Merry Christmas! aka This Never Happens To Me

After work today, I went to get some dog food. I don't go down this street much, so I didn't realize the yellow light I went through was a 3 sec. light instead of a 6 sec. light. Needless to say, it turned red right as I entered the intersection. Luckily none of the cross traffic was moving yet. Unluckily there was a cop waiting for the light.

He got behind me & flashed his lights, so I went ahead & signaled & pulled into the pet shop. The cop pulls in behind me & I cut the engine & get my wallet out (carefully keeping both hands in view as he comes to the window). He makes a comment about running the light as I fumble with my wallet & hand him my ATM card. I realized my mistake & chuckle "Oops, wrong one." We swap the ATM card for my license & I promptly dropped my wallet out the window. Durrr. Even when I'm riding clean I'm nervous around cops :(

Red, huh? Just like the light you went through.
I know. That was the shortest yellow light I've ever seen.

How old are you?
36.. I think. I was born in '72.

So 35?
No, I already had my birthday, in Jan.

Hm. *My* birthday is in Jan.
Really? I'm the 25th.

(Long pause. Duh, duh, DUH!)Hm. My birthday is Jan. 25th. '57.
(I make some inane comment about getting senior citizen discounts, and rub my beard. He replied that he probably would too if he grew a beard).

He made some comment about how interesting it was that we had the same birthday, and about how he'd have to be sure to put that on my ticket. The one for running the light.

Yes sir, I know.

Just as he was turning to leave, I pointed at his uniform patch.

Are you with the k9 unit?
Um, yeah...

You don't have a black GSD, do you? We live by the Graham exit, and my wife sees a k9 letting his black GSD out for a "walk" at the exit ramp all the time. We have a black GSD too, and she always thinks it's our dog, somehow out of the house.

No, I don't have a black GSD. Were you coming here, anyway? (pointing back at the pet shop)
Yeah, hehe, getting some dogfood, he goes through a lot.

(handing me my license) Merry Christmas.
Thank you!!!

Ugh

I've been slacking again. At least this time I have a half-assed excuse. I'm sick as a dog, got this cold shit kicking my ass. Fun stuff. We've got most of our Christmas shopping done. I say "we" when I really mean "Kate". She's been taking care of most of it. Hell, she's been taking care of me, too. Yesterday she made some chili. Now, I'm not a big chili fan, but if I'm going to eat it, I want it like she made it. I couldn't even think of any improvements she could make to it (I usually try to give her tips when she cooks, stuff like "mushrooms would be good in this", etc.). Well, I was sitting at my desk, and she was warming up some chili for me. Earlier I had thought that it'd be good to have a grilled cheese to go with the chili, but I didn't want her to go out of her way to make one, so I didn't say anything. When she set the bowl down, it was accompanied by a grilled cheese! WTF, man! I didn't complain, mind you, but she did get an extra hug :)

I guess you aren't safe anywhere

Investigators look for similarities in two weekend robberies

You expect this kinda thing to happen in Memphis. Even out at Hacks Cross, the urban blight is moving in. Lakeland, though? I thought Lakeland was supposed to be safe. Hell, I've eaten at that Cracker Barrel. Never again! Granted, this has more to do with the quality of the food & service, but still, I wouldn't expect an armed robbery there.

I can't believe the cops think this may be the same people. The McD's incident involved shooting the manager, for no real reason. If that was their MO, the CB manager would have been shot, too. Just because the perpetrators were wearing masks in both cases, and they were near the interstate... DUH! Most places in the Memphis area are near an interstate! There's a huge freakin' LOOP of interstate around the city!!!

My sister had one

I never did, though. I still think about getting one, all these years later :)



From Tilted Twister

Performance
Scanning the cube: 1 minute
Calculating a solution: 20 - 40 seconds
Executing the moves: 1 - 5 minutes. Average 4.5 minutes (60 faceturns)
Average total time: 6 minutes

2nd Amendment

Woof!

A cute video on stay out of the dog house this Christmas. All I know is, if I got my wife a bad-ass vacuum like that, I'd be rocking! Don't bother to knock, cuz we ain't coming to the door!

Love ya honey!

Ugh, I hate getting sick

I think I am, though. I stopped at Walgreens & got some medicine. A bit more heavy duty than I usually get for my sinus issues, and it makes me all "duuuuhhhhh". A small price to pay if I can nip it in the bud. Nip, nip, nip it!

I also purchased my first Christmas present. It was inexpensive, but it's something that Kate has mentioned a few times. I think she'll both be surprised and happy to get it.

I am absolutely livid

Little miss has decided, even though she's ALREADY grounded, to slack off at school. She also took it upon herself to withhold her progress report. Of course, she's still failing two of her classes. One of which is CLUE English. The reason? She neglected to do a project that is a major portion of her grade. She just... didn't do it. She's grounded, so it's not like she didn't have time to do it. She's not stupid, so it's not like she wasn't capable of doing it. She just... didn't do it. So she's failing that class... again. Not only does this mean she's probably going to be kicked out of CLUE, I'm not so worried about CLUE. No, this jeopardizes her eligibility for the entire Optional School program. I called & checked our district. Treadwell for 7th & 8th grade, Kingsbury for 9th, and Treadwell for 10th, 11th & 12th.

I just can't help but think that if she really wanted to be a Target cashier when she grows up so bad, she could have managed it a bit better than to be thrown to the wolves (AKA general population in public school). If she thinks her classes are boring now, wait until she sees how dumbed down the GP classes are. 1+1=2...

ARRRGGGGHHH!!!!