Okay that last “Sopranos” episode was a big scam-doodle (I just made that up! Scam-doodle) what a bunch of hype for nothing. There are blogs and internet pages popping up everywhere with mad people. It was on the BBC, and all the morning shows. I chimed in on our local “about town” thingy. In a way (since I watched it again last night) it was inspired, but mostly it was just bad. So I say Cancel your HBO, refuse to see the movie, this was a SCAM-DOODLE!!!!!!
Scam-doodle I wonder how the Chinese would translate that?
But I find out that other countries also make rather funny mistakes in translating English
Doctors Office in Rome
“Specialist in women and other diseases
Hotel Acapulco
“The manager has personally passed all the water served here”
Air Conditioner Instructions in Japan
“”If you want just condition of warm air in room control yourself”
Nairobi restaurant
“Customers who find our waitresses rude ought to see the manager”
Nairobi restaurant
“Open 7 days a week and weekends”
Nairobi restaurant (on a restroom hand dryer)
“Do not operate with wet hands”
Tokyo Hotel
“Customers are requested not to smoke or do other disgusting behaviors in bed”
Hotel Bucharest (I think we stayed here)
The lift is being fixed for next day, until then you will be unbearable”
Hotel Yugoslavia
“The flattening of underwear, with pleasure, is the job of the chambermaid”
Supermarket Hong Kong
“For your convenience we recommend courteous, efficient self-service”
Hotel Vienna
“In case of fire, do utmost to alarm porter”
Other than that things are quiet here, we plan to head for the boat tomorrow, Mark was here over the weekend and Mom has scheduled her visit from July 5th to the 9th.
No changes on the work front, although I did find a job yesterday that really looks good to me, so keep your fingers crossed.
That’s about it.
Well, I hoped to have some good news this week, but things didn’t pan out. I had a lot of activity last week but in the end I’m still looking. A couple of things are still “open” and I found some really good stuff this week. I’m narrowing my focus to a lesser number of “industries” and spending more time focusing on those…so we’ll see…hopefully in the next 3-4 weeks I’ll have something positive to report.
Last weekend was spent at the boat, and what a beautiful weekend! Thursday was pretty hot; we got together with Cheryl and David and rode their boat until sunset, and then stayed at their house (too hot). By Friday it had really cooled off with lows around 58 and highs in the upper 80’s. Friday and Saturday we visited with folks on the dock, a pretty eclectic crew. At one point I looked around and was surrounded by an IT guy, a professor at UNC who teaches astronomical chemistry (whatever that is) a retired vet and etc, the politics were interesting.
Anyway I’ve got a number of issues to discuss
- Deer—I hate deer. My Uncle writes that after moving back to the mid-west he was enchanted with the deer for 4 days, until he noticed his roses were eaten. I propose a new society of which Howard and I will be charter members. BAN DEER (Bambi ain’t nice; Devours everything edible regularly) I say we push congress to deport the deer to the Budapest zoo (they have raccoons but no deer) There’s this stinky stuff you can buy to run them off, but I have a better plan—German Shepard’s; I’m gonna get me one and then get some deer scent and make them smell it while I whack him on the head with a newspaper. I really hate deer.
- Japanese Beetles—I hate Japanese beetles; besides I’m mad at the Japanese anyway as they are trying to re-write history Tojo’s granddaughter is running for something and says Grandpa wasn’t so bad in that he wrote poetry (Drop a bomb on the USA, Make sure they have a really bad day, Make all their warships go away, Then we’ll move on to LA, kill ‘em all that’s what I say, Drop a bom on the USA) Haiku? Anyway about these bugs there’s as bad as the deer. I got this “Bag-a-Bug” stuff, the bag was full overnight, so I got some more bags—now I have 346 bags, my yard looks like a used car lot where they got all those flashy doo-dads that reflect the sun. Lindsey won’t come home.
- Geese—About that goose-whisperer in the Netherlands, seems they have a goose issue and this guy gets down at goose eye level and then bobs his head and makes a goose-like bill with his hands and talks to them and makes them act right. He explained after a goose nipped someone that the goose didn’t appreciate her invading its private space without warning. Aren’t narcotics legal in the Netherlands? This guy is nuttier than my bluebird cam neighbor.
- Monkeys—Over in India some guy was looking out the window when a monkey swooped in and stole his sunglasses. Because of insurance he filed a police report and there was a massive monkey hunt. Just look for the one trying to look anonymous hiding behind sunglasses that’s what I say.
