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Parents – You know, my parents celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary a few Saturdays ago and I didn’t even mention anything about it. That’s quite an accomplishment. The weather held out (meaning it wasn’t overly hot) but I’m finding that I got bit all to hell by the bugs. My legs are tore up from the floor up.

Date – Yea, I had a date on Saturday but it was so un-interesting I didn’t even lead off with it. She had really pretty eyes but that’s all I can say that was positive. Everything else was neutral.

I don’t know that I have much else to discuss. I was thinking this was going to be longer but nothing much is happening.

Workdays are going by faster because there’s SO much going on and a lot of people are out. One of the women in Accounting just left so it leaves them short-handed. To catch up it is estimated they need about 12 people in that department. Currently there are 2.

The woman that reports to me is out on vacation for another week so I continue to do her job. I should have had at least 6 months of training before attempting it but I had a scant week-and-a-half before she left and some of the cracks are showing. The people in shipping had to do some work ‘manually’ because of a mistake I made but the supervisor was really cool about it and said he understood why it happened. If that’s my only mistake (which it IS so far – that I know about) then I’ll be very happy.


This man is driving down a farm road following a truck loaded with all kinds of farm animals. The truck hits a bump and a pig comes flying off the truck and lands by the side of the road.

The man pulls over and finds the pig in good health. He puts the pig in the car and quickly drives away to catch the farmer who lost the pig.

He gets just a mile up the road and a cop pulls him over for speeding.

“What are you doing driving around with a pig?” the policeman asks.

“Well” says the man “I was following this farmer’s truck when the pig came flying off. You stopped me before I could catch up to the farmer”. So the policeman lets him drive off with a warning but the man doesn’t catch the farmer.

The next day the man is driving on the same road hoping to find the farmer and return the pig when he comes across the same policeman.

“Hey” says the cop “didn’t I see you yesterday with this same pig”.

“Yes,” says the man “I never found the farmer”.

“You can’t keep driving around with a pig,” replies the lawman.

“What do you want me to do?” says the man.

“Why don’t you take the pig to the zoo, or something” suggests the cop.

“Okay” says the man, and he drives off.

The next day the same man is driving down the same road with the same pig, but now the pig is wearing a straw hat and some sunglasses. He then gets pulled over by the same cop.

“Alright” says the cop “what’s going on? Didn’t I tell you to take this pig to the zoo?”

The man says, “I did. We had such a good time I’m taking him to the beach”.

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