RRRRUUuuuuuuucyyyy!!!

I hoooome.

Early again as you can see on the timestamp.
That's because were caught up on bury drops for the extra large-and-beurecratic cable company I sub for.
I don't *really* mind getting on the minus side of $200 a day for 5 hours work, but I have to look for the extra jobs. I'm only getting 4-5 assigned now, so I have to know where to look for cable that's exposed. I guess it's a good thing the gas dept. taught me to look at my stuff as I drive past it. ...And the fact that I've done so much underground utility work that I can almost *see* an inch through dirt...

Anyway, I'm home. I almost got into three wrecks on the way to work today, and guess what they were all doing???!!!!!!?????
--C'mon, guess.
--Really, take a wild @ss guess at what they were doing instead of driving.



...........guess..........





Did anyone guess that they were jacking their f*cking jaws on a telephone?
You should have, because every one of them were too busy to even fucking LOOK before they changed lanes.

I guess that's what put me in the mood to *see* a cable at my last drop. I was in her yard at a pedestal and she came flying into the back yard:

Yankee: Waddaya doooin in my baaaack yawd!!?!!?

Me: Hi ma'am, I'm with (Large Cable Co.) burying a cable from your neighbors to this ped.
Me: I rang the doorbell before I came back, but I guess you weren't home.

Yankee: No, I heard it. I don't have to answer for every doofus -->>that's Me :-D<<-- that rings the bell. Why do you have to put that there? Why didn't the guy who was here Sunday do that?
Are you going to kill more of my grass (the St. Augustine grass was as good as I'd seen it in the shade of all the trees) because my husband will want to tear someone a new one if it gets any worse.

Me: No Ma'am, I'm going to hand dig in this bare area right under these two Oleanders to the ped, won't take me more than 10 minutes.

Yankee: That's awwl yer gonna doo? How do I know your not going to kill dose bushes too?

Me: *I just made myself another $17 on you lady and I don't care if you have cable or not*
All I'm going to do is dig a trench about two inches deep and cover the cable, so it's out of the way.

Yankee: Well them bushes better not die. That house has been there for a long time, why are youse replacing it now?

Me: Because sometimes they go bad, especially with all the rain we've had.

Yankee: Can't choo move dat green thing?

Me: No ma'am, you need to call the cable co. and see if you can sweet-talk them into it. *Fat chance*

As I was finishing up, I re-buried some of her side neighbors cable, too and ended up with three drops in a little more than an hour.

Good frigging grief

Now we have the latest example of just how *good* we have it here in America, ok- how about the first world?

We don't have to worry about where out next meal is comming from, or where we'll be able to sleep safly tonight. We don't watch people we love dropping like flies from preventable disease, or living conditions.

We DO, however have our public watch dogs ready so sound the alarm at the slightest blip in normality. This time it's the dangers of micro wave popcorn fumes! That's right kiddies, that bowl of nice, freshly popped popcorn could (just possibly, if everything was juuuuust right) give you a lung disease.

Consumers, not just factory workers, may be in danger from fumes from buttery flavoring in microwave popcorn, according to a warning letter to federal regulators from a doctor at a leading lung research hospital.

A pulmonary specialist at Denver's National Jewish Medical and Research Center has written to federal agencies to say doctors there believe they have the first case of a consumer who developed lung disease from the fumes of microwaving popcorn several times a day for years.

"We cannot be sure that this patient's exposure to butter flavored microwave popcorn from daily heavy preparation has caused his lung disease," cautioned Dr. Cecile Rose. "However, we have no other plausible explanation."
Ok, so did he live on the stuff? Did he stick his nose in it and inhale every time it came out of the oven?


Are you sure that at one time in his life, he didn't walk past a smoker? You people are always telling us (without the numbers- I notice) that even a sniff of secondhand smoke will increase the chance of cancer by so many percentage points.

More rain

It's like we got set over in England, or something.
Everything is green.
The mosquitoes are out in force and the earth sticks to everything.
I came home early because I got tired of scrapping 5 pounds of dirt of of anything I used to dig or fill in a cable trench.
Including my boots, I couldn't even push enough dirt in to fill a 2" deep scrape and cover the cable- the majority would stick to my boot.
Not to even think about trying to tamp that sticky stuff.


I saw an Isuzu pick-up on the way home, sure looked like the Chevy Colorado and I was wondering if they were the same with different badges.
I went on the Isuzu page, but didn't find any with auto trans, so I guess not. My shoulder (that the MRI says is fine) gives me trouble once in a while, so I don't want to have to be shifting all the time if I don't have to.

