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"A little song, a little dance...a little seltzer down your pants."

Oooh, you got the Bernie!

Duh...

...during the Plague...while stuck in isolation at home. You should come up with something to torture HS students with in future years.

That's how he made the jump from one show to the other.

Well, let's see...besides the Bondo incident, I've used a tennis ball can with the ends cut off to reconnect muffler pipe with 2 u-bolts. I've assisted in doing a brake job (pump the brakes when my friend said to do so). I've repaired the AC compressor on my 79 Camaro by back tracking the wires from the compressor to a connection that was loaded with dirt - cleaning it solved the AC issue. I've jerry-rigged a power amp & portable auto-reverse cassette player into being my car stereo (after someone stole my $200+ in-dash stereo). I've stopped a running engine by pulling the distributor wire (protip - don't do that, it hurts & can kill you), when the keys were locked in the car. Yeah, nobody's gonna hire me as an auto mechanic.

Over a frickin' year. The most the ones I'd be a great fit for have ghosted me. Age thing, I'm sure.

Borked - haven't heard that phrase in a while. Cleaning up after someone, particularly if they checked out long before leaving, is always so much fun. Good on you for fighting through it for others!

So, according to major employment websites, positions that I've had years of experience in - I'm not a match, or at best, fair. However, things I've never done or have the slightest training for - good match! Like Medical Device Engineer, Fiber Optic Technician, Anesthesiologist (just let Dr. Tsar hit you in the head with this hammer repeatedly), Auto Body Mechanic (I messed with Bondo on my first car, the results were less than impressive), OB/GYN (I don't know nuthin' 'bout birthin' no baby), Nuclear Operations for the Navy (what does this button do?). WTH? I think they need to work on their algorithms.

So, it's not like PRNDL?

Dustin Diamond (44) from cancer.

Update: My Mom said that one of her cats stood outside the bathroom last night and turned its head slowly, like it was following something around the room, finally stopping when it was looking at the heat vent. The cat went in there and yowled this morning for about 3 minutes.

'nuf sed

http://jaxexaminer.com/they-called-him-the-black-sparrow/

Someday, I might drive the 26 miles to see "Woodstock Willie", but not unless one of the cast is going to be there.

Think about it. Imagine you're a 5th grade English teacher, just starting out. Maybe you have the class read "Romeo & Juliet" (Board approved) your first year. The questions from the class are brand new & fresh to you. Year 2, the questions are pretty similar to the first year. Year 3, you try to change things up, the Board shoots down switching to "Catcher In The Rye" (themes are too adult for such young, impressionable minds), but "The Grapes of Wrath" is approved. New questions from the class, new ideas, things are fresh again. Repeat this a few years - questions become old hat. Always arguing with the Board about what is "appropriate" for 5th graders. Maybe you've even gotten complaints from parents about the curriculum (too hard for my kid, too "racy" for my kid, etc.). You're missing something, but you can't put your finger on it. What seemed like a profession where you could make a difference seems dull and repetitive. Did you have a favorite teacher in grade school? Did you ever contact them later in life to let them know they mattered? People in the "trades" can point to a finished product and say, "I did that!". A teacher rarely gets to see the outcome of their work unless one of their students gets in the news (which can be good or bad). My Grandfather started teaching in a 1 room schoolhouse (rural Illinois) in the 1920s and retired from teaching science at private school in Chicago in the 1970s. In retirement, he volunteer taught at a school for developmentally challenged kids. Even after his passing, he received letters and visits from his students, thanking him for his work. I think that, in part, was what kept him going into his 90s, knowing that he had made a difference. Not every teacher gets that kind of welcome feedback.