USAF Band Flashes

As in Flash Mob, silly!

[Either way, you know I would post it for you. ♥]

I don’t know where my Uncle John finds such cool stuff, but I wanted to share this with all my readers and Facebook fans.

I am never where this sort of thing happens. Has anyone actually witnessed a flash mob? This crowd could really be actors…

TTFN

Giggles & Bits: Understanding Engineers

Even if you don’t know any engineers I think you will enjoy this!

Understanding Engineers One:
Two  engineering students were walking across a university campus when one said,  “Where did you get such a great bike?”
The second engineer replied, “Well,  I was walking along yesterday, minding my own business, when a beautiful woman  rode up on this bike, threw it to the ground, took off all her clothes and  said, “Take what you want.”
The first engineer nodded approvingly and  said, “Good choice; the clothes probably wouldn’t have fitted you, anyway.”

Understanding Engineers Two:
To the optimist, the glass  is half-full.
To the pessimist, the glass is half-empty.
To the  engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be..

Understanding Engineers Three:
A priest, a doctor,  and an engineer were waiting one morning for a particularly slow group of  golfers.  The engineer fumed, “What’s with those guys?  We must have  been waiting for fifteen minutes!”
The doctor chimed in, “I don’t know,  but I’ve never seen such inept golf!”
The priest said, “Here comes the  green-keeper. Let’s have a word with him.”
He said, “Hello George,  what’s wrong with that group ahead of us?  They’re rather slow, aren’t  they?”
The green-keeper replied, “Oh, yes.  That’s a group of blind  firemen.  They lost their sight saving our clubhouse from a fire last  year, so we always let them play for free anytime.”
The group fell silent  for a moment.
The priest said, “That’s so sad.  I think I will say a  special prayer for them tonight.”
The doctor said, “Good idea.  I’m  going to contact my ophthalmologist colleague and see if there’s anything he  can do for them.”
The engineer said, “Why can’t they play at night?”

Understanding Engineers Four:
What is the  difference between mechanical engineers and civil engineers?
Mechanical  engineers build weapons.  Civil engineers build targets.

Understanding Engineers Five:
The graduate with a  science degree asks, “Why does it work?”
The graduate with an engineering  degree asks, “How does it work?”
The graduate with an accounting degree  asks, “How much will it cost?”
The graduate with an arts degree asks, “Do  you want fries with that?”

Understanding Engineers Six:
Three engineering students were gathered together discussing who  must have designed the human body.
One said, “It was a mechanical  engineer. Just look at all the joints.”
Another said, “No, it was an  electrical engineer. The nervous system has many thousands of electrical  connections.” The last one said, “No, actually it had to have been a  civil engineer.  Who else would run a toxic waste pipeline through a recreational area?”

Understanding Engineers Seven:
Normal people believe that if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it..
Engineers believe that if it ain’t broke, it doesn’t have enough features  yet.

Understanding Engineers Eight:
An engineer  was crossing a road one day, when a frog called out to him and said, “If you  kiss me, I’ll turn into a beautiful princess.”  He bent over, picked up  the frog and put it in his pocket.
The frog then cried out, “If you kiss  me and turn me into a princess, I’ll stay with you for one year and do  ANYTHING you want.”
Again, the engineer took the frog out, smiled at it  and put it back into his pocket.
Finally, the frog asked, “What is the  matter?  I’ve told you I’m a beautiful princess and that I’ll stay with  you for one year and do anything you want.  Why won’t you kiss me?”
The engineer said, “Look, I’m an engineer.  I don’t have time for a  girlfriend, but a talking frog, now that’s cool.”

♥ TTFN ♥

 

Ghosts of Christmas Past

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Me & Hubby (2008)

I made the mistake of looking through old photo albums last week. I say “mistake” because this deterred me a couple of hours away from my objective: finding a particular photo among scads of them. It only took 3 minutes to find it. The other 2 hours were revisiting memory lane.

That explains why it has taken me almost 4 years to get moving on a surprise project for our kids that I wanted to do as soon as I retired. Now there are 2 such projects in the works, making my office look like I have a PhD instead of an Associate degree. (Smart people without PhD’s will know what I’m talking about.)

The photo albums invoked so many emotions. Christmas’s past ran the spectrum from happy to heartbreaking. “Visitation right” conflicts, court orders and angry feelings would go with the holidays like a black cloud. I began to dread the holidays instead of looking forward to them. Christmas had become an emphasis of our inability to be together as a whole family.

Then, a friend helped me see the light. She must have been sick of my lamenting and whining because she sat me down and told me that I had the power to make any day Christmas, it did not have to be the court controlled 25th of December, but any day we could all be together.

And so, the “tree trimming” party came into being. A weekend in early December when everyone happened to be home. Often we had an open house, inviting close family & friends, making and eating snacks. Laughing a lot.

The kids made ornaments and decorated cookies, trying to out-do each others creations. Some were so creative we should not hang them on the tree, but we did anyway. We played games in the dinning room instead of having a “real” dinner. We only turned the TV on if the 49ers were playing, or we were having Tetris Wars.

Now the kids are grown and hubby and I are grandparents. I love being able to watch the old Christmas “specials” again, have cookie decorating help and this year we have an Elf Bowling tournament going on. I haven’t had this much fun since tree-trimming party’s past.

Anyway – as I wrap up my long overdue project, and finish my celebration happy dance, I remember that this Christmas is only 20 days away and I have only a million things to do, and less than 3-weeks to do them in.  That was just one sentence, proving how busy and in a hurry I am getting. Taking a deep breath…

Only our Lord knows what the Christmas Future holds. But I do know I will be feeling love and happiness with no black clouds in sight!

A Merry Christmas to all, and to all, a good night.