Early Morning Blog

[iambrutus]

stopped at Dunkin this morning and this is exactly what i said:

speaker box: welcome to dunkin donuts can i take your order
me: good morning, can i please have a large black coffee
speaker: will this complete your order
me: yes thank you
speaker: please pull through
me: *driving up to the winodw*
lady: do you need cream or sugar
me: no thank you


didn't i order it black? WTF and these are the people that are going to get a raise?

 

[Taosman]

Maybe the universe was trying to tell you something? :tongue2:

 

[iambrutus]

damn karma

 

[LoKyBuckeye]

 

[Taosman]

Great Morning Buckeyes!
Life is good when you beat scUM and go to the BCS Championship game!
They're engraving Troy's name on the Heisman.
Now, let's scoop up a monster recruiting class!
Special thanks to all who had tickets to The Game.
You made it probably the loudest game in the history of Ohio Stadium!

 

[cincibuck]

I got up at 4:25 AM EST, but in defference to the Miz I didn't get on the computer until now. Guess I've always been an early bird. As a kid I had a newspaper route, the Dayton Journal Herald. The papers arrived from the printer sometime between 4:30 and 5:30. Ed Rupert and I would be there at 4:30 and get into mischief if the papers hadn't arrived. The usual stuff, cherry bomb in the change cage of the pay phone. Smash pumpkins in October, watermelons in August. Ride the Electric bus (our drop off was at the very end of the Waterveliet line) across town and back. Talk the milkman out of some samples.

It was so neat to be the first up in the neighborhood. I especially remember snow days when there would be no tracks but mine, or the spring days when the ground was finally warm enough to go barefoot. How wonderful to feel the scratch of grass and the tingle of dew.

In college I would sometimes get up early and go onto campus and watch the place come alive. My junior and senior years (65 - 67) I worked at WBNS. I was a floor director and morning gopher. I'd get up at 5 to put Bill Zipf and the Farm Report on the air, followed by the sports guy who got stuck doing the Morning Meditation show. He was an asshole's asshole. Never went anywhere too far from his copy of Broadcast where he was constantly looking for another job, analyzing market versus position. 35 and going on his third divorce, he was totally focused on himself. I once gave him the half minute sign only to realize a few seconds later that he still had a minute and change to go. I frantically gave him the "stretch-it-out" sign. As soon as his mike was dead he came after me and gave me a verbal blast one part of which went, "Jesus Christ, I read everything but the label on my coat." Again, it was so neat to be up before the rest of the city. I'd drive my beetle from East Norwich down to 17th, pick up the freeway to what? 635? That ran across northside and then onto Olentangy, then off at the Dublin turnoff and into the WBNS lot.

Then came the army and and being the only one up wasn't so very neat.

When I finally got into teaching I returned to my old habits. I liked being the first teacher in the school, making the coffee, getting my shit together for the day, first one on the duplicator (I love the smell of ditto in the morning, for those of you old enough to remember the purple print on white paper and the unique smell it had.) or the Xerox. In cross country season I often had an early morning run for the varsity. In track season it was a good time to work with my high jumpers and pole vaulters.

Now I'm retired and I still find myself getting up at 6. I volunteer to take the 8 o'clocks at NKU... few things drearier than a college classroom at 8. Most of these kids work 20 to 30 hours a week to pay for school and it's very evident at 8 AM.

OK, enough geezer talk. Have a good day while I go annoy Tibor.

 

[iambrutus]

/climbs on soapbox

why is it that in Ohio where it snows every year, people always forget how to drive in the snow? we have hardly any snow and you've got wrecks everywhere - people its not that hard, slow the fuck down.

/steps down

 

[Taosman]

Wonderful pic of your "Little Buckeye", IAM!
Do you have a OSU cheerleaders outfit for the wife?
Would make a great X-mas present!

 

[iambrutus]

Wonderful pic of your "Little Buckeye", IAM!
Do you have a OSU cheerleaders outfit for the wife?
Would make a great X-mas present!

thanks - its been hanging in her closet since she was born - my mom bought it for her for the ND game last year, but didn't realize that she bought 18M size, Saturday was the first time she got to wear it.

wife doesn't have one, that would be a little too creepy to have her in something like my daughter wears... but the librarian outfit....

 

[Taosman]

Your daughter will out grow the uni pretty fast.

Then you may not have that worry!

 

[Taosman]

Up VERY early today.
Have a cold that's kickin' my ass.
Doin' Zicam and Emergency drink and orange juice.
Lovely!

 

[DaytonBuck]

What's the weather like in New Mexico?

 

[Taosman]

Observed at:Taos, New MexicoElevation:7090 ft / 2161 m

23 ?F / -5 ?C
Clear
Humidity:59%Dew Point:10 ?F / -12 ?C Wind:9 mph / 15 km/h from the North

window.wind_animate['CONDBOXWIND']=new WindRotate("condboxArrowDiv",14,10); Pressure:30.35 in / 1028 hPa Windchill:13 ?F / -10 ?C Visibility:10.0 miles / 16.1 kilometers UV:0 out of 16Clouds:Clear -
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?Taos23 ?F / -5 ?C Clear3:55 AM MST Los Alamos50 ?F / 10 ?C Clear3:50 AM MST Las Vegas40 ?F / 4 ?C Clear3:53 AM MST Santa Fe34 ?F / 1 ?C Clear3:53 AM MST

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November 22, 2006

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Actual Time6:46 AM MST4:50 PM MSTCivil Twilight6:18 AM MST5:17 PM MSTNautical Twilight5:47 AM MST5:49 PM MSTAstronomical Twilight5:16 AM MST6:20 PM MSTMoon8:46 AM MST5:59 PM MSTLength Of Visible Light:10h 58m</B>Length of Day10h 03m
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Taos, NM
23 ?F / -5 ?C
Clear
at 3:55 AM MST

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[DaytonBuck]

I spent a summer working at Los Alamos and the NM weather certainly was much diffrent that I expected

 

[Taosman]

The Atomic City!