Stupid Question

The other night i was watching Dateline and they were after the guys who want to have relations with children. Now i agree that these bastards need to be taken care of, but isn't what they do entrapment?

Now don't get me wrong, what the guys are doing trying to woo these children is wrong, but what are the cops busting them for?

For example, you can not be charged with murder unless you killed someone. You can not be charged with rape unless you rape someone. These guys only talked to the kids on the Internet. What crime did they commit?

To be busted for solicitation of prostitution you have to make a deal with the undercover cop. What have these guys done wrong? Half of them talk about seeing Dateline when they get busted. It obviously isn't a deterrent.

I was just wandering what they were charged with, and how can they be charged if they haven't broken the law. If you know, please let me in it.

Yesterday was day 1

Yesterday the Contractor started working in my bathroom. We are having the old shower and linen closet taken out and building in 1 large shower. They have to move the plumbing and everything. They got the whole thing tore out yesterday, so now the hard work begins. I have some pictures i'll add in here later.

You ain't gonna believe this

Yesterday i was driving back to work from lunch and this lady is in the oncoming lane and decided to turn right across my lane of traffic and she didn't make it. I hit the brakes and tried to steer into a parking lot but she waited until the last minute to make her turn. It was unavoidable.

That's not the worse news. Seems Nice Lady was released from jail that morning so she didn't have a drivers license. It was her Aunt's truck and they couldn't prove insurance. NL ended up with 3 tickets. Failure to yield right of way/ no license/ no insurance. What a Bitch. Did i mention i was driving my 2007 Silverado with 11,000 miles on it? Needless to say i was 7 kinds of mad.

Something isn't right

The other day i bought a Cherry scented air freshener. It smelled wonderful. Smelled so good i had to stop and get me a bag of candy cherries. So yesterday i was shopping and bought some fresh cherries. The fresh cherries don't smell or taste anything like the candies or the air freshener. Why is that?

That got me to thinking about what else in this world i accept as fact. If anything i buy that is supposed to be cherry doesn't smell or taste like real cherries, which one is right? I will keep my eye open on this matter.

At work we must use calibrated instruments. Calipers, thermometers, torque wrenches and such. We send that equipment off periodically to be calibrated. What do they use to calibrate? Take it one step further, and what do the calibrate the calibration tools with? If you calibrate a vernier caliper, you take a known 1,2,3 block and measure it. If your device reads correctly the 1,2 and 3" block it is calibrated. What about the block? what calibrates that? Do they have a vault someplace that has the original standard in it? I know they have Master calibration tools to calibrate the calibration tools. What set the standard for the Master?

For example, a State Trooper stops me saying i am going 75 MPH according to his radar gun. I sat my speedometer said i was going 70 mph. Which one is right. How do they calibrate the radar gun? I find this fascinating and plan to look into it. If anyone has any information, please let me know.

I'm back

A successful training program has been completed. I must say i am shocked at how much i learned. A lot of it was common sense, but then they taught us the reasoning and philosophy behind what i knew was common sense. Excellent material.

We learned how to present a proper presentation. We had several of them to create. We then learned how to incorporate that into a teaching segment. The part that impressed me most was phsycological understanding and non-verbal communication.

it is amazing at what you can learn by what people do and they act. pretty impressive.

Interesting Day

Today i found out that i have an Assimilative Learning Process. That means that as an instructor i will train in an Assimilative manner. An assimilative person is one who prefers to learn it in theory and then hands on. They prefer to gather all the facts up and then deduce an answer. One answer does not fill all of us. Our instructor said that most former military types are Assimilative and we prescribe to the boot to ass technique. We prefer logic over feelings. Well Duh, no surprise there.

Hopefully i can learn to instruct effectively to all 4 types of learners and become a better instructor. Only time will tell.

I must admit that i am not a Teacher. A Teacher teaches students how to learn. I am an instructor. I instruct on a prescribed content, typically a technical subject. I do not want to be a teacher. I prefer being specialized in my craft and educating an apprentice to become a craftsman.

My sister-in-law is a Teacher. It is definitely an admirable trade, but i do not have the temperament for it. I prefer dealing with adults that have bills to pay as opposed to kids who just want to graduate. My hats off to you Cheryl.

Status Symbol

Today i flew into Houston Hobby Airport. I was amazed at what i went thru to fly. I remember back in the 80's, the first time i flew. It was a status symbol. It amazed a lot of people in my small hometown in Southwest Louisiana that i flew to Italy. Everyone wanted to know what it was like and if i enjoyed it. Flying used be something. The first time i flew First Class was from Corpus Christi to New Orleans. I felt like the cat's pajamas, i was Senior Big Shits.

Today when i flew i felt like i was riding the bus. The TSA treats everyone like they are the lowest form of life. Like i should be happy their overweight fat ass is there to stop Osama from killing me. Naturally, my being 6'5" tall, they have to search me. I told them today that i was honored for the TSA to think i am such a bad ass that i can overtake a 737 with a pair of tweezers and 3.4oz of liquid, but i must admit that not one plane involved in 911 was overtaken by a 6'5" redneck.

It just upsets me to think that i am paying $500 for a plane ticket and then be treated like a lowlife just to board the plane. Actually it pisses me off. I have a solution though, when you get your boarding pass, issue everyone a baseball bat. A plane with all passengers armed with ball bats could and would eliminate all rag heads from taking over the plane ever again. I think it will work.

Hell, what there doing now doesn't work. At least my idea has promise.