Archive for November, 2005

What type of smart am I

Thursday, November 17th, 2005

All-Around Smart
You are all-around smart. Essentially, that means that you are a good combination of your own knowledge and experience, along with having learned through instruction - and you are equally as good with theoretical things as you are with real-world, applied things. You have a well-rounded brain.
20% applied intelligence20% natural intelligence

Take this [...]

tired

Tuesday, November 15th, 2005

ok, up early of course. Except, it was at 3:30 cause I woke up. A little bit of sleep later, I’m up again at 5:40
I started training my replacement. We’ll see how he does.
Went home, had a nice chat with my mom about the future, work, boats, girls. She finally pulled the “if you want [...]

Busy week ahead of me

Monday, November 14th, 2005

Tonight: Scout Committee Meeting. Starts at 7:30, should be done by 8:30, but will probably run till 10. Some people just talk too much….
Tomorrow: Train my replacement at work. Then a Scout meeting
Wednesday: More training of my replacement. He’ll be my shadow till I tell him he’s ready. Sooner the better of course…. Then a [...]

New Simpsons

Sunday, November 13th, 2005

This new Simpsons episode, with the crazy opening sequence was excellent. We need more scenes of Moe and his shotgun.

Crisis on Infinite Earths

Friday, November 11th, 2005

On reading Crisis on Infinite Earths

Names that crop up over and over again

Friday, November 11th, 2005

On phone calls, names that crop up, and being a superhero

U.S. [trade] deficit at $66-billion, shatters high

Friday, November 11th, 2005

The Globe and Mail: U.S. deficit at $66-billion, shatters high
Youch. Our total trade deficit for last month was 66 billion dollars. That’s 66 billion that left our country for other countries.
Most of this was caused by massive oil importing, after the two hurricanes. But a large chunk (20.1 billion) was still China, who imports [...]

New Pants

Thursday, November 10th, 2005

So I’m wearing a new pair of pants today. Ok, second day I’ve worn them.
What happens?
I get glued spilled on them. Just a little dab. I get it somewhat washed out with cold water, but it’s still highly visible. On a pair of new black jeans.
Dag nab it.
Oh yeah, I got woken up at [...]

Sozzled elks hound old folks home

Wednesday, November 9th, 2005

Drunk elk attack elderly couple’s house in Sweden. We now need to ban fermented old apples, to save us from this drunk elk menance!

Comments like this…

Wednesday, November 9th, 2005

Comments like this:

But state Senate leader Don Perata, a Democrat from Oakland, said Tuesday night that Schwarzenegger had “sowed the seeds of his own demise” by taking on the full gamut of public workers, who make up more than half of the union members in California.
“He got a lot of really bad advice,” Perata [...]