Useless Information

Did you know:

In the State of Washington, they have a law on their books which states, if you are driving into a town with ‘criminal intentions’, you are required to call the local Police Chief first before entering  .

Open Blog - Weekend

And justice for all.

Four for Fridays

Hello everyone! Welcome back to Four for Fridays after another crazy and busy week. It seems that there is no rested for the wicked..... Just sayin'. Anyways, here are some questions for you.

1) Would you rather have money or love?

2) Do you know how to drive a vehicle with manual transmission?

3)  What have you done to make a difference in someone’s life?

4)  Do you like buffet restaurants?

Enjoy your weekend!

No Hands Driving

What happens when there's technical problems with one of these?

Open Blog - Friday

Simply marvelous, again!

Open Blog - Thursday

Have a productive and peaceful and profitable and preposterous day.

"Amazing mind reader reveals his 'gift'"

http://www.febelfin.be/nl/safe-internetbanking

Please be careful, my dears, of what you post online.

By the way, I would never use fraudulent means to give clients readings. I don't have minions working online to feed me information about a person. I could never afford minions. More importantly, I don't have to. My crystal ball and my psychic powers are all that I need to do my job. I can even work without the ball, it just takes more concentration.

NY Post

Dear Madame Zoltar

Hello, my fabulous friends!  How are you?  More trees are turning colors every day.  More shed their leaves.  It’s beginning to look like fall.  The temperatures feel like it, too.  I must say that whoever did the plantings and maintenance in downtown Racine this year did a grand job.  The flowers, grasses and greenery were beautiful all summer long.  That must have taken a lot of watering during our drought.  Thank you to all who put their efforts into it.

The Green Bay Packers vs. Seattle Seahawks game last night made national news.  Our majestic and admirable Packers were the victims of the substitute referees’ incompetence.  I’m quite sure that we will have to live with the loss.  Dear Pack, don’t let this get you down.  Fight! Fight! Fight! Use the defeat to fire your ire against the New Orleans Saints this Sunday, Sept. 30, at 3:25 p.m., in Lambeau Field.  If the substitute officials continue to blow calls, don’t be surprised if some “outside interference” affects the game.  Something has to be done to counteract the NFL’s negativity.  I’m positively sure of that.

Here’s a related story in the Mt. Pleasant Patch: "Packers Fans Call for National Boycott of NFL," http://mountpleasant.patch.com/articles/packers-fans-call-for-national-boycott-of-nfl

Until now, I have kept my mouth shut publicly concerning “Mr. Racine,” Mark Eickhorst, the part time supervisor who drove one of the jail inmates on a work detail to the inmate’s girlfriend’s home, where the inmate allegedly beat her.  http://www.journaltimes.com/news/local/mr-racine-admits-mistake-after-inmate-escape/article_3e2a799e-0316-11e2-bb69-0019bb2963f4.html  He’s called “Mr. Racine” because he has a weekend radio show on WRJN.  Until now, I haven’t said anything about the sheer stupidity and irresponsibility of Mr. Eickhorst’s actions.  “Mr. Racine?”  Harrumph!  I guess even the criminal element deserves a representative.  I’m quite sure that Mr. Eickhorst’s connections to Mr. Mayor Dickert prevented him from being charged with a crime.  It really upsets me to see the law perverted like that.  It upsets me even more than the blown call in Monday’s Packer game.  I know that our city can do so much better.  We the people, the real Mr. and Mrs. Racine, don’t deserve the corruption that we receive from our local “representatives.”

I will not end my blog on a negative note.  Instead, I’ll tell you a gypsy joke.

Q: Why do gypsy men walk funny?

A: Because they have crystal balls.

Oh dear, shame on me.  I hope you enjoyed the joke and the blog today.  Thank you for stopping by and spending a little time with me.  I love new visitors and readers.

Q: Where do gypsies go to get their fortunes told?

A: madamezoltar@jtirregulars.com.

Enjoy the outdoors while we still can.  Be watchful for school buses and children on the road.  Dusk comes earlier and earlier each day.  Sorry, I can’t make it to the impromptu get-together tomorrow.  Have a very good time, my dears. Rugose!    

For Lizardmom

The picture is from Break.com. I thought of Lizardmom as soon as I saw it.

Open Blog - Wednesday

Simply marvelous!

