Saturday, October 11, 2008

Who, what , why this blog is leaking!

Gonna feed this thing to the alligators!

Well, I am sitting here staring at the screen. How did I get here? How do I get back to the journal? What part of the Shipslog is this? Why do I see everyone’s entries here? Am I at my journal or theirs?
Therefore, I sit here and click something. There is a change. Now what did I click to get here? I forgot!
Complicated and confusing to an old man. In addition, I used to be SOOOOO smart when I was a kid. I successfully installed and ran one of the original facsimile machines. Most folks do not even know what fax is short for. The source doc was placed on a drum. It rotated with a light sensitive pin that moved a hundredth of an inch each revolution. A blank sheet of paper was on the other end with an ink pen that makes a dark, darker and darkest spot when the sensitive pin sensed a change in color. Oh yeah, it was slow, took about a half hour to send an 8x11 sheet of paper. And I can’t even make sense of this system. Yeah I think I had rather change a tire.
I remember the first flat I ever fixed on my ‘48 Chevy. Now first you must know or be told that a tire is on the rim very tight. It ain’t like a bicycle tire. Even a tubeless tire bead is very tight. So I needed another car or a spare. I had the spare. I put it on first. Then you lay the flat down under the front tire and drive over the tire, not the rim, just the tire as close to the rim as possible. Sometimes you have to so this a couple times to get it broken good. Now use the tire tool and a couple big screw drivers to pry the tire off one side of the rim. Watchit and don’t pinch the tube. Pull the tube out and patch it. Re install tube and pry tire back on. Don’t need the car for that.
Now here is the kicker for the neophite. Roll it to the service station and pump it up. Crap ! Air coming out around the valve stem.
Back to the house, go thru everything again. Can’t find a hole in the tube. Put it back to gether roll to the service station. THIRD TIME!!!!! Mr. Service station man says, Jack what is wrong, you been here with that same tire 3 times?
I told him, he had the audacity to laugh at me.
“Son, air is trapped between that tube and the tire, it has to come out some where so it finds the hole around the valve stem! Put 30 pounds in it and go home!”
Gary will get a kick out of that and understand it.
Okay that is how I feel about this new Journal site, only I am leaking air and don’t know where or why. Hahahahah!
Thanks for coming this way!
Nite ShipsLOg
PS:
"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right.
*****The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing. *****The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
***** The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet. (you folks that took typing will remember that one)

8 comments:

Debbie said...

Not sure if you set it up this way or not but I notice on your sidebar that it doesn't have the little follow this blog so folks can click on and add themselves as followers. I see the stop following at the top and 6 followers below our little pictures but follow this blog isn't there. So I'm assuming no one else can add themselves.
Hmmmm, gonna have to do a little investigating to figure that one out, lol.
Debbie

Anonymous said...

I am back again 6th time. This is
the most complicating thing I have
ever tried. Good Grief Charlie
Brown. I have been through hoops.

Shirl

Anonymous said...

I am back again 6th time. This is
the most complicating thing I have
ever tried. Good Grief Charlie
Brown. I have been through hoops.

Shirl

Debbie said...

Yippie! You got rid of that word verification thing. What a relief, lol. Looking good over here I like the blue you've added to your page.
Debbie

Woody said...

They should change the name from BLOG to GLOB, I glob things in and smear things here and edit and delete, FUBAR!!!!

Hope things are going well!!!!

Woods

betty said...

sorry you are having trouble getting used to the format; I haven't done too much decorating over at my place or adding pictures so I haven't run into any problems like that; navigating around isn't going to bad; I actually like not getting a lot of alerts in my mailbox and just following blogs along with Dashboard; less stressful

hoping you and Sherry have a great Sunday :)

betty

Debbie said...

I did my investigation on the follow this blog thing I was talking about in my first comment and from what I've been told it's suppose to look that way from my view of your blog. Shows ya how dumb this country gal can be, haha.
Debbie

Terri said...

It's a little confusing isn't it?
I think once we all get the hang of it we will really like it over here...

Hope you have a lovely sunday

Hugs
Terri