Don't Look Now!

Trick or Treat..Smell My feet..

Give me Something Good To Eat..

If You Don't... I Don't Care...

I'll Just Rip Your underwear....

What does it say to you?

"A picture is worth a thousand words." Let's see it it's true.

Check out the following image and let us know what you see. What does it say to you?




I know what it says to me.....

Ahhh, not bad I guess. At least not bad for junk.

My blog is worth $3,951.78.
How much is your blog worth?

Change in the wind

The days for this type of activity are growing to a close. Winter is upon us so get out there and have some fun while you still can!

People lost in the news

All this week, the news has been filled with stories of politics, investigations and the Bush administration. In addition, and as always, news of more trouble in Iraq. There is an issue, far more important, far heavier, far more desperate. The people of Pakistan need your help. 80,000+ dead and the number keeps rising. More specificly, the children need help. Tetanus and other deases are have otherwise normal and healthy kids near death. Strip away all the politics, religion, nationality.... and they are just kids.

“Aside from trauma and immediate medical services, we are beginning to focus on routine health care, particularly the immunisation of children. Primarily we’ll focus on measles and tetanus......”
Have some links.

Update
Another update
How you can help.


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Ok... Having said that, check this crap out! This article just further defines my complete misunderstanding and near hatred towards the Middle East. I say MOVE YOUR ISSUES OFF THE ROAD!!!! Read on...

Pakistan’s dirty laundering of Israel aid offer

By: JEFF JACOBY Special to the CJN

“Pakistan on Saturday welcomed an offer of earthquake assistance from Israel,” the Associated Press reported on Oct. 15, “but said it would have to be channeled through the United Nations, the Red Cross, or donated to a relief fund.”

On the surface, an unremarkable detail amid the devastation in Kashmir. But this is a story worth pausing over. For between the lines, it speaks volumes about the real stakes in the war between the civilized world and radical Islam.

The magnitude 7.6 earthquake that struck on Oct. 8 triggered, in the words of Pakistan’s prime minister, “a disaster of unprecedented proportions in Pakistan’s history.” In one terrible upheaval, it killed tens of thousands of people, trapped or injured thousands more, and left an estimated two million homeless.

Pakistan’s president, General Pervez Musharraf, went on television with an urgent plea for international help. Among the offers of humanitarian aid that began streaming into Islamabad was one from Israel, which is all too experienced in disaster rescue and relief. When a natural calamity strikes, Israel is often among the first nations to offer help; within 48 hours of the tsunami last December, for example, Israel had airlifted teams of medical and emergency workers, as well as 80 tons of supplies, to the stricken countries.

But as days went by and the Pakistani death toll mounted, there was no reply to Israel’s offer of assistance. The Jerusalem Post recalled the 2003 earthquake in Iran, when the Tehran theocracy announced that it would welcome “all kinds of humanitarian aid from all countries and international organizations, with the exception of the Zionist regime.”

Pakistan, the world’s second-most-populous Muslim nation, had never established diplomatic relations with Israel, but, unlike Iran, its attitude was supposed to be changing. In Istanbul on Sept. 1, the Israeli and Pakistani foreign ministers had met publicly for the first time; two weeks later Musharraf had shaken Ariel Sharon’s hand at a United Nations reception in New York. Equally dramatic was Musharraf’s conciliatory speech to the American Jewish Congress on Sept. 17, the first time a Pakistani ruler had ever addressed an audience of American Jews.

Yet it was not until Oct. 14, six days after Israel had communicated its willingness to help the earthquake victims “in any way possible,” that it finally received a formal response. Yes, aid from Israel would be welcome, provided it was laundered through a third party. “We have established the president’s relief fund, and everyone is free to contribute to it,” a government spokeswoman coolly acknowledged. “If Israel were to contribute n that’s fine, we would accept it.”

Israel could help save Pakistani lives, in other words, as long as it wasn’t too public about doing so. There mustn’t be any embarrassing images of planes with Israeli markings offloading relief supplies at Islamabad’s airport.

And no one should imagine that Israel’s generosity toward a nation that has long been among its harshest critics and in which anti-Semitism is rampant would have any effect on Islamabad’s thinking. According to the Daily Times, a Pakistani newspaper, the spokeswoman insisted that “accepting an indirect donation from Israel did not mean that Pakistan had planned to recognize it” or to alter its stance toward Israel, “which was unchangeable.”

