July 2007

299

Even if I can’t drag anything out of my sick and twisted brain to post in the next ten minutes (as if that is ever a problem) I definitely wanted to make sure that I broke my record of 298 posts on this site in one month. This one is #299. BFG right? The more posts, the more traffic, the more money.

Aha.

Actually it’s not all about the money or else I would keep posting on those days like I was having last week where I just had nothing to say or only put up one or two posts. Some days I just don’t have shit to say and others I get diarrhea of the mouth, or in this case of the keyboard.

Jesus Appears On A Garage Floor

Looks a bit like a vagina to me..Jesus…Vagina…Jesus…Vagina.

Either way, they are wanting to make some money for it.

You know, I took a dump last night and could have sworn Buddha popped out of my bung hole. I wonder if I could make a little extra cash for the little Buddha on my basement floor (that’s where the wife is making me sleep lately).


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Time For An Apology

Now that we as American Citizens have apologized to the Japanese Americans for imprisoning them during WWII and we’ve apologized for enslaving blacks, it’s about darn time for someone else to apologize for their transgressions.

Bermuda

One of the places I would love to go on Vacation is Bermuda. Not quite as hot as the rest of the Caribbean as it is 650 miles east of North Carolina, the main vacation season in Bermuda is just the opposite of the rest of the islands. Most of them have their main seasons from December through March but Bermuda is supposed to have it’s best weather in the summer time.

The Bermuda Islands or Somers Isles as they are also known are a British overseas territory, the oldest remaining in the Kingdom of Great Britain. There are 138 islands in a total area of about 20 square miles.

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Photograph copyright Bermuda Ministry of Tourism & Transport

Bermuda’s population is somewhere around 65,000, about that of a small city. The weather in Bermuda is pretty temperate as well. The average summer time high in July and August are 85 degrees. May and June are 75 to 80, which is probably about the time I would want to go, although as I normally just want to hang out and drink beer January and February might just be the right time for me to go. Less crowds, less heat. Perfect, particularly if you want to walk everywhere.

From what I was reading about when to go to Bermuda, the off-season does sound pretty good to me particularly as the prices are much better, but this is also when most of the hotels and resorts do their major repairs and renovations. It wouldn’t be good to make reservations and then find out I was staying in the midst of a construction zone.

Everything I have read about Bermuda leads me to believe that the weather would be about what I am used to from Hilton Head, only slightly milder since you have the gulf stream going right through there. A perfect vacation spot in other words. I still haven’t given up on Key West in January but Bermuda is certainly sounding much better and it would be a shorter flight as well and since I hate flying with a passion, that’s always a bonus. It would give me an excuse to use that new camera too.


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Finally A Day Off

It’s been a pretty darned long week. I managed to get some major clean-up finished at my worst store since the manager has been on vacation. I straightened up all of his stuff as well and got everything organized, since being neat and organized seriously helps speed up the job. We’ll have to wait and see how long that lasts. My boss and I are supposed to be meeting there in the morning for a little chat with the manager and that should prove interesting to say the least.

I have to run to Carrollton at some point today and visit the Social Security office. RePete is starting pre-K this year and I need her Social Security card. Not that I am going to allow the school to have her information, but I need her SS card anyway. The letter I received from her school showed proof of residence and SS cards among the items we are supposed to bring next week. Being against giving out my children’s social security numbers, I did some research and they have to let my daughter in when I refuse to give it to them, so I will be making an ass of myself at some point next week, not that that’s different from any other day of course..

Today should prove to be a fairly busy day as well. I have a ton of posting that I need to do, I have a computer to fix, and I need to get my closet cleaned out. Cleaning the closet will be the hardest part of the day. Computer equipment, old clothes, receivers. Hell, there might even be a dead body or two lying around in there.

NRCSA Study Abroad Programs

The NRCSA has been around for 37 years assisting 80,000+ students by evaluating study programs abroad, evaluating them and finding the ones that fit what you are looking for. Start out with the NRCSA Study Abroad Programs by finding the category that fits you right. There are programs to fit every type of student whether they be a mature adult, a teen, or a teacher among a list of varied categories.

There are 36 different language choices in 42 different countries around the world that the NRCSA deals with and all of the NRCSA schools have been rated as the best in their area. Students rate the schools by different criteria and you can find the top lists in each category on their web site. Over 300 universities in the United States have formal programs with foreign schools involved with NRCSA and most of them lean heavily on language immersion training and area studies. Some of the others specialize in business and education.

Sooner or later all of the kids in the house will be grown and I will eventually go back to school. I would love to participate in some type of foreign studies program and expand my knowledge.


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Tramp Stamp Tuesday

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I’m not at all sure what that is but it looks like an alien is about to eat her ass.


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Links directory

It is brand new and I still need to edit the default template but I have set up a links directory at www.shadowscope.com/links, if you are interested in being added it is free, just requires a reciprocal link on your main page. As it is a new installation if you have any problems or issues just let me know.

Another Day…

…another dollar.

Halfway through this dude’s vacation. The week hasn’t gone too terribly bad. My relief manager is back to work today and he will be with me so hopefully it won’t go too bad. Unfortunately one of my other managers is off today so once I finish at the first store at two or three this afternoon I have to go spend a couple of hours at the other one. That sort of sucks.

Last night I ended up having to be at shift change at two different stores, which was quite interesting. I got to the first one, changed the till, made sure they had everything and rushed to the other one to repeat. I actually managed to get both stores taken care of in less than an hour and a half and was home by ten.

I don’t think today will go quite so smoothly but it would be nice if it does…

Muscular Dystrophy Association

I have participated in the annual local MDA Lock-up a couple of times over the last few years at work. It’s a pretty cool deal. Basically the Muscular Dystrophy Association sets up at a local businesses, in the case of Carrollton at a restaurant called The Mansion, invite a bunch of business owners and managers to participate in raising money. On the morning in question, local cops show up at work and “arrest” you and take you there, where you eat breakfast and spend a couple of hours on the phone harassing you friends and family to raise money for MDA awareness, unless of course you have already raised your goal in which case you just hang out for awhile and maybe only call one or two.

I always enjoy it and have raised a little bit of money for them. It’s a good cause and you also get to meet local business owners and network with them. I’m not even sure if/when they had it this year in Carrollton though. We also participate in the shamrocks program every year in March, which doesn’t go over very well because of course the waitresses all think that the folks giving the dollar will leave $1 less of a tip, so they are difficult to get to participate. I can understand that because in a lot of cases they are right. Anyway, when we were setting up and getting our shamrocks I asked the representative about the lock-up and she couldn’t give me an answer because it was apparently the responsibility of another region or something like that but she would make sure to give my phone number to whomever was responsible for setting up. They never called and I completely forgot about it. So much for that this year. It’s still a really good cause and I will just make sure to contact MDA directly next year should I decide to participate.

You can also go straight to the MDA website if you want to make a tax-deductible donation or go over to Charity Navigator which is a site that lists thousands of charities and rates them. They have all kinds of useful information such as the CEO’s salaries and how effective each charity is in spending the money as well as how much overhead is being generated.

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