| Life is the hood |
[May. 1st, 2008|08:08 am] |
This is what I wrote to the McCoromick spice company after this happened.
I just bought the black peppercorn grinder and had an issue with it's design. I went to my local Cub foods store and looked all over in the spice department for whole black peppercorns for my pepper grinder at home. High and low I searched and could not find just peppercorns, so I settled on your brand because my family has used your spices for years and I trusted that there would be a good way to transfer the corn to my grinder at home. Alas that was not the case, First I tried to twist the cap off to no avail. Next I took a knife and tried to pry the grinder part off. This my wife informed me was the quickest way to free blood from my body and not the peppercorns from their glass prison. Right there I could see the pepper of my desire on the other side. As a last resort, I tugged on the top hold the bottle firm in my other hand. At last I felt the grinder start to give way and in a shower of small round peppercorn I seceded in transferring the peppercorns from your grinder to mine. I an writing to let you know that a little better design would have conserved 3/4 of a bottle of pepper corns from the trash bin. |
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| Scarry news about the puppy |
[Jul. 23rd, 2007|10:25 am] |
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When Anne and I first got Henry about a week ago he had just had an umbilical hernia fixed. Well he had a small incision on his belly and a small lump about the size of a grape under it. Everything checked out when we went to the vet last Wednesday but now the lump is the size of a peach pit. Anne called and made an appointment with our vet for six forty tonight to have henry checked out. I really hope it is nothing, i like henry and would hate to have him to have to go through surgery again. I will up date as I know more. |
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| Sad news about Orion |
[Jun. 24th, 2007|10:40 am] |
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On Friday Anne and I decided that it would be best if we returned Orion to the human society. he had separation anxiety from the moment we brought him home. It took us a week to understand that it was this and by then we had accidentally made it worse by testing to see how long he could stay with out us. We thought an hour should be a good starting point. We no he couldn't handle it. By last Tuesday we had gotten the information to help him but with Anne and my work schedules changing this up coming week we would have to leave him for two hours in the morning. This amount of time would only make his anxiety worse and worse everyday. I am going to miss him. He is a very sweet dog that fit in with my family very well : ( |
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| (no subject) |
[Jun. 21st, 2007|11:02 am] |
The summer run down.
The plan for this summer was to work at the downtown YMCA and finish up all the big and little projects around the house.
Well the YMCA job fell through and all of my educational job field job seeking has turned up notta. The summer project started out just fine until Missy, Anne's dog of 14 years and 10 months, had to be put to sleep because of mounting health problems. Anne took this hard and to help her recover we decide to redo our living room floor.
This is what was under the carpet.
This is after we were done.
Oh the dog is Orion. He is why the summer list of things to do got a little longer. : ) now we have to clean up the yard and help him over come his separation anxiety by this fall when I go back to school full time. Here are a few more pictures of Orion
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| Orion, and the floor |
[Jun. 14th, 2007|03:14 pm] |
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The new puppy, Orion, and the floor. Anne and I are refinishing our living room floor. This wasn't on the list of projects for the summer seeing as it would fall into the category of new projects : ) and this summer was all about finishing old projects. Well Anne's dog Missy had to be put down because of mounting health problems. She was 14 and 11 months old. Need less to say Anne took it hard. Believing in the power of accomplishment as being one of the stepping stones to feeling better I suggested that we redo the floor in the living room. That was about a month ago and two weeks ago today we took everything out of the living room and shumooshed it all into the dinning room. The carpet came up that same night and we started to go to town on the glue, I'm not going to talk about the glue right now I need a little more distance between me and the glue. That took about four or five days all is going along fine. Of course, while all of this is going on, Anne is starting to feel better and researches that type of dog that she wants to have. Over that first weekend and the first few days of this week Anne plans a wild trip to Illinois, Wisconsin, and for a brief moment to Texas, all to go and get Husky mixed puppies. Than serendipity strikes and she finds one at the Golden Vally human society. Last Friday is that day Anne brought Orion home to our house that still has the living room living with the dinning room. I know it might sound like I am complaining but I really not. Orion is great now that he has calmed down. He was a country dog so everything is new to him, even stairs : ) I'll post pictures of both the floor and the puppy(really he is 8 month old) when I find our camera. |
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| Bicycling's BikeTown Giveaway in Minneapolis |
[Jun. 13th, 2007|10:27 pm] |
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I know that I don't post that much but I have to talk a little about my new bike. Bertine send out a link to a essay contest. Well more like a two sentence (50 words) statement about how a new bike would change your life. So I went to the site and started to write a humdrum essay about how Anne and I could go riding together, boring right, that is when I changed it to a fo-superhero thing about Stan the Green man. Believe it or not I won : ) this Saturday I pick up my bike. Here is the link to the bike: http://www.raleighusa.com/items.asp?deptid=7&itemid=384&childid=620 I am writing about this because this is the first thing the I have ever won with my writing and it feels good.
