Year: 2008

Say What?

Our plant is No Smoking inside, has been for years, but apparently some people on the off shifts think it is OK to take a few puffs every now and then in the restrooms. First a simple smoldering cigarette with the international red slash through it stickers were placed on all the bathroom doors. Didn’t totally eliminate the problem. Then they placed some official looking signs that had the word NOTICE on top with the phrases No Smoking, No Eating, & No Drinking in every restroom. I guess that wasn’t totally successful either as now we have some 8-1/2 x 11 laminated sheets of paper tacked to all the bathroom doors that say, “Smoking in unauthorized areas of the plant is prohibited and will result in discipline action.”

I’m no English major, but shouldn’t that be disciplinary action?

I have been trying to have a glass of red wine with dinner for a while now, the antioxidants or whatever are good for heart health (I also read Playboy for the articles.) After a bit of experience I have decided that I like Pinot Noir [PEE-noh NWAHR] the best of all the reds. I am working my way through the varieties at my local grocery store in search of my favorite inexpensive (under $15 a bottle) pinot. The latest one I found has three monkeys on the label in the classic see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil pose and it is called Pinot Evil.

Cute, I thought at first, but the more I analyzed it, shouldn’t the label have just one monkey standing upright with his back to us and stream of er, well, you get the picture…

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Official Cheese Doodle of the Boston Red Sox

Wise. They also make the Official Potato Chip of the team too.

“Looks like it is coming down on Landsdowne St, better call 1-800 Fifty-Four GIANT” “Dave how’s your new Azek Deck coming along?” “Now at Papa Gino’s, buy any Rustic Pizza and get a small traditional cheese pizza FREE!”

Not only do I hear all those commercials between innings of the baseball game, but now these guys are squeezing little comments into the middle of their play by play. I’m almost immune to the ads though, but something happened the other day that was very disturbing. When I fired up the media player to listen to the FRS, before the radio broadcast came on there was an actual video commercial. I don’t remember what it was for I was so in shock. Disturbing, I could no longer, turn on the game in progress and get in with the usual 1 minute delay, now I had to wait another minute sitting through yet another plea for my money. At least it doesn’t seem to be an everyday thing, I only saw it once, but my innocence is lost.

Washed the Miata yesterday because it needed it and I figured I was safe because they weren’t calling for rain for about a half dozen days. Today the Weather Channel revised their forecast, it is now going to rain tomorrow or the next day and then there is a small chance of rain for the whole rest of week.

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It’s The Patriotic Thing To Do

This picture is on the other half of the squadron’s page in the cruise book. These are the guys that were responsible for keeping the airplane in flying shape – scary huh?

In case you have been living under a rock, gas prices have been creeping up and now the average price of regular gas nationally is just a tick under four bucks. Internal combustion engines are at their least efficient when starting from a dead stop, so in the interest of helping America throw off the shackles of dependence on foreign oil I propose that we now treat stop signs and red lights as yield signs – if it is clear, just keep on rolling.*

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* the Legal Department here at Mr. Miata want you to know that while this is advice is patriotically sound, it may violate local ordinances, so follow it at your own risk.

IO

Navy speak for the Indian Ocean. A couple days ago I got a comment on a post from a squadronmate from back in the VQ-1/ U.S.S. Midway days, some 30 odd years ago. I remembered the name, but couldn’t put a face to it (not surprisingly because sometimes when I look at my picture from back then, I barely recognize me.) Kevin isn’t in the picture that I have posted in the Midway Gallery already, so I went up in the attic and rummaged through some boxes to find my cruise book from the Midway IO cruise in 1977. He isn’t in that one either.

I am, but you wouldn’t know it if you were looking at the book, my name was omitted. I’m the tall good looking one in the back row. 😀 I scanned the page to post the picture here and edited it to include my name.

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Lave Sus Manos Por Favor

Nearly every public bathroom I have been in in the last decade has had a sign on the door or stickers on the towel dispensers informing folks that for proper hygiene they should wash their hands after using the restroom and employees must wash them.

More recently, the signs are displayed in two languages; English for the majority and Spanish for the soon to be majority.

Tonight we had dinner in a Mexican restaurant and the signs were there, but only in one language. You would think that with 100% of the employees of the establishment being Latino in descent that that language would have been Spanish, but you would have been wrong. Nothing but English.

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That Was Rude

The latest disc from Netflix is House: Season 2 Disc 5. It includes episodes 2-17 “All In“, 2-18 “Sleeping Dogs Lie“, 2-19 “House vs. God” & 2-20 “Euphoria, Part 1“. Part 1? That means there must be a Part 2 and it’s on the next disc. We’re humped. Guess we are going to go to the local video store to see if we can get House: Season 2 Disc 6.

If you are a regular reader here you’ll remember my trials with the lighted keyboard, I guess I need to spend more than $75 to get a quality one. Maybe I just need to spend 25 times that total – Optimus Maximus!. While you are there, poke around the site a bit, some really col stuff there…

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I Turned Pro

I finally coughed up the twenty five bucks to get a pro account on Flickr! I turned my original account where all the South Carolina Post Office photos to the “pro” level so all of the 390 I have taken so far can been seen, not just the latest 200. I was also bumping into the 200 photo limit on my second free account, so instead of creating yet another free Flickr account I just went ahead and turn Pro.

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