96 Beers

Too many beers for one fool to be drinkin
Too many hiccups for one fool to carry on
You’re way on top now since you left me
You’re always laughin way down at me
But watch out now, I'm gonna get there
W'ell be together for just a little while
And then I'm gonna put you way down here
And you'll start drinkin ninety-six beers
Drink, drink

And when the sun comes up, I'll be on top
You'll be right down there, lookin up
And I might wave, come up here
But I don't see you wavin now
I'm way down here, wonderin how
I'm gonna get you but I know now
I'll just drink, drink, Ill just drink

Too many beers for one fool to be drinkin
Too many hiccups for one fool to carry on
Youre gonna drink ninety-six beers
Youre gonna drink ninety-six beers
Youre gonna drink, drink drink drink now
Youre gonna drink, drink, drink, drink
Ninety-six beers

C'mon and lemme see you drink, now
Ninety-six beers, I wanna see you drink
Night and day, yeah, all night long
Uh-ninety-six beers, drink drink drink
C'mon baby, let me see you drink now, all night long
Uh ninety-six beers, yeah c'mon now
Uh-ninety-six beers

I'm still peeved

Dell ... you're going to hell!

Tech support is great, but customer service, "You have got a serious attitude problem, man!"

Dell to Hell

My charger is going bad. I went online to buy one.
I couldn't find it.
"You can't buy it online", said a tech support man.

Let me get this straight. An integral part of my computer ... can't be easily bought?
No.

I bought one, after being on the phone for 1 hour with two tech support guys and 1 sales parts guy -- $80 after shipping and taxes

I called customer service and got, "Do you want to buy the part or not" -- nothing like, what can we do for you ... anything.

Skip Dell. It is my last purchase with them.

high rise cottage

Cerpicio's family has a cottage and they are protecting it from the hundred-year flood, by raising it. He mentioned that it is lifted six feet off the ground and will be raised and finished in two weeks. That's cool!

Hey! Get pictures!

War of the Worlds 07 AD (series) ep. ix

The UFOs, as it turns out, are aircraft flooding the area over the blacked-out Iraq/Iran. They position themselves over the area, preparing for a massive assault. Two large missiles have been fired at a level of 30 feet, skimming over the ground to their targets. The payload is thermonuclear.

In the last moments before, Kherramabad disappeared, small blips of power were becoming available in pockets of Iran. Singular phone calls were placed, catching up on lost news … allaying worries of death and sickness, everything was just fine.

[deafening silence]

Missile two strikes near the Iraq – Iran border; people, roads, mine fields, military all disappear without voices. Communication is still blacked out, but a mushroom cloud is impossible to hide. Clearly, this is no act of God – it is an attack.

US and British intelligence leak that a large cache of nuclear material was activated, causing the border explosion, while the second explosion is credited to Iran’s hasty development of nuclear weapons. Iran and Iraq cannot offer any story, as they are still blacked out.

Paula - Dan (could be PK Dojo)

Paula, it appears -- now reaching her black belt first degree can become an instructor if she so chooses. Paula and Cerpicio had a celebration for her achievement, in which I botched the time, arriving well after everyone had left. Sorry I put a dent in the evening, but that movie we saw needed lots of viewers to assure you that you weren't missing something, but rather that it was foul!

Anyway, the belt, bearing her name is neat, with a bar on the side indicating her degree (1st). She mentioned that there are stages to get to the each degree, a number of years roughly equivilent to the ranking of degree, so that the 2nd degree takes 2 years, 3rd three and so on. Therefore, a person who has a 9th degree is likely an older person, yes?

I hope that she does with it what she wants. Sometime I would like to see her work. Cerpicio was not enchanted by the prospect of her demonstrating on him.

Cabin Fever Pitch

1. Don't see this movie
2. Don't see this movie
3. If you ignore the frist two, then wear blindfold and earplugs
4. If you ignored 1-3, then take acid, develop ADHD and alzheimers
5. If you developed memory loss you missed:
profanity F* used equally in Pulp Fiction

Evil Dead had less blood and less brutal killings

Evil Dead had a beginning, middle, and end -- a simplistic plot to follow

I guess the writers here, F*ing forgot the F*ing thing! F*! What a F*ing terrible waste!
Foul, crude, stupid, pointless

I guess the title should have been Cabin F*ing Fever F*ing Bitch!

Monks, monastery and madness

dreams from a wirling dervish -- emptiness and fullness in a mad Russian's nightmare

Tuesday night -- dreams of monks and monastaries; why, I don't know.

Thursday night -- dreams of watching a mirror and everything in the mirror was going backward

Dr. Kevorkian says, I drink too much coffee? One tip -- eat fewer pillowcases and include a hormone replacement therapy

I just don't sleep well. You'd think I could. I've had enough practice over my more than three decades.

Will sits and photographs self

May 5, 2006

Tired Will sat on my lap and took pictues with my phone.

Quirky sense of being

When I die, now don't think I'm a nut, don't want no fancy funeral ... but I want everyone to have fresh breath

hallmarks, signature of me: gum and mints

gotta get a pack of gum, and some tic tac
* Back to the Hotel by N2Deep

I was dunk'd

I agreed to be in a dunk tank. It was my first time. It wasn't bad, the water was warm, but the air and wind were terribly cold. Ouch!

The principal was there before me, but I understand that I was dunked more often than he was. How's that?!

War of the Worlds 07 AD (series) ep. viii

More reports are in and there is no second incoming object, thankfully.

Under the fog of communication lapses, the US military moves into better positions in Iraq and Iran. The NEO, as it turns out was a long-ago sent “weather satellite” that held its position for a while. A piggy-back craft grabbed it and started it on its new trajectory – Earth. The missile, had it fired wrong would have started WW III, but as it was, successfully sped up and exploded in space over the Arab region. The communication blackout was a success and the battle will soon begin.

Operation A21-F (07 AD, completion of Arab ‘dis-ownership’ *in 2007) underway. Its target start date off by 14 weeks, but will 2007 might be the end of the Arab-Muslim realm. Generals in the Non-Muslim Pact have pledged support pending initial successes over the first four weeks of the silent operation. While no longer needing to claim NEOs, other communication blackouts will continue to shroud the area, like a non-dissipating storm. A rain of so-called counter terror is massing. The Tsunami army will strike soon and hard.

Reports of UFOs are now common over much of Africa and Southern Europe.
* dis-ownership, a.k.a. destruction

Cat scratch fever

or, that's what I'll call it. I was at Dave's and Cinder came up to see people. I started scratching her and she would not let me stop. She lied on the floor and continued to want scratched. More ... more, never enough! I'll go cooky!

Cinder is a cute pudgy-looking cat, with loads of loose fur, people-loving. Will, however, chased her around a little last night, barking like a dog.

Unbearable lightness of being "It"

Not the evil clown creature of Stephen King, but rather:

Trying to approach a couple of kids during their recess time and their mad dash scurrying away from me --"Ah! (giggle giggle giggle)"

I wound up playing tag and was again reminded of how out of shape I am. They were hanging on me at times so the "it" could tag me. Other times they would herd around me like hungry pigeons saying "Me!" "Can't touch me!" "Tag me!" and so on

It was a good time that earned me a "higher" status with them, rather than mediocre tyrant who likes control and less noise. It was well worth it in the end.

Typically, there were several injuries on the playground, unrelated to tag and a couple of times running -- shoes flying off feet because they weren't tied. This is a typical "fashionable" thing to have -- like basketball shoes untied (Sadly, never credited to Run DMC). I remember doing that in the 80s.

War of the Worlds 07 AD (series) ep. vii

Day two and there are known power outages and general chaos in the Iraq area. There is no power, no phones work and most vehicles seen are inoperable. The military has confirmed that some communication loss is correct, but it will be re-established. Visitors to the area have mentioned no change except for a general lack of power and communication.

The second NEO has now been confirmed by other specialists. It appears to be the same size, but moving faster. Since Urich was destroyed on the atmosphere, it is predicted that this new NEO will also. US military is sending supplies to the affected areas, but communication is still lacking.

War of the Worlds 07 AD (series) ep. vi

The object increased speed, broke apart and seemingly disintegrated over the area of Iraq and Iran. There appears to be no fallout, but communications have been disrupted. Military communications stopped at the moment of impact of the object on the atmosphere. Satellite images of the area show nothing new, but some satellites have been inoperable.

Some cell phone users are complaining from lack of service. Emails have been coming through with sketchy details. Some cities appear to be powerless. There appears to be a strange absence there.

The US has not confirmed or denied military communication errors, though persons talking with servicemen at the time were cut off suddenly and weren’t able to reconnect.

The US had sadly mentioned today, its discovery of what appears to be another NEO. No other nation has verified this.

in command of nothing

I have finished a long-term assignment, now I have bits here and there again.

I think, with my experience with other children, that I am that fat jolly old elf ... summer time Santa, not threatening ... you can punch him, bounce on him, and he still gives you presents. With that, I wonder if I am that, which is why I have some difficult time convincing children/students that I mean business and that like-it-or-not, learning and practice is what we do.

