Massive snow fort holds 20

NEENAH, Wis. (UPI) — A teenager in Neenah, Wis., put his snow fort-building skills to use, constructing an igloo in his parents’ front yard that can hold 20 people.

Dan Meyer, 18, said he used his 10 years of snow construction experience to form snow brought to the yard by city dump trucks into a massive snow fort that reaches above the first story of his parents’ home, the Appleton (Wis.) Post-Crescent reported.

Meyer said it took seven truckloads of snow to sculpt the 8-foot high, 14-foot wide and 34-foot long structure.

“I was just amazed by how much one load was,” Meyer said. “Then I piled it up and called them for more loads.”

Jeff Harding, assistant superintendent of public works for Neenah, said the city occasionally gets requests for truckloads of snow, but this was the first instance he knew about where the snow went toward a construction project.

“We backed up in the front yard and dumped away, just like we would at our dump site,” he said. “It’s really like, ‘My God, what are you doing with all this snow?’”

Would you allow the city to dumb snow in your front lawn so your kids could build a fort? 

Here’s my favorite quote from my 17 year old to a boy (that wouldn’t pay attention to her).  “You’re like a friend I never had.”  lol

I look forward to my day off because I can go through xanga land. 

What do you like doing on your day off?

I like this featured question:
If you had only one week to live, what would you do?

Robot patrols Atlanta neighborhood ATLANTA (UPI) — A downtown Atlanta bar owner has constructed a remote-controlled robot to patrol the neighborhood around his business late at night. Rufus Terrill, proprietor of O’Terrills bar, built the machine out of an old meat smoker, a three-wheeled scooter, an infrared camera, a water cannon and a loudspeaker, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. Terrill said he got the idea for the remote-controlled vigilante after he became fed up with the drug dealers, thieves and vandals that he said frequent his neighborhood. He said he sends his robot to patrol the area surrounding a nearby daycare center, and uses the attached loudspeaker to address loiterers. “I tell them they are trespassing, it’s private property, and they have to leave,” he said. “They throw bottles and cans at it. That’s when I shoot the water cannon. They just scatter like roaches.” He said the water cannon is set to low pressure so as not to cause injury to those in its path. Police spokeswoman Lisa Keyes said the robot has not yet been the subject of any complaints, but she warned that Terrill could be charged with assault if he intentionally sprays someone with the machine’s water cannon.

I’m ready to see Robins!

I’m learning a new computer program at work.  Do you enjoy learning new computer programs?

King of the Jungle?

A lion woke up one morning feeling really rowdy and mean. He went out and cornered a small monkey and roared, “Who is mightiest of all jungle animals?”

The trembling monkey says, “You are, mighty lion!

Later, the lion confronts an ox and fiercely bellows, “Who is the mightiest of all jungle animals?”

The terrified ox stammers, “Oh great lion, you are the mightiest animal in the jungle!”

On a roll now, the lion swaggers up to an elephant and roars, “Who is mightiest of all jungle animals?”

Fast as lightning, the elephant snatches up the lion with his trunk, slams him against a tree half a dozen times leaving the lion feeling like it’d been run over by a safari wagon. The elephant then stomps on the lion till it looks like a corn tortilla and ambles away.

The lion lets out a moan of pain, lifts his head weakly and hollers after the elephant, “Just because you don’t know the answer, you don’t have to get so upset about it!”

Danielle has a “play baby” from High School.  She had to keep it over the weekend.  It must of been programed to cry in the middle of the night & during church.  It was so loud. 

I was planning on going to Sioux Falls today for a meeting.  It’s suppose to start raining, turning to snow. 

What age do you act? 

Man could get 25 years after bank error

NEW YORK (UPI) — A New York man accused of stealing $2.1 million says the incident was the result of a bank’s mistake that he had previously tried to correct.

Benjamin Lovell said he spoke to the manager and other officials at Commerce Bank after he was informed that he had an account worth $5.8 million, and all of the bank employees informed him that no mistake had been made and the money was his to do with as he pleased, the New York Post reported Thursday.

Lovell, who could face 25 years imprisonment if convicted on a charge of first-degree grand larceny, took $2.1 million from the account, investing much of it in stocks that did little but reduce his newfound wealth — only $500,000 of the money was recovered.

The error finally came to light after a second Benjamin Lovell noticed the money missing from his account, the newspaper said. The bank contacted police after the second Lovell brought the error to its attention. Authorities said the bank confused the two men’s Social Security numbers.

A Brooklyn Criminal Court judge ordered the accused Lovell to be held Tuesday in lieu of $3 million bond or $1 million cash bail.

If you were on the jury would you convict this person?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(For the teachers on Xanga)

Find your BirthVerse

This is mine:

Micah 6:8 NIV
…And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.

If you can know the answer to one question.  What would be the question?

 

Behaviorist Solution

Joe has been seeing a psychoanalyst for four years for treatment of the fear that he had monsters under his bed.

It had been years since he had gotten a good night’s sleep. Furthermore, his progress was very poor, and he knew it. So, one day he stops seeing the psychoanalyst and decides to try something different.

A few weeks later, Joe’s former psychoanalyst meets his old client in the supermarket, and is surprised to find him looking well-rested, energetic, and cheerful.

“Doc!” Joe says, “It’s amazing! I’m cured!”

“That’s great news!” the psychoanalyst says. “You seem to be doing much better. How?”

“I went to see another doctor,” Joe says enthusiastically, “and he cured me in just ONE session!”

“One?!” the psychoanalyst asks incredulously.

“Yeah,” continues Joe, “my new doctor is a behaviorist.”

“A behaviorist?” the psychoanalyst asks. “How did he cure you in one session?”

“Oh, easy,” says Joe. “He told me to cut the legs off of my bed.”

I read an interesting statistic this past week.  There are 91 million children in the US.  61 % of those children are in a Mom/Dad family.    To me that’s alarming. 

Economics Exam

Not expecting to do well on the economics exam, Bill was heartened by the first question: In any given year, and to the nearest ton, how much wheat did the United States export?

Smiling confidently, he wrote, “In 1492, none.”

Besides xanga, I have facebook.  I have a MySpace site but I don’t use it much. 
Besides xanga, what other sites do you have? 

What a day yesterday:
Billy Graham released from hospital.
Nancy Reagan released from hospital.
Atlantis travels home so the Navy can shoot a satellite.
McCain gets closer.
Hillary drifts further away.
The People’s Republic of California is trying to pass a law making it manitory that Global Warming is taught in the Public schools. 
The ice froze harder yesterday.

Ungracious Lawyer

A lawyer had successfully handled a difficult law case for a wealthy friend. Following the happy outcome of the case, the friend and client called on the lawyer, expressed his appreciation of his work and handed him a handsome Moroccan leather wallet.

The lawyer looked at the wallet in astonishment and handed it back with a sharp reminder that a wallet could not possible compensate him for his services. “My fee for that work,” acidly snapped the attorney, “is five hundred dollars.”

The client opened the wallet, removed a one-thousand dollar bill, replaced it with a five-hundred dollar bill and handed it back to the lawyer with a smile.