Repositioning

• Yesterday it snowed for the first time of the winter. A sign of what's to come and what I'm going to have to adjust to.


• North Dakota is going to be quite the experience. It's going to be cccooolllddd, but the financial gain must be in the forefront of my mind if I am going to stand any chance of powering through it (the cold). Better yet, they say this winter is going to be the coldest in years... yay.


• Yep, I'm doing the ND oilfield gig you hear so much about. Going on 4 months now.


• Man camps are not a bad place to be, surprisingly homey once you get used to sleeping on a regular sized bed.


• Some of the annoyances consist of the sinks being the ones where you have to push down the buttton to get a few seconds of water. That makes shaving a pain. Also, the hot water button in each of the three rooms (I have been in) have been opposite of their temperature color indicators.


• CDL school makes you understand why truckers drive how they do and increases your patience with them.


• I'm now armed with Baffin boots that are rated to withstand -148 F. Lets hope I'm never able to confirm that. 

Toilet Paper Protective Layer

     I'm guessing the majority of people don't use anything between rump and toilet seat and don't give it a second thought.  When using public toilets I usually (if I have to go badly, a quick wipe will suffice usually (unless arrival is immenent then my cares are null)) build a 4 segment layer of TP to sit on.

     No matter how good your coverage is, somehow water always accumulates near the middle and climbs vertically from the bottom of the seat and on me.  Would this still happen if I didn't use any TP at all?  I think the TP is acting as a medium for the water and if I just stuck with the wipe all the time.. then this wouldn't happen.  Thoughts?

Thursday Thoughts

•  When I see a roll of toilet paper that has been re-rolled up, I no longer think if someone loaded it with powder as a prank.  Instead I see my 8 month old laughing as he paws at the roll watching it unroll.

•  A downside to running is, not being able to wear your clothes more than once before washing thus having to do  laundry more frequently.

•  Nasan - Fort Hood shooter will be dead soon.  Had someone just shot him dead at Fort Hood he wouldn't have had the opportunity to influence anyone else. Not saying he did.. but he may have.

•  Being in a class where all you see is a video of the professor teaching at another location is new and very odd to me.

•  Day 2 of daycare for 8 month old, hopefully he lets them feed him this time.

Friday Flailings

•  Why, after saying good-bye on a phone call, does it seem like a race to push the end button before it disappears?

•  Why oh why did I let the 13 year old talk me into taking shots of pickle juice?  I love pickles but geez! It feels like I have tonselitis and I got no tonsels! Salt salt and more salt.

•  IF drivers:  When approaching a red light, why not change lanes to the one with less cars?

•  If tomorrow is anything like today my run is going to be superb.  Assuming the pickle juice battle doesn't have any adverse effects.

•  Why do I have to smell the sewage plant everytime I'm driving down Sunnyside?

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Tuesday Twist-Off

•  The iPhone is also good for baiting bugs to their death.  The phone must be turned on and the screen illuminated (preferably with a bright colored (not black) screen).  In total darkness and in a place with bugs, prepare to play a real life killing game with your thumb!  Compete against your friends while you're camping, at a fish filet, or like me while in your own bed!

•  This blog is going to have to change.  Doing the news everyday is fun but sometimes there's just too much to take care of with life to cover everything I hoped to be able to do with this blog.  I'm going to continue posting, but they will be more sporadic, more random, less censored and less news based.

•  Has anyone else ever peed on their foot in the shower to hide the sound of the pee hitting the shower floor?

•  Would it freak people out if I installed a urinal in my shower with a drain hose that went... to the drain?  At least then I wouldn't have to worry about pee splattering onto the shower curtain, which discolors it (and tells on me or the other males in the house that someone's been peeing in the shower and not aiming at the drain.. or not hitting the stain anyway.

•  Maybe I should just make a bulls-eye around the drain.. or make the drain recessed from the shower floor so the splashes are contained.  That's more likely to happen.  If it did, would the urinal still be used or would the recess solution cancel out the urinal?  Would people opt to pee in the shower over a toilet even when they're not taking a shower?  Would they turn the water on to "flush" the pee through the drain pipe so that the pee doesn't stink up the shower and bathroom?

•  A flush valve would have to be connected before the shower head to clear out the urinal.  Maybe the shower is the perfect place for a urinal, there is no additional plumbing needed, the valve could be left open for the urinal and there could be a button valve on the urinal.

•  Yup, this is a great idea.  I can't wait to tell my wife about it in the morning!!

•  I drove past the 18-wheeler that rolled over yesterday.  The 270 degree curve from 20 to 15 S.  I don't think anyone was hurt.. but it's kinda funny because there's a yellow sign with a picture of a truck tipping over right at the beginning of the curve... follow it around and hey!! it's that truck we just saw on the sign. 

•  Instead of that sign they had on 20 saying "Crash Ahead".  They should have just put one up that pointed up to the tipping over sign and said "This happened".

•  Sometimes kids are going to be kids and do everything you tell them not to do.  Maybe if we encourage bad things they will rebel and not know they are doing good things...?  

•  Did Bryan Smith's "free" flights from a campaign donor ever make it to TV?

•  13 yr old left clothes bag in store we bought them in.  After I retrieved it and checked out of the store we were in, I turned to the 13 yr old, handed him his 25 lb baby brother and took the bags off the counter, "You're not going to leave him anywhere [right?]."  - He suddenly was through shopping.

•  Why do the photo booths in the mall say they accept card when they don't?!  The first time I thought it was because lf the mall just opening, but now I know they simply want cash money bling bling.

•  Telling someone they are not allowed to do something (punishment), then doing that something yourself in front of that someone, is a fantastic way to add more weight to that something they are not allowed to do.

•  I want to look up how often hospital patients feel like prisoners.

•  I can't wait to use this new baby device my wife wanted.  So what you do is put a plastic piece in your mouth - it's attached to a hose.  Then, the other plastic piece (on the other end of the same hose) goes into the baby's nose and you, YOU suck the boogers out with the power of yo lungs! mmm.. salty.

•  My water filter is not made for well water, apparently bacteria can grow on the material the filter is made of.  I couldn't find the filter at a store to replace it anyway so now is as good a time as any to remedy that foopah.