Water Cooler 6-11 Feb
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Originally posted by JKE
....I had to chew my coffee yesterday due to a SNAFU during the coffee brewing drill. Let's hope we don't have a repeat
....I had to chew my coffee yesterday due to a SNAFU during the coffee brewing drill. Let's hope we don't have a repeat
I agree, Mt. Dew is
. Best way to get going is an RC and a moon pie!!~Rob
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Ahhhhhhh, coffee and omlette down, time to go out and face the world. Gorgeous out again today - - 78 for a high projected. Not bad. Shorts.
Have a good one.
Bob
Have a good one.
Bob
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From: Lyndon KS
SNOW!! darn it.... got 6 inches yesterday on top of about an eighth inch of sleet.
Just got done dragging the drive with the tractor and blade so THE BOSS can get up it when she gets off work .
Gives me the rest of the morning off, too slick to work the horses, too cold to do anything else. The kicker is it's suppossed to be back up around 60 by Friday.....
Snow plow crew came on post last night to clear the parking lots, and got one of thier big trucks off into a ditch. The owner of the company showed up in a half ton Furd 4X4 and hooked up to the front of it with a strap, floored it, snapped the strap and shot striaght forward into one of my pop-up barricade trailers. Ripped the brace arms and hydraulics off the trailer, but we did find out that the trailers WILL stop a truck trying to run them!! took most of his undercarriage off.
Now the company owes us for a new trailer, and he is out a truck..... Wish I had had a camera, y'all would have loved that video!!
Coffee is hot and doughnuts are 'bout gone.....HotDram, if'n ya caint chew it, it aint good coffee....
Well gonna go see what words of wisdom are floating around today....Chris
Just got done dragging the drive with the tractor and blade so THE BOSS can get up it when she gets off work .
Gives me the rest of the morning off, too slick to work the horses, too cold to do anything else. The kicker is it's suppossed to be back up around 60 by Friday.....
Snow plow crew came on post last night to clear the parking lots, and got one of thier big trucks off into a ditch. The owner of the company showed up in a half ton Furd 4X4 and hooked up to the front of it with a strap, floored it, snapped the strap and shot striaght forward into one of my pop-up barricade trailers. Ripped the brace arms and hydraulics off the trailer, but we did find out that the trailers WILL stop a truck trying to run them!! took most of his undercarriage off.
Now the company owes us for a new trailer, and he is out a truck..... Wish I had had a camera, y'all would have loved that video!!
Coffee is hot and doughnuts are 'bout gone.....HotDram, if'n ya caint chew it, it aint good coffee....
Well gonna go see what words of wisdom are floating around today....Chris
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Afternoon Yall...just got done with a huge pile of paperwork and the mobile glass guy left..had to get a new windsheild in my girl today...just a few more hours then im off to phx for the night n back in the am for work...oh what fun...I hope everyone is having a good day...Happy Hump Day!
~Heather~
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From: In the middle of Weather Dry Creek Farm in Avilla, Arkansas
Interesting article off of Early Bird this morning. Pretty much sums it up.
The Marines: A Few Sensitive Men
By Kathleen Parker
In the 1998 movie Soldier, Sgt. Todd is talking to the woman who nursed him back to health when she asks: "What are you going to do?"
Todd replies: "I'm going to kill them all, sir."
Excellent. Just the sort of response we expect from a soldier and by which we understand that his spirit, if not his body, is intact. War is hell, but somebody has to prevail and preferably that somebody is "us."
Or maybe not. Given the breathless reaction to Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis of the U.S. Marine Corps, who had the audacity to speak candidly -- admitting that he sometimes enjoys his work -- maybe we'd be happier if Todd said something (cue violins) along these lines:
"Actually, Sandra -- may I call you Sandra? -- I've been thinking about that. As soon as I'm all patched up, I'm going to get some therapy and seek forgiveness from those who left me for dead."
Whereupon Sandra says, "Oopsey-daisy, we're fresh out of painkillers."
That's a joke, I hasten to add, lest the bow-tied brigades of humorless harrumphers unleash a Deeply Offended jeremiad my way.
That I have to say so ruins the joke, of course, but so it goes in the briar patch these days. I do not personally wish to inflict pain and suffering on anyone, but -- if I may speak candidly -- I don't mind if a few murdering Islamofascists cease contributing to depletion of Earth's precious oxygen supply.
Oh, chortle, chortle. If only Mattis had said some such, or thrown out some "attic humor," as humorist Christopher Buckley once put it. You know, the sort of bon mot that elicits precious titters from the studiously dowdy. Why, then, Mattis would be the darling of dyspeptic America instead of the barbarian anathema he's become.
