Free....How Much Does It Cost?

I can remember looking for cheap was of finding and paying for Halloween gifts. I wanted the small, plastic toys that cost a penny or two. Now a days they might have gone up to a dime or so. Or at least the suppliers want us to think this is so to be given away at a Halloween Party way back in my college years. I was directed to a row of companies just off Broadway, North of the Loop 410, in San Antonio, Texas. I was in cheap toy heaven. We bought more than we needed and came out of the last store with extra cash. That was oh so long ago, long before I knew about free online auctions. Hell if the truth be told, that was before the Internet was born (circa. 1983; I graduated the college I was attending in San Antonio,Texas in 1978)

Help - I Need Help Just Finding The Help

I have needed help for all sorts of reasons. (Whoa what the hell did I just type?) I have needed help for my joint pains more often than other things. Even after I learned that I have the most common form of arthritis I still needed help. Knowing what causes the pain does not help much in lessening the pain, so I sought help. The help clinic I have gone to is more properly called "PT" for Physical Therapy. I use the facilities at Cy-Fair Hospital near Fallbrook Street and FM 1960.
I have also used help to lessen my suicidal thoughts. I have found a need for drug rehab but these pain meds "Could" lead me in that direction. (Whoa what the hell did I just type?)
Ok now for a taste of reality. My Bodacious wife, my brother and da Pup are playing AND Working on the web courtesy of A Great College less than ten miles from the house.

Work Duds

I worked for a bank for almost 30 years. Even towards the end, "business casual" was limited to Fridays...when there wasn't a meeting planned. Other than that, it was dress shirt, tie, dress pants, polished shoes and, preferably, at least a sports jacket, if not a full suit.

Now, I work for a company that has business casual worked to a fine art. Still, there are some standards... and evidently, there have been a few of my co-workers who have erred more towards the "casual" rather than the "business" side of the equation. We've been reminded about what is appropriate, and what might not be.

I mean, they're not requiring fine suits, and a tuxedo shirt would be far out of place. It's just right to remember that a nice pair of pants (or skirt) and a casual, but sharp shirt (or blouse) isn't all that much to ask. I tend to err towards the "business" rather than the "casual", and have caught some flack from co-workers who wonder why I dress so formally. To be honest, I dress the way I do, because that's what I have in my closet. It was only very recently I even owned one pair of jeans.

I've recently acquired a few more pairs of jeans, as I've begun to do a lot of outside work, and I'm developing a new appreciation and admiration for jeans as comfortable clothing.

As time goes by, I miss my job at the bank less, and less and less.

He's Not

Don't cha just love those TV contests? I mean really how hard can it be on a show like Password matching obvious catch phrases like San Jose motorcycle accident attorney to "do you know the way to what chases ambulances on two wheels while making a Hell of a Loud sound like VRooooom? That certainly seems simple to an observer to Norm Mac Donald (psst he's a comedian) and Michael (pssst he's not).

Just Give Him

For oh so many years I have listened to continuing comments that if you put a keyboard in front of a chimpanzee and give him an incentive to type 24 hours a day and 7 days a week (gawd that must be one Hell of an incentive.) At several points in their efforts they will actually type words and possibly one phrase.
Yea Chimps.

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Now onto a form of life that has long had my attention - Orangutan.

It just seems that such a large creature that can be taught so many more tricks a Chimp (realize that these tricks are not the "sit, stay" kind of tricks. The tricks I have seen Orangutans involved in required constant interaction with other animals, caution - some of these other animal claim to be human. I mention the Orangutan as a comparison of typing results. Somewhere on one of an Orangutan's sheets of paper I think I shall find, No I KNOW I Will Find.....San Jose motorcycle accident attorney.

Alphabet Soup

The worst part of a new job isn't learning what your job is, or what every one's names are, nor is it even figuring out the payroll deductions you want to participate in. No, oh no.

The worst part is the alphabet soup. It's the "insiders" language that everyone else speaks, and that you just have to "pick up". It's the storm of cryptic acronyms that come flying at you like mosquito's after dark on a hot summer's night.

So, anyone want to enter a game? Guess the meanings: tdy, ppcm, bcbsnc, maoi, pps...

What's the alphabet soup like at your job?

Product Reviews

I appreciate people who take the trouble to research and present reviews of products. It is a fine line to walk, presenting facts in an objective way. Most reviews like this atrophex review manage to present the product and it's pros (according to the manufacturers) and then are able to research the actual ingredients, their strength and effectiveness and the amounts of those ingredients actually in the product.

I pays to research the things people want you to buy.

Success!

We have fresh tomatoes!! Fresh, red, juicy, tomatoey-tasting tomatoes. All the times Nancy made me get out there and cover those two plants she decided to try to keep alive from the end of last summer because she wanted some tomatoes... Well, it worked. They survived and grew and grew and started setting incredible numbers of the oddest looking things... but it turns out, that even the weirdest of the red.... not round things... were delicious. Tasty, good for me, better than diet supplements, tomatoes.

How funky do they look?

This is probably the weirdest one.. but it can represent the rest...


But they taste good.

Well Shod

A lot has changed in my life in the past ten years. One of the biggest is the near constant presence of women's shoes in my life. Nancy has 8 pairs of black shoes. How many pairs of black shoes should a person need? She has 10 different kinds of brown shoes, some blue shoes, light tan shoes, sandals, shoes with heels, no heels, shoes that I am not sure she's ever worn.


And, I've learned to dread a certain, meditative...look on her face as she looks at her feet. Invariably, that look leads to the words..."You know, I need some new shoes."

I've also learned that I can not go to my female co workers for help explaining this, as it seems to be a fairly wide spread state of mind about shoes. My questions asking why get a funny look and a smile. A smile I am not sure that I understand the meaning of, and one that I'm not sure I want explained.

Like Glue

Nancy mentioned several times on my last fone call to her that Butch is sticking to her like glue this morning.

Suicide is Oft Painess

If ever there was an over the counter supplement that offered so little compared to what it is advertised appetite suppressants come very close to St. John's Wart. The side effects of these two misplaced forms of insanity often bring the purchasers nothing but grief.
For me the best appetite suppressant is exercise. Unfortunately I do not do enough exercise - hehhehehe
As was oft said in a comic strip with a slightly overweight penguin, the best answer is now and has always been - "Eat Less, Exercise More."

Very Tight.

When I am given an assignment at work to create a special identification number, I keep track of the process by writing "1 2 3 R" in a column. I asked those in control of ordering "whatever You Need" about getting custom rubber stamps only to have the purse strings drawn so Very Tight.
Ya can't blame them in this wonderful situation we are in. Hell for that matter blame is the name of the game. I keep hearing asinine comments that we should just let the big three auto makers 'go under'. This statement leaves out all of the smaller, tho just as importnant companies that supply the auto makers with billions of parts, large and small, plastic and metal, made with and without precision.

Closer To Reality

It has become very interesting to hear other folk's comments on my weight loss. People have been so heavily bombarded thru the media of television and radio that the only way you can successfully lose weight is via the diet pill regime. From the belief, usually false, that one diet pill is better than another we are presented with several diet pill reviews.
I can only watch these reviews for a few minutes until reality steps in and the local circus seems closer to reality.