Stoked

...and gratified.

Some of you may have been wondering why I had little to contribute to the last FFOT. Well, it's because my sainted and blessed crew is scheduled to present their recent team projects at the company meeting in September. And this presentation looks exceedingly great. I've been working for a while polishing up the presentation, but the essence is this team's work. Hard work. A LOT of hard work. And my crew is the best. They ROCK (as is conveyed in the video we are presenting to the company). They do, indeed, ROCK.

Even if they are likely too young to get the best jokes I threw into it. [sigh] I'm so old. Anyway, I love these kids. They're the best.

UPDATE: So one of said jokes used is that the music used for the last part of the presentation is the (very recognizeable) crescendo from the Beatles' "A Day in the Life", superimposed over a photoshopped pic of my kids with their faces replacing the original Beatles' faces on the Sgt. Pepper album cover. Sad part? ALL of my kids on this spectacular team were born after that album was released. The only consolation is that all were at least born before 1980. I think. I hope.

GAWD I'm old.

Tired and sore

Helped DNT and her beau move into their new apartment today. Lot of heavy lifting, including a sofa and a very heavy desk. Into a second floor apartment.

I'm sure I will feel it even more tomorrow.

Random, pointless comment I really need to find a chance to work into a conversation someday

“Don’t make me put on my Smokey Bear hat and go all Louis Gossett on you”

I don’t really know why it popped into my head randomly this afternoon, but it amuses me.

'Splain me please

Apparently, some of those in favor of Obamacare are invoking Ted Kennedy to push for it. Apparently, some even suggest naming the bill for him in a desperate bid to counter the opposition (irony alert for how lefties raged against Rush Limbaugh for saying that a few months back).

So, given that (a) Kennedy was a participant in Congress's high-end health care plan, and (b) Congress has exempted itself from whatever plan they might foist on the rest of us, I ask:

How is Kennedy's death in any way relevant to the issue?

Yowsers

This is going to be so good.

So I spent my telecommute day (today) largely working on my team's presentation at the company meeting in Sept. Gads, I love these kids on my team, tho' they largely be too young to get the jokes I'm throwing into the presentation. But my team facilitator and I are old enough to get them, and that's what counts.

The kids on the team organized the content and left it to yours truly to make the jokes. And I did. Some old time rock 'n' roll. And it is good.

And now I just need to spend my next telecommute day (next week, not counting the time I spend on it this weekend) synching up the visuals with the background music. Vivaldi, of course. Need I say more? And someday I may even 'splain it.

It's an old joke

But it's mine and I refuse to part with it. Brief exchange with a coworker just a few minutes ago:

Her: Did you cut your hair?
Me: No, I paid someone else to cut it.

I never get tired of that one.

UPDATE: Interestingly, to me at least, the first time I ever used that joke, some 25 years or so ago, it was in Spanish.

Talkin' Baseball

Very cool. An unassisted triple play. Only the 15th in history, and only the second in history to end a game. Very cool. And of course, it's already on Youtube.