Ya know it is windy outside when the water in the toilet is moving around when the floor is a concrete slab. The vent tube that goes to the roof gets different amounts of suction.

The idea behind the Character Qualities was to help employees improve their interactions with other people both at work and away. My brother was the one that started the whole thing. Not just in the company, but world wide. He called it Character First!. It had training for businesses, government agencies, and both primary and secondary schools. After about 6 years it started becoming very popular and other companies offering character training popped up.

The idea was to show and promote good character. We only had one employee that spoke out against it. His argument was he learned good character in grade school and didn't like being treated like a kid. I showed my brother a book I made in 1st grade. It was my good citizen book. Each page featured a different character quality I had to print the meaning and draw an illustration. The teacher also had stickers she put on our desks for when we displayed both good and bad character. The stickers were animals that stood for different qualities. Mine was a monkey because talked all the time. My goal was to be as quiet as a deer.

Most people liked it until one fateful day. One of the machinists was a computer freak. He helped almost everyone at work setup the home computers and fix any problems they had. The price was dinner. There was an opening for help desk in the computer department. He applied. He was given three or four character qualities that were the reason why he wasn't hired. He was too abrasive with people. (The real reason was that he weighed over 350lbs.)

People thought that was stupid because he had been so nice and such a help with their home computers. So they decided the character thing was just another excuse management could use to keep them from getting promotions and raises.

The funniest thing was, the guy they ended up hiring really did not get along with people at all. When he would come in to work on your computer his attitude was that you were stupid and he griped and complained the whole time. After the first time he worked on one of the computers in my department for just about an hour, he was such a grump the guys in my department nick named him "Smiley".

Pearl Harbour this morning, followed by golf on the north shore in the arvo. Time travel tomorrow morning.

Know a guy that did piloted airplane tours of the islands. He is top tier iPhone support at Apple now.

He was best man at another friend's wedding. The bride has refused to talk to him or allow him in her house. He hit on her 16 yo cousin at the wedding. It was an honest mistake, she looked and acted like she was at least 25 and was a major flirt.

Lol, perfectly honest mistake looking at the jail bait wandering Waikiki this week :eek:

Mostly got the hang of this driving on the wrong side thing. Just got to stop turning on the wipers instead of the indicators :D

Don't they use left hand drive cars and the right side of the road in Hawaii?

Noticed most of the World Rally cars are left hand drive. Guess they really don't use lanes as much as the entire road though.

Good Morning all.

Today is our 25th anniversary of wedded bliss. Hard to believe. It seems like just a coupe of years ago. The good news is the Macan took care of any anniversary present. Well I did get her a card and a bag of chocolate-mint Dove chocolates after all I ain't stupid.

We met 26 years ago and hit it off right away. I proposed 6 months later and we decided the date would be in early March to make it a full year before we married. I liked 3-14 because it was pi day and easy to remember.

Well, Happy Anniversary to you and the Mrs.!

Morning all. Happy 25th!!! You still have some catching up to do I will have 3 years on you by June.

Happy Hitching Day!

Been having a heck of a morning dealing with people in the IT department that don't know what they are doing. They are just following the steps they were given when they started working here. What is it about an AS400 that makes it so mystical? It's just a computer.

Happy anniversary Glen. Happy Pi Day, y'all.

We had our first date at the same restaurant where we met Jim and his lovely wife when they came through the city. We will be going back tonight of course. Shrimp Pearl for my meal. It is enough food to have leftovers tomorrow as well. Yum. :D

The restaurant we got engaged in closed up shop sometime between our 5th and 10th anniversary. We didn't know and showed up to an empty building on our 10th. At least yours is still around! Happy hitching day!

Richard, we are upgrading our switches to go with the new wireless infrastructure. While waiting for the 10GB GBICs to arrive the IT tech decided to hang the switches that are programmed in the place where they will be going. While doing that he decided to "arrange" the wires to neaten things up. Well he dropped one of the arrays in the shared port and killed the fiber connection and didn't tell anyone.

Then he was going to just daisy chain the switches so all we had to do was drop the GBIC in and remove the patch cable from the old switch. I was glad I caught him since all the switches were programmed with a generic startup-config with the same IP address. He does not think things through.

Our Network Admin doesn't know anything about managing our switches, wifi, or firewall. He calls in a consultant for anything. Seems to mostly just doing help desk.

failed his way to the top. you know what floats.....

A duck?

well they do to but they also put more $#@! in the water.

Ah. I thought the network admin was made of wood, therefore a witch!