More WTF from Asia

http://www.youtube.com/user/neurowear

http://neurowear.com/news/index.html

Can you wear them both, or would that put too much strain on the brain?

NFL Substitute Referees

You may select more than one answer.

Or write in your own: "Really, really, really to the trillionth power suck!"

Open Blog - Tuesday

There's to, too, two, and Tuesday, too.

Texting While Driving

UPDATED

Wisconsin's first homicide by texting while driving prosecution ended Friday with a Sun Prairie woman receiving a year in prison for the death of a UW-Madison student on East Johnson Street in 2010.

"I know my apology is hard to accept, but it comes from the deepest part of my heart," she said.
this is the woman who orginally told police it was his fault because he was on the road when she it hit him

In addition to prison and extended supervision, Ehlke ordered Kanoff to spend 100 hours speaking to young people learning to drive and other groups about the dangers of texting while driving. He also ordered that she not drive with a phone that's turned on in the driver's area of a car. She will also have to take a driving safety course to get her license back after a mandatory yearlong revocation.

Read more: http://host.madison.com/news/local/crime_and_courts/sun-prairie-woman-sentenced-to-year-in-prison-for-fatal/article_86449010-0439-11e2-a4d7-0019bb2963f4.html#ixzz27PknZPCd

Read more: http://host.madison.com/news/local/crime_and_courts/sun-prairie-woman-sentenced-to-year-in-prison-for-fatal/article_86449010-0439-11e2-a4d7-0019bb2963f4.html#ixzz27PkHtRRC
A jury has convicted a Wisconsin woman of homicide by negligent driving for writing a text message before a fatal crash. Source: JSOnline

Wisconsin has passed a law it is illegal to “text” while driving.

When a death is caused because of texting, do you feel the individual doing the texting should receive prison time and how much?



JSOnline Article        Wisconsin State Journal

Open Blog - Monday

That lady really needs dental work.

Useless Information

Did you Know:

Americans put 3.5 million coins in vending machines every 15 minutes!

Open Blog - Weekend

I love watermelon!

Search for "How do I Qualify for"

This is nuts....

RECEIPT

“What am I supposed to do with this?” grumbled the motorist as the police clerk handed him a receipt for his traffic violation.

“Keep it,” the clerk advises. “When you get four of them, you get a bicycle.”

Four for Fridays

Hello everyone! It's Friday and do you know what that means? Another episode of Four for Fridays! It's been a busy, busy week and I'm glad it's almost over. Here are some questions for you...

1)  Have you ever had a song in your head that lasted for days?

2) What board games do you like to play?

3) How often do you go to see a doctor?

4) How many places have you lived? And where?

Enjoy your your weekend!

Open Blog - Friday

I'm seeing stars.

Fall In Horicon National Wildlife Refuge!

Yes this past Sunday we went back to Horicon. This time I was able to see a lot more than the last time we went up there. I really enjoyed myself so much. Along HWY 49 we seen so many different wildlife animals, there was a field just full of so many different animals I just could not believe my eyes when I seen all of them. We did take pictures of the fields of the wildlife.

Then we went on the auto tour road and I was taking pictures of the Fall colors changing. The picture above is of the floating Boardwalk. This is so beautiful to walk and see. Sunday was the first time I was able to take this walk with Drew. I just could not believe my eyes when I seen this.

This is along the auto tour road. I had to stop and get this picture for everyone. The fall colors are starting to come in up north and it is so nice to see. 

This is a pond on the side of the same road and you can see a swan in the water towards the top of the picture along with the flowers. I just could not believe my eyes when I seen the scenery it was so lovely and the swan in the pond just made it more beautiful.

This is the blanket of yellow flowers that I was talking about in my last post. It is just beautiful and it is along the floating Boardwalk. This is in a lot of the fields in Horicon. If you remember the first picture at the top of this post you see like a lookout tower that is were I took this picture.

This is down the road from the floating Boardwalk. It is two different ponds with all kinds of wildlife in them. This is towards the end of the auto tour road.

In the distance you can see the turbine's above the trees. Yes we were not that far away from them, we past them on the way down the road to the wildlife refuge. If you see the tops of the trees starting to change there colors it is so beautiful. 

Along this road is a lot of different bike or hiking trails you can go down. In the spring I would love to go and walk the trails to be able to get the wildflowers just starting to bud. I will try to get back up that way to get the fall colors of the trees when they change the beautiful colors.

