IMing Mom

An IM conversation between me and Mother Lock about my daugher (her granddaughter).

Parents: Hows [Mrs. Lock] and [Daughter Lock]?

Lock: They're good. [Daughter Lock] is so funny around other people. I had a friend over the other day and she climbed into his lap and wanted to play.

Parents: That's good, she is developing her own personality. She is a personable little girl. I was suprised about it when you guys were here, because she was always very quiet...She always seemed to me that she was a very deep thinker...She is very intelligent...I love her so!

Lock: Yeah and now that she's noisy and friendly she's turned dumb. That's why we're having another one.

Parents: She is diffently not dumb...That girl will go far in this world, she is a leader, but at the same time she is content being herself...Very Good Caulities in human...She's very pretty too,{not just because she is my grandaughter}, but people usually have only one of those qualities, but she has all three. Looks, Brains, and Personality...Look out Donald Trump and Oprah Winfrey...My Tess is coming on the scene

New Look For Old House

Our house got a makeover in late March (No Oprah). We noticed many of our neighbors were cashing in on hail storm damage from almost a a year ago and getting new roofs. Mrs. Lock inquired about us getting a new one but our insurance adjuster said there wasn't enough damage to the roof to warrant a new one. He did however, give us new siding saying it had enough hail damage on it.

The multi-talented roofers became our siding installers instead and went to work replacing all of our old aluminum siding with brand new vinyl and did it all in a single day (very fast).

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -- Theodore Roosevelt

Actually Used Geometry Today

My teachers from high school were right. As students we thought classes like geometry were useless but twenty years after taking the class, I used geometry today. I needed to figure out the incline of a touch panel unit used by the air traffic controllers so we could replicate one for our system. It's a rectangle shape recessed into a table with the triangle portion of it sticking above the table (the other half below the table). I took the measurements of the rectangle, figured out the length of the side opposite of the right triangle, figured out the other two angles and bam, got the incline.

Once over twenty years time.

"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention to arrive safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming: Wow!! What a ride!"
--Dean Karnazes

Go

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The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
- Frank Zappa

That's So Mature

Maturity is when you realize that you're not going to die if you can't have it.
--the lock (me)

"How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct."
- Benjamin Disraeli

When We Agree Without Thinking

Three posts in three months. Pitiful.

I had a thought. Understanding something isn't the same as agreeing with it although we all are victim of this. Some ideas, we agree with only because we understand it and it's always been that way. We have understood it for so long we may even think it was our idea to begin with.

It is possible to see someone's point but completely disagree with it because of varying outcomes. You can see it unfolding in a way the other does not if you think about it. The trick is figuring out what you've already accepted without thinking about and reevaluating that decision injecting your own principles.

You can convince a person to set their arm on fire given enough time (lots of it...like years), support, evidence, testimony and maybe even an example or two or a million. It doesn't mean it's a good idea.

I've been up for 30 hours straight. I wonder if that has something to do with me making my first post in a couple of months.