I guess Buzz Lightyear can't be a teacher, perhaps -- although the one time that I never think of "its a payday", teaching isn't the perfect fit. All other jobs it was ... working for the pay. Teaching, I like so much, that apart from bills and debts ... I never think of the money. It is a fun ... it is work, but I never think of "its a job". It is what I do --- fun, work, accomplishment. There I achieve!

I'll be sad to leave it.

It's better to burn out

than to fade away ...

my father's friend, slowly degenerated ... lost hearing, vision, co-ordination, then finally died from prostate cancer. His wife had to put him in a retirement/assisted living home, as she couldn't adequately care for me. What a sad way out. Lost of vision, hearing, so there you are, alone with your thoughts, then -- you fade into your next form.

Perhaps it is better to burn out. I am sorry for the loss to these loved ones. I met him a few times. He was a nice man, resembling somewhat, Walter Matthou.

middle school madness (series) 2

no hip hop, just rock and fluff on the radio ...
two competitors battle it out with randomly shuffled Rubik's cubes ... winner was at 2.3 minutes.

Geek paradise, followed by more mundane math

Pains of civic duty

I have agreed to be volunteered to be in a dunk tank at a school. There are some kids who will be "gunning" for me. Thankfully they are pie-throwing. 30 minutes and I'm done, wet and off to Dave & JJ's (include here Will and Andrew).

Newspaper calls

gets answerer peeved! What are they doing calling my cell phone?! I don't have a subscription and I certainly won't now! Bloody ____ munchers!

new phone virus

I got a "new" old (neo-classical if you wish) virus picture of a back and a butt. Thankfully it was front an anatomy chart and not Jeff's actual backside like the last time. It's also better than the ______ in the bun shot that I didn't see and heard about!

Thanks Monkeyjack! BTW: Charlie stated right after me, "EWWWWW!" seconds before I purged it from my phone. Way to go Charlie! That's right! That's EWWWWWWWWWWWWW!

Bad me, bad me

in a society where you can vote ... for the primaries,
I missed it! I am ashamed!

War of the Worlds 07 AD (series) ep. v

In 2 hours the object will strike the Earth. It has increased its speed again and appears likely to hit the ocean and not the US. Americans are relived that they are in less danger than they were hours and days ago. With this news, many in the US are returning to a calmer state and expecting to return to a normal “hump day” Wednesday.

Camera crews on ships are preparing for any footage they can get and have announced that the associated press will pay for most footage of the object.

The US military is at a stand still in the Iraq movement. The news that they may pull out, has been changed, but the insurgent lines still pour into Iraq unchecked by the military. The US again focuses on the challenges of helping Iraq regain and retain it’s freedom from a coup. It hasn’t announced any intent on increasing its force which is now substantially smaller.

Japan’s rocket fired correctly, but missed the object, so scanning it wasn’t possible.

War of the Worlds 07 AD (series) iv

It is 11 hours now until the object is to strike the Earth and it appears that it will strike the US, but it may not be in Missouri. Scientists are still struggling to effectively predict its point of impact. The object is oddly deflecting radiation, preventing effective scanning. There is no known reason for this and scientists are baffled. Presently it is appearing to speed up on its decent … again, an aberration that baffles scientists. By this slight increase in speed, many in the US are hoping that the predictions are wrong that that is misses the US and strikes the ocean.

The US is scrambling to ready itself for any problems that might arise from “Urish”. Japan has prepared a rocket to come close to the object to hopefully determine some information, and plans to fire it within 2 hours. The weather in the area is still a problem, but Japan will launch regardless the weather.

In hopes that some of the object is retrievable, ships are moving into the Atlantic Ocean to recover it. It is a possibility that the object will survive greater if it strikes the ocean, but it is unclear if the resulting collision will cause a tsunami. The US is calling for all non-military craft to leave the area in case of such a problem.

Many vessels have entered into international waters with the hope of making it rich, catching the object and selling it to the highest bidder.

Uncommon question

as asked of my by a 4th grader: "Mr. [my name], why do people scream when they have sex?" "None of the teachers seem to know."

I responded: "Oh, they know. It's just, uh ... better if you ask your folks. They'll have more time to discuss it with you."

up the river

One kid is not on the learning curve. Perhaps you know the type who continually burn themselves on a fire.

Booted, written up, suspended ... still, nothing changes. He'll be a fun adult.

In other news, a boy came up to me, unprompted, "My dad's a robber." He later on reported to me that he doesn't live with his father anymore.

War of the Worlds 07 AD (series) iii

By most accounts, the time of the NEO to hit the Earth is in around 10 hours. It appears now that the object will indeed hit the US. Other scientists are scanning for any other objects following this one, but have found none. The object is cylindrical and moving fast. It is not rock in composition, as stated by many. By the size of the object, scientists have guessed that it will strike the US around Missouri, but that the bulk of the material will incinerate in the atmosphere making little meaningful impact. The state of Missouri has been on full alert and all military available have been sent there to assist with any situation that occurs.

Other nations have pledged aid to the US if the damage is severe. Larger metropolitan areas have began curfews and free transportation to other areas. Residents have been requested to leave the area if possible, but strict control has been maintained to prevent rioting, and panic-induced deaths on the highways and in the cities.

FEMA has been pre-alerted to the impending problem that may arise. The President himself has assembled an assessment team and supply-deployment department in conjunction with the state services to provide aid. The Blood Cross is asking anyone who can donate blood to do so early.

The US military is experiencing some difficulties in extracting their military from positions in Iraq since their declared intent to redeploy. The US has slowed its military move within Iraq, due to fatalities and from the assumed little impact of the NEO on one state.

An emergency $50 million in aid is ready for Missouri should disaster befall it.

more movie madness

Lord Vader will provide the location of the misplaced reactor keys; misplaced by the now-re-educated-Larry ...
~~~
Hold on, hold on, hold on! You mean to tell me, you built a planet destroyer out of a moon?
~~~
This rebel surrendered to us. He was armed only with this [120 pound case of nuclear explosive bomb]. He claims that's it, but I wish to conduct a full body cavity search.
Very well, commander, you may conduct your search.
Then my father is truly dead.
~~~
Question: if Jengo Fett had accoustic seismic explosives, would they have been better to use on the asteroid field when the falcon was there? I'd think about 10,000 and any debris heading toward the star destroyer would be minimal.
~~~
Sky Captain, have you noticed that there's no one around to be calling you? The entire base has been destroyed, with whom are you talking now?

War of the Worlds 07 AD (series) ep. ii

After 18 hours of its discovery, the NEO 1126F “Urich” is now maybe two days away. From the best estimates from scientists, it will strike the Northern Hemisphere. Europe and the US are collaborating on a solution to a possible Earth-changing/shattering doom. While many nations are volunteering help, no nation had any solution. No rocket could be loaded with any payload to reasonably knock it out of orbit, let alone come close to hitting it. The size of the object made it difficult to effectively hit. The level of damage it might cause is yet, undetermined. From best guessing, the NEO is an ejected part from some ancient collision, seemingly from no known planet.

Scanning has revealed that it has some metallic qualities to it, possibly. It is oblong &/or cylindrical. Nothing else could reliably be determined.

The US has drawn much of its military back from Iraq trying to brace itself for a possible calamity. While the troops will not likely be out of Iraq within the strike window, they are being pulled away and redeployed to other areas, Qatar, Egypt, and parts of Kuwait. The Iraqi insurgents and infiltrators are pushing forth with a near visible line of troops and supplies from Syria and Jordan. Iran is also sending troops along the border of Iraq.

The US has deployed military and service men and coast guard personnel to larger metropolitan areas to maintain control and to curtail rioting. The US press secretary has stated that there is no good reason to panic as the object may be small enough that any damage may be as minor as a tropical depression, as well not being actually hitting US soil. He stated today that his advisors are stating that the object is in a position to strike the ocean and not any land area in the US or any other nation.

The man enters the room

After 90 seconds of an odd greating of Charlie yelling, "Hi", hugging me then doing slapstick, He runs up and starts punching me. Madison, who was also there, joins the gang mentality and punches me. After two minutes of continual punching, I had to stop all further punching. No individual punch hurt, but after around 30, they were starting to accumulate; like pestering a sore.

Amy mentioned that she doesn't get that kind of a greeting. They soon after turned their "assault" on Monkeyjack, who was less-inclined to wrestle and be punched.

zippers are great inventions

especially when they keep you from flying out of a trampoline net and onto solid pavement. Ouch! Charlie did just that tonight! Bounce, bounce -- [bounce out hit], back onto his feet stumbling around, picked up by Daddy (all within the spanse of 6 seconds).

The emergency room crew stated that he was okay.

Grass

Boy oh boy! I love the smell of wet, rotting grass. Yumm... yummmm .... puke! Ah, the trash man gets this waste and Waste Management can have it! Eww!! Biodegradable and foul! Animals eat this do they?

I saw this in '99

Hologram, as it were, only if viewed from above. I was at a teacher's science convention and they had one of these things. Neat!

