Thieves make off with $26,000 of beer

Someone was awfully thirsty! I can't imagine how you come up with the idea to steal a semi trailer of beer, I mean maybe joking around but not planning it out and following through. Unless of course this was an unhappy employee planning to celebrate their job loss or something. This article was in the news today. I can't say I remember ever hearing of this happening before...

"Semi trailer loaded with Miller goes missing in Wisconsin

WEST BEND, Wis. - Authorities are hoping to break up what must be quite the party after beer thieves made off with almost $26,000 worth of suds from a delivery truck.
A semi trailer loaded with cans and bottles of Miller beer was stolen from a trucking company in Richfield, according to a Washington County Sheriff's Department report. The trailer was found four days later — sans beer — at an Oak Creek trucking firm.
The trailer had been dropped off at the Millis Transfer Co. sometime on Feb. 17 for delivery to a beer distributor in Menomonie, authorities said. Later that night, the trailer was discovered missing.

Company officials didn't report the loss immediately because they thought a driver must have picked up the wrong load.
The sheriff's department is investigating with Oak Creek authorities and Miller officials, said Sheriff's Capt. Dale Schmidt.

The missing product, valued at $25,788, included:

384 24-packs of Miller Genuine Draft cans
560 18-packs of MGD 12-ounce bottles
980 18-packs of MGD 12-ounce cans
40 24-packs of Miller Light 16-ounce plastic bottles"

© 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Hilarious and oh...soooo true!!!

"Voting for Bush

is like running

in the Special Olympics.

Even if you win,

you're still retarded."

Okay, I'm still reading Almost Grace and I found this in her archives. She says she got it from Laughshriek and I tried to go to their blog but it doesn't exist anymore. So she stole if from them and I stole it from her but I just couldn't help myself!

I'm Marilyn Monroe Too!

What Classic Pin-Up Are You?

from Quizilla.com

I got this one from Leslie's blog and decided to take the quiz and I got the same results she did, makes you wonder if we pick friends because they think like us.

mobile test

You can all ignore this one, it's a test from my T-Mobile phone to publish directly to the blog site.
--magickmoon

Sweetie

My first attempt at mobile blogging, sending a pic from my phone to automatically post on my blog. This is my grandma's puppy! Sweetie

Too Cute!!

My man and Lexus, my puppy. Well, actually she's 3, so she's not really a puppy but I still spoil her like a baby.




This is my other baby, who isn't a baby anymore either since she just turned eleven and is making me feel really old!

Men Vs. Women

The Spanish Computer

A Spanish teacher was explaining to her class that in Spanish, unlike English,nouns are designated as either masculine or feminine."House" for instance, is feminine: "la casa.""Pencil," however, is masculine: "el lapiz."

A student asked, "What gender is 'computer'?"

Instead of giving the answer, the teacher split the class into two groups, male and female, and asked them to decide for themselves whether "computer" should be a masculine or a feminine noun.

Each group was asked to give four reasons for its recommendation.

The men's group decided that "computer" should definitely be of the feminine gender ("la computadora"), because:

1. No one but their creator understands their internal logic;
2. The native language they use to communicate with other computers is incomprehensible to everyone else;
3. Even the smallest mistakes are stored in long term memory for possible later retrieval; and
4. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending half your paycheck on accessories for it.

(THIS GETS BETTER!)

The women's group, however, concluded that computers should be Masculine ("el computador"), because:

1. In order to do anything with them, you have to turn them on;
2. They have a lot of data but still can't think for themselves;
3. They are supposed to help you solve problems, but half the time they ARE the problem; and
4. As soon as you commit to one, you realize that if you had waited a little longer, you could have gotten a better model.

The women won!

Show Me

"Tell me and I'll forget;

show me and I may remember;

involve me and I'll understand."

This is an old Chinese Proverb and I think it's interesting it can apply to so many aspects of our lives. The first thing it makes me think of is raising children but then I realized it also applies to my work, to relationships and interacting with people, all the way down to the little things in life like training my dog or using a new computer program. How many things have I been told that I have forgotten? Countless. How many times has someone shown me how to do something and made me remember? A little more. When someone has helped me along but made me do it for myself, I learned and probably still use those skills today.

