On a food related forum I visit from time to time someone posted a question asking "How do you make corn nuts?" Now I know perfectly well what they were wanting to know but I just couldn't resist posting the reply "The best way that I know of to make corn nuts is to tease it unmercifully". If ya don't know the answer, at least say so in an amusing way, no? So, does anyone else have any good, not so good, or just plain groan inducing food jokes?

I got up bright and early this morning so I could beat the Tampa rush hour traffic and made my way towards Ocala. I pulled into a rest area a little South of Ocala and called the customer to get directions to where I neeeded to pick up the drilling machine I was to haul to IL. He gave me the needed directions, telling me they were in the NE corner of the flea market. Huh? Flea market? Did you say a flea market? "Yes" he replied, "Our office is in the NE corner of the flea market." Oh, u...

My thanks to Little Whip and Sally Jacobs for inspiring this line of thought. There is an old expression "Perception is reality". Imagination and perception. How we perceive our world and imagine it to be in our own mind is pretty much what our world is to us. These mixed with a bit of hard reality are what really make up our individual worlds. I doubt that there are two people who live in the exact same world. Now I'm not talking about how we imagine the world should be but rath...

Yes, those loveably misunderstood terrorists are at it again. This time in India. I'm sure it must be Bush's fault. Link

I just got off the phone with my office. My boss called to ask me if I had delivered the fire truck in Miami. Of course I did. Ports being ports, they had informed the customer that they hadn't received it. That's not unusual. They deal with such a massive amount of freight every day they tend to lose track. No biggie, later today I'll fax the proof of delivery to the office and that will be that. I then spoke with dispatch to find out how the search for a load out of here is going. No luc...

I saw this on the news this morning. Link What a bummer.

Tonight I was watching the show Treasure Hunters. During the program they ask a question related to a clue found by the contestants and you can go online and answer the question for a chance to win $10,000. I went online and answered the question knowing for certain that I gave the correct answer. At the end of the show as they were building up to announce the winner I knew with 100% certainty that I had given the correct answer and that I had won the cash. For just that one moment in tim...

I've pretty much been roasting all day. My tiny little air conditioner just can't cut it when the sun is smiling down brightly on my little home. I kept the place closed up tightly during the hottest part of the day to try and keep whatever cool air the ac was pushing out on the inside and the moist hot air on the outside. It was still a sauna in here for the most part but still a tad cooler than outside. Barely. Now that the angle of the sun has dropped I've opened up the skylights to ven...

I am sitting alone in my small Florida home enjoying the peace that comes only from being detached from any schedule or demands of work. This is my island in the sea of worldly cares. My safe harbor in the raging storm of stress in which most of us live our daily lives. While I am awaiting the telephone call that will signal my reinsertion into the demands of a work schedule, at the moment I have nothing to do, no place to be, and nobody awaiting my arrival or departure. There is somethin...

I can't stop laughing! Link

I can't stop laughing! Link

I had to watch this one a couple of times. Talk about some real genius at work here. Link

I had to watch this one a couple of times. Talk about some real genius at work here. Link

I've always had a "thing" for hats and canes. Can't say why really, but I have collected both for as long as I can recall. As I wear a hat any time I am not indoors, that one's a natural. But as for canes, I have always liked them even before my physical condition required their use. I own one in particular, actually a walking stick as opposed to a cane. It's quite nice. It's called a Gentleman's Companion. The shaft is made from a black golf club shaft, and the handle is a highly polished...

When I'm on the road I wear what I call my trucker clothes. Inexpensive jeans, tee shirts, casual shirts, cargo shorts, etc... Why wear more expensive clothing to just get them ruined working around grease, rusty chains, and crawling around on assorted machinery and stuff? Don't get me wrong, I don't wear worn out clothing with holes in them, but some of my work clothes do have the random grease stain and such even though they are clean. I still present a better appearance than many of the gu...