So because America decided to be a nation of big fat fatties, I can’t get a soda at work. Back in 2009 my company cracked down on smokers, eliminating the last on-site outdoor smoking area, and relegating smokers to the bus stop across the street. I wondered how long before they cracked down on other […]
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Month: March 2013
If you ever have to set up LPR printing through Microsoft Windows, you may experience a problem where the print job leaves the host computer, hits the print server, but doesn’t make it to the printer. Checking the event log on the print server may return the following error: “The Line Printer Daemon (LPD) service […]
A couple of years ago a guy who worked for me had a toe thumb. I mean, he literally had a toe for a thumb–his big toe, to be specific. He had gotten his hand caught in a wood chipper and had lost parts of most of his fingers and his entire thumb. Doctors removed one […]
“There’s no such thing as a bad short sermon.”
“Excuse me, sir, but I’m from Atlanta, Georgia, and my ex-wife passed away and I’m on my way to Omaha, Nebraska to pick up my girls and I need some gas and they kicked me out of that gas station over there so if you could spare some gas….” Look, buddy, I guess you think […]
For years I have used and taught a maxim that our Pastor taught me regarding whether or not I should say what I am thinking: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary? And by “used” I mean “I have tried to use this but sometimes I find myself speaking before I think and […]
For years I have publicly criticized Kansas City and Jackson County for doing a poor/inadequate/shoddy job of clearing snow from their streets and roads, especially when smaller and poorer Lafayette County could seem to get theirs cleared. I make no apologies for that. However, when I went to work last Wednesday it was Lafayette whose […]
“Let’s see if my belly can fit in this way.”
I had just gotten on the interstate a little before 6am. It’s February, it’s cold, and I see this woman walking on the side of the highway wrapped in a blanket. Now I don’t pick up a lot of people that I see hitchhiking, but I do pick up some. Many times I have been […]