- When did network equipment manufacturers start making their gear out of cast iron again? Seriously, the stuff I helped install today was just as big and heavy as the stuff I helped install in 1995.
- It is usually not a good idea to argue with the nurse and insult her intelligence 30 seconds before she tries to get an IV in your arm. No, I didn’t do it. I’m just occasionally able to learn from the misfortunes of others.
- To the nice young gentleman in the grocery store: Talking like Yoda to your girlfriend while all of us are standing in line was cute the first couple of times you did it. After that it was annoying, and it proves that she can do much better.
- Children have a sixth sense for when their parents are tired. Boo’s normal response is to demand a wrestling match.
- Tonight he learned how to do a flying headbutt off the couch when I am prone on the living room floor.
- I got him two out of three falls, but that little guy fights dirty.
- Nothing will make a retired gentleman who is obsessive about his lawn take a bigger fright than seeing a four-year-old walking around in the yard next door with a handful of white-headed dandelions.
- Driving on the freeway today was like watching Chihuahuas trying to mate with great Danes. Every guy in a compact car seemed to be playing chicken with the back-end of a semi.
- One gallon of strawberries, two tablespoons of honey, and four teaspoons of fresh lemon juice make for a very pink, sloppy mess. We’ll see if it makes tolerable fruit leather after a day or so in the dehydrator.
- Commenting to my wife that it looked like I had butchered a rabbit as I was cleaning up from making strawberry leather was probably not the smartest thing I’ve ever done.
Thoughts on the Day
Posted by daddybear71 on May 10, 2012
https://daddybearsden.com/2012/05/10/thoughts-on-the-day-28/
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julie
/ May 10, 2012you really need to get that filter between your brain and your mouth looked at … i think it needs replacing 🙂
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daddybear71
/ May 11, 2012Yeah, I think I need to take it into the shop.
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Auntie J
/ May 11, 2012I’m not sure my husband’s ever worked. I know that, when it does, it shuts off about 7p anyway, and even earlier when he’s tired. Which is why he caught himself loudly muttering “Dirty whore” after hearing the opening line to “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.” (For the record, the friend whose house we were at blanched about three shades of white and then flushed red, and I nearly fell off my chair because I was laughing so hard. It took me five minutes to calm down long enough to take my turn in the game we were playing.)
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AuricTech
/ May 18, 2012It is usually not a good idea to argue with the nurse and insult her intelligence 30 seconds before she tries to get an IV in your arm. No, I didn’t do it. I’m just occasionally able to learn from the misfortunes of others.
Reminds me of when I had my Basic Airborne Course physical, back in 1988. As the medic was preparing to draw a blood sample, he asked me what my MOS was. When I replied that my MOS was 97E (Interrogator), he asked me if I knew anything about SERE school. In the interval between my telling him that I had worked out there a few times and his sticking me for the blood sample, he told me something that chilled me to the marrow:
“I just graduated from there.”
Fortunately, he was a consummate professional, else I probably would still be unable to use my left arm….
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