Greeks, Custom Trucks, Bird Heads and Beans:

(Something for everyone)

Today’s Quote found by Dobbs Himself:
"Real ability is to respect relative truth without damaging oneself by refusing to realize that it will be superseded. When you observe that today's controversies often reveal not relevance but the clash of the untaught with the wrongly taught, and when you can endure this knowledge without cynicism, as a lover of humankind, greater compensations will be open to you than a sense of your own importance or satisfaction in thinking about the unreliability of others." Idries Shah, A Perfumed Scorpion



No Sleep:
Don’t you hate when you plan something and then find-out the day ahead is shot to shit? Meetings all day. I am on day three of no-sleep, but I think it is time to come clean with the reason. My loving wife snores like a drunken Greek sailor. My best guess is going a week without hearing her charming vocalizations, allowed my internal clock to reset.

Now noises wake me up. I think it will just take a bit of getting use to once again. I for one don’t want to move down into the music room for my slumber, that and I look forward to the cuddle time with my flower.

Hard Hitting News from the Heartland:

Canning exec is ‘eager for answers’
Awaits test results on how bird head landed in woman’s beans
Associated Press EATON, INDIANA –

The manager of an Indiana canning plant said Monday that he did not know how it could have produced a can of pinto beans with a bird’s head inside as claimed by an Illinois woman. Chicago-based La Preferida Inc. announced a voluntary recall Friday of a limited number of its cans as it investigated how the head ended up in the 15-ounce can.
David Morrow, general manager of Eaton-based Meridian Foods, said he was eager for answers about the discovery last week by a DeKalb, Ill., woman who reported buying the can at a grocery store in nearby Aurora, Ill.

“We don’t know anything, and we are waiting on the results of tests,” Morrow told The Star Press of Muncie. “We have procedures in place to prevent these things from happening, and we have reviewed those procedures.” A canning company for 40 years, Meridian has been owned by Clinton, Mich.-based Eden Foods since 1994. Meridian is Eden’s sole canning plant. The 29-employee plant about 10 miles north of Muncie packs about a dozen varieties of cooked-in-the-can beans. The La Preferida beans covered by the recall have the lot number 5348 MF on the can lids. The batch was canned Dec. 14 and is marked by a best-buy date of Dec. 14, 2007, La Preferida said.
(See what happens when you don’t buy Red Gold?)

Army says neck tattoo is not OK
Ambiguous rule means man can’t enlist.

Charles Keller is only 24, but he already has eight tattoos. A cross, his father’s initials and “wacko” — his high-school nickname — are on his arms; most of the rest are in places I didn’t ask to see. To the Army, however, only one of the Wayne High School graduate’s tattoos really matters: the 3-inch red, white and blue flag and eagle he’s sported on the right side of his neck for the past three years. According to regulations, Keller’s patriotic body art may be . . . unmilitary.

“At first, the recruiter said they would try for a waiver that would allow me to enlist,” said Kansas native Keller, whose father, uncle and two cousins have also served in the military. “But then they said there was still a problem, and that maybe I should join the Reserves instead. But I don’t want to join the Reserves. I want to be a Ranger.” Rangers are specially trained to respond quickly by land, sea or air anywhere in the world. Until recently, Army rules were clear. Tattoos deemed “prejudicial to good order and discipline” were prohibited, along with all tattoos on the face, head and neck. Early this year, however, the Army relaxed its regulations, which seems to have only complicated things for Keller and recruiters alike.

“It’s funky,” said Steve Lawson, spokesman for the Army’s recruiting battalion in Indianapolis. “When they first reversed the policy, they said anywhere on the neck was fine. Then they had a female with a tattoo on the front of her neck that went down one-fourth of her body. They didn’t want to make it carte blanche, to detract from the uniform.

With his crew cut and lean 6-foot-3-inch, 185-pound frame, Keller looks eager to serve — and not just because of family tradition. Keller wants military benefits that would allow him to pursue an education and a career offering more possibilities than his most recent job at Wal-Mart. But tattoos are a family tradition, too, with most of his male and female relatives sporting several.

In Other News:

(I have to drop my truck off at the shop by 6:30am. I am getting some bad-ass spinners and a hydraulic-lift kit put in my “King of da’ Bad-Assed Sleds”. You know me…)

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Today’s Bill:
"I come to wive it wealthily in Padua;
If wealthily, then happily in Padua"
--From The Taming of the Shrew (I, ii, 75-76)

Thought for the Day:
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Romania.
Dorothy Parker, Not So Deep as a Well (1937), "Comment"

I remain, your pigmy of introspective analyses and rightfully so:

JQP esq.