Holiday challenges

[Iowa Dave]

I hope everyone is getting through the holidays in good shape. It’s certainly been busy for us. Had to visit the bank the other day for some “end of year” arrangements. While the nice lady was making a couple copies for me, I noticed this little sign. It spoke to me. Sorry my focus wasn’t better. The sign read:

“If you see me talking to myself
Just move along……….

We’re having a team meeting”

Happy bowl games. My oldest daughter has degrees from the University of Utah. My son, Clayton, youngest daughter and son in law from The Ohio State University.
I’ll be away from the shrapnel of the Rose Bowl, I hope.

Happy New Year
Iowa Dave

[cpaharley2008]

You always have something interesting to say, Dave! Stay warm and safe until Osoyoos, then you can relax!

[escape artist]

Hi: Iowa Dave... The only time I need to go to the bank is if I feel "Withdrawal"!!!
As I tell my family... the bank is the only store in town that will chain down a pen that doesn't work!!! Alf
escape artist N.S. of Lake Erie

[Iowa Dave]

Originally Posted by escape artist

Hi: Iowa Dave... The only time I need to go to the bank is if I feel "Withdrawal"!!!
As I tell my family... the bank is the only store in town that will chain down a pen that doesn't work!!! Alf
escape artist N.S. of Lake Erie

The other famous location of “chain down a dead pen” is the US Post Office. The first time I ever saw this I was about 6 years old. I asked my mother why the pen had a chain on it and she told me it was to keep from having them stolen. I could not understand the concept in my innocence. In later years, working in the parks we encountered stolen aluminum bleachers, flag poles, bridge railings, you name it.

I worked in an office where a very nice recreation programmer one time inadvertently pushed some change off of her desk and onto the floor. She knew how much she had. She found it all but a nickel. Later in the day she came back to her desk just in time to see the director spot her nickel, pick it up and put it in his pocket. She was very upset that he would do this. The next day was Friday. We had a lavatory along one wall to wash your hands because we had to count and handle money. She could see the lavatory from her desk chair. As we left the office on Friday afternoon I excused myself to “go back and get something”. I put a nice shiny dime on the corner of the porcelain sink with a dab of superglue under it. By Monday it was fast. That director picked at the dime every time he walked by for a couple weeks. It would not break loose. Then one Monday morning it was gone. He had come in over the weekend to do some work and retrieve the dime with something stronger than a fingernail. I had a birch and pewter Audubon bird call in my desk. I would get it out and twist the pewter cylinder just as he would leave the offices. “Cheap, cheap, cheap” summed it up and always got a laugh.
Iowa Dave

[John in Santa Cruz]

my son, phd in geology, working a 'postdoc' in the UK, is heading to Moscow for a visit. but he's already been to more countries than I can count.

US, mexico, canada, nepal, china, uk, france, spain, corsica, morocco, portugal, kyrgyzstan, italy, croatia, azerbaijan, ....