The link below goes to a YouTube music area with a variety of musical video clips, including artists such as George Clinton, Wilson Pickett, Rufus Thomas, and many others.
A guy walks into the doctor's office and says, "Doc, I haven't had a
bowel movement in a week!" The doctor gives him a prescription for a
mild laxative and tells him, "If it doesn't work, let me know."
A week later the guy is back: "Doc, still no movement!"
The doctor says, "Hmm, guess you need something stronger," and
prescribes a powerful laxative.
Still another week later the poor guy is back: "Doc, STILL nothing!"
The doctor, worried, says, "We'd better get some more information about
you to try to figure out what's going on. What do you do for a living?"
"I'm a musician."
The doctor looks up and says, "Well, that's it! Here's $10.00. Go get
something to eat!"
So apparently he's going to lose his house because he can't afford it, and is trying to raise money by selling t-shirts on his website. Plus, he has some vendetta against his lawyer for not doing a better job of saving his house (sounds like he has a genuine beef, but it is a one-sided story).
I think this has "Saved By The Bell Reunion" written all over it. I'm just waiting for Zack and Slater to show up on this site to pull some wacky scheme. Maybe Mr. Belding will show up at the last minute to save the day.
The infamous "Four Sisters" of Mississauga tumbled this morning. These were four giant smokestacks that were no longer in use since the Ontario Government closed the plant, and the stacks were simply eyesores.
666 = number of the beast
665 = older brother of the beast
660 = approximate number of the beast
66600 = zip code of the beast
1/666 = common denominator of the beast
665.95 = retail price of the beast
$699.25 = Price of the Beast plus 5% state sales tax
$769.95 = Price of the Beast with all accessories and replacement soul
$656.66 = Walmart price of the Beast
$646.66 = Next week's Walmart price of the Beast
DCLXVI = Roman numeral of the Beast
666.0000 = Number of the High Precision Beast
0.666 = Number of the Millibeast
/ 666 = Beast Common Denominator
(-666) ^ (1/2) = Imaginary number of the Beast
6.66 e3 = Floating point Beast
1010011010 = Binary of the Beast
6, uh . . . what was that number again? = Number of the Blonde Beast
1-666 = Area code of the Beast
00666 = Zip code of the Beast
666mph = The speed limit of the Beast
Phillips 666 = Gasoline of the Beast
Route 666 = Way of the Beast
666 F = Oven temperature for roast Beast
666k = Retirement plan of the Beast
666 mg = Recommended Minimum Daily Requirement of Beast
6.66 % = 5 year CD interest rate at First Beast of Hell National Bank, $666 minimum deposit.
$666/hr = Beast's lawyer's billing rate
Lotus 6-6-6 = Spreadsheet of the Beast
Word 6.66 = Word Processor of the Beast
i66686 = CPU of the Beast
665.9997856 = The Number of the Beast on a Pentium
666i = BMW of the Beast
DSM-666 (revised) = Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the Beast
1232 Octal, Apt. 29A = Beast's hexed address
668 = Next-door neighbor of the Beast
333 = The semi-Christ
When work is your life, you don't really have a life
Posted 2006-06-05 13:34:19
The below is an interesting article someone forwarded me about a year ago. I just stumbled upon it going through my inbox and decided to post it since, as stated, its interesting, plus now I won't lose it :)
And try not to read too much into the timing of the post, its not to indicate some mindset.
When work is your life, you don't really have a life
Lyman MacInnis -
The Toronto Star
April 25, 2005
And you won't be very effective in your career, either
It's a hard truth to face, but there are a lot of you out there who need to get a life other than your careers.
Without exception, over the long term, the most effective professionals and executives with whom I've been associated are those for whom the workplace was not the be-all and end-all. They all had appropriately balanced lifestyles.
Yes, I did say "without exception" and the "most effective." It's my experience that workaholics are never, over the long term, the most effective people in any environment. Eventually, workaholics tend to become narrow-minded, burnt-out, unhappy, insensitive people who come nowhere close to reaching their true potential.
Don't get me wrong. I've worked long days and weeks, but only when they were justified by circumstances, not driven by blind ambition. Those of you who are regular readers know that I passionately believe in hard work and dedication. But I also passionately believe that no degree of success at the office can compensate for failure at home.
I believe, too, that a person's career must not be the main source of self-esteem. Career satisfaction certainly should be one aspect of it (or else you're in the wrong field), but it should never be more important than the satisfaction realized from being a good spouse, a good parent, a good friend, a good neighbour, a good person to share a laugh with and, when required, a good person to share a tear with. You shouldn't base all your values on your job.
Anyone who consistently chooses work over a weekend at the cottage, going to a child's sporting event or play, a bridge game with friends, a quiet evening at home with a nice wine and a good DVD, a nice dinner out with a special person, or taking the time to read a good novel, is heading for trouble - or worse, is already in trouble.
Work should never be a person's sole passion. Everyone, no matter how dedicated to a career or profession, needs to have outside interests that they feel strongly about and on which they spend some time. It's all the better if one of the interests is a hobby or a vocation that requires the development and application of some skill, such as painting, mechanics, woodworking or playing a musical instrument.
Work should not be your sole source of identification and recognition. As important as you may feel when you're introduced as "the person who was on TV talking about the economy the other night," or "the person who makes our IT department tick," it should be equally as satisfying to be introduced as "Ashley's dad," "Sammy's mom" or the person "who takes up the collection on Sunday."
It's a major mistake to look solely to your job for fundamental emotional gratifications, which are better provided by family, community, religion, outside interests and friends.
As illustrated by the above examples, fundamental emotional gratifications should never depend on one relationship - especially if that one relationship is where you work. Your colleagues may be friendly, but they shouldn't be your best friends. They should never be surrogates for your family. If you're dependent on one relationship for your fundamental emotional gratifications, what happens if you lose that relationship?
I'm not overstating the case. I know many people who consistently work 80-hour weeks. I know people who will take a holiday only when forced to, and even then take their Blackberries and a briefcase full of documents to the beach with them. I've been told of a partner in a downtown Toronto professional firm who slipped away from his wedding reception to go to the office for a couple of hours. But more telling, I've known far too many burnt-out, unhappy executives and professionals whose health has suffered unnecessarily. I don't have the evidence, but I suspect there are people who worked themselves into an early grave, which is a tough justification for that bigger house and second car for which their widows no longer have any use.
So what do you do if you're in this trap? First of all, you and your family should have some serious discussions around setting your priorities. Next, you need to talk to your superiors at work. Then you have to decide what actions need to be taken. Some may be difficult, such as lowering your standard of living or leaving your current place of employment, perhaps even changing your career. My experience has been that the necessary actions are rarely as difficult as they first seem to be, your superiors will be more understanding than you ever believed they would and that the results are always better than anticipated.