War of the Worlds 07 AD (series)

After some work, the US has discovered a NEO (Near Earth Object) approaching. Its speed is difficult to determine. Other nations are verifying the object. Best guess conjectures are that the object will be close to Earth within 3 days. It is relatively small and a wonder that it was found, still its course leads it to strike Earth fairly directly, which would cause a possible global change.

The object is of indeterminate material, appearing oblong, but few other details are available. The US has not announced plans for safety or intercept of object. The Japanese are scrambling to prep a rocket for investigation, but local storms are likely to scrub any misison.

unfriendly topic

according to [name deleted], there are a few freaks who prefer to work night shifts at the morgue to ... uh, prepare the dead. Say. That once-was-a-person, is kinda cute with their mouth sewn shut and their rigor long-since gone. I'll just heat up some fluid and have a hot one ... no one will know. They're so ... posable and accomidating.

-- here's where you puke, by the way ---

then they dress 'em and apply the makeup and get them ready for the casket for presentation. I would suspect they same necros would prefer to think that other necros would have them post life.

Uh ... you mount and stuff during taxidermy, not funeral prep ... sicko! I would think that this would be more of a guy thing than a woman things as ... well ... it'd be more appliances attached -- essentially flesh dildo. What would be the point, eh?

more on line-steppers

I was waiting for, "I dare ya ta expell me!"
"Now that oughta do it!"

Habitual line-steppers

In the class with which I have been working, three. I sadly don't get to check 'em back into place.

[front quick, mid kick] aohaohhghhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!! Smash into glass object.
I think I'm bleedin' into my chest.

I guess I should have known there was a problem when they stepped into the room, claiming, "Darkness! Darkness, everyone!"

I would, however, be the first one on the, "What did the five fingers say to the face?"
"I don't know."
Slap! [slap]

"What did the paddle say to the ___?"
"What?"
[whack!]

"Do they speak English in What?"
"What?"

[blam]

He-Man Hausen

language indistinct -- wacky, worthy seeing once

Music restoration

MR linked up my old HD to my new one and transferred my music to the new HD
So, I guess MR is the music restorer

The same night we watched hot pursuit (police car chases) and an episode of DS 9 -- beginning of the war, where the space station is evacuated and taken over by the evil ones. At the end of the episode, the freedom fighters knocked out a "crack house" required to keep one race in line and not sociopathic killers, in doing so they left themselves on a slow boat to China. It will take us 17 years, 8 months ... to get to neutral space -- ouch!

paper, cutting, following instructions

nothing happened like it was supposed to:
paper folded horizontal, not vertical
cutting wrong parts
+ smudging of glue
______________
mess

My ideas hold to fold, like some of their papers, with bad creases and corners not meeting. It was a lesson on cutting, colors and more, but in the end proving that they didn't have enough experience cutting and following directions.

bad sign?

Last weekend, the priest dropped the rings. I'm sure it means nothing, but comical.

potentially good news

Mum might leave hospital tomorrow (Thursday) -- maybe, but will have a permanent change in meds now

I may be with the class a bit longer, as the teacher has not been released to go to work.

Leaving in a hurry

I was walking the kids out to the bus today when one child decided to pull the fire alarm. Needless to say, most people were already near the exits or out of the school, but were informed within three minutes that there was no fire. I saw her pull the handle and she threw a fit being yanked back inside and to the office. She wouldn't go there for me and threw herself on the ground. The FD charges $400 per incident. They plan on sending the bill to the Mom. This same kid tried to steal a wallet sitting on a kid's desk, right in front of the whole class -- 1st grade. She'll be a winner for sure.

Tormentors

Equally bad as Harry Potter's dementors

He said, she said, in the middle of bickering -- signs says you got to have a membership care to get inside; huah!

"I'm not touching you", heard on Monday
Mr. ______________, [name exempted] is touching me.
Is he playing tag with you?
No. (dubious repsonse, as all five children ran off in same direction), earlier I was "base" despite my statements to the contrary.

Yell, scream, throw a fit -- understandable for 2-4, but 6 or 7, unsightly. Adults throw them too, but I'm interested in the students developing into adults ... from that school 86.4 some percent will make adulthood. On average, 80% will make it through adulthood. The US has a mortality rate < 50%, especially with illegal immigration and urban overabundance (lupus proclivity) or Rattus norvegicus (species variant A, not wild type), aka street urchin, social leech--may they all develop (not "lead poisoning"*1)

I know that I have felt like my soul's been painfully sucked from my being with some of the students, their families an their experiences. I used to donate to RAINN, but haven't had the money. Tori Amos, while no longer the best spokesperson for the organization, didn entice me to donate.

In somewhat related news, Notre Dame (catholic) has agreed, grudgingly to host Vagina Monologues, generally concerning women's issues, including incest and rape. Unlike Corpus Cristi (picece de gayiety) I rejoice in the school's introduction of this cathartic poetry and monologuing, for it serves a purpose. I was tempted to attend while it was in town, though it might send the message of "perv", I was interested in the work, the years or decades long expelling of old ... rejoicing in being a woman and refreshing of the self. I could have only assumed many things, but happy for their associate healing.

*1 Who Framed Roger Rabbit

mystical then practical

hokey tricks are not as useful as a blaster at your side

I should know

I teach

Shut 'em down!

There's a kid in the school, 1st grade, who's _____ hard to reach! Everything is worthy of a confrontation. Hey, _____, you're shoes are ....

&*^%^&%&!@!!!!!

[twist turn, flop around, yell, scream, throw a tantrum] (abuse symptomology, but not proven that I know, may be successful reactionary tactics for attention-getting unrelated to abuse)

I suspect that this little boy will get the "holy" ______ [snot] beat out of him one day. I would guess 6th grade he'll get a beat down that he'll remember. Sad that he doesn't just drop the 'tude.

Getting a licence

for driving takes longer than a hunting licence. Does that make sense? I ought to walk down the road with a shotgun, hunting poor drivers' tires. I stopped in at one of the (only) three branches in this ruddy town!

The line stretched clear to Terra Haute. *

I said, "skip this" and hoped for a different way. I'll see if they have the ATM like units to do driver's licences. Yikes! I should not have to wait 90 minutes to do that!

* A Christmas Story

funtionality

Mum's in the hospital again ... this time, not critical. She was entered into the emergency room --- the thinking being that emergency room patients get rooms faster. I didn't see this in action. While I was at work, the folks were at hosptial 1 something. I left after 8:00 pm and still nothing. The pharmacy had some pokey or dopey people as she wasn't getting all her meds.

1-3 days later, we hope to see her again, free from the hospital.

Beetles battle in a bottle on a poodle eating noodles

I "sampled" Green Eggs and Ham and paid the penalty for it, in that in the middle of the narration it goes into the Sneeches, then back to Green Eggs and Ham. I'll have to fix it, but it was embarrassing. I had the read the remainder of the story, not then knowing that the rest of story was there. It was nice, the kids laughed a bit with my narration.
Now there's a neat little side adventure that I'd like -- narration for some petty cash.

Anyway, now I'm prepared!

I just watched the old animated Hobbit movie

and boy is my brain numb ... and my eyes are tired. I'll admit, I fast-forwarded through it, for it was ... obscenely bad. The songs they threw in it were cheesy, 70s and poorly executed. It was interesting that some of the group made Voltron and other 70s Japanese anime and the producers later made Charolette's web and are a staple company making Rugrats and other Nick toons as well as Cartoon Network. The animated movie was, slow slow slow slow slow slow slow. Snore!
I can't believe that the book would be like that, but then again the Lord of the Rings trilogy was not sprint race either, nor much of a marathon, more like a March on Dines ... slow and easy wins the pace (if anyone is watching).

Lifting up the squirrels

to a higher level ... oh, no, that's not what I was doing today. I lifted kids up to horizontal pole so they could climb hand over hand along the top to the end. I lifted many kids today. One of the few physical things I've done lately, my belly shows me how ROUND I am. Yikes! I think I'll skip eating as much.

Anyway, it was nice being out with the kids and lifting them up to play. Fun!

Pick up

your pieces and move on.
If I fail, I pick up the pieces and move on, whether I reassemble it or not. It's broken.

drum kit

or as Charlie likes to put (or putt putt putt) it ... he he he he he he he he he (tooting more and more with each and every laugh. He was winning Mario Smash Brothers and was tooting machine gun style! I'm happy that there wasn't a panic to use the restroom, but ... the toilet did get plugged, then filled with barf at the end of the evening. Poor toilet!

Wedding Black & White

I didn't film it in those colors, but that was the color scheme. It was great, in that it was short. I've experienced 2.6 hour weddings (two of my sisters' Catholic services with mass), my other sister's 45 minute version, but this one was cut to the chase! That's what it should be! Monkeyjack's and Lori's I believe was 33 mintues -- a good wedding, nothing painfully long or long-winded.

The stepfather to the bride sang the Lord's Prayer ... an interesting and 'unique' idea.

