- A problem I worked on today can be best discussed this way:
- Help! My hair is on fire!
- Wow, OK, let me call an ambulance for you and I’ll help you put it out.
- Well, actually, I have such a bad migraine that I think I’m having a stroke
- Really? OK, you need to lie down, and I think I’ll still call an ambulance.
- Well, you know, I could just have a sinus headache
- Well, that’s not as bad as you made it sound originally, but let me get you something for that.
- Actually, I had a slight dizzy sensation last night.
- OK. You’re better now, right?
- OK, it’s just that my eye had this weird twitch last night, while I was asleep, but you need to look into it.
- You hate me don’t you?
- Help! My hair is on fire!
- It’s a bad sign when you feel guilty for taking 10 minutes to work on what you need to get done today while what cropped up and bit you on the butt first thing in the morning is calmed down, at least for a moment.
- Out of about 15 seniors in Girlie Bear’s JROTC program, 3 have been accepted to a service academy.
- Survival note for military recruiters – When the retired full colonel Airborne Ranger Vietnam Veteran JROTC instructor tells you that you shouldn’t talk to his cadets without first talking to him and their parents, you probably shouldn’t take the opportunity of being present at the end-of-year awards ceremony to hand out cards to the students.
- The retiring instructor (not the Colonel) has, between active duty and JROTC work, over half a century under his belt.
- It occurred to me tonight that the Tet Offensive (1968) is as far back in time now as the Battle of the Bulge (1944) was when I was in high school.
- The area for parking chartered jets at the airport was about half full when I drove past it tonight. Either a lot of people are coming in for the Kentucky Oaks and Kentucky Derby later this evening, or the economy has hit the rich and fabulous harder than I thought.
- Can anyone explain to me how keeping people from bringing in cameras with removable lenses is going to improve security at Churchill Downs?
Thoughts on the Day
Posted by daddybear71 on May 2, 2013
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Old NFO
/ May 3, 2013Interesting round this morning… 🙂
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daddybear71
/ May 3, 2013It was an interesting day.
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Roy
/ May 3, 2013“Can anyone explain to me how keeping people from bringing in cameras with removable lenses is going to improve security at Churchill Downs?”
I was wondering that myself.
For the first time since 1994, I am not working the Derby. This policy is a small part of the reason. I worked for the publicity office and my job was to stand at one of the doors to the media center and keep the non-credentialed riff-raff out. Every year there are hundreds of press photographers around, all of them carrying removable lens cameras. How this policy will affect them, I don’t know – probably not at all. But one of the things I loved to do while I was on my break was to take my DSLR camera and wander through the crowd taking pictures. I have gotten some really good ones over the years.
Now, everything is different. The media center has been moved to the old ground-floor offices, the old paddock (an historical building!) has been torn down and replaced with… brick pavement. And the old media center has been converted to plush diggs for the rich and famous called “The Mansion”. $8000 a pop!
It’s just not the same.
Oh well. I guess all good things must come to an end. I’ll enjoy the race on TV this year. But I will sure miss the rush that comes with the roar of that crowd when the starting gate opens.
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daddybear71
/ May 3, 2013The shine came off that apple for me after I worked security on the 6th floor I Millionaire Row for Oaks and Derby. Just didn’t care for the crowds and the drunks. I’ll take the family out on another day of the meet.
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