What they seek

Notice, "Land of the Lost" is not forgotten.

Chavez, shove it!

Now that I fixed another election, I will speak again. Venezuela is the jewel of South America. So I call to you, the little people, call out the US as evil and romp and stomp and throw your fists and go get whatcha need.

The US makes a counter-offer of, "Stuff it!"

Hugo, put a little more 'elected' on the term "president" and a little more tator on the dic

would-be profanity

I had to check it twice before posting.

Cancer from phones

I gotta find a new place ... I was gagging today. There isn't a phone that doesn't reak of cigarette ... a chimney swell will arise several times during the day.

Blech ... pew ... I gotta get out

clocks out the window

Petty, but I think switching to daylight savings time was stupid. This weekend we all get to lose an hour. That makes sense. Usually people get to have some "fun" before blacking out for an hour. Well, quasi-reality sets in and we all lose an hour. I didn't vote for it, yet we have it.

"You don't vote for a king!" +

+ Monty Python's Holy Grail

not to disturb me when I am werking +

I was looking yet again at job postings ... diddly squat. Nice. I also have no heard back from a couple of places. Well, in any event, I can look forward to Thursday off, maybe, perhaps, then getting more stuff done.

"full of doubt and remorse ... he's going the distance" ++

+ Young Franekstein
++ "Going the Distance", Cake

beyond thought

Driving for so long each way gives me a long time to think. The radio, of little consolation, is a mere white noise in my merry-go-round of thoughts, swirling, twirling, spinning. Sadly, often this well describes dead end or round thinking that has no conclusion. I can, however think about different perspectives -- outside looking in, inside looking through -- there, is inspiration.

Preconsciously and consciously I probe, "what if" qeustions ... all the time. I'm surprised I haven't left the road, as I deeply think sometimes.

What if I started a company: vocational training and placement ... Today I looked online and there is a small glut on the market.
I'm also thinking of training modules for where I work; modifying things to lessen errors; moving things to make things safer; where will I be living in 6 months; new concept for travel ... a useful thought

neon painting the bottom half of poles and posts in parking lots so that plows don't smash them

federally mandated requirement that all Hummers, and later SUVs have at least two passengers at any time during travel, large fine or towing & impounding of vehicle

Permanent denial of suits against cigarette companies (about final anyway), also denial of health claims for smokers -- aka touchet

universal fuel adaptor ...

are crops ready to be set; definition of fergaicious; I'm a CEO (closest this rapper will be to accounting); bills; paid; time off as requested; traffic

in-town burial of wires for safety and beautification

"- HR photo"; Arby's sand [other letters out], what's a horse doing on that sign; diner from Star Wars -- does Mel work there; car dealships -- truly avenue of autos; if a train leaves Boston at 45 mph and another trains leaves London, when will they cross paths; if I had to find a hotel, could I

how many libraries could I use with my address from one county, living in another, working in yet another

which services are available up there -- wireless, highspeed

am I learning?

where should I be working? Can I come up with a WHOLE idea, especially relevant to vocation and a well-suited job?

errors

Please read the fourth line.

While the lyrics are familiar to me and the words are all familiar to me, looking at this, I am stopped by, "read the fourth line." Which fourth line? Should I go by the lyrics and the stanzas in the song, no matter how badly blurred and stained they are or should I find the fourth line and read that. Such is the confusion sometimes at work. At times, it's almost like, "Every other third Sunday after a full moon, except in September, where it's always the second Thursday with notable exceptions.

The exceptions aren't as bad as just plain terrible sloppiness. Add to this, the futility of talking or directing with 15-40 dB ambient noise, varying in locations. So, in a quieter area, you talk as if someone in a mid-noise level can hear you ... not so. My "beef" is sloppiness. I got this type of paper and from that I was to put together my "thing". I made an error. Now, I would normally be angry with myself for a stupid glitch, but here ... it festered all day because I would not attribute it to my fault, but rather in sloppiness. It angered me so.

