Top Down Training – The way to go

May 8th, 2012 No comments »

I have been doing IT since 1996, and one thing I have learned is that the expert syndrome is easy to unknowingly catch and drives the non exports crazy, but there is a better way. Have you ever heard an end user saying “IT has no communications skills”, or “They speak a different language”. Well they are most of the time right. That is called the expert syndrome, and is a serious disorder which left untreated will force most IT professionals into the basement next to Milton and his red streamline stapler. And nobody wants that. So what is the Export Syndrome and how can you be healed?

 

The Export Syndrome is the result of knowing a lot about something, forgetting what is was like when you learned it for the first time, and because it is simple to you, you forget how to speak simple. Instead, when you speak the end user hears “dot dot, ping ping”.  Picture having someone tell you how to speak a foreign language, all of it, in one day and being surprised how you didn’t grasp it. The foreign language, what you hear, is the dot dot ping ping they hear. 

 

There was a study at Verizon wireless which showed that the exports consistently under estimated how long it would take for new users to setup a new phone. To the exports it was easy and where surprised the new users had issue. Of course this is after the exports had done setups hundreds of times and where no longer reading the dialog boxes but instead just wanting for the next screen to pop up. So how do you dumb down something without being insulting, losing the message, or just flat failing to teach? Top Down my friends, Top Down training.

 

Top Down Training is the peel the onion technique, or also known as the essay approach. You first summarize what you are teaching, Then Re summarize, but each time adding a little more details to the same thing you just covered. After a while the listeners become exports them self’s at the top layers, and slowly (but faster than any other method) become exports at all layers. The only person it is hard on is the teacher, because teaching this way becomes really mundane, but I have found no other method works better. People leave exports, and lessons stay in the long term memory because they have heard the same message over and over. One of the biggest things achieved with this technique is the details have a relational place to be filed in the brain due to having digested the basics (summary). 

 

Hopefully this will help you in both learning and teaching. Think Peel the onion, if you peel to much off to fast people around you cry. But if you go layer by layer, the experience is much better and not so overwhelming.

 

 

 

Example: How to drive a car

Below I have a very understood concept broken down to show how you peel the onion back. If you where to start at a level of “contact insurance company and acquire insurance”, sure if you have done this before, no big deal, but for the first timer, that is too much information when they are just trying to get the concepts down. No translate this to something more complicated.

 

Phase 1

1.     Get a car

2.     Start a car

3.     Drive car

4.     Turn car off

 

Phase 2

1.     Get a car

a.     Go to dealer ship

b.    Buy car

2.     Start a car

a.     Get keys

b.    Turn Key

3.     Drive Car

a.     Put car in Gear

b.    Push gas pedal down

4.     Turn Car Off

a.     Stop Car

b.    Turn Key off

 

Phase 3

1.     Get a car

a.     Go to dealer ship

b.    Find a auto authorized dealer

c.     Communicate your price point and desired car

d.    Complete financial documents and proof of owner ship

e.     Contact insurance company, acquire coverage

2.     Start a car

a.     Insert Auto Key in ignition. If hybrid have key inside of car

b.    Turn Key, if hybrid, push ignition button

c.     …..

 

 

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Life Skills – My daughters discussion on eating, funny stuff

April 10th, 2012 No comments »
So, my life skills class has a pretty good question. "Do you tend to eat more when you are in a social environment like going out to dinner or attending a party?" This is a good question because it go me thinking about not only if I do, but to question why I do or do not. I eat a lot more when going out to eat with my mom and dad, but at parties I hardly eat at all.
So I thought, why? At parties I am there to be with people, my friends. That is the purpose, that is what I am supposed to do, not eat. But going out to eat, well, we are their to eat. I am no more hungry at one versus the other, but based on purpose, I do. So change your purpose and change your outcome. Right?
During Christmas and Thanksgiving, we normally eat a lot. It is tradition that my Grandmother does nothing but ask if you have enough to eat, "do you want more", "make sure you eat everything but I have no room in the refrigerator"
I know that in Germany they have beer feast. That is when they eat and drink all the time during the holiday. Its in October. I would bet everyone gets fat then.

