Month: June 2010

Fried Chicken

Our teacher asked us what our favorite animal was, and I said, “Fried chicken.”

She said I wasn’t funny, but she couldn’t have been right, ?cause everyone else in the class laughed.

My parents told me to always be truthful and honest, and I am. Fried chicken is my favorite animal.

I told my dad what happened, and he said my teacher was probably a member of PETA. He said they love animals very much. I do, too … especially chicken, pork and beef.

Anyway, my teacher sent me to the principal’s office. I told him what happened, and he laughed too. Then he told me not to do it again.

The next day in class my teacher asked me what my favorite live animal was. I told her it was chicken. She asked me why, just like she’d asked the other children. So I told her it was because you could make them into fried chicken. She sent me back to the principal’s office again. He laughed, and told me not to do it again.

I don’t understand. My parents taught me to be honest, but my teacher doesn’t like it when I am.

Today, my teacher asked us to tell her what famous person we admire most. I told her, “Colonel Sanders.”

Guess where I am now…

Gorram Batteries

While waiting on the meet up with the MMC for breakfast yesterday and the trip to Trenton to be in the Ridge Peach Festival Parade we thought we would snag a nearby cache. Because this was the only cache we were going to do that day we had brought just the GPSr and the old Pocket PC. Wouldn’t you know it the batteries were dead in the GPSr. Being to cheap to go to the nearby gas station and pay for some AAs we used our geosense and the clue from the notes on the iPAq to come up with the find.

This morning we headed over to North Augusta again with the express purpose of geocaching along the Greeneway again, so we brought the whole kit (including loads of fresh batteries.) I even turned on the GPSr before we left home. So wouldn’t you know it, when we got over to NA and started looking for caches the iPaq we use for notes wouldn’t turn on. An attempt at reboot was no help, sometime between yesterday and today its battery had run down! We attempted 4 caches by using just the ±20′ coords from the GPSr and our geosenses and came up with 2. Not bad, but not Jedi Master material yet.

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109,000 Conversations

Thursday morning on the way to work the Emperor blinked past the 109,000 mile mark.

Thursday night I was surrounded by 109,000 conversations from a couple thousand people. There is that old joke about going to a fight and a hockey game breaking out, well a half dozen of us from the MMC went to a beer bash and a baseball game broke out. It was Thirsty Thursday and small beers were just a buck and a huge chunk of the crowd took advantage of the offer. Donna and I bailed after seven innings to ensure we beat the inebriated to the roads.

Today we threw about 109,000 pieces of candy to folks along a parade loop in Trenton for the 40th Annual Ridge Peach Festival.

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2:30AM

I’ve been listening SKY.fm’s Solo Piano Channel as my background music at work recently and as the name inplies it is just piano music, no vocals, no nothing else. Most of the time it is just what I like have going, but occassionally there will be a song played that stands out, both in a bad way and in a good way. As a bad example, try Rainbow Connection played at about half the pace as Kermit singing in the first Muppet movie. For a good example try 2:30AM by Tom Grant (a 30 second snippet.)

When I first heard that song I felt I had heard it somewhere before. After burning up numerous brain cells trying to come up with it, I finally did. There was a small scene in the 1996 movie The Fabulous Baker Boys (probably most famously remebered for Michele Pfeiffer singing “Making Whoopee” atop a grand piano in a short red dress) where she comes down to the ballroom early one morning at the resort and Jeff Bridges is quietly playing a jazz tune, right there that’s the song.

At least I was sure I did. Dave Grusin was responsable for the soundtrack and there is no mention 2:30AM in anyplace I looked on the web. The Tom Grant tune came out on an album released in 2003, so was Tom influenced by the tune in the movie? Or maybe I have misremembered and the songs are nothing alike. I own the DVD of the movie, I guess I’ll have to pop it in the player and find that scene.

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You’ve Got Mail!

Between Friday at 6:00AM and Monday at 6:00AM I received 171 pieces of Spam at my work email address. 165 of them were caught by the company’s spam gaurdian Postini, 4 ended up in the junk mail folder thanks to Outlook and 2 made it successfully into my inbox.

Here are my favorite subject lines that sound dirty, but probably aren’t:
Do it please from jyfyfiemu5227@tpnet.pl received at 7:47 am on Friday
You don’t have to take bald lying down from Pamela@b2happycinq.info received at 1:47 am on Saturday
Become a Multi-Lingual Master! from info@andlerig.com received at 3:21 pm on Sunday

Biggest volume subject lines:
On Friday with 9 – FIFA World Cup South Africa… bad news
On Saturday with 7 – Angelina Jolie invited you to join Facebook…
On Sunday with 6 – asco.com account notification (our old emal server domain)

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Decimal Steps

Summer is here in Aiken, SC. This weekend the temperatures were supposed to hit the upper 90s, maybe even break the century mark, so earlier in last week Donna and I planned a weekend getaway into the state’s northwest corner where it is mountainous and cooler, plus we could finish up those final 2 counties and 3 DeLorme pages for those geocaching challenges.

As the weekend approached, like all good sailors, we kept a weather eye out on what was in store for northwestern South Carolina. It looked like there was not much relief to be had up there, maybe 4 or 5 degrees cooler with just as much a chance of afternoon showers, so on Friday afternoon we decided to save the couple hundred bucks (and I’d forgo having cinnamon buns for breakfast) by staying home.

Saturday morning we went for a bike ride and grocery shopped returning home by 9:00AM and not leaving the house again except for my trip to the mailbox to pick up the latest Red Envelope full of Law & Order: Season 1. Amazing who has popped up so far in guest starring roles; Samuel L. Jackson in a brief bit as a defense attorney, Philip Seymour Hoffman in his first credited role as an accused rapist, the future Lt. Van Buren, S. Epatha Merkerson, as a mother of a mistakenly shot child and TDTVS’s Harold Perrineau as a young drug dealer.

Sunday we stayed outside a little later, through lunchtime (although the top was up for the last couple of hours) doing some geocaching. We headed over to North Augusta to search for some on the Greenway, an old abandoned railway bed now paved over into a biking/walking trail. We started at one end and after we found one right near the beginning, we were quickly distracted by a cache down by the river, which led to a couple in a new park around some old ponds, which then again led to a new section of the Greenway which parallels real close to the Savannah River and we never really made it to the actual Greenway Greenway.

With our t-shirts soaked with sweat, looking like Jack & Kate after a trip into the island jungle, we called it quits and headed back to the car with 8 finds. Realizing that put us at 458 total Donna said we need two more to make it an “even” four hundred and sixty. We snagged one in a small park outside the Greenway entrance that we had DNF?d a couple of weeks ago then another in a park that we have passed a hundred times and never been in. When I got home and logged that last one I noticed that there was a second one in that park as well. Good thing we didn’t realized that at the time, because if we found it, we probably would have had to find 9 more to make the total even again?

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