One Year Later Random

Ladies and Gentlemen, it is time for a little randomness and a departure from my chronicling of me vacation travels!!! I've been enjoying doing that, nice way to preserve the memories, but randomness will not be withheld!!!


It was approximately one year ago that I was unceremoniously axed. In hindsight, it was one of the better things to have happened to me!!! This morning, one of the girls at work was axed. That reminded me. I hope it turns out to be one of the best things to have happened for her, too. Right before a three day weekend, and she had her vacation time scheduled for next week, too. Bad mojo for the ones who fired her, I say, even though I'm sure she will be treated much better by these guys than I was.

Have you seen that show, "Who Wants to Be a Superhero"??? I like it quite a lot, as do my boys. I think the integration of Esurance into the series is the best product placement I've ever seen. I also like the way the pink haired girl is drawn.


Did you hear about those fires that were burning in Greece??? You know, it's not safe to use water on a fire like that, but either smother it with baking soda or put a pan lid over it. A safety tip from your friends at Aye's Random Ravings.

A neighbor family and friend of my son took a vacation to Holland. She brought back some boxes of chocolate sprinkles that are one of the delicacies of the land of windmills. They serve it on buttered toast, of all things!!! Crazy ass Dutch!!!

That black and white looking picture there??? That's how it would look if you were behind your keyboard looking out.

I purchased a collection of the first six Harry Potter books in paperback, so I can get up to speed now that they are all out. I'm reading the first one, and they have the Christmas holiday celebrated at Hogwarts. I thought that strange, wizards celebrating Christmas. Like Christian children celebrating Halloween.



I had been thinking of going to Johns Incredible Pizza for my birthday. It didn't happen... yet, anyway. Maybe I'll take Sammy there for his birthday. Bet he's never had spicy peanut butter pizza before!!! Sounds strange, and the one time I had it I wasn't that impressed, but now I occasionally crave it.

A couple of the lesbians at work were discussing how hot they find Keira Knightley at break time a bit ago. Just recently my wife has become a huge fan of the show "The Closer", and I think she's got a girl crush on Kyra Sedgwick. She says, "She's so CUTE!!!" Not the adjective I think of, but I kinda like her glasses. Anyway, I'm thinking it's a Keira-Kyra thang.



I happened on that picture of all that cheese this evening. I wasn't looking for it, but there it is!!! It had a caption something to the effect of "There shall be cheese for all!!!"

I had wanted to do this post last night, but I got caught up watching Bullett. Great movie, but it's amazing the way the world has changed. Of course, they were all using phones with dials, and, when out in the field, pay phones. Bullett would get to a place and call into the station and tell them where he was at in case they needed to get in touch with him. Didn't even have walkie talkies!!!

I was doing some small talk with one of my friends at work yesterday, asking how things were going. We both agreed it was going great, one more day until a three day weekend AND payday, could it get any better??? Then we ran that past one of the girls on the other side of the conveyor, and she was taking today as a vacation day. Guess it could get better!!!

You know, I think those Dutch are onto something with that chocolate sprinkles on buttered toast, it tasted great!!!



There was cake in the break room at second break yesterday. Most of us in attendance had some, but very few fillers were in that area for second break. Today at lunch we were telling those who were absent about the cake. They had been at the couch and chairs right by the bin structure. I wouldn't take my break there, there is almost no chance of cake showing up there.

Why is it that our body temperature is around 98° Fahrenheit, yet it has to be a LOT cooler than that for it to not feel "hot" to us??? Seems like anything a bit less than that should feel cool to us.



Did you see where they played a funny trick on Karl Rove, wrapping his car up with plastic wrap??? Those wacky Republicans!!!

Speaking of politics, if there were truth in advertising laws for politicians, Fabian Núñez would have to change his identification from California Democrat to Mexican Socialist.

Of course, if there were truth in advertising laws for politicians, I don't think there would be any left.

I was quite hungry at morning break yesterday. Figured if there were any decent looking pizza available, I would buy a slice. There was, it had pepperoni, sausage, ham, olives and mushrooms. One of the slices was inordinately huge, and I decided I should make it mine. I took it as a gift and a challenge, see if I could down it in the time I had. I did.

They are having a lunch and learn conference at my work in a couple of weeks on bio fuels. Very cool, I shall be in attendance. Hopefully personnel will be representing, and I can inquire if using or brewing biodiesel could be considered for incentives like they have for ridesharing and public transportation.



That last picture, it's one of the merchandise racks at the Disney resort. See how the adjustment slots are Mickey heads??? I thought that was a very cool detail, and a great show of force of the buying power of the mouse. How many companies can have their logo made into something as mundane as an adjustment slot???

At lunch today one of the girls asked me if I wanted her extra dill pickle slices. I love dill pickle, so of course I thanked her and partook. Of course, I have something of a reputation as the guy who will not turn down much of anything food related, so she was saying, "Of course you will take 'em, like I had to even ask!!!" Another girl had a container of sour cream for her food, and I said I'd been eyeing that too, "Ya gonna finish that???" Mostly in jest, because I didn't have much that would go with sour cream on it. However, she took what she was going to use and gave the rest to me anyway!!! I tried one of the honey wheat pretzel sticks from my lunch dipped in it, and it was GOOD!!! Later, she offered me her last tortilla. A plain tortilla wasn't too appealing, and I was already loaded up on pickles and sour cream. Everyone was shocked when I declined. I joked that I should hold onto it for break time in case there was cake again, I could make a cake burrito. They were laughing and expounding on that idea as I was chewing the last of my pretzel and sour cream when it hit me. Not a cake burrito, but a cakeadilla!!! I had a laughing fit in mid-chew and shared after I had swallowed. Everyone loved the name.

I know cakeadilla will never make it past blogger's spell checker.