The reception was quick -- no dancing, as it was held at the church, the background music was ambiance (rainforst). I got a tip, which was great, as I wasn't expecting it.
+++
After that I met up with Monkeyjack & family and watched Charlie while they bowled. We had a good time, including finding worms and ants. Connie nicely gave Lori tickets to the circus, which she and Jeff would not attended. They seem like good, honest neighbor's with a sense of humor! Later Connie and Jeff walked over to chat. Jeff spoke about a customer who had serious damages done to home and furnishings due to an incompetant (or tired and drunk -- speculative) employeed who maliciously and carelessly damaged unique items in a person's house, installing a piece of furniture. Yikes! He also said that the company, through some nepotism, may very well shield this wrecking ball of a schmuck.

Anyway ... the cake was nice .... photos I hope reveal that and much of it was eaten. I was surprised as Lori and Monkeyjack were cutting the cakes ... they almost couldn't keep up with the demand from a <100 group at the reception. I didn't eat any of the cake, but it was obviously exceptional.

Also funny was the irony of: 3-4 Marks being there, so saying or shouting "Mark" wasn't fruitful for getting one person's attention.

Also, the bride and groom had the first names of myself and ex ... it was, distrubing on my mind, momentarily.

Easter 2006 punctuality unimportant?

I, with the folks, were late. My sister and bIL (brother in law) were there on time, yet we ate without the other family who was ... late.
I spent most of my time talking with Jim while we worked on ice cream that my sister (her house) insisted that we have. She also left, leaving us to do dishes (every holiday she does this) -- it peeves me! Look! I've cooked for lots, then cleaned what mess I made. My sister cooks, then leaves the ten thousand dishes for others ... rude!

Anyway ... it was okay, not fights, battles and we pretty much had a good time, not very Eastery though, but I didn't go to church, so I guess I missed out on that part.

It would appear that my neice and her boyfriend are quite close -- great! He seems to be a nice kid, with a Mark Hamill appearance, for lack of a better analogy. Most of the kids there were old enough that no mention of baskets were made, though I'm sure that there were pounds of candy everywhere. It was also my understanding that my neice was "ill" on Monday, not going to school. I find it likely that it was self-induced illness (candy overconsumption perhaps ... or the old COP* out).

May the sacrifice of the one, be to the joy of many; not of the loss, but of the gain -- herein, salvation!

* cosuming obscene proportions (of any substances)

upsidaisium

free floating rare or ultrarare mineral
lifts itself and proportional mass of 1200%
purchased "legally" by energy companies to prevent fuel prices from falling

nuclear power plants, delaying in favor of fossil fuel depletion and energy company monopolizing

In what country are we? Were are the feuding and gun-firing congress now to stomp out the oil barrons, the communication barrons of the 00's, as aposed to the railroad barrons of the 90s-10s?

The turn of the century, the millenium, and still we have barrons of communication and energy. Still, we have plantations of tobacco the government tags as cancer causeing and dangerous, yet the government subsidizes these farmers to produce a toxic product. Huh?

Schools failing to meet certain scholastic criteria are closed and the students sent to "water down" other schools otherwise meeting the scholastic standards. Is that really helping?
Schools are integrated, but there are fewer adults in the buildings and there are fewer "discipline options" and really funding prevents opportunities to "good" students.

The citizens call out impeachment much like recount, recall and free fries. Bush impeachment ... why? Bill, liar, I could see, but Bush has done nothing impeachable. He has done many, many, many publicly denounced actions, but nothing illegal, as it were. My tangent would be the authorization to enter Iraq, but that is another story. One man cannot force the actions of so many. Orders, if faulty or stated from a powerless position may be ignored. A private directing superiors to attacks don't make it happen and a general directing the army to fire upon itself doesn't fall under the category of punishable of "not following orders"

In a small story, the local paper ackowledged that a school applied common sense to a policy and didn't suspend or expell students for exchanging and dispensing cough drops (under broader interpretation a drug, therefore dispensing of drugs is suspendable / expellable offense). Yay for them for uing that matter incased in their skulls.

Western Digital takes licking

and starts rattling. I believe that the drive is spinning, but the USB connection in the unit -- popped off. It had all my music, but I'll seek a cheparer (or faster) way than the overcharging Geek Squad for data transfer from working drive to working drive. Let's see. hook up drive, 10 minutes. Dump data from bad drive to new drive -- simple, start and it'll finish when its done. Is that work? It certainly sounds like charging for 5 - 10 minutes. They're prices for that are more like lawyer fees.

picking candidates

like picking your nose is gross, limitedly productive and leaves you unclean. Moreover, like 47 other states, I must "declare" a party for the primary (buffoon selection 1) and elect under vice secretary to the assistance tax assessor treasurer of a county. Does the party matter then ... do they earn much ... no and no. I can't believe that they have much of a budget. I do, however expect deception from a candidate, whose supporters can finance a whole billboard on a main thorofare.

Another bad ad campaign (flyer) I read had a vision statement ... poorly done and bad idea.

How about a nice little questionaire for all persons on the ballot? Include on this pre-entry exam: understanding of job for which s/he is petitioning, specific listing of relevant experience, kinetic / dynamic / static perspective (change of satus quo and capability to do so, improvement of self and trickle down to all tangents, keeping the status quo).

I don't know more than I know on any of these people. I can thankfully say that I don't have any affiliates to which I owe favors when voting. I still feel disenfranchised, stripped of power and intentionally held ignorant, yet belittled if not exercising (not performing) voting in this runners up circle event known as primaries.

I feel equally poor at the official voting in fall.

and so there I was holding the bag

Who will do this ...
you, [my first name] come here and take your assignment

I was really a nonparticipant, a foreigner --- passerby and chances were someone would be picked.

blankity blank blank blog

I feel like a southern task master ... picking on the ethnically different ... it's really based on behavior, but it grates on me that I give the appearance that I'm a racist with my usual suspects for punishment. With this class I also seem to "select" males for punishment more often than females. I try to be impartial and fair, but I feel that it never looks that way. It haunts me -- man of the sheet not the cloth. I know that I'm not, but I think that it appears otherwise.

You may have

the blood of Christ (which happens to be alcohol), but you may not dance. Huh? If your religion defines lines that are counter to your thining, you must either:
accept the teachings or
accept your opinions.

Does dancing lead to sex? Especially for the bride and groom. Isn't that the procreative function of the relationship and Catholically writing, the way to get more Baptists? Dancing leads to more congregation ... hmmmmm ... the _____ church hosts the Welcome "new (prenatal) Baptists.

Fire!

i Que arriba ! Was uss mench?
No remorse, regret; we don't care, what it meant. Another day, another, another sorrow, another breath. Climb every mountain, sail every sea, conquer every idealistic moment, until you sow your seed. That's a bad idea. That's like castor oil democracy. Take it and _____ regularly. That's right! Take California .... please? I wanna throw a fit about someting a part of which I am not ... I rebel against my daughter, whose guardianship I lost (go figure) to have to say "God" in her pledge. Nag, nag, nag ... but I'll be damned if I'll do a _____ thing about anything significant.
Say, like the lunatic fringe with the woman seeking audience with Bush, despite the VERY rare personal talk with him. HINT: VERY FEW PEOPLE get to talk with any President, let alone, more than once. Give that dead idea a break. He died. Okay. He joined a system where that was a possibility. It's done. Sad that siutations were that he died, but that is that. A soldier is dead.
Meanwhile, Bush is making, well, some decisions that don't play well with the media or the poulace. His cabinet should advise him to either: do things covertly or play more to the popular opinion ... passing the bill ... bad idea, posioning the Republican party. Does he not understand that? Bill Clinton was THE politician ... telling what the people wanted to hear while he was stealing their wallets. He was the political theif ... brilliant in theft, but not best suited for the job.

unlike French

Is my pronunciation of it....
my neice says that I enunciate German while saying French for a lower octave, gutteral, slobbery de tuoix!
Non-syntaxical:
les femmes intelligentes de loevly sont ma faiblesse

Morticians, Inc.

You say that [name deleted] is supposed to be dead, but is "listed" otherwise.
Yes.
I understand that you wish to have a cause of death?
Yes. I was under the impression it was ... suicide: by way of self-inflicted strangulation
... hmmm ... writing is a little unclear on that.
Oh, sorry ... asphyxiation
Yes. I see here that, according to the report, that the person, while showing signs of mild trauma and ligature marks, was found dead, bound at the wrists in a closed garage. A car was either running or had run and exhuasted its fuel.

Yes. That's what I "have".
Great. I understand that that this is a "clarification"
Yes.
The standard copying/reproduction fee is 25 (pause) dollars.
Yes... that's right, 25 (puase) dollars. I was told that checks have been a problem and you prefer cash when available?
Yes, that's right.

