Gas prices on the Rise! I have got to bitch about that!

You Might Be a "True" Redneck if: (I beg anyone, ANYONE, to post a comment.)

I am and will always be a "TRUE" Redneck!!!!!!

1. You might be a redneck if: It never occurred to you to be offended by the phrase, "One nation, under God."

2. You might be a redneck if: You've never protested about seeing the 10 Commandments posted in public places.

3. You might be a redneck if: You still say "Christmas" instead of "Winter Festival."

4. You might be a redneck if: You bow your head when someone prays.

5. You might be a redneck if: You stand and place your hand over your heart when they play the National Anthem.

6. You might be a redneck if: You treat Viet Namvets with great respect, and always have.

7. You might be a redneck if: You've never burned an American flag.

8. You might be a redneck if: You know what you believe and you aren't afraid to say so, no matter who is listening.

9. You might be a redneck if: You respect your elders and expect your kids to do the same.

10. You might be a redneck if: You'd give your last dollar to a friend

What The Hell Is This?

I continually get Viagra emails all the time and some contain first names in the senders box that are familiar to me. I got one mentioning a good friend of mine and found an add for "Really cheap" Viagra. Spam it was but the following was at the bottom of the message:

Want though, wonder wall rain molecule. Wild, cotton eastcorrect, above, cost. Numeral pick, hot, square, interest othercomplete. Blue, came hair, finish multiply always hold. Caresudden, have her boat forest round. Rule yet student are andcold open. What, we numeral. Rock hard grow, reach, open be,hour. Farm arm kind end car word. Engine, other spot climb such.Face next wonder in. -- Phone: 374-XXX-XXX Mobile: 850-XXX-XXX Email: someone@comcast.net

WHAT THE HELL IS ALL THIS?

IS IT SOME KIND OF CODED MESSAGE THAT I CANNOT FIGURE OUT OR JUST A BUNCH OF RAMBLE.

I believe it to be the latter. Does anyone know? Or am I waisting my time here?

Where Are You, God?

An atheist professor was teaching a college class and he told the class that he was going to prove that there is no God.
He said, "God, if you are real, then I want you to knock me off this platform. I'll give you 15 minutes!"
Ten minutes went by. He kept taunting God, saying, "Here I am, God. I'm still waiting."
He got down to the last couple of minutes and a Marine just released from active duty and newly registered in the class walked up to the professor, hit him full force in the face, and sent him flying from the platform.
The professor struggled up, obviously shaken and yelled, "What's the matter with you? Why did you do that?"
The Marine replied, "God was busy; He sent me."
Thanks JokeADay.
And Jake! for posting it.

New Job, and Cheezy Thanks

Life has been kind of rough the past couple of month. Trying to find a job is a FULL time job and all the dismay of broken promises, got me down.

There is one thing that lead me to getting my new job and that was my references. I listed a few friends on a third page (that I was told not to include with my resume) and some former supervisors that have given me grand reviews on performance!

I would personally like to thank all of those that gave me such rave reports, think I am a god and have simply just spoke the truth!

As most of my readers know, I know am a "Computer Tech" for the local hospital. I really am not educated (formally) on networking, computer troubleshooting or even knowledgeable of the correct computing terminology, however, am a self taught individual. I was given a chance to take on the tremendous task of making sure a small towns hospital communication and technical systems stay up and going!

I am honored and scared at the same time. Our local hospital is undergoing some Major changes and the computer systems for the nurses facilities and radiology departments are a brand new (as my boss quotes) implement!

As of my second day, I believe I can, and will, be able to take on what comes before me. In turn, I must give thanks to those who have believed in me to do so.

As I have mentioned before... Breath deep... And Here I go!

...just one time... 

Almost Scamed

I almost got scammed!

A friend of mine asked if I would be willing to sell her car online for her.

See the car here!

