Happy Fat Tuesday

And suddenly the media has remembered New Orleans. Funny how for months there has been almost no coverage, and this week suddenly there are a whole slew of stories. I'm not catholic, so I don't know much about lent and all that, but it seems to me if I were and did (and if I were financially capable) I'd take the 40 days and go down there and volunteer that whole time. Of course, I'd probably plan it so I was down there for the week before to catch Mardi Gras!!!

One Of The Things I Like About 4-Year Olds

One of the many things I like about 4-year olds: They are easily impressed!!! I had finished doing most everything I had to do at work today, and was feeling a little bored. I found a scrap of aluminum and cut it into several small sections, then got some practice welding it back together at all kinds of strange angles. I stuck the finished piece in my lunchbox and brought it home. When I got it home, I asked my youngest if he wanted to see what I made at work today. When I pulled it out, he went "ahhhhhhh!!!", like I had pulled a rabbit out of a hat or something!!!

Plastic Explosives and Transmissions With the Same Name: Coincidence???

Looks like I'm going to have to take the car into a shop. Sometime the week before last "park" stopped working. I've had several cars with this exact same kind of transmission, and I've never heard of this problem. I've had where it doesn't make it to park, stops before it gets past reverse, but this goes past reverse. It acts like its in neutral. Fortunately, the emergency brake kicks ass, but still, living on a street with what is probably a 10% grade, I'm not comfortable relying on that. I finally got a chance to jack it up and look at the linkage and stuff yesterday, but everything is as it should be down there. Actually, every time I get under that car I'm amazed how clean it is under there. I hadn't had a chance to look at it last weekend with driving my sister around and dealing with my boy's birthday party. My dad has a guy in his auto body class who is a manager at a transmission shop, and the first thing he said when my dad related the problems to him was linkage, which was also the first thing I'd thought of, too, but no, that's not it. I'll probably take it to his shop next Friday and have him take a look at it. Really hate to have to do that, because I have a feeling that the prognosis will be for a rebuild, but other than not parking right it runs great, flawlessly, crisp, firm upshifts, well timed downshifts....

Did I ever make mention here of having to re-install my son's operating system on his comp here??? I can't recall. I know I did when I got my new motherboard and processor. Anyway, the reason I mention is because last weekend I had picked up a 3 user pack of Norton Antivirus for both the boy's and my wife's comps. For years they've been running without anything, and so far have faired OK. There used to be a couple of good online antivirus sites, but now they'll do a free scan but not any removal or repair. After my wife installed it on her machine, she had lots of video problems, so I scrubbed an extra hard drive (kind of small) that I had laying around and did a clean install of Win XP on it, then installed the antivirus and service pack 2 and all the drivers for her tuner card and CD burners and everything. No problems now!!! I slaved her original drive today and she got her music and picture files off it, then I formatted the original and cloned the small drive onto the original. I guess with 4 comps, having to re-install an operating system every once in a while is to be expected, but it seems like I've been doing a lot of that recently!!! Her comp is really pretty amazing, its only got a 700mhz processor with 384mb of ram and onboard video, but the thing really runs great!!! Its the little engine that could!!!

I read Granny's comments earlier today that she'd been making beer bread, then a little later I chatted with her a bit. When I had read that comment it had gotten me thinking... Hmmmm, I've got one bottle left of that really tasty Michelob Amber Bock in the fridge... bet that would make some really tasty beer bread!!! Know what??? It did!!! Thanks Granny for the inspiration to do that!!!

The Pawn

"I shall bow to the noble pawn, whose little stock figure is willing to sacrifice its life to protect its fellow pieces. Although small, it does have its strengths. It's a one-of-a-kind player that can be exchanged for a higher-level piece, and sometimes the cutest little pawn can checkmate a king."

This was a response in the paper to a question posed to kids, "Which chess piece are you?" It was written by 9 year old Dahlia. I found it to be an amazing piece of writing and worthy of sharing here.