In the weather front, I see American tourists are starting to flee the Mexican coast ahead of Felix.
I see that and have to wonder WHY would Americans spend their money going all the way to Mexico to see trashy, crowded run-down slums and hear that damme Mariachi music blaring all over when they could save money and hop over to their nearest 'little Mexico' and get the entire third world experience close to home.

I also see that the Peoples Democratic Republic of Califoristan is running short of electricity----again. I guess they'll have to ne-imagine another "5 year Plan"...or maybe use electricity that comes from those *EVIL* C02 emitting power plants.

Which wasn't even mentioned in the arcticle.
I wonder if anyone in Sacramento is affected by their 'environmentally correct' stand, or is it just the great unwashed that has to live with the results of Liberal policy?

Flash PSA

From the department of the blindingly obvious....

Guys and girls have a completely different view of what kissing means.

They also found out that:

The questionnaires revealed men were less discriminating when it came to deciding who to kiss or who to have sex with.
They were more willing to have sex with someone without kissing, to have sex with someone they are not attracted to and agree to have sex with someone they considered to be a bad kisser.

Ummm, guys- next time yopu want to spread some of that money around on studying the real world, look me up.
I'll be glad to use your money for 'research'.

When something sounds too good to be true,,

It usually is, right?

Is that why I smell something fishy about a 2 wheel drive Chevy Colorado with a Z-71 off road package?
At only $5100 (now) for an '06 with less than 10K miles on e-bay?

Why do I think the seller has an (east) Indian accent?

I wonder

Why I got so many hits from a Google group that has this for a description?

Description: Focused on historical media which depicts men, their lifestyles, culture, and sexual fortitude! To join, you must have an appreciation of all things historical as well as pornographic! When requesting membership, please state that you are of legal age, and welcome!

I don't think I have any antique pr()n on the blog...do I?

Also, just for you Googlers looking for hurricane Felix, he's a Cat 4 now, and it looks like he'll be following Dean. You might want to try searching for National Hurricane Center or NOAA hurricanes.

Thoughts on shopping

I got back from our Wally-world (semi)superstore a while ago.
Some things I noticed:

• It only takes two foreign speaking women and a cart to entirely block a main aisle.
• It only takes one woman and a cart to block a normal aisle.
• To some people, shopping is a demolition derby.
• You want to try getting shopping finished before church lets out.
• You'd think some one in charge would schedule more than two checkers on a major holiday weekend.

Dove season opened here yesterday, except for the section south of HWY 90, which is why I only heard guns north of the parking lot. I'm sure dove is good eating, but isn't it like not worth the effort? They're not big birds anyway, and you have to bone them and dig out the shot, for what- 10 minutes and a piece of meat as big as your thumb? AND you always miss some shot.
I'm not against shooting them, but for me it's not worth the money or getting up that early- I'd rather sit on my back porch and rid the world of wild pigs.

Happy V-J Day!

Ohhhh.........

How.........interesting.

Guess where our next gas price increase is coming from?

T.S. Felix is now cat. 2 hurricane Felix.
And just when I was starting to find a use for the extra $20 a week I had from lowering gas prices.

I guess the programmers are off this week-end

So we're treated to a marathon Dr. Who thing.
I watched this version at the E.M. club bar every afternoon while homeported in Gulfport, Ms.

This was the only Dr. Who I knew. I thought it was kinda weird -in a cool way- but it was British, so it had to be as cool as Benny Hill or Monty Python...right?


And any of you autdiophiles might be interested in the *how's* of the original BBC series,

Ok guys

Now it's time to do the eyewash thing and remember I put that up for a GIRL.
This is to help get back on track:


Ok, you can't even say alcohal was involved in this stupid stunt


...and TANKS!

Ok Becca

Just because I'm a nice guy, and you're in pain.

Guy candy for crips:

Rhianna noticed something

She mentioned it the other day.
I was going to mention someething in my usual wonderfully understated and tasteful way.
But I was tired from long days, and just didn't feel like looking for the perfect you-tube, but --NOW-- I think I found it.



I just wonder if she's going to enter the blogontest?

Oh, and by the way

Diana is still dead.

I wonder just what she'd think about the HUGE CARBON FOOTPRINT of all the Libs flying over to extend their condolences.

Isn't Prince Charles one of the forerunners in the global warming extraviganza over there?

Is the Mass- or whatever the Church of England holds- over yet?

I did 60%

Which, considering that some H.S. grads are pretty much functuionally illiterate isn't bad.

How many of the "Must reads" have you read?

And NO, movies don't count!

Oh, in case you didn't know

Today is the second anniversary of hurricaine Katie, trying to clean the toilet.

Are you tired of hearing the "Gimme, gimme's" yet?

How the Big Easy can't even start to do anything to get going even though they've gotten over 12 BILLION dollars? Not even towing the abandoned vehicles off public roads.

