Car Watch

Saw this at a speed shop near the main library in my area.  


Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder

Maybe in my next life-time.

B.O.P.

Ingredients

If I had become a chemist, I would know about some of the following stuff.



INGREDIENTS:  TOMATOES (WATER, TOMATO PASTE), BREADED VEAL PATTY: ({MEAT MIX: [VEAL, BEEF],  WATER, SOY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, CONTAIN 2% OR LESS OF EACH OF THE FOLLOWING:  ONION, SALT, SUGAR, SPICE, FLAVORING}, BATTERED AND BREADED WITH: BREADER BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR, DEXTROSE, SUGAR, SALT, SOYBEAN OIL COLORED WITH OLEOREIN PAPRIKA, FLAVOR}, WATER, CORN FLOUR, WHEAT FLOUR, YELLOW CORN CONES, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, SALT, DEXTROSE, SODIUM ACID PYROPHOSPHATE, SODIUM BICARBONATE, AND FRIED ON  PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL), PEAS, COOKED MACARONI (WATER, DURUM SEMOLINA, NIACIN, FERROUS SULFATE, THIAMIN MONONITRATE, FOLIC ACID), MAY CONTAIN EGG WHITE SOLIDS), WATER, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF EACH OF THE FOLLOWING:  MARGARINE (PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL WITH BHT, WATER, SALT, EMULSIFIER [MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES, WITH CITRIC ACID TO HELP PROTECT FLAVOR]. BUTTER FLAVOR [PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL, FLAVOR {BUTTER OIL, ENZYME MODIFIED BUTTER FAT, WHEY POWER, MILK POWER}, LECITHIN [AN EMULSIFIER}], BETA CAROTENE [CORN OIL, VITAMIN A PALMITATE, BETA CAROTENE]}, SUGAR, SALT, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, SOYBEAN OIL, CRUSHED GARLIC (GARLIC, CITRIC ACID), WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE (WATER, VINEGAR, MOLASSES, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, ANCHOVIES, HYDROLYZED SOY AND CORN PROTEIN, ONIONS, TAMARINDS, SALT, GARLIC, CLOVES, CHILI PEPPERS, FLAVORING, SHALLOTS), DRY WHOLE MILK, WHEAT FLOUR, SPICES, GRANULATED ONION, HYDROLYZED PLANT PROTEIN (HYDROLYZED CORN GLUTEN, SOY PROTEIN AND WHEAT GLUTEN, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN AND COTTONSEED OILS), PARMESAN CHEESE (PASTEURIZED PART SKIM MILK, CHEESE CULTURE, SALT, ENZYMES), IMITATION PARMESAN CHEESE (WATER, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL, CASEIN, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, CONTAINS 2%  OR LESS OF SALT, SODIUM ALUMINUM PHOSPHATE, SODIUM CITRATE, LACTIC ACID, SODIUM PHOSPATES, SORBIC ACID [TO PRESERVE FRESHNESS] , PASTEURIZED MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, ENZYMES, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, LIPOLYZED MILK FAT, CALCIUM CASEINATE, NONFAT DRY MILK, ARTIFICIAL COLOR), ENZYME MODIFIED ROMANO CHEESE (ROMANO CHEESE [MADE FROM COW'S MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES, CALCIUM CHLORIDE], WATER DISODIUM PHOSPHATE), CITRIC ACID, BHT.


All of that is in a dollar microwave meal.  I will be a mutant in a few more years :)   Can you say X-Men?  

B.O.P.

Momentous Life-Altering Exchanges

I was an undeclared major entering college.  I was verbal weak and math strong.  I asked a chemistry professor, intending to major in chemistry, if I should proceed because I got a D in calculus I in my freshman year to which he responds saying that I should probably not pursue a chemistry degree.  I took his advice and now I'm definitely not a chemist!  

"Work"  -  making a living and making a life by Joshua Halberstam, Ph.D.

THE FIRE IN THE BELLY:  A PARABLE

A young aspiring violinist manages to get an audition with the great master.  He takes out his violin and plays for an hour.  At the end of the session, the master says to the young man, "I'm sorry, but I suggest you choose some other career.  Your technical skills are fine, but you lack the essential fire in the belly."  Disheartened the young man gives up on becoming a professional musician and instead goes to medical school.  He does well there and goes on to have a prosperous and fulfilling career in medicine.

Our story picks up twenty years later at a party when our successful doctor again meets the great violinist, now old but still vibrant.  He reminds him that they had met many years before when he auditioned for the master.  "I've always meant to ask you.  You suggested that I should not pursue a career as a violinist because I didn't have the fire in the belly.  How did you know?"

"I didn't," the maestro answers.  "I say that every time anyone auditions for me."

"But how could you?"  The doctor is flabbergasted.  "Suppose it wasn't me, but a future Jascha Heifetz or Itzhak Perlman or some new great talent you'd be discouraging?"

"You don't understand," explains the master.  "When they have the fire in their belly, they don't care what I say."



I got hosed!!  You really have to sometimes defy authority to get what you want.  Under certain circumstances "breaking the law" may be a good thing.  All advice and guidance is not good.  Just sayin'.  

B.O.P.

Words & Pictures

Back in the day, I was taking these products to help keep me "going".  These were on the market before 5 Hour Energy, Monster, and Red Bull.  I guess this revelation kind of dates me as to my age.  Oh well, not too old I don't think.

Southern Knights is an off comic that I got out of the 25 cent box at my local comic shop.  One particular reader may appreciate it (not naming names).

