- For once, going to pay the taxes on our vehicles and get new license plate tags was a pleasant experience.
- The line moved quickly and efficiently, the lady who took my check and gave me new stickers was pleasant and friendly, and I was actually in a good mood when I left.
- I know, right?
- Unfortunately, “76254R” was already taken for a personalized plate, so I went with “DDYBAR”.
- We met Freiheit and his family at the zoo on Saturday, and had a wonderful time with them.
- I’ve forgotten how cute toddlers can be.
- I have discovered a new favorite bourbon, and of course, it’s $40+ a bottle.
- Irish Woman donated a photography package to a charity auction last night, and it went for almost $300. She was quite excited about that.
- The auction raised over $13,000 in total, which is pretty good for the first time the event was held.
- Interacting with all of Boo’s teachers last night told me one thing – we have a very good looking young man. All of the teachers talked about how pretty his eyes are.
- I’m going to have to keep an eye on that boy.
- When you do something particularly crappy for a small child that’s not your own, you sometimes ask yourself “Where are her parents?”. When you do something particularly crappy for an old person that’s not one of yours, you sometimes ask yourself “Where are her children?”.
- My local department store had no .22 shells in stock, but it did have six boxes of .50 BMG, which is nice.
- Got to have your priorities in manufacturing, I guess.
Musings
Posted by daddybear71 on March 2, 2014
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Movie Quotes – Day 61
Why do I do this? Because the money’s good, the scenery changes and they let me use explosives, okay? — Armageddon
The difference between a career and a job is that a career has something for you besides the paycheck. There has to be that one thing that makes you say “I can’t believe they’re paying me to do this!”. For some, it’s travel. For others, it’s the ability to work on new things on a regular basis. For the luckiest of us, it involves things going “kaboom” in a fun way every so often.
Posted by daddybear71 on March 2, 2014
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Today’s Earworm
Posted by daddybear71 on March 2, 2014
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Movie Quotes – Day 60
Put a warm rug in the car. It’s cold outside when you have to go about naked. — The Invisible Man
I can’t wait for spring, mostly so that I can recover some space in the cab of my truck. I’ve added extra food, clothing, and water, my two poncho liners, and extra batteries for the Maglight. Yes, you need things in the car emergency kit in the summer, but having to keep enough stuff to keep us alive for a day or three because it would be unsafe to walk through the snow and find help fills up available storage. What extra preparations do you all make during the winter months?
Posted by daddybear71 on March 1, 2014
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Today’s Earworm
Posted by daddybear71 on March 1, 2014
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You Make The Call
Here’s the situation:
You are sitting in your vehicle in the parking lot of your employer. The parking lot is about a block from the building entrance. It’s just after the main rush of people coming to work in the morning, so there aren’t that many people around. As you open your door, you hear shouting. Looking to your right, you see an SUV in a parking spot with a sedan stopped in front of it. There is a person in the driver’s seat of the sedan. At the back door of the SUV, there is a youngish male who is yelling and punching a youngish female. The female is on her back on the seat of the SUV and is screaming for him to stop, and is calling him by name. Between you and the SUV is another male, who is doing nothing to stop the altercation. You have no firearm. The closest thing you have to a weapon that is handy enough to get quickly is a D cell Maglight under the seat of your vehicle. You have a cell phone.
What do you do?
Posted by daddybear71 on February 28, 2014
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Today’s Earworm
Posted by daddybear71 on February 28, 2014
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Movie Quotes – Day 59
Of course you don’t know. You don’t know because only *I* know. If you knew and I didn’t know, then you’d be teaching me instead of me teaching you – and for a student to be teaching his teacher is presumptuous and rude. Do I make myself clear? — Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
I never taught anyone anything without learning something myself. A teacher who gets insulted when a student asks the question he can’t answer or shows the teacher something she’s never seen before is not doing their job.
Posted by daddybear71 on February 28, 2014
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Today’s Earworm – II
Rest In Peace, Tim Wilson, August 5, 1961 to February 26, 2014. Thanks for all the great laughs and a good excuse to take Irish Woman out on one of our first dates.
Posted by daddybear71 on February 27, 2014
https://daddybearsden.com/2014/02/27/todays-earworm-ii-5/
News Roundup
- From the “Medical Advice” Department – The American Pediatricians Association is urging parents to not use small clinics, such as the “Doc-in-the-box” shops that are cropping up in department stores and pharmacies. Their reasoning is that these clinics don’t provide continuity in care the way that going to a doctor’s office does, and I can see their point. If you are using a doctor, they need to know what medications you’re on, what illnesses you’ve had, and what vaccinations you’ve received. But the convenience of these clinics, especially when someone is sick, can’t be ignored. Here’s an example: I came down with a sinus infection last weekend. I called my doctor on Wednesday, after toughing it out for a few days. She doesn’t see patients on Wednesdays, so I asked if I could get in on Thursday. The receptionist couldn’t find an open appointment on Thursday, but she offered to have my doctor’s assistant call me. I got a call back later that afternoon, and I was invited to come into the office on Thursday morning and they would try to fit me in. The last time I did that, I sat in the waiting room, sick and infectious, for four hours, while those who had appointments went back to be seen. That’s not a knock against my doctor. She has a lot of patients and takes excellent care of all of us. I declined, went to the urgent care clinic in the same building and hospital system she uses, and was seen in less than 10 minutes. 10 minutes after that, I had a diagnosis, a prescription, and discharge paperwork. If doctors have problems in knowing what their patients are getting treated for at these clinics, they either need to tie in with them so that the medical records at their office are in sync with the clinic, or up their staff with ARNP or physician’s assistants so they can see more patients who didn’t have the forethought to schedule their sinus infections two weeks in advance.
