confabulation

rat-a-tat-tat

guy, keeps posting about the tree rats that hang out on sweetthings half-acre…

maybe he should get one of these to control the infestation….

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jimbo lookee here

Want to drive by here this friday and see if he’s still around?…..

SAN ANTONIO — An 8-foot alligator created quite a challenge for San Antonio police when it showed up Sunday at Loop 410 on the city’s South Side.

The large gator stood its ground against police when they tried to move it off the roadway with some poles.

The reptile became aggressive, hissed at the officers and even chomped down on the bumper of a police cruiser.

KSAT News: Gator Stops Traffic

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equipped

UPDATE: 10-4-08 This has been proven to be false according to Snoops
This is one of the best comeback lines of all time. It is a portion of an ABC interview between a female broadcaster and General Cosgrove who was about to sponsor a Boy Scout Troop visiting his military headquarters.

FEMALE INTERVIEWER: So, General Cosgrove, what things are you going to teach these young boys when they visit your base?

GENERAL COSGROVE: We’re going to teach them climbing, canoeing, archery, and shooting.

FEMALE INTERVIEWER: Shooting! That’s a bit irresponsible, isn’t it?

GENERAL COSGROVE: I don’t see why, they’ll be properly supervised on the rifle range.

FEMALE INTERVIEWER: Don’t you admit that this is a terribly dangerous activity to be teaching children?

GENERAL COSGROVE: I don’t see how. We will be teaching them proper rifle discipline before they even touch a firearm.

FEMALE INTERVIEWER: But you’re equipping them to become violent killers.

GENERAL COSGROVE: Well, Ma’am, you’re equipped to be a prostitute, but you’re not one, are you?

The radio went silent and the interview ended.

Kudos: Silent Running
Note: ABC= Australian Broadcasting.

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my efforts

El Capitan is seeking stalker advice on how to find the best way to let someone he has met informally that he would like to go beyond chatting about things.

This is what I did when faced with a similar problem around 14 years ago.

I was employed, just like the Capitan , by the man and our offices would soon by classified as non smoking, so the city said that they would pay for a smoking cessation program provided by a local hospital. Having been a smoker for a gazillion years I knew I would need all the help I could get. So a bunch of us signed up and away we went on a monday evening to be reprogrammed.

The meeting room had around 8 tables, about 8 ft long, which would seat 4 people to one side facing the front of the room, so we had almost 30 or so people there for the classes. When entering we moved to the back table and proceeded to settle in and moving the hand outs around so we could follow along.

Now is when my story begins, there was only one vacant chair left and it just happened to be next to me, just as the instructor was starting with her opening comments here she came into the room glancing for an open chair. As she sat down next to me I said “hi, how ya doing” and she said “fine”, I was mesmerized and could not help but keep glancing at her during the 2 hour session. During the 1st class we kinda opened up and started zinging each other with some stupid jokes and other useless crap. The first evening ended and away we went until next monday.

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is this you

You know you are addicted to blogging when

1. your newborn baby’s crying wakes you at night and your first thought is, I wonder if anyone has submitted a comment on the blog?
2. you don’t know how much you pay for food each month but you know how much you earned in advertising on your blog today.
3. someone says, How are you doing? and you reply with Check my blog.
4. your closest friends can find your blog but not your house.
5. you don’t know who won the federal election because there was nothing in your RSS feeds.
6. you are surprised to learn that most syndicated television shows don’t have an RSS feed.
7. you learn of your upcoming divorce in a comment feed from a post entitled Blog vs. Spouse: The Never Ending Debate.
8. asked who has had the biggest influence on your life, you respond, Darren Rowse.
9. the house is on fire and you run past the dog and the family photo album to grab a scrap of paper with a post idea on it.
10. you firmly believe that your next post will get Dugg this time for sure.
11. you can submit a post to your blog from your:
* computer
* tablet
* personal internet device
* PDA
* cell phone (text, photo, video, and voice)
* chumby
* robotic avatar
* steam engine
* bathroom
12. your grandma says that she used to journal and you ask her, Wordpress or TypePad?
13. you get excited because your site is unreachable!

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that’s my son

Man honored for rescuing officer

By Staff Reports
4/26/2007 7:42 AM

The rescuer, who is an airport security employee, assisted the police officer, who was being assaulted.

A man who came to the aid of a police officer who was being attacked was honored Wednesday with a Citizen Appreciation Award.

Michael Kannard, an employee of the Transportation Security Administration, was driving Feb. 20 on Virgin Street just west of Oklahoma 11 when he saw Officer Carl Small on the ground being attacked.

Police said a 6-foot-4-inch, 230-pound man had knocked the officer to the ground when he responded to a vandalism call.

When Small fell, he struck his head on the pavement. The man then repeatedly kicked the officer in the head with his steel-toed boots, police said.

The assault continued until Kannard stopped to help.

Small said that “the guy would have killed me if it hadn’t been for that TSA guy,” according to a police statement.

Cpl. R.T. Jones nominated Kannard. He said, “The fact that Michael Kannard stopped to come to Officer Small’s assistance, at great personal risk, when he was neither legally nor morally bound to do so, reflects great credit upon himself and the Transportation Security Administration and marks him as a courageous, exceptional citizen who is a credit to his community.”

Corey Darvell Crisp, a rapist, was arrested and charged with assault and battery on a police officer, failure to register as a sex offender, malicious injury to property and obstructing an officer. He had been convicted of second-degree rape in 2004 and received a five-year suspended sentence, Tulsa County court records show.

That just tells me I raised him with the right set of values… and also make me one proud daddy…

One thing about the article is they don’t say what he did to stop the assault, but I know he has a CC license and always carries, so he probably drew down on the guy…

One note, he may be going to Iraq if they decide to activate the 45th Inf Bgd of the Oklahoma National Guard, we should know soon.

Tulsa World:
Man honored for rescuing officer
Tulsa Police Department:
Citizens Appreciation Award Presentation
Tulsa Police Grateful to Brave Citizen

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my kinda rock 2

Another one from my past…

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