Word of the Day

Intaxication - Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.

Well, we finally pin-pointed our departure date from The Lake. We're going to be leaving on October 15th. It'll take us three nights of hotel stays before we'll be back in Arizona. HTP will start his hotel search in the coming days. Right now our plan is to pull the dock and the boat next weekend. I'm going to have to start putting my garden to bed in the next two weeks which means that I'd better dig out my recipe for green tomato pickles.

Murphyism of the Day

The Recommended Practices Committee of the International Society of Philosophical Engineers' Universal Laws for Naive Engineers - Part IV

1. Service Conditions as given on specifications will be exceeded.

2. If more than one person is responsible for a miscalculation, no one will be at fault.

3. Identical units that test in an identical fashion will not behave in an identical fashion in the field.

4. If, in engineering practice, a safety factor is set through service experience at an ultimate value, an ingenious idiot will promptly calculate a method to exceed said safety factor.

5. Warranty and guarantee clauses are voided by payment of the invoice.