And here we are on Saturday … and here I am time traveling. For me, it’s Sunday … a week ago.  A for you, it’s Saturday, a week from now for me. 

But while you’re reading this, I’m participating in CPR class as part of my Security Duties for the church. I’m actually looking forward to it. This one will be put on by a civilian organization. Most of the ones I’ve had lately have all been military and I’m anxious to see if there’s any real differences.

Anyway, I’ve only got a little while to get this one started, so ….

Move backwards from the picture.

 

 

Hot Woman: [At the Bar] [Hot woman winks] So what’s a girl need to do to get a drink around here? 

Me: You just ask at the bar for one and then exchange it for money

[3 days later] 

Me: [tying my shoelaces] Hey, wait a second…

Does anyone remember a time when your body just worked? Like, just on its own, no pills, no scheduled exercise, no caffeine, no planned hydration, no stretching, no specific diet — you just woke up and bam! That stuff was good to go?
Yeah, me either.

Honesty is a very expensive gift. Don’t expect it from cheap people.

 

 

Over the weekend, my sister texted me this picture. She said she was cleaning out some papers and found it. That’s me on the left.  Aged 3 or 4 maybe? So… 1964ish.

 

 

Me too!

 

 

Yup … it is currently 4° with a windchill of -18°. It is CRAZY COLD outside. 

 

 

My wife said she had blisters on her hand from using the broom. 

I told her: “Next time take the car”. 

Joe’s wife is VERY understanding.

 

 

Oldie:

Today is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and I’ve had the news on in the background and they’ve been playing some of his speeches and some documentary kind of stuff. Wonderful, powerful man. A man to be admired and emulated. I watch some of the peaceful marches he led with the hymns being sung and the smiles on the people’s faces.

And then they cut over to the “mostly peaceful” anti-ICE demonstrations in Minnesota and the differences are startling…appalling…and yet, most of these people — these demonstrators — would have us believe that they are acting in the same manner, the same vein as Dr. King acted. The same “mostly peaceful” demonstrations of the BLM movement that saw cities burning and lives lost.

The hypocrisy is overwhelming. 

Yes, we all have the right to protest. I think back to my youth and the teenage beatnik hippies of the 60’s protesting Vietnam by staging sit-ins and being drug off by police by refusing to move.   And this iconic photograph …

Here’s what Wikipedia has to say about the above photo:

The National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam‘s March on the Pentagon took place on October 21, 1967. When the antiwar demonstrators approached The Pentagon, they were confronted by a squad of soldiers from the 503rd Military Police Battalion (Airborne).^[1] The soldiers pointed their rifles, marched into the crowd and formed a semicircle around the demonstrators to prevent them from climbing the Pentagon steps. Bernie Boston, newspaper photographer for The Washington Evening Star (shortened to The Washington Star in later years), had been assigned by his editor to cover the demonstration.^[2] Boston was sitting on a wall at the mall entrance which allowed him to see the events unfold.^[3] In a 2005 interview he said, “When I saw the sea of demonstrators, I knew something had to happen. I saw the troops march down into the sea of people and I was ready for it.”^[4] A young man emerged from the crowd of demonstrators and started placing carnations into the barrels of their rifles.^[3] Boston captured the moment in what would become an iconic image and his signature photograph.^[3]

When Boston showed the photograph to his editor at the Star, “the editor didn’t see the importance” and the picture was run on a page deep inside the newspaper.^[3] It did not gain recognition until Boston entered it into photography competitions, which it won.^[3]

And one more picture…

These were the demonstrations that I remember seeing on TV when I was just a kid. I can still remember my father ranting about the “stupid kids”. But, they never raised their voices or broke things or set anything on fire (that I can recall). What changed? When did it change? When did protesting peacefully, turn into destroying, rioting, and tearing up other people’s things? When did we become animals over differing opinions? When did we think it was okay to try to stop legitimate law enforcement officers from carrying out their duties?

