Wetttt

Actually I get to announced that is precipitated twice this week - Tuesday & Friday. And both time I not only saw it out "my" office window, but I received a phone call announcing the event elsewhere in the county in a shrill, loud voice.

How Did That Happen

A
Delight
to
See!

The usual Grumblers were hushed!

We knew
it couldn't
last long!

We were
DELIGHTed
to see some
Tall Snowppl built!
[Texas Style]


If this is the result of IKE - Then This IS Good News
- THANK You GOD

He's A Keeper

We sat there watching the dog show on TV. As they panned over the border collies I mentioned the prospect of getting another animal KNOWing full well that my wife would say something about we have enough. I then suggested we trade the cat for a new pup and she said she didn't want to endanger the world with Lady SpitFire. So I suggested we trade Butch for some new blood.

That is when I realized that if Butch ever went to another home it would have to have only one human in it. No children, not even a couple. At this point in Butch's psyche he can only have ONE HUMAN - His!

...life even if ya know it will end with a tail chewing

Oh how I do not love the tail chewings. It generates FEAR and makes me Nuts. Well you can guess what just happened. I did as my boss's-boss said. Then I did what the client said. That effort created two. The second is what will be used. The system automatically notifies the user when I mark the job complete. I re-sent that notice after I created what he asked for in the first place. I forgot that everyone would be notified so the result was inevitable. I shouldn't complain. It came as a question. So i cam put whatever Spin I like on it.

OUCH!

Links n Hijinks - Idiocy In Progress

This is a joke - a good one - that I have seen in various forms. I am going to keep it as I found it and simply link to every word. An exercise in futility? Or a lesson in Links gone wild!

A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous pasture in Montana when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of a dust cloud towards him. The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban Sunglasses and YSL tie, leans out the window and asks the cowboy, 'If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, Will you give me a calf?'

Bud looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, 'Sure, Why not?'

The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects it to his Cingular RAZR V3 cell phone , and surfs to a NASA page on the Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite to get an exact fix on his location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo. The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg , Germany

Within seconds, he receives an e-mail on his Palm Pilot that the image has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses an SQL database through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with email on his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, receives a response. Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturized HP LaserJet printer and finally turns to the cowboy and says, 'You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves.' 'That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves,' says Bud.

He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on amused as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car. Then the Bud says to the young man, 'Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my calf?' The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, 'Okay, why not?'

'You're a Congressman for the U.S. Government', says Bud. 'Wow! That's correct,' says the yuppie, 'but how did you guess that?' 'No guessing required.' answered the cowboy. 'You showed up here even though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already knew to a question I never asked. You tried to show me how much smarter than me you are; and you don't know a thing about cows...this is a herd of sheep. . .

Now give me back my dog



cows

Its Either OUCH or DAMN

Before and After Ike Photos

A research team from the U.S. Geological Survey just returned from a mission to survey the affects of Hurricane Ike. Two new before-and-after photos were released today. More will be coming within a few days.

This photo shows what Bolivar Peninsula looked like on September 9, 2008, five days before landfall. Notice all the green grass, the small beach area and the homes along the coast.

The yellow arrow is simply a point of reference.

The second photo was taken two days after landfall. This area was swamped by a storm surge which was at least 14' deep. (Final surge measurements will be available after a storm analysis report is finished.) There is no grass left near the coast, the sand was pushed back across the highway and most of the homes are damaged or completely gone.

The USGS team photographed five different areas along the coast: South Padre Island, Matagorda Island, Galveston, and Chenier Plain and Isles Dernieres in Louisiana. Check their website for more information.

I just had to add this link - more before & after

Help ............................................ Newbies

I am someone who helps the newbies. It was not so long ago, no it really wasn't, that I was new to this place.

I learned quickly who ask to get useful answers. So after someone is shown where the supply rooms, the refrigerators are, the fax machines and oh yeah - the copiers is I take a few more minutes showing the new folks where the ice machine is - oh yeah a major help to enjoy your drinks; where the Other microwave ovens and refridgerators are; and which other supply rooms can supply what. If ya need something - ASK !

Look around, under rocks, in empty cubicals, it 'other' supply rooms. If the results are empty, it will be ordered - what ever ya need - just ask. I will help them with anything. WHY? Because I know that my coworkers love supplying answers.

If I don't know the answer, I will find out who does - just ask! Often people wonder and eventually ask why I seem to know so much about so many different things. The secret - is being available to people to ASK questions thru you, learning the complete answers and getting the people you have just helped to ASK more questions. Being the Go-Between twixt Questioner & Questioned affords me ample opportunities to LEARN!