Your official copy will be sent soon. Thanks for using the service. Dial ### ### #### for any further errors in reporting.

an oil bath, thank the maker

We've all got a mission in life
We get into different ruts
Some are just cogs on the wheels
Others are just plain nuts
Science is some folks calling
Others pilot a ship
My mission in life stated simply is
A moustache on every lip

She was an acrobat's daughter
She swung by her teeth from a noose
But one matinee her bridgework gave way
And she flew through the air like a goose

++++

DAFFY DUCK AND EGGHEAD:

My name is Daffy Duck
I work on the merry-go-round
The job was swell, I did quite well
'Till the merry-go-round broke down
The guy that worked with me
Was a horse with the lavender eye
Around in whirls we winked at girls
'Till the merry-go-round broke down
Up and down and around it we sped
The dizzy pace soon went to my head
Now you know why I'm dizzy
And do the things I do
I am askew and you'd be too
When the merry-go-round broke down
Yes the merry go round broooookkkkkkeeeeeeeeee.... down

Legislators, mount up

Legislators
we regulate any stealing of his property
and we damn good too
But you can't be any geek off the street,
gotta be handy with the writ if you know what I mean, earn your keep!
LEGISLATORS!!! MOUNT UP!

It was a clear black night, a clear white moon
Esquire me on the streets, trying to resume
writin’ laws for my peeps, so I can get some dough
just workin’ at my desk, typin’ all alone

Just hit topside of the Wash D.C.
on a mission trying to find Mr. Reinquest see?
Seen a case full of cash ain't no need to tweak
all lawyers know what's up with billin’ fees

So I hooks a left on the 21 and Lewis
some brothas arguin’ law so I said "Let's do this"
I jumped out the ride, and said "What's up?"
some brothas pulled some pens so I said "I'm stuck."

Since these honors clock me I'ma object and serve
these plantiffs lookin so hard they straight hit the curb
Won'tcha think of better things than some petty tricks
I see my partner and some suckers all in his mix

They gettin jacked, I'm breakin myself
They can't believe they taking all they wealth
I took they’re rings, I took a rolex
I looked at the brotha said "Damn, what's next?"

They got my homey hemmed up and they all around
ain't none of them seeing dat they going straight to the pound
bailiff come up real quick before they start to clown
He pull’s out his handcuffs and lay them busters down

They got witnesses, said
I think I'm going down
I can't believe this happenin, my partners all layin down
If I had wings I could fly
let me contemplate
I glanced in the jury and I see my an escape

Twelve in the jury, one in the hole
Mastermind about to make some bodies turn cold
now talkin and debatin
it's a tad bit late
Mastermind and Reinquest had to legislate

I laid all them busters down
I let my mind explode
now I'm switching my mind back into cash mode
if you want dough sit back and observe
I just wrote a law of those over there on the curb

Now Nate got the freaks
and that's a known fact
before I wrote law I was on the same track
back up back up cause it's on
B I L L and me
the Reinquest to the G

Just like I thought
they were in the same spot
in need of some desperate help
Mastermind and the Reinquest
were in need of something else
seein that cash was sexy as hell
I said "ooo I like your size."
I said "my account’s down and you seem real nice,
would ya let me ride?"
I got a case full of cash and it's going real swell
the next stop is the Vegas Motel

I'm tweaking
into a whole new era
M-Funk
step to this
I dare ya
Funk
on a whole new level

the rhythm is the bass and the bass is the treble

Chords
Strings
We brings
Melody
M-Funk
where rhythm is life
and life is rhythm

If you know like I know
you don't wanna step to this
It's the M-Funk era
funked out with a lawyer twist
if you charge like I charge
then you rich like everyday
and if your ass is a buster
Mastermind will legislate

Wop bam boom!

Got a girl named Nancy Cohen ... she's from Facts of Life and smaller works. She was the "fat, strong character" who you thought would be the high school mentality -- always fat. I was looking up Nicole Mckenzie, whom I favored, but there wasn't a recent picture. She was the "wild one". It's odd, thinking that I remember my high school thinking -- I guess since MR mentioned another ruddy class reunion, to which I will not attend, that I got to thinking about it.

For practicality, use and nostalgia, I put together the Schoolhouse Rock songs for the kids at school. Some of them knew the Conjunciton, Junction, but didn't know the others. Funny that I'm Just a Bill and C J were the most notable. I liked them then and I like them now. They had some groups do newer versions of the songs, but they blew chunks and sucked up navel lint.

"Without Mother Necessity, where would we be?"

Madagascar

or how to put together 6 ideas into a group of 5 with, dubious linkage with the penguins. It was okay, with a typical, unnecessary curse inuendo ... "Hoover Dam!" Why not just skip that? Anyway ... okay, disallusionment, redemption, true friendship, and it was 72-82 minutes. It wasn't a 4 hour movie (Peter Jackson ... paying attention to this?) The dry spells, while visually interesting, still would wane on the mind of the youth. They needed to accelerate a few areas, but overall okay ... with 25% re-viewability. There were no strong songs or (I missed that, surprises).

$135 and all I got was this stinking battery?!

I had two batteries, both dying and unchargable. I bought a typical battery for my laptop. Cripes! It was $135 for a chunk of metal, plastic and 0.6% liquid CDLI. Thankfully Dell shipped it next day and I got it a day after paying for it. It works fine, but it's not like a new car, or new anything. It's a battery or a replacement part that isn't shiny or fancy or much of anything. When you invest, you expect to get something, rather than typical operation. That's what I got ... expected operation. It had to be done.

Running with scissors

I've missed out on many things, put myself behind and have in all other ways defeated me in a vain effort not to do so. Time cruching and number count down, I have failed on so many fronts. In my work, I see phtfft! I try and, being a critic of my own work, dislike anything that I claim as worthy or worthwhile!

parody on justice

confining a few, in favor of the protection for most, still I then am bound and tethered to those whom I choose. I choose not, those because they're great, wonderful, grand associates, but because they're the cause of the pain of frustration ... a temporary martyr diving on the grenade to shield all others from a nasty explosion. I hate it. It still has a cost. Those, worst offenders, see that they are confined, but not assaulted and so offend again. The penalty isn't one, save for the prosecution -- me. No more I say, but find that it's only talk. My series of profanities are saved for the decades-dead keyboard and blank paper before its mauling.

Bang bang bang go my morals

My feelings of morality are, well, that I'm a sinful sod. I have principles but am willing to defy them in favor of certain situations. Headstrong, headlong, I plunge into the quagmire known as the gray area where thinking is allowed, but prompt action is required. Given circumstances where to act in my moral front (template) is to bring harm to others and to not act is to bring harm to others. Pitted now against the code of realism and pragmatism or stark reality and preference, my desires are immaterial to reality. So, I boldly hurt some to not hurt others. Some pay, my soul pays, my mind pays and takes its toll on me -- conscious reminding me like a mirror, of who I am. What have I done ... forever it pains me ... I can't change what I have done, but I wouldn't change it, the other possibility is equally terrible or worse. In the end, I haven't surrendered my morals, nor put them on a shelf, but rather see that taking pain in one way is no worse than pain in another and the I haven't circumvented my morals in favor of the fast and easy way. I do accept that I'm selfish.

Monkeyjack's philosophy bantering

and the concept of moral choices and sin.

In such a case where you are pitted again life pain and sinning, to where you kill another person or innocent and "guilty" people, do you sin or make a loss in your life and your family's life (life in prison, or long sentence due to you not sinning and killing another person)?

Monkeyjack came up with hypothetical question after question -- some so fictional, there was no reason to answer them, but I surpirsed him with my capacity and willingness to sin, with my understanding (concept) that often you are pitted with two sins -- weigh them as you might, which do you choose. I chose the more "evil" as it were, the darker, more seductive, easier option. I would kill, but I understand killing is a sin, that I claim that I would choose, in favor on another sin or failing that isn't killing.

I believe we met at a point that, at some point in time, many people who wouldn't kill, would -- given the right circumstance -- say to kill a home-invader rather than have them kill a loved one (or loved ones) or a "rational transaction, one life for billions", "needs of the many, outweigh the needs of the fewer or the one".

My anger arises from the fact that the world and society has more and more situations where killing (from a certian perspective "point of view") is preferential to not killing -- not to say that it makes more sense, as killing, itself is wasteful and illogical. Translated also to other forms of life. Is it reasonable to kill, to get something out of your way?

That, limited to classical and neo-classical theology and philosphy, of souled creatures, namely humans, still limits people in their responses to difficult and angonizing situations. Someone will kill a loved one if you don't kill them: a perp with a gun is aiming to shoot your spouse. You are in a car heading toward that person. Would you stop (not killing that person because killing is illogical and sinful) or would you continue and kill the person, saving your loved one? My answer is quick -- kill the perp, save the loved one.

Do I kill bugs? No. I try to relocate bugs that shouldn't be in the house, like bees, wasps, moths, etc. I do kill mosquitoes because they may be a health threat -- protection of self and others (but primarily self). I don't kill flies either, though they don't discriminate food and are usually laden with gunk, but there are so many species, some are selective, including pollenators who feed from flowers (bee in appearance). Insects, spiders, etc. serve a purpose and it's wasteful to extinguish them for no gain, save your personal glory of getting them out of sight or victory over a small opponent.

