For voice alone

A guy at work has a voice that reminds me of the "officer" in this spoof that remarks, "Was I talking to you? If you ... I'm gonna shoot ya."

Work, as I know it

M 11-4
T OFF
W 11-8
R 2-9
F 2-10
S 11-8
Sun 12-8
M 11-4

Woke up cold, tired

I think I am still cold and tired. Man! I set the thermostat low to cut energy costs and once out of my warm bed ... yikes, I think that stirred some of the weariness out of me. I then put on layers to get warm while the house was warming and ... got comfy and tired again. Coffee put only a minor dent in my alertness. I've got to work, so sleep is out of the question.

I'm more valuable than in 2006

Look for yourself!

strength to travel

I feel that I am getting stronger with my change of what I do at work. That's good! I drove home and got to see ten wild deer in the fields. There were three at one place, etc. Some of the distracted drivers missed them -- talking on the phone tends to occupy your attention.

How work will remember me

Bed hard.
Room cold.
Food tasteless.

It's about time you got out of here, you've been compplaining ever since you got here.

From an old joke about a man who enters a monastary and may only utter two words each ten years. After thirty years, he quits the order. That's how I feel now, I don't complain really, but rather am trying to find solutions to situations. I am seemingly annoyed, but am really thinking of solving something I consider to be a problem. I don't complain about it, but rather try to find a solution.

This is especially important when the company follows the "1 Minute Manager guide". Don't complain, find solutions.

I think $6 million is too small ... go for $12 million

Now, perhaps I'm playing favorites, which I am, but Carol Burnett far exceeds "Family Guy". Fox, you did wrong, you know you did, pony up. Fox isn't the worst or only channel to dig into a sewer pipe and claim it television, but here, clearly they did wrong. I'm sure there just wasn't anyone to seek regarding many of the other like issues that "Family Guy" uses, like "Willy Wonka" and many others.

I'm sure sometime soon, we'll all be deafened by the advertisements, also on radio, of Fox being "daring" enough to air "Jackass" and "Jackass 2" during primetime. I don't doubt that it would "seem like a good idea" to some programming manager.

One: rude, crude, disgusting shows should really be aired after 10. I opt out of watching, so I'm not hardly concerned, but others pushing the envelope and viewers loving it spells the end of television, just about, for any children I might raise.

Well kids, you have a choice of 12 channels: Disney, Nick, Fox Family from (3:30 - 7:00), Discovery, Cartoon Network from (7:30 - 9:30), weather channel, some limited news, and the local channels. The sports channels, perhaps with continued parental viewing.

Carol, I empathize with your situation. Kick Fox's butt -- sue, win!

Come home and ...

"Come home and come over to play with me", Charlie announced into the phone. I got a message on my answering machine from Charlie, wanting to play with me. This week might turn out better, but I frankly don't know. I'll found out today if I will have off Tuesday or whatever and if I'm there til close or at open -- but I should make time to see my good buddy Charlie.

Busy day, not much to say

I was a little disappointed with work, division of work, scheduling, task assignment -- really, use of personnel. Near the end of my time there, I got a bit of humor -- good, as during the day I was getting a bit miffed. I celebrated St. Patrick's Day, quitely with cookie and milk.

I don't have time to sit and drink away the night. Also, I work Sunday.

I came home quite messy, more so than usual, as we were seemingly under-staffed and it got crazy.

Still, I also got to see a woman at work ...

her eyes, smile

enchanting

So Snickers

After the launching and canning of the gay commercial, they followed it with a red light, green light gang warfare commercial. Uh, yeah. Good thinking. So, Snickers is for gay gang members? I just don't understand who they hired for the marketing department.

"Knock, knock, knock. Hello in there! McFly, McFly! Is there anybody in there? Now how would it look if I turned in my paper with your name on it? Why don't you make like a tree and get out of here?" +

+ Back to the Future

might just be stupid

If you talk to an answering machine as though it were a person, you might be stupid.

I got, "Hello, [my name]. [My name again]." click.

Don't you think when you hear, "leave a message", that there is a good chance you are not, indeed, hearing a live person talking with you?

Thank you for waiting

If I ever seem to not respond, you'll understand that my brain takes more breaks now.

business literature

The last few business books I've read were terrible. I'll put an analogy to them,

So, don't be like the ant that was crushed by the grape-eating, sky-diving elephant, just because you are a worker and that's what you do. While valiant as the elephant was, ultimately it died. Be more like the aardvark who entered the navy, while never becoming a pilot, later was an astronaut after working at NASA as a janitor, finding and eating the golden apple. Be the aardvark!

Okay, so why are we using animals? Better still, why not use a real-world annecdote to demonstrate, "success through trial and error and documentation", or "perseverance pays", or "know yourself, know your competition".

I was once thinking of getting an MBA to add to my resume' but these business books of animals racing around decrying, "who moved the cheese", etc. boring and stupid. I'll apply, conversely, the animals from "Animal Farm", with "I will work harder", by the horse worked to near death, then sold to a glue factory. "It was the work of Snowball and his henchmen", to cast blame on hidden forces rather than to take blame. Finally, "Some are more equal than others" as demonstrated by many companies, practices, and policies.

Go-Getter

I read the required reading, Go-Getter and found it long-winded. "Never quit, never surrender ... it shall be done."

Okay, if you can't find a book fresher than 1920s, rethink what you're teaching. Thankfully the book was short. I've read longer children's chapter books.

hour rates

ed
oof
nn

The lights out make it funnier. This hotel next to strip club dubs itself "ed oofn'" -- that's what we're talkin' about!

swim the green

green beer

I probably shouldn't post it ...

"Oh my ... Becky, look at her butt. It's so big ... she must be one of those rap guys girlfriends." (She then smacks her own butt) What struck me funny later about this was, that she was talking to "Becky" and the woman talking about herself did have a little largeness to her bottom, not tons. She brought in her little girl ... black.

She must be one of those rap guys girlfriends.

Steel Dynamics

From the ground it's even larger. At the top you can see the 4 lane divided highway on which I travel.

keep the theme going

"Kiss me, I'm Irish", is what I'd like the young woman to say to me.

Confidentially, I'd kiss regardless.

Dating bastards

Perhaps jaded, but at work, I am reminded that many women seek the "bad guy" to date. Chances are, he is a bad guy and will treat her like crap. Then, after years of abuse, in one form or another, she leaves to find another jerk or some poor fool who is in for the trip of his life. Gee, I'm the first guy who's nice and she treats me like crap. They need to air out reality here to people. If a person seems like a bastard, they might very well be a bastard. Come to use the term bastard, you might have one or two yourself after the bastard leaves you broke with kids to raise. I hear more stories at work of margarita families (blended) borne mainly of youth and abuse. After much tequilla you do stupid things that you may not remember but surely should seek forgiveness, and abstain from repeating.

Don't:
date crazy people
date bastards
marry either of the above
expect things to get better with children

Do:
set high standards for yourself
dismiss the little things
respect yourself and your lover
watch for signs of craziness/vindictiveness (jerk behavior -- both sexes apply)