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Mild spring day today. Enjoy your weekend. Hug the ones you love. Maybe twice…   Do you want to hear a joke about engineering drawings? They are tearable.

It is going to be a beautiful weekend in West Michigan, the final throws of Tulip Time.Did junk food and watched the Dutch Dancers last night.What’s your favorite carnival food?  Why was the circuit finally happy?Because it was able to find a connection.

Hope you had a great weekend. May the 4th be with you.

Had a great time in Vegas!! Have terrific weekend. Trying to get unburied. Which of the 4 is most different from the others... A. A PhD in Mathematical BiologyB. A PhD in Theoretical MathematicsC. A PhD in StaticsD. A large pepperoni pizza Answer:BAll others can feed a family of 4.

If your going to Vegas next week maybe we will see each other….  I recently called an old engineering buddy of mine and asked what he was working on these days. He replied that he was working on “Aqua-thermal treatment of ceramics, aluminum and steel under a constrained environment.” I was impressed until, upon further inquiry, I learned that he was washing dishes with hot water under his wife’s supervision.

The beef here is served in: 7oz, 11oz, 13oz, 17oz, 19oz & 23oz portions.   It's Prime Rib!!!

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PI Day is just a fake holiday created by math companies to sell more math.....

Blustery day today.... Gonna get a nice fire going in the wood stove after I get out of work. No real big plans for the weekend except going out for dinner tonight. Cook gets the night off...     MY AI MODEL WASN’T ANY GOOD, AT ALL, UNTIL I GAVE IT SOME RAILROADS.   NOW IT’S GREAT AT TRAINING.

Don't forget to spring forward this weekend. An extra hour of daylight afterwork!!! When do you typically move you clocks? Saturday evening. Saturday right before bed. Sunday morning. The VCR / Automobile - when I get around to it. Clocks, what clocks....     I DROVE ALL THE WAY INTO WORK TO GET A NEEDED COMPUTER PART.   IT WAS A HARD DRIVE

2nd false spring today - getting up to the 50's before it snows again this weekend. The shelf ice (ice bergs) are at their peak, but not safe anymore: https://spyglasscondos.com/live-stream/   Going to the home & garden show today - seeing what things I can add to my HoneyDo LIst.     HOW TO HUNT ELEPHANTS Salespeople don't hunt elephants but spend their time selling elephants they haven't caught, for delivery two days before the season opens.   Software Salespeople ship the first thing they catch and write up an invoice for an elephant.   Hardware Salespeople catch rabbits, paint them gray and sell them as "desktop elephants."   (Done for now…)

After false spring, we are heading into late winter this weekend. Hosting a pizza and game night Saturday evening at our church. With a malts 'n mixin' chaser. What is your favorite thing to mix into your malts? Me - Heath Candy Crunch. What are you up to this weekend?     Quality assurance inspectors: Ignore the elephants and look for mistakes the other hunters made when they were packing the jeep.   (To Be Continued…)

Enjoyed the warmth for a few days. Now back in reality.... Enjoy time with your sweetie today (and tomorrow)!! Be blessed.     Senior managers: Set broad elephant hunting policy based on the assumption that elephants are just like field mice, but with deeper voices.   (To Be Continued…)

Road tripping tonight/tomorrow to see if we find some sun and some warmth. I'll be back towards the end of the week.   Do you have any vacation plans coming up?     Vice President of R&D When he tries to hunt elephants, his staff will try to ensure that all elephants are completely prehunted before he sees them.   If the VP sees a non prehunted elephant, the staff will: 1.->Compliment the vice president's keen eyesight and 2.->enlarge itself to prevent any recurrence.   (To Be Continued…)

Today reminds me of the ethylene glycol boilers I designed for a previous employer whose sole work was to boil liquid natural gas on very frigid day when the natural evaporation process wasn't fast enough to fill the gas pipeline.   Stay warm out there!   Lawyers don't hunt elephants, but they do follow the herds around arguing about who owns the droppings.   (To Be Continued…)

Frigid in the mitten, yet warmed by the lake. 0 and below this morning with sub zero (F) wind chills. Much colder west of the lake. Snow squalls along the lake. Stay safe. Stay warm.       Politicians: don't hunt elephants, but they will share the elephants you catch with the people who voted for them.

Polar vortex over the weekend.... Sounds fun. I guess I'll move some more wood into the garage this afternoon. Be blessed, stay warm.     I recently moved my internet router to its new spot in the basement.     You could say that I come from a LAN down under.

How  is your year starting out? You are blessed in order to bless those around you. Have a great weekend.     Operations research consultants can measure the correlation of hat size and bullet color to the efficiency of elephant hunting strategies, if someone else will identify the elephants.   (To Be Continued…)

  Wishing you a healthy, happy, and heartfelt holiday season with your families.   To echo, Dale's post from last week.  We follow the star also 🙂 and excited to be off for Christmas break in our home!     Blessings to all!

Enjoying time with the family next week during the Christmas Holiday!!! Following the star wherever He may lead me. Be blessed and enjoy time with your friends and family!!     How to hunt elephants:   Consultants don't hunt elephants, but they can be hired by the hour to advise those who do.   (To Be Continued…)

Looking forward to hearing our Sunday School kids Christmas program this Sunday morning. Truly a blessing to watch (and direct).       Statisticians hunt the first animal they see N times and call it an elephant.   (To Be Continued…)

We had an owl moon last night (Full moon with snow on the ground). Didn't make it out to go look for them but is sure was beautiful outside. 16 degrees this morning with a foot of snow on the ground and snow in the forecast. Have a terrific weekend.     How to hunt elephants: Engineers hunt elephants by going to Africa, catching gray animals at random, and stopping when any one of them weighs within plus or minus 15 percent of any previously observed elephant.   (To Be Continued…)

Was busy with family things over the extended weekend. Did you do any Black Friday shopping? Cyber Monday?     Experienced computer programmer modifies Algorithm A by placing a known elephant in Cairo to ensure that the algorithm will terminate.   (To Be Continued…)

Getting ready for winter and getting ready for the holidays. A lot of the Christmas lights are up on the outside. The tree will go up Wednesday night. Any specials things that you do this time of the year that brings you together as a family or group of friends.       Computer scientists hunt elephants using algorithm A: 1.->Go to Africa 2.->Start at the Cape of Good Hope 3.->Work northward in an orderly manner, traversing the continent alternately east and west. 4.->During each traverse      a. Catch each animal seen      b. Compare each animal caught to a known elephant      c. Stop when a match is detected. (To Be Continued…)

Weekend away. Weather forecast is nice. Going to get out into creation, but we'll need to be careful because tomorrow is also opening day for Rifle Deer Season. Should bring along some extra bright orange. Stay safe for all those who will be out hunting.     Economists: don't hunt elephants, but they believe that if elephants are paid enough they will hunt themselves.   (To Be Continued…)