flagstaff, arizona. miles traveled today...550
Saturday, July 08, 2006
Friday, July 07, 2006
Vacation's all I ever wanted....
That's right. I am officially on vacation. Be seeing you.......in 2 weeks. hehe
Thursday, July 06, 2006
Funny Stuff From Dave Barry
BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO TRAVELING BY AIR
"JOKING AROUND WITH THE SECURITY PERSONNEL: Airport security personnel are a wacky and fun-loving group who are bored to death from spending eight hours a day reminding morons to have their boarding passes and photo IDs ready. There is nothing they enjoy more than a good joke or prank, such as the one where you give a victim a can that says 'peanut brittle,' and when he opens it, giant spring-loaded worms come shooting out. Ha ha! That always sets off a round of hearty knee-slapping at the checkpoint. Yes, if you just use your common sense this vacation season, instead of wasting your summer waiting in long hectic lines at the airport, you can spend your time relaxing in the quiet privacy of your federal detention cell. Which is just as well, because your flight was canceled."
Stupid News Story of The Day
(Sir, there's a mouse in my soup!)
Woman jailed for mouse-in-soup scam
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A woman who tried to extort money from the Cracker Barrel restaurant chain by putting a dead mouse in a bowl of soup was sentenced to a year in jail.
Carla Patterson, 38, and her 22-year-old son, Ricky Patterson, sought $500,000 from the chain after claiming they found the rodent in the vegetable soup the woman ordered at a Newport News restaurant on Mother's Day weekend in 2004.
A jury convicted the Pattersons of conspiracy to commit extortion in April. The Pattersons maintained their innocence, but evidence included tests showed the mouse had not been cooked and had not drowned but instead died of a fractured skull.
Carla Patterson wept Wednesday as a judge imposed the jail sentence and a $2,500 fine. Defense lawyer Michael Woods said Patterson plans to appeal.
Ricky Patterson's sentencing, which had been scheduled for Wednesday, was postponed until Sept. 14. He is at Virginia Peninsula Regional Jail in Williamsburg after pleading guilty to forgery in an unrelated check-fraud case.
Wednesday, July 05, 2006
Caption This!
Years of constant nagging by his wife have turned Mike Banks, 35 years of age, into an old man.
Post your own funny caption in a comment if you wanna.
Funny Stuff From Dave Barry
"Congratulations! You have purchased an extremely fine device that would give you thousands of years of trouble-free service, except that you undoubtably will destroy it via some typical bonehead consumer maneuver. Which is why we ask you to PLEASE FOR GOD'S SAKE READ THIS OWNER'S MANUAL CAREFULLY BEFORE YOU UNPACK THE DEVICE. YOU ALREADY UNPACKED IT, DIDN'T YOU? YOU UNPACKED IT AND PLUGGED IT IN AND TURNED IT ON AND FIDDLED WITH THE KNOBS, AND NOW YOUR CHILD, THE SAME CHILD WHO ONCE SHOVED A POLISH SAUSAGE INTO YOUR VIDEOCASSETTE RECORDER AND SET IT ON 'FAST FORWARD', THIS CHILD ALSO IS FIDDLING WITH THE KNOBS, RIGHT? AND YOU'RE JUST NOW STARTING TO READ THE INSTRUCTIONS, RIGHT??? WE MIGHT AS WELL JUST BREAK THESE DEVICES RIGHT AT THE FACTORY BEFORE WE SHIP THEM OUT, YOU KNOW THAT?"
Stupid News Story of The Day
(I just couldn't take any more of his snoring.)
Man prefers jail to being at home with grandpa
ROME (Reuters) - An Italian man escaped from house arrest and begged police to put him in jail because he could not bear living with his grandfather, his lawyer said Monday.
The 30-year old, who could only be identified by his initials A.M., had been placed under house arrest for six months in the Sardinian town of Sassari after a scuffle with a policeman.
But he escaped, and Sunday showed up at a police station in the northern city of Genoa, asking them to arrest him and put him in a cell.
"He said he could not face staying with his grandpa anymore," defense lawyer Pietro Bogliolo told Reuters by phone.
The lawyer said he did not know what the problem between the two was. "It's probably irreconcilable differences," he said.
A Genoa court however ruled Monday that A.M. should return to his grandfather's house and spend an additional two months and 20 days there because of his escape.
Saturday, a Sicilian man also asked police to put him in prison rather than have him confined to his house, saying he did not have enough money to buy himself food. He later returned to house arrest after police gave him food supplies for a few days.
Tuesday, July 04, 2006
Things that make me go hmmmmmmm
I saw this commercial today for some tool that will get rid of your pet's hair so your pet won't shed, thereby eliminating the pet hair that gets all over the carpets, couches, etc. All fine and dandy so far. But, then they went on to say that they are including, FREE OF CHARGE, a lint remover that will also remove shedded pet hair. Now, why would you need this if the darned tool that they are sending you will eliminate that shedded hair??? That question has been driving me nuts all day.
Monday, July 03, 2006
Mondays usually suck, but...
It's Monday, and ordinarily, I would be saying, "this sucks," or "Mondays bite," or "oh woe is me." But not today. Why, might you ask? Why is this Monday-hating-sleepy person unable to say that today sucks? Well, I will tell you why. It is just a mere 4 days til I go on vacation for 2 weeks. Yesssirrreee, buddy. 2 weeks of no work! Yesssssssssss.