How Did I End Up In A Tree AGAIN???

Must have climbed up there...

Take A Swing

Here's a great shot from yesterday's birthday party. If you can't tell, that's candy from the pinata flying through the air!!!

The occasion of the birthday reminded me of something I had all but forgotten about. I end up doing the decorating duties on a lot of cakes, and around a year ago I put together a page showing some of my work, but I've never linked it to my "Main" page, so it hasn't been seen by many at all. For you, my blog friends, click here to check it out!!! I updated it tonight to include the latest, all the way at the bottom of the page.

I also updated my wallpaper page tonight. I'm a little out of sync on doing that, but I came up with some interesting artwork that I grew up with on it this week.

Have A Nice (Birth)Day!!!

Today we celebrated my little guy's birthday. About a week early, my parents are out of town next weekend, and the cousins were there this week, too. This picture came out in such a way that I had to do like Serenity has been doing and have some fun in Paint Shop Pro!!!

Taxi Duty

I got out of my therapy today, and my phone rang as I was pulling out of the parking structure. It was my dad, calling from my mom's cell. Apparently my sister was to be released from the psych ward that she has been in for the last couple weeks (maybe I'll see about hooking her up with Lilly's latest acquisition, Dr. Serani, LOL) Neither of them wanted to be around her or hear from her, but they needed someone to get her from the place she had been staying (up in the valley) to the place she is moving to (down towards the south bay, not too far from where I work) and wondered if I would. Actually, my dad's first words to me were "wanna make some money???" LOL, of course I do, depending on how much and how hard I have to work for it. Actually, I had more goodies I wanted to pick up from Fry's after therapy, and I had just been thinking how I used to have a $50 stashed in my wallet, until last time I had been to Fry's. I told them to call me back when they figured out the details. I finished up my shopping and was heading out when they called me again with the information. Turns out it was a fairly short trip from where I was at to where I was picking her up from. She didn't rant and rave as my parents had feared she might. She did run her mouth fairly non stop on the drive, but that's what she does. The guy from the previous home she'd been staying at called me part way to the new place. I didn't recognize the number and was going to not answer, but my sis heard the number and told me that was him. He was saying that her roommate was saying that she had taken some of her stuff, shampoo and maxi pads and such. He talked to my sister, and they went back and forth about what was hers and what wasn't. After she hung up, she said that it was all her stuff, and she wasn't sending any of it back. I suspected as much. Not like the guy and her roommate weren't there when she was taking her stuff out. Their bailment, not mine. Got her to the new place, which was actually just the offices, unloaded her stuff and hugged her and wished her luck.

Mission accomplished. Took the better part of the afternoon, but I did manage to get home before the rain began to come down and before Blogger begins their maintenance tonight. I would have done it without the promise of money to help my parents and sister out, but that did sweeten the pot.

Good luck, sis!!!

Who Wants Revenge???

I had seen a promo last night for someone who was going to be on Letterman tonight, but when I woke up this morning I couldn't remember who it was. When I talked to my wife today, I asked her to check on the guide to see who was going to be on. She read it off to me: Jimmy Fallon, Olympic snowboarder Hannah Teter, She Wants Revenge. That was the one that I had heard of that piqued my interest. My wife, however, wondered what Hannah Teter wanted revenge for!!! LMAO!!! She cracks me up with some of the things she comes up with. I was talking about Foo Fighters sometime back before Christmas, and she was thinking it was a video game I was going to get for my firstborn!!!

I'll probably stay up and watch 'em. You know they'll be the last thing before the end of the show, but hey, I don't need to be up early!!! You can check out some of She Wants Revenge's music on their MySpace page. I kind of like them, makes me think of kind of an 80's sound, but a bit dark and disturbing. The song "Tear you apart", most notably, is getting a lot of air time out here. Think what I like the most about 'em is the name. I wasn't aware that they didn't even have a full album out until the very end of last month!!! Talk about building a buzz in advance...

