We won’t be posting for a week or two while some carpentry is accomplished on some structural members.
Considering the fact that the daily average number of visitors here is 13, that shouldn’t leave too great a hole in the blogosphere.
Anticipated posting absence is 10 to 14 days.
Meanwhile, I do hope the Supreme Court gives some thought on historic matters and applies them constitutionally to the current case before it. First day of arguments was today.
Interesting cleaning techniques.
In my youth, working on aircraft, I learned of the practice of cleaning jet engines with crushed walnut shells, a practice I understand that has been pretty much been overcome by technology.
And now in my, uh, shall I say more senior years, I learned tonight that running old MRI, CT Scan, and X-Ray films through a shredder does a pretty good job of cleaning the shredder cutters.
The shredder is a typical crosscut paper shredder that claims to handle seven sheets of paper at a time. That is of course as likely as getting the sticker rating gas mileage on a car — four sheets is about the max load unless I want to hear some real motorized groaning during an elongated shredding process.
before I’m in jail again.
Well, it seems an apt comparison anyway.
L3-4, and L5-S1. More of same. Again. Yet. Still. Crap.
Think poked, prodded, stuck, cut, and ripped, sometimes without knowing it until the after-effects occur, and sometimes while fully awake and able to savor the present-time effects.
Think eating what and only when allowed by others, and the world should know I HATE GREEN JELL-O!! But compared to everything else it’s like a mite on the earth’s behind.
From Orlando Sentinel.com
Royal Caribbean, Celebrity will refund customers fuel surcharge
posted by Jason Garcia on Mar 10, 2008 6:18:17 PM
Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum will announce a settlement tomorrow with Miami-based Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. and subsidiary Celebrity Cruises Inc. in which the cruise lines will refund $21 million worth of fuel surcharges that the companies levied even after travelers booked their vacations.
I don’t think it much of a stretch to use a person’s choice of friends, advisors, and mentors to make judgments about how that person thinks presently and how that person is likely to think and judge in the future. After all, those are chosen influences on one’s life. I remember counseling young airmen in years past, and in defense of their excessive use of alcohol they quite often told me, “Well, everybody I know does it.” OK, well, maybe you just need to chose others with whom to spend your time and you’ll realize your behavior is not really the norm in society. You have simply chosen your friends and examples poorly.
Let’s first address the quote that sat me back in my chair.
“Good afternoon,” he said. His voice was deep and velvety. “I am your disease. I am depression, alcoholism, addiction, whatever applies to you. I hate you. I want you dead. I want you in misery, broke and begging for death. I want to break up your marriage, make you lose your house, your kids, your job and your dignity. I laugh when you despair. I rejoice when you cry in agony. I despise your higher being and your AA meetings and your wretched twelve steps. I want every part of you, to drag you down until you have nothing left. And then I want some more. I am pleased when you are in pain, I am pleased when you are mere moments away from taking your own life. This is what I thrive on.”
Ambulance Driver has a really nice story of what happened in a class he was teaching today and it’s very much worth a read.
If you want to know more about father and daughter, and I submit they are a pair worth knowing more about, head back to his archives and read a bit. Do it either from his left column after you read the latest article here, or from my “Suggested Others” over on the left, here.
I missed the opportunity to meet them when they came to Disney last year, but that miss shall hopefully not happen again.
Way to go, folks. Officers and enlisted, from operational reports to personal agenda, you’ve pretty much covered all the territory.
Good grief.
11 Aboard Navy Sub Disciplined for Fraud, Cheating
Saturday, March 08, 2008
SAN DIEGO — Eleven officers and sailors from a San Diego-based Navy submarine have been disciplined for falsifying tests on a nuclear reactor and cheating on officer advancement exams.
A Navy report released Friday said crew members of the attack sub Hampton falsified weekly chemical tests as far back as November 2006. The tests involved the highly pure water used to cool the sub’s reactor.
No, that’s not a typo. It is massage, not message.
Hey, if you’re in the Morgan Hill area of California and want a massage, drop by
Massage Envy Morgan Hill
1049 Cochrane Rd Suite 150
Morgan Hill CA 95037
Don’t know Morgan Hill?
Think south of San Jose.
Opening on the 12th, tell ‘em Bob sent ‘ya. Won’t get you anything, but I like doing that just to see the reaction sometimes.
Best of luck in the new venture to Jeff and Danielle.
The corporate site is here.
