WEATHER BULLETIN

For those of you who are not aware, North Dakota and southwestern Montana got hit with their first blizzard of the season about 3 weeks ago. Colorado was getting stuff this Thanksgiving weekend.

This text is from county emergency manager out in the western part of North Dakota state after the storm.


Amusing...


WEATHER BULLETIN


Up here in the Northern Plains we just recovered from a historic event --- may I even say a "Weather Event" of "Biblical Proportions" --- with an historic blizzard of up to 24" inches of snow and winds to 50 MPH that broke trees in half, stranded hundreds of motorists in lethal snow banks, closed all roads, isolated scores of communities and cut power to 10's of thousands.

• George Bush did not come....


• FEMA did nothing....


• No one howled for the government...


• No one even uttered an expletive on TV...


• Nobody demanded $2,000 debit cards.....


• No news anchors moved in.

We just melted snow for water, sent out caravans to pluck people out of snow engulfed cars, fired up wood stoves, broke out coal oil lanterns or Aladdin lamps and put on an extra layer of clothes.

Even though a Category "5" blizzard of this scale has never fallen this early...we know we live in a place where this kind of thing can happen. So we've learned how to deal with it ourselves.

Everybody is doing just fine at the present. Relief is on the way.

Recent Tack Room activity...

Well, the tack room (a.k.a., exercise room, private dojo, etc.) is painted and the built-in cabinets are now fully installed (a little trimming on the right side was necessary, but nothing that handy dandy jig saw won't take care of). I think I will treat the ceiling to another bit of plaster and painting, but that will be another time. It's starting to rain out here and I need to get the "stuff" inside before the tarps blow off or leak or "whatever" and I have more problems than I need.

Over turkey day holiday I moved the fridge and freezer (defrosting included) and those two items are in their final position. The room received the remaining cleaning it needed... mucho grosso behind the freezer...    

More stuff to be put away or taken to Goodwill, I hope to have a usable exercise room in a couple of weeks.

Sad News ( The television I thought we might use out here won’t turn on…)

Pictures will be posted. Stay tuned!    

Can you believe it?

I was in Kansas City last week, but somehow I missed getting ANY of that famous BBQ!

Recent Visitor

an omen for anything?

RFP conversation snippets

During a recent conference all, someone joined the conference bridge and there was a subsequent amount of airport background noise. The conference coordinator asked, "Who joined the call, please?" The answer was "Those are the voices inside my head."

flowers

the best ones are the ones from your daughter! :-)

How to Carve a Pumpkin

How to Carve a Pumpkin

By Julia Posz

Hi, and welcome to how to carve a pumpkin with Julia. The first thing you need is a round, clean orange pumpkin from the store. Now that you have you’r pumpkin get a strong sharp knife and cut a circle around the top then take the top off and get the seeds out. Now that you have the seeds out you may get a tracer of a princess, vampire, or an old fashen one. Then get you’r knife and start tracing the design. Finally you need a little candle then light it and there it is. You made a Halloween pumpkin so now set it outside so every one can see! See you next time!

Happy Halloween!

Light Bulb replacement

Light Bulb replacement

click here to view article    

The Story of the Five Balls

The Story of the Five Balls - from "Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas" by James Patterson

Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called

• Work,


• Family,


• Health,


• Friends, and


• Integrity.

And you're keeping all of them in the air.

But one day you finally come to understand that Work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back.

The other four balls -- Family, Health, Friends, Integrity -- are made of glass. If you drop one these, that ball will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered. And once you truly understand the lesson of the five balls, you will have the beginnings of balance in your life.

---

I know I need to get more BALANCE in my life. I hope I will remember this.

I also know a lot of people are all working very hard for the company. And while we hope that these work activities become something positive, we all need to have this BALANCE and to a certain extent, set some limits. I have witnessed a couple of the team members on various projects go beyond their own limits, which then creates a new set of problems in getting a project done.

So, let’s remember the lesson of the Five Balls.

Set phasers on stun!

Set phasers on stun!

BBC News | Sci/Tech | Set phasers on stun    

Being self-sufficient for 72 hours

http://boxer.senate.gov/Getting_Ready.pdf

Texas RFP joke

Two guys are in the office working on an RFP when one of them collapses.

He doesn't seem to be breathing and his eyes are glazed. The other man pulls out his phone and calls emergency services.

He gasps to the operator: "My friend is dead! What can I do?"

The operator in a calm, soothing voice replies: "Take it easy. I can help. First, let's make sure he's dead."

There is a silence, then a gun-shot is heard.

Back on the phone, the man says, "OK, now what?"

wi-fi signals around my house

There are a lot of wi-fi signals around my house, see my sniffer:

Blonde's answer on a geometry test

Blonde's answer on a geometry test

While working on the "current" RFP response for work, one of my buddies had this moment of disorientation:

got to bed around 2:30, couldn't sleep. popped some benedril to get knocked out, woke at 5:30, disoriented that my clock seemed to be showing the time and not a price.

Strange but True
Urban Legends Reference Pages: Photo Gallery (Water Bridge)

Getting revenge

Getting revenge.

Dead goose knocks out Swedish hunter    

Truth is sometimes, stranger than fiction.
Scared by corpse, burglar phones police

Want to know the chemistry of plaster?
Plaster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A cracking good adventure!
Julia and I are going to see this today.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0312004/

That's just not cricket!
soccermatic

on the garage front, I've put up a little bit more drywall on the ceiling in the corner (my last row of drywall) and insulated the remaining last 2 rows of rafters. I should finish the drywall install this weekend, and perhaps the last of the plaster/taping Monday or Tuesday. I also purchased some eve vents, in order to keep air ventilating in this new "attic"... So much to do, so little time...

We shall see...