I have been away for a while as I have been running all over the country lots more than usual. I also have been spending a lot of time on SFN ( Stern fan Network) But I will still call MR Central home. Just wanted to say hi to all and I am thinking of all of you when I am traveling the Roads of this FDup country.

O.G.& E. is our local electric company….. Today they had a sub-station go down causing power outages in South OKC, Moore, and Norman (home of OU) resulting in 3,800 customers burning-up in the 105 degree temperature we had today (and yesterday, and tomorrow)….. Not one to call them liars as to the reason this happened – BUT…. By the way, O.G.& E. stands for Oklahoma Gas and Electric…. They don’t have anything to do with natural gas, and, as far as I know, they never have…. That makes them liars right up-front!…. Their excuse for the outage is that thieves broke into the sub-station and stole copper wiring causing the outage….. The news footage I just watched of the sub-station shows that it is a bare station without any buildings of any kind….. Nothing but a high barbed-wire fence around it with metal privacy panels….. All the wires I saw were the HUGE ones on extremely high insulated poles…. I don’t think there was an on-off switch at the gate and I think if you would even come close to any of them you would be immediately fried to a crisp….. I’m just amazed that they expect the public to buy this BS…. Why don’t they just admit that they are not maintaining their grids and sticking the money in their pockets…. Just last week there was an OU professor on the news talking about the sad condition the power grids in Oklahoma are, and that the electric company (O.G.& E.) should start spending some of those profits to bring it back up to a reasonable standard….. Of course, the O.G.& E. rep denied all of it and accused the professor of not being up-to-date on his research….. Hm-m-m-m, I wonder who’s not up-to-date?……

One point each (big possible point total) for

each animal you can name that was admitted to Heaven. Only special, specific animals were admitted (despite what your parents told you about that gold fish)…..that is, not whole species.

*Special bonus points to the one that gets them all. This is a big one.

*Minus points for really dumb looby answers.

My poor old Sony Vaio laptop has been having problems with the CD drive and the hard drive is too small….. My C-drive is so full I can’t De-frag it and I can’t find that many programs and data that I can move over to the D-drive which is also approaching full….. Jek found me some bargain basement prices on a DVD/CD burner/drive to back-up all my files and a 80 Gig hard-drive to replace the one in my laptop….. So-o-o, over the next week, I’m going to try to update my laptop so my input to the blog may be limited until I’m fully up and running again…… Of course, I can now Post and comment from my job-site computer when and if I can have the time, so I won’t be completely out of contact, but, any help on some new posts/comments from the community would be appreciated and accepted….. A little help please……. eh?……

It’s getting close to that time of year again….. Baseball’s already into the season and football’s cranking up now….. I thought it might be interesting for everyone into sports (or not) to pick the winners – The World Series – College National Football Champions – Superbowl Champions….. A friend of mine who’s into sports picked the following: Chicago White Sox, USC, and The Indianapolis Colts….. My picks are based on favorites as I’m not well versed on the strengths and weaknesses of the teams are The Cubs, Oklahoma, and The Seattle Seahawks…… After each of the championships we can refer back to this post and see if anyone can foretell the future, or made a good guess….. There will be some sort of prize for any winners, but, don’t expect anything much larger than a pat on the back and a few lines of praise from the MR community…….

Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho, it’s back to stinkin’ work I go….. Yep, I’m rejoining the work force of America….. Got offered a job I couldn’t refuse…… I guess money does talk in some cases….. Supposed to be a nice cushy office gig with my own office…… Hopefully, it will turn out to be as good as sounds….. Tomorrow morning will come early and start the adventure…… Updates to follow on my survival…… Any tips on enduring an almost all-day office environment (some jobsite work is involved), such as how to make the day go faster, would be welcome……

This weeks quiz asks, ” how do you determine the left from the right

bank of a river”.

J and Silent Bob are at it again……. Kevin Smith’s Clerks II is in the theatres and I’m going….. Anyone else?…. Should be good if you enjoyed any of the off-color, off-beat humor of his other films….. I’ll probably go this week-end and file a report then…. If anyone has already seen it, give us a thumbs-up, -down, or -sideways….

FROM INDIA……..The name of the elephant that supports the earth and

for extra points the tortoise under him.

Tomorrow we have primary elections….. Here are the last names of some of the candidates: Savage, Hunter, Gigger, and Mankiller….. With names like that I predict some “Brutal Politics” in Oklahoma come the November elections…..