Israel will not criticize Pakistan’s insulting behavior, preferring to understand it as a reality of Pakistani domestic politics. For Musharraf, a diplomat in the Israeli Foreign Ministry told me, “the number one priority is regime survival” n and any regime that failed to treat the Jewish state with the appropriate level of contempt would outrage Pakistani public opinion.

But that loathing of Israel and Jews is not just a quirk of Pakistani politics. It is a hallmark of the radical Islamists whose terrorism worldwide has shed so much blood n and who hold sway over more than 70% of Pakistan, according to Tashbih Sayyed, editor of the weekly newspaper Pakistan Today. An outspoken Muslim moderate, Sayyed sees Musharraf’s recent overtures toward Israel as a feint n an insincere tactic intended to impress Washington.

“That is why he has done nothing to challenge the way Jews and Israel are portrayed by the Islamists n as demons, as an evil force,” Sayyed argues. Many Pakistanis would welcome a genuine effort from the top to combat the radicals’ hatred and lies, but are not brave enough to fight them on their own. And so the Islamists go on spreading their lethal ideology.

And that, writ large, is the problem at the core of the war on terrorism. “The Muslim world is plunged into an abyss of darkness, antimodernity, anti-Americanism, and anti-Semitism,” Sayyed says. Only a minority of Muslims are personally hateful or fanatic. But a minority can wreak enormous damage when the majority is unwilling to act.

Native Clevelander Jeff Jacoby is a columnist for The Boston Globe.

Quick Post

Evil hides in lies and deceit. Often hard to find or define. It's here, just not sure where to place the blame!

What's in a number..

U.S Military Death Toll in Iraq Reaches 2,000

Way to go Mr. Bush. Keep up the good work. You have killed more soldiers than your father did 15 years ago.

Some days are better than others.

Have you ever set back, in one of those quiet moments all to yourself, and wonder how you became who you are? Or where the time has gone? Or why you chose to do things "that way" years ago? "If you could turn back time".

I have my own belief and my own understanding of our time spent here on earth. Take the largest building you know. Fill it completely with papers, stacked without as much as an inch here or there to spare. Now remove one page. This page is your life spent here on earth. But yet, in this almost insignificant time, we effect so many. In what seems to be a blink of an eye, we can save someone or change someone's life for the better.....or worse.

These past few weeks have been hard on me. Being unhappy is one thing, almost a normal feeling, but this has been the ultimate low. What would I do if I could go back? ALLOT! I would change many, many things in my life. But, I would still have 2 kids! I love them with all that I am.

I watch stories of people getting out of a burning home without their kids, unable to find them in the deadly heat, smoke, and flames. I feel for these people like it was me. Don't believe the movies... You can't walk through a burning house or building, with little or no equipment and "save the day". It doesn't work like that! I would die before I get out without them. Even with all the Firefighting and Damage Control training I have: "If I can't reach them, I don't get out either. "

Feeling pain is bad. Feeling helpless is bad. Feeling like you failed someone close to you is......

Heartfelt.

Take a load off and have a joke.....

An elderly woman walked into the Bank of Canada one morning with a purse full of money. She wanted to open a savings account and insisted on talking to the president of the Bank because, she said, she had a lot of money.

After many lengthy discussions (after all, the client is always right) an employee took the elderly woman to the president’s office.

The president of the Bank asked her how much she wanted to deposit. She placed her purse on his desk and replied, "$165,000". The president was curious and asked her how she had been able to save so much money. The elderly woman replied that she made bets.

The president was surprised and asked, "What kind of bets?"

The elderly woman replied, "Well, I bet you $25,000 that your testicles are square."

The president started to laugh and told the woman that it was impossible to win a bet like that.

The woman never batted an eye. She just looked at the president and said, "Would you like to take my bet?"

"Certainly", replied the president. "I bet you $25,000 that my testicles are not square."

"Done", the elderly woman answered. "But given the amount of money involved, if you don't mind I would like to come back at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning with my lawyer as a witness."

"No problem", said the president of the Bank confidently.

