proportions were correct before, suddenly ... poof, they are wack. The lack of details and general flatness of it wasn't good. When the bear is climbing up the cliff, they could have made it like Kipper animation (also books)... wide white spaces focusing on what is important. This is true of Curious George books as well. It was put together, clearly as a cellular piece. The movie lacked details, including its writing.

The story itself was fine, pretty typical, but I guess I found the characters bland and not worth remembering. The few verbal and visual references were forgetable too.

Overall, I would rate this as totally forgetable. There was no outstanding scene. The previews showed most of the funnier parts of the movie and the action scenes. I think I could have done without seeing the diminutive, one-antler deer spontaneously pooping after the bear asks to find a toilet.

God's sense of humor

I finished reading "Fight Club" and I make my last call to where I will start. My clothes:
black, black, white

I am Jack's nervous twitching eyelid.

Fighting book

"Fight Club" by Chuck Palahniuk. I watched the movie first, which jaded me to the movie. I would suggest this book, even if you watched the movie. There are some differences. There is a charcter oddity, the narrator has a hole in his cheek that doesn't heal, has had emergency surgery, but is squeamish about putting medicine up his butt to keep him awake and Tyler asleep.

It is an odd novel and I would liken it to part Stephen King and part Dogma.

Set to fall

I predict that Obama will fall out of the senate having not put enough time in for sessions. He'll be busy trying to ensure votes for President, then he'll not be re-elected because he didn't do enough in office. Then the word will be that it was bias, but it will fall back on the fact that he was led to believe that a senator with limited experience could make it to President. It wouldn't be a racial thing, but not enough time spent in senate (twice over).

Obama ... bow out now, pursue it later. It's the right thing to do. Show who you are and if people really want to vote for you. Hillary ... send all of your money and the moneyt that Bill got to the party and run someone else. If I were a republican (I'm not a party member), I'd say run and fall flat on your face, as you'll likely do.

McCain ... run! I still haven't seen much from the Republican camp. Guiliani ... not sure on you. Since I wanted McCain instead of Bush, I think, so far, I'll stick with McCain. Liberman will get many moderates, but not the ends. I think he'll pull from both parties, so run ... why, not?

Better still ... do popular vote with 1st and 2nd winners being President and Vice President, regardless of parties.
Kill the electoral college. It is crap.

If you can't figure out the voting machine, you probably shouldn't vote.
I once saw a webpage on "Should you vote". There were many, many, many people in it. It suggest that at <75% accuracy, you don't vote. Interestingly, many were in a particular party. Huh. There were a few I failed because I don't know entertainers. I might live next to one and never know it.

end your surplus money

lend money to someone to end poverty, just some person? I don't think so.

Thank goodness it wasn't ...

choke the poultry ...
beat the bishop

MTV's Remote Control

Man! I'm old.

one more stab at Batman

Well, Batman: Another Run at It is due in 2008 with Heath Ledger as the Joker. Joaquin Phoenix is wise to stand back from him. "Where does he get those wonderful boys?" + "Two thumbs up; way up Buttman."

The Joker left a clue:
Roses are Red
So is my butt
I'll **** on your ****
Cuz I'm such a ****

What the? What's he under that mask, mascara?++

+ Bob & Tom parody of Batman, "Buttman"
++ "Thank You Mask Man" by Lenny Bruce [youtube video]

How I imagine the end of Harry Potter 7

In Return of the Jedi, Vader sees what a sadistic foul creature the emperor is and grabs him with his remaining mechanical hand and throws his lightning shooting butt down the vent shaft giving the space stationa a brief power surge and nothing more.

There would be Voldemort killing Harry and before Harry's quite dead, they group or a single person kills Voldemort. Voldemort still gritting his mismatched teeth (not Ralph Fiennes, but his character's) while a spell is erupting around him.

