Utterly Meaningless

OK…#4 is not true! Your pictures are good! Esp. the ones of your kids. It’s almost as if your love for them radiates from the pictures. That isn’t meant to be sappy…but it’s the truth.

I’m beginning to see a pattern here. I maxed out all the percentages on the ASVAB except Auto and Shop. So what did the Navy tell me I needed to go do? Something with “nuclear” in the title… something they told me meant I was going to be called upon to be in charge of the nuclear engines and power plants. Naturally. Eeesh.

I did not serve, by the way. They just made us take the test.

I find it bizarre that both of you took the ASVAB with no intention of going into the military. How common was that, and when are we talking about? If they had tried to make me take it, in the early 1980s, my mother would have thrown a fit.

1979. In SC every 11th-grader took it. But that was before the testing mania we find ourselves in today. I’d be shocked if they still required it.

Dammit Daryl, it’s Christmas. WHy do you hate us? 😀

I was in DoD schools for high school and they didn’t make us take it. Odd that a general public school would require it and the schools controlled by the military didn’t.

That’s ’cause the Army doesn’t support the military. Why does the Army hate America???

RE: number 3 – There is an unused school building for sale about 20 minutes north of us. 16,000 square feet on 6 acres for under $200K. It’s still in school building condition, complete with drinking fountains. It would take some work to make it livable. I’ve thought about buying it, but it would make my commute 45 minutes and I don’t think we could afford to heat it.

We have an old school building in our town that is being rehabbed as condos. We also have school students taking classes in trailers. We are also looking to build another multi thousand student school. And we are selling school buildings as condos.

There’s an old elementary school a couple miles from our house. The property was purchased by a church years ago, but they’ve never done anything with it. I occasionally toy with the idea of making an offer.

Lillian: 1982, in Georgia.

Sam,

Many times it is cheaper to build a new school than to repair/renovate an existing one. OTOH, building condos out of an old school has a certain cachet on which the builder can capitalize (pun intended).

Almost makes me wish I were still blogging so I could do this one, but despite the best of intentions, I don’t seem to be able to keep it up. So here’s ONE random thing about me:

I once played catch with a bunch of pro baseball players, in a packed major league stadium, while wearing an official NY Yankees uniform.

Laura,

As a big Yankees fan I’m going to need a few more details on this one. Give us the 5Ws and an H. Please?

I was in Miller Stadium (Milwaukee) working on a movie – Major League. I think it was 1988. We were shooting a playoff sequence, Indians vs. Yankees, and they had filled the stadium with extras. (People were not paid, they just got free hot dogs and a chance to win a car, and were entertained all night by some now-famous Second City comics.)

Anyway, they dressed me and a couple of other crew folks up as Yankees that night, having decided at the last minute they needed a few more team members in one shot. (I just happened to be standing around and was the right size for one of the smallish uniforms they had left.)

There were a bunch of pro ballplayers they had hired to do the long throws and hits, and help make all the baseball look realistic. The athletic supervisor sent everyone in uniform out to warm up, and the big guys very kindly tossed some balls easy so I could actually catch them without killing myself. Somewhere in my stash of keepsakes I have a couple of pictures, and a few seconds of film of me on the jumbotron.

Okay – you bombed in “Attention to Detail” and they recommended that you be a file clerk? Wouldn’t a high level of attention to detail be a requirement for a file clerk?

Wouldn’t a high level of attention to detail be a requirement for a file clerk?

Just so. And someone with no discernable experience or aptitude with vehicles wouldn’t exactly be anyone’s first choice to work on nuclear submarines, either. Anyone’s except the Navy’s, that is.

Okay – you bombed in “Attention to Detail” and they recommended that you be a file clerk? Wouldn’t a high level of attention to detail be a requirement for a file clerk?

Yeah– that was the beauty of it all. The one area where I showed absolutely no aptitude was where they thought I ought to be. I think it was right around then that I tore up my application to West Point.

Seriously.

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