That night, the president became very nervous about the bet and spent a long time in front of the mirror examining his testicles, turning them this way and that, checking them over again and again until he was positive that no one could consider his testicles as square and reassuring himself that there was no way he could lose the bet.

The next morning, at exactly 10 o'clock, the elderly woman arrived at the president's office with her lawyer and
acknowledged the $25,000 bet made the day before that the president's testicles were square.

The president confirmed that the bet was the same as the one made the day before. Then the elderly woman asked him to drop his pants etc. so that she and her lawyer could see clearly.

The president was happy to oblige.

The elderly woman came closer so she could see better and asked the president if she could touch them. "Of course", said the president. "Given the amount of money involved, you should be 100% sure."

The elderly woman did so with a little smile. Suddenly the president noticed that the lawyer was banging his head against the wall. He asked the elderly woman why he was doing that and she replied, "Oh, it's probably because I bet him $100,000 that around 10 o'clock in the morning I would be holding the balls of the President of the Bank of Canada!"

10 things that nettle me

general

1) Inconsiderate people-- What you choose to do and say effects the people around you. Think about it.

2) Selfish people-- No comment needed. You know who you are...

3) Slow drivers-- Look, people have schedules. I'm all for safety but come on!

4) When people pass there own responsibilities onto others-- Look, it's your kid! Can you please make sure he\she is safe.

5) Pushy people-- Again, you know who you are...

specific

6) When my dog intentionally pushes his toys under the chairs in the living room and try to retrieve them, but never can.

7) When someone raises their voice in a seemingly normal conversation.

8) I have trouble reading with background noise. I can't stay focused. I read entire paragraphs and digest nothing, only to catch myself and restart again.

9) When the same people, at the same vendor, are asked for the same item, as I have ordered over and over again the same way, still do not know what I want without part numbers . Do you people do a total data dump after each phone call?

10) This one takes the cake: When someone "close" to you cannot put there own feelings aside for the good of her own child. "Where do your priorities lie?" Go play mind games with people who are better opponents. Let "our" daughter grow up normal please!!! Some structure would be nice! (Ok, that was a rant! Misplaced yet connected) Sorry!

Excess is the poison of reason

My kids and I spent an evening out back on the deck carving pumpkins. This was a planned event for my son, but a surprise for my daughter. At lease it was until Boo (my son) spilled the story to his sister within seconds of seeing her. He’s not very good at keeping secrets.

So we did our homework as quick as possible. After eating toasted cheese sandwiches, we went out back to turn a perfectly good pumpkin into a mangled ‘work of art’. Boo has been waiting for this all week and wanted to tear into his work without even considering a plan. Typical 6 year old, to say the least. His older sister had a different plan. All she knew was letters were in the pumpkin carving kit and she wanted her name imbedded into her design. So she painstakingly starred at hers until dad would lend a helping hand.

It was then that I seen it. Both of my kids sitting together on the deck, working together for a common, yet differing cause. I wanted take a picture of the moment, but couldn’t. Why not, I ask my self. I love my digital camera. Maybe it was because my camera has always been unable to capture what my own eyes see. Maybe I didn’t want to walk into the house and leave the moment, for fear it would not look or feel the same upon my return.

I thought to myself “what would life be like for them if they would not be together anymore?” “What if the bond they have made were broken by another?” They have only been with each other for about 3 years now, but act just like they grew up together. Just like your typical brother and sister. Typical in the way brothers and sisters are. They help each other, they hate each other, they love each other, they drive each other bonkers and they fight with each other. Sounds typical to me. How scaring would it be if they were to be separated permanently? My son would be crushed. He looks up to his older sister in a way I never thought he would. My daughter, on the other hand, has grown up in a world of constant uncertainty, change and disappointment. She is so easily assimilated. Her opinion is only viewable in very discrete and defining moments. She does and tells as told by her mother and a few others. I can only hope that I am one other those others. Would she even miss this home? I find pleasure in believing that she would, but her own feelings are deep and unable to be reached on most occasions.

So there they work. I find myself helping both, but mostly her. My son has focus (relative to his age) and a will to express his feelings. She does not, or at least is unable to do so, except for wanting her name to be placed into the works. It seems that my daughters name is the only thing she hangs onto as being her own, self-respecting item about herself. Something that is different from most all she encounters in her life. Her name is the only thing about herself that she can truly say she loves.