She wanted me to sell it on Ebay, but thought I might try something a little different. I created a website featuring the car (which you can do for free here, and it was easy) and then placed an add on this, and this free classifieds website

Not 15 minutes later I got this responce:

Hello,
i just came across your Car advert,I am based in United Arab Emirates.[DUBAI]i offer $18,500.00 for the Car.i will also appreciate some photographs of the Car.i want to purchase this Car as a birthday Gift for me Son,Who will be turning 18 years old in some weeks from now.
I will have my accountant make out the payment to you by having a Certified Bank check sent to you on my American banking facility.I hope that will be convinient for you.To have this done,The following informations will be required to have the payment made without delay.Your Full name that you will want on the check payment,Your address where you will want the check payment sent,Your Contact phone number for verbal arrangements to be concluded with you.
I will instruct payment as soon as i have the above listed informations from you and Photos of the Car. After the payment has been recieved,i will have my pre-paid shipping agent [GLOBAL TRADE INC] contact you to make arrangements for the Car pick-up/shipping,for the Car to be picked up and shipped along with some other consignments from the US. I know you will need my informations to have the Car's titles and Bill Of Sale Newly addressed in my name.I will have the informations forwarded to you when the payment arrives to you.The titles on my name and the Bill of sale will be required to have the Car cleared with the U.S Customs at the point of Export and with the United Arab Emirates Customs at it's point of Entry into Dubai. i await your quick response.Thanks.
Regards
Salif Khaleed Omar.....

I got several more similar to the above. Then I got this one:

Dear Sir/Madam
I am Mr Gregory a sale agent located in Holland,i will like to purchase your i.e........................1967 Chevrolet Camaro , saw the advert and forwarded you advert information to a client who became interested,i will like to know if it still available.If it is,please be sure to provide us with the following informations.

:cost:Seller's full name:Seller's full contact address and phone number.:If a American Certified bank check is acceptable

We will be very hapy if you can provide us with the adove requested informations.We will also like to state here that you do not have to bother about the shipping,that would be handled by an appointed shipper in the netherlands. Thank you very much

Regards

Gregory.

Like a fool, I responded and to see if I could get more out of the car. I advised him that I was offered $28,000 but the guy backed out but would be willing to give it to him for $25,000. He immediately agreed.

Dear Scott Tollett,

Thanks for your mail,i am glad the "Vehicle"is still available i am sorry i do not speak too good english,but i would try my best to talk to you as soon as the payment is been sent to you, i hope this will not any way affect this transaction?what am saying is that i will get my client contacted to mail you the check immediately and for your notification my client would be sending you a check in the total amount of ($ 30,000) for the sales and that would cover the shipping fees for the 1967 Camero,what you to do is as soon as you receive the check and after check cleared you will deduct the cost for the 1967 Camero (25,000) and have the remaining balance of ($5,000)wired to my shipping agent for them to come and pick it up of the 1967 Camero at your location. Please let me know if that is ok by you if terms ok by you Please let me know if that is ok by you if terms ok by you let me have the payment details,name and address the check should be sent out to the reason why the payment have to fast in been sent out is because my client will be travelling on a business trip and he wants to make the payment before his trip.I hope to hear from you soon.My regards
Gregory.
Nb you can reach me Via Fax on 31-84-759-8309

With this being the first time to attempt to sell something online, I jumped on it. What a deal! Well, to make a long story short, I contacted my friend, they agreed to sale it to him and after letting him know he requested the address and name of my friend so he could send us the check. Waiting on this info from my friend, I received an odd email saying that someone overseas needed assistance with transfer of a large amount of money from one account to another offering me a percentage. I did a quick Google search and found it to be a scam (it called the 419 Scam and some people are having fun with it here.Long but funny!) but was curious if others have received this also. Anyway, just so happens that the very first search result came up with a site where the guy got a responce to his add similar to mine. Here is the site. (This is a reply to a reply to a reply, so scroll to the bottom of the page and read it from bottom to top.)

I could not believe it, and was all of a sudden scared because I had sent "Gregory" the bank info and routing number for my friend. Then I realized that there was no way to tie the routing number to my friends bank account. Whewwww! Close, too close. I emailed back and basically told him to F**** OFF, and then he had the balls to email back, and request more information about my freind. These people are horrible. But I caught it before we got slammed. So be safe and consider yourself warned, and be careful with a few tips here, and you can file a claim against these assholes here! I learned my lesson and hopefully my story will help others to be cautious about selling stuff (cars particularly) online!

Random Letters

Found this site that can randomly change what you type into something you might see in a ransom note. Really neat!

Thanks Jake

What Kind of Dog Would You Be?

This is kind of neat! Find out what kind of dog you would be by answering a few questions.

Need a Job and a Brain!