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AN ALTERNATIVE WAY to cure or stop cancer from occuring

February 24th, 2012 No comments »

From: Dr. Jeff Johns Hopkins Update

AFTER YEARS OF TELLING PEOPLE CHEMOTHERAPY IS THE ONLY WAY TO TRY ('TRY', BEING THE KEY WORD) TO ELIMINATE CANCER, JOHNS HOPKINS IS FINALLY STARTING TO TELL YOU THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY.

Cancer Update from Johns Hopkins:

1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion. When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size.

2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person's lifetime.

3. When the person's immune system is strong the cancer cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumors.

4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic, but also to environmental, food and lifestyle factors.

5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet to eat more adequately and healthy, 4-5 times/day   and by including supplements will strengthen the immune system.

6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone marrow, gastrointestinal tract etc, and can cause organ damage, like liver, kidneys, heart, lungs etc.

7.. Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.

8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often reduce tumor size. However prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do not result in more tumor

 destruction.

9. When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy and radiation the immune system is either compromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumb to various kinds of infections and complications.

10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to   mutate and become resistant and difficult to destroy.   Surgery can also cause cancer cells to spread to other
   sites.

11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer   cells by not feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply.

*CANCER CELLS FEED ON:

a. Sugar substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc are made with Aspartame and it is harmful. A better natural substitute  would be Manuka honey or molasses, but only in very small  amounts. Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in color Better alternative is Bragg's aminos or sea salt.

b. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting off milk and substituting with unsweetened soy milk cancer cells are being starved.

c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little other meat,  like chicken. Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people with cancer.

d. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body into an alkaline environment. About 20% can be from cooked food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to cellular levels within 15 minutes to nourish and enhance growth of healthy cells. To obtain live enzymes for building healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most vegetables including bean sprouts) and eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C)..

e. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high caffeine Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer fighting properties. Water-best to drink purified water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap water. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.

12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the   intestines becomes putrefied and leads to more toxic   buildup.

13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By refraining from or eating less meat it frees more enzymes to attack the protein walls of cancer cells and allows the body's killer cells to destroy the cancer cells.

14. Some supplements build up the immune system   (IP6, Flor-ssence, Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals,   EFAs etc.) to enable the bodies own killer cells to destroy   cancer cells.. Other supplements like vitamin E are known   to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body's   normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or   unneeded cells.

15. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit.   A proactive and positive spirit will help the cancer warrior  be a survivor. Anger, un-forgiveness and bitterness put  the body into a stressful and acidic environment. Learn to  have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy  life.

16. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated   environment. Exercising daily, and deep breathing help to   get more oxygen down to the cellular level. Oxygen   therapy is another means employed to destroy cancer   cells.

1. No plastic containers in micro.

2. No water bottles in freezer.

3. No plastic wrap in microwave..

Johns Hopkins has recently sent this out in its newsletters. This information is being circulated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center as well. Dioxin chemicals cause cancer, especially breast cancer. Dioxins are highly poisonous to the cells of our bodies. Don't freeze your plastic bottles with water in them as this releases dioxins from the plastic. Recently, Dr Edward Fujimoto, Wellness Program Manager at Castle Hospital , was on a TV program to explain this health hazard. He talked about dioxins and how bad they are for us. He said that we should not be heating our food in the microwave using plastic containers. This especially applies to foods that contain fat. He said that the combination of fat, high heat, and plastics releases dioxin into the food and ultimately into the cells of the body. Instead, he recommends using glass, such as Corning Ware, Pyrex or ceramic containers for heating food. You get the same results, only without the dioxin. So such things as TV dinners, instant ramen and soups, etc., should be removed from the container and heated in something else. Paper isn't bad but you don't know what is in the paper. It's just safer to use tempered glass, Corning Ware, etc. He reminded us that a while ago some of the fast food restaurants moved away from the foam containers to paper The dioxin problem is one of the reasons.

Please share this with your whole email list…………………….