So there the pumpkins sit on the front porch steps, with candles inside flickering. In traditional fashion, they are displayed for all who walk by to view. If only the ones look at them know of the true gravity they display.

No title for this one

Tag! I'm it. And 5 days late....

I was tagged by Carnealian a few days ago and missed it. (sorry) So, to keep the peace in the blogger 'family', I will do as asked. Thanks Carnealian, seriously.

The Rules:
1. Go into your archive.
2. Find your 23rd post.
3. Find the fifth sentence (or closest to).
4. Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with these instructions.
5. Tag five other people to do the same.

"Just me and the dog."


Dorman
Bob
Snot
Interstellar
cyrs

Too bad.

Unfortunately, we ran into this mess only minutes after it had happened. It damn near created a million car pile up.

Welcome to my world....

Artist: Trapt
Song Title: Stand up (some words added)

(Said to my daughter's mother!)

Why don't you let me be
Leave me alone
You start a fire inside that I could never control
You wanna see a reaction YOU F**ING BITCH
Come on and cut me down
You've gone as far as I'll go
Now you're crossing the line
And I am letting you know
Well here's your reaction
Stand up NOW!!!!
I have had enough
Walk away before I finish what you started
Face to face I will push you in your place
End this game before I finish what you started
Face to face everything will change EVERYTHING
You planted the seed
How my anger has grown OH, YOU HAVE NO IDEA
Got a feeling inside that I can't seem to control
You wanna see a reaction
Come on and cut me down
You've gone as far as I'll go AGAIN
Now you're crossing the line and I am letting you know
Well here's your reaction
Stand THE F**K UP
I have had enough ONCE AGAIN
Walk away before I finish what you started. TOO LATE!
Face to face I will push you in your place
End this game before I finish what you started
Face to face everything will change HOW DO YOU LIKE ME NOW!?
Insult
After insult [9x]
Stand up
I have had enough
Walk away before I finish what you started
Face to face I will put you in your place
End this game before I finish what you started (OH, AND I WILL)
Face to face everything will change
Walk away
Everthing will change
End this game
You wanna see a reaction
You wanna see a reaction
Stand up
CAN'T WAIT FOR ANOTHER REACTION!

Oh My God!!!! Whoooo Hooooo!

4th and 4. 1 second left in the game. Down by 4 points. On the 12 yeard line! (I hat Penn State!)

Do you freaking believe it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Go ABPS!!!! (Anyone But Penn State!)

That's Impossible!!!

"Everything we know is only some kind of approximation, therefore, things must be learned only to be unlearned again or, more likely, corrected." DR. RICHARD P. FEYNMAN

TESLA'S REVENGE for getting screwed!

The following is a paid advertisement for the "LET'S GET BACK AT EDISON" group.

Ok, that was a history joke. And a poor one at best. Maybe even historically inaccurate, according to some. How does this have anything to do with my post? I am so glad you asked!

What you are about to read may sound false at first, but please read on with an open mind. Read it all. I have not, because I have once again run out of time in my day and am getting tired. Plus, it's hard to stay focused in my home. Circus!!! I will finish tomorrow. But, what I have read so far has me intrigued. I pride myself on being about to think 'out of the box'. Roll the time back a few hundred years and I say the world is not flat!!!! Do you know that there are still people out there that believe this! shhhhhh. Don't wake them.

What? Sex...? Parties? NOOOOO!

The Minnesota Vikings have some explaining to do. And, why wasn't I invited?

Aluminum: What you should know.

Aluminum is found almost everywhere now days. From soda cans, to airplane parts. It's in your car, and in your kitchen. You most likely come in direct contact with it every day. But, their are things you most likely don't know about aluminum. Things that may surprise you.

Aluminum, as most common "metals" we know today, is an alloy. A composite material made up of several other materials. It’s “dug” up as aluminum ore, the most common being called bauxite. Aluminum is the third most abundant element in the Earth's crust and constitutes 7.3% by mass. In nature however it only exists in very stable combinations with other materials (particularly as silicates and oxides) and it was not until 1808 that its existence was first established. It took many years of painstaking research to "unlock" the metal from its ore and many more to produce a viable, commercial production process. Aluminum is extracted (not made!) with a strong base (that forms Aluminum hidroxide) and after heated to reform the oxide.

