Dragon Laffs

Leprechaun here (as you might have guessed from the pleasing green tint to the font as well as the title of this entry)~

Good morning fellow campers and co-conspirators in driving Impish insane!

Well actually I think it’s pretty safe to say we don’t have to drive him to insanity this morning. Hell, I doubt we’d even need a golf cart to get him there, someone with a walker and a busted hip could probably escort him to insanity and not even break a sweat after Impish’s experiences of last night and this morning!

How can I possibly make this bold-faced claim of our “beloved and feckless leader”? Simple. I got this e-mail this morning…the only one he has been able to send in the last 12 hours:

I hate AT&T.  The brand new router they sent me is no good.  Took me hours last night with some jack-wagon who couldn’t speak English to figure that one out!  Then it took me all morning with still another bozo-bus to get my OLD modem back up and running because the computer thought, since it was set up for a new router and that router disappeared, that the service was being hijacked.  I had to answer the question of “Who’s your favorite singer?” as a secret question that I set up like 10 years ago!  Only had two chances and it took both Mary and I to figure it out on the second guess!  I was so pissed!

Camel Dung!

Horse-radish!

(Mary has me trying to cut down on my foul language before Izzy calls some other 9 year-old kid a fucking moron and I get called by the principal)

Anyway, got to get to work.  Text me when you get this and I’ll try to slip away and call you.

See poor Impish went and tempted the Norns and Fates, he opened a can of worms by trying to upgrade his computer technology. Specifically, he attempted to go from an ancient 5-year-old DSL modem (works only on a single computer) to a current router/gateway with wireless capabilities (allows multiple computers online at same time and sans pesky cables).

The Norns, Fates and  one of their evil agents of torment, AT&T responded by sending him a fancy new router,  accompanied that is by another of their evil agents of torment, Murphy and his laws. It seems that after Impish spending over an hour on the “plug & play installation” phase of things, Murphy decided to entertain himself by applying his laws to the situation and cause the router to fail after working for only 15 minutes!

This brought about multiple rounds of calls by Impish to AT&T Customer Service and Tech Support (both EXTREMELY oxymoronic). This is usually fruitless, extremely frustrating and any progress can be measured in micro-millimeters/ hour spent on the phone with them as anyone that has ever dealt with either place well knows. If you are extremely blessed to have never experienced this sort of thing, or like me take pleasure and solace in knowing you’re not the only person tormented by these people, please refer to the comic panels at the end of this for a humorous summary of what the experience is like.

Impish finally managed with tech supports “help” ( I use the term in the broadest possible definition and meaning) to get his computer to once again recognise his antiquated modem a scant 10 minutes before he had to leave for work and to take his daughter to the bus leaving no time for a D.L. issue to go out.

Progress after roughly 8 hours of working on the upgrade from the time he opened the Pandora’s Box he received from Arrogant Technology & Torment? None. Frustration level? Epic. End result? After 3 more hours on the phone this morning, he gets to go through the entire affair again on Friday when another Pandora’s Box arrives!

Chances that come Saturday morning Impish Dragon will be a heavily sedated drooling and babbling idiot in a straight jacket with instruction to pee in the corner of his round rubber room? Almost a surety.

Now, lets see those comics while having a chuckle or 2 at Impish’s frustrations and expense!

You don’t want to pull you gangsta wannabe bullshit on a Viet Nam vet  or ANY vet for that matter even if he DOES look a bit like Santa ‘lest he fill your stocking with whoop-ass and beat you bloody with it!

http://www.youjotube.com/watch/bLQ3mXqAq_

OK this post was here last night and missing except for the title this morning so I have redone this post again. Now lets see what happens.

Good Morning Campers.

One of the things that I love about this group….and even though we don’t spend much time on yahoo groups anymore, we still are a group; a group of friends…one thing I love about us is the understanding and support that we give to one another.  When one of us needs help, the others rally round in support.  We do that because we are the best damn group of campers on the planet.

I can hear the grumblings in the back right now, “Oh crap.  The dragon wants something.”  “Has anyone seen the Leprechaun?  Does he need bail money?”

You’re right.  I do want something…  (Those of you who aren’t interested in any “humanitarian”, “friend”, “loved-ones” kind of stuff can skip down to the first cartoon.)

but this one is easy…

you’ve given this gift so many times before and it has helped immensely.

We need your prayers for one of our own…

Karl, who is known here best as K squared or K² has been with us for a long time; his wife, Rosa Maria (what a beautiful name!) is in the hospital recovering from MAJOR surgery.  I’ll not go into the details of the surgery or the hospitalization for there is no reason to invade their privacy in this matter, just please pray for this wonderful woman so she can rapidly recover and be healthy.

Thank you my dear, dear friends.  Your love and overwhelming generosity is more deeply appreciated than you can ever imagine.

Now, let’s laugh…just for a short while, because I have very little time and very large issues myself right now, so let’s see what we can get done before time runs out!

Okay, those of you who skipped down can start reading again.

Ain’t that the truth!  For the longest time I got all my political information from the comics.  And Doonesbury was the primary culprit!

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This one is an awful lot of fun.  Slightly reminiscent of the old “Frogger” game.  Enjoy!

Today, December 7th, 2010, is the 69th anniversary of the invasion of Pearl Harbor. Countries do strange and insane things sometimes, for what appears to them to be valid and legitimate reasons.  There is no way I can figure out some country’s mindset and their desire to attack the United States and kill Americans.

It doesn’t make any sense to me.

Just like the whole Islamic hatred of America.  Doesn’t make any sense to me at all.

Is it greed?  Is that what it all comes down to?  You have it, I want it, so I’m going to use force to take it away from you?

I’m not a history buff by any stretch of the imagination, so here is Wikipedia’s opening paragraphs:

The attack on Pearl Harbor (called the Hawaii Operation or Operation Z by the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters, and the Battle of Pearl Harbor by some Americans)^[6] was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on the morning of December 7, 1941. The next day the United States declared war on Japan resulting in their entry into World War II. The attack was intended as a preventive action in order to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from influencing the war that the Empire of Japan was planning in Southeast Asia, against Britain and the Netherlands, as well as the U.S. in the Philippines. The base was attacked by Japanese aircraft (a total of 353, in two waves) launched from six aircraft carriers.^[7]

Four U.S. Navy battleships were sunk (two of which were raised and returned to service later in the war) and all of the four other battleships present were damaged. The Japanese also sank or damaged three cruisers, three destroyers, an anti-aircraft training ship^[8] and one minelayer. 188 U.S. aircraft were destroyed, 2,402 personnel were killed^[9] and 1,282 were wounded. The power station, shipyard, maintenance, and fuel and torpedo storage facilities, as well as the submarine piers and headquarters building (also home of the intelligence section) were not attacked. Japanese losses were light, with 29 aircraft and five midget submarines lost, and 65 servicemen killed or wounded. One Japanese sailor was captured.

The attack was a major engagement of World War II and came as a profound shock to the American people. Domestic support for isolationism, which had been strong, disappeared. Germany’s ill-considered declaration of war on the U.S., which was not required by any treaty commitment, moved the U.S. from clandestine support of Britain (for example the Neutrality Patrol) into active alliance and full participation in the European Theater. Despite numerous historical precedents for unannounced military action, the lack of any formal warning by Japan, particularly while negotiations were still apparently ongoing, led to President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaiming December 7, 1941 “a date which will live in infamy“.

Why don’t we try to bring a little peace and laughter into the world.  Pass on the link to Dragon Laffs (http://dragonlaffs.com ) to all your friends and share the laughter!