To summarize our 90 minute discussion, including Monkeyjack's my preference to not join the military to achieve military goals is that, if you can have a life where you don't face sin or sin, it's better, as people tend to sin, though they ignore it... and people tend to destroy out of malice (and enjoyment) rather than be pestered by a small nusance. In this case, I'm selfish and would prefer to not have more tax dollars spent on permanent incarceration (the way it is presently set up and the total cosets for execution) and have convicts pose a real threat to the public by possible escape or pardoning, or release to commit more crimes as they are not educated to re-enter society. I would prefer to kill people who can't and won't be released, rather than pay for their existence. That is a selfish view ... I know.

A note on Smash Brothers

One: I was going to write that Charlie looked like a cowboy after 13 hours in the saddle trying to get to the pot.

It was a fun time with the battles and Monkeyjack winning it often with his Yosho eating and pooping -- how ironic, his enemies in wonderful, again ironically Easter-like dragon shells. I could never get the ruddy hold button to work well, but the Pichachu was a nice even character that lent me fewer deaths.

Two: When falling, carrying an opponent, don't throw them to safety and still fall to your end. I saved Yoshi, and poor Donkey Kong plumetted out of sight. Nice move!

different kind of Spring cleaning

Finding wasp and bee hives and sadly destroying them so they find and make a new one somewhere else. Interstingly enough, there is an old hive in the garage, I never before noticed. There's a small access hole in a 2x4. Sometime I'll rip it out and find out how large the hive has been these couple of years.

defense

Your honor, ladies and gentleman of the jury, I offer the defense of idiosyncratic hatred, on the part of my client in the shooting deaths of several unrelated people.
Let me tell you of the circumstances of my client, the alleged uptown spree-kiler.
My client had only just left the indoor firing range, which later is was discovered that there were multiple shootings; might I say, possibly after my client left ... when he pulled into the parking lot to get some groceries. At this time, he rather forgot his handgun, but I would like to remind you that he often doesn't lock his doors. Because he took the gun with him, on accident, it prevented anyone from stealing it from his car and being used to commit crimes, or worse that a child might accidently shoot the weapon.
After a few mintues of shopping, my client was waiting in line, and waiting and waiting. The woman ahead of him stood there for a good ten minutes before realizing that the cashier had asked her, "paper or plastic". Finally she can begin loading bags and scanning more items, and still the store didn't open any more lanes. By this time, my client was getting aggitated and having stood all day, was tired and had missed breakfast that morning.
I will add here, that they fouled up his order at the fast food checkout during lunch and failed to give him all of this change (23 cents).
The woman ahead of him decided that she didn't want half of the items after they were scanned, though she knew the prices. She went through each bag, emptying it entirely until she found an item here or there that she didn't want, forcing the cashier to rebag it all.
This had been now 24 minutes that my client was waiting. After all of the messing around with the items, the total was $4.65 less. She was ready to check out, but then argued about the prices on two of the items. My client then nicely offered to pay for the items ("Just let me pay for the ("four profain terms here, you three profain terms here "), his comment was a little less plain, but she declined with a sneer. She spent another 10 minutes counting out change and finding that she was 10 cents short, would write a check, but declined the twenty pens she was offered by the people at the store, for they weren't her "special ___________ pen".

My client hoped that he could save the people behind him some grief by pulling out his wallet early, but mistakenly pulled on the handle of the gun. He naturally didn't want it to fall, so juggled it until he had control of it, as it then pointed directly at the lady ahead of him. At this time, she said, "Look sonny ..." (touching the gun with her hand, which put enough pressure on my client's difficult grasp on the gun that it discharged. It was in this scared state that he instinctively pulled the trigger several more times, all the bullets entering into Marge Botox, killing her.

That was sad, and my client's reaction was strange, in that he just wanted now to check out and leave the store. The people all around him were panicked and some started making phone calls. Again, more time wasted. He yelled to the, perhaps stunned, perhaps high cashier to check out the groceries, but she didn't. It was at this time that he again began to lose his grip on his gun, he was quite tired now, and it discharged again through the register and into Wanda's shoulder, where she fell to the floor. None of the other employees would check out his groceries, so he grabbed them, throwing money on the counter and leaving.

He foolishly fired a couple of times at bothersome insects, striking two people calling on their cellphones. He angerly left the store and tried to get out of the parking lot, where he had to again wait while some poorer drivers idled time away deciding where to park and re-attempt to park several times, so that the car was straight. One person preventing him from leaving, so he again, so he shot in the air -- so he thought, because of his super loud horn tends to scare people.

His nearly defrosted meat was dripping everywhere, so he was in a panic to get home. Naturally when the cops were behind him, he should have pulled over, but he was not thinking clearly about that, but rather of the wasted if the meat went bad. It was sheer accident when the gun went off in the officers direction when he tried to enter the house.

Having spent his entire clip of bullets by now, he thoughtlessly changed clips -- as he was at target practice today, as I had mentioned. Now very weak, he went to put away groceries and found that the door was stuck. He shot at the door to open it, but was a poorer shot now because of his weariness, which is why three officers were shot. He was just putting away the groceries, when the officers broke in, wrecking his new door, frame and security devices. May I add that the officers had broken windows also.

He didn't want any accidently shootings, is why he didn't immediately drop his weapon. So as you see, the days events were merely a long string of accidents, so my client is not guity. If you find that he is guilty, you must find him guilty by reason of idiosyncratic hatred, in that mindless waiting, especially for stupid others puts him in a fight or flight heightened level of excitement, eager to end his waiting.

Thank you.

Bagatells

You're not really here ... you're in a place, thinking and playing. Where you find you can predict ... you're going the right way. Life, inevitably is an infocom game, much like Zork, but with better graphics.

You see an interviewer behind a desk. He's standing looking at you with a hand extanded offering you a job.

Take job.
I see no job here.

Take offer.
....
I don't know what an "offer" is.

Leave.
Are you sure you don't want the job?

Take job.
I see no job here.

Get job.
That's a good idea!

Talk to interviewer.
Interviewer smiles and offers his hand.

Take hand.
Which one?

Take interviewer.
How romantic.

Take interviewer hand.
You have accepted job as, "deep fryer cook".

(re-reading .....)
(look ... interveiwer for Megaplex Copeland Gigasphere Sharpland ... executive .... salary $102,450 ... probationary period ... 25 years ... full investment at 17 years .... entry level $14 K ... signed ... Joe Didn't-Bother-to-read-fine-print)

Damn!
I see no water here.

____________!
.... I see no ___________ here. Besides, you went before the interview,

Upgrade level.
How?

Take executive.
How romantic.

Slay man.
Devil?

Kill interviewer.
You pull out your rapier and kife and hack the unsuspecting interviewer into pieces. His screams didn't go unnoticed and the secretary has called security who also called the cops.

You are in a small room withe a desk and two chairs.
A dead interviewer is here.

_____!
______ who?

______!
I'm not sure I understand how you're using _____.
You hear sirens.

Jump out window.
If only there were a window.

Exit room.
I can't do that.

East.
You open the door and everyone is gone. Papers are on the floor, as if people left in a hurry. The elevators are running.

Pick up papers.
Don't waste your time.

East.
You can't go that way.
The elvators are on floor 8.

Kill self.
What is a self?

Kill me.
I can't do that.
The elevators open up and the police direct you to drop your weapons. There is a stuggle and you are shot several times. They put you on a stretcher and are handcuffed while in hospital. The sad news is, while you recover mostly from your wounds, you are found guility of first-degree murder and are sentenced to death. During a long battle in the courts, your death sentences is commuted and just in time. Your long-time prison friend Hal, and you are going to get married.

The End.

Restart, Quit, Reload?

_____!
Restart, Quit, Reload?

Bore (the movie)

Hey! The Earth's entertainment is slowing. We must drive to the center of it to find a way to reheat it. I know... let's run more Will & Grace, Brokeback Mountain, Matrix TV series, evening soaps, 45-season shows, newer and exciting sports X-Games of mud flats roll-car rock climbing, "Who Wants to be Kansas Governor?", Badmitten court TV, "My Three Wives (filmed on location in Utah), Leave It To Cleaver (SCI: 1940s), All In the !@#!@#! Family (00's update), Whose Job is it Anyway?

What's really bad is that the trash on Jerry Springer are terrible. Who watches the show, those people who live it and see it every day. Why?

I stopped watching TV very often. I used to watch Cartoon Network at night, but skip it! There isn't bunk on TV I like. There's hardly a movie I don't cripe about. Doubtful that the enterainment industry would cater to me, but I'd like something that, ya know ... entertains or educates or edutains. New Dectectives used to do this, but they really ticked me off with the 5 minute story stretched out to 40 minutes with 2, 5-minute stories after that of ... we found a dead body and a guy standing next to it with the murder weapon and found that ... uh, he did it.

