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While in Florida and hunting wild boars and gators, one of our guides, I believe it was Mike, related the following story one day...
One of his buddies worked on a neighboring ranch that also housed a private school. He was just a hired hand, not part of the school, mind you, when one of his employers asked if he could do the school a favor.
It seemed that the school was going to put on a Christmas program for the children, and they needed someone to play Santa to round things out. The guy agreed on the spot, but resolved to make his Santa "special".
So, the day of the program arrives and Santa is nowhere to be found...they can't find him!
Just as they were about to give up, someone heard a buzzing sound in the distance. As it grew louder, the people saw Santa riding up to the school in an airboat. That's cool, they thought...pretty unique, but also identifiable: lots of people have airboats, so the children could identify with this Santa better than one who drove a sleigh.
As the airboat roared in closer, people began to notice something else...
Apparently, the man had also taken the time to capture two very live and very angry alligators, and with the use of some rope had tied them to the front of his airboat.
I have got to work that story into a speech at some point in my life.
Have a great day!
But then our guide at the outfitter's said something that immediately brought this joke out of the murky depths. I ended up telling the joke about 5 times, so everyone could hear it.
So, here you go!
A man goes to a bar with his dog, and ties her up before he enters the bar. After a while a police officer sees the dog and also enters the bar.
"Who all's this dog belong to?" Asked the officer.
"She's mine." Replied the man.
"Son, do you know that your dog is in heat?"
"No, sir," replied the owner, "I tied her up to a tree, so she would be in the shade."
"I don't think you understand, son," said the officer, "You dog needs bred."
The man shook his head. "No, sir, I gave her some food before I came in...she's okay."
"Son, I really think you don't understand. Your dog needs screwed!"
"Oh!" Said the owner. "Go right ahead! I've always wanted a police dog!"
The tally: Tash got two gators (one 7+ft, the other 9+ft), one boar (130 some odd pounds), her mom got an 8ft+ gator and a couple of hogs, and her father got a couple of hogs.
The other couples also got a smattering of gators and hogs, with another couple from Illinois getting the biggest hog of the group, and Tash getting the biggest gator of the group (I think).
I did video and still cameras, and may post a few here in the coming days.
I'll try to go through some of my LJ, but with work hitting hard and longer days expected for the next few weeks, I don't know how far back I'll be able to get.
So, have a great day, and I'll catch you all later!
--Here's a pic of N and myself at the beach. There are others, but you get this one today.
--Here's a pano of the beach from our hotel window.
--Here's a pano from the beach looking at the hotels.
Have a great day!!
But, yeah...We'll be heading out from St. Louis tomorrow at 1pm! I'll be lounging on a beach around Daytona in about a day!
I'll catch ya later!
Toiletries:
Shampoo, Soap, Deodorant, Toothpaste, Toothbrush. Not going to shave, so no shaving stuff needed.
Electronics:
Camera, Extra Batteries for Camera, Necessary Cables and Memory Cards, Camera Bag, Laptop, Laptop Bag, Blank DVDs, DS and games, Fan!!!!.
Clothing:
3-4 Sets "nice" clothing (will be in Daytona for two days, then hunting the rest of the week), Lots of T-Shirts, Lots of Socks (long and short), Boxers, Jeans, Shorts, Hat, Night Clothes, Good Shoes, Work Shoes, Flip Flops, Boots (may just take good shoes instead of both pairs of shoes...flip flops should be good enough for going out).
Misc:
Bible, Study Book, notepad and pen.
Anyone see anything I miss?
(Wow...did I just do that? I mean, really? Did I ask my LJ friends to critique my packing list? Hehehe..)
My fiancé's parents have invited me to go back down to Deer Park with them, and so I'm going!
We will be flying out of St. Louis to Orlando, then making a quick jaunt from Orlando to Daytona. We'll stay in Datyona until Sunday morning, then head out to Deer Park to do some more wild boar and 'gator hunting.
Which means I need to get a list of stuff together. I haven't flown in a decade...maybe this plan won't catch on fire like the last one I was on did.
Have a great day!
It is probably a movie we will eventually buy, if just for some of the great quotes...
