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How Curious Are You? and Gotta Love Maxine

written by Thom - August 1st, 2010 at 3:05 pm

Well it’s Monday and guess who is back??? Okay here’s the deal. I did have a lot of things to get done around the house and they are now done. I also spent a lot of time on my computer. As most of you know I have an iPhone, iPad and iMac. There are programs that you can link together and update everything at once and it just takes time to get it all set up. A good example is I can access my iMac directly from my iPhone and iPad. Yes I have full control of my main computer on my mobile devices. It takes time to learn how to do all of this and I’m still not a pro at it but I can do it. Also as most of you know I’m a big TV junkie. I’ve bought a new TIVO and had to get that all set up. Wireless technology is just amazing to me. So with all this going on I had to forgo my blog. Give you all a break from my insanity. But like a bad case of the hives however, I’m back. LOL

I have decided, as any of you that read my post I have since deleted, on some changes. Because our new sign up at work starts August 22nd I’m going to be spending more hours there for the next three months. I will continue to have Friday/Saturday off. Also Football season starts…WOOT!!! And this year I am participating in a Football Fantasy League which requires some of my time. So I cannot possibly carry on the way I was. With all that being said, however, the main point I believe is when blogging becomes a chore rather than fun it’s no good. So I’m going to make this fun for me. So buckle up boys and girls and enjoy the ride. And for those that want to bail…well don’t let the door hit ya in the ass on the way out. More power to ya. OMG!! Power to the People!!!

On to the quiz. This is soooo broken. I’m curious about everything and my eyes are wide open.



You Are Fairly Curious




You tend to get into certain ideas and subjects, and for them, your curiosity knows no limits. In general, you don’t tend to be as curious as you could be though. Open your eyes a little more to the world around you. Try something new every day. There’s so much to learn, see, do, and be curious about in life!

GOTTA LOVE MAXINE

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As always, she is very funny!!

Maxine should run for president. She was right on with this one!

Everyone concentrates on the problems we’re having in this country lately: illegal immigration, hurricane recovery, alligators attacking people in Florida …. Not me. I concentrate on solutions for the problems. It’s a win-win situation.
+ Dig a moat the length of the Mexican border.
+ Send the dirt to New Orleans to raise the level of the levies.
+ Put the Florida alligators in the moat along the Mexican border.

Any other problems you would like for me to solve today? Yes? Think about these:
1. Cows
2. The Constitution
3. The Ten Commandments

COWS

Is it just me, or does anyone else find it amazing that during the mad cow epidemic our government could track a single cow, born in Canada almost three years ago, right to the stall where she slept in the state of Washington? And, they tracked her calves to their stalls. But they are unable to locate 11 million illegal aliens wandering around our country. Maybe we should give each of them a cow.

THE CONSTITUTION

They keep talking about drafting a Constitution for Iraq…Why don’t we just give them ours? It was written by a lot of really smart guys, it has worked for over 200 years, and we’re not using it anymore.

THE 10 COMMANDMENTS

The real reason that we can’t have the Ten Commandments posted in a courthouse is this: You cannot post ‘Thou Shalt Not Steal,’ ‘Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery,’ and ‘Thou Shall Not Lie’ in a building full of lawyers, judges and politicians…It creates a hostile work environment.

PART OF THE PROBLEM

Also, Think about this: If you don’t want to forward this for fear of offending someone–YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM!

Hey, it’s only my opinion.

A Hui Hou

57 Responses to “How Curious Are You? and Gotta Love Maxine”

  1. Congratulations on syncing all your wireless crapola, on continuing with weekends off, and with football nearly here — woohoo!

    I prefer you to hives. Much. I’m glad you’re back.

    • Thanks. It’s good to be back. Crapola? You jest…pffft. You sure about preferring me to hives? LOL. I can cause quite a rash. Ask A LOL :)

  2. Hostile work environment, LMBO!
    You keep the fun in blogging, Thom. I can always count on a smile when I come over here.
    But now I am going on vacation. Please come create a wireless paradise for me in my absence? ;)

    • I know can you stand it when work gets in the way? LOL. Thank you for the wonderful comment. Much appreciated. I hope you have an excellent time. I don’t suspect you will notice much of a change here. :) Believe me. :)

  3. What Susan said,

    It is nice to see you back. Blogdom wasn’t the same with you absent.

    • Thank you Bill. Much appreciated. Well it did carry on and that’s a relief. When I create my world and am King I’m going to shut it all down when I’m gone so everyone can rest LOL :)

  4. Hello again!

    I think each blogger has to do what is right for them. You’re right, if blogging is a chore, it is time to make changes.