Follow Up

In my last post I mostly went on about the awesome chow at Carls Jr. Well, they sent me this reply back:

Thank you so much for letting us know how much you enjoyed our good service and food at our restaurant.

We really love to hear from guests like you who take the time to tell us about their experiences at our restaurants with our food and with our employees! You are among our most valued guests and it makes us happy to know we have made you happy. After all, our goal is to make our guests happy--every guest, every time!

To show our appreciation for your comments, we would like you to have a Buy One Item, Get One Free coupon for The Original Six Dollar Burger, a Famous Star with cheese, a Charbroiled BBQ Chicken Sandwich, a Charbroiled Chicken Salad or a Loaded Breakfast Burrito. We are sending you the coupon. Enjoy!

Thank you again! We look forward to serving you soon!

Now THAT'S how its supposed to be done!!! Show some LOVE!!! Hear that Denny's??? Well, that's what separates the posers from the contenders, in my opinion!!! (Also gets you in there again, buying up more drinks and sides and taking the kids, etc.) I saw on the comments to the last post that Lilly is going to be opening a restaurant. I can picture it now, "Lilly White's Nigger Nest of Ug Cooking, look for it half the way down MLK" LMAO!!! Granny working as a waitress, official uniform consisting of a pimptress hat...

Credit Where Credit is Due

I notice I do a lot of bitching here about poor service I get when I dine out. Well, here's a little deviation from the norm!!! We went to Carls Jr. today, and had a couple of awesome burgers!!! I was so moved by how good they were, I actually went to their website and left the following feedback:

Just wanted to tell you about our visit today. We ordered the western bacon cheeseburgers with extra BBQ sauce as is our custom, because, quite frankly, they are usually near to bone dry when you don't order them like that. This way usually they come out pretty decent, even though they are still often made as though the extra is coming out of the employees' paycheck. The ones we had today, however, they really laid on the extra BBQ sauce, and they were AWESOME!!! From this point hence, they will be the western bacon cheeseburgers by which all others will be judged!!! Whoever put these together deserves a raise and should be in charge of training all Carls Jr. employees how to put on the extras!!! My hat is off to them!!! "*****" (five stars!!!")

Who knows, maybe they'll kick me down something good for all my fawning, but truth be told, they were good enough for me to say all that about 'em, they were reward enough in themselves!!! Guess I should make mention of the fact that I had requested extra dippin' sauce for the zucchini I'd gotten, and when they brought them out there wasn't even one sauce. Just asking (again) was all it took, though, and they were brought forth in a reasonable amount of time.

STRIKE!!!

Well, we got a bit of a later start than I had planned. My wife had been telling me that the car had been making "a grindy noise" when she'd hit the brakes. A little after noon I got it up in the air and pulled off the wheels. The brake shoe lining on the driver's side, which was new in December 2004, had delaminated from the backing. Plus side, they were lifetime warranty. Minus side, against "manufacturers defects". I don't know about you, but coming unglued from the backing to me is a hell of a defect. The guy at the store didn't see it that way. BULLSHIT!!! Anyway, they were only $15, but still... ended up taking most of the afternoon, up until the sun was headed down below the opposite ridge. One of those damned springs broke on me, too, so I ended up having to send wifey to the parts store again.

