Observations

[jarhead]

Sounds good to me Larry. My late aunt lived in Inglewood and when I was a pup, every Christmas she would send a big box of dates and oranges and lemons she picked from her own  trees. I realize shipping costs are thru the roof so you can skip the oranges and lemons but since you're buying I love them dates. You need my mailing address ?
Oh yea, a slice of lime goes good in a gin & tonic so might throw a dozen limes in the pkg.

[larryJ]

Gin and tonic?  We must be related!  As far as me shipping you anything, don't hold your breath.

Larryj

[larryJ]

Moving on.............

Last night, my better half decided to make a taco salad for dinner.  Her recipe for this salad includes:

Romaine lettuce
Ground turkey
Tomatoes
Refried beans
Corn
Monterey Jack Cheese
McCormick's Taco seasoning.

Brown the turkey, add the taco seasoning and everything else and put on a bed of Romaine lettuce.

Now.............While she is in the process of fixing this, I hear, "The thingie fell off the can opener."  What she meant was that the little tiny pin holding the magnet on the can opener had fallen off.  I asked her where the pin was and she didn't know about any stupid pin.  I looked on the counter, on the floor, poured the corn into a collander and checked it real close, looked at the empty refried beans can.............and no pin.  As I walked past the stove I said perhaps the pin had fallen into the beans which were now mixed in with the meat cooking on the stove.  It was with some caution that I (we) ate our dinner savoring every bite more so than usual..... making sure that we weren't eating that little pin.  Lo and behold............when I had finished my salad, a rather large serving, I noticed the little pin laying on one side of the bowl.  How I could eat that whole salad and not swallow or bite down on a tiny little pin is beyond me.  I put the pin back on the can opener along with the magnet and all is well. 

Observation:  Chewing very carefully and savoring every bite makes the dinner taste better.  Maybe because you are aware that there is something in your dinner that could cause you great discomfort and you want to make sure that doesn't happen. 

Larryj

[larryJ]

Observed yesterday while coming home from picking up GD#1 from school:

A bumper sticker..........


ENJOY YOUR DAY!

COURTESY OF GOD!

Larryj

[larryJ]

While the Forum is my favorite site to visit everyday, I do look at other blogs that attract my interest.  One such blog is administered by a former co-worker and president of our twenty year club.  While he is not openly critical of the management of the paper, he does make comments from time to time that casts a shadow on them.  This gentleman has been a press operator for many years.  In fact, I worked on his crew as the top color compensator for several years before I retired.  He has worked for the paper for 39+ years, starting as a paper handler and working his way up to press operator.  He is a very good worker and knows his job well and performs that job expertly.

Why bring this up?

Today on Facebook, he posted that he was called at home last week and told he was terminated............no reason given, or at least, he is not saying.  Two weeks before Christmas and he was fired..........after 39+ years of loyal service.........called at home and told not to come back to work.............!

I am almost positive that the Chandler family who owned the times for over 115 years, before selling out to the Chicago Tribune, are all cringing in their respective graves. 

What I don't know and will try to find out is if he will get his pension and benefits.  I am so angry right now that this heartless bunch of nobodys could do this.  The sad part is that when you leave, you have to agree not to sue the company in order to get all your benefits.  Not sure that is legal, but it sure puts a damper on screaming and yelling at those dolts. 

Sorry, had to vent.

Larryj

[larryJ]

More on the above..............After I left the paper, I had very little contact with my co-workers.  There was the twice a year dinners with the Twenty Year Club, but the club has become too hard to maintain, meaning that the prices of the restaurants went up and while the dues were raised to compensate for this, it became too much.  Now there are just informal gatherings once a year.  There is another group, mostly the same people as the Twenty Year Club, that meet for breakfast every two months.  I have attended only one of those breakfast.  I do have a friend/co-worker who lives nearby.  His wife and my wife have been friends now for over 35 years.  But I don't see him much anymore either.  His mother is ill and lives in New Jersey so he is occupied with that now. 

Anyway, I sent an e-mail to the guy who was terminated.  His reply was that "he had come to the aid of a co-worker who had made a mistake.  Then he was fired for sabotage."  No other explanation.  He did say that he was going to go to court over this. 

Knowing the terminology used by pressmen, I believe what happened was that someone did something which could have or did cause damage to the printing equipment and my friend tried to cover it up so the other one wouldn't be fired. 

Larryj

[larryJ]

I've noticed several things in the past week or so.

The weather has been great here in SoCal.

I've seen pictures of my daughter-in-law and granddaughter while they are on their trip.......both of them are beautiful.

Almost all of the Christmas decorations are packed away except for a plastic tree wrapped in lights in the front yard.

As mentioned, I got to see the B-2 bomber overhead during the Rose Parade.


BUT THE ONE THING THAT REALLY STANDS OUT.................

KANSAS MUST HAVE FROZEN OVER AND DISAPPEARED.

That's the only reason I can think of that makes sense to me because there seems to be a huge lack of postings on this Forum!

Larryj

[Wilma]

You are right, Larry, except we are far from frozen.  I blame the exceptionally good weather.  Everybody but me can get out and do things, then they are too tired to post.  Which is a shame because there are so many poor disabled people like me who depend on the good graces of people like the Forum members for entertainment.  Please, good people, entertain me.

[sixdogsmom]

Sorry Wilma, you are out of luck if you expect for me to entertain you. I am barely able to crawl to my computer a couple of times a day to see what is going on in the world. I picked up a terrible cold from the little kids down in Oklahoma last week. This is the first I have been sick in a year or more, but it is making up for lost time. I have just now finished eating and will be crawling back in bed for the afternoon before long. It is about time for another dose of cough syrup plus antihistamines, makes you all drowzy andddd----zzzzzzzzzzz.   

[Ms Bear]

Edie, I am sorry you are sick.  Amazing what we can catch from the young ones.  I can't even use that excuse, I am just plain lazy.

The weather here in Texas is really nice and I will get out for awhile today.  My daughter and son-in-law were here for a few days after New Years and my son-in-law did more work to my yard in two days than I can do in six months.  Now I just have to keep it up.  He did get the drain problems I was having fixed, the lawn mower running right and trimmed all the larger bushes.

They have finally lifted the burn ban that we have had for almost a full year and we burned the piles of limbs and trimmings so the yard looks really good.