Thought I would give a scare to my readers...



Happy Halloween!!!

This was written about me when I emailed my friend John about a predicament I was in today.
Office Jerk

A "friend" of mine is notorious for being, what some would call an "office jerk." How so? He used to glue the stapler to a desk in an empty office with crazy glue. Break into his boss' voice mail account... and he printed his color wedding invitations--twice--on the office printer after hours. Not to mention, printing off a 300 page document because he only needed one page of data from the lot.

Most recently, he writes in:

"I have been printing this pdf that for whatever reason took a minute per page and was 72 pages. It has tied up the departments printer- and a crowd is developing so now I don't know how to go get it..."

Might I suggest... bravely?


Ok so I have done all the above things in my history as an employee in an office. But are any of them really that bad?

Halloween... a friend always comes up with the best tasteless costumes. This year she is going as Martha Stewart in an orange jump suit- ala prison. This got me thinking about poor Martha. I do worry for her. She sells some stock and now she is under investigation. Perhaps she did wrong, but you know people are foaming at the mouth with the thought of the queen of taste wearing pinstripes, or orange...

For my part I hope she makes it through. And if they do try to slap her with some prison time, I say flee! That cash has to buy an escape route alas Thomas Crown affair. now that would be a good thing.

So the virginia police are asking for the snipper to call them back. Is anyone else a bit concerned that this is their plan to catch the guy??? Normally I wouldn't care but they are killing people aweful close to my friend John in Goochland county. While I know he has not frequented a ponderosa in years, he would be an easy target at the local gas station. I recommend Full service until they catch the guy- or he at least calls the police back.

There is a new section above you on the web page. I have replaced the movie/slideshows from Erin & ben's wedding with an "afropean" section. This section features information about my and Staci's upcoming trip to see Chuck in Senegal and then our subsiquent Christmas and New years in Europe. Check it out. There are links to the hotel and apartment we will be staying in, plus the entire itinerary.

Have you ever gotten pulled over by the police. I have a number of times earlier in my career as a driver. But after getting my own vehicle I have become known to Staci as a grampa driver. Well last night I was feeling more gutsy so when a light was swicthing to yellow- I sped up to make it. As I am about to pass thru, Staci says stop. I ignore her but see a cop to my left. She was telling me to stop for this reason.

I turn onto the highway enterance ramp as I had planned and see red and blue start a flashing behind me, DAMN! I am getting pulled over I think. Mine you this is worse than it seems. I am in the old Saab with one headlight out, seat belts that don't work, and I have just come from a brewery. I of course stop and start looking for my insurance, license etc... After this is found I look back and notice something interesting. There is another car behind me and the cop is behind THAT car. The cop now proceeds to THAT car and starts giving them a ticket. Who is this cop pulling over?

So now what to do? If I leave and he also wants to give me a ticket I am fleeing the scene. So we wait. Eventually- after about 5 minutes, he walks up to Staci's window and says, "uhh I wasn't pulling you guys over."

Happily we leave.

There was a facinating paper presented today at school that I thought I would share with you all. If you look at general characteristics of people you are likely to make misguided conclusions. For example, there is a correlation between marriage and income. This means if you look at income or married and non married people, there is a positive correlation or married people on average have higher incomes. This does NOT mean that being married gets you a raise as I am sure everyone knows. Of course our mentally challenged President thinks otherwise- but this is besides the point.

Another example of this type of relationship is teenage pregnancy. As you would expect teenage mothers make less money and have dumber kids when compared to non-teenage mothers. But what we want to know is- if we make women wait to have kids- will it help them. Perhaps women that have no hope of high incomes have kids. They KNOW that this is the best choice for them. So todays paper takes into account this selction issue and finds that in fact making women wait to have children until after 18, they make less money and have dumber kids. My question for discussion: do you think women who know they have little prospect for high income, education, etc choose to have children young?