The Adam Hansen Weblog

Just Over Broke. The more I think about it, the more I know it is true. It is time for a change. Once again the thing on my mind is my job. I guess the thing about the jobs that I have had in the past couple of years is that they require very little thought. “Just do what you are told.” “We are not paid to think,” is what I have heard in the past from one of my managers. The people at corporate do that. We are supposed to just do what they say.

I can’t keep doing that. Where is the challenge? Where is the creativity? I can tell you what there is, lots of boredom, lots of job INsecurity, lots of frustration. Again I return to the thought of selling everything and moving somewhere. Hmmm…. is that Germany I hear calling? or maybe that was Scotland…. or Equador.

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Why is it that fast food restaurants no longer have the size of medium? They have small, large, supersize (or kingsize or biggie size or…), then they have super duper size or something. Why don’t they call the large, a medium, because it is. Then their fancy name for extra large, a large. Don’t even get me started on french fries. ….and people wonder why Americans are getting bigger waistlines. I remember when a normal sized glass was 12 ounces now it is at least 16 or 20. Ah life in the richest country in the world. Our priorities are so screwed up!

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My first attempt at a website has begun. You can check out my project at www.ToledoLinks.com. This is my first page that is actually up and running designed by me. Well if you can call it that, not too much design behind it. My idea is to link all the different business & community sites for the Toledo, Ohio area. One gigantic bookmark.

I realize that I have just begun. Any and all feadback will be very much appreciated. (Links to the site are appreciated too.) I hope to show that Toledo isn’t such a dull place after all. Tell your friends and neighbors. Seize the day!!

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I went on a tour today of the Toledo Mud Hens Stadium, aka Fifth Third Field. It was pretty cool. I got to check out the press box, box suites, the visitors clubhouse and the dugout. I knew this was a nice stadium, but looking at it up close I realized how nice it really is. If you want to check out some pictures of the day, click here.

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I found this list on a site of a local coffee house called Brewed Awakenings. Just the lift I needed tonight.

Advice on How to Keep a Healthy Level of Insanity

* At lunchtime, sit in your parked car with sunglasses on and point a hair dryer at passing cars. See if they slow down.
* Page yourself over the intercom. Don’t disguise your voice.
* Every time someone asks you to do something, ask if they want fries with that.
* Put your garbage can on your desk and label it “in”
* Put decaf in the coffee maker for 3 weeks. Once everyone has gotten over their caffeine addictions, switch to espresso.
* In the memo field of all your checks, write “for sexual favors”.
* Finish all your sentences with “in accordance with the prophecy.”
* Don’t use any punctuation marks
* As often as possible, skip rather than walk.
* Specify that your drive-through order is “to go”.
* Sing along at the opera.
* Go to a poetry recital and ask why the poems don’t rhyme.
* Put mosquito netting around your work area. Play a tape of jungle sounds all day.
* Five days in advance, tell your friends you can’t attend their party because you’re not in the mood.
* Have your coworkers address you by your wrestling name, Rock Hard Kim
* When the money comes out the ATM, scream “I won!”, “I won!” “3rd time this week!!!!!”
* When leaving the zoo, start running towards the parking lot, yelling “run for your lives, they’re loose!!”
* Tell your children over dinner, “due to the economy, we are going to have to let one of you go.”

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I have never seen or even heard of an almiqui but it looks like this Cuba native is not extinct after all. Score one for Mother Nature and the almiqui.

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Imagine. Imagine if electricity was free. What would change? Would third world countries evolve more quickly? Would that be for the better? Would electric cars become a more popular option for people to buy? Everything would be air conditioned.

Why hasn’t anyone come up a way to generate cheap or free electricity. Does anyone try or does big business squash anyone that tries? Who is our modern day Franklin or Edison? Maybe I should give it a try. I have a garage I could make stuff in. I am pretty creative. Perhaps I should buy some wire. Make some salt water and see what I can do. Could you please pass the salt?

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Normally I love the rain. For quite a while I have thought of it as a great way for nature to help renew itself. Giving the trees and plants a drink. Cooling off the area. The past few times though I have felt completely exhausted. Today it seems I slept most of the day away. In reality I was working on a new website. But I was soooo tired and the day was so dreary. Hopefully the sun will be shinning tomorrow. Maybe I should buy one of those full spectrum light bulbs so I don’t feel so darn exhausted.

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I never would have thought that Leonardo DiCaprio and I would have something in common. If you would play the degrees of separation game he and I are just separated by one person. I guess that means I am separated from Mike Seaver a.k.a. Kirk Cameron by two degrees then.

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I pulled up to my house tonight an saw a bright red glowing coming from my neighbor’s house. They have their Christmas tree up already. It is covered in red lights, hence the red glow. Maybe I am a little nuts (OK, a lot) but isn’t just a tad bit early in the year for a Christmas tree? Heck when I saw Halloween decorations at the store last week, it seemed early for that. I realize that everything generally goes up six weeks before hand but still. Let me enjoy September! So I guess I should say, Merry Christmas, Happy Channukah, Happy Quanza. Seize the day!

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