I haven't been here a few days

I have spent the past couple of days in misery. Although I live in the state with a similar pronunciation, my actual state of being is the word which describes distress. I didn't find out till yesterday that I had a container with mayonnaise that was over a year old. I had a sandwich prepared with said mayonnaise. Well, you can imagine what happened next. I spent Saturday evening with a new special friend, and went to work thinking good thoughts oblivious to what the night would behold. I was trembling a little and very thirsty. When I got to work, I thought I didn't feel very well, so I asked if I could stay in for the night rather than risking getting caught sick out in the truck. Glad I did. In another hour I was worshiping the great porcelain altar about three or four times, begging to die and trembling and feverish. I should have gone to the hospital, but I left work early after calling the morning supervisor.

I spent most of the rest of the day in agony, finally having to get out of bed to get medication at Target because I wasn't able to get anyone to come and help me. Then I still had to go into work. I am not happy about either thing, but then again I had already missed 3 or 4 hours of work and I didn't want to miss anymore. The medication helped and I still felt like my tummy had been hit with a baseball bat. I suspect the muscles had to do some unfamiliar work and are having to relearn their proper function.

Sunday was agony day, today is I am still feeling bad day and little weak. I think it will be a while before I can trust my stomach to take solid food. I have been living on soup for the past couple of days waiting for a sign I can eat solid food. When my tummy stops feeling like I have been punched I think I will take a chance.

Meanwhile I think a new REAL job is in order. I can't imagine any other job that would ask you to come in if you call in sick especially after you went home early after the previous shift. I went in with some trepidation, but I did feel better and I told them as long as I didn't have to do anything and sit in the camera room, I would come. I figured I was OK enough. Next time I won't give in. I am not MR NICE GUY anymore. I am pissed I couldn't find anyone to help. I was too out of it to look up any phone numbers for anyone else and didn't think of my new friend who would have certainly done me the small favor of taking my Mom to get medicine.

Anyway, you are looking at a new guy here. I am through pumping crap and dispensing crap and getting crap dispensed on me.

Oh, and we had another water disaster at the mall. Fortuitously, I was in a position to avert it and saved a store from inundation. I am getting to hate water. We have had rain almost every single Friday for the past 3 or 4 weeks (or is it months?) I forget. NO more water in my life, except to drink and provide adequate moisture to farmers for growing. (Be careful for what you wish for). Anyway, I had to crawl under a spiriting faucet, on a grease covered floor and find a slippery valve covered with grease and shut it off, hoping that the electrical panel that the water was spraying on wasn't going to short out. I did it, but probably won't receive any pay increase or kudos for it. Just another day on the job.

Interesting story I found.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1024927/The-wife-John-McCain-callously-left-behind.html

Bet you won't hear about this during the election. The gist of it is, John McCain, playboy naval aviator, marries swimsuit model. Avaitor gets shot down, becomes POW. Dutiful wife waits at home, becomes victim of disfiguring car accident. Texas milionare H. Ross Perot, friend of POW's pays for swimsuit model wife's medical care. Avaitor/POW returns home. Through H. Ross Perot becomes introduced to Ronald Regan, meets lots of rich people. Tiring of disfigured wife, meets new wife at party in Hawaii. Starts affair with new wife while married to old wife. Divorces old wife, marries new rich wife. Regan shocked! (Regan was the first divorced president in history). Avaitor/POW with new rich wife, pursues political ambitions. Old wife choses to slink off to the sunset feeling that she was holding him back from his ambitions. Old wife still loves avaitor. Old Wife still being paid alimony and medical care by avaitor. Old friends of avaitor call him a louse. H. Ross Perot, who paid for old wife's medical care while avaitor was POW calls him a "classic opportunist. He’s always reaching for attention and glory. After he came home, Carol walked with a limp. So he threw her over for a poster girl with big money from Arizona. And the rest is history."

Now this is from an English paper, the Daily Mail. I'll give them that they have an agenda. However, a cursory check confirms the general facts of the story.

Now, this is not a good man. You don't do things like this. Now, old wife won't be publizing this. She still gets money from him so she still thinks he cares. She only spoke to the paper to tell how much she still loves him. The American media will not pay much attention to it. They have pretty much given him a free ride anyway. So this is one more story that will be buried. Should it be a story that should be told? Its says a lot to the cahracter of the man. After reading this, any respect I have had for the man is ill deserved and has left.