But, alas, Mattis isn't a parlor boy; he's a kick-down-the-door Marine who, as a military friend defines the job, "takes human life on behalf of the nation." Mattis doesn't speak latte; he speaks spit. So instead of making some arch remark about how to conduct warfare against terrorists, he ignited a national snit by saying that he found killing the enemy, in so many words, not unpleasant.
His precise words were: "Actually, it's a lot of fun to fight. You know, it's a hell of a hoot. It's fun to shoot some people. I'll be right up front with you, I like brawling." Mattis told a San Diego gathering that included military personnel, many of whom reportedly laughed.
Then Mattis went on to clarify who "some people" are.
"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil. You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them."
Hear, hear. With all due respect to sensitive Talibanistas, who, in addition to routinely killing women for walking down a street unescorted by a male relative, also aided and abetted Osama bin Laden, I find Mattis' attitude neither too cold nor too hot, but just about right.
Nevertheless, his comments have provoked scathing editorials and calls for his resignation. His boss, Gen. Michael Hagee, commander of the Marine Corps, has declined to impose disciplinary action on Mattis but did counsel him about choosing his words more carefully.
Hagee also praised Mattis for his record as a warrior and leader. Mattis' resume is too long for this space, but suffice it to say he fought both in Afghanistan and Iraq. In Afghanistan, he commanded the 1st Marine Expeditionary Brigade during Operation Enduring Freedom; in Iraq, he commanded 1st Marine Division during the initial attack and subsequent stabilizing operations.
He did not accomplish these successful military operations by being nice. My guess is he spoke candidly to his men, who from all reports greatly admire their leader.
The crux of the Mattis problem, aside from the obvious exercising of antiwar sentiment whenever possible, is our discomfort with the warrior culture. We want Clint Eastwood in the trenches and David Niven home for dinner.
Parfait. As soon as we get World Peace straightened out, maybe we can send Mattis for a weekend with Prudence. In the meantime, it seems neither shocking nor offensive that a Marine general might find some pleasure -- whether moral reward or winning the battle for survival -- in taking out a particularly despicable enemy.
As a woman trying to imagine living under a Taliban regime, I'd be whole lot happier to see Mattis coming to my rescue than any of those whose tiny feathers got mussed by his blunt talk.
The Marines: A Few Sensitive Men
By Kathleen Parker
In the 1998 movie Soldier, Sgt. Todd is talking to the woman who nursed him back to health when she asks: "What are you going to do?"
Todd replies: "I'm going to kill them all, sir."
Excellent. Just the sort of response we expect from a soldier and by which we understand that his spirit, if not his body, is intact. War is hell, but somebody has to prevail and preferably that somebody is "us."
Or maybe not. Given the breathless reaction to Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis of the U.S. Marine Corps, who had the audacity to speak candidly -- admitting that he sometimes enjoys his work -- maybe we'd be happier if Todd said something (cue violins) along these lines:
"Actually, Sandra -- may I call you Sandra? -- I've been thinking about that. As soon as I'm all patched up, I'm going to get some therapy and seek forgiveness from those who left me for dead."
Whereupon Sandra says, "Oopsey-daisy, we're fresh out of painkillers."
That's a joke, I hasten to add, lest the bow-tied brigades of humorless harrumphers unleash a Deeply Offended jeremiad my way.
That I have to say so ruins the joke, of course, but so it goes in the briar patch these days. I do not personally wish to inflict pain and suffering on anyone, but -- if I may speak candidly -- I don't mind if a few murdering Islamofascists cease contributing to depletion of Earth's precious oxygen supply.
Oh, chortle, chortle. If only Mattis had said some such, or thrown out some "attic humor," as humorist Christopher Buckley once put it. You know, the sort of bon mot that elicits precious titters from the studiously dowdy. Why, then, Mattis would be the darling of dyspeptic America instead of the barbarian anathema he's become.
But, alas, Mattis isn't a parlor boy; he's a kick-down-the-door Marine who, as a military friend defines the job, "takes human life on behalf of the nation." Mattis doesn't speak latte; he speaks spit. So instead of making some arch remark about how to conduct warfare against terrorists, he ignited a national snit by saying that he found killing the enemy, in so many words, not unpleasant.
His precise words were: "Actually, it's a lot of fun to fight. You know, it's a hell of a hoot. It's fun to shoot some people. I'll be right up front with you, I like brawling." Mattis told a San Diego gathering that included military personnel, many of whom reportedly laughed.