Here is the essay I submitted:
With a new bike, I would be free to turn into my alter ego, Stan the Green man. Looking stoic, Stan says, "Stan the Green man is always on the look out for affordable energy choices. Come wife of Stan the Green man let us ride to the store instead." |
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| looking for pictures |
[Apr. 30th, 2007|07:22 am] |
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Hey anyone who is looking at this,
I am looking for pictures of the population signs of MPLS, St Paul and the surrounding suburbs. I am going to use them with my second graders in a series of lessons about what a census is. So if you find some or are driving by one of the signs just snap a pic and post it please : ) |
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| Office door |
[Dec. 5th, 2006|08:24 am] |
This is why I had to install an office door.
Gus: Love me.
Gus: What your not petting me?
Gus: You know that you can't resist.
Gus: Now look into my eyes... you will get up and walk into the kichen, open the food container, and scoop food into my dish. So says Gus your Lord and Master. |
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| America's Retail Idol. |
[Dec. 2nd, 2006|02:33 pm] |
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I know it is a dorky contest put on by "Home Furnishing Magazine" but our IKEA store is in the top two. They beat out stores like Marshall Fields, Macy's ( I know there are one and the same here but this contest is nation wide),Williams-Sonoma, and many others. the contest organizers have just opened the voting up to the public at this link:
IKEA Rocks!!!
So if you love IKEA, and we all do, go and vote for them : ) |
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| (no subject) |
[Nov. 19th, 2006|04:31 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
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It is amazing what you can get done if you trap yourself at home.
Completed:
1. three written assignment for My special ed class.
2. one assignment for my behavioral analysts class(included making a graph of data taken on a school site)
3. revised my resume for application for student teaching this spring.
4. completed one essay on my philosophy of teaching
5. started a completely different essay on my philosophy of teaching (the first one is OK, but not completely me.
6. Started my Dakota and Ojibwa unite for my school and society class.
all of this just so far this weekend : ) well back to the grind stone. |
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| Things to do today |
[Nov. 14th, 2006|08:24 am] |
1. complete two of the three interviews for my special ed class.
2. set up the tired interview for Thursday.
3. think up an idea for a native american unit.
4. run around like a crazy person
5. go to my night class and talk about one of my favorite subjects, international education.
Well that is kinda how the day is going to go. |
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| (no subject) |
[Sep. 12th, 2006|10:21 am] |
I saw this at Petco during my last trip there. I had to share it with you all. Read carefully the last line. Hamsters are so cute. I always wanted one as a kid.
I can just imagine the announcers calling the race. Over all the Ad seems to instruct the owners on how to take care of the little speedsters.
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| school books |
[Aug. 9th, 2006|09:09 am] |
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How is someone to get a jump on the year if the books for fal semester havn't come in. It is less then a month to the first day of school and no books. Grrrrrrrrr on the U. |
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| new summer job |
[Aug. 3rd, 2006|07:40 pm] |
I just got a new summer job, well really a august job : ) I'll be working at the St Paul post office and gofer store. It doesn't pay much but something is better then nothing. Besides I need to have a job that I interact with people, Ups was old about two years ago. |
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| A hard set of questions |
[Aug. 2nd, 2006|07:06 pm] |
These are 15 questions from the test for to become a citizen of the US these are some of the hardest one. See how you do, and remember that googling them doesn't count.
1) How many stripes are on the flag? What do they represent?
2) What country did we fight during the revolutionary war?
3) How many changes amendments) have there been to the Constitution?