    Glad you got all your technology set up.

    I got the same results as you on curiosity. I am totally uncurious about some things but very curious about others.

    • Thank you my friend. Yup I think changes do have to come at some point in time. I tell you Barbara it was a chore getting it where I wanted it but it works just great. I am just like you in the curiosity department :)

  5. How curious am I? Why do you ask?

  6. You’re so techno savey. Ok, so here is what I got out of this post. You are cutting back on blogging because of football, work and fantasy football?

    I don’t know how you do all that you do on your blog. You are like a blogathelet,You are the Bruce Jenner of gold medals and you are going to cut back?

    OK…I will miss you. Come around when you can. Still make us smile with your witt and charm.

    Big Hugs,
    Pam

    • Well thank you my friend. It took some time but I really enjoy it. As I said in an earlier comment I don’t think you will notice much change here. At least I hope. :)

  7. Oh, yes indeed, you are so much better than hives!! Marvelous to see you back and know that you are all “hooked-up”! I have missed you! Hope you have a great week, my friend!! And thanks for the evening giggles!

    xoxoxoxo

    Sylvia

  8. Hi Thom…
    Five weeks till The Maize and Blue Kick off as well.
    Good luck on the 3 month Job Thing. You could burn a couple Flash 55′s ahead of time ya know..
    Have a Kick Ass Week Brother…G

    • Thank you my friend. Trust me, 55 is going to continue weekly and I have plenty ready to go :) WOOT!!! I can’t wait for Football. Go UH

  9. Congratulations on getting all of your devises set up and your new TiVo system up and running. I am mightily impressed. I can’t tell you how much easier it made my life at school when I got my laptop and desktop computers synched up. And so glad that you’re adding in some other activities to your life. When you were posting 4 or 5 entries per day, I could only imagine how much stress that would be. But I was glad that you were having fun. However, it’s nice to have fun outside of the cyber universe too. :)

    As for the quiz being broken, I actually thought that the write up for you was pretty good. After all you did set up your devises to all work together. For me though, the quiz was definitely broken. It had the nerve to say that I am “Incurious”! Bastards! lol Just because I didn’t travel out of the country in the last year. It’s not because I didn’t want to. :D

    Have a wonderful day! Mwah! xxoo

    • Well Larisa I don’t think you are going to see much difference. I’m just gonna do what i want to do. You gotta remember with doing that many posts…most are already scheduled and I hope to keep it like that. Yeah I’m glad I got this all set up as well. A lot of it had to do with my blogs as well getting the sync set up with them. It’s a never ending battle…but a fun one at that. By being broken where I am disagreeing with it is when it says I’m not curious. I’m one of the most curious and nosey people I know. Have a great Monday. MWAH xoxox

  10. Congrats, congrats :) ! Enjoy all your new settings and the Football Fantasy League. Good to see some new posts of you. Thanks for the power and the giggles. I need a lot of it these days ;) . Have a splendid week. xoxoxo

  11. It’s so good to see you sweet thang!! You’ve been missed. I do hope you continue to blog…even if it’s once in a while. You always make my day. Oh….football fantasy. how fun.

    You know, Thom, you rock the blog world!

    You Are Very Curious

    It may be true that curiosity killed the cat, but you’re betting on nine lives.
    You would love to live as many lives as possible, because that way you could see the whole world.

    Your relish new experiences, and novelty is a huge draw for you. You always have your eyes open for the latest thing.
    Why settle for ordinary when you can have extraordinary? You’ll always choose to take a risk!

    How Curious Are You?
    Blogthings: Quizzes and Tests and Memes, Oh My!

    • Well thank you my friend. You wont notice much of a big change here. Maybe a few less posts but that’s about it. So let’s keep on rocking :) Ooo see your results are what I should be :)

  12. Ah ! that’s what you were doing ! Playing with iPhone, iPad iMac and I hope you also put a point on your I !
    Congrats that you learned so well. I am still happy with my Baby PC and the E machine and the most simple mobile phone, lol !
    But to most of my same aged sisters I am a kind of ET !

    • ROFLMAO!!! Your first comment out of the shoot and you’re already killing me. LOL The aged sisters and you being a kind of ET ROFLMAO!!! Too funny. I put a point everywhere LOL :)

  13. Glad you and Maxine are back! Love those solutions to some of our “problems” :0)
    Enjoy being connected wherever you roam!!

