Weekend

This past weekend was full of interesting happenings. Saturday my oldest and I took a visit to the a local PA DMV office. She was attempting to become a licensed driver. I was impressed that the PA DMV had improved things so we didn't have to stand in a long line and wait for hours. All we had to do was go online and schedule a time and show up at that time and take the test. They were prompt and on time, so we had practically no wait. She has had a learner's permit for quite some time, but has been very nervous about taking the test. Her mother helped her to get a new car (2005 Chevy Cavalier) and this put a little pressure on her to finally get her license. She was still hesitant because she was worried over parallel parking. I picked her up from work a few times before her test, and showed her how to park, and get close enough to the curb. When I took my driver's test, many, many years ago, I had to take it twice, and we didn't have to do parallel parking. However, she became a licensed driver on her very first attempt. I am extremely proud of her. My son went to Penn State College for FBLA (Future Business Leaders of America) leadership training conference. He came back tired yet a little more wise. He is quickly becoming a man, and has already laid out a plan over the next year for getting his driver's license as soon as he can after he turns 16. I also took my two youngest to get costumes for Halloween at the Spirit Halloween store in the mall. So after an hour in the store, a few tears because the perfect costume was too small, or too expensive, or the wrong color, a run back to the car to get a wallet, and an empting of that wallet, costumes were bagged and taken home. They will be a fairy princess and a wench tricking and treating around town this year. Well the weekend is over, and it's time to relax... at work.

Package in car?

Well, I am guilty... Full of guilt for not posting anything here since April. Well actually I am not feeling really guilty. If someone was actually reading this, and expecting there to be something here THEN I would feel guilty! I am sitting in CiCi's Pizza in Cranberry Twp., PA writing this entry to the ramblings. I am wishing I had something exciting and witty to write, but alas, I am wit-less... So why are you still reading? I just watched the most boring news cast of my life. There was a bomb scare in Washington, DC and they were showing live video of the car where the bomb was supposed to be... Waiting... Waiting for something to happen... Watching the waiting with nothing happening was just about as exciting as brushing my teeth in the morning, without the plaque... Well it was successfully "disrupted", thankfully... It was so boring that I looked away at the wrong time and missed the "disruption" which was a small explosion that popped the door off the car... When I looked back the car looked the same except that a blanket was over the car now... I didn't realize I had missed anything... I suppose the whole thing would have been more interesting with sound... Anyway, why the TV thought it would be exciting to show an unmoving car sitting there doing nothing for almost my entire lunch hour, is beyond me. Why not just tell us it was a probably a bomb, show us something else until something "interesting" happens with the bomb... BTW: "Interesting" when talking about a bomb is defined as "bomb explodes" or "bomb is successfully disarmed, but the technician grew a few new gray hairs". Then show us the highlights over and over again... Until we have the images burned into the retina's of our eyes... Well it's over... Glad it came out ok, meaning no one hurt. I haven't heard yet whether the suspicious package was actually a bomb yet... For all I know it might have just been someone's dirty laundry left in the car too long and starting to develop its own self-awareness. Now that would have been news! While the package in the car was being taken care of the scroll on the bottom of the screen described a story about a parking ticket placed on a car with a dead guy inside... (Yeah that was more exciting than watching the car just sit there...) Apparently the guy wasn't discovered to be dead until 2 days after the ticket was placed on the car, and the guy had been missing for 9 days. You think there would have been some distinctive clues that the guy was dead... You know like not breathing, and fogging up the windows! :-) Or that he hadn't moved in almost a week. Maybe they just thought he was a pile of dirty laundry. Well it's time to go back to work. I better put a reminder in my PDA to clean out my car when I get home from work tonight. Later Lou