I am going to New Mexico for my vacation, and the best part is I don't have to drive!! I am gonna be able to sit my ass in the car and actually enjoy the scenery and be able to nap when I want and to read a book or listen to my cd player or just daydream. I am gonna take pictures...tons of pictures. I have 3 camera batteries all charged up and ready to go and 2 empty memory cards (1 512KB and a 1GB card) so I will be able to take tons and tons of pictures. I al so looking forward to getting out of this hot, ass city and head out to the mountains. I wanna go already!
We are leaving for New Mexico on Saturday so, as of Friday, there won't be any blogging from me for a long while. So don't worry. I am not disappearing from the face of the earth....just from Bakersfield (hehe). If I can figure out the whole mobile blogging thing, then maybe I might be able to post pictures from my cell phone on here. I gotta figure out how that works first though - lol.
I am so excited cuz I am gonna get to see Carlsbad Caverns. I have ALWAYS wanted to go there, ever since I was a little kid of about 5 or 6 and saw pictures of the caverns. It is the second place on my list of places I wanna see in my lifetime...first being Yellowstone National Park. I am so stoked about going. I can't wait.
With all this excitement, you'd think I would have already taken off. But no. I have to wait a few more days for that. But it's all good. I am off tomorrow for the 4th of July, and off on Friday, so this week will only be a 3 day work week for me. Yippeeeeeee. Vacation, here I come.
I am going to New Mexico for my vacation, and the best part is I don't have to drive!! I am gonna be able to sit my ass in the car and actually enjoy the scenery and be able to nap when I want and to read a book or listen to my cd player or just daydream. I am gonna take pictures...tons of pictures. I have 3 camera batteries all charged up and ready to go and 2 empty memory cards (1 512KB and a 1GB card) so I will be able to take tons and tons of pictures. I al so looking forward to getting out of this hot, ass city and head out to the mountains. I wanna go already!
We are leaving for New Mexico on Saturday so, as of Friday, there won't be any blogging from me for a long while. So don't worry. I am not disappearing from the face of the earth....just from Bakersfield (hehe). If I can figure out the whole mobile blogging thing, then maybe I might be able to post pictures from my cell phone on here. I gotta figure out how that works first though - lol.
I am so excited cuz I am gonna get to see Carlsbad Caverns. I have ALWAYS wanted to go there, ever since I was a little kid of about 5 or 6 and saw pictures of the caverns. It is the second place on my list of places I wanna see in my lifetime...first being Yellowstone National Park. I am so stoked about going. I can't wait.
With all this excitement, you'd think I would have already taken off. But no. I have to wait a few more days for that. But it's all good. I am off tomorrow for the 4th of July, and off on Friday, so this week will only be a 3 day work week for me. Yippeeeeeee. Vacation, here I come.
Caption This!
Was it a case of woman bites dog or dog bites woman? Find out after the break.
post your own funny caption in a comment if you wanna.
Random Fact of The Day
It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.
Funny Stuff From Dave Barry
BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO TRAVELING BY AIR
"HOW TO GO THROUGH THE SECURITY CHECKPOINT: Have your boarding pass and photo ID ready. Remove all your possessions from your pockets and put them in a plastic tray. Have your boarding pass and photo ID ready. Remove your belt, shoes, pacemakers, and any large dental fillings and put them in another plastic tray. Have your boarding pass and photo ID ready. Remove your laptop computer and put this in another plastic tray. FOR GOD'S SAKE HAVE YOUR BOARDING PASS AND PHOTO ID READY. Put everything - trays, bags, children under two - on the moving belt, then stand in a nonterroristic manner until the security person signals to you, at which time, while holding your boarding pass and photo ID up nonthreateningly, you should shuffle meekly forward until your pants fall to the floor."
Stupid News Story of The Day
(Bad monkey!)
Monkey on the run in Virginia
ROANOKE, Va. - A Japanese monkey aptly named Oops bolted from the Roanoke city zoo, sparking a park-wide shutdown as staff searched the surrounding forest where they could hear her in the trees.
The 20-pound Japanese macaque and her family were being moved from their holding cells to the exhibit for routine feeding and cleaning when she got away Sunday morning, said David Jobe, education curator at Mill Mountain Zoo. She was still on the run Monday morning.
"We hope that because they're active in the daytime, she slept last night and woke up this morning hungry," Jobe said. "We hope to take advantage of a hungry monkey."
At 11, Oops is the youngest of four so-called snow monkeys at the zoo. The furry, light brown monkey with the red face got her name because the others were not supposed to reproduce.
Jobe said he believes she is staying in the forest so she can be in earshot of her family. It's her first trip out of the zoo, and while the staff hadn't seen her since Sunday morning, they heard her throughout the day Sunday as they searched in the forest that surrounds the zoo, he said.
"Part of our concern for her is that it's the first time she's ever been anywhere else and we're sure she's frightened," Jobe said.
The four-acre zoo, which sits on a mountain inside a Roanoke city park, had never had an escape from its grounds in its 55 years until Sunday, Jobe said. At some point while the monkeys were being shifted, either a zoo employee made a mistake or a piece of equipment malfunctioned, Jobe said.
Both the zoo and park were closed on of the busiest weekends of the year for the search. About 75,000 people usually visit the zoo each year.
"Hopefully it will work to our advantage that she escaped alone," Jobe said, adding that if she were with another monkey they would be more apt to explore.
He urged anyone who spots the macaque to call 911 and not try to capture her because she could be dangerous if she feels threatened. Japanese macaques, native to Japan, are typically 2 to 4 feet long and have relatively short tails.
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