March 9, 2006

• w00t!

  I was finally able to get my old version editor back.  Who says
  bitching doesn’t help?  If I hadn’t I never would have got an
  answer. w00t! happy girl!

  So here’s pictures like I promised.  If you want to you can skip
  the pics and just go to the bottom for my latest entry for the “idiot
  of the year” award.  I bet it would draw more viewers than the
  Oscars.

  We
  went over to Speyer a while back and went to the sister museum of
  Sinsheim.  This Volkswagon was evidently made for weddings and was extremely
  popular in its day.  After I got to looking at it I thought well
  why not?  After all the body of a vehicles is just a shell to
  cover the engine and other working parts and a crash bubble.  So
  if your not to worried about safety or getting bugs in your eyes then
  why not cover it in wrought iron?

  Wouldn’t that make a conversation piece at the wedding?

  

  Every time I walk under a plane or submarine or whatever else they have
  decided to display 50 feet off the ground I am convinced that it has
  waited years just to fall on my head.  Now logically I know this
  plane and the other hundreds of things that are suspended will not
  fall.  But isn’t an irrational fear by its very nature
  irrational?  And its not like I duck and run, it just makes me a
  tad uncomfortable to walk under what I consider to be an inadequate
  display stand.

  

  Now
  here’s a car I would like to get behind the wheel of, can
  you imagine?  I bet this will move on down the road and it would
  probably feel like driving a smooth running tank.  lol. 
  These always put me in the mind of a big Hollywood thirties era
  movie.    The glamour years.

  Now isn’t this interesting?

  Okay I’m done this is just a fluff filler, so don’t feel real bad about
  thinking or even saying what the hell?  It’s the tail end of
  Winter and it’s snowed every single day for the last 2 weeks.  I
  haven’t got  much going on here and am getting VERY ready for
  Spring. 

  Oh!  I do have another entrant for idiot of the year awards.

  I went online and ordered some scrapbooking supplies, this was
  Feb.24th.    The company sent a further Email that my
  order had been shipped on Feb 27th (Mon) and should arrive in 4 to 10
  business days.  So I quickly counted and thought cool it should be
  at the post office.  Specially since 9 of those days are postal
  working days.  Ha!  It wasn’t there.  Now since there
  have been a lot of times that I have thought a package should be here
  and it’s arrived a week or so later than it should I finally decided to
  ask.
  Me:  Excuse me.  Does the army stack packages somewhere until they have enough to ship over from the states?
  postal worker:  NO! Why on Earth would they do that?
  Me:  Well my package should have arrived by now but I thought if they stack them well it might take longer.
  p.w.:  Did it ship priority mail?
  Me: I have no idea.
  p.w:  Ah, well then there you go.  It could take 4 to 8 weeks then.
  Me:  4 TO 8 WEEKS!!! 
  p.w.  Well sure, see what they do is they all get sent to N.Y. and
  put in a shipping container. When the container is full they send it
  over.
  Me:  So they do stack them.
  p.w. Now why would they stack them?  They send ‘em over one at a time.
  Me:  Not the containers, the packages inside the containers. 
  You just said they wait until they have a full container.  So if
  my package is the very first one into the container its going to take a
  lot longer than it would if it was the last one into the container.
  Right?
  p.w. Ma’am, I have no idea what you just said.
  Me: 
  Me:  That’s okay, it will get here when it gets here.
  p.w.  Now that’s a fine attitude ma’am, you have a nice day.

  A German General said of the American Army during his debriefing after WWII
  “The reasons the American Army does so well in wartime, is that war is
  chaos, and the American Army practices it on a daily basis.”

  amen brother, I hear you. 
  
  

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