soapbox

The last few days I’ve notice the phone company pulling a lot of new wires (or probably fiber).

That’s cool, but I sort of have to take issue with the way that I’ve been seeing them pull it. Yesterday, they had a guy up on the cherry picker holding one end of the cable and another guy driving the truck forward to get to the next pole. I suppose on flat ground that wouldn’t be too much of an issues except for two factors. One, it wasn’t flat ground and the guy in the air was a long ways to the left of the truck (and it was one of the pickup truck sized ones, not the bigger ones). Two, the guy in the air was getting pulled through tree branches and was madly trying to hang on to one end of the cable with one hand while he protected his face from the oncoming branches with his other hand. He didn’t look like he was having any fun at all.

Do any of you know anything about the cross-band repeater (uhf-vhf) system located in the Physics room on top of the Fairchild Tower?

I don’t really want to make fun of Tom since he’s doing his job, but how many things in that sentence don’t I know anything about?
1) I can figure it out from the sentence, but “cross-band repeater”?
2) Umm, why would we want to go from uhf to vhf, or backwards for that matter?
3) And which way does it go?
4) Physics room on top of Fairchild Tower? Where is this exactly? Can I use it for a clubhouse?

Actually, I know all about it. It’s part of my race’s plan to enslave the humans.

This is plagiarism of another blog.. But if I cite it, it’s not plagiarism.

Cat-Sweatshirt People (n) homey midwesterners responsible for supporting a number of trends including Thomas Kincaid lighthouse paintings, the Chicken Soup books, and the career of Dr. Phil. Besides the namesake sweatshirts, they can also be recognized by kitchens decorated with lots of stenciled hearts and geese and by a mass forwards of emails about angels.

I found my cell phone when i got home tonight.

the bad news? i found it in the driveway. the front is smashed up a bit, and the battery cover is off. it won’t turn on, but maybe the battery’s just run out? becky just returned my charger today, but i left it in my office. i’ll find out sometime tomorrow if it still functions. if it does, i might just keep using it damaged

Wow, this game is really tough.

I had to try really hard to make it to Level 2.