I have so much on my mind right now that my head hurts. I was interviewed and offered a job stocking shelves at a local grocery store today. I was also offered a job as a part time help at a feed store. I accepted the job at the grocery store because they promised more hours of work and advancement. Here is the kicker, I was also requested to consider going back to my old job and out of a desperate attempt to find work with decent pay, and I accepted it. It was from my former manager and not the owners. So, I gave some stipulations: (1) Must be paid each pay period on time and (2) upon return I have to make as much or more money as when I left. Now this may sound steep but it is a must have. Am I stupid or what? (I happened to love my old job, though)

I want to sit down with the owner and give him some pointers on how an employee sees a business, how I think the revenue should be spent and what I believe the customers that we they have, deserve. The whole point is to be a team and I am still a fan. I left the winery because I did not like the way the company was run but believed in the product. The way it is right now I believe the same for WF. All of us together can build it back up to be the best in West Texas. It can and will work; if and only if, the owners are willing to listen to what needs to be done, instead of blowing the money away on mindless, material, unneeded, stupid…ohm, I have to stop there! Uggg!

Anyway, how can I get through to the owner that it would be in his best interest to hire me back? I am not sure. I think my best bet is to convince the current employees (all 9 or 10 out of the original 20 or so) that I am able to make a difference in the company. I think that I have shown them that I can make a difference and am willing to make a few sacrifices to do so through the time I was there. I learned more in 6 months (and proved it) there than I did in the entire time I was at my previous occupation! What’s up with that? That has got to say something!

Well, I am gonna go to work at the grocery store tomorrow and see what they have to offer and then on Wednesday my former boss is gonna talk up the rehire. I don’t know what I want to do right now. Do I, don’t I, take a chance or dump it? Tell them to F*** off or beg for my job back.

I guess we will have to see what tomorrow brings and go from there. Yeah, I think that’s what I’m gonna do!

(Deep breathe……here goes!)

Batman

I have always liked Batman comics and found over the past several years the

logos have made some major changes.

But the funniest I've come across is the Batman/Joker "Boner" comic.

Thanks Waxy

Time OFF! with no choice!

Today has been a rough day... It started out slow and ended up ..........well, let me just say I do not think the company I work(ed) for does not know what they are missing!

I will post more later but I think that I will focus on the repainting our house and finishing the unpacking we have not done yet. I may very well enjoy the time I have off!

Art!?

They call this art. I am wondering why they would spend so much money and time on wrapping things in plastic.
See the pictures of the past art projects here.


You can find more about Christo & Jeanne-Claude here.
Their site loads really slow for some reason but is interesting no the less.

This happens all to often! Click on picture to enlarge.

Typing Test

This is really cool! Take this test and see how you do! (Thanks Ruben!!)

Its amazing how so many people can type 100+ words per min., but for some one to 212wpm? Here's her story.

My best is 50wmp!

Comment and let me know if you can beat me! Be honest, its just for fun.

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Microsoft Releases More Updates!

Microsoft release 8 more crutial updates yesterday. As a friend of my said, they should have done it right the first time then they/we would not have to worry about it.

Here is something that I did not know:

Microsoft has repeatedly urged Windows XP users to turn on the operating system's "automatic update" service, which can fetch and install patches from Microsoft automatically as they are made available. But that service does not retrieve patches for Microsoft Office, so users who have Office installed must visit the Office Update Web site, office.microsoft.com, and then click on the "check for updates" link in the upper right corner of the page.

Godaddy.com Second Add pulled from Superbowl

I watched the Super Bowl basically for the adds and the half time show but found both boring. Light humor in the adds but did not enjoy the half time! (By the way these comments were not made about last years show which was exciting!)

Go Daddy got their add pulled during the second half because the NFL did not like it. See the 2 min advertisement here!

TIVO says that the GoDaddy commericial received the highest number of replays of ANY during the game! Including those of the actual game. See link to TIVO news release: http://www.tivo.com/5.3.1.1.asp?article=240 This was a comment from this Blog

DNS for F****** Idiots

Here's one for the guys at work!

Fantasy Coffins?

I've got to be buried in the beer bottle!

Man Sues for Use of His Picture on Labels

A jury has awarded $15.6 million to a man whose image was used for years without his permission on Taster's Choice coffee labels.

SpongeBob Squarepants

Sponge Bob Squarepants drives me up the wall but my daughter absolutely loves the overly cheery, obnoxious, yellow walking sponge in a pair of pants. This annoying sponge, “who lives in a pineapple under the sea”, is a fry cook for “the Krusty Krab” and has a meowing pet snail named Gary, makes his movie debut along with his “ding-a-ling” starfish sidekick, Patrick.

