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Merry Christmas!

Yup I said it… I went there…  I’m really not sorry if I just offended you because believe it or not I was acknowledging your presence as a worthwhile human being. (Coming from me that’s a lot BTW.)

So I’m waiting in line to ship a package today at lunch.  And there’s a woman ahead of me waiting. She does her thing gets here package weighed and folds up her receipt and the very nice woman who was helping her says “Thank you and Merry Christmas!” With an enthusiastic glow that I confess was very heartwarming.

The Heart Warming moment was squashed when the customer said. I’m Jewish and you should really say Happy Holidays. (Insert classic Sherwood Schwartz inspired incidental music; i.e. sad trombone.) (more…)

And what do I have to show about it… To be honest I’m surprised there have not been many “newsy period pieces” on the TV yet.. Then again we still have a few days.. But I started to think about it and realized the first decade of the 21^st century was quite literally filled with Terror, Joy, Heartache, Sadness, and just a touch of bliss

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I remember the day vividly. The day our company decided to upgrade our phone system to incorporate a “page” feature. What at first was a novel convenience for our “Donut Guy” to serenade us with a poem about donuts on Friday when he brought them in for all of us, has  become a annoying curse that has blighted my ears far too often.. (more…)

You know? Fundamentally I’m actually a pretty healthy guy… I mean for the most part I don’t get sick very often.. It’s usually a major sickness when I do though…

But I got the “you’re always sick” comment. The other day… Sigh… Really? So I started to do the mental calculations of how often I have been sick within the last year and a half.

It’s not that I get sick often it’s actually that when I do it hits so hard and lingers… Like it just will not go away no matter how much over the counter medication and rest I try to throw at it.. (more…)

OK so most of you have seen the basement… Well the Overhead projector was getting very very tired… Besides the fact that the bulb was turning yellow it had a power issue at times that it would not recognize inputs at power up unless it was off for more than 30 minutes..
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This is an open letter to my fellow coworkers. Some of you may not like what I am about to say and if I offend any of my coworkers…. Tough Shit! Get over it! Or more to the point, Grow the fuck up!
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So this is now the 3rd year of me using the “Power of Technology” also known ast “PoT” and thus all I have to do is edit a few pages and not worry about feeling guilty about using the printer at work. Some of you that have never experienced this “Rave” may not now some history.. These invitations used to be gargantuan.  Some people looked forward to them.. Most however just threw them in the trash..

To Find out more go to the Chappell Family X-MAS Rave page by Clicking Here

But I can catch Metal! F@%&!!!!!!!!! Ok so Today after getting up and
looking outside and realizing it’s wet outside and not what the forecast
was the day before (partly sunny).. I decided to hop in the truck and
head to a motorcycle superstore. (more…)

We actually arrived late in the day on Saturday. I discovered that
Towing your pride and joy for 14 and a half hours is rather stressful.
Towards the end the tongue loosened up on the trailer side. It’s really
fine but to watch the bike moving more than it was in the rearview
mirror was a little disconcerting. I’ll have it fixed before we go home. (more…)

So this past weekend with the rain coming in heavily on Saturday it put a real damper on me doing any work on the trailer. With my daughter’s birthday party on Sunday afternoon I was concerned about time but with a bunch of help on Saturday my wife was nice enough to assure me all I should need to do on Sunday was help carry in groceries and hang the piñata. So order of the day was to set up the bounce house which had my son in his clothes for the first time ever on a weekend before 8 O’clock AM and then get to Lowes, then come back in build the trailer. (more…)