NEVER JET HOT

I overheard my sister telling another sister that her horoscope says that today she should "Ride the whitewater rapids of thought with impunity". Hell, I'm not even a Virgo, but I do that all the time. I haven't been battered against the rocks of life by the swift water of despair yet.

I have taken to renting old movies from Netflix, the commercials on regular TV have rendered them unwatchable. (Are there more commercials, or am I just getting spoiled?) Last night we saw “Bad Day at Black Rock”, a postwar western drama, featuring Spencer Tracy as a man who seeks to present a military award to the father of the man who died saving our hero’s life in WWII. (I’m not giving anything away, it says all this in the movie trailer.) Black Rock is a town that can only exist as a movie set. The only work or economic activity I observed was when the stranger rented a room at the hotel (against the innkeeper’s will), and when the requisite hellfire spitcat woman rents her jeep to him. There is a service station in town, but no one seems to run it; The aforementioned woman drops by and seems to do some paperwork in the office, but later a man pumps gas but there is no one around to pay, and the pumps don’t seem to indicate how much gas you pumped anyway. The other characters p...

Rooting around in my "stuff"... Found this old postcard of Bobo's birthday. Bobo lived at Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo in the 50's and 60's.   This looks like a recipe for disaster, but apparently bobo did not maul the boy who is sneaking up on him here, and he didn't go on a sugar-fueled rampage after eating that cake, killing boy, girl, elderly zookeeper and anyone else in the vicinity. Unless they are covering it up...

Now this fresh hell; "- Some handheld records were not copied to your PC. Your computer may be full or you may have reached the maximum allowed records on the desktop. To correct this situation, delete some records and perform a HotSync operation again. Desktop = 16, Handheld = 15" Right, like my powerful Bill Gates-enables desktop computer can't handle what the puny palm unit dishes out. Poppycock, I say.

I have discovered a wonderful new way to drive myself nutz, Teresa got me a PalmOne Tungsten E2 handheld organizer, it has a color screen and eighteen bazillion things to go wrong. After one successful syncronization with my computer, I got a dreaded FATAL ERROR, and could not seem to reboot the thing. Finally got a "hard reboot" - Now it will sync but it doesn't like it's own photo software anymore??? More to follow.... @$^!#!!!

One afternoon a lawyer was riding in his limousine when he saw two men along the roadside eating grass.   Disturbed, he ordered his driver to stop and he got out to investigate. He asked one man, "Why are you eating grass?"    "We don't have any money for food," the poor man replied.   "We have to eat grass." "Well, then, you can come with me to my house and I'll feed you," the lawyer said. "But sir, I have a wife and two children with me.   They are over there, under that tree." "Bring them along" the lawyer replied.   Turning to the other poor man he stated, "You come with us also." The second man, in a pitiful voice then said, "But sir, I also have a wife and SIX children with me!" "Bring them all, as well," the lawyer answered. They all entered the car, which was no easy task, even for a car as large as the limousine was. Once underway, one of the poor fellows turned...

Dentist - "Try to relax. I'll pull your aching tooth in five minutes." Patient - "How much will this cost?" Dentist - "It`ll be $100." Patient - "That much for just five minutes work?" Dentist - "Well if you prefer, I can pull it out very slowly." *** I am so glad I don't have a dental appointment this week. My dentist is a big Seahawks fan, and his mind would not be on his work...

http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/007965.php From "We Make Money Not Art" (see link above) - A car that parallel parks itself, "even it has to mount the kerb". The article goes on to state that "tests showed that the system is not flawless" This would be a great sitcom, have these new technology people go out to test thier products and have things go awry with hilarious results, of course you know if there is a fruit stand within 20 blocks of the thing, those melons are goners.