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During my wait I heard lots of jet activity overhead, although I couldn't actually see any of them. I also noticed one of the boat ramp areas along his route was closed to the public, and there was a marine patrol boat of some sort in the water. I also saw that helicopter make a few passes while I was waiting.

I'm stuck here where Pellissippi and Edgemoor merge. I'm about 100 yards away from the cop, so looks like I left work 5 minutes late. I'd like to thank his highness for allowing me to unwind after work in what would have a hectic drive home. Planning his visit around drive time was thoughtful.

Last year, we had a guy at work that was always giving things funnier names. He called the Polar Vortex the "Arctic Swirly". That's what everyone there calls it now.

I bet both of their ears are still ringing.

We have Verizon Samsung Galaxy S3's. Love the phone, and used to love the service until we moved last year and I have to go outside to get a signal. Wasn't bad in the summer, but it has sucked the last few months. There is an AT&T tower in plain sight about 1/4 mile away, so we are going to convert over to them. Our VZ contract ended on Jan 3, and we were all set to walk into AT&T, until we remembered that 2 years ago when we got our S3's, the S4 came out a month or two later.   So, now we have decided to wait until the new S6 comes out in a few months before switching. Looks like  that may be a pretty cool phone if any of the rumors are true. I never felt the need to root the S3, and I hear that the S6 is moving toward being more of a stock O/S like the Nexus, so I hope I won't feel the need to root that one either.

The MDA group has no idea about the concept of picking one's battles. Jeff Foxworthy and Alan Jackson make their living entertaining red blooded, gun toting Americans. Jeff and Alan will not lose one penny of income by standing firm, in fact it may very well help them earn more. Unlike Jay Leno, who may lose a sponsorship, there is no way they would cave to MDA.

The following quote is one of the more powerful ones that she mentioned:      It came from the article named "A Nation of Cowards". It was a good read. I found it here: http://www.rkba.org/comment/cowards.html

On some level I think I can understand how the idea of Communism may be appealing to some of these people. For a generation now, young people have been taught that Capitalism is bad, and that somehow the wealthy are the cause of all their problems. They have been told that it is not fair that the wealthy have all that money, and they have nothing. If only there was a way to make it fairer and have those evil rich people share their money.

  Is that place still posted? We went to a wedding rehearsal dinner there a year ago, and I don't recall seeing a sign. I know it used to be posted a few years ago, but I thought that it changed ownership since then.

At work, the parking situation is horrible. A lot of people park there, and even though the lot is huge, it fills up fast. If you get there late, the only open spots are probably a 1/4 mile from where you have to enter at, so it's a long walk, and even longer if it's raining. For some reason, there is an inordinate amount of handicap spots right outside the entrance. To me it looks like there are about 5 times the amount of HC spots for a lot of this size. I'm always amazed that nearly every one of those spaces are filled up. I just can't imagine there are that many handicapped folks at work.   One day I noticed a friend's car parked in one of the HC spots. His wife had a brain aneurysm years ago, and even though she had a bit of memory loss, and couldn't do her job anymore, she gets around fine. She does qualify for the HC sticker, so good for her. He however, is perfectly healthy, and she does not come to work with him. I questioned him about it that day I saw him park there, and he said he was in a hurry to respond to an emergency and didn't want to have to take the time to park way out. I gave him grief over it, but he just blew it off. After that I started looking, and I would see his car there more often than not. 

Sadly, I bet a lot of Professors agree with this idea, and will just go ahead and do it.   How about we just go ahead and give out degrees too. Especially if you have some life experience. You say you used to deal drugs? Here's your Pharmacy license. You stabbed somebody once? Here's your surgeons license. Strong arm robbery? We'll make you an IRS Manager. Con artist? Hello Senator.

In today's society of "Zero Tolerance", this kid would have to be expelled and probably sent to jail. Then the irony of it is that the "stolen" gun would just be returned to the parent. The school or police would have no right to do anything else with it.

He could play Beatles songs better than the Beatles. Rest in Peace Joe.

A lot of the blame for this rests upon Al Sharpton for inciting this kind of animosity, then secondly the blame falls to NY Mayor Debassio and President Obama for standing beside them and not backing up their own officers. Not backing up the officers over the last few months is a traitorous act, and this killing is the result of that act.   Obama is the Chief Law Enforcement Office of the land, the top cop. For him to side with the criminals, for no better reason than the color of their skin, is unconscionable. He was supposed to be the great unifier, What he really is, is a divider. He has divided white from black, and cops from citizens.   I fear that this is the beginning of something very bad. The NY cops stood by recently, with their hands tied, and let the so-called peaceful protesters march past shouting that they wanted dead cops. I think that this will start a war of sorts between cops and citizens. These kind of protests are going end up with lots of dead people in the future.

