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Posted on 11/03/2004 6:16:42 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
Eleventh Thread: Wedding Edition: The Hobbit Hole XI - No One Admitted Except on Wedding Business!
New verse:
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Upon the hearth the fire is red, |
Still round the corner there may wait |
Home is behind, the world ahead, |
Spoke to soon, I see!
Didn't know you were a Dwarf, XGI..although I did have my suspicions! *grin*
[sigh] :-)
DId you brave the bridge tonight or are you still in BV?
And Spammish.
I'm still in Bvue. Not doing the bridge tonight. just tired, and headachy. Gonna chill for tonight and head down in the morning. don't feel like sitting in traffic.
Hair: You're welcome - just a few buzz words to toss at the Swamp Cop (aka the Tansey Cop's friend).
Ruthee: good evening, I try to keep reasonably 'suitable for all age groups'. :-)
Can't blame ya a bit there. Tired and headachy is no way to face Friday night traffic!
I just think of all the folks sitting bumper-to-bumper on A1A in South Beach right now convincing themsleves and each other that they're having a "good time".
Call me a loser, but I'd rather be sitting at home on my computer chatting with friends then be there any day of the week!
Since we're on the subject, have you decided what Middle Earth Race you fit into yet? *grin*
EGE; it could have been. however those very terms come from the US Army Corps of Engineers 1987 Wetland Delineation Manual.
As you and others here know first hand, it takes the Army to write a whole manual on figuring out what to call an area that makes your feet wet.
Good thing that! *wink* Looking forward to seeing you and the Mrs at ShootMoot.
Evening Ramius - and you are correct sir!
Roger that, and here in da waterin' hole (hmm... can a waterin' hole be defined a "wetland" and therefore federally protected??? hmmm...) here I have a very nice girl that brings me imbibments and insists that I medicate appropriately.
Life, as it were, is good. :-)
No one's bringing me drinks at the moment, but I do have a bag of leftover Halloween candy and a can of ice-cold Ginger Ale within arm's reach.
It's truly the simple things that prove life is indeed good.
Yep. Simple stuff. A good beer. Good company. A pentium 4 portable computer with IEEE 802.11b compliant proxy-based Internet router with a 1.54Mb T-1.
The simple things. :-)
Is there a particularly favored online quiz?
rummage rummage
*laughing*
I wasn't thinking quite ~that~ simple. *wink*
I favor Vernor's...
Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC): The purpose is to familiarize the chicken with road-crossing procedures. Road-crossing should be performed only between the hours of sunset and sunrise. Solo chickens must have at least three miles of visibility and a safety observer.
Special Forces Command: The chicken crossed at a 90 degree angle to avoid prolonged exposure to a line of communication. To achieve maximum surprise, the chicken should have performed this maneuver at night using NVGs (night vision goggles), preferably near a road bend in a valley.
Personnel Command (PERSCOM): Due to the needs of the Army, the chicken was involuntarily reassigned to the other side of the road. This will be a 3-year controlled tour and we promise to give the chicken a good-deal assignment afterwards. Every chicken will be required to do one road-crossing during its career, and this will not affect its opportunities for future promotion.
Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA): Despite what you see on CNN, I can neither confirm nor deny any fowl performing acts of transit. Questions? Please see the SSO.
ARMY FOREIGN TECHNOLOGY CENTER: This event will need confirmation; we need to repeat it using varied chicken breeds, road types, and weather conditions to confirm whether it can actually happen within the parameters specified for chickens and the remote possibility that they might cross thruways designated by some as 'roads.'
Fort Rucker (Aviation Safety Center): The chicken should log this as a GCC sortie only if road-crossing qualified. The crossing updates the chicken's 60-day road-crossing currency only if performed on a Monday or Thursday or during a full moon. Instructor chickens may update currency any time they observe another chicken cross the road.
Forces Command (FORSCOM): The purpose is not important. What is important is that the chicken remained under the OPCON (operational control) of USCINCTRANS (U.S. Commander in Chief, Transportation Command) and did not CHOP to the theater on the other side of the road. Without CHOPing the chicken was able to achieve a seamless road-crossing with near perfect, real-time in-transit visibility.
Theater Air Control Center (TACC): We need the road-crossing time and the time the chicken becomes available for another crossing.
COMMAND POST: What chicken?
TOWER: The chicken was instructed to hold short of the road. This road incursion incident was reported in a Hazardous Chicken Road-Crossing Report (HCRCR). Please re-emphasize that chickens are required to read back all hold short instructions.
ARMY MATERIEL COMMAND (AMC): Recent changes in technology, coupled with today's multipolar strategic environment, have created new challenges in the chicken's ability to cross the road. The chicken was also faced with significant challenges to create and develop core competencies required for this new environment.
· STRICOM has been asked to develop a Virtual Intensive Chicken Trainer Using ADA Language (VICTUALS). Anticipated fielding of this device will possibly benefit the Army After Next (AAN) and certainly the NAATNA, (Next Army After The Next Army) initiatives.
· AMC's Chicken Systems Program Office (CSPO), in a partnering relationship with the client, helped the chicken by rethinking its physical distribution strategy and implementation processes. Using the Poultry Integration Model (PIM) CSPO helped the chicken use its skills, methodologies, knowledge capital and experiences to align the chicken's people, processes and technology in support of its overall strategy within a Program Management framework.
· The CSPO convened a diverse cross-spectrum of road analysts and retired chickens along with MITRE consultants with deep skills in the transportation industry to engage in a two-day itinerary of meetings in order to leverage their personal knowledge and capital, both tacit and explicit, and to enable them to synergize with each other to achieve the implicit goals of delivering and successfully architecting and implementing an enterprise-wide value framework across the continuum of poultry cross-median processes. The meeting was held in a park-like setting enabling and creating an impactful environment which was strategically based, mission-focused, and built upon a consistent, clear, and unified Mission Need Statement and aligned with the chicken's mission, vision, and core values. This was conducive towards the creation of a total business integration solution.
· The Chicken Systems Program Office helped the chicken change to continue meeting its mission.
Enginer School, Directorate of Combat Developments (DCD): Unfortunately, the chicken was killed during movement of an Armored Combat Earthmover (ACE). Representatives of DCD quickly reported that it was not their fault, because the ACE Operational Requirements Document (ORD) specifically indicated the road was to be empty during ACE movements. Because the ORD clearly specified the ACE was to be operated only in an environment completely free of obstacles, DCD certainly was not responsible for this unavoidable tragedy. Furthermore, professional engineers concluded: "Since the chicken did not complete the mission, this question is based on a false premise and therefore is irrelevant." QED... NEXT!
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