Halloween

Just got home.  The street is full of goblins and ghouls.
The $35 worth of candy I bought yesterday is already almost gone.  Belle is no Scrooge when it comes to handing out candy.
I thought I was having Vietnamese carry-out for dinner tonight, but the family that owns our favorite Vietnamese restaurant closed early, 4pm, for "the holiday". So the sign on the door read. Now that's what I call assimilating.

  On Holiday you take off from Wok.

My Dad was always good at making costumes. Me? I suck at it.  Neighbors down the street from his house used to have a Halloween party every year with some theme. One year the theme was "magic".
Dad took a big cardboard box, big enough to wear and cut a peep hole in the front and back. Inside, he mounted little mirrors.  When you looked in the peephole you could see what was behind him. Creative I thought.
The real kicker was that he had a long piece of plastic tubing he'd drop into your drink while you were peeping and a goodly portion of your libation would "disappear".
Fortunately, he only had to walk 6 houses down to get home.

This would be why

we could not hardly find a box of ammo on the shelf in the days leading up to Hurricane Ike's landfall.

The aftermath of Hurricane Sandy as the vultures descend.

But no worries.  The fine people of NY and NJ are protected by strict gun laws.

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Hurricane Sandy

I do hope the folks up north prepped for the hurricane. Not nearly enough of them I suspect.  The aftermath is going to be a mess.
Power's out, water supply likely contaminated, no gasoline, no subway...basically a quick vacay to the 1800's without the horses.
I saw one report earlier today that said gangs were organizing looting sprees via twitter.  I would not want to be up there post storm protected by nothing more than a strict gun law. 
To add insult to injury, the Northeast has a massive cold front moving in on them as well.

My nephew lives in Brooklyn. Having grown up on the gulf coast, he's prepped and hunkered down. He said folks were already getting really nasty last night when he was at the grocery to pick up a few more provisions. 

 In a day or two, they'll be completely feral.

I fear the police are going to be very busy.

Taffy anyone?

Sunset on the Harbor

Down on the water last night for my Aunt and Uncle's 60th wedding anniversary.

Such a Shame, poor Al

snort...sniggle...bwahahahahaha

Couldn't keep a straight face

The Goracle's "Current TV" is on the block for sale

"Founded in 2005 by Al Gore, Current TV quickly made a name for itself as a go-to source for environmental incoherence, Democrat lunacy, and far-left diatribes. If providing an outlet for liberal kooks was the goal, it succeeded admirably. However, if it was trying to attract viewers, well, it's had some difficulty. Now, it's up for sale."

Please.... do go ahead and point and laugh. After all the global worming fraud Algore has foisted on the world, he deserves it.

Oy what a couple of days it's been

Rolled up on a deadline this week for actual work work while dealing with all kinds of fail on the company network and overseeing the final installation and commissioning of our new video conferencing center.
So I've been trying to concentrate on getting the job out the door with way to many distractions.

THEN the owner of our outsource IT support called my founding partner putting the hard sell on him to revamp all our hardware and go all in on a virtual environment.
The real kicker in that conversation was that IT support owner capped it off by telling my founding partner that the biggest problem we had with our network was kx59...as in me.
Stabbed in the back.
My partner said his jaw hit the floor.
What IT support moron doesn't realize is that founding partner and a few other shareholders have been wanting to fire IT support company for about a year and find another company. The only thing keeping that from happening was me.
I think I'm coming around to their way of thinking.

IT support company owning moron doesn't know that I know about that conversation just yet.  Outsource IT support companies are a dime a baker's dozen.
 His company just got bought by a larger IT support company.  From a money standpoint, we were not a small client for them.  He's no longer the biggest fish in his pond, so I'll be looking for someone higher up the food chain to have a little church chat with about this.
I plan to make it as painful as possible.
And then I'll fire them.

While I'm At It

Well, since I've been on a mic'd up football jag, here is Brian Cushing (out for the season with a torn ACL) who was mic'd up at a game last season against Cleveland.

He's a funny guy, not to mention a kick ass player.  We really are missing him, but I think that the boys will step it up.

 

After he head butts the Cleveland guy without his helmet, listen to his comments....   classic stuff!



 

There's Hope Yet

Considering how most professional atheletes behave now days, it's nice to see that there are still a few diamonds in the rough.  The beginning of this video is heart warming and shows a strength of character in this young man.

This is Arian Foster.  At the end JJ Watt is asking him if he thinks of poetry when he's running.. LOL


 

I hope the Texans keep winning!   Good job boys!

I've Eaten Burritos Bigger Than You!

LOL...

This past Sunday, JJ Watt from the Houston Texans was mic'd up.  That was his comment to Ray Rice.  Watt is hilarious!



 

I love it!