Apparently this movie has gotten some bad publicity about the violence, crude remarks, and the sexual content.

Read the Review

Stupid People

I have seen this in cerculation for some time and don't know how true this is but I have personally come across customers that have been this stupid. This is well worth repeating!

This is a true story from the WordPerfect helpline. Needless to say, the help desk employee was fired; however, he/she is currently suing the Word Perfect organization for "Termination without Cause." Actual dialogue of a former WordPerfect Customer Support employee with a caller:

>Customer Support: "Ridge Hall computer assistant; may I help you?"

>Caller: "Yes, well, I'm having trouble with WordPerfect."

>CS: "What sort of trouble?"

>C: "Well, I was just typing along, and all of a sudden the words went away."

>CS: "Went away?"

>C: "They disappeared."

>CS: "Hmm. So what does your screen look like now?"

>C: "Nothing."

>CS: "Nothing?"

>C: "It's blank; it won't accept anything when I type."

>CS: "Are you still in WordPerfect, or did you get out?"

>C: "How do I tell?"

>CS: "Can you see the C: prompt on the screen?"

>C: "What's a sea-prompt?"

>CS: "Never mind. Can you move the cursor around on the screen?"

>C: "There isn't any cursor, I told you, it won't accept anything I type."

>CS: "Does your monitor have a power indicator?"

>C: "What's a monitor?"

>CS: "It's the thing with the screen on it that looks like a TV. Does it have a little light that tells you when it's on?"

>C: "I don't know."

>CS: "Well, then look on the back of the monitor and find where the power cord goes into it. Can you see that?"

>C: "Yes, I think so."

>CS: "Great. Follow the cord to the plug, and tell me if it's plugged into the wall."

>C: ".......Yes, it is."

>CS: "When you were behind the monitor, did you notice that there were two cables plugged into the back of it, not just one?"

>C: "No."

>CS: "Well, there are. I need you to look back there again and find the other cable."

>C: ".......Okay, here it is."

>CS: "Follow it for me, and tell me if it's plugged securely into the back of your computer."

>"I can't reach."

>CS: "Uh huh. Well, can you see if it is?"

>C: "No."

>CS: "Even if you maybe put your knee on something and lean way over?"

>C: "Oh, it's not because I don't have the right angle - it's because it's dark."

>CS: "Dark?"

>C: "Yes - the office light is off, and the only light I have is coming in from the window."

>CS: "Well, turn on the office light then."

>C: "I can't."

>CS: "No? Why not?"

>C: "Because there's a power outage."

>CS: "A power... A power outage? Ah, Okay, we've got it licked now. Do you still have the boxes and manuals and packing stuff your computer came in?"

>C: "Well, yes, I keep them in the closet."

>CS: "Good. Go get them, and unplug your system and pack it up just like it was when you got it. Then take it back to the store you bought it from."

>C: "Really? Is it that bad?"

>CS: "Yes, I'm afraid it is."

>C: "Well, all right then, I suppose. What do I tell them?"

>CS: "Tell them you're too stupid to own a computer."

Sex with a Computer!?

..Lets say a "friend" of mine was "pleasuring himself" in the middle of working on upgrading his PC, with the card on the table, he made a "mess" of the card...

This is a halarious thread, read the comments to the above statement here!

Indian Customer Service Reps Hard to Understand? No, Really?

I get calls all the time from people greatful that they are able to speak to someone they can actually understand. Sykes Enterprises has discovered that "some customers were having trouble comprehending their Indian Customer Service Representatives".

Accents To Cost Indian Call Center Jobs, Read More Here!

Call Now!

Your just a phone call away from hot One-on-one chat with a few Weapons of Mass...Suduction! Call 212-875-7000

E-Mail-Address Thief Pleads Guilty

I knew I disliked AOL.

Former AOL Employee Sold 92 Million Screen Names to Spammers

By Larry Neumeister

Associated Press
Saturday, February 5, 2005; Page E03

NEW YORK, Feb. 4 -- A former America Online Inc. software engineer pleaded guilty Friday to stealing 92 million screen names and e-mail addresses and selling them to spammers.

Jason Smathers, 24, of Harpers Ferry, W.Va., entered the plea to conspiracy charges in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. Sentencing was scheduled for May 20.

