1) Air Ducks
Received a phone call from +41 63 474 21 3 (Switzerland) offering to clean my ducts. I politely told him that I didn’t have any ducks. He replied that he is a duct cleaning company. I repeated that I didn’t have any ducks, just geese. He loudly repeated “air ducts” and I had to tell him that, yes ducks fly in the air, but I didn’t have any ducks, I only had geese.
He hung up.
2) Second Weirdest Thing to Happen In the Past Week
Adult Ed received an urgent letter in which the writer states, for our records, that:
a) her splice, Sir V. Putin, Moscow is not eligible to be a member of her house (York)
b) due to her marriage, she is economically aligned with her title and Royal line with Spain
c) she is an ordinary Royal and works in Resource Diagnostics Management (not “movies”)
d) she donated her grandfather’s heritage home to the community as a museum under Provincial jurisdiction.
e) she is no longer ‘LIM’ coded and that we should correct our files.
No, I have no idea what any of this means.
3) Lenten Puzzle
To paraphrase directions given at mass on Ash Wednesday…”And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing on the street corners to be seen by others.”
I felt guilty washing the ashes off of my forehead, but couldn’t help but feel like it was parallel to doing something pious to be seen by others.
4) Who Ya Gonna Call?
a. Raine on the ensuite floor in pain: 9-1-1
b. Giant hole has been dug in the front yard: Bell
c. Furnace on the fritz the first time: Reliance
d. Oven on the fritz: Whirlpool
e. Furnace on the fritz the second time: Reliance (but less pleasantly)
f. Weird noises coming from the basement: GHOST-BUSTERS! (or 9-1-1)
Sorry, Emma.
5) More quotes from WHEN by Daniel Pink:
“Afternoons are the Bermuda Triangles of our days. Across many domains, the trough represents a danger zone for productivity, ethics, and health.”
“…the typical worker reaches the most unproductive moment of the day at 2:55 p.m.”
“If you happen to appear before a parole board just before a break rather than just after one, you’ll likely spend a few more years in jail—not because of the facts of the case but because of the time of day.” -OK, note to self.
6) Unknown Fact from @unknowncomic
You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be lead.
7) I’ll take Canadian Icons for $1000
**DAILY DOUBLE**
A: This Canadian icon is going to quiz his way through pancreatic cancer.
Q: Who is Alex Trebek
GO ALEX GO!!!
itsJamesD.com 