- Pigs—There is an artistic pig here in Raleigh (which just passed Wichita (HUH?) as the 50th largest city in the US (Wichita who knew? I know you can’t buy gas there) anyway the pig makes paintings (abstract) one sold for 1300 dollars (I can NOT make this stuff up) but now the pig has snout cancer and is getting radiation treatment at NC State, if interested you can make a donation to help defray costs at NC State Vet Hosp. Acct 10930 Attn: Smithfield (the pigs name is Smithfield)
- Ducks—Well not really, I’m really off the Dewey Decimal System (Dewey was related to Donald—There was this bad movie once called “Howard the Duck” that makes me laugh, Howard the Duck had this big goofy duck face and always wore sunglasses, I wonder if the monkey knew? — Anyway back to the Dewey Hughie and Louie decimal system who though this up? Dewey? Who was he? What makes him so smart? People at the library say it’s real easy, well so is astronomical chemistry if you’re an astronomical chemist. Like under one classification 100-199 is Psychology and Philosophy which contains stuff like death and dying and optical illusions, and magic tricks. Children’s stories and Shakespeare are in the same section. Some company in Dublin Ohio BOUGHT the Dewey Decimal system in 1988. Why? Do they get a kickback? I think it’s a nefarious plot by the SOOLTKRPITDAFCS (Secret Order of Librarians to Keep Regular People in the Dark and Frustrate College Students) I am proposing the Robertson System of Simplicity. Put signs on the shelves like “History” and “Cooking” not this 723.78.456547.09845.847-34 stuff.
There was an interesting article in today’s paper. The Russians intend to send a submarine under the North Pole and plant a flag to declare the whole Artic their territory, okay but here’s the problem, it’s a bad ice year, too much ice but But BUT….I thought the whole thing melted. According to the article the ice has been melting since the BEGINNING of the 20th century Huh—Does Al Gore know? I thought he invented global warming. He’s older than I thought.
Castro is still alive, Lindsey still a drunk, Brittany is nuts, Paris isn’t in the news, and I’m 8-8 on the “hard” Sudoku puzzles recently.
Boy, haven’t the pro sports leagues taken a hit lately; Detroit has the best record in baseball, and bunch of people are riding bikes around France. Lots of rain in England, tornados in Poland, and stifling heat in Romania and Bulgaria.
Talk about Mad Dogs and Englishmen, there was a toy museum in London (guess it’s still there) and one of the displays was teddy bears. It included Elvis Presley’s childhood bear. The guard dog went berserk and tore them all up. The damage was estimated at 19,000 dollars. (Or pounds I forget)
Busy week, we had Ellen’s mom’s birthday party at the nursing home on Saturday. Tuesday Helen, Andrew and THE TAZ arrived. The first thing the TAZ did was EAT MY CASHEWS! Then she —ah never mind. The party went off well; Mark came up Saturday and attended as well as several members of Tommie’s old church. Friday night I cooked steak and Saturday night it was ribs and chicken with my own special BBQ sauce which Andrew pronounce awesome. I think that is the ultimate compliment. We had a “cool” front come through. Temps in the lower nineties, but it made sitting out at night enjoyable. Saturday night Ellen and I just chilled and watched the baby fish in the pond. Like I mentioned there’s a bunch. I don’t think Mark was too impressed. Ellen dragged him out and he left about 45 seconds later. We also ended up talking to our friends in California twice this week. The first time was to clear up Lindsey’s “infraction” from July 4th. That little episode is going to cost 172 dollars. Then they called Saturday night, but it’s possible they might have been drinking. Let’s see what else. I still have high hopes for all my cuttings, except the Rhododendrons they do not seem to like the idea of rooting. The blueberry plants have gone plum nuts, one blackberry looks pretty healthy, the other a might sickly, and the fig trees seem to be holding their own. It’s been hot here but not as bad as the rest of the country.
Today we leave for Myrtle Beach, for the association convention. I will actually get paid to hang out at the beach.
Now listen, about those Chinese, I am becoming increasingly fed up. I think it started last week when I went to make coffee. I believe I mentioned that I despise our coffee maker (made in China) well when I was pouring the water out of the bucket thingies (ever notice how men and women define thingies different?) into the hole, the bucket slipped. This resulted in a thorough soaking of my shirt and pants at 5:30 a.m. and the water was cold. This in turn renewed my distrust of the Chinese. So I started looking around. The TAZ had a ball with all the Disney princesses on it guess what “Fabreque de Chine” (you can’t fool me with that fancy-pants French spelling) I knew it was made in China. Her hat “Fabreque de Chine” This is wrong Disney stuff is US stuff—who do those Chinese people think they are! Then I remembered a recent news article. There are students in China who play video games all day and capture secret weapons, and codes, and special powers and stuff and then sell them to American kids. The outrage—and I bet they play these games on machine “Fabrique de Chine” First it was chop sticks, then the Pandas, then coffee makers. If they touch my wonton soup………
I guess we’re getting pretty close to our trip. I’m feeling behind on my Romanian tapes, but I’ll try and catch up in the next week or so. We also have a few ground transportation issues to resolve, but I think we worked out the train issue I mentioned last week. We redirected ourselves to Bucharest from Brasov, this allows us to take a day train, and then come back into Brasov. That avoids the overnight issue. Once this is nailed, the rest will consist of a couple of e-mails and done.
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