I have a silly example that happens at work every day. I work part time in a wireless phone store and we have a payment machine that takes cash and check payments for the customers phone bill. It is an advanced machine with a touch screen and it walks the customer through the transaction step by step in about 30 seconds. To me it is the easiest thing in the world. When a customer comes in and we direct them to the machine and tell them to touch the screen and follow the instructions most times they stand there, dumbfounded, staring like it may be a UFO, or it might explode, or maybe they think it's in Chinese, but they act terrified of the machine. I wonder how the banks got people to use ATM machines.

So I started walking the customer over to the machine and I would input the info for them while explaining what I was doing as they watched. It took a few seconds and they were happy but then I realized that those same customers would return the next month and if we direct them to the machine they repeat the same terrified reaction and inability to understand what to do and I would step in and input the info for them. After seeing this reaction for a few months I realized that I need to walk them over and tell them step by step what to do while they actually touch the screen to make their own selections. With this method the majority of them can new walk up to the machine with confidence the very next month.

I realize this is an unusual and silly little example but it illustrates what I'm saying about the proverb being applicable in almost every example of my life. Have you ever told someone how you made that delicious dessert, only to have them call and say it didn't turn out anything like the one you made?

Top 10 things you don't want to hear from your REALTOR...

Top Ten Things To Say About a Christmas Gift You Don't Like...

10. Hey! Now there's a gift!
9. Well, well, well...
8. Boy, if I had not recently shot up 4 sizes that would've fit.
7. This is perfect for wearing around the basement.
6. Gosh. I hope this never catches fire! It is fire season though. There are lots of unexplained fires.
5. If the dog buries it, I'll be furious!
4. I love it - but I fear the jealousy it will inspire.
3. Sadly, tomorrow I enter the Federal Witness Protection Program.
2. To think I got this the year I vowed to give all my gifts to charity.
1. I really don't deserve this.


Top Ten Things You Don't Want To Hear From Your Real Estate Agent When You Go To The Closing On Your New Home...

1. "I think unexplained crop circles add a unique flair to any home's garden."
2. "Actually, it's only the rear portion of the yard that overlaps the ancient Indian burial ground."
3. "Yes, the last owner did donate the house to the Hell's Angels, but I'm told that the judge has ordered them not to come within 50 feet of it."
4. "One bleeding toilet doesn't necessarily mean it's haunted."
5. "Your neighbour has assured me that, technically, they're not 'killer' bees."
6. "Even if there was a full-scale mudslide, it's unlikely that it would reach as far back as your property."
7. "It's quite common for roaches to grow that big even when not in the presence of radioactivity."
8. "Did you know that the band Grave Raper holds their practice sessions right next door?"
9. "It's true that they died in the house, but the prosecutor was never actually able to prove it was murder."
10. "You can barely hear the sheet metal factory at night."

Superbowl XL controversy

Okay, I'm not a big sports fan (unless it's my own college team playing). My fiancee would agree, that my total sports knowledge could fill a very very small book (okay, maybe a pamphlet) but I did pay attention to this game and I tend to agree with the chart here.

I understand that this is probably just someone that's good with publishing programs but the whole direction of that game changed with a couple calls that I was sure were wrong and would be overturned and they weren't. Which is very frustrating. So I guess my conclusion is that watching sports just gives me something else to get upset about and really, Who needs the stress!?!?

Words of Wisdom...

wouldn't it be nice if everyone were wise...or at least capable of logical thinking?

"The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously." -Hubert Humphrey

"The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere." -Hsun Tzu

"Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital." -Aaron Levenstein

"When the president does it, that means it is not illegal." -Richard Nixon

"Doing what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius." - Henry Frederic Amiel

"No matter how long you have gone on a wrong road, turn back." - Turkish proverb

"A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer." - Robert Frost

"Shallow men believe in luck, wise and strong men in cause and effect." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting." - Stephen R. Covey

"The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name." - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

"Every morning I look throught the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work." - Robert Orben

"See everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little." - Pope John XXIII

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none." - William Shakespeare

"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." - Francis Bacon

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." -Thomas Edison

"Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones." - Phillip Brooks

"It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument." - William G. McAdoo

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." - Philip K. Dick

"What passes for women's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency." - George Jean Nathan

"If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much." - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative." - Oscar Wilde