And keep it subtle, please. Pictures are okay, but if you have to say why, you've probably gone too far. Washington monument, power antennas, Kim Jong Il's Chu Che Tower, the golden arches, right before the eye opens on Bruce Campell's shoulder in Army of Darkness.
Hey there cowboy? Ever have this problem? Out camping in the woods, got a little something extra from the chili......time to go get friendly with a tree and take a load off your....mind. Oh no!!! You forgot to pack the toilet paper. Never fear. Just reach for that constant camper's companion, the north american porcupine. Now I know what you're thinking. A porcupine? Why not go for my old standby, the tail of the red squirrel? Well I'll tell you what, you'd be nuts to use a squirrel.
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After my latest great failed job attempt, I've been looking at jobs again in Iraq. Of these the highest paying is being a merc....I mean security guard. Or wait, let's see, work outside of the government, carry weapons, involved in combat on a regular basis, kill people, that's not a mercenary, right? Risky of course, but people are getting killed for much less over there now, and that 100, 120K would clean out my debt with a lot left over to give me some room when I came back. Very tempt...
Worked on a friend's car, and fixed a stuck relay in a power module (electric switch, basically) for a fuel pump by banging on it. I'm sure I'll have to replace it, but it's working for now. I love working on cars. I've run into this before. One day I got up and went to start my Mustang, nothing. So I pop the hood, try again, and watch as gasoline just starts to literally pour out the top of the carb. I call my dad up. "Okay, you've got some grit or something blocking the float valve."...
I got the Job!!!! I DIDN"T!!! I GOT THE MUSIC POSITION ON LONG ISLAND!!!!! I DIDN'T GET THE ONE HERE!!!!! I will be teaching 6th grade band and choir as a long term sub for a fellow in Iraq. I will be teaching choir to nobody! I AM OFFICIALLY A TEACHER!!! WHOOHOO!!! I AM OFFICIALLY A JOBLESS BUM!!!! WHOOHOO!!! (This post is not out of bitterness and rancor, I was just about to post on it, and I saw alison's article. Too funny a coincidence to pass up. In all s...
I know. You've been sitting there wondering all day how to tell the temperature of steel when it's glowing. Well hold on to your hats guys, I'll go ya one better. With this easy, fun filled lesson, you can find the temperatures of all metals over 500 degrees!!! Here ya go, based on color, steel (and other metals) glow: just visible, very dull red at 500C (932F) deep red at 550 to 600C (1022-1112F)/ 660C aluminum melts (depending on metal content) deep bright red (dark cherry) at 7...
Really big, with sharp pointy fangs. ARRRRRRGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! That's right. I'm arrrrrgghhhing at you. Mister I'm to late for morning formation to stop all the way at a stop sign in my little saturn , and look both ways before gunning right through it. Even if you weren't worried about all the damned deer, how about me? You missed me today by less than a foot you f---ing a--clown. First with the front bumper, then with the rear. Repeat after me.......pedestrians don't have airbags....
Hello to all you sportsfans out there in JU land. Today I want you all to be like the proverbial midget at the urinal........you're gonna have to keep on your toes. My question to you is, what is it that you blog about on a regular basis, but get no responses? We all know that you can points-whore by posting about religion, or politics, or just by bashing the crap out of someone. But what is it that floats your boat, that nobody seems to care about? Me? I know what I love, but if I pos...
Just a quick post, went anvil hunting today, two flea markets no longer existing, two didn't have one, but one of those pointed me to a salvation army that apparently had an anvil.......Psyche!!!!! Sorry, sold it........bleh. Well, there's always the big Bell County Flea Market tommorow. I did however get a hammer It's got a walnut stock, cobalt blue steel, and a hair trigger. It ships for about 17.97 and can be found in the Outdoors section of S-mart. That's right, shop smart, shop S-ma...
This one goes out to the Texas Wahine, who got the Fanta song going in my head for the last 20 minutes or so. Damn your eyes. ("Too late!"-Marty Feldman) Everyone one has a commercial or two they absolutely hate, what's yours? I stopped watching t.v. about three years ago, but I still get them at the movies, and there's not a one there that doesn't raise the little hairs on the back of my neck. The Fanta ones are fun, but just get stuck in your head 'til you wish you had a harpoon gun t...
and to be fair, the end of the line is modified. So I didn't get the job today, so I can't go melty melty melt to relax, because my new furnace lid ain't dry yet. So I post articles about weird hobbies instead of politics and get no comments, no worries! I just played with my furnace and tried something a little different. I've been planning to modify a brake drum to use as a forge. My propane burner for my foundry furnace is in set screws, so it comes right out. Now my old furnace lid...
ARRRRRRGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!! I've been waiting for the phone call all day that was supposed to say whether or not I got the job. And it came. Sort of. I took a friend down to the police station to report a case of identity theft, and when I came back.............now someone else has applied. They want to interview them first and let me know their decision next Tuesday. Legitimate competion, how I hate thee. It makes me think of the Donald Westlake book, The Ax, in which the main character s...
So you're approaching thirty, seemingly mature, adult........yet you know damned well that you're still a goofy kid on the inside. What do you do to release those childish urges to play the same games you did when you were three? Simple, you lie to yourself and the world around you by making your games seem useful. Instead of racing your bike up and down the block, you buy a pickup. Instead of pulling on girls hair to show them you like them, there's sex......which admittedly in it's bette...
Interviewed for the job today, NOT surprised when he popped out a guest co-interviewer. AHA!!!! Sneaky, sneaky, but I saw it coming. Talked the talk, I can walk the walk, forgot on the ways to get kids interested again and get attendence up to mention field trips to opera / musical theater, and hosting performing groups and choirs. Sigh............... Worked up, jittery, excited, nervous, wow. I should hear back Thursday. Is it possible to hold your breath for two days?
Not really funny enough to go in humor, but it feels like my life's a joke sometimes.................. I'm just out of the army, with a couple of months worth of paid leave, and just starting to feel around for a job. So I kind of half-heartedly put in an application to the local school district to teach, and now I've got an interview for the high school choir spot. Now how the hell exactly did that happen? I could have done it today, but it happened so fast, I wanted an extra day to get m...