We dropped the boys off and got over to Sammy's. From there we headed over to Pine Street in Long Beach. I knew that whole area had undergone a build-up and revitalization, but this was the first time I'd actually been there. None of us were real hungry but wanted a little something. We went to Hooters AT MY WIFE'S SUGGESTION!!! I was a bit floored by that. First time I've ever been to a Hooters, and it was about what I expected. Overpriced food and marginal service by sluttily dressed hoochies!!! We ended up having four different servers for some reason. It took them a while to bring my wife's drink, and we had our food before the beer pitcher even made it there!!! Sammy and I were making comment about it rather loudly... "These wings are pretty good, but you know what would go good with it??? Some beer!!!" The manager came over just a bit after that with a pitcher and poured for us, and apologized for it not having been there sooner, said it was on the house because of that, so that was cool. That is what should have happened when we had gone to Denny's. I hadn't made mention here, but I left some feedback about that on their site. I received a phone call about it about a week later, and they had it being in Williams, CA, instead of Wilmington, CA!!! Said they were going to transfer it to the appropriate department. Guess what??? Haven't heard shit since then!!! I'm thinking, since I have the confirmation Email (which, incidentally, has the right city), I'll make that into a text letter and drop it in the mail to them instead. Customer service is no better than their in restaurant service!!!


After that, we talked about hitting one of the clubs, but most of what we saw had lines and $20 covers. Fuck that. We went to the bowling alley instead and rolled three games. I did terribly, but we had a great time. Sammy was trying to teach me technique again, and my game suffers horribly whenever that happens. My wife wasn't doing so well either, and her arm was beginning to hurt after a while, so she tried once with her left instead. STRIKE!!! We were all amazed by that. Since I was doing pretty bad, I decided to try the same thing right after her. STRIKE!!! Guess that's my problem, I'm really a lefty!!! Naturally neither of us could do it again. I did follow that up with another strike and a spare, so I did better on that game. Sammy did a pretty decent game, perfect up until the fourth frame, ended up with 165. I think that's the best game I've ever seen him play. The couple in the next lane were very cool too, so that added to a great time. The whole evening was a lot of fun.

Photos from Friday

Granny with her red bucket again, as well as her Rastafarian hat and dreds. Suits her well, huh???


And Lilly... She looks happy, doesn't she??? Whatever could she be doing to make her look so happy??? No apologies for the low quality of the pictures, I do the best I can with what we've got. (Lilly, I'm sure you'll let me know if you feel a censoring is in order :Þ)

I am going to miss out on any goings-on tonight with the girls. We're going to go out with Sammy, dine, hit a club or two, and go bowling. Looking forward to that!!!

Wired

I was getting tired at work, so I walked up to the corner store and got myself an energy drink. Von Dutch, I've never had his before. Always liked his work, what with the winged eyeballs. Perhaps that was the inspiration for my tattoo design, like a Von Dutch eyeball, only faster??? Anyway, its almost 1 again, and I don't have to go to work tomorrow!!! I think I'll be up for another hour at least...

Von Dutch energy drink... yeah, that'll work!!!

The Phone Call

So heres what happened when Sammy called me up yesterday. Apparently he had gotten into some kind of argument with his mom, and needed to get out of there and blow off some steam. He had called me to see if I wanted to go out for something to eat or something. I had just eaten so I wasn't up for getting food, but just come over and we'll hang out. He said he'd call me back and let me know what he decided. He calls me up a bit later and says never mind, hes going to go hit some golf balls instead, to work off some of his frustration. During the course of our discussion he tells me to hold on a minute, and proceeds to order some food from a drive thru speaker. When he finishes and we resume, hes talking along, then suddenly says loudly "hey, quit that!!!" He then tells me that there is this drunk bum that keeps bumping into his truck. He continues talking to me, but this bum keeps on making a nuisance of himself. The bum starts bitching at him about how hes not 'American', to which Sammy replies that he was born here and is a far better example than his drunk ass, hes a joke. The bum grabs onto the car in front of Sammy by the door and the frame and tries to keep it from driving off. Then he was getting in front of Sammys truck and shooting him the bird. I told Sammy to get a picture, and thats what youre seeing here!!! He had to hang up with me to take the picture, but he called me back shortly thereafter. Hes back on the phone with me giving me play by play. The lady at the drive thru window threw glasses of water on him a couple of different times, and was telling Sammy to call the cops. He had to hang up a bit after that, but he called back later and related the rest to me. The restruant workers had called the cops four times before they had asked Sammy to, but of course they never did a thing. The wino was challenging Sammy to do something to him, telling him to run his ass down. THEN he says "its going to take a lot more than that to stop me!!!" Sammy goes "OK, then I'll back up over you, then get you again..." He keeps telling him that he cant do anything to him because hes inside his truck. Well, Sammy undoes his seat belt and opens his door, and starts going off on him!!! Well, the guy changes his tune real quick. Before he shuffles off he gets kind of sad and asks him "well cant you at least spare a little change???" LMAO!!! The whole incident was rather amusing to him, only he was somewhat disturbed that there were some young kids just inside the place, staring out the window the whole time. He waved to the little girl, probably about 8 or 9, that the guy was heading away and everything was OK. I guess all the people at the counter could hear him going on out there too, the main regester is right near the drive thru window. Before all this happened the guy had been inside the place making a nuisance of himself there before they had kicked him out. The lady at the drive thru gave Sammy one of the sandwiches for free. He says he felt better after that exchange, didn't feel the need to go hit golf balls anymore!!! Said the expereince was like a yoga session, he hadn't wanted to go home before it happened, but afterwards he was able to calmly go home, eat his food and go to bed.