If you have the time to write, "red, green, yellow, white", don't write, "rd, gn, y, w", for then the reader wonders, "where's the fire" or something like that given to WTF.
....
My second little sore spot:
Welcome to the 21st century ... please don your wooden sandals and begin your freeway travel to your destination. Some of the things there seem almost as schtupid as given NASA abacuses. If there is technology ... use it. The company isn't small. Like any large company it would have buying power. If you want fewer errors ... smaller losses ... improve the system.

Well, you see, I didn't know how to write carburetor, so I wrote, "Car" in it's place. That didn't confuse you did it? So, in the decades of existence ... there are computers there doing things like tabulation ... sales, but as far as ordering ... uh, no. Why use pen and paper? The system for sales has every single thing on it ... right, friggin' there!

We don't like to use the car ... it's scary, so that's why we run along the freeway in our wooden sandals. If they used what they had ... errors would be even smaller. Look, it's one thing to point out, how you come up with figures, and having a system to do it if the computers went down, but hey ... if they are running, use them!

I can understand if I make an error, but errors made on the basis of sloppiness and defiance of technology -- irks me! I'm a fool, but if there's a car, I'll choose it over walking 75 miles in a day. Use what you have.

Cerpicio found a blog

For local info on a project I think is wasteful, the Harrison Square project. I read where a Montessori school was bought for demolition. The school is having trouble finding a location, which is odd, considering the city had to buy the building, right? I saw that they were charging $149 weekly for pre-school and $129 weekly for other ages. That isn't a lot, but that should keep their heads above water.

I am against the project, as I have written before, because another minor league team downtown isn't going to be a draw for tourists. That doesn't give FW a novelty. What FW needs are jobs and a novelty. That site ought to make parking and fireworks right pretty and messy during the festivals. Those putting this together should be dismissed from the project in favor of people who know what people want.

FW, city of churches, restaurants, strip clubs, and two minor league teams, minor league hockey, minor league basketball.

That doesn't sell.

Despite a warning

A woman at work had a, well, watcher ... who seemed quite interested in her. She claimed he was interested in what she was doing ... her work, I contended. Perhaps he liked watching her move, but what she was doing, I doubt he even considered.

Yeah, whatever ... building nuclear bomb ... look at her move!

Cómo sean usted

A guy surprised me tonight by demonstrating conversational-level Spanish, though with no Spanish inflection. Way to go!

What is an arse?

"So, what's an arse?"
... (thought) You are, then saying it.

"No, what is an arse?"
You are.

"No, you see it's a joke."

The sad thing, the would-be joke-teller doesn't understand that being an arse isn't funny, but he's the butt end of a great deal of guff, grief and undoubtedly jokes. Jokes can't tell themselves, so that's his paradox.

tree captures bag

tree captures bag
Originally uploaded by MDH, II.

MR's front tree captures the bag ... playing capture the flag I believe.

Back working again

I walked through the cold this morning to get my car. Thankfully the wind was not blowing and it wasn't too cold.

The mechanic stated that on my back brakes, he thought I probably had about 6-15 months of life left on them. Sweet! He did not encourage me to change them at this time, but rather, "get as much life out of them as you can, because when you have to change them you need new drums, and ..."

Now there is a good place! The bill was under $200, they didn't try to oversell and they got it done the same day. I like this place.

Cancer in a can

* brand name, unimportant
Choose one ... any one

The fact that you aren't blowing cancer in my direction doesn't mean it isn't gross. Somewhere, lurking, there is a spittoon cleverly disguised as a soda can or other. Don't go near it. It smells as foul as fresh tar and is as slimy as tar too. You could not get the stain off the clothing or skin without a scapel. "Cancer in a can" is an ad I saw in a bus booth in town. Clever. Get out the message, plain, simple clear. If you chew, you know ... it's just a reminder.

Wait

Hmmm, I'm here in FW and my sister and family are in Indy ... sister having surgery. I don't know squat, so here, I sit.