Mascots
When in high school I was a stage manager for each of those years. That got me into all sorts of maybe-related-maybe-not activities. One stands out in my mind and I was reminded of it a little while ago, thanks to one of my sons sending me a URL link with the suggestion, “Thought this might interest you…”
In those days Holy Cross High School was virtually unbeatable at wrestling within the state of Louisiana and was a football powerhouse. The football mascot was a tiger. We were the Holy Cross Tigers, and I say “we” because, I was for a time the tiger, well hidden from personal identification by a hot and heavy canvas/burlap/SOS-pad/sandpaper lining, covered with a pretty good looking tiger outfit.
Our first one:
“Olympic excess” is probably my best phrase I can apply to it (a smidgen short of fraud, waste, and abuse).
Remember all the hullabaloo (that’s not over yet) about some foreign governments telling London to go pee up a rope regarding their congestion tax (uh, “fee”? “surcharge”? whatever…) And the discussions about air quality, global warming, et al.?
Well, imagine what it will be like on those London (and other locations’) streets during the Olympics of 2012 after the inevitable geometric explosion in the number of busses faces the limos, and not just a few limos, either, and not existing limos, but new, additional ones.
Go here to get a free card from the postal folks. May as well get something back from them, right?
You get a free greeting card that you select online and you can even upload a picture for embedding in the card. The picture can be rotated to fit, too.
The card is then mailed to you, free, and you can hand scribe a note if you wish.
Then you mail the card to your choice of addressee, also free.
Not too comfortable with the ever increasing collection of things that need to be secured, and already having run out of space to do it, I’ve purchased a new safe, and I’m patting myself on the back for my selection, though Zack had a bit to do with it. I gave him my parameters, asked for a recommendation, and his suggestion was one of the two I’d pretty much settled on already after some research and comparison shopping.
Ordered on Wednesday and received the following Tuesday (shipped from South Carolina to Central Florida), the result is a newly installed Diamond Back model GS5922L-E safe, part of the Cobalt line of safes.
Another performer, wouldn’t ya’ know…
From Times Online, March 3, 2008:
Marion Cotillard ‘in shock’ over 9/11 row, but will not apologise
Marion Cotillard, the Oscar-winning French actress, will not apologise over remarks she made describing the 9/11 attacks as a conspiracy and believes that the comments had been taken out of context and misunderstood.
Cotillard, who won the Best Actress statuette last week for her portrayal of Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose, has claimed that the September 11 atrocity had been orchestrated by the owners of the Twin Towers.
See the Evening Standard for the full article, and be sure to read Mayoral Candidate Am’s comment.
US embassy owes £2m in unpaid C-charge bills
Benedict Moore-Bridger
03.03.08The US embassy in London owes more than £2 million in unpaid congestion charge payments, having branded the levy “illegal”.
It heads the list of foreign embassies in London which have resisted the charge, the top 20 of which owe £10million collectively.
Figures released by Transport for London under the Freedom of Information Act show the Japanese embassy is the second worst offender, owing £1,003,300.
The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they will sleep at night.…
and the slight variation,
…I have about made up my mind that laws are like sausages — the less you know about how they are made the more respect you have for them.
…(Attributed to Winston_Churchill, Benjamin_Disraeli, Clarence_Darrow, Mark_Twain, Kaiser Wilhelm, and Otto von Bismarck, among others.)
So, in preparation for my next spine surgery, I’m looking up a wee tidbit of information and come across what seems to be an interesting link.
Saturday night I was at Universal Studios Orlando for their Mardi Gras parade and festivities, VERY much diluted from the real thing.
Afterward, passing behind the crowd at a concert, I head a musician introduced.
He tells the audience he is/was in the Air Force, did 2 tours in Iraq, and is from Orlando. At each revelation the audience wildly applauds. Not impressed by self-inflaters, especially performers, I kept moving.
Then he asked everyone to stand for the National Anthem, as he launches into his Jimmi Hendrix-like version of the most raucous rendition of The Star Spangled Banner I’ve heard in a long time.
In a post 911 world, America cannot afford to have a president whose name is forbidden to be spoken for fear of reprisal from those who are reminded of his early religious training. And it cannot have a president who is reluctant to utter the name of a fellow candidate because he doesn’t want to appear to be drawing a negative connection between that man and a mad dictator who put people feet first through plastic shredders and gassed thousands of others.
Read here.
A new and very different conference on global warming will be held in New York City, under the sponsorship of the Heartland Institute, on March 2nd to March 4th — weather permitting.
I’ve been waiting for over a week to read all about this conference in the mainstream media and to see interviews of attendees on the boob tube, but not much has been forthcoming.
Looks like only one side of Goredoom gets the coverage.
Read Thomas Sowell here.
And the one before that,
and the one before that,
and the one before that,
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