Why are they protecting gang bangers, drug pushers, murderers, rapists, human traffickers, rapists, devils and demons over legitimate law enforcement? It is so hard for me to imagine that many spiritually captured individuals. I just want to weep.

Aside over.

 

 

“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.” 

– Gail Godwin (1937-)

A DESIGNER OF THE TITANIC WAS ON BOARD WHEN IT WENT DOWN. HIS ORIGINAL DESIGN HAD MORE LIFE BOATS, WATER TIGHT COMPARTMENTS, AND A DOUBLE HULL, BUT THEY WERE OVERRULED. HIS BODY WAS NEVER RECOVERED.

A magazine recently ran a “Dilbert quotes” contest. They were looking for people to submit quotes from their real life managers. Here are the top 14 finalists:

1. As of tomorrow, employees will only be able to access the building using individual security cards. Pictures will be taken next Wednesday and employees will receive their cards in two weeks. (This was the winning quote from Fred Dales at Microsoft Corp In Redmond, WA.)

2. What I need is a list of specific unknown problems we will encounter. (Lykes Lines Shipping)

3. E-mail is not to be used to pass on information or data. It should be used only for company business. (Accounting manager, Electric Boat Company)

4. This project is so important, we can’t let things that are more important interfere with it. (Advertising/Marketing manager, United Parcel Service) 

5. Doing it right is no excuse for not meeting the schedule. 

6. No one will believe you solved this problem in one day! We’ve been working on it for months. Now, go act busy for a month. (R&D supervisor, Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing/3M Corp.)

7. My Boss spent the entire weekend retyping a 25-page proposal that only needed corrections. She claims the disk I gave her was damaged and she couldn’t edit it. The disk I gave her was write-protected. (CIO of Dell Computers)

8. Quote from the Boss: “Teamwork is a lot of people doing what I say.” (Marketing executive, Citrix Corporation) 

9. My sister passed away and her funeral was scheduled for Monday. When I told my Boss, he said she died so that I would have to miss work on the busiest day of the year. He then asked if we could change her Burial to Friday. He said, “That would be better for me.” (Shipping executive, FTD Florists)

10. “We know that communication is a problem, but the company is not going to discuss it with the employees.” (Switching supervisor, AT&T Long Lines Division)

11. We recently received a memo from senior management saying: “This is to inform you that a memo will be issued today regarding the subject mentioned above.” (Microsoft, Legal Affairs Division)

12. One day my Boss asked me to submit a status report to him concerning a project I was working on. I asked him if tomorrow would be soon enough. He said “If I wanted it tomorrow, I would have waited until tomorrow to ask for it!” (New business manager Hallmark Greeting Cards.)

13. As director of communications, I was asked to prepare a memo reviewing our company’s training programs and materials. In the body of the memo in one of the sentences I mentioned the “pedagogical approach” used by one of the training manuals. The day after I routed the memo to the executive committee, I was called into the HR director’s office, and told that the executive vice president wanted me out of the building by lunch. When I asked why, I was told that she wouldn’t stand for perverts (pedophilia?) working in her company. Finally, he showed me her copy of the memo, with her demand that I be fired – and the word “pedagogical” circled in red. The HR manager was fairly reasonable, and once he looked the word up in his dictionary and made a copy of the definition to send back to her, he told me not to worry. He would take care of it. Two days later, a memo to the entire staff came out directing us that no words which could not be found in the local Sunday newspaper could be used in company memos. A month later, I resigned. In accordance with company policy, I created my resignation memo by pasting words together from the Sunday paper. (Taco Bell Corporation) 

14. “Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity and I’m not sure about the former.” (Albert Einstein)

And that’s the end my friends. It’s been a rough week and I’m glad I got a chance to laugh putting this together because I really needed it. I hope you did too…got to laugh, not that you needed it like I did.  If you DID need it like I did, I hope it helped.