This reminds me of a joke

A burglar broke into a house and as he was searching around, he heard someone say:
"Jesus is watching you."

The burglar asked "Who said that?"

"My name is Moses"

He saw he was talking to a parrot and said "Why would any one name a parrot Moses?"

The parrot said "The same kind of people who name a Rottweiler Jesus."

As the vultures circle

Well, it looks like the Reps are going to lose another one due to stupidity.

As you probably have already heard (too much already), Sen. Craig is getting blasted for "questionable" judgement.

He ought to throw everyone into a fit by announcing he's gay and dammed proud, then challenging anyone- especially the Dems to do anything.
Hell, they might even give him a standing O like they did with Barny Frank and his gay prostitution ring.

Ahhhh, *now* I understand

Why we have to press #1 for Anglis.

And here I was thinking they were just too f'ing lazy to learn.
I guess it also explains their abysmal school marks.

Obama! Obama!

He's our man!

If he can't fix N'awlins

No one can!

Go B.H.O!

Ol' Preacher Barry was on the pulpit in N'awlins telling them that in spite of being a Democratic stronghold in a Democratic state, that it was somehow Bush's responsibility to 'fix' all the ingrained social problems there.

Obama, whose day began at First Emanuel Baptist Church, said that long before Katrina, the nation had failed to lift up New Orleans, a city with persistent struggles such as poverty and poor public schools. He said that cannot happen again and that Americans have a "collective responsibility" to each other.

"Racial discord, poverty, the old divisions of black and white, rich and poor, it's time to leave that to yesterday," he said.

"In rebuilding, we've got an opportunity to do more than put up a foundation that for too long failed the people of New Orleans," he told congregants. Some snapped photos of him at the pulpit with their cell phones.
That's right, it's OUR fault that N'awlins is in the state it's in.

And, naturally he wants to throw our money at the Dem's in charge to 'fix' what they've institutionalized.
He outlined a plan he said would help restore the region by:

_providing grants for community policing in New Orleans, which has struggled with violence since Katrina; Throwing FREE money at corrupt city officials!

_offering incentives such as loan forgiveness programs to try to attract doctors and college students; Yeah, and we can make a show about the quirky residents and call it "southern-exposure"! Too bad no-one thought about it before.

_ensuring displaced residents who want to return have a place to stay; I'm sure most of the cities housing them would like to see them gone, too!

_creating a national catastrophic insurance reserve, which he said would help homeowners struggling with their premiums. Ummm, Allied Van Lines? If they can't afford the insurance, they need to move inland.

At least two other leading Democratic candidates, Hillary Rodham Clinton and John Edwards, also have outlined rebuilding plans and touched on similar themes.
Of course, and it all involves your money being spent on shiftless people supporting the Democrat Socialist lifestyle.

In contrast to the helplessness of ol' Chocolate-boy Nagan and the Democratic controlled statehouse, we have Galveston, Tx's response to the 1900 hurricane...which adjusted to today's money and population, was the most devastating storm in American history.

Despite the unimaginable devastation and what must have been a hard realization that it could happen again, the city immediately began pulling itself out of the mud.

By 10 a.m. Sept. 9, Mayor Walter C. Jones had called emergency city council meetings and by the end of the day had appointed a Central Relief Committee.

Ignoring advice from its sister paper, The Dallas Morning News, that it move temporarily to Houston, The Galveston Daily News continued publishing from the island and never missed an issue. Sept. 9 and 10, 1900, were published together on a single sheet of paper. One side listed the dead. The other reported the devastation of the storm.

In the first week after the storm, according to McComb's book, telegraph and water service were restored. Lines for a new telephone system were being laid by the second.

"In the third week, Houston relief groups went home, the saloons reopened, the electric trolleys began operating and freight began moving through the harbor," McComb wrote.

Residents of Galveston quickly decided that they would rebuild, that the city would survive, and almost as soon, leaders began deciding how it would do so.

The two civil engineering projects leaders decided to pursue - building a seawall and raising the island's elevation - stand today and are almost as great in their scope and effect as the storm itself.

Raising the grade

It's impossible to stand anywhere in the historical parts of Galveston and get exactly the same perspective a viewer would have gotten 100 years ago.

Everything is higher than it was back then, and some spots are much higher.

The feat of raising an entire city began with three engineers hired by the city in 1901 to design a means of keeping the gulf in its place.

Along with building a seawall, Alfred Noble, Henry M. Robert and H.C. Ripley recommended the city be raised 17 feet at the seawall and sloped downward at a pitch of one foot for every 1,500 feet to the bay.

