Saturday, May 19, 2007

Saturday

Well, I'm off for 2 weeks now and will have a good time not going to work. I'll probably wake up early Monday just out of habit though. Not sure of what we will do or go, but at least I won't have to worry about being at work the next morning for awhile.

Last week at work we had something funny happen. One of the guys that I work with came in with 2 different shoes on. He said he gets dressed in the dark and wears gym type shoes so it wasn't that noticeable to him. When the fellow I was working with spotted it, we all had a good laugh at it. He ended up calling his wife so she could bring the correct shoe in so he had matching ones lol.

On another note, I got home last week and Barb was watching Court TV when I got there. They had a case of a 10 yr old who had beaten a homeless man with bricks and such on trial. The thing that bothered me was they had a lawyer on that was trying to make a point that the kid shouldn't be punished harshly for what he had done due to his age. This angered me very much. I mean, if they don't punish this kid for what he did, how is he going to learn his lesson not to do this type of thing. To make it worse the homeless man might lose his eye from the injuries suffered at the hands of this kid. It just amazes me that anyone, let alone a 10 yr old would even think about beating someone that severe. Not to mention the fact that if this kid is doing this type of thing at his age, what will he think he can do when he gets older if he isn't punished?

I guess that's about all for now. I'll try to post some more during my time off. Till next time BYE!!

Thursday, May 17, 2007

What Color Car Should You Drive?

I saw this at Skittles' Place and gave it a try.

You Should Drive a Blue Car

You're the type of driver who isn't hung up on the what car you drive.
You don't need a flashy car to show off your wealth or style.
Instead, you go for value and reliability. You're quite practical.
You're a great driver, but you don't show off. Part of your skill is not standing out on the road.

Sunday, May 13, 2007

Mothers Day

Happy Mothers Day to all Moms. I hope you all enjoy this day. This is a pic of the roses that I got Skittles for mothers day. Not much else to post about today. Just relaxing and enjoying the day along with her. Till next time BYE!!

Wednesday, May 2, 2007

Your Inner Color is Red

Your Personality: Self-confident and stunning, you live in the now! You love life and experience all it has to offer.

You in Love: You're a bit private and have trouble opening up. You need a secure partner who can deal with your independence.

Your Career: Your ideal job gives you a ton of control and concrete results. Consider being a chef, surgeon, or architect.

Wnat My Drawing Says About Me

I found this at Skittles' Place and gave it a try.

drawing personality


The results of your analysis say:

You tend to pursue many different activities simultaneously. When misfortune does happen, it doesn't actually dishearten you all that much.
You are a thoughtful and cautious person. You like to think about your method, seeking to pursue your goal in the most effective way.
You like following the rules and being objective. You are precise and meticulous, and like to evaluate decisions before making them.
You have a sunny, cheerful disposition.

What does your drawing say about YOU?

The Interview

Barb over at Skittles' Place has been interviewing people and she needed someone else to interview so I volunteered for it. I figured it would be fun to do. So here goes...

1. What do you like best and least about your job and why? Probably the best part is getting to do different jobs and also getting to work with the people that are there. The least that I liked would be while I was a team leader and had to relieve people to go to the bathroom and they would take 20 minutes or longer. Mind you not everyone did this, just a few, so it really wasn't that bad.

2. What got you fascinated with trains? How old were you? I got my first train when I was about 6 or so and didn't really understand how to operate it that well. I got back into them when I was about 16 or so and started to understand more about how they worked and actually operated in real life. After I got into cars, trains took a back seat for a while as I was busy driving around and being a teenager. The train bug hit me again when I was about 35 and I started collecting
them seriously and trying to think up the perfect layout to show them. Unfortunately, I never settled on a design and to this day still don't have a layout to run the trains I have.

3. Describe your dream vacation. A huge RV and Barb, with unlimited time and money to see the U.S. and all it's wonderful sights.

4. I know you like the cartoon character Marvin The Martian. Tell one way you think you are similar to him. I guess that would be thinking up new ways to do things. He of course desires to conquer earth and I don't, but I do like coming up with new inventions to reach the goals that I have.

5. What have you learned from blogging? That there are some very nice people out there with real problems and some good advice if you need it. Also that there are people out there that even though you aren't geographically close to them, can make good friends too.

On this meme I'm not allowed to tag anyone, but if someone wants to volunteer to be interviewed, I could think up a set of 5 questions for them to answer.

Sunday, April 29, 2007

Our Visitor

We (Barb and I) kept our 3 year old grandson Andy overnight and part of Sunday while his parents got some time to themselves sort of lol. His parents decided to keep his little sister Emily with them as she gets a bit finicky when she stays with people she doesn't know all that well. We just happen to be not that well known to her. We did make some progress getting to know her on Saturday night though as we took the whole bunch to Cici's Pizza for dinner. It was a good time there as we got to interact with Emily a bit. These photos were taken in our backyard so to speak. It's actually the back yard of our apartment complex. I had gone out to take a picture of a Heron that had landed at the wetland when my grandson Andy called out to me that he wanted to go with me. What could I say right? Anyway, by the time I took a few pics of the Heron (I'll save those for another post) Barb had joined us as well. It was Barb that spotted the little frog first. Andy had a lot of fun hopping after the little frog. He even got a chance to touch it. After that we took Andy out to play at a playground and some ice cream. His parents went to see some of the local sights here while we had Andy. They called a bit ago to say they would be here soon to pick him up. After they picked him up Barb and I came back into the apartment and it just seemed so empty. It was very nice to keep Andy overnight. I hope we get to do this more.


Saturday, April 28, 2007

Change

I decided to make a little change to my blog. Not really the blog itself but the sidebar part. To make it easy to see who's in my "family" of bloggers I added a separate area that contains links to the other members of my family who have blogs. Not a big change but a change nonetheless. Till next time BYE!!

Google Sillyness

Skittles told me about this silly thing to do on Google where you type your name and add "needs" to the search and see what it says. I was busy checking out other things so Skittles did it for me lol. Here goes what she found.

1. Mike needs a date. ( I do??)
2. Mike needs help. ( They got that right lol)
3. Mike needs to go. ( Already did lol)
4. Mike needs a general wash in the middle. ( Gotta keep things clean)
5. Mike needs this dirty job. ( Plumbing isn't my thing lol)
6. Mike needs a new van. ( I'd rather have a pickup)
7. Mike needs a new post. ( I did 3 of them today ..sooooo)
8. Mike needs to be around real people. ( What's wrong with mannequins?)
9. Mike needs a small area to perform. ( I guess they haven't seen me lol)
10. Mike needs to get his hair cornrowed. ( The Bob Marley look? )

It's a fun thing to do. Give it a try and see what you come up with.
Till next time BYE!!

Saturday

Not much new going on here. I couldn't think of a picture to post for this weeks photo hunt. There is however something new this week. My son in law Bob has started a new blog. It looks to be like it will be a lot of fun visiting it. It's called Tiggerbob's Temperal Typings and he already has a couple of posts. I have added him to my sidebar if you'd like to go pay him a little visit and welcome him to the blog world.

Other than that, we plan to have my other son in law Billy and his wife Carrie along with their son Andy and daughter Emily over today. We'll take them to the new pizza place Cici's for dinner and keep Andy overnight. Maybe even keep Emily too, but she isn't all that happy around us as yet. We'll see. Till next time BYE!!