A guy fell asleep on the beach for several hours and got a horrible sunburn, specifically to his upper legs. He went to the hospital, and was promptly admitted after being diagnosed with second-degree burns.
With his skin already starting to blister, and the severe pain he was in, the doctor prescribed continuous intravenous feeding with saline, electrolytes, a sedative, and a Viagra pill every four hours. The nurse, who was rather astounded, asked, 'What good will Viagra do for him, Doctor?'
The doctor replied, 'It won't do anything for his condition, but it'll keep the sheets off his legs.'
Hat tip to cousin Patti.
Amazon has a new program called Amazon Prime that give free 2-day shipping. And I'm playing $30 for shipping because I live across the border? This is crazy!
Finally a contender for President that I can actually vote for.
Some lesson today in how to get people to ignore you and not get what you want. These are excerpts from an email I received from somebody trying to get me to do stuff for them.
Do you think I'm going to respond? Or bother reading any of their emails in the future? Of course not. They just found my kill file. Conclusion: This would be how not to deal with people.
When you have a 'I Hate My Job' day [even if retired you have those sometimes] try this:
On your way home from work, stop at your pharmacy and go to the thermometer section and purchase a rectal thermometer made by Johnson & Johnson. Be very sure you get this brand..
Change into very comfortable clothing and sit in your favorite chair. Open the package and remove the thermometer. Now, carefully place it on a table or a surface so that it will not become chipped or broken.
Now the fun part begins. Take out the literature from the box and read it carefully. You will notice that in small print there is a statement:
'Every Rectal Thermometer made by Johnson & Johnson is personally tested and then sanitized. ' Now, close your eyes and repeat out loud five times,'I am so glad I do not work in the thermometer quality control department at Johnson & Johnson.'
HAVE A NICE DAY AND REMEMBER, THERE IS ALWAYS SOMEONE ELSE WITH A JOB THAT IS MORE OF A PAIN IN THE ASS THAN YOURS!
We've been on vacation on the East coast for the last month. You can follow our travels on the RVDad blog. We forgot my shaver. My wife doesn't usually let my beard get too long before forcing me to shave. This time, I had an excuse. And no haircut in quite a few months. I started to look horrible before I got a haircut and beard trim. Here's the before.
This is the 2nd time in a year that someone who owes me money says net-60 days, actually the other was net-75 days. This means they pay 60 days after the earnings are earned. In most case, the earnings are from a monthly period, so in fact, you are getting paid 90 days later for earnings on the first of the month, 89 days later for earnings on the 2nd of the month, etc. And after waiting 90 days, you find out they are late with the payment. They had 90 days to pay me and they couldn't do it. Their clients, like me, get pissed and this affects their work. In turn, this affects their co-workers. It's stupidity like this that causes these companies to drop in productivity.
Then I find out that accounts payable didn't receive my invoice because some guy forgot to do his job. I yell and one week later I have a cheque. In other words, they can cut a cheque on the spot. The 90 days is just to piss you off. If you are paying people more than net-45 days, then you likely have a lot of clients who would rather work for someone else.
Here he is...
The world got you down? Try YouTube.
This is funny. Mostly because we all know it's very close to reality. I worked for 10 years in the corporate world and most geeks were trying to maximize the amount of time they played their favorite 3rd-person video game. Every email is ignored. Knee jerk reactions compound every problem. Nobody really cares until their boss is watching over their shoulder. Must view.
Today, I watched the movie The Rookie. I'm not a big movie watcher, but I usually like to watch sport movies. Oddly, I hadn't seen this one, even though it's 6+ years old. It was great! I'm 39, with a sports enthused 7-year-old son and dreamed of playing the majors when I was a kid, so there was lot's of strings for this movie to pull on me. I guess this movie was about me, except that I throw 96 kph instead of mph (miles per hour). This movie has made my regular rotation, so if I see it in the TV guide, then I'll watch it again. It's right up there with Fields of Dreams, The Natural and For Love of the Game.
When you don't handle your problems, they inevitably snowball on you. For instance, if you have problem employees and you don't straighten them out, then others that work with the problem employee take notice. They realize, they can behave inappropriately as well and need not worry about getting fired. As well, your good employees will become frustrated with having to fix the problems created by the bad ones. Eventually, all your good employees quit and you are left with all bad employees.
The problem is easily rectified. Fire one bad employee and you'll notice an improvement in everybody else. Your good employees will feel like you are helping them and your bad employees may decide to become good employees fearing the axe.
It's about being good managers. Unfortunately these days, most managers have never taken a management course and simply don't know any better.
If you haven't looked at the address bar, then here's a surprise for you. I just moved the blog to its own domain and a brand new web-server. I'm still working out the bugs caused by the move. If you stumble into any problems, then send me an email and I'll fix ASAP.
The new web-server is a dedicated Windows server from Go Daddy! I've been so impressed with Go Daddy's domain administration, that I'm also buying dedicated servers from them now. The setup of the box was ridiculously tight. ASPX was disabled. Write access to the Inetpub from the ASP user was also disabled. But, it works!
I use to follow American politics, but of late, it's all turned into a big joke. Here we have the most hated presidential administration in the history of America and they look 50-50 to get re-elected with their new candidate. It's not because Americans want to vote for the Republicans, it's more that the Democrats have proved themselves to be pathetic. At this point, I'm ready to put my money on McCain. I'm most convinced of this when I read liberal blogs.
Do you realize how many of McCain's fund raising team have quit because they did things that compromised the campaign? Remember Larry Craig? The hand under the bathroom stall guy? This guy was an early McCain lobbyist and backer. Now we're finding out a bunch of McCain advisers are quitting because ... well ... McCain has long promised not to have lobbyist on this team. You'd think the advisers would've know McCains stance before they joined ... but then ... we already new the Republicans stood for deception. And this guy stands a change of winning? Why?
Because Obama and Hillary are bigger jokers yet!