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Here’s Loyal Reader Number Two performing some sort of strange ritualistic dance on a frog. Very scary. Taken at the Detroit Zoo. Part of my statue series.

What a beautiful Friday! It was a work day, and there was plenty of it for me to do, but things are going great.

There was a moderate amount of interest in yesterday’s controversy. Inputs appear to be unanimous in favor of the correct (Over) toilet paper orientation, which impels me to ask the obvious question: who is putting all those toilet paper rolls in the Under position?

I did notice that Loyal Reader Number Sixteen’s toilet paper was Under during our recent visit there. We had such a nice time that I was reluctant to point out this obvious problem, but I did notice it.

Who else is suffering under this odious burden?

This is the last post before the Happiest Day of the Year! That’s right, my birthday is on Sunday. Extravagant gifts are still being accepted. Not to worry, though. If I don’t get any extravagant gifts, I’ll just buy some of my own.

The trouble is that I’m having a hard time thinking of things to put on my wish list. I always just buy everything I want, so it’s pretty tough to come up with a gift. Suggestions are welcome.

Oh, and don’t worry about it if you miss the Happiest Day of the Year. The Second Happiest Day of the Year is the following Sunday – Father’s Day! What a great month.

Today’s controversy: Super-convenient foods. Dumb? Or just stupid? Would you buy a pre-dunked Oreo?

Speaking of which, is this is as lazy as it gets? Or is there something even lazier?

See you Monday.

Here’s the sign for the Eagle Tavern in Greenfield Village. It used to be somewhere else in Michigan – Marshall, maybe. Now it serves family-style lunches to family-style tourists. Based on condition, I have my doubts that this is the original sign.

Extreme Short Shrift again tonight. I had my Thursday night meeting.

Last day of class. Yahoo. I didn’t go back to the office today afterwards, after last night’s marathon whine fest from my problem child. No thank you for that. It’s nice to be home.

Daily dose of controversy: please provide your opinion on this very important issue. Personally, I’m in the “over” camp.

Real post tomorrow. See you then.

Here’s another in my famous Machinery series. Very cool. From Fairlane, of course.

Short Shrift tonight. Spent way too much time at work. In a class, mostly. A class I didn’t want to attend. And still don’t. And I have to go back tomorrow. The rest of the time was spent listening to one of my problem employees whine. Sigh.

A brighter day tomorrow. See you then.

Here’s one of my favorite campsites of all time. Sadly, it’s not actually out-of-doors; it’s in the Henry Ford Museum. That certainly doesn’t diminish its coolness, though. I’m thinking of getting one of those Camp Wahoo signs for our trailer. This picture may also get posted on the HRVA.

Nothing to talk about today. Worked hard and came home. I’m spending the next two days in a training class. I’m not really looking forward to it, but managers have to go, so I might as well get it out of the way.

No controversies today either. I will note in passing that the Associated Press has apparently decided to declare Mr. Obama the winner of the Democrat nomination race, and everybody else on their side has piled onto that bandwagon. I’m not sure who appointed the AP as their nominating committee, but I suppose they’re as legitimate (and as closely tied in) as anybody else. I see Mr. Obama as being every bit as serious a candidate as George McGovern and Michael Dukakis. Best of luck to him on that.

But no controversies here. Oh, I will also mention that some people seem to be glad to see Mrs. Clinton go.

No controversies, though.

See you tomorrow.

Here’s Henry Ford’s ammeter. Part of my famous machinery series. This one was taken in the Fairlane power house in Dearborn.

Busy weekend. We had stake conference, so I had Saturday meetings at 4:00 and 7:00, and then the Sunday general session at 10:00. Plus, Loyal Reader Number One graduated from Seminary at 3:30.

Loyal Reader Number Two also had a few friends over to swim, play games, eat dinner, and watch a movie Saturday afternoon and evening. They all seem to have had lots of fun.

Oh, and Loyal Readers Numbers Five, Six, and Twelve came over on Saturday afternoon. I saw them for only about half an hour, sadly. Fortunately, they’re coming back again next weekend.

Let’s see, did anything else happen? LRN2 and I worked on the sprinklers a little on Saturday – he had inadvertently hit one with the mower and he needed to learn how to replace them on his own. I think he’s got the skillz now. Yo.

We picked up the truck Saturday morning. The new (and free, of course) brakes and rotors seem fine. I need to tow the trailer soon to confirm they won’t overheat and fade this time.

I also published a brief and relatively uninteresting report of our March trip to Big Sur over on the HRVA. Check it out! If you enjoy brief and uninteresting reports, that is.

There’s still more to publish. We went camping at Caswell State Park in April, so that needs to get on the HRVA. There have also been a few software/hardware projects recently that ought to get on Gardenville. Such as the BMP viewer (Mac software) and LRN1’s Mac/Arduino Morrowlife comment counter. All of them have potential for further expansion, but I think they’re already publishable.

We had another power outage at work late this afternoon. It only lasted a few minutes, but that was plenty to kill some hardware in the lab. I had to leave to catch the train, so I won’t know how bad it was until tomorrow. Cross your fingers, Loyal Readers.

It’s events like that that make me glad I have a laptop. My machine’s display went down, but everything was still normal when the power came back up.

Let’s see, gotta keep the Loyal Readers happy. Is there any controversy I can get involved in? Hmmm . . . can’t think of any. The presidential contest went way beyond ludicrous for me a long time ago. I couldn’t care less whose preacher is an idiot (answer: all of them except for Hillary’s, who has no preacher and indeed no identifiable religious beliefs except when her husband is in trouble again – come to think of it, none of them have any identifiable religious beliefs unless they need a photo op – which makes me wonder what the heck Obama was thinking when he chose his particular vanity church – I can only conclude he has absolutely no sense of what the American people consider to be crazy talk) or how many delegates which candidate has or which grievance group supports who. I also have no interest in the ginned-up-by-the-press economy problems or the imaginary global warming crisis.

No, I guess I just have no controversial opinions to air today.

See you tomorrow.