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Love at first sight?
I met a little girl this week and have to say I believe it is true, you can fall in love at first sight.
She has wonderful curly hair light blue eyes and is all of two feet tall give or take a bit.

Yes I got to meet my Granddaughter Emma this week. So far we have not had much of a chance to bond as she is a very busy little girl.

Everyone has to take pictures of coarse, including her Mom and Dad.
So that gets in her way.
Then the complexities of chickens that don’t or won’t dance is a real time demand.
We can’t forget that everybody and place she goes is new and must be explored as only a toddler can.
The Doggies are a bit of a challenge for her as her hands do not extend far enough up to keep snacks and such out of their reach.
Of coarse the doggies must give and get their far share of kisses and pats also.
Then there is Moira who is always much more interesting than an old Grandpa.
I can wait my turn though for this is one very special little girl.

I Was hoping this new year would be a drastic change from the last but so far its well just another day in a long series of depressing blahs. But there is hope as this is only a few weeks into the Baby New Year so I guess I have no real choice but to buckle in for the ride.

What is going on for me this year? (I know you didn’t ask but I’m going to tell you anyway.)

• Bruce Johnson and I are nearing the last stages of a year long long project called Fenevision. It an online order system and production management system for Home Guard.
• Thanks to Drew, Roberta and I have gained a Three hundred Dollar a month car payment for a car that does not exsist. Never Never Never Never cosign for a loan.
• It looks like Home Guard is going to start a new door line and I get the honor of setting it up. That part is great the down side is I still have a ton of work to get to in Fenevision
• The Mother – I love her to death but sometimes not so much. Since November, Carla (my second best friend and sister), Roberta (my best friend and wife) and I have been taking care of Mom. From spending 24 hours a day with her to the last few weeks of just bringing her meals and checking up on her everyday. I feel rotten about it but I am so tired of having to track over there every day. If we were sure at some point in time we could say that she would be better I think we could all do this but I’m just not that confident that this is not as good as it is going to get.
• If Mom care is not enough My Sister has taken on the care of my Aunt Dort. Dort is anything except a nice little old lady. Don’t get me wrong here she was a great bit of fun at one time in very small doses. Her vulgarity can get to be a bit much in a short amount of time. Now However your never really sure if she is kidding or if her mind has turned to soup. Her Son Tommy is a real loser and as far as I know shacked up some where Down south in Georgia. You would think that my Aunt Dede and Uncle Bill would step up and help out with Dort but just like when my Grandmother Alice Ames needed care they were less than remarkable about doing more than was forced. — So I have decided Carla is a Saint and no body better ever say different. That would not be smart. Not even as poor attempt at humor Tim!
• The Roof on the house has made it known to me that it is in great need of repair as my bathroom ceiling is now a thing of the past. The sad part is that it has leaked ever since Yoder Construction replaced the old roof too many years ago to bitch, but I was thinking that it had to be coming from another part of the roof and running over to the lower replaced roof. I was wrong just a real crappy job.
• The Truck – Gas tank leak, Transmission slipping and now the steering is hard to turn. On top of that the battery froze so it is going to require replacement. I know I could get another truck for less then it would cost to repair old red, but Thanks to Drew and his car payment getting that much money at one time is going to be tough. Repairs and junk yard excursions my be the only way. But at least I have the skill set to do it myself. Now if I only had the will power.
• The wonderful tax season is here. County School tax is going to screw the pooch this year I not sure how were going to cover that bill. Don’t get me started when you look at al the taxes we pay it well over 25% of gross income it makes me sick!

Okay enough for now
Happy New Year (I pray)

Well Happy November to you all.

November has to be my favorite month as Halloween winds down and Thanksgiving plans are laid out. Of coarse my birthday in there doesn’t hurt the esteem that I hold for the month.

This year the leaves around our house fell a bit early so and Roberta and I got a head start in getting the post summer yard work completed. I plan on mowing the grass one last time to clean up the last or the leaves and give the yard that short crop that makes rolling snow balls for snowmen a neater project. Although the chances of me getting my butt out in the cold to build a snowman are slim but it is best to be ready if the urge evolves.

Well there is no doubt, as the mad turkey on the home page points out so well, that the holidays are here. The stores have all their trees decked out and the sears big book holiday catalog has arrived. So I compiled a list to help you through the next few months.