And I got to listen to most of it happen in real time, it was almost like the fun with the phone!!!

Random Part Two

There was a lot I was going to go on about on my previous post but did not make it to. I looked at the clock sometime in there, and it was already 1:00 AM!!! Good thing I had therapy today and didn't need to get out of bed particularly early. On the minus side, it does make for a long day. I usually don't get out of there until after 10, then its near to 11 by the time I get to work. By the time I've gotten my hours in its 9:00!!! Then the drive home (usually traffic isn't bad by then at least) and then if I want to eat anything...

Its red flag day two here. If you're not familiar, when there are ideal wild fire conditions (Santa Ana winds, low humidity, and usually warm) they declare it a red flag day. There is a fire going on down south of here in Orange County. No structures or life lost, so that's good. I had thought there was one going on Monday out north of me in the valley, and when it was raining ash on me yesterday I thought that was where it was from. I was apparently mistaken. Starting this January they put up no parking on red flag days signs in several hilly areas, and mine is included. Cars will be towed. I can understand the reasoning behind it, the streets are narrow and difficult to navigate curves and turns on in large trucks if there are parked cars (I'm always resisting the urge to go watch moving trucks when I see them lumbering up my hill, see how they do with the corners) but its really not an issue on the straight areas. A lot of people don't have any driveway, or not enough driveway hold all their cars, so its a concern. I didn't see any decrease in the number of cars last night when I got home. I have a feeling it isn't going to be strictly enforced unless there is a nearby fire.

I FINALLY gave Sammy his Christmas present today. He was floored by it, mostly the Chicago Cubs license plate frame I made for him. He liked the rest of it, too, though. I had taken a screwdriver up with me when I gave it to him in parking lot because I knew he was going to want to put it on his truck right away. He was putting it on, and he twisted one of the screw heads right off!!! Damned things are made out of plastic!!! Naturally, there were only two of them holding it on. We searched all over the plant and finally located a few more. Bastard size (for us anyway), 1/4-28 thread. I ordered a set of stainless button head allen screws to replace the hex bolt he's using for now.

Jiminy, Lilly has a great dream book, you should ask her nice and see if she'll give you an interpretation of that dream of yours!!! Wild dream, considering your position (not your position in the dream, you didn't really get into all that, LOL), thanks for having the boldness to share that. To bring you up to speed on the word verification game, the rules stipulate that you use the characters that you are required to type in order to post a comment. That's why a lot of them don't make a lot of sense. I sometimes take a challenging one as, well, a challenge and leave a comment that I may have vacillated about giving just so I could play the word verification game!!! Granny, especially liked the one you came up with UYEVC = Use Your Exciting Vessel Cleverly!!! Now THAT'S showing the love!!! MCHWEYWAKYUAN= MY cricket Homies will enter your window and keep you up all night.... Now THAT reminds me of a story that must be shared at some point!!!