Discovery also has a "history researcher" who tries to answer questions no one is asking ... did the Nile River really hold Aryian artifacts that the Egyptians knew and used to build the pyramids 5400 B.C. ? I'll spend the next two hours coming close to nothing then being debunked at the end. Thanks for watching. How about Behind the Music of say ... Yani? How about those annoying persons in music like, John Tesh, Enya's ninth unintelligible CD, completely forgotten one hit almost wonders on the top 100 charts never getting to top 40 ... say top 75?

NYPD BULL_____. Next episode ... nudity! Oh ... it's some guy's butt! Great ... I'm done with that show. Cutting edge ... profanity ... that's outrageous, right?!

How about, a good old fashioned funny show with no need for language censors. _____, I remember picture pages with Bill Cosby. I remember using so much foul language and still ... such rude (while rare) comments that I don't need TV to say them outloud. I'd like to see a fiction, you know, like the bad guy trying to kife a cop is killed on the spot. I'd like to see people saying stupid things to each other while going through mundane tasks, not waiting for a laugh track or "live studio audience"

Entertain me with life, fiction that's funny or makes me happy. People in a house for 10 criping about their shirts -- uh, doesn't make me laugh. Also, if the show has to tell you when to laugh (laugh track) it isn't funny.

If the miltary wants to defer some costs, how about "virtual bombing", where you get to select a bomb that already has a target, and you buy it for say, $50 and get the video of it destroying your target. There are some people, I believe, who would pay for the satisfaction that their bomb (adopt a target) did successful hit the target and help support the country, war effort, and military. The statements of, lack-of patriotism due to dis-satisfaction with the war could be changed from "buy war bonds" to "buy liberation bombs".

BTW: I don't like politics, it isn't just this administration, as it were, for congress too writes and passes law

Entertain me by having some air-force one pranks "punk'd" (crude urbanlect) on violnt criminals. "You are free ..."

"Prisoner is escaping" ... fire!
[blam blam blam] chaos, massacre, paperwork and overall lower cost -- it should be a criminal-free society

blinks passerby

Time to make the donuts.
I made the donuts.

(meeting yourself coming)

I don't really sleep. I rest and feel unrested. I think that I either: have a fight club somewhere (sans the violence) or I don't know how to mentally and emotionally unload anymore. I think that latter is more likely. I hardly feel refreshed. At one point in time, I could take a 20 minute solid nap and be refreshed for 24 hours. Now, I don't really rest ... I dream and think and don't ever slow in thinking.

hippy hydra bat

Another half day with the kids paying half attention. They are sweet and have resigned themselves to the fact that I'm going to be with them for a while. There was a hurry, a flush ... I forgot we were supposed to watch a video ... oh, well ... Monday!
I got body checked, accidently by Mackenzie, who, of course, continued to body check me while I made noise because of it. Izaiah hugs every adult ... it's his thing. Dawson hugs me -- daily.
We wiped out more work, having an understanding of cm and inches today ... the difference between the two, somewhat.

2 weeks of plans ... my mind is stirring, which is better than what it was doing at 2:35 ... I think my tiredness was making me drool. I passed out from poor sleep, for tomorrow I'll be chauffer for a non-driver.

In the world of the cryptic and strange, Lori called me about a wedding I'm supposed to photograph. Interestingly enough, I asked a few times about it, with no results. Now, apparently, this person is panicking about it. I didn't call her because I didn't have the number. I called today, but nothing. I guess it's not that big of a deal, right?
Catch this! Lori doesn't know the person's last name. I think I have a solution:
Don't ger involved very far with people you don't know. If you don't know their last name, then you don't really know them. I'm worse here ... a third party, who's never met her. I said yes, why?

winding down

Easter bonnets, spring sonnets, flowers blooming, minds zooming. The lot of them have their heads in the clouds. They finish spring break, come back for parent-teacher conferences and then a three day weekend. Thank you Jesus (not a slander ... think about my statement)!

Bunnies and Monday burdens with two types of returning students --- sleepy, sugar crash, and zippy -- high on sugar. It'll be a fun, fun, fun day!

This year ... the family will converge for the first time on Easter with the many dogs ... staying at home? They are coming up for hours only on Sunday from Indy area. What a difficult day and Monday for all of them. I liked the idea of a picnic somewhere in the middle ... Munice, Gas City? That's not going to happen. Wacky, late ... hurried ... it'll be what it'll be.

Happy Easter to you all!

Thanks to Bill Amend, Dan Reynolds

Gestapo

Sgt. Hans Georg Schultz voice (John Banner):

You will schtand against die fensch, ja? Dare, you vill schtay until I dell yu to move!
Halt! Hoo goes dare?!
No ... yu go play, kinder! Recess ist nicht don, jetz!

Yu, yungen! Du hast been sehr schlest heute! Sschtayen sie dare vor 7 meenuts! I leht yu know!

---
or something like that. You know, I'd like one day not to feel like a outpost guard limiting rations for a few rebel rousers or trouble-makers.

You! Yes, you laddie! Stand still!
You can't have any recess! How can you have any recess if you don't do your work? (pudding and steak)

searches?

I was looking for Nigerian music and simplified it with, Niger
There was a song of, "My wife ran off with a Niger" -- really?!
From American History X -- Kill Nigers and Jews.

Thank goodness bigots can't spell! Perhaps, they had national problems?

I looked up "nuke" and found, Carly Simon, et al --- what the? Oh ... it was a "no nukes concert"

choices

I presented a child with a choice today.
He has failed for several days to submit signed work -- due to be returned. I have reminded him the last several days that if the papers are returned, he will continue to lose some / all recess time. With this he cried. I asked him if I should call "Mom" to remind her to send in the work. He said, "no". Despite the prospects of losing recess ... all she needs to do is sign and return the papers, he will lose recess perpetually ... he chooses to lose recess. What's that home like? Should I call Mom to have her sign it ... no.

I'm calling her tomorrow anyway, it was just intersting.

Also today, a boy shouted out "N -----". Girls came up to me and said that he used the "F word". When I asked him what he said, he said that he returned a comment to him of, "N ------" to that person. The first person to use it, is a problem student in a different class, but same grade.

I don't put much faith in much of that at all. Anyway, I don't expect it to be repeated anytime soon.

POW camp

or at least that's what it seems. I have had the same kids in with me for recess for a long, long, long while. Who's being punished here? During my investigation/interrogation, I hear some pretty intersting things. I write down what is said and pass it along. Documentation... documention ... like there's going to be an audit. I guess I could pull a '45 Germany and burn all the records, right?

personable?

Here I go, thinking that I put forth the impression that I'm untouchable ... terrible and mean, and some kids walk up to me and share parts of their lives with me. What am I to do? I'll just accept that I'm not total evil. That's fine.

trampoline

the boys, Charlie and Jared, were playing on the trampoline surrounded by netting, and invited me to wrestle. The neighbors came over with their two dogs -- one of which was a very playful German Shepherd who wanted play time. She kept jumping up with her paws on the outside, finally, she came into the netting and onto the trampoline. Hey, that's where the other puppies were, right?!

Iron Chef diabolical

Your surprise ingredient is cow hoof!

He he he, I like the crunchiness of the hoof!
Yes, and I like the fact that you didn't change its shape and left it sound.
I like the cow hoof, but the mango slices, really rather deter from the cloven taste of these wonderful hooves.

Your surprise ingredient is horse dung!

I've had horse dung before, but never so flavorful!
Wow! I've never thought of using horse dung with ice cream! This is really good!
How did you get the horse dung to be so ... crunchy? I mean, we saw it just fall onto the floor at the start of the show!

Hmm, hmmm, ha, humm ... it's all in the freshness.

Thank you!

Bad Wedding DJ

Hey, do you have "Bump and Grind"? Yeah, I'll get that right on for you.
And here's a request for, "You're Pretty Cute When I'm Drunk", chosen especially for the bride and groom.
I'll leave you with, "Me So Horny" followed by, "Behemoth's, 'Age of Therion' from their Satanica CD'" while I take a break. I see here a request for "Follow Me" by Uncle Kracker we'll fit in before the end of the night.

1. R. Kelly
2. Bloodhound Gang
3. 2 Live Crew
4. Behemoth
5. Uncle Kracker

Yikes! Oh, wait ... that's my music selection, well, kinda. I don't listen to Uncle Kracker who supports intermarriage affairs, haven't heard the Bloodhound Gang song yet and the women-degrading 2 Live Crew and Behemoth metal groups are ... not, um ... wedding music.

dream

I was with my father driving down the road, when we came to a bridge. Not one part of the road nor the bridge were familiar to me and I was driving.
The road, as I then looked, was 6 or 8 lanes wide. The bridge lifted up and the warning lights were flashing and the blaring of the audible signals was loud. We were up about one-quarter of the way over the bridge before the signals went. The signaling started similtaneously with the lifting of the bridge -- therefore, a river lied below. It was strange then, and stranger now as to why the signals were late and that it was a 6-8 lane bridge (implausable for lifting). We started sliding backward, twisting as the bridge lifted our car and the semi-trucks behind us, before we crashed into them, the bridge broke, and it quickly fell forward, showing my father and I the shallow river below.

