340 – T minus 8 hours or so, and counting

Here’s hoping I return to everyone being well and happy….

Packing begins in earnest today. I need to find my bathing suit, which I just remembered isn’t in my bag where it normally is. No big deal on that.. it’s not that I’m too attached to it.

Yesterday noon I took back the alarm clock I bought at Target, so I’m all set there. I’m going to get to bed early tonight, as we need to leave the house at about 4am tomorrow to get to the airport on time. Hopefully, you’ll see a post from me on May 5th. I do have May 4th off (coming home the evening of the 3rd) but my daughter’s having some minor outpatient surgery, and my wife and I want to be there.

Well, on to some funnies for the last time this month:

When You’re Feeling Stupid, Read This

"Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life."
~ Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for federal anti-smoking campaign.

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Question: If you could live forever, would you and why?
Answer: "I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, but we cannot live forever, which is why I would not live forever,"
~ Miss Alabama's Heather Whitestone in the 1994 Miss USA contest, who was later selected as Miss America 1995.

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"Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff."
~ Mariah Carey

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"I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body"
~ Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward.

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"Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country"
~ Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, DC.

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"I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president."
~ Hillary Clinton commenting on the release of subpoenaed documents.

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"That lowdown scoundrel deserves to be kicked to death by a jackass, and I'm just the one to do it."
~ A congressional candidate in Texas.

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"Half this game is ninety percent mental."
~ Philadelphia Phillies manager, Danny Ozark

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"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."
And (yea he gets two)...
"We are ready for an unforeseen event that may or may not occur."

~ Al Gore, former Vice President of the United States (and inventor of teh internet : )

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"I love California . I practically grew up in Phoenix ."
~ Dan Quayle

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"We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?"
~ Lee Iacocca

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"The word "genius" isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein."
~ Joe Theisman, NFL football quarterback & sports analyst.

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"We don't necessarily discriminate. We simply exclude certain types of people"
~ Colonel Gerald Wellman, ROTC Instrutor.

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"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure."
~ Bill Clinton, Former President of the United States

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"Traditionally, most of Australia 's imports come from overseas."
~ Keppel Enderbery

Take care of yourselves till I get back!