Another Big Announcement

I realize that I am not very good as maintaining this BLOG, but for those of you who still periodically check, you'll be rewarded...

I am currently going through a training process for something... yes I realize I'm being vague about this something. The training process will end on August 20th, and until then it is a twice a week, intensive training in the evenings. Once it's done, I'll tell everyone what the training is for and why I'm doing it.

But until then, to give you something to ponder, last evening we talked about subjects entitled:

Infectious Material Control and Weapons Control.

Also, for this training I was given a 16 page background questionnaire than I need to get filled out.

Question #1 (and I'm not kidding): "Please describe your childhood."
Question #4 (and I'm really not kidding about this one): "Please describe your current relationship with your mother and father."

The rest of the questionnaire deals with personality type questions, more family relationship questions, conflict resolution questions, situational questions (how would you deal with X), and such.

In addition to the questionnaire, there will be an FBI background check conducted on me (and those above the age of 18 living in my house -- talked to my brother about this one last night).

Now, for those of you who know me... if the questionnaire about the family issues don't sink me, the FBI background check could prove interesting.

I know the types of things that will turn up on mine (I've had one's done previous)... nothing that will scuttle my endeavor, but I'm willing to bet that I'm one of the few people (if anybody else at all) that will have anything turn up.

Stay tuned for more details.

Sign Poker

Mr. OldMan...

I'll see your spelling mistake sign, and raise you this sign. Like your's, this one came from my work place.

Beware the Marauding Mucouser!!



Ah... The joy of public restrooms!

Are you kidding me?!?!? Miss Teen South Carolina

I personally believe that, like she is like, an idiot. Relax, this is work-safe, unless you were one of her teachers, then you should be fired. (You'll need the subtitles just so that you can verify she is actually saying what she is saying.)

MLB Mercy Rule

I guarantee, I will not be the only one to blog about this, but the Texas Rangers beat the Baltimore Orioles 30-3. Isn't there a mercy rule in MLB? There is in Little League Baseball. And if there is not, shouldn't there be? Seriously.

Now, I will admit that my interest in baseball is passing at best, and I really don't understand ALL the statistics and data.. ERA for example.

As it was explained to me (and it could be wrong), they extrapolate how many runs a pitcher gave up for the amount of innings they pitched to determine what that pitcher would have given up, should he pitced an entire 9 inning game -- for example, a pitcher pitches 1 complete inning, and gives up 1 run. His ERA would be 9 -- assumes he would give up 1 run per inning (I'm sure I will be corrected if I'm wrong). So for an Orioles pitcher who gave up 10 runs, and pitched say... 1 inning (or worse... part of an inning). To give up 10 runs in 1 inning, would (according to my calculations) equal an ERA of 90... I think an average ERA is 3~5... but and ERA of 90? not good!

I Tawt I Taw a Putty Tat

The local Bob Evan's Restaurant has a balloon artist come in on Saturday and Sunday mornings to entertain the patrons by making balloon art for you while you eat. If you think about it, it's a pretty good idea. Kids will want to return again and again to get new balloon art, and the adults sometimes enjoy it as well.

I know that the artist at least has my wife going back for more art, several Sundays in a row so far. She's even got her next couple of requests planned. I figure, it keeps her entertained and happy.

This morning, we got to talking to him while he was doing Tweety. He pops about 2% of his balloons, and he goes through about 1,200 balloons per week -- he does dinner "shows" at a couple area restaurants, in addition to the breakfast gig he has at Bob Evans.

He also does, weddings, birthdays, corporate events, fundraisers, etc... He's actually quite talented, and pretty fun to watch. The wife has the idea of having him at the next SPCA fundraiser that occurs (she's a volunteer there). Not a bad idea, considering they really try to gear these events towards families, and kids especially.

Exploding Cantaloupe

OK... Perhaps "exploding" is too strong a word here, but I'll describe the incident, and you let me know.

I bought a cantaloupe from our local Giant grocery store last weekend -- I've been meaning to post this for a while, but just haven't.

I didn't get to cutting up the cantaloupe as I had planned, so when I went to bed that night, I just left it sitting on the counter -- it's not refrigerated at the grocery store, so why should I have to refrigerate it at home?

Well, when I came down the next morning, small cracks had formed on the cantaloupe and the cantaloupe juice had leaked out. However, the most disconcerting thing was that the top of the cantaloupe was covered in some type of foam substance.

Anybody ever hear of this type of thing?