An Interesting Week

NOTE: this was written about 24 hours ago but would not upload to Blogger, hope it is all OK now.

This has been an interesting week. Friday was the 100th anniversary of the state of Oklahoma so at the college that I work at we had a number of free events. While the bar-b-que on Tuesday was nice, Wednesday was the high point of the week. Any one who lived in Oklahoma for 30 years or more will remember a weather man named Don Woods. Well as part of the Oklahoma Centenial he came to the college and was drawing his trademark Gusty cartoons (for free). He would always close his forecasts with Dusty reacting to the weather forecast he just gave. Gusty it seems is the official cartoon of Oklahoma so that was the tie to the centennial celebration. While he drew a lot of the same ones for most people, I stopped and talked to him for a moment since it was a slow time. He had been an adjunct at another campus of our college teaching weather, and he and I traded our experiences as teachers. When it came time for him to draw mine, he asked me what I wanted Gusty to be doing. Well, I work with computers, so I asked him to do one at a computer. I am now the proud owner of a Gusty typing at a computer. If I get a chance I will scan it in and post it some time soon. For now check out Gusty and Don's web site. On the artwork pages there is one of Gusty at a computer. Mine is like that but not in color.

Of course, being that Friday was the anniversary, all state institutions were closed. Guess who had a day off. As you can tell I had a lot of time to look at news stories and post my comments about them. I will make up for it cause at 8AM I have to be there for the Saturday classes.

Anyway. More later. I do have a new blog to talk about but it will wait till I get some sleep.

L8R all

November Pictures from the Home Depot

Home Depot Pirate Ship November 07

Pirate ship time at the Home Depot.  We had a good time making the ships.  Have not tried to float them yet.

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Crime in a children's virtual world

Children's Virtual World Destroyed By Hackers - News Story - WSMV Nashville:

"Webkinz is a virtual world for children where gamers spend hours accumulating virtual money and then spend it on furnishing an online home.

Jesse Shafer spent a year putting together a fantasy world and then all of a sudden it was gone after his account was hacked.

'I had a pool table, clocks. I had a couch, some plants. I had movies,” said Shafer. 'About $30,000 worth of stuff went down the drain.'

Word started spreading at Shafer's school that everyone was getting their Webkinz world hacked and robbed."

I know my own children have Webkinz accounts and I know how much time it takes to earn the Webkinz cash. It has caused some problems when it comes to doing cores around the house. But like real life nothing comes easy. That someone would steal these accounts from them is just plain wrong! Unfortunately it does teach the children about the real world in a bad way.

Time to investigate?

MINEOLA, N.Y. - The estranged wife of a pastor claims her husband blended his professional and personal finances so thoroughly that his church should be counted as an asset in their divorce.

A judge agreed in a decision published this week to hear arguments on the claim, and he ordered a financial appraisal of the church. Lawyers said it could represent the first time anyone in New York state has tried to treat a religious institution as a marital asset.

The wife argues that her husband of 31 years used his Brooklyn church as a "personal piggy bank," setting his own income, spending the congregation's tithes as he pleased and running a catering business from the building, according to the decision by state Supreme Court Judge Arthur M. Diamond. The couple's names were redacted from the decision.

Pastor's wife: Church is a divorce asset - Yahoo! News


Will the senator that is investigating people who abuse their ministerial credentials take a look at this one also.  I mean, it would appear that if his finances are so closely intertwined with the church that this would be pale in comparison to what the televangelist are doing!

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From the 'which is the most stupid thing to do?' department

FOXNews.com - Michigan Boy, 13, Driving for Drunk Dad Charged With DWI - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News:

"CLIO, Mich. — A police officer checking on a truck that got stuck in the mud at a city park was startled to find a 13-year-old boy behind the wheel.
The officer also was surprised that the boy appeared to be drunk.
So did the teen's father, who was riding in the front seat. He told police that he had turned over the driving duties to his son because he'd had too much to drink.
Open containers of beer and liquor were found in the vehicle, said Clio Police Chief James McLellan.
'[The boy] even said he didn't want to drive because he was too drunk,' McLellan told The Flint Journal for a story published Thursday."

I am not sure which is more stupid here. The fact that the father gave a 13 year old kid the keys to drive him home because he was drunk, or that the father would let the kid get drunk in the first place. It may be a tie.

NASCARGOT - A NASCAR Parody

Sometimes watching NASCAR races this year had seemed like this....

From the "what was he thinking" department....

SOUTHWORTH, Wash. - A man trying to loosen a stubborn lug nut blasted the wheel with a 12-gauge shotgun, injuring himself badly in both legs, sheriff's deputies said.

The 66-year-old man had been repairing a Lincoln Continental for two weeks at his home northwest of Southworth, about 10 miles southwest of Seattle, and had gotten all but one of the lug nuts off the right rear wheel by Saturday afternoon, Kitsap County Deputy Scott Wilson said.

Best to use tools when loosening lug nut - Yahoo! News

Kind of makes you wonder if we need a little more chlorine at the shallow end of the gene pool...

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