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On the Light Side

I won't bore anyone with what has been going on lately (absolutely nothing, basically), so will share funny/strange stuff. This is all from the 12/3/03 edition of the River City Wire (no link available), so I won't vouch for the verasity of any of the following.

In the state of Tennesse, it is illegal to transport a skunk across state lines.

In the state of Rhode Island, it is required by law that you make a loud noise when passing a car on the left. I'm confused, is the car I'm passing on the left, or am I passing on the left? Do the noises that WS makes when he has gas qualify as a "loud noise"?

In North Carolina, it is illegal for a bingo game to last longer than five hours, unless the bingo is being played at a fair.

In Wisconsin, unless a customer orders it specifically, it is against the law to serve margarine instead of butter. I can understand that one, I really like butter and would be upset if I was given a substitute.

The average person falls asleep in 7 minutes. The average person doesn't have to listen to WS's loud snoring either!

A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't. Mules have a reputation of being stubborn, but this is going a bit overboard (maybe not to the mule though).

Spring Time?

Yesterday, while I was shoveling and sweeping snow, I thought how weird it probably would be to other people that I didn't have a coat on, the long underwear was still in the dresser and I had no gloves on. It was a nice warm 23 degrees, with only a light breeze.

This goes along beautifully with my thoughts.

Places I've Been

create your own visited states map
or write about it on the open travel guide

I really need to get to the upper Mid West. If I could have only gone with WS to Sturgis, I could have filled in 4 or 5 more states. Maybe next time!

Link via Parkway Rest Stop (although I also saw it somewhere yesterday).

Tread On

Yesterday I was given the mission of getting new tires for the Wonderful Spouse's motorcycle/tractor/whatever trailer. Now I know nothing about this trailer except that sometimes it hangs out at our place and sometimes it hangs out at Jim's place. Also, according to WS, it tracks really well.

So he dumps both tires into my truck and gives me all the info I need but I'm not really sure where to get them. Stupid me, I didn't realize that National Tire Warehouse and Battery has them (I have never looked at the tires, for all I knew, I would have to get them at a bicycle shop). Anyway, WS was nice and didn't laugh at me too hard when I asked that question.

Crock Pot Chili

This chili recipe is for Sgt. Hook's Chili Cookoff. I try to make things as easy as possible, so use canned beans instead of dried and leave out some of the more exotic ingredients (I have never even heard of Cascabella peppers!).

Hard Driven

Jim, of JimSpot, writes about how not to talk to your PC support person. That reminded me of a conversation with a co-worker just before I was laid off.

Keep in mind that the person I was talking to had used computers for several years.

Looking Forward

I had an appointment with a Temp agency yesterday morning with a company that mainly places Administrative Assistants (and the like), but occasionally get requests for Documentation Specialists. The whole thing took longer than I expected - about 5 hours (including drive time).

The temp agency seems to be very thorough; they perform computer-based testing on the programs that the applicants "say" that they are proficient in. I ended up taking tests on data entry (numeric and alpha numeric), typing speed, Word, Access and Excel.

Oil Delivery

With all the cold weather we have had, I have been keeping a close eye on the level of oil in the tank (for those who don't know, we have an oil burner for heating and hot water). It finally got down to 1/4 tank, so I called at noon on Friday to request that it be filled up. Sidenote: you don't order oil around here, you ask for a delivery.

The gal that I talked to put me on hold for a minute and when she came back on the line, asked how much oil we had. "1/4 of a tank - plenty to go until sometime next week," I explained. She said something to the effect that they couldn't schedule us in for that day (unless it was an emergency). Not a problem.

Retrieved

We got a call on Friday night that my new wedding ring was back from being sized. The call was quite a surprise as I had been told that it would be somewhere after the 27th. We went into town yesterday to pick it up, and the guy that was helping me looked at my reciept and asked if I was sure that they had called.

Yes, I was sure.

Trials and Tribulations

Last night I recieved Norton Internet Security 2004. A natural inclination is to install the program, so that is what I did. Nothing seemed to go wrong, so I didn't think to check how it was acting with my other programs. This morning I couldn't get a connection to from either of my email programs. Fine, sometimes I try to check email while they are updating stuff.

Hmm, okay, can I get to the net? Yes. However, I couldn't get to TypePad and I couldn't check my email thru the net (although I could get to my provider's homepage. I could get to some sites, but not to others. Not a good thing.