Phonic Alphabet

Just to break tradition I am going to post twice in the same year now (I can't even say twice in the same month 'cause I think my last post was in August ).

 

Just read Soup Nazzi's blog and #14 is a problem I have faced many times before. So now ladies and gentleman, although I myself have never been in the military, I am going to attempt the Phonic Alphabet just to see how many I can get without cheating and looking up any of it online. Y'all can tell me how close I came if your bored or something.

A - Alpha

B - Bravo

C - Charlie

D - Delta

E - Echo Or is it Easy - or have I been watching to much Band of Brothers?)

F - Foxtrot

G - Golf

H - Hotel

I - Igloo? {No, no, I know that's not right. Hey at least I made it to I without forgetting (I think))

J - Jaguar {I know thats not right but it sounds good)

K - Kilo

L - Lima (or is it Lama?)

M - Mike

N - Negro {I am not racist, it is Spanish for black, OK?)

O -Oscar

P - Papa

Q - Quigley (as in down under?)

R - Ralph

S - Stoned (New NIV translation: Pelted with rocks)

T - Tango

U - Uncle (No really, I give up)

V - Victor

W - Water

X - Xray

Y - Y'all

Z - Zebra

Hmmm....I think I failed,. On the upside, my cursive is beautiful.

 

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Fun day

Yesterday was awful. While my husband was running errands, our vehicle breaks down about 25 miles from home in the Middle of Nowhere, Podunk IA. I tried getting a hold of my mom cause she has two vehicles and we could have drove the spare one out there and picked him up right away. But she was gone for about two hours. So we ended up calling his mom, who just got off work and isn't in the greatest of moods. She decides she has to pick me up because she doesn't know where this place is at. I should tell you her driving scares the living daylights out of me. So I get directions from my husband over a less than great cell phone connection (I should tell you he gives directions only slightly better than his mom drives).  About five minutes after she picks me up the rain turns into an all out, can barely see out the windshield, hope the high winds do not pick up your car and drop it in Kansas, thunderstorm. All total it took us about four phonecalls and two turnarounds to find our way. To top it off, a few miles from our destination when lightning strikes about a mile ahead and hits a transformer. We were startled but I bet the poor guy who was picking up his mail right next to where it struck peed his pants. 

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Labor Day Festivities

Last night my Mother-In-Law threw a Labor Day party. There was tons of food and it was a lot of fun. She invited all her neighbors so there wouldn’t be anyone to complain about the ultra loud Karaoke out of the garage. It worked for the most part. A guy named Leo came by about 10:15 that lived across the across the alley and down a couple of houses came by and asked if we could turn it off (or way down) by 11:00 cause that is when he had to get to bed to get up early and go to work. He brought some Crown Royal to share and stayed for a while (he was still there when we left about 10:40) just to show there were no hard feelings and I thought that was a really decent gesture. I will have to remember that move for when I am the person on the other side of the coin next time.

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CapnHun's Day Off

Well, yesterday was a 'snow day' for us and made for a fairly interesting day off. I should start by saying my prayers for all those whose effected by the tornadoes Tuesday. Seeing such devastation on those communities made our snow troubles seem trivial by comparison. I hope all our 2old2play members dodged that bullet.

Tuesday after work Teddy announced that the doctor had scheduled his 'shock treatment' for Wednesday morning and he needed to be at the hospital at 7:30. For those of you who didn't know, teddy was diagnosed with Congestive Heart Failure back in October; he was hospitalized for about a week and we almost lost him. A pretty tough blow to the family considering he is only 40. Anyway the 'shock treatment' was a follow up procedure to get his heart back in rhythm, apparently he was still having some atrial fibrillation even after medications. We had to wait quite a while though because doc was waiting for some of the medications he had prescribed to level off in his blood stream and we had to play around with dosages etc. some to get the right balance.

I was supposed to work Tuesday, and he had arranged for his mom to be with him at the hospital. I wasn't happy with that because I wanted really wanted to be with him. I knew this wasn't a 'big deal' procedure but still. Anyway, I had to work, so despite waking up seriously early in the morning, I tried to push it out of my mind and get on with the day. The snow had started falling about midnight so we had a few inches on the ground. The weather people were predicting more, but they tend to exaggerate things (especially the morning crews) around here so I never get too excited. 5:20 the announcement comes in that school is cancelled (I was going to let them stay home anyway 'cause I get real nervous about car accidents and such around the kids schools. Plus I didn't need the coordination hassle). 6:00 it starts snowing fast and furious and I get ready for work so I can drop teddy at the hospital early and attempt to make it. 7:20 we are in the out-patient room getting set up when the kids call and say that my boss was not having us come in today, WOOHOO!!! Now we didn't have to get grandma out driving in the snow (a good thing for all the citizens of our fair city).

So I got to watch Teddy go off to sleepy-land and the doctor use the paddles on him. He even explained to me why he put one of the paddles on his back and the other on the right side of his chest  instead of on either side of the chest like you see on TV because all the electrical current goes between the paddles and the other way the only thing that was going to get the benefit from the electrical charge were his chest hairs. I didn't ask him that, he just volunteered the information but the nerd in me loves that stuff! This heart doctor is near legendary around here so I felt very privileged. Anyhow we got the bear back home as soon as he was awake enough to get dressed and climb in the van. The rest of the day was pretty much spent shoveling like everyone else around here. In the evening, I went out to help my youngest with a snow fort and man am I sore today.

Oh I was watching Discovery Channel at the hospital and they were having that show done by stunt man where they try and blow stuff up to dispel urban legends (Myth Busters?). We don't have Discovery at home and they were doing the episode where they are trying to figure out whether the 'crash landing' position is actually more dangerous because it puts the load on your neck making it snap making your death quicker (less suffering for you and less rehabilitation payments for them!). I didn't get to see the end result of those tests, did anyone here? It looked like they were having fun with the experiment although they didn't succeed in convincing  me that a dead drop fall of falling 45 ft from a crane would have anywhere near the same effect as a plane falling out of the air.

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To The Media

If you are going to write an article, have a television spot or whatever on video games a good place to get started on some background research for your story here:

http://www.theesa.com/archives/files/Essential%20Facts%202006.pdf

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