Smathers could be ordered to make restitution of $200,000 to $400,000, the amount the government estimates AOL spent as a result of the e-mails.

In December, U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein rejected a similar plea by Smathers, saying he was not convinced that he had actually committed a crime. But the judge said prosecutors now had sufficiently explained why he had.

Smathers told the judge that he accepted $28,000 from someone who wanted to pitch an offshore gambling site to AOL customers, knowing that the list of screen names might make its way to others who would send e-mail solicitations.

Assistant U.S. Attorney David Siegal said Smathers had engaged in the interstate transportation of stolen property and had violated the federal Can-Spam law, which is meant to diminish unsolicited e-mail messages.

America Online is a wholly owned subsidiary of Time Warner Inc.

Smathers was fired by AOL last June. Authorities said he used another employee's access code to steal the list of AOL customers in 2003 from its headquarters in Dulles.

Smathers allegedly sold the list to Sean Dunaway, of Las Vegas, who, prosecutors said, used it to send unwanted gambling advertisements to subscribers of AOL, the world's largest Internet service provider. Dunaway was also charged.

The stolen list of 92 million e-mail addresses included multiple addresses used by AOL's estimated 30 million customer

$37,375.00 Walking Advertisement

Andrew Ficher auctioned off the use of his forehead for advertising space. He agreed to have a temporary tattoo place on his head for 30 days. Snore Stop topped bidding at $37,375.00. Read more here!

As long as Snore Stop pays out I guess it wasn't such a bad idea after all. Hell If I thought I could get a way with it, I would do it! (For $30 grand???? Hell Yes!)

Cool Animation!

Love story on paper!

Serious Nose Cleaning

I have bad sinuses but I don't think I would take it this far! Watch the demonstration video!

The Morning After!

The most annoying website! You have to go there!

$26,500 for Imaginary Island?

This is idiotic. I wondering if this guy just has money to throw around, or he has lost his marbles!

A 22-year-old gamer has spent $26,500 (£13,700) on an island that exists only in a computer role-playing game (RPG).

Here I am trying to come up with enough money to buy a real house to live in and this idiot buys something that doesn't exist??????? I don't get it!

This Reporter IS a Yahoo!

It was reported on WierdSpot.com and a few other places, that a couple named their baby, Yahoo, because they met each other on line.

The Reporter was fired for making up the story! What a yahoo.

While shopping, she said, she spontaneously had an orgasm that had lasted on and off for nearly two hours .

Try Your Skills

Killer or Language Programer?

Too Kewl!

This is too (as my brother says) kewl, click here! Thanks J.

Our New Home

I mentioned before that we had to cancel our trip to Austin because of the repairs on our new home. Here is the update:

We signed the contract on our new home Friday. We are getting an FHA loan, and the appraiser advised us that we must scrape and repaint the eves and overhangs on the entire house before they will process the loan. We were planning to do this anyway but did not anticipate it being complete untill next year.

The house itself is adobe and is a light tan color. the trim and porch railings are country blue. For some unGodly reason, the couple who owned the house before us, desided to add flames as accents on either side of each post, then painted each one pink. They also added shutters. They are not the slatted shutters but are these very crafty looking 1 ft x 3 ft planks of wood, with large hearts cut out of each one and also painted country blue. All the way around the house is a scalloped border, also painted blue. On either side of the house at the pitch of the roof, are cedar shingles about a quarter of the way down. They are also painted....want to guess what color? Country Blue!!!! These are all weathered and look really shabby. So.... our work is cut out for us. All the Flames are coming down, all the blue is coming off and going to be replaced with a darker terricata color; the shutters are going in the dumpster (I think that will be the first thing we are going to do), the cedar shingles are going to be replaced with siding. I wanted to start on the interror first because the inside of the house has been painted and wall papered in the same fashion as the exterior. Just to give you an idea, the person desided to purchase new cabnets, and put a light blue marble tile for the counter tops (which is not too bad), however they took the doors off, painted the cabnets pink (the same pink as the accent flames on the outside) then put the unpainted doors back up. On the walls these people put up wall paper that has little pink and blue flowers all over it. Ugly ugly ugly! The only reason we want the house is that It is 5 bedroom two bath, with carport 10 foot privacy fence all the way around.

On the sides of the house it has cedar shingles which we will replace with siding. Saturday my wife made a trip to the local hardware store. She purchased the paint, then a friend and I went to buy the siding. We figured out that we would need 16 sheet. My God! I spent $380.00 in one one place for a home we don't own yet, and we are still not done!!!??? Ugggggg!

