This company keeps calling me

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

How I succeeded with taxes without really trying

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

the smoking I smell isn't rare

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

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

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

which to use

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

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

+ Star Wars Empire Strikes Back
++ Platoon

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spellcheck

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

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

hint about work

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

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

Suweeten Alabama

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

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

bit of play

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

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

Winter again

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

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

birds getting fatter

lazy doves, one on one leg

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

just sick

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

F - OFF!

My solution, flawed, but better:

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

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

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

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

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

media to avoid

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

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

POS, is a generalized assessment of this thing.

non-smokers know

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

first day -- training

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

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

+ Blues Brothers

not a convinced Toyota buyer

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

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

Al Gore, illusionist

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

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

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

evolution of backward

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

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

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

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

STOO PID

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

finalist

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

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

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