4) How many voting memebers are there in the House of representatives?
5) For how long do we elect each memeber of the House of Representatives?
6) Who becomes resident if both the President and Vice-president die?
7) How many Supreme Court Justices are there?
8) Who is the current Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court?
9) Who said, "Give me liberty or give my death"?
10) Who wrote"The Spangled Banner"?
11) Name the amemdments that guarantee or address voting rights?
12) In what year was the constitution written?
13) In what month is the President inaugurated?
14) How many times may a Senator or Reperesentative be re-elected?
15) What U.S. Citzenship and Immigration Serices form is used to apply for naturalized citizenship? |
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| Furpmy in the bag |
[Aug. 1st, 2006|04:02 pm] |
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Some of you have heard this story but I'm going to tell it anyway. One night Anne, she is my wife, and I where watching TV in our living room when we heard a rustling from the kitchen. Now we have two cats and a dog. The usual suspect for rustling in the kitchen is Missy, the 13 year old puppy. She is about foot and a half tall and all of 20 to 30 lbs. I looked around and Missy is lying on the floor watching the boob tube with us. I looked into the kitchen and saw this.
"http://www.flickr.com/photos/61369964@N00/197144322/"
ya I know!!! It is what it looks like; A cat in a bag. I got up and investigated the situation. A closer look yielded this picture.
"http://www.flickr.com/photos/61369964@N00/197144736/"
It gets even worse. As I go to take the Doritos bag off of her head, Frumpy moves forward trying to get more chips. I have heard the expression "the cat is out of the bag" I just haven't ever heard of a cat who wanted to stay in the bag. |
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| (no subject) |
[Jul. 30th, 2006|08:40 pm] |
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Two weeks ago I road on the Como-Harriet for my history class. Anne and I had an OK time finding the place and riding the streetcar. my only complaint is that there wasn't very much to it. The whole place felt like a group of people showing off their toy train. This is the theme of the paper I am writing for my class. It is weird to think about how the Twin Cities had such a great public transit system that got changed out for buses. I hate buses; the noise, fumes, traffic problems, and not to mention that they don't make money either. grrrr. If the TC was going to lose money on something why not something cool like streetcars? |
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| work |
[Jul. 20th, 2006|09:27 am] |
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Some times when I think of things like this I feel I'm being conceded. Then I realize it is not conceit but the leader in me. Last night at UPS one are stupid-visor told us that there was no use in presorting packages that you are not going to pull. I work on a giant marry go round, there are cages where the horses would be but the idea is the same. Round and round the boxes go until you pull them out of put them in the right truck. The UPS preloder standard is to pull 200 pieces an hour, that works out to about 5 boxes per cage. hen the Stupid visor told the preloaders to not presort he domed many of them to use the lest effective method of lading. pull and run and run and run, sorting the cage allows you to go in to one car with four or five packages in stead of running into four different cars with one or two. So i Stood there while he said this and held my tongue all the while thinking, it is not my place to say something. The older i get the more I see this as the doge it is, if it isn't my place then who's place is it? the stupid-visor don't know how to preload, the suits don't interact with the stupid-visor and I'm just an union employ. |
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| work retardedness |
[Jun. 8th, 2006|04:27 am] |
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Last Sunday I changed the struts in my car. While putting in the second one I sprained my wrist. I keep working and finished at about three in the afternoon. That night I decided to call into UPS to give my sprain a good nights rest. The message i leave for them details why I'm not coming in bla, bla, bla. On Monday night I get ready and go to work with my wrist taped up of a little extra support. My supervisor asks if went to the doctor. Now I'm 27 years old and I have been active all my life, I know what the doctor is going to say. Wrap it if you are going to use it, take Advil if your in pain and ice it after use. Well I tell my supervisor I didn't go to the doctor. He then asks me to go home and go to the doctor. Is that retarded or what? especially when the Doc said, "Wrap it if you are going to use it, take Advil if your in pain and ice it after use" because of this I missed two days of work. |
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| Calories |
[Jun. 5th, 2006|01:11 pm] |
I know most people will hate me for asking this but does anyone else count calories? Ok now that I read the question I see that I should have asked does anyone add up the calories in their food to make sure they have enough? |
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