Also, he pointed out that plastic wrap, such as Saran, is just as dangerous when placed over foods to be cooked in the microwave. As the food is nuked, the high heat causes poisonous toxins to actually melt out of the plastic wrap and drip into the food. Cover food with a paper towel instead.

This is an article that should be sent to anyone important in your life. 

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Cats an hibiscus demystified

January 2nd, 2012 No comments »

Recently I posted a post on Facebook saying "Bruce company, a local landscaping company, recommended I spray my hibiscus with 50/50 alcohol/water to keep the spider mites away. My cat absolutely loves it, official cat nip is dead." and immediately after that a friend of mine posted a reply saying both are deadly to cats. Obviously I was concerned, and did what any pet owner would do, validate and correct any actions that might not have been correct. So I went on the internet and quickly found everyone had an opinion from "No, hibiscus are not deadly to cats" to "Yes they are deadly" and everything in between.

In my research, I tried for find some sort of official release. The closest I could find was something by the ASPCA  , International Journal of Animal Sciences and Veterinary Advances and a cat veterinarian which I will summarize as hibiscus can cause the cat to get an upset stomach, and throw up. If that happens to much they will become malnourished. Certain parts of the plant are more toxic than others. So it is like a human drinking to much. can make us feel weird, can make us sick if done to much or drink the potent stuff, affects some more than others, sooner or later we learn or die. But will cats learn or die? It appears most learn, some don't, some it doesn't even matter, but to be save ASPCA says they are toxic. Which they are if eaten enough (especially the seeds of the flower) and depending on the cat. Some cats it can be part of their diet, some will make them vomit immediately after eating. The baby cats, size matters, so what did not hurt a large cat might put a baby cat under ground.
We need to be careful about putting information on the internet, one post which is very scientific looking called "Plants for a future" claims there are none known hazards, While another less official looking one, but more appearance of an informed opinion, stated from allexperts.com "No hibiscus are not poisonous to cats or anything else."  There are many opinions, just do a Google search. But the dangers of someone for example a plant lover, looking for an answer they hoped to see might stop as soon as they are satisfied, and might lose a dog or cat in the process. Make sure you seek truth regardless of what you want.
The extreme science end of it tells us that the seeds from the flower are what is very toxic. The leaves not so much, the flower in between. You can read more from the study by International  Journal of Animal Sciences and Veterinary Advances 2(1): 5-8, 2010. Very interesting article, but not for the faint of heart or extreme cat lovers, definitely not for PETA fans, but the study was very useful and will probably save many animal and possible human lives. 
Cats, Ways to keep your Hibiscus in the house with cats and dogs, keeping both safe were hard to find. At least the good suggestions. For cats, one of the best ones I found actually came from Facebook from a couple friends. First one was a joke but turned out to be very good. Put tooth picks in the dirt of the pot. My cat, it took one time. The cat since has never tried climbing the hibiscus plant to eat another leave. Much like have a spritzer, but you don't have to wait there and perform some long training ritual. Cats are smart, and figure things out quickly. The second one works for dogs and cats; wrapping the plant with clear plastic wrap like saran wrap allows light in but keeps the dogs and cats away be creating a barrier between the animal and plant. 
Dogs, especially taller ones, they can just reach by standing up the tree leaves. You will find all sorts of idea's and opinions on whether or not Hibiscus are poisonous.  The best article I found about dogs and Hibiscus was ehow.com  which for the most part is a really great resource.  Here the best solution I found was actually listed in the above paragraph which was wrapping the plant with saran wrap. The sides only, not the top. The plant needs to breath. If you find the plant breaking through the saran wrap, try something a little thicker like shipping wrap. You normally can get some pretty wide stuff at office depot or fedex/kinko stores.
I hope this article was helpful, please leave some comments with the goal of confirming something worked, or providing new or better ideas. Thanks

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Math Lessons Learned

December 29th, 2011 No comments »

Question:Why would you -.6 *t and not .6*-t.
Answer: Because it is the same answer.