- From the “Facepalm” Department – A Colorado politician reinforced my opinion on off-body carry the other day when he left a hearing on concealed carry permits without taking along the bag in which he keeps his pistol. Remember, kids, being responsible with your firearms means knowing where it is at all times. Chalk this one up to the same reminder that I have for the police who leave their guns in the bathroom stall or the people who forget the pistol in the unlocked glove box when they run into the store and leave the kids behind.
- From the “Get Back In Line” Department – A woman in Florida has been given a month to comply with an order to hook her home up to utilities. It seems that the lady has been living “off the grid” for some time, using solar panels for power and gathering rain water. I would love to get an unbiased account of the cities side of this, because for the life of me, I can’t figure out where it’s their business what she does in her own home. The only possible reasoning I can imagine is if she doesn’t have a septic tank, so they might have a health or environmental angle on this.
- From the “Stupidity Hurts” Department – An escaped criminal in Texas is back in jail after calling 911 to complain that his handcuffs were too tight. It appears that Mr. Houdini escaped after being left alone, but apparently never figured out how to pick the lock on his bracelets. Folks, this is what you get when you don’t teach shop classes in school anymore. If he or his compatriots had been made to go to metal shop for a few semesters, he’d be a fugitive, not an inmate.
- From the “Big Ball of Fur” Department – A leopard is running around a city in India, and has injured at least 7 people. Authorities have closed schools and urged residents to not approach the feline. They also report that a large ball of twine and a kilo and a half of fine Afghani catnip will be delivered late this evening, so they hope to have the situation well in hand by the end of the week.
- From the “Four Rules” Department – A man in Michigan killed himself recently when he tried to demonstrate how a handgun safety works by pointing a loaded gun at his head and pulling the trigger. Mr. Dumas, 36, apparently had thrown back a few drinks that evening, and demonstrated his unique technique for a function check on three handguns. The third gun apparently didn’t know that it was supposed to be unloaded, and he shot himself in the head. Remember kids, the Four Rules exist for a reason, and please remember DaddyBear’s Fifth Rule – Alcohol, stupidity, and gunpowder do not mix. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the man’s girlfriend and the three children who were in the home at the time.
- From the “Luck and a Little Help” Department – A bus driver in Dayton is crediting the small New Testament he kept in a breast pocket for saving his life. He had stopped his bus to check out a mechanical problem when he was shot three times and stabbed by several men. Two of the shots hit him in the chest, but were stopped by his New Testament. Later reporting shows that the gun was a .25, and that the FBI has been asked to investigate whether this was a ‘hate crime’, which is much worse than an attempted murder.
- From the “Can’t Live, If Living Is Without Me” Department – A man in Florida was arrested after calling his ex-girlfriend 145 times in 11 hours. Captain Success also threatened to blow up the school where the lady worked, and told a police officer that they would need the SWAT team to get him. I guess he decided to not go down in a blaze of glory, because he’s still being referred to in the present tense. Officials from the Department of Homeland Security are flying in a relationship counselor for the woman, who is also being given a copy of DaddyBear’s bestselling self-help book “Why Did You Go Out With The Dumbass In The First Place?”, a guide to dating and breaking up.
- From the “Own It” Department – Unions for federal workers are crying out in frustration after a proposed 1 percent pay increase for federal workers. The Obama administration has apparently noticed that the coffers aren’t bottomless, and has actually started taking steps to curb the parts of the federal budget that won’t inflame their voter base. To the leaders of those unions, I have this to say: You put him there, therefore you can deal with the consequences. If we weren’t wasting billions of dollars on “shovel-ready” projects, bailing out your brothers in the UAW, and ‘investing’ in failing green energy companies, we’d have more money to buy union votes for the 2014 elections.
- From the “Going to Hell on a Scholarship” Department – A thief in Norway stole a cell phone and a wallet that its owner, a priest, had left in a dressing room while he went out to give Mass. Satan had no comment at this time, so we can assume that the thief still walks among the living. Confidential sources report that the unit next to my condo on the Lake of Fire is being renovated for him. I’ll have to invite him over for a warm Ballentines when I get down there.
Posted by daddybear71 on February 27, 2014
https://daddybearsden.com/2014/02/27/news-roundup-211/
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