"You alreayd have ... you already have", lingering on the mouths of those around

he's got no class

I heard a radio announcer Thursday night claim, "I like Steven Segal movies. He had a movie that was (stumbling for the phrase) direct to DVD. What's up with that". Uh ... are you serious? He was. He likes Segal movies. I guess there are some people who like hangnails, but I think they are rare. What a nutcase ... or make that two.

celebrity wars

Whereas "the Donald" and Rosie are battling, how about we up and call the stakes and the players?
I suggest we do fantasy fights, like fantasy sports.

Trump vs Oprah ... who can liquidate more assets to charity and go broke then shut up?
Rosie vs Paris: who can match the other person's weight the fastest wins the other's cash.
Mel Gibson vs Tim Burton: make the shortest, most comprehnsible full-length movie ever
Kansas vs Utah: produce the smallest number of zealots
Boston vs San Francisco: have the longest running hetrosexual pride festival


more later

hands -- political

with the art of negotiation, it is said, things get done. Let's take, for instance, seatbelts. Seatbelts weren't the law. There were comittee meetings and senate and congressional pork bellying on a law making it a requirement that all auto manufacturers build them. That's common ****ing sense! Why debate it? It peeves me that there was pork belly on the bill passed. That, right there is a great example of the bullcrap in politics.

Let's see ... it generally saves lives ... huh, I don't know. I'll sign it, if you alot some money to this thing here, having nothing to do with helping people.

That's how politics work. It should be: hey, this saves lives. Make it a law. Great ... a two-page law requiring that seatbelts be mandatory. Simple.

Liar's club

MR posted about Hillary standing by her decision to blame the President Bush. She "can" use this defense as long as people nod and agree. Sad to say, the President is not infalable, but he is held to a higher standard, fair or not, than most other people. He is the leader of the free world. He holds a significant title and responsiblity. He is held to higher standards.

Most people don't like war. It is unpopular. Regardless or moral rightness to defeat "the hun", leading people into war is a bad political move.

Americans were less against Afghanistan than Iraq, because there was a direct link between Al Quada in Afghanistan and the September 11th attacks.

The buyer's remorse on voting for war on Iraq is not interesting, but typical. Again, what the whole bill that was passed isn't clear. What is clear is that the bill directing war with the terrorist regime, some of which is in Iraq was signed.

Unlike any previous war declaration, there is a borderless entitity, as it were, of terrorists that don't have Islamistan as a territory. This doesn't make it any clearer or more correct to the average Joe to say ... okay, get the group.

Because there is not Islamistan to bomb quickly, troops are spread out and trying to fight undesignated people like in Vietnam. Vietnam was poorly executed on a number of different levels. There were lessons to be learned there and in the Kuwait war. Somalia should have taught other lessons.

Here America is the number one supporter of the war. We have no one else to fall back on to help us. We knew that going in. Since we thumbed our noses at other who would not help us then, we don't have their support now. We won't get it.

Going back to the beginning, politicians backpeddle and lie. Really? That's shocking! Politicians claiming they were duped, unbelievable. Politicians aren't to be trusted? I can't hardly stand it. Really?

The next thing you'll write is that the U.N. is corrupt and is full of self-serving politicians. That would never be.

Politicians lie. They all lie. I don't like politicians. Why write that they shock you that they lie? Why would anybody be shocked that die-hards believe liars? "I want to believe" is the motto, not only of X-Filers but of die hards for politicians and politics and parties. They want to believe and are then have to defend that person or their faith in that person.

Hillary, bad choice. Obama, bad choice. While Bill Clinton didn't have business ties to give favors to, he never met a dollar he didn't like. He'd lie to get another nickel or power.

Yes, I noted my favor of his Presidency, but he was a schiester. He was a more open liar and obsessed with power. I think the economy being better during his presidency was the "carrot".

He might have "missed his chance to kill Osama", but I don't know what he knew. He didn't put a whole load of troops into a war that brought more American hostilities (or worsened them). I think, this is why I think of the years favorably.

Clinton is a liar, power-hungry, but I felt safe and we weren't engaged in a very complex war. Our economy was good and had war been inevitable, I'm sure that he would have cheesed over people and charasmatically charmed them into his thinking. Therein is his power. Clinton probably could have talked his way into getting other countries to join the war.

