Happy Thanksgiving!

Who's bringing the cranberry sauce?

D'oh!

So I get to work about my usual time, 7:45. The clock on the wall says about 5:50 or there abouts. I notice it and say to self, "Huh, the clock must have stopped. Probably the battery died." I go into my office where I have an "atomic" clock and it's about 7:50. I get my computer fired up and check mail, voice messages on the phone and the phone rings.

It's my fellow office worker who lives in Lame Deer. She says, "I'm running late, the power was off last night, my alarm didn't go off and I overslept."

"Oh," I say. "That explains the clock being off." Then I notice that the clock now says 6:oo and there is a cord hanging down the wall. Not dead batteries. Back to my desk I go. Gotta get things done. Phone rings again. It's about 8:00 by now.

"Hi, Ann. I'm trying to log on to READ 180 and it says it can't connect."

"Oh,the power was off. Maybe the server didn't reset yet. I'll get it." D'OH!!!!! None of the servers are on yet! They're all waiting patiently to be turned on, logged on or reset. The phone starts ringing in ernest now. Nothing is working and people are starting to log on.

Moral of the story. Next time I get to work and the clock "died" CHECK THE SERVERS! On the other hand. If no one knew the servers were off, how would they know how clever I was to turn them back on?????

I Earned MY Highschool Diploma

You paid attention during 100% of high school!

85-100% You must be an autodidact, because American high schools don't get scores that high!

Me Three

What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Midland "You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio.
Philadelphia
Boston
The Northeast
The West
The Inland North
The South
North Central
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Week's End UPdaTe

I had an interesting weekend. On Saturday I got up and decided that this would be the weekend I finally finish, once and for all, my Lego Star War game I got for Christmas. I had finished quite a bit, but had left the "hard bits" for last. Mostly the racing levels. I stink at racing. Well, today, I finished all the levels at "True Jedi" level, which unlocked the extra level and two new characters. I'd amassed so many gold legos playing the epidsodes over and over to get all the "kits" that I could buy the last two characters. Ta Da! Not many of my games do I get to beat like that. All the levels, all the extras, all the unlockables.

In between playing sessions, to give my hands a break, we went to Colstrip to the annual Christmas Bazaar. Didn't find too much, a lot of the stuff isn't handmade any more, but I did find two new pinky rings. Can't have too many pinky rings. And they are handmade. I also managed to work in the usual weekend house chores, so I can't feel guillty about spending so much time with the video game and pinky rings.

Tomorrow after work, I leave for Billings where I'll spend the night before heading out to a workshop that involves my job training. All in all it was a good week end. I just wish that my hobby didn't involve using the same sore hand I have to use so much for work all week. I keep looking for a "gamer's glove" with built in ice packs. If anyone knows how to get my hand in one, let me know.

Have a great week!

Free Rice

No registering, no signing up, no commitment. Just answer some fact-type, study for your ACT type questions and for every answer you get correct, someone donates 20 grains of rice to the UN World Food Program. Come one, you know you like it. Might as well feel virtuous about sitting at the computer a few minutes longer.

Just click on the title of this post.

Grace in Defeat

I 'm listening to John McCain's concession speech. If this John McCain had been visible during the last months of the campaign instead of the John McCain we DID see, it would have been a closer race.

Daylight Saving Time

I've said it before and I'm saying it again. I'd vote for the candidate whose only promise was to end daylight saving time forever or end the electoral college, two concepts whose time is past.