MESSERGER - Voilà! Mercury's Atget

Voilà! Mercury's Atget Release Date: June 3, 2008 Date Acquired: January 14, 2008 Image Mission Elapsed Time (MET): 108828540 Instrument: Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) of the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) Resolution: 520 meter/pixel (0.32 miles/pixel) Scale: This image shows a scene about 530 kilometers (330 miles) across Spacecraft Altitude: 20,300 kilometers (12,600 miles) Of Interest: Recently named for the French photographer Eugène Atget, Atget crater, seen in the middle of the lower portion of this NAC image, is distinctive on Mercury's surface due to its dark color. Atget crater is located within Caloris basin, near Apollodorus crater and Pantheon Fossae, which are also both visible in this image to the northwest of Atget. The dark color of the floor of Atget is in contrast to other craters within Caloris basin that exhibit bright materials on their floors, such as the craters Kertész and Sander. Other craters on Mercury, such as Basho and Neruda, have halos of dark material but the dark material does not cover the crater floors. Understanding the variety of bright and dark materials associated with different craters will provide insight into Mercury's composition and the processes that acted on Mercury's surface.

Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington

For information regarding the use of MESSENGER images, see the image use policy.

MESSENGER Captures a Shot of Kertész

MESSENGER Captures a Shot of Kertész Release Date: May 27, 2008 Date Acquired: January 14, 2008 Image Mission Elapsed Time (MET): 108826812 Instrument: Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) of the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) Resolution: 260 meter/pixel (0.16 miles/pixel) Scale: Kertész crater is 34 kilometers (21 miles) in diameter Spacecraft Altitude: 10,200 kilometers (6,340 miles) Of Interest: Located in the western edge of Mercury's giant Caloris basin, Kertész crater (recently named for André Kertész, a Hungarian-born American photographer) has some unusual, bright material located on its floor. Sander crater, located in the northwestern edge of Caloris basin, also shows bright material on its floor. The MESSENGER Science Team is investigating the nature and composition of these bright materials and making comparisons between these two craters both located at the edges of Caloris basin. Just northeast of Kertész, a small crater has very bright rays and ejecta in this image, indicating that the crater is young.

Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington

For information regarding the use of MESSENGER images, see the image use policy.

Fun tonight

As many of you may know, I am a trained weather spotter and today I got to give my first report. Well, we are having storms moving through at the moment. Most of the heavy stuff is to the south of us at the moment, but the storms are training along Interstate 44 from Springfield Missouri through Rolla, straight into my place here in Jefferson County.

I thought I saw a funnel cloud behind the trees. My sense of direction gets confused because I get south and west confused here. My radio and TV reception here in the back room where I have my computer are bad here. So I can't hear my scanner giving reports from the Sherriff's office and Skywarn. I hope that I don't do an immitation of Dorothy and my trailer goes flying off to points unknown.

Anyway, I am still here for now. I will include any updates in my comments.

Interesting.....

I went through life not thinking about things like this. To me, the private lives of celebrities were just that, private. I don't read about the lives of celebrities in order to disvocer the latest dirt about them. I don't personally like or condone that kind of lifestyle, but to each his own.

Oh, by the way, this does not mean I will be taking down my picture of George Takei. I do like his character and I am intelligent enough to differentiate between the role he plays and his private life. He is very personable and likable in public and both times I have met the gentleman at conventions have been enjoyable experiences.

I hope his future is what he wants.

George Takei and partner plan to wed in September

By MICHAEL WEINFELD, Associated Press WriterWed Jun 4, 7:25 PM ET

George Takei, best known for playing Sulu on "Star Trek," will never forget the first time he saw Brad Altman, the man he plans to marry, more than two decades ago.

They were working out in a running club and he couldn't take his eyes off Altman, who had a "lean, tightly muscled" body, the 71-year-old actor told AP Radio in an interview.

Takei said he asked Altman to help him train for a marathon, they fell in love, and now they've been living together for 21 years.