Questions: why is .04-.6 but .04t is multiplication. How would you do .04*-t? would it be .04(-t), or would it be .04-t.. It seems math is like the English language in that there is no strong logic in the consistency other than it is status-quo.

Answer: It is status-quo, an may not follow logic other than that. If a minus sign is between two numbers, the problem is subtraction, if the second number is a positive number, and no plus sign exists, the problem is factoring. It would make more sense to always have parenthesis, or always a multiplicative sign. The grouping of numbers next to each other is a form of a slang shorthand that you get to know as a status-quo just like the English language.


 

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AT&T MicroCell Untangled

December 16th, 2011 No comments »

by Jay D. Walker

The ATT Microcell is a device that allows your ATT mobile phone to have talk/text signal in places that normally have 3 bars or less signal. Works great for example if you live in a low spot geographically and you are in your basement and have no signal. Or live in the middle of no where and there just is not any service where you are. As long as you have an internet connection and the sky is visible where that internet connection can visit and a few other stipulations are met, you will be able to have cell signal. Sprint and Verizon have a similar device but for now this article is on the MicroCell.

Couple things to keep in mind that can put the breaks on are the following

  1. If you have an action tech all in one modem, you HAVE to get another router behind the MicroCell as MicroCells do not work directly connected to ActionTech DSL Modem Routers. So get a Cisco or DLink router, put it behind the ActionTech and turn off all firewall settings on your second router. Also make sure that the DNS forward is turned off on your secondary Cisco/Dlink router.
  2. If your Microcell does not have a clear path to the sky, when the MicroCell trys to activate it will fail GPS authentication. For 911 service in the US, the MicroCell will actually cross check what the GPS of the MicroCell says compared to the address you typed in when activating online
  3. Make sure your DNS server used on your internet modem are the ATT DNS servers.

  1. 68.94.156.1

     

  1. 68.94.157.1

     

  1. When Activating, if you 3G (Bottom light which looks like bars on a phone) blinks green over and over for over 30 minutes, contact ATT support at 1-800-331-0500, Press Option 2, enter you your Mobile phone registered to the MicroCell, Press option 7, then option 1. This is for small business so might be different for residentail or enterprise.

     

  1. If your download speed is at least 6MB down and 1MB up, speed is not an issue.

     

  1. To physically plug in devices so things have a chance to sync up correctly doe the following

     

  1. UnPlug all devices

     

  1. Plug in Modem

     

  1. Plug in Router

     

  1. Plug in MicroCell

     

  1. Wait 30 minutes for 3G lite to turn solid green

     

  1. If the 3G light goes red, call support, if it blinks green for more than 30 minutes call support. The support recording will tell you to wait at least 90 minutes, but if it has not synced up in 30 there is no way it will sync up with out a chance to probably your own network. You may have to try Priority Mode setup. See below

     

There are two modes for the MicroCells to be in. Standard or Priority Mode

  1. Modem >> Router >> Microcel – used for normal setup.
  2. Modem >> MicroCell >> Router – Priority Mode – If your green light blinks forever and ATT support reported that the microcell had a

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Want to be a ToughMudder?

November 27th, 2011 No comments »

I was already cold enough, soak and wet, running outside on a 50 degree F day in 10-20 mile per hour winds. There it was, the next challenge; It was a 30 foot long bath tub about filled with about 4 feet of water. The goal is to climb up about 6 foot ramp, jump in, swim under water through a couple passage ways and get out. The only catch was you were already sore, freezing cold and the tub of water was full of 33 degree water full of ice cubes. If you ever swam in ice before you know what this is like. The second your entire body is in it instantly restricts squeezing what you thought was life right out of you as if you were out of air, you try and take a breath and it just doesn’t work at first. All better? good, now its time to get your hair wet and swim underwater through the passage ways, yes through the ice cubes and water. Then get out and start running. It was great! the best ever. It was one of 24 challenges in a 10 mile running event called the ToughMudder. Don’t worry there is fire later on to warm you up.

