First of all...let me offer a hearty "I told you so"...
I direct that commentary toward those of you who read my blog posting from EARLY Saturday morning and then ended up wincing your way along with me through the mindless, never ending, meaningless coverage of the the Chilean earthquake and "potential Tsunamis" on every TV channel including CNN and FOX News yesterday.
By 8 AM Saturday morning anyone with any sense knew that the Tsunami threat was pretty much over based on what happened on the northern coasts of South and Central America and the Mexican Baja Pensula, but the "TV News Networks" insisted on holding out...praying for a disaster...and televising a mind numbing, second by second, "live-on-the-scene" report from Hawaii of people standing around babbling and waiting for a four foot wave to arrive on the scene.
I'd rather spend my time watching important things like paint drying and Pizza dough rising...
and I, personally, am ready to buy an expensive ticket, go get on an airplane and set about to find
There's probably a Nobel Prize or an Emmy or some kind of award available for anyone that can save the TV viewing public from the guy...
I'm sorry folks, but that SOB gets on my last nerve every time I see his stupid moustached face on TV because he just can't freakin' shut up after telling you what has or will happen on/in any given "news story."
Gretta Van Sustren runs a close second yapping away about Natalie Holloway and the other "missing/murdered/abused woman/child du joure" but I respect women enough to not threaten to lay a hand on her although I could find myself yelling at her to give the story a rest every now and then.
You know?
But
the man just bothers me with his style including things like the famous empty Al Capone's vault episode back in 1986:
So any way, I'm having a hard time staying focused this morning, having basically wasted Saturday doing nothing but going last minute grocery shopping for things we need to drag with us down to the Chili cookoff this week (check out Goya Recaito Cilantro Cooking Base) and cooking a giant portion of my soon to be internationally famous Horseradish crusted pork tenderloin for dinner with our neighbors.
On the professional front, the good news is that I got the HP laptop fired back up with the arrival of a new AC adapter via Fed Ex this morning, so I'm back in the PLC programming business in time to meet the deadline. Unfortunately now the battery has also been proven to be a casualty of the AC supply malfunction also but I can live without it for the time being and as long as I have 110 power my life will go on uninterrupted.
All that said, I absolutely have to get my head focused on finishing the Phase II PLC programming and build another four pneumatic valves...preferably today and Monday, because I don't want to be answering the phone and worrying about that kind of stuff while out of town trying to cook Chili and sit around the pool and on the beach.
It's tough being me, but I made my bed...and I guess I have to lie in it now...
3 comments:
Dude if you are serious about Horendo, I will kick in a twenty spot for your plane ticket! ;-)
I'll be an unindicted co-conspirator!
Do those PLCs do ethernet?
I'm using a relatively new company, Horner PLC's...(check out Horner APG on the internet) and the two panels we've built so far don't have ethernet or 900 Mhz radios yet.
On the next air dryer monitoring panel we plan on adding CScan hard wired networking between some subpanels and possibly 802.11g or 900 Mhz with a Web enabled color touchscreen PLC that will have it's own IP address and can send and receive info and alarms to 3G phones and be accessed by the plant people remotely over the internet.
That's all pie in the sky until I get this ladder programming and touch screen user interface stuff figured out...it takes me a week to do something a competent programmer can do in a day.
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