Altman said he proposed by getting down on one knee in their kitchen while Takei was eating a sandwich after seeing on TV that the California Supreme Court had legalized same-sex marriage. It surprised Takei, who thought he would be the one who popped the question.

They bought each other turquoise and silver wedding rings.

Takei and Altman plan to marry Sept. 14 in the Democracy Forum at the Japanese National Museum in Los Angeles.

Walter Koenig, who played Chekov in "Star Trek," will be the best man and Nichelle Nichols, who played Uhura, will be the matron of honor. Castmate Leonard Nimoy will be among the 200 guests, but probably not William Shatner. Takei has said Shatner didn't treat him and most of the cast very well.

Takei, who had a recurring role on NBC's "Heroes" last year, and Altman plan to honeymoon for a month in South America.

As for what they'll wear on their big day, Altman said they'll both walk down the aisle in white tuxedoes, which seemed to catch Takei off-guard.

"Well, now that you've announced it on the air, I guess it's settled," he said.

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On the Net:

http://www.georgetakei.com/

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TMI 50 questions.

Got this from Dorids page.

1. Did you have a nickname growing up? Not really.

2. Where were your parents born? Both born in the state of Missouri.

3. What is the last thing you downloaded onto your computer? A bunch of stuff from the NOAA publications website about clouds and stormspotting

4. What's your favorite restaurant? Ho Won, the Chinese restraunt near here. I love Anne's Cafe in Louisville, wonderful Vietnamese cusine.

5. Last time you swam in a pool? Oh, its been a long time

6. Have you ever been in a play? Yep, in High School but not since then.

7. How many children do you want? None, I'd rather not bring a child to this crazy world.

8. Type of music you dislike most? Rap

9. Are you registered to vote? Yes, I voted.

10. Do you have cable? No, I want the sattelite though. I WANT NASA TV.

11. Have you ever ridden on a moped? No

12. Ever prank call anybody? No

13. Ever get a parking ticket? Yep

14. Would you go bungee jumping or sky diving? No I like keeping my bones in one piece.

15. Furthest place you ever traveled? Montana

16. Do you have a garden? No

17. What's your favorite comic strip? Non Sequitur

18. Do you really know all the words to your national anthem? I know the first verse.

19. Bath or Shower, morning or night? Shower.

20. Best movie you've seen in the past month? I don't go to movies at the theatre.

21. Favorite pizza topping? Canadian Bacon.

22. Chips or popcorn? Chips

23. What color lipstick do you usually wear? Are you kidding?.

24. Have you ever smoked peanut shells? Nope.

25. Have you ever been in a beauty pageant? Uhhh no.

26. Orange Juice or apple? either or.

27. Who was the last person you went out to dinner with and where did you dine? My brother and his wife at Uncle Bens in Manchester.

28. Favorite type chocolate bar? Hershey's Chocolate with Almonds

29. When was the last time you voted at the polls? The Missouri Primary in 2008.

30. Last time you ate a homegrown tomato? I know its been many years. Don't remember when.

31. Have you ever won a trophy? hmmm, dont remember.

32. Are you a good cook? Kinda, when I put my mind to it.

33. Do you know how to pump your own gas? Gasoline or CNG? :-)

34. Ever order an article from an infomercial? Are You Crazy?

35. Sprite or 7-up? 7-Up

36. Have you ever had to wear a uniform to work? Yes

37. Last thing you bought at a pharmacy? I don't remember, batteries I think or a card .

38. Ever throw up in public? I don't remember

39. Would you prefer being a millionaire or find true love? I'd like both

40. Do you believe in love at first sight? Yeah, I've done that.

41. Ever call a 1-900 number? No. Never wate my money that way.

42. Can ex's be friends? Sometimes, it depends on the situation.

43. Who was the last person you visited in a hospital? My best friend after her last cancer surgury.

44. Did you have a lot of hair when you were a baby? I don't know. I was pretty young then.

45. What message is on your answering machine? Good afternoon or whatever time of day it is....

46. What's your all time favorite Saturday Night Live Character? Mr. Robinson.

47. What was the name of your first pet? Gravy the the gray kitten

48. What is in your purse/wallet that is unusual? I have neither

49. Favorite thing to do before bedtime? Surf the net.

50. What is one thing you are grateful for today? The computer works.