I don't like waiting and prefer knowledge over ignorance, so I sit ... ignorant, waiting, grotesquely unhappy.

Guns 'N' Roses' "Patience" will not quiet my need to know ... as my mind wanders.
God has a plan and I'm arrogant enough to want to know it. It's on a need to know basis and I don't need to know. That doesn't sit well with me.

Debbie, sister "Doodie" as I called you -- she who had been a placebo brother to me ... may your surgery go well, smoothly, time is not a factor.

International check for $4,700

I needed only call a 604 number to activate it and to get the other $45,800. I was bewildered. Why ... what ... whom ... we, what, where, why, wink ...
I was for a grant. Although I filed for a grant ... I got no response, which means, "NO". I got an ESL operator (English was not the person's first, nor best language) who couldn't answer my only question, "why".

"You only need to pay taxes on it ... that's what the check's for. You don't have to spend any of your money."
Okay, but why did I get it. It was like conversing with a radio or Rainman's Ramon. So, why did I get this?
"97X ... BAM! The future of rock and roll."
"I'm definitely not wearing any underwear."

Just answer, "why"!
Uh, oh. Uh, oh.

The call was to British Columbia. The check was from J.P. Morgan Chase in Manhattan, NY.

I manually shredded it and added it to recylcing. May it be recirculated as newspaper.

I could have killed some bills with $50,000, but I think it was a scam.

Late in blogging about devilishly prank

Prince, Superbowl ... you knew it was a bad idea.

There's uproar over prince's penis guitar. While I thought the "devil" appearance was plain ... many folks focussed on the phallic principle. Huh ... I guess I wasn't penis-focussed to see it. I did, however get revolted over the Snickers' gay commercial. Good planning gay flakes! Whomever planned that -- instant canning (ha), fired. Was this trip really necessary?

Prince, devil ... bi-sexual nut. Why choose him, because Michael Jackson wasn't available, apparently. You wonder why people think American TV is crap.

I will again suppose that maybe, a sober person will be in charge of celebrity selection for superbowl 2008. Why don't you settle for a notable, fairly popular, recent star willing to just be there -- poor pay or not. I'd even settle for country crap music over identity crisis Prince -- far removed from the 21st century, and the daring to be stupid Janet Jackson and talentless Justin Timberflake.

I liken this to Jagermeister shots with 1953 champagne and warm Budweiser in the can. Although all three are alcohol ... no person should drink them in succession or in combination or in one setting. Jager is expensive, get wasted on terrible tasting mack-nasty shots. It is undrinkable. Warm Bud caters to the "white trash" of society, unconcerned with taste, but will to fork over money for cases of beer, each case cheaper than a pint of Jager. The 1953 champagn, however should be chilled and served as the right temperature and is complimentary to an occasion or only a few meals. It is not a shot nor a bottle to down to get drunk. All three are acquired tastes -- or, taking some time to adjust.

When selecting a person for public viewing ... don't choose the naked trucker, nor Tom Greene, nor Dick Cavett, Bob Saggett, South Park, or Eddie Murphy. Think about the general audience ... find a moderate, not Gong Show contestant. If you can't find one ... ask me, I'll find one.

Devil may care, Prince was a bad choice for Superbowl. His devil guitar was more popular with penis-seekers than with people dumbfounded people like myself wondering why those responsible chose Prince. They could have put the audience to rest with "Narratives of Al Gore", by the author.

(scratches) one giant leap ...

I got a call today, much like the audio from the 1969 moon landing ...
garble, robble . .. mrphf ... we ---grrzzzzzzzzzzz ... hr sav .... catk ... oo tr, dad

One giant leap for phone kind? I don't think so. The message was, [my name] "got here safe. I'll catch you later, dad."

You say you bought that service? The funny thing is ... it is an Indy number cell phone ... why the garbage on the line?

accent absent

The other day, yet another person suspected me of being Enlgish ... British, rather, by the manner of my speech. Where's the fire, or WTF?