He would have had a long discusion about it with committees, probably wasting much time.

Politicians will lie to make themselves "look" better. How else can they get elected, re-elected, and do the talk circuit and book deals? The problem with American has been said, "too many lawyers". If you take a look at the government, what is the percentage of congress and senate that are lawyers? I think you understand what I mean.

I wouldn't want them to not know the law, but clearly knowing and following are not the same. "What do you mean by taking the bribe money out of my freezer that you saw, on video, me take?" We need to held government to higher standards, not just the President, but people's claim is ... America doesn't need a whole lot of change.

I disagree.

keywords

I have marked the three lines of rather odd or uncommon search keywords

cheers again

I checked again at how Earthlink and Brightmail are saving me from tidal waves of spam. Thanks!

Vegan indignities

If you live a vegan lifestyle, you're like an addict, having to justify to others and yourself why you choose that lifestyle. I am not quite a vegan and don't have to justify to myself at all. Most meats smell to me like what it is ... seared meat. It smells bad, not quite as rotten as roasted stomach, gall bladder and spleen, but close. If people ask me why I don't eat most meat, it's because it stinks! The better part of eating sensation is aroma and smelling.

Imagine white-laden asparagus (notes of strong bacterial growth), recently discovered months old mushrooms and/or past shelf life cottage cheese. Now, you could cook it, cut it with other ingredients, spice it, but it will be bad and smell bad. You could not get it to smell good. Beef, while I used to eat it, smells really unappealing. Poultry smells fouler still. Pork can sometimes smell okay, but I don't eat it unless it is in a heavy-cabbage eggroll. If you eat eggrolls like I do sometimes, you generally are eating pork and chicken.

I can sometimes eat hot & sour soup, but this too is beef broth with chicken broth, soy and chicken parts. There is some sliced tofu and mushrooms, but it is a chicken based soup. If it is heavy on the soy and stronger on the tofu -- it can be good.

The sad bit of some people is that they try to escape meat -- like a "catch me if you can", but loose the hide-and-go-seek game. If you give up on something, then crave it, you will always lose out. You should limit things, but not cut out things that you crave. I will eat a couple of bags of chips if I don't stop myself. I therefore will eat chips sometimes, but I won't buy them more than a few times a year. I didn't make it up to the lake cottage this year, so I avoided them there.

I don't crave chocolate thankfully, for most chocolate affects me badly. If I do get "peckish" for it, I try to find white chocolate, which affects me much less. Dark chocolate also affects me less. I know that some people avoid meat because it was once alive. What a foolish notion! Most everything around you is alive. Because it has a perceivable face doesn't it make it greater or less.

I suppose, with that thinking, if bunnies had faces like slugs -- they would be "good eats". Thinking more about facial symmetry and similar construction, wouldn't most things be off limits? To take this approach, which some do, would require supplements that would cost mucho money. I know there are third-world populations that are vegans, but I'd like to underscore third-world. Indians have what kind of mortality rate? Africans have how high of a mortality rate? This goes beyond warfare.

Some cultures don't eat meat for religious purposes, but they also don't have a lot of food around. If you reversed policy and said, "okay everyone, eat anything that crawls, walks, or runs", you'd have a shortly thriving culture. You'd then have burn out because all of the slower critters would be diminished in the area. Trying to get people to go back to a vegan diet and lifestyle then would be impossible.

In commercial fishing, there are years and decades when the call is, "No more albacore. No more abalone."
Does that mean you don't get any more orders for them?
No ... there aren't any remaining here.

Since people in the US have access to a global food market, it is reasonable to use that access to get a wide range of food, meats included. It is proven that children need lots of protein and minerals and vitamins found in different meats. People can survive without them, but they may not thrive. People should give their children and themselves the best chance at survival and eat what tastes good that is nutritionally sound. I almost want to wrongfully correct people sheltering their children from meat because it once had a face.

Be a vegan for the right reason, not because it once had a face. I can understand you want to limit the amount of processed or overly processed food. Those who want to help cute critters , well ... there's a toy shop there ... help those stuffies from being chewed.