Well, the Jet and Mike left during lunch today. A two day visit which was evil. I managed not to show up at work on Monday. Last night they introduced me to the evil that is Halo. So much for me getting any good sleep. So much for them leaving at 8:30 this morning.
Well, it was a fun time. Caught up on things, and reminisced about past things. They got to see the lot that my home (hopefully things will go well) will be on, and toured the model home - which is the same floor plan as mine. And, there was a few hours of Halo.
Too sleepy to look into making changes here. These next 3 hours will be kinda hellish (I plan on leaving 'early', before 5).
Some foolishness in the news, courtesy of MSNBC's news of the weird:
Despite a warning label reading "Do not use indoors because of flammability" on its carpet adhesive, the Para-Chem company was ordered by a jury in Akron, Ohio, in July to pay $8 million to two professional installers who were severely burned in an explosion when they tried to use the product indoors. One juror told the Akron Beacon Journal that he and his colleagues felt the warning did not go far enough in convincing the installers not to use the product indoors.
And in Lumberton, N.J., in July, Michael J. Devine, 36, captured in a stolen truck after a police chase, denied he was trying to escape; he said that he couldn't stop because the truck contained a bomb that would explode if his speed dropped below 55 mph.
According to an indictment obtained by the U.S. Department of Justice in May, Christopher Lee Jones of Pembroke, N.C., recently publicly attempted to sell 100 stolen Social Security numbers by eBay online auction and tried to enhance their value by specifically suggesting that bidders use them to obtain credit cards. And Tony Alston, 26, and April Lynett Smith, 20, were arrested after a brief police chase following their alleged robbery of a Compass Bank in San Antonio, Texas; police caught them easily because their getaway vehicle was a rental U-Haul truck with a speed governor that the company routinely equips the truck with to slow it down.
And, this makes me sick:
While laid-off workers of Global Crossing Ltd. (one-time value: $54 billion) try to recoup some of the $32 million in severance pay they lost by the company's bankruptcy filing, the Los Angeles Times reported that company founder Gary Winnick continues his historically detailed, $30 million renovation on the $94 million mansion he purchased before the collapse (July).
Posted by haglund at July 30, 2002 1:48 PM