Lilly, that sex on the beach isn't all you may have dreamed the sand tends to get everywhere, take it from L.A. guy... Be sure you at least bring a blanket lest you end up like the cavewoman who was dragged by her feet instead of her hair!!! Its going to take you that long to get the ingredients together??? You'll go thirsty!!! Or are you expecting an early spring??? Yea, it does sound like a warm weather drink, though.

Muslims!!! Crazy, stupid ass muslims!!! Not all of them, mind you, but you know the ones I'm talking about. They get all worked up over a cartoon depicting Muhammad as a terrorist, so what do they do??? They riot, burn and chant to bomb Denmark!!! You know how if you level an accusation at a person, and they're like whatever, there is usually no basis. But, if they get all defensive you begin to think they doth protest too much??? Way to prove the cartoonists point, yo!!! Now today I hear where one of them is saying the cartoons are in reaction to the never-to-be-confused-with-a-terrorist-organization Hamas having won the election... HELLO, these cartoons came out last September!!! Now I hear that there is one of them likening Muhammad to a pig that appears to be a fabrication, not even from the Denmark papers!!! Funny, they don't really go into a lot of those details in the mainstream media, so far as I've heard. I tried to do an image search for them last night but couldn't find anything. Id like to see what has them all worked up. Hmmmmm.... Perhaps Ill contract with Bob to have something REALLY offensive made up!!!

There is a convention going on this week that our salesman was going to be at, manning a booth. Several months ago he brought in an older, but not ancient, popcorn machine like they have at movie theatres. He had picked it up from someone cleaning out a garage, but it wasn't working. He had the maintenance guys here go through the wiring and replace the thermostat and heating element, along with some wiring. Then he bought some of this really tasty Pop Weaver popcorn that was already seasoned and came with its own pouch of cooking oil. He bought a whole case of these. We made a couple of batches here, and it worked flawlessly, filling the plant with the aroma of fresh popped corn. He had the brilliant idea to take it to these conventions and give away popcorn. Well, he took it and set it up and got it going there. Before the convention even opened, it caught on fire!!! They put it out with fire extinguishers. Then it caught fire again!!! He said the whole convention center was filled up with smoke. D'oh!!!

I had yet to make mention here of one other thing I did over the weekend. My dad got his engine all put in, and wanted another set of eyes there for the crucial break in period. I went down there before the game on Sunday, and we did the final preparation, filled it with vital fluids and started it up. It was leaking oil around the hoses to the remote filter adapter, so we shut it down. Apparently he had overlooked tightening those down. That fixed, we started it up again. Everything seemed fine, and he was running it around 2500 RPM. I kept looking, and after a bit I noticed a small drip of oil coming from the back of the engine. Looking around a bit it looked like its coming out of the back of the manifold gasket. Not a lot, but something that needs to be seen to. The oil from our hands that was all over the exhaust system was burning off, and I was getting a fan out of the garage to blow the smoke away, when I heard my dad shut the engine down and start yelling for a fire extinguisher. I grabbed the one off the wall, and he got the one from inside the car. The garage one was DOA, but the car one worked fine. Just a little fire from the oil dripping down the back and getting on the pipes, but that was enough for the day. The oil was pretty far down from the filter adapter and the leak, so we decided to follow up at a later date.

This has ended up being a lot about fire, hasn't it???

I also have a story I'd like to tell about a most interesting phone conversation I had with Sammy tonight, but once again, it's 1:00 AM...

Completely Random

A million things going through my head tonight and only so much time to blog, so I think its going to be really random tonight.

