Sign of the Times

Today's Weird Li’l SIS:      Super-decal-ofragilistic
Date:                        09/12/14
Official Location:           My Parking Lot
                             Troy, MI

 

I got tired of our vans getting jacked while working in the ghetto, so I made some modifications.

 

The screens and the alarms really worked.

 

Sadly, however, it was decided that I'm not allowed to order the decals anymore.  Something about professionalism and company image and whatnot.

 

m.karvinen

Because I'm like 12

Today's Weird Li’l SIS:      Homonym & M's
Date:                        07/31/14
Official Location:           North of Midtown
                             Detroit

...at least something in Detroit does.

m. karvinen

Cat with a Gat

Today's Weird Li’l SIS:      Detroit Inst of Art
Date:                        07/03/14
Official Location:           Brush & Piquette
                             Detroit

I just don't understand why they hate cats so much.

m. karvinen

HoJo Sucks

Today's Weird Li’l SIS:      Mason Dixon
Date:                        04/15/14
Official Location:           Kentucky & Tennessee


About two months ago, the wife and I decided to take a little "us" time and drive down I-75 until we got to some warmer climes. It had been a brutal winter, and I have to confess, it was the kind of season that makes you want to consider moving to a place like, well, Tennessee.  It's warmer now, and I have returned to my Midwestern sensibilities.  Anyway, here's a picture or two to illustrate how we vacation and how my persistent immaturity apparently does not.

Our first nature walk in Tennessee.

Didn't Walt Disney freeze his head? 

Wouldn't that make this the most authentic Disneyworld?

 

I suspect this is a side effect of enjoying too much Frozen Head.

 

After being forced off the highway by detours, we stayed in a real classy Howard Johnson's in Nicholasville, Kentucky.  This was wedged in the missing peephole.  It was one of the nicer amenities.

 

They also made it very easy to identify which part of the carpet was the best place to store the iron.

(Sadly, someone had already stolen the iron.)

 

I suspect the Nicholasville/Lexington Howard Johnson's is well known to a number of these.

 

 

This is where the mother-in-law is from in Tennessee.  Their football team is the fighting Wartburg Bulldogs.  Really?  No one considered Wartburg Warthogs?  Isn't it just better to embrace your weirdness?

 

 

m. karvinen

 

 

 

Depressed all over Again

Today's Weird Li’l SIS:   Munday Moanin'
Date:                     03/16/2012 (Yeah, 2 years ago)
Location:                 My Last Teaching Job
Official Location:        Could have been anywhere

I stumbled across this in my briefcase the other day. It's from my last teaching gig. I really loved teaching!

People ask me why I don't teach college courses anymore.  I can tell you that it wasn't because of all the "meatings."

Simple fact is, not every person is college material.  Unfortunately, we still loan them boatloads of money to pretend they are, and then we are shocked when they are unable to graduate and pay it back. 

There is so much blame to go around, I doubt we'll ever "fined" a solution.

m. karvinen

Wrecking Ball

Today's Weird Li’l SIS:   That's Smiley, not Miley
Date:                     04/29/2014
Location:                 Big Three Automaker Facility
Official Location:        Classified

So last week we're working at a moth-balled industrial site that I'm not at liberty to name. Suddenly, my partner spots this little guy casually hanging out by the dumpster. He'd obviously been around since the plant was open.  Now painting a smiley face on a big yellow wrecking ball isn't exactly the epitome of on-the-job creativity, but I gotta give mad shout-outs to the employee that went the extra mile and welded an industrial ceiling fan to the top to create the beanie propeller.

Small wonder cars are so expensive.

m. karvinen

Book Alert - Finale

We interrupt our regularly scheduled Weird L'il SIS

to bring you this...

 

Book Alert 5 - The Last One!

 

Well, it's official.  The book has been published!  No more book alerts.  I promise.

 

I'd be more excited, but it was basically like giving birth toward the end.

And, no, it wasn't a pain you forget.

 

Anyway, it came out way cool, and you should promptly go out and buy several copies for you and several hundred of your closest friends.

 

Buy a physical copy here

or

Buy the Kindle/Amazon version here

or

Go to the official book website and download a free preview here.

 

So many choices...

 

m karvinen