Depending on who you are, “ToughMudder” could mean many different things. It could be lang for truck, really strong brick layer, or maybe drunken Irish fighter. The point is you either are well aware of what it is or it is a foreign. If you are not aware of the event and under the age of dead, and have at least arms or legs, and have friends, and want to feel alive, you need to read on. I say at least arms OR legs because some have completed this event with prosthetic legs and two biological arms. I witnessed a 65 year old women complete the challenge, a farmer in overalls and work boots, even a guy with a full size blow up doll. The point is you can do it regardless of how difficult it appears or challenges you personally have. Of coarse there are some challenges in the event you should not do depending on your health, like the electric shock therapy challenge which is a 30 foot obstacle with hundreds of 8 foot dangling 10,000 volt wires you run through. Yes if you have a bad heart you skip this one.

So you might be asking, why after hearing these stories would someone want to pay to go to an event that during college this would be a hazing incident or initiation to a frat, or maybe even a lost bet? Two words, Orange headband. Once you cross the finish line you receive a orange head band which represents completing the challenge. Completing the challenge may mean that if it is possible you can do it. For some completion confirms your will to live, as it did for me at my second ToughMudder. The challenge was called “Walk the Plank” and was a 20 foot plank that drops into the freezing cold water about 20 feet deep. My body froze up when I hit the water, I couldn’t breath, and had to swim about 40 yards to shore. For a second I though I was not going to make it seems how I could not breath, my were heavy, I seemed to have forgotten how to swim and was slowly sinking. I kept moving my arms and told my self to straighten my legs focusing them to move like have seen in swim meets and aqua-man episodes as a kid, I could only imitate as the muscle memory seemed to have disappeared. Once I did that I moved to the shore just fine, but if forced me to stay calm, think through a situation that could kill a person, and prevail. I am sure I wasn’t in any real danger, but the mind can be very powerful to your self. After I got out I ran my but off and after about a half mile my body stopped shaking and started to warm up. That was my will to live moment, I smiled as at that point I knew I could take on much more. I loved that moment looking back at it and will never regret it.
After my first ToughMudder me and a group of new friends I met were hanging out drinking some beer, joking around reliving the days events and a guy came over and struck up a conversation with us. He asked us how we liked the coarse and commented on how he did a lot of the digging of the trenches and such. He then proceeded to ask us if we have Crocs (the shoe).

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We thought that was odd but answered his question with a no. He then asked us if we wanted some, for free. Who was I to turn away a gift, besides I didn’t have Crocs or ever owned them. Of coarse we had to ask, why offer free shoes? he explained how he was a big part of the company from founding to IPO, now retired has his own plane, flies to ToughMudder events to dig up challenges and have fun. OK, I though that explains everything. In the next 5 minutes we had about 20 people ask if they could have some too. He hopped in his jeep, drove off, came back with a box full of about 30 pair of shoes. 5 minutes after that the beer vendors started poring endless line of beers as they were closing up for the day and had to empty the kegs. Free shoes and free beer, plus we were all just electrocuted a couple hours prior, life does not get any better than that.
So if you want to force you self to exercise, remind your self that your alive, meet great new people, and possibly get some free shoes and beer, do wait another minute. Go to ToughMudder.com and sign up for the next closest even near you. If you feel you are not ready physically to do your best, there are tons of other short mud runs which are great training ground for the ToughMudder.  To find a list of mud runs go to http://www.mudruncentral.com/

 

 

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Exercise and Anxiety and Seizers

November 23rd, 2011 No comments »

At twelve years old, Savanna can be observed frequently fidgeting, tapping her foot, becoming extremely angry or sad for no apparent reason. If Savanna exercises, these symptoms appear to subside.

In a world where children have so much stimulation from: computers, video games and of coarse all the toys we all grow up with, lack of concentration and hypertension can be seen frequently in them. It’s been proven that exercise allows the body and the mind to be more relaxed and healthier.