Pound for pound, the strength of aluminum vs. strength of steel is outstanding to say the least. Aluminum also has a high resistance to corrosion, when isolated from other materials.

All sounds great, right? Let’s have another look. Aluminum has been exempted from tesitng for safety by the FDA under a convoluted logic wherein it is classified as GRAS. (Generally Regarded As Safe.) It has never been tested by the FDA on its safety and there are NO restrictions whatever on the amount or use of aluminum. There are over 2000 references in the National Library of Medicine on adverse effects of alumium.

Producing new aluminum creates toxic emissions from the plant. To comply with regulations established by the Environmental Protection Agency, the aluminum industry is developing better anti-pollution devices. Economically, this is a problem because the industry has limited funds to allocate for research and development of better equipment to control pollution.

Aluminum toxicity has been recognized in many settings where exposure is heavy or prolonged, where renal function is limited, or where apreviously accumulated bone burden is released in stress or illness. Toxicity may include: encephalopathy (stuttering, gait disturbance, myoclonic jerks, seizures, coma, abnormal EEG) osteomalacia or aplastic bone disease ( associated with painful spontaneous fractures, hypercalcemia, tumorous calcinosis ) proximal myopathy, increased risk of infection, increased left ventricular mass and decreased myocardial function microcytic anemia with very high levels, sudden death. (Ok, I copied this...)

Also, many cooperation have failed to recognize the adverse effect caused by using aluminum in situations where it is directly connected to, or in very close proximity to other alloys such as carbon steel. Galvanic corrosion cannot be cured simply by placing a few pieces of heavy electrical tape between them. Long story! Just research the stock price of Dorsey Trailers.

Ok, it is getting late. Please follow the links bellow for more information.

http://www.bayou.com/rmh/PullTab.html

http://www.dulley.com/ref/fe003.htm

aluminum.org

http://www.world-aluminium.org/history/

http://www.luminet.net/~wenonah/hydro/al.htm

Later!!!!!!!!!

Childish Antics

I love me! ALF

Aren't computers great!!!

Total system crash! Lost everything that wasn't backed up. Started with the DHCP service and exploded from there. Damn! Had to rebuilt, but we're back.

Please entertain this……..

I found this blog that I must share with you all. I try not to take sides in any situation that does not directly involve me, but I am here. You just have to read this!!!!! Please read this one and comment on what you feel, honestly! Consider this your homework for today.

Get ready! Here it is.
Again, truthful and deep comments only! Only then will I spill my opinion.

Just for the heck of it.

You are a Social Liberal (78% permissive) and an... Economic Liberal (33% permissive) You are best described as a: Democrat Link: The Politics Test on Ok Cupid Also: The OkCupid Dating Persona Test

It’s official… I’m an idiot!

My time at home lately has been almost exclusively spent on finishing my "little furnace project". This job has been a real pain in my A** to put it lightly! But, I think the light at the end of the tunnel has been found. I wanted to make this cool blog with images of the before and after, but I ran out of time tonight. Maybe later.So, on to my story of how I messed up! As stated before, this ductwork is made of fiberglass boards. Seems easy to work with at first. Kind of a "cut and paste" idea comes to mind. Oh how I oversimplify things.As of yesterday, I had the main "trunk line" and the "plenum"(upright duct directly out of furnace) done. The connecting piece was the most thought needed, but it went in well. I had decided to put 3 take-off's (branches into the home) out of the plenum, due to the proximity of floor registers. I finished the trunk/plenum before I cut the holes for the 3 take-off's just in case I had to change something. All is good with the tie-in so I go to cutting the holes in the plenum. On the first hole I cut, the cutout piece fell back into the system and landed into the heat exchanger. Now what do I do? Well, I cut the other 2 holes, carefully pulling the cutout from the duct without dropping it. Oh look, I have 2 other holes to see though to find the missing piece. There it was, on top and ready to be saved. Using flat head screwdriver, I tried to snag the damn thing, only to push the cutout down into the heart of the heat exchanger. F**&! I deal with heat exchangers daily at work. I surmise that if I pull the cool side (blower) out, I must be able to reach it. After taking apart the furnace and wiggling my ass into the portion that I believe will save me, I find that the heat exchanger has another baffle built into it. If I was a snake I could get there!!! Again F%%^!What to do, what to do? Well, I have 3 holes in front of me and I am looking for a foreign body about 2 feet bellow. I break out the old digital camera baby! 6" holes are plenty big enough for my arm. So I snap a shot. There is was! So I took a dowel rod that I use for Christmas decorations and poke for this thing. I must have took 16 pictures, moving it around until I finally got it stabbed.