• OCTOBER 2009
Saturday October 31st Halloween
• NOVEMBER 2009
Wednesday November 11th Veteran’s Day
Thursday November 26th Thanksgiving
• DECEMBER 2009
Thursday December 17th Wright Brothers Day
Monday December 21st First Day Winter
Friday December 25th Christmas
• January 2010
New Year’s Day January 1

Well as far as I am concerned the madness of the holidays ends here but for the few of you that need more the list goes on!

Three Kings Day (Dia de los Santos Reyes) January 6
Martin Luther King, Jr’s Birthday Monday, January 19
• FEBRUARY 2010
Groundhog Day February 02
Lincoln’s Birthday February 12
Valentine’s Day February 14
President’s Day Monday, February 16
Washington’s Birthday February 22
Mardi Gras: Tuesday, February 24
Ash Wednesday: February 25
• MARCH 2010
Purim (Begins at Sundown*) March 09
St. Patrick’s Day March 17
Baha’i New Year (Naw Ruz) March 21
• APRIL 2010
April Fool’s Day April 1
Palm Sunday Sunday, April 05
Passover (Begins at Sundown*) April 08
Good Friday April 10

For you this month in The Wort Zone.
New links to my facebook page.
The comics page is do to be updated if time allows.
Well There Should be a new wall paper up in the next few days for the season.
With any luck a photo or two of my favorite subject Grand-kids.

Just in case I don’t get another chance best warm wishes to you and yours.
May every day be a holiday and a delight in your heart.

Doc.

Hey wait a second!
This will just take a minute.
In just five minutes you can ….
This should only take a few minutes.
30 minute meal.

I am beginning to feel like one of the few people in the world that can tell time.
Have you heard one of those phrases above tossed your way without the smallest thought to how long the request actually would take? I was getting a quote on a mold. When I asked, How long to complete the project? The reply was, about a day. The disclaimer to follow was … you do realize of coarse that my day here in the office is about a week on the bench. This led me to believe that there should be a way to calculate the brain time verses real time.

First I need the set a few parameters that we can base this hypothesis on.

The Work Week and Day

A normal work week 40 hours
A normal work day 8 hours
A normal work hour 60 minutes
A normal work minute 60 seconds
A normal Second then is according to the International System of Units is equal to the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the cesium-133 atom”.

Now for a brain to live and work with other brains and be able to resolve to be in a similar place and time as another brain we must conclude that brains base their time scale in a similar fashion thus…

A brain week is 40 brain hours
A brain day is 8 brain hours
A brain hour is then 60 brain minutes
A brain minute is then 60 brain seconds
We (me and my monkey) can extrapolate from the statement above, which was proven accurate as they did have the job complete in a week. That a brain second is 5x work seconds.

This all broke down very well and I thought I had whole thing solved. People were not being rude, snobbish or short sighted. Brain time was just not the same as real time but could be calculated out using my handy little chart.

But as I tried this out in work and home I found that I was no better off than before. For sure it seems to work for days if something was to be done or shipped in a day it would be here in about five days or one week. I was back to the belief that people were just thoughtless and cruel loading down anyone just because they could, not really caring weather people had the time or not. But then it accrued to me, that maybe when people said seconds being that they were speaking in brain time, and not converting things at all into real time, they may mean the next unit up on the time scale of my handy chart.

So if Mr John said “hey do you have 5 seconds” he would mean minutes and the five also being in brain time would Then be looked up on the chart to see that we are looking at 300 seconds real time.

Thus when one of these people say 5 minutes they would be meaning 5 hours. We can call this first class of people the leap timers.

Now there are people that are afflicted with this syndrome coming and going. If they say five minutes it would still stand that what is needed is five hours to complete the task. If you were to explain that to to them then they would burst into an argument that five hours is a ridiculous time frame and that they could do it them selves in less time. In their mind when, you have just said you would complete the task in no less time than five days. These People will be known as Leap inverters as all time is upped coming in or out. With these people if they say a job is five minute and you do the job in five working hours then they are pleased and will carry on in a normal fashion.

The last group that I will mention here are the Believers. They say five minutes and believe that any the five hour job can be done in the five minutes. If you are unfortunate enough to work for one of these Believers you are fine as long as there is not a clock or dead line involved. As long as the Believer can be distracted ether by having it do something that will take just as long as your job will take or actually working on the job with you then all is well. When the five hours are up and the job is done the believer will walk away happy that it or you completed the job in the required time.