Then Mattis went on to clarify who "some people" are.
"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil. You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them."
Hear, hear. With all due respect to sensitive Talibanistas, who, in addition to routinely killing women for walking down a street unescorted by a male relative, also aided and abetted Osama bin Laden, I find Mattis' attitude neither too cold nor too hot, but just about right.
Nevertheless, his comments have provoked scathing editorials and calls for his resignation. His boss, Gen. Michael Hagee, commander of the Marine Corps, has declined to impose disciplinary action on Mattis but did counsel him about choosing his words more carefully.
Hagee also praised Mattis for his record as a warrior and leader. Mattis' resume is too long for this space, but suffice it to say he fought both in Afghanistan and Iraq. In Afghanistan, he commanded the 1st Marine Expeditionary Brigade during Operation Enduring Freedom; in Iraq, he commanded 1st Marine Division during the initial attack and subsequent stabilizing operations.
He did not accomplish these successful military operations by being nice. My guess is he spoke candidly to his men, who from all reports greatly admire their leader.
The crux of the Mattis problem, aside from the obvious exercising of antiwar sentiment whenever possible, is our discomfort with the warrior culture. We want Clint Eastwood in the trenches and David Niven home for dinner.
Parfait. As soon as we get World Peace straightened out, maybe we can send Mattis for a weekend with Prudence. In the meantime, it seems neither shocking nor offensive that a Marine general might find some pleasure -- whether moral reward or winning the battle for survival -- in taking out a particularly despicable enemy.
As a woman trying to imagine living under a Taliban regime, I'd be whole lot happier to see Mattis coming to my rescue than any of those whose tiny feathers got mussed by his blunt talk.
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I would say that sums it up rather well SR.
Mornin Folks
Is it 0800 yet? Still doing doubles (16 hrs.) at work and I think I'm getting too old for this,,,,,,,
Y'all have a good one and lets get going now,,,,,,,,, I'm leaving here at 0800 whether you guys get up or not!
Mornin Folks
Is it 0800 yet? Still doing doubles (16 hrs.) at work and I think I'm getting too old for this,,,,,,,
Y'all have a good one and lets get going now,,,,,,,,, I'm leaving here at 0800 whether you guys get up or not!
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mornin'...clear as a bell here and 41. Will gladly solute the big eye later this afternoon . Tried to get here early
. couldn't roll myself outta the sack.
should someone cycle the lights or start the can launch sequence??
Ya'll have a great day. - JKE
. Tried to get here early . couldn't roll myself outta the sack. should someone cycle the lights or start the can launch sequence??
Ya'll have a great day. - JKE
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From: Coventry RI
Mornin folks.
Coffee tastes weird this mornin, wife ran some of that coffee pot cleaner stuff through it yesterday. Hope it got flushed out, if not, my innards will be pretty clean too.
Couple of inches of snow comin tonight. Trucks and equipment fueled and ready.
Time for more coffee.
Rich
Coffee tastes weird this mornin, wife ran some of that coffee pot cleaner stuff through it yesterday. Hope it got flushed out, if not, my innards will be pretty clean too.
Couple of inches of snow comin tonight. Trucks and equipment fueled and ready.
Time for more coffee.
Rich
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From: Central VA
Drizzly earlier, 'suposed to get some rain later.
Temps 'bout 5 degrees cooler with gusty winds today.
is hot, strong and best of all,......ready.
Need mass quantities of sugar-laced snacks.
Ya'll B safe
Ed
Temps 'bout 5 degrees cooler with gusty winds today.
is hot, strong and best of all,......ready.Need mass quantities of sugar-laced snacks.
Ya'll B safe
Ed
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From: Sarasota, Florida
OK, Redleg, I don't like you anymore. 
Projections do not look good for the next two days. 75 today, 30's for the next two nights and a high tomorrow of only 62. Not nice. I might have to put on jeans tomorrow - - how horrible. 
Baby goes in tomorrow for axle fluids, engine fluids, tire rotate - - getting ready for the big roll. They better not rape me on that rear end fluid change out.
Have a good one.
Bob
Projections do not look good for the next two days. 75 today, 30's for the next two nights and a high tomorrow of only 62. Not nice. I might have to put on jeans tomorrow - - how horrible. Baby goes in tomorrow for axle fluids, engine fluids, tire rotate - - getting ready for the big roll. They better not rape me on that rear end fluid change out.
Have a good one.
Bob