So I pull up the rod and the cutout up slowly, like I am playing the game Operation. F*&^, the rod is too long and hits the top of the plenum before the piece is out of the heat exchanger. “Drop” it goes, back in. So I cut about 5” off of the rod and tried again. Oh, I got it, not! Again, Not!!!

Two and ½ hours later, I got it out. After poking and stabbing at this thing for what seemed like days, I got it.

I fired the system up tonight, for at test. :-( The house smells like burnt fiberglass!!!!!!! Evidently stabbing at this thing for so long, over and over, left some fiberglass in the area. Burn baby burn!!!!
I am truly an “I D TEN T” = ID10T!!!1

just an update i guess

I am currently updating my furnace. The ductwork was in bad shape and inefficient at best. With the price of oil these days, I have to get every penny I can. I have never worked on this stuff before, ever! But if I can design and build piping systems, do basic carpentry and live in a self-made world of symmetry, I must be able to do this. I suck at spelling and my penmanship is for the birds. The only thing I am really good at is helping kids and math.

Well, this project has turned ugly. Again, I have no clue! Just going off of what the guy told me at the local HVAC store. Metal ducts have evolved into these “trunk lines” made from fiberglass “boards”. There are tools made for cutting these boards and making them into, for lack of a better word, pipes. I don’t have them and a friend who is a HVAC tech was unable to break free from his busy schedule to lend them to me. My trusty tape measure and square are working fine, but the road is long! I must get this done before this weekend as the temp. is going south…. F%$#!!!!!!!!

My daughter’s mother and I are in a……….. Here come the layers again. F*&$&^^^^^!!! Ok, can we spend any more money? Just about to go over the edge as it is. But she is more important; despite the fake world I seem to have created for myself.

The wife is improving. Or maybe just my view of the situation. Not sure. At least she is accepting things as they are.

I once was in love. A F-150 trailing a boat took care of that. I remember her daily, despite all of her issues. I’m not sure why I decided to disclose that!………………
WOW, this is weird! Can I get any more separated from ME?

Just do it!

http://www.queendom.com/tests/minitests/fx/humor.html

Just a new post I guess

Just another busy day. I don't even watch Monday Night Football anymore. Truthfully, I really don't like professional sports anyway. Too much dirty money. I like college, and mostly high school. I read some blogs. Didn't know one snotsucker and one dorman were past friends. Small world. Snot: Just so you know... Growing up, Dorman was just slightly better than I was on a bike. Slightly... :-) For those who are guilty of taking life just a little TOO seriously, that was a joke.

I find Bloger’s server much faster since yesterday’s “Scheduled maintenance”. Thanks guys!

Spent some of my time helping a friend’s mom and the like. Hope to wrap that up in the next coming days. It seems almost like an “out of body experience” to have people who had no respect for you as a kid, open up to you and thank you, genuinely over an over again. I guess my life is somehow gone full circle. It seems weird at best, but glad to help nun the less.

Oh, and DORMAN: In my travels today, I came across a group of people holding what seemed like a family reunion in the middle of the street (much like you see in the isles at walmart), almost blocking traffic. Who do I find? Bill, Bill’s ex-wife, Bill’s current wife, both of Bill’s kids (holly shit they grew up), at least one of his current wife’s kids, and a few people I take pride in not knowing personally. Just a side note that is longing for your comment.
Tomorrow: Lot’s of people to direct and lots of work to be done. Some for my official job, but most for comities and what I call “my little donations to society”. And another day of having this damn cold that my kids so willing gave me! It’s kind of cool when the shit that you cough up is colored. I am waiting for neon green.

World Wide Communion Sunday....

We have lacked the vision to see that people living in places we call foreign are as surely your children as we are.