Quote Of The Day

Yesterday's Answer: Gerald Ford


Today's Quote:

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."

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Quote Of The Day

Yesterday's Answer: Henry Ford

Today's Quote:

Today's quote comes to us from my cousin Curtis in Iowa.

“A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything that you have.”

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Quote Of The Day

Yesterday's Answer: Xenocrates

Today's Quote:

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."

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Quote Of The Day

Yesterday's Answer: Will Durant

Today's Quote:

"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence."

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A Printer Obituary

It has been a very long week at work. There is no immediate end in site. Tomorrow is Friday, but for my co-workers and I, it is day five in a 12 day run, all of which will be over eight hours to varying degrees. So what happens when people are tired of being at work, and feeling very stressed, and they know that they have to keep going for another seven days? Now what do those same people, in that same situation do when a form printer dies? Well, if you work with the people I do, this is what.

The printer died when I was at lunch. I returned from lunch and checked my email as I always so. Most of it was the standard run of the mill email I get all day long. There was an over abundance it seemed, but some days are just like that. Then I spotted this email for our office manager:

Subject: Death in our Family
Importance: High

Yes that's right. Today our dearest friend #3 choked to death
while trying to deliver "J" a [redacted company name] bill of lading. She was born in the early 1990's during the implementation of the old warehouse management system. She was dedicated to making our staff a success and will be missed by all. #3 is survived by two sisters, #2 and #4.

She is now laid to rest in our server room.

Donations to the Food Bank of Nevada are preferred in lieu of flowers.

All kidding aside-it did choke, but we switched out the network cable and you can still request bills of lading to print to #3.

Yes, an obituary for a printer, sent out to all the office and management staff. It was a serious tension breaker, and great to laugh. I think we all laughed at this one, and I am pretty sure we all needed the laugh. It didn't end there though, but these emails rarely do. Several replies followed:

May she rest in pieces...

Then...

Please advise the time of the viewing, we would like to pay our last respects...

And...

My deepest respect and sympathy go out to all of the family.

Next...

Has anyone ever seen Office Space? I may have a baseball bat in my car... I'm just saying.

And...

Hold off on that. "I" thinks we need to find out if it is a organ donor first. :P

Finally...

I got dibs on the brain! :)

Most people call it getting a bit "punchy", some say "giggly", others have even said "sober drunkenness". We just call it therapy.

Quote Of The Day

Yesterday's Answer: Jimi Hendrix

Today's Quote:

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."

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Wednesday's Hero

Sgt. 1st Class Donald Johnson


Sgt. 1st Class Donald Johnson, the electronic warfare officer of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, Multi-National Division-Baghdad, talks with local Iraqi kids while on a patrol.

Photo courtesy of United States Army
Taken by Pfc. Evan Loyd

These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.
We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived

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Quote Of The Day

Yesterday's Answer: Isaac Asimov

Today's Quote:

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."

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Quote Of The Day

Yesterday's Answer: Frank Zappa

Today's Quote:

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."

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Quote Of The Day

Yesterday's Answer: Elbert Hubbard

Today's Quote:

"There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life."

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Quote Of The Day

Yesterday's Answer: Frederick (II) the Great

Today's Quote:

"Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street."

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Quote Of The Day

Yesterday's Answer: Aldous Huxley

Today's Quote:

"I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right."

Hint (OK, not really. Just a commentary.): This may sound like our current President, but it is not.

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Quote Of The Day

Yesterday's Answer: Albert Einstein

Today's Quote:

"Maybe this world is another planet's Hell."

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Quote Of The Day

Yesterday's Answer: Dwight D. Eisenhower

Today's Quote:

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."

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Wednesday's Hero

Pfc. Tavonte Johnson


Pfc. Tavonte Johnson, a field radio operator with Headquarters Company, 7th Marine Regiment, provides security after a simulated attack by a suicide bomber on Aug. 8, as part of 7th Marine Regiment’s pre-deployment training exercise.

Photo courtesy of United States Marine Corps

These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.
We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived

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