Sun finally rose this monring

9:00 am, Fishers, Indianapolis, IN

famous and the infamous

Ronald McDonald at a bench, on a third floor balcony office buliding. Located in Fishers, Indianapolis, IN

Ronald McDonald waiting for guests

Colts labels found on many vehicles all around town -- Indianapolis, IN

Colts pride at a bar

KFC, but not a diner or restaurant

The old cabbie car is odd, painted with americana and Dogs & Suds for the closed for season business. What's stranger still is the BMW dealership in the background.

eleven minus twleve

It isn't an equation, it was the temperature today and how it felt with "wind chill factor". -12 ... cold, cold, cold. It isn't rare, but odd considering the relative wimpy Winter we've had. I stepped out of my vehicle only a few times to take a couple of shots. I finally felt the unblocked wind and yikes, scurried back to the warmth of the recently running van for comfort. What a wimp!

I got to see what FW might be, with lots of businesses -- Lafayette and her sister West Lafayette. I was in Fishers (Indy) this morning driving for 75 mintues in the dark, which relented to charcoal and black like waste oil. Finally, at 8:08, the sun lovingly shown and brightened the city. Around Fishers the traffic nearly stopped. I heard on a radio ad about the "fastest way to warm your car is to drive it". The irony of me idling in traffic was not lost on me. It was an ad about the environment.

I got to my first interview early and needed it. I wondered within the building not finding the suite. On a door of another suite, was a handwritten note -- [name of comapny] is at end of hall. I then had time to spend before going to Lafayette. I looked for a coffee shop with wi-fi. I couldn't find a coffee shop, let alone one with wi-fi. I traveled up 65 was is starkly different than I-69. It is rough, not as well maintained. Also, the shanties are more visible than those on I-69. That's sad, really.

Throughout Indy there was Colts spirit. Sadly, the place I went this morning had "COLTS" printed correctly in the window, which means passersby would see colts backwars ... not well thought.

The man who interviewed my this afternoon was in a different field himself -- "someone who helped sex offenders , molesters. Some of them were M.R.+." At the end, he stated that I seemed like the best person he'd met so far and that he only had one person left. Well, that's hopeful.

This morning's interviewer was as frail as a Valentine's rose in April. She was probably my age, but noticeably frail.

+ mentally retarded at some level or to some degree

I watched this video, then pow!

I got a really bad feeling about this. I think the movie was called "One Week".

How would you like to be remembered?

Ronald Reagan, younger, as governor long-since an actor, but with Hollywood ties. He was on Dean Martin's Roast for at least two celebrities. If you are a fan of Reagan, this small glipse is a better portrait and way to remember him.

I'll have to work on Nixon ... he's a toughee.

Famous or not, I'd rather be remembered for a modicum of humility and humor.

Winter winner and whiner

I walked to my frozen car today, my print made semi-permanent in the super cold snow.

Frozen inside and out ... I gave up.

Saturday, I got a thank you card and check from a neighbor, whose driveway I plowed. Isn't that nice. Thanks!

rude comment of the day

"Crossing Jordan gets edgier"

Well, I'd start watching it when Jill Hennessy's character starts getting "nakeder". Wow! The smut that comes to my mind is astonishing! Okay, so I find her attractive.

old fart

I have reached the age where my nieces and nephews can say, "parents just don't understnad"+ about me. He's just weird. That is correct, but it is sometimes that nasty generation gap that leaves them in wonder and me in self-doubt. Crud! I'm old!

+ "Parents Just Don't Understand", by DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince aka Will Smith

Super Bowl XLI

For Indiana XLI is for Superbowl eXtra Large one, in that Indy is there and Chicago is there. Hooray; hoorah; the gang's all here! Yesiree, dis here game, da Bears and the Colts will be legendary. Either Colts win be a respectable 2nd or pull out a win. I'm still thinking that da Bears will win. I posted early that I think the spread will be 12 points, but I believe that I should drop that a bit. With the possibility of injury recoveries, I'll drop the point spread to 9. Bears should win by 9 points, but not likely 12.

Indy will have its larger dome and might sometime host the superbowl. I just hope that the Colts have this new dome and putter out after this year. "Looks like we made it ... " sadly droning on in the background, Shania's voice echoing, not the intentionally love song, but rather Colts losing focus.