Thanks go out to Jek for the face-lift….. Check it out and us know your likes or gripes…. Just leave a comment on this Post…… It’s not entirely set-in-stone yet, so speak-up now or forever hold your blog……

Check out these jumbled-together Beatles tunes by “Sacred Cowboy”.

A friend turned me onto a radio program called “Do or DIY” which plays all sorts of twisted stuff.  The June 19th show featured “Norwogian Weed” (see link), probably the best of the 5.  Enjoy!

I have a question……. On the national news yesterday, they ran a story on the airline’s recovery from 911….. The three major airlines were showing profits from 150 million to 350 million this year, which is more than double their profits for the same period last year…… They accomplished this by cutting flights resulting in each individual flight flying at 90% capacity as opposed to less than 30% in the past…… They then went on to state that the airlines were losing money due to the increased fuel costs and may have to pass the costs on to the passengers….. Here’s my question: How can you be losing money when you are showing a 350 million dollar profit in a six-month period?….. To be losing money you have to have more expenditures in labor and material than you have income…… Profit is what you have AFTER all costs including salaries, taxes, materials, and labor are paid…… The news media made it sound like the airlines were just barely hanging on…… What a bunch of bull!…… The public is being screwed by overcrowded flights, cancelled flights, delays, Federal aid to the airlines, you name it, and now they want to pass on fuel costs to the public when they are showing profits like that?…… If they are having such a hard time, give the airlines to me….. I would be more than happy to be losing money by making 350 million dollars above and beyond my salary…… Only in America…… We need to wake up and smell the manure because we are being buried in it……

I haven’t posted a “WELL DUH!” in a while…… I got this from a friend and don’t know if it has made the rounds or not, but I thought if you hadn’t seen it, you might enjoy it…….
**Remember it takes a college degree to fly a plane, but only a high school diploma to fix one……
After every flight, Qantas’ pilots fill out a form, called a “gripe sheet”, which tells mechanics about problems with the aircraft…… The mechanics correct the problems, document their repairs on the form, and then the pilots review the gripe sheets before the next flight…… Never let it be said that ground crews lack a sense of humor.
Here are some actual maintenance complaints submitted by Qantas’ pilots (marked with a P) and the solutions recorded (marked with an S) by maintenance engineers. By the way, Qantas is the only major airline that has never, ever, had an accident.
P: Left inside main tire almost needs replacement.
S: Almost replaced left inside main tire.
P: Test flight OK, except auto-land very rough.
S: Auto-land not installed on this aircraft.
P: Something loose in cockpit.
S: Something tightened in cockpit.
P: Dead bugs on windshield.
S: Live bugs on back-order.
P: Autopilot in altitude-hold mode produces a 200 feet per minute descent.
S: Cannot reproduce problem on ground.
P: Evidence of leak on right main landing gear.
S: Evidence removed.
P: DME volume unbelievably loud.
S: DME volume set to more believable level.
P: Friction locks cause throttle levers to stick.
S: That’s what friction locks are for.
P: IFF inoperative in OFF mode.
S: IFF always inoperative in OFF mode.
P: Suspected crack in windshield.
S: Suspect you’re right.
P: Number 3 engine missing.
S: Engine found on right wing after brief search.
P: Aircraft handles funny.
S: Aircraft warned to straighten up, fly right, and be serious.
P: Target radar hums.
S: Reprogrammed target radar with lyrics.
P: Mouse in cockpit.
S: Cat installed.
P: Noise coming from under instrument panel. Sounds like a midget pounding on something with a hammer.
S: Took hammer away from midget.

Oh, I guess I’m supposed to be politically correct and call them magnates, but I think maggots fits much better…… Not really being a sports nut nor a gambler (I think if gambling laws were enforced you would see a very serious drop in the interest of professional sports)…… At 5:00 pm CST today, the money maggots of Seattle are going to announce the sell of The Seattle Super Sonics to the money maggots of Oklahoma City……. Seems the money maggots of Seattle couldn’t get the population to build them a new playing court to replace Key Arena (Cry, Baby, Cry)…… The money has supposedly already changed hands – As to when the team moves to OKC has not been announced….. Apparently, if the Sonics leave Seattle, The Storm (WNBA) will accompany them….. I say whatever, but, that’s just me…… Maybe after they leave, there’ll be enough room in Seattle for me to move there at a reasonable cost…….