Just case some have been pestering you…
Should husband visit a dominatrix?
Check out the first story at this Dear Abby type on the Internet magazine Slate.
I personally am thinking this ole boy has more issues than a monkey on a rock, and why the heck is she staying with him. But that is me. Any thoughts, any comments…
Bah…Humbug…
Folks around here have started decorating for Christmas. I, being who I am, have hung pictures of Scrooge and the Grinch on the outside wall of my cube. I’ve also added a picture of a Santa Claus hat with a big diagonal slash through it.
This morning I added a stuffed Santa Claus that makes Scrooge like comments when he is squeezed. He has a Christmas tree with a slash through it as part of his outfit. Some anonymous person hung this on my cube wall last year.
My boss got a call at home last night complaining about my decorations. My boss declined to identify the caller. The caller told my boss, “You know that David is not of our belief.”
“What belief is that?”
“Well… he does not believe in Santa Claus” Continue reading “Bah…Humbug…”
Buying Vehicles via Internet
I’ve bought two cars via the Internet now. The first was a used car and the second was a new vehicle.
I found my 2006 Mazda MX-5 on Autotrader.com. It was 9 months old at the time. A guy about my age had it, but was marrying a younger woman with two kids. He needed a family car, and was sadly selling his sports car. She must have been quite a woman. I checked the Carfax report and that came back clean. The car was actually in Albuquerque and I was in St. Louis. However, I have a cousin in Albuquerque who is a car guy and into sports cars. He went by and took a look at the Mazda and drove it, and reassured me that it was in good condition. I made a very good deal with the gentleman because as “they” say he was a very motivated seller. That motivation and the fact that he had been having a hard time finding a buyer worked in my favor. I hopped on a plane, Continue reading “Buying Vehicles via Internet”
“Sometimes anal is good”
We had a minor crisis at work. I work on the Oracle HRMS system for a utility. After applying a patch and upgrade we could not transfer the time from the time card system over to the Payroll system. People like to get paid so we were more than a little motivated to get it fixed.
We gathered together as a team to work on the problem which took more than a few hours to fix. People were getting somewhat tense. Programmers as a group are on the OCD side and when we get stressed it tends to bring out this side even more.
Somebody wanted to double check something a different way. He apologized for being anal, but he said he needed to do this.
I remarked that, “Sometimes anal is good.”
The room all of sudden got real quite.
I realized what I had just said.
The Tradition Continues
When my kids were in grade school, I would occasionally have them do “book reports” for various reasons. They were never very happy when I assigned them one, but they did do them…grudgingly. My daughter is much older now and she seems to have fond memories of doing the book reports, at least a few of them.
David and his family visited us recently in St. Louis. David and Brandie were determined to not waste a moment of the weekend and we visited many of the sites in town including the Arch. In the gift shop at the Arch they had a place mat with all the presidents on it. I purchased one, I though for me. The grand-kids made such a fuss over the place mat that I gave it to them with the stipulation they give me a book report on a president whenever their report cards came out. The tradition continues.
I am still waiting for Jordon’s report. Below is Teagan’s report. Continue reading “The Tradition Continues”
The Itch
Once upon a time lived a beautiful Queen with large breasts.
Ted the Dragon Slayer obsessed over the Queen for this reason.
He knew that the penalty for his desire would be death should he try to touch them, but he had to try.
One day Ted revealed his secret desire to his colleague, Horatio the Physician, the King’s chief doctor.
Horatio thought about this and said that he could arrange for Ted to more than satisfy his desire, Continue reading “The Itch”
My Modeling Career
There is a security guard where I work, a white woman of ancient years. I say ancient as she 10 or 15 years older than I, that must push her over into antiquity. She stopped me the other day as I was returning to my desk from one of my many bathroom runs. She knows from a prior conversation that I used to work for the parent company of Saks Fifth Avenue.
She asked me, “You used to work for a clothing store, right? Did you model for them?”
I looked at her funny and replied, “No I programmed for them like I program here. Why do you think that?”
“Well,” she said, “you walk with such good posture and your wear your hair long and a little different.”
My hair is on the longish side, and I have taken to putting a bit of gel in it and combing it straight back. I would have to admit it is not the typical hairstyle you see in corporate America.
Just picking at her I asked, “Are you trying to ask me if I am light in my loafers, as male models have that reputation.”
She tries to back pedal a little, and I then I decide to let her off the hook. I tell her, “I have a bit of bad back that forces me to walk with good posture or bent over depending on how it is feeling. And as for my hair I guess we all have our affectations.”
The ole Rev. was male model for Saks Fifth Avenue, who would have known?
Our Song
Robin does not know it yet, but I have decided that this is “our song”.
Okie Proud
Oklahomans passed a state constitutional amendment to ban Sharia Law. Specifically the amendment states, “orders judges to not to consider Islamic or international law when deciding cases.” I’m not sure why this was all of sudden an issue worthy of a constitutional amendment in Oklahoma. I’m guessing it opened up to the lawmaker that proposed this a lot of publicity.
Rick Tepker, a law professor at the University of Oklahoma School of Law told CNN, “”I would like to see Oklahoma politicians explain if this means that the courts can no longer consider the Ten Commandments. Isn’t that a precept of another culture and another nation?” He listed off several other possible consequences that have not been really thought through. Complete article here: Oklahoma may have banned use of Ten Commandments along with Sharia law
Another article on Okie attempt at an constitutional amendment What Makes a Will Islamic?
In an unrelated story, the state of Arizona executed Jeffrey Landrigan. He was originally from Bartlesville, Oklahoma and a big fan of Sooner football. His last utterance before they injected him was, “Boomer Sooner”, the Sooner fight song.
Yet another reason to be “proud” – Read about the Oklahoma charity in this article. It is among the worst in the nation.
Add in the two reality challenged chumps, Jim Inhoffe and Tom Coburn, that Oklahomans have elected as Senators and I am beginning to thinking about changing my tagline.
I’m just so proud to be an Okie…not.