I was thinking...

...not very hard mind you, if I messed around with the contrast on the display for the copier most people I work with probably wouldn't know how to correct it and would spend far too long trying to figure it out.

Where did they find these two?

Late yesterday I was sent an email from someone that I am not too fond of so I didn't read his email until this morning. Thankfully it was something I did not have to do so I told him who to contact. Having done that I thought I was done with it and forgot about it until I received another two emails. Here is how they go.

Super Moron,

Can we discuss?

Moron
>>
Moron,

Come over. thanks.

Super Moron

Thanks for copying me and wasting a minute of my time. And another ten minutes by my writing this.

Another conundrum: noodles or soup?

This past weekend my son, my wife and I went to the in laws Saturday and returning home Sunday, arriving just in time for dinner. Now, if we had thought about it in advance we would have taken something out of the freezer and put it in the fridge Saturday morning before we left so we’d have food to cook upon our return. Of course that didn’t happen so we were stuck searching high and low for food to eat.

Not wanting to order out we settled on packages of Mr. Noodles to eat. Thinking this would not be enough for us I suggested having soup to go with it but my wife rejected that saying that we were already having soup in the Mr. Noodles. I countered saying that it was not soup but noodles so we could still have soup. I mean, the name itself suggests it is noodles and not soup. Perhaps this will be another of those eternal conundrums. Or maybe there is a simple answer that eluded us in our “jetlagged” state.

Nightmare!

Last night I had the worst of all nightmares. I was driving my truck on the highway and was pulled over for essentially warning other drivers about the presence of police. The officer somehow locked my ignition so I had to leave my truck on the side of the highway but he was nice enough to offer me a ride. During that ride I saw the list of lame infractions he had written me up for and so I started questioning him about the validity of them. Apparently my arguing worked because he agreed to drive me back to my truck and let me drive it home.

Up to this point this dream wasn’t so bad but it was about to change in a hurry. As we approached the spot where my truck was sitting I noticed a line of cars parked on the shoulder including a fire truck and an ambulance blocking one lane of traffic. Once my truck came into view we saw the accident: right where my truck sat. The officer stopped at the end of the row of cars and I got out and walked to my truck only to find it more resembled an accordion than a motorized vehicle.

I guess that’s what I get for watching the “Demolition Derby” special of Mythbusters before going to bed.

August 2009 Quotes

It does not often happen that the interference of friends will persuade a young man of independent fortune to think no more of a girl, whom he was violently in love with only a few days before.
- Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

As soon as you're born you start dying
So you might as well have a good time
- Cake (Sheep Go To Heaven)

angry people are not always wise
- Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

I often think...that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems so forlorn without them.
- Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

if you put a limit on your growth, then you're dead the minute you reach it.
- Paul Desmarais

If you think too much about the kind of man you are, you can get very confused…
- Paul Desmarais

Money Making is a natural tendency in these days, but never forget that the men who make the acquisition of riches their sole object in life are poor creatures at best.
- Sir Frederick Williams-Taylor

They say business is the law of the jungle. I think it's the law of life. If you want to live and you want to prosper, you've go to be ambitious. You've got to be ready to sacrifice leisure and pleasure, and you've got to plan ahead.
- Roy Thomson

Jesus doesn't want me for a sunbeam
Sunbeams are never made like me
- Nirvana (Jesus Doesn't Want Me For a Sunbeam)

Money in itself doesn't bring happiness. But often the pursuit of money does.
- Jack Clyne

Money can be a great comfort. In large quantities, there is nothing transitory about it, as there is about power.
- Peter C Newman (The Canadian Establishment: Volume One)

In all societies, two classes of people appear…a class that rules and a class that is ruled.
- Gaetano Mosca

Your mind can be your best friend; it can keep you amused even when there's nothing to read, nothing to do. But it can turn on you when it's left with no input for too long.
- Stephen King (The Jaunt)

the only way to talk to a fool was to ignore him.
- Stephen King (The Reaper's Image)

It is not possible for a man to stand alone for long against a thousand enemies.
- Stephen King (The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet)

people are rarely at their best when they are alone. They usually put their masks of politeness, good order and good breeding aside.
- Stephen King (The Eyes of the Dragon)

boys are sometimes better at pledging vows than they are at keeping them…
- Stephen King (The Eyes of the Dragon)

when great things happen, they usually happen fast.
- Stephen King (The Eyes of the Dragon)

the logic of all the wise old men in the world cannot often stand against the logic of a boy's heart, if the boy's heart is large and kind and loyal.
- Stephen King (The Eyes of the Dragon)

Obviously, she was a woman of good sense and clear discernment, dedicated to raising her son properly and not to be held responsible for any inherent flaws in the material she had to work with.
- Stephen King (The Eyes of the Dragon)

in high school the business of irrevocable choices began. Doors slipped shut with a faint locking click that was only heard clearly in the dreams of later years.
- Stephen King (Cujo)

In matters of life and death...the right time only comes around once
- Stephen King (Cujo)

People in love do strange things.
- Stephen King (Cujo)

sometimes it's good to feel like a fool.
- Stephen King (Cujo)

Stand before this faceless crowd
I wonder why I bother
So much control by so few
Stumbling from one disaster to another
- Blue Rodeo (Lost Together)

Sometimes it was just better-kinder to keep up a front.
- Stephen King (Cujo)

The world was full of monsters, and they were all allowed to bite the innocent and the unwary.
- Stephen King (Cujo)