  14. Chore vs. Fun the whole point is it has to be fun babe and Foot ball does not take a back seat to Anything! sadly I am the only FB fan in my house so I watch Alone but they don’t know what they are missing. The fantasy thing sounds fun are you actually playin’?
    xoxoxoxoxox

    • Yup I agree with you 100000%. I remember you saying that about Football last year and yup I’m going to play in the Fantasy League. I’m looking forward to it. I’m going to send you an email. If you want to participate with me for my team you are more than welcome sweetie xoxoxox

  15. I am very curious.

    I like Maxine as well, she helps keep everything in perspective.

    I am sorry I missed the deleted post, it must have been interesting!

    • Welcome to the club on both accounts. No those posts didn’t say anything different that what you read here so you didn’t miss anything :)

  16. Great to have you back!

    Apparently I’m “very curious”

    It may be true that curiosity killed the cat, but you’re betting on nine lives.
    You would love to live as many lives as possible, because that way you could see the whole world.

    Your relish new experiences, and novelty is a huge draw for you. You always have your eyes open for the latest thing.
    Why settle for ordinary when you can have extraordinary? You’ll always choose to take a risk!

    What I want to know is why they used a picture of a dog?

  17. So nice to have you back, and finally get rid of these hives! ;)

    I always wondered how you kept up with alllll the stuff you’ve had going on your blog. Paring it down to that which you LOVE is definitely what you need to do. Hope it includes… well, you know… but you have to do what you have to do to keep your sanity! True friends will understand!

    MWAH!

    • Well thanks. Yup if I didn’t have all this connected I would be totally lost. And believe me, you wont notice much of a change here at least I don’t think. Me have sanity? pffft Do any of us keep it ever? ROFLMAO!

  18. welcome back :)
    i so agree with you – blogging is supposed to be fun and when it becomes a chore…

    now, to my favourite topic( ;) )you are quite right, the quiz is broken although i’m not the curiousest (i know…) person in the world… pft

  19. I really love these tests of yours Thom!
    Hi there BTW and aloha!

    *You Are Very Curious
    It may be true that curiosity killed the cat, but you’re betting on nine lives.
    You would love to live as many lives as possible, because that way you could see the whole world.

    Your relish new experiences, and novelty is a huge draw for you. You always have your eyes open for the latest thing.
    Why settle for ordinary when you can have extraordinary? You’ll always choose to take a risk!*

    Now I am going to find out more about my birthdate
    Cheers!

  20. “Give them all a cow.” That cracked me up!

  21. You don’t make me itch near as much as hives, so I’ll keep you. ;) Nice try getting rid of me, though.


    You Are Very Curious


    It may be true that curiosity killed the cat, but you’re betting on nine lives.
    You would love to live as many lives as possible, because that way you could see the whole world.
    You relish new experiences, and novelty is a huge draw for you.
    You always have your eyes open for the latest thing.
    Why settle for ordinary when you can have extraordinary?
    You’ll always choose to take a risk!
  22. Welcome back!! Life should be fun, and while (sigh) we must work to pay for the fun, anything else not fun needs to be changed!!

    ROTFLMAO at the rest of the post!

  23. oh no…fantasy football? LOL! DH used to spend waaaay to much time on fantasy football. it’s amazing how there are so many that are really, really into it though.

    like REALLY into it =)

  24. well, you are one insanity that we all missed. ;) thank god you’re back, thom! i’ve been quite busy myself and haven’t done my usual rounds. i am hoping to find more time though for my new passion- poetry. that’s me dreaming… hehehe!

    who doesn’t love maxine’s wisdom??? but then she nailed it with the 10 commandments.d**n those lawyers!!! LOL!

    welcome back, friend!

    • like you, i am also “fairly curious.”

      i am soooooooooo jealous of your TIVO and iPad!!!

      • I’ve noticed you have been doing a lot more poetry. It is one thing that I’m no good at and don’t find very interesting most times. Happy dreams my friend. Maxine is always the bomb :) I love the iPad and the TIVO…not so sure about. My HD DVR from my cable company did most things it does and was less complicated. But oh well it’s done now. Thanks for the comment :)

  25. That just sounds like way to much work!! LOL I think I would be pulling my hair out tring to sync everything. Now don’t get me wrong I am computer savvy. Just with all the new things coming out I am a little behind. I love Maxine!! I am so ready for football too!

    • Well I’m savvy with it and it still takes time. It’s just making sure every thing is set up correctly. WOOT!!! i can’t wait for football :)

  26. Great post! Glad you were able to get so much done around the house! I saw my first iPad up close today…I think it is too small for me!

    Maxine always cracks me up. But whoever wrote that hit the nail on the head!

    Looking forward to the changes you’ll be making (I think hehehe)

    Delighted you’re back :)


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