Jealousy.

Jealousy is what destroyed the relationship between She Who Left In The Middle Of The Night and me. If you love someone you may sometimes be a little jealous, but what I went through was over the top. I am not going into detail about what she did. We have spoke since she left and she acknowledged what she did was over the top and wrong and she apologized for it. Of course if she would ever decide to ask to come back the answer would be no. I have forgiven her but I will never put myself back into that situation. If you have a relationship there has to be trust. For some reason she did not trust me, even though I never gave her a reason not to.

The woman I wrote about yesterday is obviously jealous of the relationship that I have with My Lady. She has gone as far as to tell our co-workers that My Lady comes in on her night off to make sure that I'm not talking to her. We both get a good laugh out of that. My Lady is off on Saturday nights, and some times does come in but not always. When she does come in she brings me food. A lot of Saturday nights she goes to the Huddle House to eat and when she does she brings me something to eat. I will admit she is spoiling me and I like it. She is definitely not jealous of that woman, because knows how I feel about her and about that woman. I have a good thing going and I am not going to mess that upSorry Volly, Jeff was right. The answer was 24.

Today's question is Grade 3/American History.

Which Native American people lived in longhouses?

• A) Woodland Indians
• B) Plains Indians
• C) Navajo Indians

I knew this one. 103-18.

The Ladies Man.

I never dated when I was in school. I figured if I asked someone out I would be rejected, so I never asked. It never occurred to me that someone might actually say yes. My self confidence is a little better today. Being married for almost 22 years and living with another woman for 4 years will do that to you. After She Who Left in The Middle Of The Night departed, I decided I wasn't going to get seriously involved with anyone, but I wasn't ruling anything out. I talked a little with one of my co-workers who was single, but the better I got to know her the less I wanted to.

I didn't have any plans for Christmas and My Lady invited me out. I didn't expect anything to come out of it, but it was definitely better than being alone so I went and we had a good time. We didn't get serious until three months later. I had just been burned in a relationship and I wasn't going to let it happen again. After I was sure My Lady wasn't going trying to use me we got serious. Shortly after that the one I had been talked to told My Lady the she had stolen from me from her. I always thought that if two people were going together both parties were aware of it. I never knew that I was committed to the point I could be stolen. It just showed that my instincts about the one I talked to were on target.

If that wasn't enough there is a third woman to add to this tale. This one was a friend of My Lady. My Lady had encouraged this one to talk to me and to ask me out. I had talked to her, all of worked at Wal-Mart, but I really didn't have any interest in her. After My Lady and I started going together, this one became friendlier with me. A few months later she moved to Florida, but before she did she gave me her phone number and asked me to keep in touch. Needless to say, I haven't. I was standing by a trash can and the paper that had the number on it fell in and I forgot to get it back out.

I find it funny that I had all these women interested in me. My Lady and I joke all the time about her stealing me. She has also told a lot of our friends about it. The other one is transferring to the Rome Wal-Mart, so now I am being kidded about transferring there. I have started telling people that I am transferring on July 13, one day after the other one. If anyone asks me after then why I didn't go, I am going to tell them I forgot how to get to Rome.The Vikings did sail to North America 500 years before Columbus.
Today's question is Grade 4/Math.

Billy's yard is a perfect square, 12 feet on all sides. What is half the perimeter of the yard?

I missed this one. 102-18.

Adventures In Retail.

All of the pallets that come into the store are shrink wrapped. This usually makes unloading the trucks easier, but not always. The way they stack some of the pallets you would need about a foot of wrap to keep them from falling. One of my co-workers learned a valuable lesson the other night about the shrink wrap. He was cutting it off of a pallet of two liter sodas. He cut too deep and sliced open one of the bottles. He drenched two customers who had just passed by. If you really don't know what happens when you cut a soda bottle, trust me when I tell you it is very messy. I have seen bottles explode when dropped, but this is only the second time I have seen one cut. Some people get so busy they don't think and cut too deep. We lose too much merchandise from this. I try and open boxes with my hands as much as possible to avoid this. Sadly, a lot of workers don't care.

We are at the time of the year when sales slow down. In Georgia school starts back up in a little over a month. People are saving their money for the special that the state gives consumers, the tax free weekend. There is no state sales tax on school supplies and clothes. There are restrictions on what qualifies, but we are extremely busy when it hits. Grocery sales also go up during that weekend because some people like getting everything at once. Of course once back to school is over Halloween hits and the Christmas can't be far behind. The crazy days are coming. Retail is so much fun.
The Revolutionary war ended in 1783.
Today's question is Grade 3/World History.

True or false? The Vikings sailed to North America 500 years before Columbus.

I knew this one. 102-17.

Paper Wedding Dress.