Dating My Daughter

My daughter is far from the dating age but found this and thought it was worth posting and will consider doing the same!

"When I was in high school I used to be terrified of my girlfriend’s father, who I believe suspected me of wanting to place my hands on his daughter’s chest. He would open the door and immediately affect a good-naturedly murderous expression, holding out a handshake that, when gripped, felt like it could squeeze carbon into diamonds.Now, years later, it is my turn to be the dad. Remembering how unfairly persecuted I felt when I would pick up my dates, I do my best to make my daughter’s suitors feel even worse. My motto: wilt them in the living room and they’ll stay wilted all night."So," I’ll call out jovially. "I see you have your nose pierced. Is that because you’re stupid, or did you merely want to APPEAR stupid?"As a dad, I have some basic rules, which I have carved into two stone tablets that I have on display in my living room.

Rule One - If you pull into my driveway and honk you’d better be delivering a package, because you’re sure as heck not picking anything up.

Rule Two - You do not touch my daughter in front of me. You may glance at her, so long as you do not peer at anything below her neck. If you cannot keep your eyes or hands off of my daughter’s body, I will remove them.

Rule Three - I am aware that it is considered fashionable for boys of your age to wear their trousers so loosely that they appear to be falling off their hips. Please don’t take this as an insult, but you and all of your friends are complete idiots. Still, I want to be fair and open minded about this issue, so I propose this compromise: You may come to the door with your underwear showing and your pants ten sizes too big, and I will not object. However, In order to assure that your clothes do not, in fact, come off during the course of your date with my daughter, I will take my electric staple gun and fasten your trousers securely in place around your waist.

Rule Four - I’m sure you’ve been told that in today’s world, sex without utilizing a "barrier method" of some kind can kill you. Let me elaborate: when it comes to sex, I am the barrier, and I WILL kill you.

Rule Five - In order for us to get to know each other, we should talk about sports, politics, and other issues of the day. Please do not do this. The only information I require from you is an indication of when you expect to have my daughter safely back at my house, and the only word I need from you on this subject is "early."

Rule Six - I have no doubt you are a popular fellow, with many opportunities to date other girls. This is fine with me as long as it is okay with my daughter. Otherwise, once you have gone out with my little girl, you will continue to date no one but her until she is finished with you. If you make her cry, I will make YOU cry.

Rule Seven - As you stand in my front hallway, waiting for my daughter to appear, and more than an hour goes by, do not sigh and fidget. If you want to be on time for the movie, you should not be dating. My daughter is putting on her makeup, a process which can take longer than painting the Golden Gate Bridge. Instead of just standing there, why don’t you do something useful, like changing the oil in my car?

Rule Eight - The following places are not appropriate for a date with my daughter: Places where there are beds, sofas, or anything softer than a wooden stool. Places lacking parents, policemen, or nuns. Places where there is darkness. Places where there is dancing, holding hands, or happiness. Places where the ambient temperature is warm enough to induce my daughter to wear shorts, tank tops, midriff T-shirts, or anything other than overalls, a sweater, and a goose down parka zipped up to her chin. Movies with a strong romantic or sexual theme are to be avoided; movies which feature chainsaws are okay. Hockey games are okay.

My daughter claims it embarrasses her to come downstairs and find me attempting to get her date to recite these eight simple rules from memory. I’d be embarrassed too—-there are only eight of them, for crying out loud! And, for the record, I did NOT suggest to one of these cretins that I’d have these rules tattooed on his arm if he couldn’t remember them. (I checked into it and the cost is prohibitive.) I merely told him that I thought writing the rules on his arm with a ball point might be inadequate-—ink washes off-—and that my wood burning set was probably a better alternative.One time, when my wife caught me having one of my daughter’s would-be suitors practice pulling into the driveway, get out of the car, and go up to knock on the front door (he had violated rule number one, so I figured he needed to run through the drill a few dozen times) she asked me why I was being so hard on the boy. "Don’t you remember being that age?" she challenged.Of course I remember. Why do you think I came up with the eight simple rules?"

Another One From Work

Here is a new one for Work section.

