Tim W. SoCal

Moby and her brother Toby sailed on a catamaran made by Hobie

Yep, that method worked for a LOT of situations in my old world, too... Occasionally you just needed "to have a little chat" with the offending party and they would straighten up, recognizing that more pain would be inflicted if they didn't. Nowadays, that practice will get you fired, arrested and probably sued...

Actually, I wrote in all capital letters "SOME S*!THEAD THINKS IT'S FUNNY TO RETURN OLD PARTS IN NEW BOXES" on the box and had a conversation with the Parts Dep't director when I got back to the shop, presenting them with the box and used part A memo was issued to all Parts personnel to open and the boxes on all returned parts and inspect the contents.

On a road call this morning, I had to change the headlight dimmer switch that mounts on top of the steering column in a vehicle for work today. I removed the old, faulty switch, opened the clean, new box that replacement switch came in, which was issued by our Parts Department, to find an old, broken, just as faulty switch inside. This is about the 4th or 5th time something like this has happened to me in the last 3 months or so... It seems that we have a clown at work that thinks it is funny to return an old, worn out part in the clean, new box that his replacement part came in to the parts department, knowing it will be issued to another Service Tech. Fortunately, I had another dimmer switch in my service truck parts inventory...

remember going to the Led Zeppelin "The Song Remains The Same" concert movie and getting a contact high from just breathing inside the movie theater

to cover her

Those were the days, but maybe they weren't

I got a couple of cherry crullers for my wife and a couple of maple crullers for myself.

but they keep

Again and again I plan bench time to work on my model car projects, but life's responsibilities continually get in the way.

full of waterlogged

Under the tree cow nest is where you never want to be when mama cow tries to teach the calves to fly!

and tea cups

Man, we rocked, rolled and rumbled with a series of moderate earthquakes this morning, the strongest measuring 5.2 on the Richter Scale, but, truth be told, I'll take an earthquake to a hurricane or tornado any day.

that will be

Stories told by drunks around a campfire are often fabricated, exaggerated, delusional, improbable, distorted, or just plain ol' fantasy.

but finally found

He was intending to caress his ego by attempting to repair it himself, but he just screwed it up, made it worse and decided that he should have just hired a professional

me 'n my wife uttered instead of my wife and I drives me completely nuts

Suffering impatience and anticipation as a model I loved from my early days that my brother threw away when I left home for college has finally been made available again, albeit in a modified version with a different engine, I can't wait for it to arrive so I can open the box and get started on the build.

where the money

so they'll try

Poo from Stu went through and through, it's stinky too and looks like goo, if only Stu knew he couldn't make it to the loo, "Whoo!" said Sue, you sure don't smell like Mountain Dew!

and frighten the

kid me or kid me not, but some exigencies are more strange than we can imagine