My Mom shouldn't tell jokes...
Mood:  happy
Topic: Family
I was talking to my mother last night trying to plan things to do when she visits this weekend. Towards the end of the conversation she tells me that she has a joke to tell me and it went something like this...

This man encounters a Genie. The Genie says to the man, "I will grant you three wishes" The man says, "yeah right" The genie say, "Well ask for something and see that I am telling the truth." So the man wishes for a beautiful oasis. POOF the Genie creates an oasis.

The Genie says, "See I didn't lie to you. Now make your next wish." The man then asks to be be incredibly handsome. POOF the Genie makes the guy a hottie.

The Genie then says to him, "What is your 3rd wish?" The guy thinks about it and says, "I want to be what every woman needs." POOF the Genie turns him into a Tampon.

My mother then says, "Do you know what the moral of the story is?"

My response: "No?"

MOM: The IRS never does anything without a string attached.

There was silence as I tried to figure out what the IRS had to do with a Genie granting wishes. She then laughs and says...no wait it wasn't a Genie...it was an IRS agent that granted the wishes.

LIL Even with the correction to her joke I didn't find it all that funny. I am sure there was probably more to the joke that she had forgotten. Oh well...bless her heart she tries.

I am excited about her visit. Now that I live in NC I don't get to see my family very often. I have tons of stuff planned so I hope she will have a good time.

The Great Fish Rescue
Mood:  happy
Topic: Work
Today was a fun day. USGS needed us to shut the gates on the dam so they could drain the river to run a few tests. My job along with two other co-workers were to rescue fish in the river who got stranded when the water receded. This time of year the larger fish are down in deep pools trying to keep warm so I wasn't expecting to see a lot. We rescued several small catfish, two eels, about 5 crayfish, 1 small carp, and a bunch of little minnows. It is amazing what you see when the water is all gone. Very neat.

It is days like today that I love my job. Tomorrow I get to attend a bird and plant ID workshop. So excited.

I'M BACK!
Topic: Work
Well the trip to Huntsville was actually pretty good. I learned a lot and made many new business contacts. The weather there was COLD but we didn't have to go outside much.

The plane ride from Charlotte to Huntsville was a little harrowing. They put us on this little baby planelette. You know the kind with two propellers. Well we got out on to the runway and the pilot called the flight attendant on the phone. Which was odd because he could have just opened the door and yelled at him. But anyway apparently there were 3 seats empty at the back of the plane and the pilot needed us to fill in those seats or the plane would not get off the ground. WHAT? At this point I wasn't sure I wanted to be on he plane. I went to volunteer to move and the guy beside me grabbed my hand and told me that God had chosen me to be in this seat for some reason. Okay...nut job. We got to Huntsville and entered a nasty storm. The plane at one point dropped several feet scaring the crap out of me. I was so glad when we finally landed.

On the flight back to Raleigh some guy got in trouble for using his cell phone while we were in the air. Come on people. The flight is only 30 minutes. Who do you have to talk to that bad that they can't wait till you land.

I am glad to be home and trying hard to catch up on work.

I'M OFF!!!
Mood:  don't ask
Well I am all packed and ready for my trip to Alabama. Listening to the news this morning I heard them say that Hunstville is suppose to get some snow today. Then they said that the day I come back...Raleigh will get some snow. GREAT! Just my luck. I hate to fly but worse I hate to fly in bad weather. Keeping my fingers crossed that I sit my someone nice on the plane.

Morning Prayer
Mood:  caffeinated
"So far today I'm doing all right. I have not gossiped, lost my temper, been grumpy, greedy, nasty, selfish, or self-indulgent. I have not whined, cursed, or eaten any chocolate. However, I am going to get out of bed in a few minutes, and I will need a lot more help after that."

-Unknown

The Government is watching you...
Topic: Work
It amazes me what people will do when they don't know they are being watched.

About a year ago we installed a security camera and every so often I will go to the monitor just to see what is going on outside. Well today as I was turning the camera around I noticed something that looked a little odd on the dam. I zoomed in and noticed two men in their 50's flying a kite. That's right...a kite. I watched them for awhile in amazement and then watched as one guy looked around...not seeing anyone he walked over to the cement wall...unzipped and proceeded to urinate on the wall...right out there in the open in broad daylight. I decided to sound the alarm to scare him off and from his reaction I think he peed all over his jeans. whoops. LOL

Adds comedy to my life.

All is quiet on the home front
Mood:  lazy
Fridays are always quiet here. We have some rangers that are on an alternate work schedule so they have off every other Friday. My boss called in this morning and said he hurt his leg and is unable to walk on it so he wont make it in today. So that only leave 3 of us in office. It is so nice out today (will be in the 70's this afternoon) which makes it hard to be stuck in the office. None of us seem to be motivated to do much of anything. I will have to find an excuse to go out. I am duty ranger this week so I can just say that I have to go out and patrol.

I leave Monday for a week long trip to Huntsville, AL. Not looking forward to it AT ALL. I always enjoy meeting rangers from other projects but Alabama is not an exciting travel destination. Plus I hate to fly. Oh well I will be there to learn not sight see.

I played around with the blog site and added some links (They are on the right hand side of the screen) Some people have complained that the pictures on my site were old so there are some updated ones as well as the pictures from my trip to Ireland.

Enjoy!

Not nice at all
Mood:  irritated
For those of you who read my friend Tanya’s Blog you know that she often teases me about my addiction to the tv show LOST. It is true that my life revolves around this show. I am constantly online reading spoilers and bulletin boards about the show. Well this morning I had an aweful trick played on me....

Okay so I am getting ready this morning...listening to 96 Rock as I do every morning and I hear that they were going to talk about last night's new episode of LOST. I was confused because last night was a repeat episode. I should know...I watched it. Then DJ Crash came on and said there was a new episode on at 10PM last night after the repeat episode. He said that the survivors didn't get to enter the numbers on time and that the blast doors closed sealing in Jack and Mr. Eko. Then all the air was sucked out of the hatch killing off Jack and Eko. I was furious that I missed this important episode. I came into work and went to talk to a co-worker about it. She was mad as well because she also is a huge fan of the show. We searched the internet and there was no mention anywhere of the new episode. I then emailed the DJ and got this response back...


Yes we were joking. Since last night was a repeat and last week's
episode was so bad, we just decided to do something different and run with
the joke. It was quite fun actually...people seemed really pissed that
they missed the episode. One guy even said he was trading his Time
Warner cable service for Dish Network because we told him that's where the
episode aired. Keep listening, we won't be doing that joke again.

Crash

LOL I can't believe they did that to me. I was so upset. After finding out it was a joke I then realized how much of a dork I was about getting upset over missing an episode of a tv show. LOL



Hope your day is going better than mine.

A new Beginning
Mood:  celebratory
I am hoping that using this blog will make it easier for me to post. I know I haven't been good at updating my webpage but it was just to hard to type up a word document and then upload it and then post it to the site. For the past three months I have been posting a lot of stuff to my friend Tanya's site and she keeps complaining that I am stealing her thunder. LOL

For those of you who are new to my site you can access an about me page as well as some pictures at www.angelfire.com/md2/thenest

Hope you enjoy the new format. I love to read your comments so send them through.