The first task required to translate their vision into a working system was a means of getting more than 16 million cubic yards of sand - enough to fill more than a million dump trucks - to the island, according to McComb.

The solution was to dredge the sand from Galveston's ship channel and pump it as liquid slurry through pipes into quarter-square-mile sections of the city that were walled off with dikes.

Their theory was that as the water drained away the sand would remain.

Before the pumping could begin, all the structures in the area had to be raised with jackscrews. Meanwhile, all the sewer, water and gas lines had to be raised.

McComb wrote that some people even raised gravestones and some tried to save trees, but most of the trees died. In the old city cemeteries along Broadway, some of the graves are three deep because of the grade raising.

The city paid to move the utilities and for the actual grade raising, but each homeowner had to pay to have the house raised.

And how was it paid for you ask?
While Galveston received financial help from the county, state and federal governments, a large portion of the burden had to be carried by the city itself, at the expense of other projects.
mostly by it's self...unlike a certain OTHER city who wants you to pay for everything.

Some things forgotten

I saw the clothespin-gun post at Blogmonicon and although I vaguely remember them I remembered something else from my younger days.

Did you know that a kitchen match, if fired from a BB gun will pop when it hits clothing (or a bony area)? Not that I'd have any firsthand knowledge of that, or anything...



And speaking of things coming out of the dangerous end of a gun, the Dissident frogman has some good tips for any of the Liberal news media that want to report on cartridges hitting an old hag's a frail elderly woman's house in Iraq.

Thanks microsoft

You're giving me more and more reasons to get a Mac next time.

As a PSA, don't install or add anything that needs WGA (Windows validation) until next week...sometime...maybe.

Somehow, the WGA sever is down, and if you try to activate anything, it'll mark your legitimate copy as a pirate:

For those of you doing installations and upgrades this weekend, we recommend that you avoid activation at this time. Remember that you can run Windows legally for 30 days without activating.

If you attempt a validation and it fails, your install may be marked as non-genuine, which could lead to several annoyances. First things first, do not reboot a Windows machine that has been marked as non-genuine. Once you do so, you will lose functionality and the Aero interface. It would be best to wait until this problem has been resolved.

Yep, do the right thing and your computer will only be good for a doorstop.

I'm glad Bill Gates is taking such a proactive approach to something that's been going on for several days now.
We wouldn't want to flood the news with information that could stop computers from going into brick mode,,,when people are doing what you require them to do.

I do have an idea,,,

But I'm sure someone's thought about a Baily bridge.

But that probably wouldn't be worth $27 mil.

Because, ya know..the same engineers that decided to do nothing about the brige in the first place wouldn't want to get something going that didn't cost taxpayers an arm and a leg.

Friday houshold hints

From experts.

Just not in thier field...

In the spirit of using Anne Coulter for campaign donations

John Edwards has taken her 'faggot' comment to a campaign spot near you.


Thanks to Lemuel for catching it.

Interesting concept

Drop a bunch of unsupervised teens and pre-teens off somwhere and see what happens.

c-BS was going to do a reality show about it:

The show, "Kid Nation," which is scheduled to premiere on CBS on Sept. 19, is a reality show whose premise is to take 40 children, ages 8 to 15, and place them in a "ghost town" in New Mexico to see if they can build a working society without the help of adults.

Yeah, we all *know* just how responsible most teens are.
I wonder if their parents had to sign some kind of release for their kids to be there?

But after the production ended in mid-May, the parent of one child in the production complained to state officials that the children's treatment bordered on abuse. Four children received medical treatment for accidentally drinking bleach, one child was burned on her face with hot grease while cooking in an unsupervised kitchen, and most of the children were required to work 14 hours or longer per day. They received a payment of $5,000 for their participation.
And money every time they re-run it, and the chance to work thier way up into *real* stardom.
I was in the Navy. I worked longer for less. So does almost every lower enlisted in the military.

TEST!

Check one.

Check Check.


Check two.

Check check.


Lets try this- it's not your average "Happy-happy joy-joy".......



What? You want more Ren and Stimpy Song mixes?

GRRRRrrrrrrrrr

Blogger is eating posts again!

What are the Vegas odds

That she's already on her way back?

In case you didn't know, the Queen of all illegals got herself deported Sunday.

Now, all the illegals support groups are crying about her being separated from her little bastard son without a known father.

Who just happens to be an anchor baby. because some Liberal juror decided that the part of the 14th Amendment that was meant for ex-slaves needed to be used to push an anti-American agenda.
If she needs her son so badly, and the *race* wants their families to stay together, then deport them all.
Your spouse was/is illegal and you're helping them break the law- follow them back to their third world nation and learn to appreciate what it's like to BE an American.

From the sitemeter

Any of you ladies want to take a stab at answering this?