I have listened to it several times now. I usually listen to it while on my PC and it just fades into background sound. There is nothing really great, or awful about it. It's not their best, for sure, but not their worst either. There is only one song with lyrics, and one other with a few clips of Stephen Hawking speaking. Other than that it is an instrumental album. A lot of the songs are very short, and seem to flow into the next one without an end or beginning.   If you want to give it a listen, go over to www.grooveshark.com . I think I found it there the other day. It's a legit site similar to Pandora that you can search for albums and listen online.

here in Oak Ridge, I used to go to Ken's Barber Shop. It had that old-timey feel of a real barber shop. They didn't take your name, you just looked at the other men and remembered who is before you. It had been there for ever.   The owner (not Ken) bought the barber shop over in Groves Center (behind the new Kroger), and the lady that I liked to cut my hair from Kens moved there, so I followed her. She said they were trying to build up clients at that location, so I obliged.   Just recently, they closed the Ken's location, and moved the Groves location to the end of the shopping center in a much larger store front, and combined the two shops. This new location is pretty cool. They have a pool table in there, and they bring out corn-hole on nice days. It's decorated with old fashioned tin plate signs advertising guns, ammo, tobacco and motor oil. They use mechanics tool chests for their work stations. They even have a station for a straight razor shave if you like. The haircut was great. Trimmed up the neck and sideburns with a straight razor, finished up with a wipe down from a cool towel soaked in alcohol, and a dusting of talc. All for $12.   If you are looking for a barber shop in Oak Ridge, with that old fashioned feel, I can recommend them. I think their name is simply "The Barber Shop".

The question I always wonder about, is are these people reimbursed for the value of these guns, or are they just taken? I'd say for many people this could amount to tens of thousands of dollars. How can you value a family heirloom. What if it's somebody's crazy dad with a generational hand me down collection? Can the (adult) kid claim the guns and get them?

The other day I saw Cabela's had .22 ammo on sale and, miracle of miracles, there was some in stock. They also had free shipping if you got your order above $50. I was running around frantically trying to figure out what else to buy before they ran out of stock and remembered I needed some Hoppe's gun cleaner.   I wasn't paying close enough attention and accidentally put Hoppe's #9 Bench Rest Copper Remover Gun Bore Cleaner in my cart instead of just the regular cleaner.    Can I use this stuff instead for every day cleaning? Or is it really just designed for copper cleaning? It says it cleans powder residue, but is the original better at doing that?   It costs about 3 times what the basic stuff does, so I hate to waste it.   Thanks,

We bought a house this past February, and there are two apple trees right near the house. We thought, It might be nice to have a little fruit tree orchard all right there in the same spot, so we bought several more fruit trees and planted them near the apples. This fall, the tree produced apples that were very mis-shapen and not very tasty. They would drop faster than I could collect them up, and stunk horribly. By the time I got to them on the weekend, they were a rotten mess.   Next Spring, I plan on digging up the trees I planted and moving them to the back 40.

I wonder if he does couples Battle Dancing? The wife and I have been looking for something to do together.

  I like hearing what other groups refer to them as. The Governor called them "Biters", the hospital called them "Rotters". I forget what Terminus called them.

500 count Remington .22 LR for $25   http://www.cabelas.com/product/Shooting/Ammunition/Rimfire-Ammunition%7C/pc/104792580/c/104691780/sc/104536080/Remingtonreg-22-LR-Rimfire-Ammunition/734676.uts?avad=48247_b78e5626&WT.mc_id=al35987&rid=12&WT.tsrc=AFF

A short amount of hot water is a sign of a bad lower element. You said you replaced it? Can you put a multimeter across the two terminals on the element and see if there is resistance? If no resistance, you have a bad element. Are you certain the lower element is getting power? Check for power on the terminal too.   Also, have you checked to make sure the thermostat is set correctly?

I have bought two guns at two different times this month. In both cases, it took me longer to fill out the form than it did to do the TICS check. In the past, they have always taken 20-30 minutes. Both of these recent times were under 5 minutes. 

For me mixing fruit and most nuts in salads is a turn off, especially if there is mayo in the salad. Mayo and apples have no place being together. Waldorf salad, just typing the name makes me want to gag. I love fruit, nuts and mayo, just not together.   Also, do not ask me if I want mayo, and give me that Miracle Whip crap. That is not mayo.   I absolutely hate raw tomatoes on burgers. I usually tell the server to not even speak the word tomato near my food. I do that as a funny way of making them remember I do not like tomatoes on my burger. If you bring me a burger with a tomato on it, I will pick it off and throw it right on the floor. It really makes me mad. You just can't get the taste off the burger once it's been on it.