I ran across a link to this picture and found it fascinating. This dress is not made of just any type of paper. It is toilet paper, tape and glue. It was made for a website called Cheapchicwedding.com and was sponsored by Ripley's Believe It Or Not! Museum. The top six entries will be displayed in one of the Ripley's Museums.

The summer solstice occurs in June.

The weekend question is Grade 5/U.S. History.

The Revolutionary War began one year before Americans declared their independence from Great Britain in 1776. In what year did the war end?

I knew this one. 101-17.

Catching Up.

There were a few stories that came out during my sabbatical that I want to comment on. A news story from today goes along with this theme. The state of California is in a deep financial mess. Just today there was a story that the state was going to start paying with IOU's. There are many reasons for their problem. One thing that doesn't help the state is their consumer protection laws, which allow for frivolous suits to be filed. Before you think I am against consumer protection I am all for it. I am glad that all of these recalls we have seen recently have been taking place. We should be able to eat without worrying that our food is going to make us sick. However, we should not be able to file a lawsuit against....let's say Quaker Oats, complaining that we were lead to believe that the crunchberries in Captain Crunch's Crunchberries were actual berries. Anybody reading this think that crunchberries are an actual fruit? If you will buy that I've got some real estate I want to sell you. I am not kidding about that suit. You can read about it here. The lady claimed she had been eating the cereal for four years when she discovered it was not the health food that she thought. Gee, go figure. I like Captain Crunch. I will occasionally buy a box, but I know this isn't health food. Fortunately a judge ruled that:

"In this case . . . while the challenged packaging contains the word "berries" it does so only in conjunction with the descriptive term "crunch." This Court is not aware of, nor has Plaintiff alleged the existence of, any actual fruit referred to as a "crunchberry." Furthermore, the "Crunchberries" depicted on the [box] are round, crunchy, brightly-colored cereal balls, and the [box] clearly states both that the Product contains "sweetened corn & oat cereal" and that the cereal is "enlarged to show texture." Thus, a reasonable consumer would not be deceived into believing that the Product in the instant case contained a fruit that does not exist. . . . So far as this Court has been made aware, there is no such fruit growing in the wild or occurring naturally in any part of the world."

Her attorney appealed this decision but that was rejected also. The judge also noted that her attorney had filed an earlier suit complaining that Froot Loops were not real loops of fruit. California's law needs revised so suits like this aren't wasting the courts time.

This probably did not waste any state money, but the city of Oakland spent three months over the major debate of which member of the city council got the closest parking space to city hall. They even had the city attorney write a five page opinion on the issue. The debate probably would have lasted longer, but a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle wrote about it. Amazingly the next day the dispute was settled by a coin flip.

The comedian Gallagher made this observation years ago. "Living in California is like living in a bowl of granola. What's not nuts and fruits is flakes." I think Gallagher is a very wise man.
Sorry Volly, Jeff was right. It is an Isosceles triangle. By the way, I'll be at work on the fourth. Do I know how to party or what?

Today's question is Grade 2/Earth Science.

In the Northern Hemisphere, the summer solstice occurs in what month?

• A) July
• B) June
• C) August

I knew this one. 100-17.

A Late Truck.

The Taco Bell truck was late today so I will have to delay what I was going to write today. I have to be at Wal-Mart at 10:00 tonight and if I don't do as well as I used to with little sleep. For 4 years I managed to get by on about 5 hours sleep a night. I just can't do that anymore. The Taco Bell job ends in about 8 weeks. I will miss it a little, but after days like this not that much. Tomorrow I am going to discuss a couple of reasons why California is having a financial crisis.

Mike was correct. a moose does shed its antlers every year.

Today's question is Grade 5/Math.

What is the name for a triangle that has at least two sides of the same length.?

I knew that one. 99-17.

300.

It is amazing at how little can actually be said in 300 posts. But here is proof of it. I said yesterday that today was going to be a picture post. I am going to share a few pictures of me.(Legal Disclaimer. I am not responsible if your monitors explode. You have been warned.) The others are a few I took this morning of my neighborhood.
I don't remember being that young.
Me at age 16 trying to look cool and failing miserably.

My lady and me.
This is Bun, my partner in crime. He is the brains of the outfit.

For some reason Bun likes me to put my foot on his head. I sent this picture to my niece and she complimented me on my pajamas.

If you get in trouble in Calhoun and need to get out jail who else would you call but Bond, James Bond Inc.
This is allegedly a haunted restaurant. Go here and scroll down to Calhoun and they talk about it.


This an actual tree house. They featured it on a show on HGTV. The guy who built it is very creative. You can read about it here.

Travis was right. Calligraphy is the art of handwriting.

Today's question is Grade 1/Animal Science.

True or false? A typical male moose sheds its antlers every year.
I knew this one. 98-17.