If you like to see the wildlife and the wildflowers this is the place to go and see it all. For me this is the best place to take a walk and see the beautiful land and how peaceful it is up there. It actually give you a true peace of mind how beautiful our land and wildlife really is. If it wasn't for Drew taking me there I would have never known how this really could make a person feel.

Look! Up in the Sky! It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s a Space Shuttle!

Well, we got lucky here in Tucson this morning. As many of you know, the Space Shuttle Endeavour (or OV105) is being flown cross country to it's final home at the California Science Center. Yesterday, Mark Kelly, husband of Garbielle Giffords and commander of Enedavour's last mission, told NASA it sure would be nice if they could do a flyover of Tucson. Tucson is right on the flight path and it wouldn't take much to make it happen, so, NASA made it happen.

I was going to go up to the roof of NOAO but at 11am I got a call from a friend across the street at Steward who told me I could get on their (much higher) roof so I went over there. The flyover was scheduled at 11:15am and it was as close to on time as you can get. 

Here is our first view. The tower is part of NOAO (the building where I work).

It veered north toward the Catalina Mountains before it headed back toward campus.

Then it did a nice flyby where I got some closer shots (these are cropped).

I am not going to complain too much here...I think I had a nice view! There was a good crowd of astronomers gathered on the roof to watch this historic flyby and I am happy I got to see the shuttle in the air one last time.

Reprinted with permission from the Half-Astrophysicist Blog.

Poorly Placed Labels

Open Blog - Thursday

You betcha.

Sunset, the Moon, Mars and Saturn

The weather is clearing in Tucson so photography is happening on a more regular basis. First up, a sunset through low clouds.

Note the colors. Click for bigger versions and look for a cloudtop green flash.

Next up, the Moon and Mars were right next to each other and passing through some thing clouds for an interesting picture.

Finally, a zoomed out view where you can also glimpse Saturn to the right of the tree.

Reprinted with permission from the Half-Astrophysicist Blog.

Dear Madame Zoltar

Hello, my cooling cookies!  How are you?  The nights get nippier and nippier, or is it more nippy and more nippy?  Who cares.  You know what I mean.  It’s good sleeping weather.  More and more trees are starting to turn colors and/or lose leaves.  The stress of the drought will cause a lot of them to go into early dormancy.  Some of the older or sicker ones might not make it at all.  Oh dear.

Our compelling and alluring Green Bay Packers made it Thursday night past versus the Chicago Bears.  Thank you, mighty Pack, for annihilating our opponents.  May the force be with you when you face the Seattle Seahawks this coming Monday night, Sept. 24, 7:30 p.m., at CenturyLink Field.  May the force allow you to destroy our enemies.  Kick their butts, boys!

EMERGENCY! DON’T FORGET!  THERE IS STILL AN ELECTION COMING UP!

Oh my, it can’t come fast enough for me.

This past Saturday, Señor Zanza and I attended the Great Lakes Brewfest held at the Racine Zoo.  What an unbelievable selection of craft brews and homemade beer! Unfortunately, Señor Zanza felt compelled to sample each and every one.  Three or four times.  Oh dear, what a scene.  He is unaccustomed to ingesting such large quantities of inebriates.  He was puking his guts out in no time.  I drove us home.  Too bad.  I was hoping to spend some time exploring the possibility of a Madame Zoltar® Booth at Great Lakes Brewfest next year.

The following video is out of respect for the season.  It is “Tis Autumn,” performed by Stacey Kent (http://www.staceykent.com/), with an assist from Betty Boop:

Isn’t that soothing?  I hope so.  That’s the way I feel when you read my blogs.  Soothed by the thoughts of another.  Thank you so much.

The soothing soothsayer?  Madame Zoltar®, of course: madamezoltar@jtirregulars.com.

Enjoy your week, my darling irregulars.  Now is the time for fall cleanups.  Start battening down the hatches.  Old Man Winter approaches.  Utraquism!

Open Blog - Wednesday

Meow!

My kind of trailer

I saw this rig pull up in front of Kewpee's this afternoon. (They're closed this week because of refrigeration problems.) I immediately fell in love with the trailer.  The man driving said that he and his father built it.  That's beautiful.

Unfortunately, neither of us got our hamburgers today.