I think we have a new ? store on main street. It is in the same location as the old ? store. And it appears to be following the same business plan as the old ? store.

As near as I can tell, they seem to be selling windows and siding but, I can’t be sure. Like the old ? store, they do not have a sign up other that open and closed. Plus, they don’t seem to be open on Saturdays but maybe they haven’t opened yet.

Only time will tell.

The office smells terrible today.  Yesterday was St. Patricks Day so to celebrate, the office cooked up corned beef and cabbage.  I don’t know which smells worse, the cooked cabbage or the cooked cabbage eaters.

If you thought that Y2K was going to be the end of civilization as we know it, then you will be happy to know that there is another computer glitch. It seems that in 2038, the clocks on UNIX based servers will reset to January 1, 1900. So, this gives us less than 30 years to fix the bug.

I wonder if we should start stock piling food and water now or wait another 25 years?

I was reading an article about female serial killers. According to the article, women have to kill twice as many people as men, in order to be recognized. And, many female serial killers go unrecognized because they simple don’t kill enough people to strike terror into the hearts of the populous as a whole.

With the exception of Lizzy Borden, most female serial killers are in the medical profession and use either medications or suffocation on their victims. And because of this, most of these deaths are presumed to be normal or natural. Therefore, the serial killer goes unrecognized.

It is people like the BTK killer or the Unibomber that get all of the attention.

So, once again, it is the women who never get the recognition that they deserve.

Dr. Death is out of prison. For those of you who are not from the area, Dr. Death is aka Dr. Jack Kevorkian, a former pathologist from the Detroit area.

He went to prison for assisting in suicides. Assisting in suicides is against the law in Michigan but that didn’t stop Dr. Death.

Dr. Death is running for a Michigan congress seat. He claims that the government is corrupt and that he can straighten it out. Well, Dr. Death, you choose to ignore the law, so I guess that doesn’t make you any better than the corrupt politician’s you are opposed to.

Physician, heal thy self.

The Yankees have signed Billy Crystal to play for them. This is not just any Billy Crystal, it is THE Billy Crystal. Apparently, having celebrities on your baseball team is become a popular event. Granted, he is only playing on the farm team but he is playing none the less.

Celebrities playing baseball is a real crowd draw. Not only do you get to see a baseball game, you also get to see a star playing baseball.

Maybe they could get Don Rickel in a coaching position and maybe Bob Newhart as an umpire. The possibilities are fascinating.

I read an article about an 800 pound man. He was going out on a date with his girl friend. Since he couldn’t walk, he had a forklift move him and his bed onto the back of a flatbed truck.

He hadn’t been in the sun for many many years, so they had to improvise a special sun screen to protect him from the rays. Unfortunately, the sun screen fell apart on the way there. So, rather than risk exposure to the heat and sun, he decided to turn around and go back.

You have to wonder what his girlfriend looks like.

We agreed to do a Seder Supper last Sunday for a church in Grand Rapids. When we agreed to do the Seder we didn’t realize that we were going to be in charge of cooking the meal. So we ended up cooking Chicken Marsele for 200 people.

Now in order to feed 200 people, you need about 90 pounds of chicken breasts. And, in order to make Chicken Marsele, you need to brown those chicken breasts.

Now, I was cooking on a ten burner commercial gas range and had two very large skillets. I would fill the first skillet with chicken breast and then start filling the second skillet with chicken.

By the time I got the second skillet filled, it was time to turn the chicken in the first skillet. And, by the time I got the chicken turned in the first skillet, it was time to turn the chicken in the second skillet. And by the time I got the chicken turned in the second skillet, the chicken in the first skillet was done.

This browning process went on for 2 hours. After that, we started assembling the sauce and simmering the chicken breasts in the sauce. All and all, it took us 5 hours to cook the Chicken Marsele. Since it only simmered for 30 minutes, the rest of the time was spent doing prep work. Fortunately, we did it the day before the meal.

Cornell Sanders, eat your heart out.

When I showed off my new Cubic Zirconium ear ring to the women at work, one woman commented that I needed to step up to the counter and buy the real thing.

After I thought about it for awhile, I decided that I could probably buy a cheap pair of diamond ear rings. After all, only a jeweler would know the difference and then only by examining them with a magnifying glass.

But, by the same token, only a jeweler could tell the difference between a diamond and a Cubic Zirconium. So, unless some one asks if the diamond is real, they would assume that it is a fake. And, it would be improper to announce that the ear ring is a real diamond. So, since everyone would assume that the diamond is a fake, I might as well wear the fake.

Besides, I have better things to do with my money like buying a Marshall stack. 🙂

An Irish pub in New York City has banned the playing or singing of O Danny Boy during the month of March. They claim that people buy more drinks when they are happy. And of course, O Danny Boy is a sad and depressing song.

So, to make sure that their pub is a happy place during this Irish holiday, they decided to ban O Danny Boy.

I guess only Flogging Molly is allowed.