Friday, June 5, 2009
One of my all-time favorite re-do's of a famous poster. I've seen Smokey the Bear nearly all my life, but never like this.
Did you know that Smokey has a theme song?
It's catchy.
sold: for $1
Friday, March 13, 2009
Okay, I just have to put my 2 cents in on this one.
I just glanced at an article that the AP put out about a couple in Long Island, N.Y. who just got a great bargain on a house designed by some famous architect.
At first I thought it was a great thing to happen to a couple that needs it. but in further reading you find that the couple that got this bargain own a dermatology clinic together and plan to use this bargain as a "guest cottage".
I just figured that with the economy as it is today, that this "bargain" could have gone to a much needier family, rather than to some rich couple to use as their "guest cottage".
starting off okay
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
I woke up a little later than usuall this morning, not feeling so hot, but I began the day as normal as possible. I got Tabitha up and got her off to school in time, and even though I was running late, I needed to get my coffee. (some things I must have in the mornings)
Countdown
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
5 hrs 59 mins until 2009
I guess I'm supposed to be excited, but I'm really not looking forward to another year.
Guess i'll just have to make do.
Palm treo
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
I'm testing out my new palm treo. This was my fav christmas gift.
1PM Wait 'Til She Launches Into "There's No Business Like Flow Business"
Employee, singing on the way down the hall: I need to change my tammmmmponnnnn
Coalinga, California
via Overheard in the Office, Dec 26, 2008
Pondering
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
I figured that I had better write something here or this blog might dissappear into the unknown universe.
I recieved a letter from "T" last night. He's doing well and he asked about Brit and how the family was doing. He seems to be in good spirits, given the curcumstances, I hope to see him sometime before we meet our eternal ends.
Tabitha's doing well in school, but her teenage attitude is starting to show through, doesn't scare me, but it makes me wonder where she's headed. what lies in store for her down the road of teenage-ville.
Christmas is only 21 days away.... I can't wait, I've already started playing my favorite christmas music around the house while decorating.
Update
Friday, November 7, 2008
Still not much going on in our lives, Tabitha's doing good in school, I'm still working most of the time and don't have much time for anything else.
Thought I would make an update here so that I know that I'm still alive at this point in my life.
Walk in the park
Friday, September 12, 2008
One Month.
That's how long it's been since I've been able to do any yardwork outside my house. The rain has been relentless in it's efforts and I've not had enough time away from work to do anything when the weather permitted me to. So today, I saw an opportunity and I took it. I told the boss, "Look, if I don't mow my yard today, I'll need a purchase order for a bush-hog to get to work tomorrow."
He said to make sure I didn't kill any animals on the endangered species list.
Catch that fly
Monday, August 25, 2008
Sitting here watching my cat for the last hour attempt to catch a fly has made me come to the realization that we are all just wondering around trying to catch flies.
We get up everyday and goto work. Why? To catch flies.
Pet Peeves
Thursday, August 21, 2008
1. If you ask me technical questions please don'’t argue with me because you don'’t like my answer. If you think you know more about the topic, why ask? And if I'’m arguing with you'…it'’s because I am positive that I am correct, otherwise I'’d just say '“I don'’t know'” or give you some tips on where to look it up, I don'’t have the time to just argue for the sake of it.
2. Starting a conversation by insulting yourself (i.e. '“I'’m such an idiot'”) will not make me laugh, or feel sorry for you; all it will do is remind me that yes, you are an idiot and that I am going to hate having to talk to you. Trust me; you don'’t want to start a call that way.
3. I am ok with you making mistakes, fixing them is my job. I am not ok with you lying to me about a mistake you made. It makes it much harder to resolve and thus makes my job more difficult. Be honest and we can get the problem resolved and continue on with our business.
4. There is no magic '“Fix it'” button. Everything takes some amount of work to fix, and not everything is worth fixing or even possible to fix. If I say that you just need to re-do a document that you accidentally deleted 2 months ago, please don'’t get mad at me. I'’m not ignoring your problem, and it'’s not that I don'’t like you, I just cant always fix everything.