Again ... it was 70 to the brown river -- which obviously wasn't very deep. We were going to die. I looked over to my father (a roller coaster torso bar (horseshoe shape) was over each of us -- odd again, and we quietly said, "I love you" as a passing gesture before dying.

Splash! We were pulled down under the water (greater than 100' -- unreal for brown water, and the whole bridge structure fell on top. There was no boat or ship passing under the bridge, no reason for it to have lifted.

In this same dream, I walk around later and people are shocked to see me days after the accident. I found out that they never pulled out the bodies, so I was dead. My father, unlike me, aparently stayed dead. I was whole, not zombie-like by gave people an odd sense as my body was buried deep in water, under metal. I wasn't a ghost. After walking to my father's grave and tried to live/exist as I could. Why did I have the same body and why am I alive where I should be physically gone?

Before waking I remember helping a few people ... but sad, suicidal, in that I sought destruction by saving someone else. I wished to be shot, shielding someone from a bullet, anything to not existence in my should-not-be-alive state of being.

biting details, derail

derailing your train of thoughts ... Sawyer, despite having background shows about him, I believe is working with the others. I suppose this for the reasons of: guns are dangerous and tend to slaughter and kill people -- bad for the supposedy random stranded people on the island, so keeping them hidden means fewer need-to-be-there people die and other persons don't get hurt.

I watched the latest episode (my last one I will watch, as I'm bored of the show), waiting for Roark to show, saying, "Welcome to scary fantasy island".

"Da plane, da plane ... it crashed, it crashed!"

2 types of reading (there are more)

1. reading for cursory understanding -- or recreational reading with little real time for full comprehension; yeilding fluency of 70%

2. reading for content -- recreation or education, reading everything for memory, knowing that parts in section C, page 96 will have relevance and importance (another part of a whole) for part A page 201. A series is especially true for this, in that a character or characters are generally kinetic and a fullness and richness is found through parts and pieces here and there throughout the book and series.

Using television as a reference, as most people do watch it on occasion. Law & Order (the original series) had each episode start and finish. After season one, they found that they would have more seasons, so they started building the characters, but actually finished each episode. The build up and development of each character didn't take the whole forefront of the show. After 6 seasons and many different police partners, Jerry Orbach's character, Lenny, had a jaded past of alcoholism spanning 5 or so years of his police work, several failed marriages and a daughter who got into drugs and was killed being a witness against her dealer. Lenny, it was supposed, hired a killer to kill him, but the dealer died in jail, so that was only a tease that his hate was that thick. His alcoholism lead to a night falling off the wagon, unable to drive, an assistant D. A. , Jill Hennesey, Claire drove him home and was stuck and killed by a drunk driver.
Jack McCoy, you find out, who was her lover, for a while -- bad idea of mixing work and love (demonstrated many times over the seasons), tried to vindicate her death by harshly punishing the drunk driver, then found that his attack would have amounted to personal vengence, at benefit of another person with a personal agenda.

I know that all sounds neat. It is. It also covered 30 some episodes to get that. Unlike Lost where, you have 40 some episodes saying little about what they are doing, but you know all about characters on the island including two who were killed off. Since the writers like to play off the idea of all the characters being linked (Kevin Bacon game) to each other, it will be difficult to see how they will connect the two dead "semi-main" characters to others without bringing them back -- at a wrongful pay for their lack of foresight.

War of the Worlds

by H. G. Wells. Taking into consideration when it was written, published in 1898, it was very novel (ha ha) innovative for sure. When making a movie of it, some updating was definately required, as automobiles weren't mentioned and horses were common. An interesting difference between book to film was (both 60s and 00s versions, and the borrowed ideas for Indepdendance Day) was that the aliens were seen before the machines. The concepts of miscommunication was the belief for their heat-ray attack on persons near the crash site.
The heat ray from the book was from a mirror on a tentacle than rotated around. The ray itself was invisible (would have saved much cost on production if they kept that) incinerating everything it touched with a range of maybe 100-200 yards. The 2005 War of the Worlds kept it truer with walking machines, but botched it a bit from Welles' description of storms surrounding the machines.
I guess I'll stick with books and watch even fewer movies.

watching lost

is like watching bulbs develop into flowers, or buds turned into leaves:
slow, methodical (or so it seems), gradual grwoth into something new, to its conclusion of something predictable. While stopping and watching minutes at a time, getting the highlights of the growth (slow motion camera shooting picures twice daily) is still slow, but better than sitting for months -- wating.
I've watched the show pretty much to the point where, you see the buds on the branches very well. They are prominant, but the insects are yet there to exploit these, as they tend to do. The full richness of spring isn't quite filling my nose and lungs, so I think I have a while to wait yet.

After the splendor, you have the waste of the bounty lying everywhere for you to pick up -- that, being your time spent waiting for something.

I'm done watching it. It's boring like Space 2001, with background things being interesting, but the whole movie start to finish being much, much, much too long and not worth the time spent seeing it.

Jacket with new smell

Charlie and I went to the park Saturday and he picked most of the dandelions along the way for Mommy! I carried them in my coat, so my leather jacket now smells of dandelions. It adds to my tough guy image.

When we got to the park, we fed ducks and the insistent geese. Since Charlie doesn't often go to this park, it was a treat, but a trek ... long for a person with short legs -- 4 years old. "Here ducks!"

Saw II -- Saw it

This introduces a new, weaker plot with the same type of gore, moving from new-gothic blue and watery-green (Matrix, Saw, Ring) to now in new 30's artistic slant print yellowish neo-gothic (more concentrated than Sky Captain). It said to me, "soon to be a PS2 /3 XBOX, GC, PC game".

Though not totally predictible, it was, inevitably, somewhat predictable.

Two victims (supposedly bad or evil in their own right) weren't really investigated, and you never knew much about them. They were, I guess, slasher movie fodder. The shared theme they had were vices, so a character in the movie was a vice officer, which seemed strange considering his "role" in the main investigation

Vice: narcotics, prostituion, I guess larceny falls under that category, but certainly not homicide.

Anyway ... watch it if you saw the first one, but this is hacked together --- I won't give any numbers on it

Signs that you're sleeping

you snap your neck quickly recovering from a near forehead to keyboard crash -- thanks, Lori!
Mumbling unintelligibly or responding with non-sensical phrases to questions such as, "Where is the remote?" "The German books are over there." (my stupid, sleepy response)

Either you came in drunk last night or we need to get a new clock. It
clanged 7 times, farted, rang twice more, burped and laughed, then clanged 5
more times.

You wake yourself snoring
You see that you traveled forward in time by several minutes, yet you didn't move laterally.

feeling included

Thankfully, when I'm down, I can always remember that friends include me. On Tuesday, Lori called and invited me to meet up with them for playing at a pool (formerly Holidome), but it wasn't the best of days for me to go. I perhaps should have, but tried to complete long-standing old projects.

Yesterday was interesting ... I might have a chance to help a neighbor sell his collection, be it on eBay or another site ... beer cans, lots of them. I haven't catalogued them, but there might be money there. I'll need to get my digital camera for now three reasons:
1. use at a wedding -- soon
2. photos of cans and collection
3. family reunion in June

tick, tock ... time's a wastin'

Lawyers ( ___ you and the suits you rode in on)

Two cars carrying 5 lawyers each get into a rear end collision. Obviously there were suits filed, and here are the basics:
front car rear ended (driver: Bob, passenger Susan; rear Frank, Robert, Shane)
rear ending car (driver: Pat, passenger Ted; rear Becky, Paul, Tad)

* suit filed against Bob for traveling at unsafe speed, 2 miles over the speed limit
* suit filed against traffic officer at scene for saying, "(at least there isn't a) fire", causing a panic where Robert hastily crawled over Shane to escape -- bruising and also bruised with Shane trampling him. Pat ran back to her car trying to free wedged-in Tad, who was pulled from his seat, causing lacerations. This mayhem with pulling and shaking jarred the joined cars to roll down the hill. This, in turn caused Becky to tumble down the hill and ruin her suit.
** replacement of suit and shoes ($3500)
** replacement, repair of wiring system for stereo ($56,000) to be shipped to Sony in Japan, including gas refilling and drive time – over and above vehicle repair costs
** replacement of CD collection in 500 CD changer in car ($75,000) including irreplaceable originals from Yugoslavian grunge band, who split and cannot be located
** replacement of car phone antenna, ($2500)

*** suit filed against Leanna, driver of vehicle who called in to the police regarding accident – as she was driving and talking on cell phone, filed by all ten lawyers

*** replacement of broken keychain, $10 (including travel time to store to purchase and stopping by ATM for cash)

**** marked as billable, cost of phone call to police by third party (Leanna); time lost in waiting for officers (2 minutes, plus 95 minutes to sort out fault, insurance and scene as the lawyers made a mess of it); reportedly talking and thinking about 96 different case files during accident, so all those accounts were billed also; lost paperwork to be refilled (though these were extra copies to be shredded – cost of reproduction, shredding)