A nice surprise

I wasn’t bored, but I was feeling guilty that I had not done much today, which is, in a way, worse than being bored, and then I noticed a little lit-up brown light on my screen up where it says, “Howdy, AmeliaJake.”

I don’t know; maybe it had been there for days, but now I had seen it and I clicked on it and found alerts to comments on this blog and, gracious me, a comment on a comment I had left on another blog.

That blog post was about things going awry, to put it mildly and the author’s brother had commented it could have been worse and went on to describe tongue in cheek some details. I noted that I thought his account left me wanting more and supplied some possibilities.

I’m going to stop right here and say his comment was about a pump breaking while cattle are nudging you and your backhoe operator has imbibed and it is very cold. My reply concerned the cattle getting loose and whatnot.

He, a rancher – a real one out in Colorado – told me what really would have happened.

This is what he explained:

Nah, it would have been better if 12 yearling bulls got out, ran across the highway to a trailer park and started scratching their backs on the trailers. Moving them up to a foot up and down and sideways leading the groggy occupants to believe that they were experiencing an earthquake. Only to run out of their trailers, some barely clothed as this was nearly midnight, into the ‘dirty dozen’ bulls having the time of their life. Then after having their fun, leaving behind green graffiti on cars, trailers, and some on the ground, turned as a herd and ran back across the road into the pen they had recently vacated. They were so unruly that the only way they would stand for a lecture from a deputy was to be fed while he spoke to them about their obnoxious behavior. He did not mean for it to be humorous, but he had a hard time keeping from laughing during the lecture, especially when he asked if they had any questions. The one who did of course spoke with his mouth full, leading to an addition to their curriculum about manners around people.

Maybe he, his clever blogging sister, my innovative husband and I should write a blog about our “drive” around America. And I’m not talking the biggest ball of twine.

I don’t feel bored and my mind is off feeling guilty.

Change

We are doing massive restructuring at the The Peanut Butter Cafe & Roadhouse; about the only thing not happening is the “The” is not going to become a “Ye Olde”.

I’m not going to write about the details, probably no more than to say things about being tired and/or near death. I hope I am kidding about the last part. I am also not going to mention suicidal or homicidal words because, well, yeah, I don’t want it coming back to haunt me.

So, AmeliaJake, you blogged of homicide and Sgt. Friday and I here really think we ought to delve into your thoughts . . .

Gee, officer, it was a turn of a phrase . . .

Yes, well. So, AmeliaJake, you blogged of homicide and Sgt. Friday and I here really think we ought to delve into your thoughts . . .

On the other hand, some things will never change . . .
There’s THIS.
And THIS.
Watch at your discretion.

But, in case I want to override your good sense . . .

Fast Time, Slow Time deja vu (all over again)

I wrote a post in March 2013 about Daylight Savings Time; it was one of a continuing rant about 1) Indiana observing it and 2) an explanation of the idiom “fast time, slow time”. Well, somehow foreign internet users chose. the address of that post as a depository for all sorts of comments, some in English, some not So, I deleted it, but not until I had copied it. Let’s try it again.

Quentin smiles when I use the phrases “fast time” and “slow time” – he’s on the phone and I can’t see him, but I know he is smiling. Maybe we used the terminology a lot in this area because for a long time Indiana did not go on Daylight Savings Time, even though we were in the Eastern Time Zone (since 1961). (Counties around Chicago and Evansville observe Central Time) Michigan did and Ohio did and mother’s house is a couple of miles from the Michigan border and Ohio is one county east, so we were always aware we had to pay attention to the location an event was scheduled to occur because we didn’t want to be an hour late getting there and or an hour early coming home. (Then again, those close to Chicago counties were just a bit west . . . which meant you could out-think yourself real easy.)

Instead of talking about going on Fast Time in the spring and then back to Slow Time in the fall, we had it on out minds all summer long. Daylight Savings Time is “Fast Time” – no other way to say it, and we said it a lot. I suppose if you don’t live near a Time Zone Boundary, you just change your clock and forget about it.

Now, here’s the tricky part: If you live on one of those borders, and the Eastern/Central one runs through an area with a lot of towns and not much vast empty prairie, you also tend to refer to the Eastern Zone as Fast Time and Central Time as Slow Time, even though both sides move an hour ahead. Lots of people work in Fast Time (Eastern) and live in Slow Time (Central) and the opposite holds as well. So, I suppose you could say there’s Fast Fast Time(Eastern) and Slow Fast Time (Central) in the summer and Slow Slow Time (Central) and Slow Fast Time (Eastern) in the winter.

Good Heavens, I’m confusing myself and will probably have to draw circles and arrows in red magic marker . . .

Anyway, the thrust of this is that we here in this part of Indiana are really attuned to knowing what time we are on. Right now we’re on Fast Time. Fast Fast Time. Now if Governor Mitch Daniels had listened to the people and not held with Daylight Savings Time, we would right now be on Slow Fast Time; and if we were in the Central Time Zone where we should be, we would be on Fast Slow Time.

Maybe I should cite a picture: MAP and point you to this article on Indiana and Time Zones. (Like you care.)

Wireless mocking me

I tried to STAY online long enough to at least growl “Joe Biden.” However, yesterday, my connection kept failing and when I would try to reconnect, I would see one of the network choices was Police Surveillance . Oh yeah, that’s good to see; I was tempted to look out my window for a van with blacked out windows. The cows could be getting nervous here.

Ack! Wait a minute – perhaps I have typed “Joe Biden is a bozo” too many times. Well, in for a penny, in for a pound:  Joe Biden  Joe Biden  Joe Biden  Joe Biden  Joe Biden  Joe Biden . Wait for it:

Joe Biden is a bozo!

 

Rats, it’s just not satisfying me. Maybe I need a voodoo doll.