5. Not everything you ask me to do is '“urgent'”. In fact, by marking things as '“urgent'” every time, you almost ensure that I treat none of it as a priority.
6. You are not the only one who needs help, and you usually don'’t have the most urgent issue. Give me some time to get to your problem, it will get fixed.
7. Emailing me several times about the same issue in the same day is not only unnecessary, it'’s highly annoying. Emails will stay until I delete them, I won'’t delete them until I'’m done with them. I will typically respond as soon as I have a useful update. If it is an urgent issue, let me know (see number 5).
8. Yes, I prefer email over telephone calls. It has nothing to do with being friendly, it'’s about efficiency. It is much faster and easier for me to list out a set of questions that I need you to answer than it is for me to call and ask you them one by one. You can find the answers at your leisure and while I'’m waiting I can work on other problems.
9. Yes, I seem blunt and rude. It'’s not that I mean to, I just don'’t have the time to sugar coat things for you. I assume we are both adults and can handle the reality of a problem. If you did something wrong, I will tell you. I don'’t care that it was a mistake, because it really makes no difference to me. Don'’t take it personal, I just don'’t want it to happen again.
10. And finally, yes, I can read your email, I can see what web pages you look at while you are at work, yes, I can access every file on your work computer, and I can tell if you are chatting with people on an instant messenger or chat room (and can also read what you are typing). But no, I don'’t do it. It'’s unethical, I'’m busy, and in all reality you aren'’t all that interesting. So unless I am instructed to specifically monitor or investigate your actions, I don'’t. There really are much more interesting things on the internet than you.
B$ days
Monday, August 18, 2008
All I can say is...WOW!
The shot above is the valuation of my blog "Mr. Reed". It has come a long way in such a short time thanks to Rene Franco and Aliens Corp. and Sage Enterprise [PC]. They have both been a tremendous help to me.
Well today my daughter started back to school. The first day of school, for me, when I was growing up was always exciting. Today it seems as though kids don't get excited about much of anything anymore. I asked my daughter if she was ready for school to start and for the past several weeks her answer has been something to the effect of "not really" or "maybe".
This morning she woke me up at 4:30am "Daddy, is it time for the bus to get here yet?"
(edit:) I forgot to give thanks to all the Renegade Players and the Renegade Corp., without whom this valuation increase could not have been possible.
Man's existence has been explained.
Thursday, August 14, 2008
The best explination that I've heard in a long time:
God created the donkey and said to him:
"You will be a donkey. You will work un-tirringly from sunrise to sunset carrying burdens on your back. You will eat grass, you will have no intelligence and you will live 50 years "
The donkey answered:
"I will be a donkey, but to live 50 years is much. Give me only 20 years" God granted his wish.God created the dog and said to him:
"You will guard the house of man. You will be his best friend. You will eat the scraps that he gives you and you will live 30 years. You will be a dog."
The dog answered:
"Sir, to live 30 years is too much, give me only 15 years." God granted his wish. God created the monkey and said to him:
"You will be a monkey. You will swing from branch to branch doing tricks. You will be amusing and you will live 20 years."
The monkey answered:
"To live 20 years is too much, give me only 10 years." God granted his wish. Finally God created man and said to him :
"You will be man, the only rational creature on the face of the earth. You will use your intelligence to become master over all the animals. You will dominate the world and you will live 20 years."
Man responded:
"Sir, I will be a man but to live only 20 years is very llittle, give me the 30 years that the donkey refused, the 15 years that the dog did not want and the 10 years the monkey refused." God granted man's wish....
And since then, man lives 20 years as a man marries and spends 30 years like a donkey, working and carrying all the burdens on his back. Then when his children are grown,he lives 15 years like a dog taking care of the house and eating whatever is given to him,so that when he is old, he can retire and live 10 years like a monkey, going from house to house and from one son or daughter to another doing tricks to amuse his grandchildren.
