Daily Quota.

In a effort to control the deer population in the area, the DNRE has changed the quote for deer. Last year, it was one per day. This year, it is five per day.

The DNRE has been getting pressure from the auto insurance companies to reduce the deer population. So, I guess this year they have taken a more aggressive approach.

Now, my bow is very quiet, so I could easily get five deer at a time. They tend to travel in herds and don’t seem to be concerned when one of their comrades suddenly decides to take a nap.

My problem is processing multiple deer. If I shoot them, then I have to hang them and clean them and I just don’t have that many good trees for hanging. Oh well, I guess I will just have to wait and see what happens.

Alesis DM10, Deja Vue All Over Again.

As Yogi Berra would say, “It Deja Vue all over again.”

Well, once I set up my drums, I got an error message on the control module. So, I called factory support for assistance.

Factory support was obviously outsourced to a private company. They were nice enough but they could only provide the basic suggestions such as “rebooting”. After several emails and phone calls, they instructed me to contact the store where I purchased the drums.

Since I had purchased the drums on line, I sent out an email to the retailer. The retailer was more than happy to help and sent me a “return authorization” for the controller.

Yesterday, I came home to find this.

Well, obviously, there was a communications failure. Instead of replacing the defective part, they sent out a whole new set of drums. At this point in time, I am not sure what to do. They have my defective part and I have their drum kit. My inclination is to take the part that I need from the kit and send the rest back.

I guess I will just wait for them to figure out what happened.

The Linen Closet.

Here at Karmanos Hospital, they have a medication closet with a five button combination lock on the door. They also have a linen closet with a ten button combination lock on the door.

Now, it would seem to me that the lock on the linen closet is more secure than the lock on the medication closet. So, either the meds are of little interest to the staff or the linens are really fantastic.

Lemon Aide?

One of the nurses who works here at Karmanos Hospital had to work last Labor Day. So, since it was a holiday, she decided to bring in a picnic lunch for her floor workers.

She had hot dogs and potato salad and planned to mix up lemon aide. Unfortunately, she forgot a pitcher. So, when she went looking for something to mix up the lemon aide in, she found pitcher in the supply room.

Now, while the pitcher was perfect for the lemon aide, it just happened to be the pitcher that they used for storing urine samples in. And, even though everyone knew that the pitcher was clean and sanitary, they just couldn’t bring themselves to drink the lemon aide.

I wonder if the lemon aide got dumped or sent to the lab?