An older gentleman called and advised he was not able receive his mail. I first asked if he was able to dial up and get a connection. He said no because he was using the line that we were talking on. I asked him if he was able to connect when he was not using the line and he said no because it said his user name and password was incorrect. So after we established the fact that it was his connection and not his email, I attempted to have him change the user name and password through the internet options under the control panel, but he could not get there. Come to find out he had windows 95. Uggg,! I have a 60 plus year old man who knows nothing about computers and does not want to listen, and a windows product the is so obsolete even I don't know how to work with it. I told him to close every thing that he was in and said immediately that he had done this. Surprised I asked him to click on his start button. He said he could not because he closed everything. I asked him what he saw on his screen, he said the screen was black. I told him to turn his computer back on and he immediately said it was up and going. He had turned his monitor off. Another UGGGGG! I finally got him to bring up his dial up screen and had him retype his password, he still could not get it right. After talking to one other Tech's on two separate occasions. We finally just changed the password in our system to the one that he was trying to use. He finally got connected.

Arena Football

On the 30th, we are gonna make a trip to Austin to see an Arena Football game. Its a fascinating twist to the traditional games we see during the NFL season. My wife's Aunt's, Brother, coaches the Philadelphia Soul, owned by Bon Jovi! We look forward to our this trip every year (and it doesn't cost that much either!)

They even have their own cheerleaders, known as Soulmates!

And check this out! The rules and basics are much different than regular football.

Amazing enough, 2005 "Winners of the Conference Championship Games advance to ArenaBowl XIX Las Vegas". ArenaBowl XVIII proved to be a record breaker!

This is a cool commercial!

Update: We had to cancel the trip due to the repairs that need to be made on our new house. More on that in the next post!

As promised, for the first time in years we had a snow man!

Fire Truck Brewery

I was watching Monster Garage , where they were building a Fire Truck Brewery. Pretty cool idea I thought!

There were a few bits of trivia thrown in. One involving the Pilgrams and Beer, seemed the most interesting.

The Best Webcomics of 2004

Im not much into length comics strips but found this site: The Best Webcomics of 2004. Searching through them I found several groaners, some "ok" ers and then a few long ones like this one. Why I got into it I have no clue but have to check back to see how it ends.

Joke of the Month

The Man and the Jar

There was once this guy who liked to travel from pub to pub across the countryside. One day, he came up to a pub he had never heard of. He went inside and sat at the bar. "What’ll it be?" asked the bartender. "A beer thanks, but what’s that jar?" he said pointing up to a jar on the top shelve. "Well, anyone who can drink it wins the collected prize money, which stands at around $80 right now." said the bartender. "What’s in it?" the man asked. "Used to be a spittoon, everyone spat in the thing as a joke and now were looking for a brave man." The man looked around at all the people watching attentively, "No that’s a bit much for me I think." Then suddenly people from in the pub started betting money on it. "Come on! Give it a go!" said people from the bar. Before the man knew it the bet had gone up to $500! The bartender brought the jar down from its shelve. People by then were yelling and chanting for the guy to do it.Then with consideration, "I’ll drink it!" said the man. Screams of encouragement came from all around. He unscrewed the top of the jar and picked it up off the bar. Everyone in the pub fell silent. The man lifted it to his mouth and started drinking it. The sight was horrible! People everywhere were looking at him drinking all the flem and couldn’t believe it. "Stop, its making me feel ill!" said one of the people in the bar. Then other people started yelling out, begging the man to stop, but he didn’t! "Don’t worry about the money, we’ll give it all to you, just stop drinking it!!!" came from the audience of patrons. But he didn’t stop!Finally, he had finished it, and dropped the jar onto the floor. People in the pub were vomiting and dizzy. One then came up to the man, "Why didn’t you stop, I said we would give you the money!" The man, green in the face looked up and said, "I couldn’t – it was all one piece!"

Girl Scout Cookies On Their Way!

The Girl Scouts are on the loose and ready to sell the infamous cookies. My 7 year old daughter is on the go and in under a week already sold over 200 boxes and expecting to sell more. Last Saturday, we walked to about 5 houses of people we knew and already sold her quota of 40 boxes, something we thought we would have to fight for. (The small town we live in only has a population of about 12,000 people. )

Then we had people coming out of their homes begging us to sell to them as we walked home. My daughter was very over joyed by the fact that it had only been one day and accomplished so much. Then of course, mom and dad had to help out and talk it up at the office. Boy howdy, did that get a response. A couple of days and a few more walks around the neighborhood, the orders just poured in. The most my daughter sold to one person was 16 boxes, (I think, maybe more) Its incredible.

