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So, over and over I find out that my preconceived notions are rarely accurate and that I end up throwing them away and starting over. At least I keep my mouth shut so no one else knows.

Oddly enough, I checked wikiquote like I sometimes do and Francis Bacon was featured on the front page. I remember reading something of his that I really liked from high school, but now I have no idea what it was. Well, the quote today was:

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.

Also,

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this — that men despair and think things impossible.

and

It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.

More at wikiquote / Francis Bacon.

i think i was sitting in the 44-69 trailer while danny was counting green totes. i was going to help him – that’s why i was in the trailer – but he was taking care of it himself. i had forgotten to count them – actually, i hadn’t forgotten, i didn’t have a pen to write down the totals. so danny was counting and i was sitting… and i was wondering, “why in the world am i so tired?” i can’t say what danny said, but it was something like, “Don’t you hate coming here and working harder than the regular dock guys?”

well, when i sat down and thought about it, i had wrapped 4 trucks almost entirely by myself. i was quite shocked. 44-69; 270 East; Lubbock; and 35-77. i think that was the same night that i climbed out of the back of Lubbock’s trailer as Myron walked by. he said, “oh”. i said, “what’s up?” he pulled out his walkie-talkie and said “Tom Johnson. Hold up on door 10.” oh, that was the trailer I was in. that would have been interesting…

wow!

• 1pm class canceled on Friday
• work let out early friday
• no girl’s bus calling on Saturday
• no Saturday nursing home
• no buses, Sunday school, or evening church on Sunday
• no school Monday

what happened, you ask? it snowed/iced about 1-3″ in Oklahoma…

adding to my dock-woes, i ran into a metal desk while shrink wrapping a skid. it was bound to happen sooner or later. so much for being careful…

ok, so i didn’t do that hot on keeping it updated in 2006. i got an idea for ‘07 that should work, though. i’ll “unfurl” it tomorrow…