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Day: May 1, 2006
Tennessee Makes Yahoo News! Yahoo!
Thieves Steal Trailer Filled With Red Bull
A truck driver reported last weekend that his 53-foot trailer containing containing $100,000 worth of Red Bull energy drinks (2,880 cases) was stolen. … A trailer containing $100,000 worth of Kraft sauces also was stolen in Dyersburg on Monday
Now what can you do with $!00,000 worth of Red Bull and a $100,000 worth of Kraft sauces at the end a college semester? I’m thinking if we see $100,000 worth of cattle and $100,000 worth of chickens disappear that someone is going to be throwing one heck of a finals craming party. This is what happens when you wait until the end of the semester to start studying!
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Mexico ponders tougher immigration laws
Mexico’s Congress approved a bill Friday decriminalizing possession of small quantities of drugs for personal use – including cocaine, heroin and ectasy
With the latest announcement from Mexico, can we expect to see an onslaught of illegal US immigrants on Mexico’s soil? Is this a conspiracy with the US Right to get more of the Left out of the country? Wait, no! If that was true, they wouldn’t have included cocaine and heroin…
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Picking Colors
There are many color scheme programs online. This is the latest I’ve checked out.
Being Tested
I have a guardian angel. His name is Murph. I named him after Murphy of the Law. Murphy likes to teach me things like Humilty. At 18, while driving my restored Triumph Spitfire 1500 around Memphis I passed another Spitfire that still had work to be done and I commented to myself, "one day yours will look this good." Moments later I wrecked my car. That was Murphy! He frequently tests me at the most inopportune moments. Like last night.
I have a client that I love. They don’t necessarily pay well but I find them very pleasant. I’ll be surprised if they ever work with me again. I’ve dragged what should have been a blink of the eye project on for too long.
Last night I settled in to complete their current project only to find that the washing machine discharge had popped out of the pipe and emptied an entire load into the basement. Murph in action. He helped get some things thrown out that were just taking up space in the basement being ignored. Why did he choose last night? Because I was ready to pop. My stress levels were maxed. I was spending more time fretting than doing. So Murph threw on that last straw to show that things could be worse.
To make his point, he added a punctuation mark this morning. I tried waking at 1:30am and finally rose at 4am. I was cheerful, already solved my programming problem in my head and just needed to type it out, and walked assuredly toward my desk only to simultaneously hear "squish" and feel that icky sensation as the heal of my dress shoes settled into dog poop. His message was clear. Let’s keep things in perspective and not lose our cool over the stuff life puts in our path.