Have a great day!
*puts on some 80s dance music*
It's by birthday! I'm a whopping 28 today! Everybody have a great day!!
I *was* going to get a commission piece, but I decided to replace my MP3 player with a newer model.
I had been using a Creative Zen Micro...a small-ish hard drive based player, but it started acting strangely. Every once in a while it would produce, through the headphones, a sound like a shotgun going off near your head. Or it would just randomly shut down. Recently, it decided that it was going to flat out refuse to play anything by Sting...
So I bought a SanDisk Sansa Fuze. It is a very nice player that echoes the ipod nano, but with FM radio, voice/radio recording, and a few other features. That, and it isn't an ipod. My fiancé likes it. So do I. The sound quality is amazing...I've heard things in some of my songs that I have not heard before.
The downside is that now I need to re-rip some of my CDs. In some of the tracks I can hear recording errors. I don't know if I should be excited that the player has such a wonderful sound reproduction, or upset that I'm no longer oblivious to the errors in the rips.
Oh well...
/would still like to do a commission...
Have a great day!
Yes, we are finally done with VBS after tonight! Tonight is actually parent's night, when the parents come and see all the neat things the kids have learned and made. Then we shall dine upon hot dogs, chips, knock-off cookies, and cheap soda! Hooray!
After that is done and over, we have to quickly take down everything VBS related because there is to be a wedding at the church tomorrow. The VBS theme this year is an island theme...and we tried to convince the bride that she really wanted to get married in front of an island backdrop. She would have none of it. So, we will have to make a quick tare-down. Pity--the girls really outdid themselves this year. I was hoping the rest of the church would be able to see the nice decorations they put up.
Oh well...there's always next year!
Have a great day!
Mandatory daily overtime (2 to 4 hours, your choosing), plus Vacation Bible School (approx. 3 hours daily since Sunday), coupled with timing just wrong to be really wrong and an air conditioner that doesn't, makes for one tired wolf.
I'm going to try to sleep now.
It usually happens about now, when I'm sitting at my table in my underwear after I've been awake for about, say, 20 hours.
So we had L.O.W. days (Lack Of Work) offered to the entire plant (this is the first time I've seen this happen). We've just recently returned to a 5-day 40-hour week schedule, when, from out of nowhere, an email was sent from on high to my supervisor informing us that, until further notice, we are on 10-hour days, and we will be working Saturdays.
I talked with the gal that handles purchasing and ordering, and asked if orders have picked up. She told me that, no, orders have not picked up, and she wasn't informed that we would be working major overtime "until further notice".
Working such hours would normally be a minor nuisance, but it just so happens that this started the same time my church is hosting VBS. Yeah, starting Sunday my schedule will be a bit messed up.
I'll be working from 11pm until 9am the next morning, come home (takes me a bit less than an hour), sleep until 5pm, have VBS from 6 until 8:30pm, try to nap for 30 mins, then off to work again (I leave the house at 9:30pm.)
Ugh. I've already started to forget stuff that I needed to do today, like pick up the digital projector so we can do our music and announcements.
But now I need to go to sleep. I don't want to, but I need to. Tomorrow will be busy as well.
Have a great day! I'm going to sleep through it!
"What are you here for?"
"I'm going to have my tonsils taken out, and I'm really nervous."
"Oh, I had that done when I was four. They put you to sleep, and when you wake up you get lots of ice cream and jello."
"Really? So, what are you here for?"
"I'm getting a circumcision."
"You know, I had that when I was born, and I couldn't walk for a year!"
**Thank you!**
I'm going on vacation at the end of June! My fiance's family and another couple from Texas will be enjoying some time in southern Florida.
Anyway, I have a question: I was wanting to take everyone's video and burn all that footage to a DVD for everyone to take home before they left. However, I've never dabbled in video capture, and don't know where to start.
I know I need some sort of capture device, but I don't know brands and such.
I will be using my Dell XPS 1530 to capture and burn the footage, so I will need ether a USB or Firewire capture device.
Any suggestions for hardware? I have a copy of Premiere Elements 4.0, so I think that will suffice for the compiling and burning.
Have a great day!