The last date for sales is Jan 20th and the delivery of the cookie is during the 1st week of February.

So if there is anyone that wants to purchase any you are welcome to email me at stollett(a)wirelessfrontier.net and we can make payment and shipping arrangements.

Its for Brownie Troop # 102, Fort Stockton, TX.

Blogging = Termination of Job?

Here is another "What the Hell!" I am beginning to think I should name the blog that!

Jack, a fellow blogger, posted this on his site. I happen to notice some links on the right about being fired for blogging. This woman was fired for posting "inappropriate pictures in uniform on the Web." She was employed by Delta Air Lines, by the way!

The Bloggers' Rights Blog also gives a list "of organizations that have fired, threatened, disciplined, fined or not hired people because of their blogs"

I for one post several things about the company I work for and only believe it to be free publicity. I do not, in anyway, wish to bring offence to anyone there or want to harm its integrity. (For God's sake, they are the one's signing my pay check, and maybe giving me a pay raise in a few months.) [smiling real big and winking a few times!]

Yes my boss will be reading this tomorrow, I am sure. Just remember, your the greatest!

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UPDATE! I did a little more looking around, thanks to the post from governor who also posted comments on the situation, and found that the pictures were a little more than just casual photos. I still do not think it is grounds for termination but........ Click here to go to her blog

Maybe I should do more research before I post!

New Virus

I had one of the people we associate with IM me today and a say that she heard all over the news that this new computer virus is compromising the the boot up of Windows. Its horrible and must be taken care of....bla bla bla (I am not questioning her integrity, just her panic.) She said that CNN had a big story on it and it was world wide. I searched CNN's web site and only found this at the bottom of the page. I haven't seen anything else that would indicate a wide spread virus. So I did as she suggested and ended up downloading the new Windows Update. I closed my Outlook and got a message saying that the file "Normal already existed in Word" and would I like to save the changes in template file?????" What the hell is up with that.

Then, when I just Knew I had to check for the virus, I opened Norton and it stated that I must reinstall it. WTF. I did that, (Stupid OR What?) After all that, in between reboots, I searched for some answers but found none. I closed everything, and finished reinstalling Norton and I gave up and went home. I attempted to access my computer to check on the status like normal and It would not let me. Again, WTF! I know that its the security bull shit, But DAMN!!!!! I just about give up.....But, on second thought, isn't that what they want you to do! Hmmmm!

New Trial for Andrea Yates, Law and Order to Blame?

"Andrea Yates, the Texas woman convicted of drowning her children in a bathtub, was granted a new trial by an appeals court in Houston yesterday. The court ruled that a prosecution expert's false testimony about the television program "Law & Order" required a retrial.".....


......"On cross-examination, Dr. Dietz was asked about his work as a consultant on "Law & Order," a program Ms. Yates, the appeals court said, "was known to watch." He was asked whether any of the episodes he had worked on concerned "postpartum depression or women's mental health."

"As a matter of fact," he answered, "there was a show of a woman with postpartum depression who drowned her children in the bathtub and was found insane, and it was aired shortly before the crime occurred."

That statement was false: There was no such episode. The falsehood was discovered after the jury convicted Ms. Yates."
Read More Here...

How About Something Different

Chum has a down to earth blog and has a interesting song playing while you read it. The song is called "Wag na Wag Mong Sasabihin", meaning " Don't you ever tell" per Chum. Its different than what I'm used to but pleasant. She says that it Filipino and the words are on the right about half way down her blog. Is very interesting.

Happy New Year

I needed to add something to my blog that lists some of the best of 2004, So I chose the funniest Commercials. (from this site http://www.fimoculous.com/year-review-2004.cfm )

The Brand New Year

We had a great time on new years. We had a few friends over, ate lasagna for dinner and drank, a lot. I personally drank a half bottle of Wild Turkey, beer and several shots of Te-Kill-Ya. We even bought fireworks and braved the cops by shooting them off in front of the house. Tim has some bottle rickets, which of course are illegal in Texas. I found out why they are illegal because our stupid asses fired them off in our hands, and almost hit a few cars. I haven't done any crazy shit like that in years!

As for New years day, Shelly made a pot roast and then we spent the rest of our time taking down our Christmas decor.

Since that is over and done with, its time to set up the deal on our new house. Hopefully we can get it done this week. We'll see.