Politics aside, the fanfare of the first two African-American (Black) head coaches making it to the Superbowl, I believe that they will, will, get some real hefty raises, regardless the outcome. You got your team to the Superbowl? Here's x (current salary), whereas x is a number between 2 and 9 inclusively. Ah, I see you've solved x for 12, very good.

week 2

I have looked through the job postings and found that FW still isn't hiring. Indy, Lafayette, and the Gary area area.

House of Flying Daggers was Over the Hedge

House of Flying Daggers started with dance choreography, featuring the accomplished dancer Ziyi Zhang. If you remove the beauty of the dance, you are left with a sloppy Bazooka Joe comic of a story. While the themes are culturally specific and the lust curtailed by duty and implied love, it is nontheless a sour mash of bad dialogue and circumstances. The Spy Kids animation in the movie takes away from the already weak story. It was all visual, so, technically you could strip away the soundtrack and replace it. I saw the English version, which was weaker still. Overall they did an alright sound remaster, but sound is intrinsically valuable in a movie about a blind woman/girl who uses sound. It was like watching an aquarium, while you were entertained visually, in the end you wonder why you sat that long.

Over the Hedge slipped into the area of one half of an idea with thirteen other ideas glued together for a miss. I like Wanda Sykes, but she wasn't enough to save it. When your star line up is Gary Shandling and Bruce Willis, well disaster looms. Hammy getty loopy on caffiene, where have I seen that before, oh yes ... in a better movie, Hoodwinked. Thomas Haden-Church as an overstuffed terminator -- nice touch. The movie's conclusion was just terrible. I tried to put it in perspective for a child, but the bear, "I'm going to kill you" and a few other adult references make me rate this one poor. The link of this to the comic strip is a S - T - R - E - T - C - H. I doubt that anyone watching the movie would hurry to start reading the comic.

Summarized:
House of Flying Daggers, visually interesting and that's where it ends. Over the Hedge, overdone with some samples of clever scenes.

I don't criticize movies ...

"I'm the last one to criticize someone's movie career; I've had a few disasters myself. I also don't criticize governors." +

+ Ronald Reagan, governor 1970s
Dean Martin Roasts Bob Hope

almost famous

Later to be king?

Kentuckiana

I thought it was a derogatory term for the "suthern" part of Indiana. As it turns out, it's the name of places and companies. Well, what do you know about that?

I heard this term given many times, instead of Hoosier Hick or Hoosier Redneck, we had the Kennessee part of Indiana where it's about to go to analog 1918. "We all related" as they say.

Harold's last day

So ... may I take it you quit or were fired?

Whatever the person's name is, I commend her/him for making this indellible mark on her/his work history.

so, technically if I had worked since age 8

I could work for them.

I wonder how many 19 year olds have 10 years documented work.

down home

Well, I was greeted well by my niece at Purdue when I was there to take her home.
As a side note, many girls there have long since worried about guys in the hallway. My niece and I were getting into the elevator when a girl walked through the hall wearing only her towel. She looked at me, smiled (perhaps to herself) and walked on to her room, I suspect. She was non-stop excited chattering.

When I got to her home, her sister, another niece of mine, first bounced like Tigger out the door and across the lawn to greet her sister. She then bounced over to me and happily hugged me. I was a good man to have brought her sister. I guess I serve a purpose afterall.

Angel, the dog, greeted me, but was especially happy to see my niece from college. A quick observation and there was something wrong with poor Angel. According to my niece, she has a fungal infection in a private area, quite dark, mutant growth noticeable. I presume she is on an anti-biotic medicine. While I was given no incling that she would call, I predict that family will invite everyone over for dinner -- to show the folks the sofa and to eat as a group, once again.

if Dave Letterman played with Spinal Tap

You'd have this show, but different music. "Balls To the Wall" is really a good song, especially considering the age.

plinks, links, clinks

I found Bango-Tango (interesting 1993 speed bass) after researching Faster Pussycat.
I had been looking for the name of the band Bango-Tango for quite some time.

And you thought Tammy Faye Baker wore a lot of makeup, check out these bands!

and I was egged for my comments

Despite being a Hoosier and regardless whether I want Colts to win, I predict the following result: Chicago Bears win over Indy Colts by 12 points.

splat, splat, TP, splat, flaming bag of poo, burning horseshoe in lawn ... boy are these hicks crazy!

I expect "Blue Sunday" to be followed by Blue (as in sorrowful and quite unproductive) Monday. The Colts just squeeze by, pull a win by a moment only. For this reason, I predict that they won't win. Chicago has been making a mess of the challengers and quite frankly the Colts have valuable players with injuries. I cannot honestly expect a win for the Colts.