Unfortunately When a believer is also a clock watcher you will be the victim of a believer tirade. It does no good to point out that there was never enough time to begin with because he already Believes in his first estimate of the job. Nor will it matter when X number of people also cannot complete the same job on time for the Believer never wavers from it’s original estimation. Even so far as if the believer is doing the job and cannot complete the job. He will find a reason based on another person failure to supply the proper component or instruction.

What can I say I love my dogs.
The Corgie is the smartest dog I ever known and one of the moodiest dogs I have ever known. Of coarse any time is play time. Our little tiny dog I call her “Mad”, Maddie is the real handle. She is a pint sized bundle of love and tiny terror. I never thought I would could care for a itty bitty dog but she has my heart.

According to The Old Farmer’s Almanac.
Multiplying your dog’s age by seven is easy, but it isn’t very accurate.

One “dog year” equals 4 “human years” from ages 2–14 and 2-1/2 “human years” thereafter. This calculation piles the equivalent human years onto a dog’s life more quickly during the dog’s rapid growth to maturity. Did you know:

* A 6-month-old dog = 10 human-years-old
* A 1-year-old dog = 15 human-years-old
* A 2-year-old-dog = 24 human-years-old
* A 3-year-old-dog = 28 human-years-old

It may only be the third of July but it was a great day for a cookout.
Roberta and I got to have the family over. I just hope they enjoyed the day as much as i did.

We just did burgers and hot dogs on the grill, a melon salad, and pasta salad. Carla made short cakes and deviled eggs.

I thought the strawberry shortcake was to be desert but I was wrong. Corry just ate the short cake wondering why it was dry. We had to explain that it was to be covered with strawberries. I myself like the short cake by its self, although covered with berries is much better.

Just two months late we got to give Jenifer her birthday gifts. (I miss the monkey already)

Well I hope you have a great week end

Doc.

233 years and how the world has changed in that time.

Memorial Day may be the day to think back on our military men who have served. But There would be no fourth of July if it were not for the hero’s of yesterday and today.

Below is a photo taken somewhere in Germany or Czechoslovakia of my father Carl G. Wort Standing in front of the tank he and his crew made into a tank retriever. Time of the photo was around 1944 Dad would have been 27 years old.

WWII CARL G. WORT

It’s been almost seventeen years since his death in September of 1992 and I still miss him more than I would have ever thought possible. He was proud to have served with the 4th armored division in Europe, but not in a way that would have been seen by anyone outside his family. It was his duty and there was no choice about it for him. He was there did what was asked and came home he was one of the lucky ones. Most sources say that the American casualties were about 406,000 killed. There is know way for me to see that number in my mind.

The more I find out about that time in history and the older I get I am even more in awe of the my father and the men that fought in the second world war.

Thank you all for giving us a United States of America. With so many countries like China and North Vietnam today demonstrating how it is still possible to keep a nation of people poor and ignorant of the world around them. How even American companies like google bend to their will to restrict information. It is time to stand up and celebrate what a great nation (even with its problems) we have!

Drew is moving home again for a short bit while he and Brit get things together.

Amber, Corey and Moira should be coming home in about two weeks for a visit. We’re going to have a full house.

Still on the software I can’t do without kick.

The Program is called Convert.  It is a free and easy to use unit conversion program that will convert  units of distance, temperature, volume, time, speed, mass, power, density, pressure, energy and many others, including the ability to create custom conversions!

This one program always seems to get back on my machine no matter how many times I get a new machine or wipe clean an old one.  It may not be a program you use everyday but when you want to know how many milliliters are in a gallon (3785.412) it is nice to have around.

Convert Website

One of the neat things that I have found in the last six or so years of using convert  is how many people tell me about the convert program they found on the net.

There are a few Programs I love a few I despise and a bunch some where in the ho mum middle.

One of the nicest little  applications on my can’t live without list is a program called Tinyspell.

It simply sits on your task bar and beeps when you spell a word incorrectly. It can then replace the word with the  correct spelling.  It is feature rich but very easy to use and install.  You can find it at  http://www.tinyspell.m6.net/ .

The cost is free for the standard tool and $10.00 for the Plus version. Give it a try!

DocWert