Wild mushrooms that I've encountered in my travels.  Yummy???



Vehicles

My cars under water - this has never happened before for the 17 years that I have lived in my apartment complex.  Wow.  Got lucky, they still run thank God.

Saw this event outside my local library.  I didn't know ants ate meat.

A couple of days of trinket trash treasure.

A book I just bought.  Partly into it, it sounds good but I think a better read would be "Eat Or Be Eaten" by Phil Porter.  Mr. Porter's book is more hard-core where as Mr. Wild's book starts out on the process as games & not a deadly war which I think it is.  If you get axed from your job and you have to go a few days without food you will realize this is no joke.  Just sayin'.

BEER IN MY HOUSE!  OH HAPPY DAY!!!

B.O.P.
P.S.  The Philadelphia Soul lost to the Arizona Rattlers in Arenabowl 26.  Damn!  Bye Arena Football - 'til next year.  Hello NFL!  GO EAGLES!!!

Who's Who?

You never know who might have "real" power in a relationship.  A little while back I met a guy who lives in my apartment complex, we'll call Skipper.  Skipper drives an old, distinctive vehicle.  It kind of stands out so you know Skipper when he is riding in his car.  From casual conversation I deduced that Skipper is a simple, clueless, jockish, soul who is just getting by.  Well, one day when I'm leaving a branch of my bank I see Skipper at the counter and there is a very large stack of cash money on top of the counter.  We didn't see each other because I remember this incident before we became acquainted.  His car is just that recognizable.  You kind of notice people in passing in the neighborhood & it sticks to your memory.  Anyway, interacting with Skipper is kind of a chore because he sounds overbearingly positive.  Nothing wrong with being positive but I was a little put back by his dominating conversational style.  We say we are going to the local bar for some beers together some time but I'm just being nice.  He might be just being nice & it might be me who is not trying but...I just don't want to hang out with this guy.  My regular 7-11, down the street, was recently closed so I have to go to the one further down which means I have to make some kind of complex turns & unusual routes to get to and from this 7-11.  On my way home, I make a turn down a side-street coming from the 7-11 & I see Skipper's car parked out front of a house.  You know it when you see it.  A few days later, we talk & he asks me if I'm a cop to which I say no.  He must of seen me drive by his car that day thinking I'm following him.  I take the same route from the 7-11 tonight after getting my lottery ticket at about 9pm and I see his car again.  Same car, different day, not where I think it should be on a Sunday evening.  Clearly, he has something going on that I don't know about.  All I'm saying is he might be the owner of the 13 building apartment complex I live in because a third party management company runs the property.  He may live off campus but comes by to inspect his property daily.  If he is anything like management, then he is a ruthless, uncaring, son-of-a-bitch.  Just saying, you never know who has "the power" in some relationships if the power is lop-sided.  Who's Who?  I would have to do homework to find out but I really don't care to put much effort into a project that isn't going to make me any money so....



Aside:

The Philadelphia Soul beat the Orlando Predators 59-55 to advance to the conference championship.  They will play the Jacksonville Sharks next week.  GO SOUL!!!!!

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Circle

"When you win you tend to party and when you lose you tend to ponder."  - Anthony Robbins

Jesus, I have not partied since the late 1980's.  I've been doing a lot of thinking though.  Does that make me a loser?  Lol, the trend would indicate yes.  For me it has been quiet desperation.  I am not getting any life back.  For now I am just serving - going through the motions until...until what ever & when ever.  

Peace
Just Some Talk
B.O.P.

An Upsell

I was in my bank the other day waiting on line to be called so I could make a small deposit.  The 70-ish teller called me up and we proceed to do the transaction.  She sees my balance then tries to convince me to open a savings account.  I proceed to tell her I have a savings account with another bank to which she says if you change your mind, contact us, here's a brochure.  Old lady thinks I'm loaded with a few hundred bucks.  I wanted to tell her how I'm just breaking even but I let it go.  I wondered what was in it for her to try to push a banking product on me.  I was too young for her and being a teller, she probably doesn't earn commissions so what's up?  Someone please enlighten me.  Thanks.

B.O.P.

Disruption To My Flow

I get paid at the beginning of every month.  I usually hand in my check for rent to the apartment management a few days before the 1st of every month with a post-it-note on the check requesting that my check gets cashed on the last day of the grace period which is the 5th of every month.  Well, I check my account balance over the phone today and I find I'm $35.00 short of my total.  I find out that I was hit with an overdraft charge from my rent check which was cashed early.  I visit management & speak to a rep who says that I can no longer have them hold my checks.  The day you bring in your check is the day it gets cashed.  Hello?  You could of let me know ahead of time.  I was denied a refund.  $35.00 might not be much money to a lot of folk but, dude, I CAN WORK THIRTY-FIVE DOLLARS.  For me that's 2+ months worth of internet access.  That's 5 1/2 months worth of cell phone service.  That's a months worth of gas (economy cars-little daily driving).  Two month's worth of apartment electricity.  You get the idea.  Waste not want not.  I sound like Terry Crew's character on the TV show Everybody Hates Chris.  So what?!  I kind of understood his perceptions.  I tried to speak to the property manager but she steered me to one of her staff members.  Vivian, Ruth, and Meredith are total tools.  No heart.  Just business.  There is karma maybe so watch out ladies.  Take the hit, get up, dust yourself off, shake off the pain, then move on.  Paybacks a bitch.

  


Doo Whopp

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