The Stones indeed did a great show for half time, IMHO, but was I the only one who noticed when Mick left a word out of the very first part of "rough justice"??? I was thinking of that part today, and it got me to thinking of the time they were on the Ed Sullivan Show and they made him sing "lets spend some time together", and the way you could tell Mick thought it was the biggest put-on while he was doing it. That got me to thinking of when The Doors were on it doing "light my fire" and they wanted them to censor it, and they said they would, but then didn't. 'You'll never do the Sullivan show again!!!' 'We just did the Sullivan show!!!'
That said, A Bigger Bang is about the best album I've heard in I don't know how long!!!

Whilst I'm on a musical tangent, I burned myself a new CD last week, and once again left a song I had wanted off, Green Day's "Jesus of Suburbia". Green Day hit my radar with their first major label release, Dookie, but most of their stuff from that point up until American Idiot hadn't really struck much of a chord with me. It seems to me this album has picked up their stride once again. Favorite lines from that song:

I don't feel any shame I won't apologize

When there ain't nowhere you can go

Running away from pain When you've been victimized

Tales from another broken home

A good song that I'm enjoying and that did make it onto this disc is System of a Down's "Lonely Day"

A shout out to Jiminy Pink, glad to hear you enjoyed hearing about my concotion. It truly was one of those things where it was the cart was before the horse with the name, but I think it made for the perfect melding of events and ingredients!!! After reading through all my posts, my hat is off to you. I often wondered if someone coming across it cold would have their interest held. To me it seems like it would be rather uninteresting to anyone who didn't already know me. Thanks for encapsulating much of my blog history and taking me on a little trip down my own memory lane!!!

Go Steelers!!!

Got my chili in the crock pot...

I'm set!!!

Behold!!!

A bit ago there was a new commenter on Serenity's blog, Jiminy Pink. Someone (Lilly, I believe) made the observation that a pink cricket sounded like a drink a blogger on a tropical vacation might order. Well, that suggestion stuck in my head and I thought about what might go in such a drink. Yesterday I picked up the ingredients and made several up!!!

Here's what I did:
A tall glass half filled with ice
a shot of light rum
fill most of the way with pink lemonade
top off with a bit of grenadine for color
garnish with a lime wedge

Came out pretty tasty!!! The more of them I drank, the better they taste!!!

Lilly and Granny

I always knew Lilly and Granny were Siamese twins conjoined at the buttocks. I just had no idea to what extent!!!

I wonder what else they have two of???

I wonder what else they have THREE of???

I love you girls' crazy cracked asses!!! (or is that singular???)

Fun With Super Glue

At work today Sammy pointed out to me a quarter in the middle of the main walkway of the plant. I thought it suspicious that he had pointed it out to me, so I looked carefully. I could see the super glue oozing out around the edge, and told him so. Of course, not everyone was as perceptive!!! One of the machine operators spent about a minute trying to pick it up!!! After Sammy had gone home, I glanced over that way, and saw that the plant manager was down on the floor for quite a while!!! I highly recommend trying this, and observing the results!!!

This made me remember how I used to cut quarters in half, and glue two heads back to back to make two headed quarters. I spent the later half of the day doing this kind of thing. Naturally, this would be a good time to note that the events you read on these blogs about things we alledgedly do is purely for entertainment. This is a disclaimer.

SOMEBODY Needs to Clean This Up!!!

Here are a few of the pictures my dad came back with from his week of volunteering in New Orleans



The interior shot shows the high water mark




In case you don't know, you can click on the pictures to enlarge them





This is the barge that took out a portion of the levee











Yes, that is really the color of the water in the pool!!! These pictures were taken just a couple weeks ago. It doesn't look like a whole lot has been done yet. My dad loaned me a disc with pictures from 5 of his fellow volunteers, almost 800 shots.

It doesn't look like a whole lot has been done yet, does it???

Interesting Choice of Words

There was an article in the paper today about Steve Kubby, an attorney jailed for medical marijuana. He has adrenal cancer. The part of the article that caught my attention, however, was about the doctors, who they had as stating (I'm not making this up) that "the marijuana helps BLUNT the lethal illness"