SUNDAY MORNING

It's a beautiful, sunny day here. We are all having a lazy Sunday morning. It's nice to not have to rush around and do the get ready for work/school routine. I'm trying not to think about work and what is waiting for me there, and most of the time I'm successful. I've got a big presentation to give on some contracts that I only picked up less than a month ago. I really don't know much about them, so getting ready for it takes up a large amount of my time, which I really don't have allot of lately. Of course, no one has much time nowadays, and they just keep piling the work on. Management's attitude comes through as "you might as well get used to it because it's only going to get worse." It's tough on the morale of all of the employees because it makes us feel as if management doesn't care and isn't on our side.

Oh well, beats the alternative. DO YOU WANT FRIES WITH THAT?

So it goes........

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THE BIRTHDAY PARTY

All in all, I'd have to say that the birthday party at Chuck E Cheese was not all that bad. The girls had a really good time. They ate pizza until it was coming out of their ears, and had cake to top it all off. The busied themselves by playing games and climbing through all of the tubes, with mom desperately trying to keep track of them both at one time. My ears stopped wringing (caused by the noise level) by about 4:30 or so. Kids are wonderful, but I like them best in small numbers.

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WEBSITE WORK

I've been working a bit on my site. I added a forum to it called The Break Room. I tried to tie the colors in with the rest of my site. As I learn more, it's my hope to add more features to it. For right now, it's just a place to post on various topics. You can visit it here: The Break Room Feel free to jump right in.

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A MOUSE IN THE HOUSE
submitted by M & D

A mouse looked through a crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife opening a package; what food might it contain? He was aghast to discover that it was a mousetrap! Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning, "There is a mouse trap in the house, there is a mouse trap in the house."


The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said, "Mr. Mouse, I can tell you this is a grave concern to you, but it is of no consequence to me; I cannot be bothered by it."

The mouse turned to the pig and told him, "There is a mouse trap in the house." "I am so very sorry Mr. Mouse," sympathized the pig, "but there is nothing I can think of to do about it. Surely someone else will step in to help."

The mouse turned to the cow, who replied, "Like wow, Mr. Mouse, a mouse trap; am I in grave danger, Duh?"

So the mouse returned to the house, head down and dejected to face the farmer's mousetrap alone. That very night a sound was heard throughout the house, like the sound of a mousetrap catching its prey. The farmer's wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she did not see that it was a venomous snake whose tail the trap had caught. The snake bit the farmer's wife. The farmer rushed her to the hospital.

She returned home with a fever. Now everyone knows you treat a fever with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard for the soup's main ingredient.

His wife's sickness continued so that friends and neighbors came to sit with her around the clock. To feed them, the farmer butchered the pig.

The farmer's wife did not get well, in fact, she died, and so many people came for her funeral the farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide meat for all of them to eat.

So the next time you hear that someone is facing a problem and think that it does not concern you, remember that when the least of us is threatened, we are all at risk. And so it may be with Germany, France and Belgium one day.

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That's it for now! Ciao!