JOKES

A jumper cable walks into a bar. The bartender says, "I'll serve you, but don't start anything."


A man walks into a bar with a slab of asphalt under his arm and says "A beer please, and one for the road."

Two fish swam into a concrete wall. One fish turned to the other and said "dam!"

Two cannibals were eating a clown. One said to the other "Does this taste funny to you?"

I went to the store to buy some camouflage trousers the other day but couldn't find any.

BIRTHDAY WEEK !

This is birthday week for me at my AA meetings. So far I have taken 33-year cakes Saturday morning, Saturday evening and Sunday morning. And I will take one at 12:30 noon today from a good friend who is also dealing with cancer. After today's meeting I plan to go out for lunch. It has been a difficult year but I have gotten through it all.

At work, I am hoping that the Expo is a "go" but I won't know until later this week. At least I have done all I could do to make it happen. Somethings just won't happen no matter how hard you work for them, but with determination and strength from a Higher Power many things are possible.

The weather is a little cooler, but I still want to get some air conditioning in the very near future, at least for the bedrooms. I still don't know how to put air in the living room without ruining the view.

Time flies when you are having fun

Time flies when you are having fun. I have been working hard trying to keep the Expo alive. I got out a bunch of letters to prospective sponsors, former sponsors, former exhibitors, etc. Now to wait for the results - and money, of course.

Still doing the exercises and recovering from the surgery. Can't drive yet and that is a bummer. Maybe I will try to work something out with the seatbelt. Also, I should try riding the bus to work to see if I can take the jolting - maybe experiment with sitting and standing up. If I did take the bus it would cut the gas bill down a lot and free Tony for doing something other than driving me to and from work.

AA birthday - June 23rd - is getting closer and I am planning to take cakes. I sure had an interesting year.

House Painting Finished

Here is how the house looks today. The blue is a little darker than before and I think it came out very well. The painters did a good job and even did the little things - the details that are noticable to me but probably not noticable to passers by.

Now I have to think a bit about landscaping but maybe wait for a while because of the drought.

House work

Now I am catching up on all of the things I was going to do before surgery, and then some. First the plumbing was replaced. It started out as a $850 job and ended up at about $2,000. One thing and another. But at least it is all done and should last a while.

Then a smaller job - cutting down a lot of a huge tree in front of the house - $100 job.

Now I am in the middle of getting the house, painted including scraping, some stucco repair, some wood repair and primer - $3,000. Plus another $500 for some eave work. The house should look beautiful, though, and I will post pictures. I wanted to do this before the surgery but couldn't find anyone to do it. These guys work really hard and take a lot of pride in their work.

I am also working hard to get my department's Expo going again this year and more and more I think we will be successful.

A motto I put up at home and work when I was facing surgery was:

NEVER,

NEVER,

NEVER

GIVE UP.

Thoughts

I took an IQ test and the results were negative.

If at first you do succeed, try not to look astonished.

Give me anbiguiuty or give me something else.

Proof of back to work

I am really back to work. This picture was taken on the receptionist's cell phone on Friday. The paper I am holding in my hand is "work". It is now the weekend and we just got back from lunch at Sizzler where I ate too much. Before that we had to take my dog Heidi to the vet cause some insect bit her and she started to swell up. She is OK now.