An interesting side note, Savanna has seizers from time to time. Trending her emotional state in both sadness and hypertension, you would see an upswing of both up until the point of a seizer. A Seizer itself is a tremendous work out making a correlation between exercise and seizers as the same physically and somewhat chemically due to what physically and mentally occurs durian a seizer and a workout. After both seizer and workout and of coarse a nap, Savanna exhibits a rested and ready to be normal state in effect resetting the cycle of anxiety swings to where anxiety is almost non existed.

If we all spend a little more time exercising I am confident we will spend much less time feeling stressed in addition to our ability to concentrate will increase. Not to mention my belief is epileptics could possible avoid future seizers.

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Memories of a life

October 27th, 2011 No comments »

My neighbor was telling me yesterday about how the bottom half of his heart has stopped working and that only the top half is pumping now. As his breath at times appeared very heavy and he was just standing there next to me telling me about his life, about his two tours overseas, the boat rides, the first time he say an airplane, growing up on the farm in Wisconsin, how lucky he was to have his wife as a partner for 50 some years. As I listen, my compassion and reality buttons are being pressed as I know full well if I am lucky, some day I will be telling some young guy about my heart getting ready to fail, telling him that “you know I have had a good life”, then elaborating on my life experiences as best my memory can recall. I am sure I will be hoping I am not boring this person. At times I am sure I will be talking as if I was a announcer covering a real event doing a play by play as it happens in my memory.

 

I don’t ask him about his health much, but felt like I had to ask him. Maybe I was picking up on something sub consciously. He told me “No not so well”, the preceded to tell me about how he had pneumonia a couple weeks ago, and when he went for his checkup afterwards, the doctor told him that the bottom part of his heart was no longer working, would never work again. That only the top part was pumping. That he could not lift more than 30 pounds again in his life or he might die. At that moment tons memories flashed back at me of my neighbor, a tough guy, someone who would shovel his front yard spending hours just shoveling. Almost like he had a burning desire to work, to work hard and saying he was making room for the next snow fall was an excuse. The fact that this guys would not be able to lift more than 30 pounds broke my heart. Then he said to me “You know, I have had a pretty good life though” as if he was admitting he knows it time is not far off to go, but he is at piece what he has had an opportunity to experience. He said he was really lucky to be married so long, to one women. Would do it all over again.

 

We spoke about his reunion he did for the last 17 years with his WW2 buddies, how it started. Apparently him and a couple others were going to meet in St Louis, well one of the guys said, well hey I know so and so, let’s get him to, and so and so did the same thing and so on until there where about 12 people going. Through the years the event grew to as much as 30 people and frequency changed from every 5 years, to 2 years to 1 years apart. The point of him telling me these stories was the explain how he knew he was lucky. We said many of the men when they got to either Korea or Hawaii they would receive letters from their wife’s explaining that they didn’t need to come home, that they would be remarried by the time they came back. One story that really stuck in his head was about a really smart guy, don’t remember where he was from, but he could fix any electronic device. Think now, 1940’s and he could take a radio, that ran on one type of battery, and convert it to another. First of all Radio’s where pretty new, and batteries were also. Other companies would request that he fix their radios to. He had some money so prior to the war he was pretty well off. He had a beautify wife, boat, nice car. Well he receive a letter from his wife. She had crashed his car, sunk his boat, spent all the money he had saved for them to have a nice house, and left him for another man. My Neighbor Knows he was lucky, I know I am lucky. It can always be so much worse, sure it can always be better if you split hairs but worse is always, always so much deeper and frequent. So count your lucky stars, practice having good character, tell people about your life’s memories and live if you are alive.

 

Deuces


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Beer is not always for drinking – How to shoot off a Scud

October 17th, 2011 No comments »

Scuds are a form of entertainment where you place a can of cheap beer in coals of a fire. Make sure the side you drink is down in the coals. Wait til you hear a pop of the aluminum as the liquid expands. Make sure everyone is a safe distance away and wait. The can should shoot up around 10 to 30 feet in the air.  If the can tips over, step back farther as it will blow up. You may get spattered with beer if you are to close and maybe a couple of coals from the fire.

See the attached video of a can that tipped over.

Scud tips over and blows

 

 

 

 

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