I was trying to sleep in on my day off this morning only to be awaken about 10am. The noise sounded like someone was pounding on the side of my house with a hammer, WTF? After listening to it for about a minute I started to think, no, it can’t be. It can’t be what I think it is, can it?
I manage to get some clothes and shoes on. I walk out to the back yard and there are a shitload of birds all over the place. And what do I find attached to the side of my house? A wood pecker. It’s removed a large swatch of stucko from the side of my house, just under a window.
I guess it was time to get up anyways.
Update: Apparently it isn’t uncommon to have woodpeckers attack buildings in New Mexico. I found this PDF from NMSU on how to control them.
Categories: Home Improvement And Automation, New Mexico, Rio Rancho Tags: Back Yard, Birds, Clothes, Control, Hammer, Nature, New Mexico, Nmsu, Shitload, Shoes, Sleep, Stucko, Swatch, Wood Pecker, Woodpeckers, Wtf
This is an Advertisement for Puma. Your suppose to look at the shoes…
[Update:] Thanks to the commenter, its not an ad produced by Puma for Puma..
I couldn’t agree more with Alton Brown when he says (June 10th, BTW).
“I?m just saying that people with authority should have to play by a set of rules…published rules. If as a nation we?re going to have to tolerate being probed, scanned, profiled and frisked before we can get on an airplane, so be it. But it seems to me that we deserve a little consistency. Otherwise we open ourselves up to a whole new brand of bully…bullies with badges…not to mention really nice omelet pans.”
(TSA = Transportation Security Administration)
In the year before September 11th, 2001 I was working away from home in California. I flew back and forth for 9 months and got quite familiar with the airport system. I was luck that my assignment was over just before those planes crashed into the towers. At the time I thought it a good idea to turn over security to the feds. I mean, they should be doing for the safety of the citizens instead of for the money (not that “for the money” is a bad thing). Having been through security since then I can think that it is nothing more than a joke. They have random searches of peoples shoes? Give me a break.
Categories: Food, Political Tags: 9 Months, Airplane, Alton Brown, Badges, Btw, Bullies, Bully, Citizens, Consistency, Dirty Word, Feds, Joke, Money, Omelet, Omelet Pans, Planes, Random Searches, Rant, September 11th 2001, Shoes, Transportation Security Administration, Tsa
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