You know how something relatively small can signal, in a very definite way, something relatively big? For me, when I was playing soccer, it was always an early spring soccer game that told my heart what my head already knew. IT IS SPRING! The emerging greenness, the slight chill in the air, the feeling of freedom as you ran, unencumbered, up and down the pitch. A real celebration that involved all of the senses. That's when spring officially started for me. Well, the new year came at midnight on December 31st, but today, for me, is the official start of a new year. Since coming to work for the Kansas Turnpike Authority I have come to depend on the day-timer I carry with me everywhere. It contains reminders of things I need to do, of things I did, of things I did wrong so that I may avoid those mistakes in the future. It always has a handful of orphan phone numbers, part numbers, song lists for gigs or nursing home visits and short, allegedly humorous lines that are waiting for a joke to be constructed around them. After distilling the mess into bits of information deemed worthy of passing on to my new day-timer, the old one is stuffed in the back of the drawer with the others. To help you understand on a deeper level that this is indeed a new year, I would like to share with you, some of these pennings. Please note that you are viewing notes that were collected throughout the year and therefore are not necessarily related one to the other.
The day-timer please: (by the way, these are most of the ones that made the cut)
1) Mobil radio transmissions may interfere with a K-tag read.
2) Alarm reset to Bosch is handled through the strike output.
3) It's fair to say, you have a fare to pay.
4) 78144642 - 23.1mm rollers.
5) Kurt - 555-1212 (this number was changed to protect the innocent.
6) A medical advisory board, (I think this story came from England), will only OK you for a drug to save the sight in an eye after you have lost sight in the first eye.
7) Gibson - DG2222 / Goya G - 10. (these are guitars that I was hoping to help a cousin sell)
8) Energy savings idea. Disable all bathroom exhaust fans.
9) Hope passed away. (this is a sad note referring to a friends baby named Hope.At Hope's funeral we were all reminded that Hope, in Jesus, will never pass away but continues even beyond our understanding)
10) It wasn't a flathead when I caught it. (a punch-line waiting for a joke)
11) The small mouth bass is the male, the large mouth is the female. (see above)
12) Bosch - trouble on all devices usually means a battery problem.
13) This came to me while listening to one of those wonderful commercials about your prostate.
"Are you having trouble with Urine flow?" my response is "no, I'm having trouble with my outflow".
14) 135 kids die every year with injury's sustained while riding a bicycle.
15) 22 million affected by H1N1, 4,000 dead. This is 1/10 of the normal amount for a year.
16) Fruit of the Loom is coming out with a new, inexpensive brief called, can liners.
17) 40 to 50 percent of health outcome has to do with lifestyle choices. 15 percent has to do with availability of healthcare.
18) This is the last day of the rest of your work week. (delivered to a cow-orker on Friday)
19) In a year, one tree can produce enough oxygen to support a family of 4 for that year.
20) Amtrack receives 30 dollars in subsidies for each passenger.
21) Goofball sized hail.
22) Someone embezzled 87,000 to buy lottery tickets.
23) "I don't think anything can go wrong now.(thoughtlessly uttered by a cow-orker after numerous problems with the contractor installing siding and windows on his house)
24) Alt-F2 while booting shows what config.sys is loading.
25) Social Security has become an enabler for dysfunctional families.
26) Ethernet data pairs: org/org-wht and grn/grn-wht.
Alrighty then, Happy New Year!
