thought it was a lie

"alligator suede", from a song

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

Slow down

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

hours and hours

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

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

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

I wasn't like that

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

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

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

Safety rules

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

spritz...

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

Great! Just great.

Thankfully it didn't have a distinct smell.

Left scratching my temple

A woman at work has me a bit confused

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

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

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


.........

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

They don't serve my kind

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

Another week -- longer

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

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

coughing on my end

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

Hot music

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

What?

Turn up my headphones!

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

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

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

I dared, I lost

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

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

iAviso!

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

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

you got2

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

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

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

February Winter morning

February Winter morning
Originally uploaded by MDH, II.

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

AIDS and a cure claim

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

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

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

multiple ... positions ...

ahahahahahahahahahaha! You so crazy!

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

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

Over the snow ledge

snow ledge
Originally uploaded by MDH, II.

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

by viewers unlike me

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

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

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