We drove down to Manchester, Georgia today (down in middle Georgia kind of near Fort Valley) and picked peaches at Hudson Farm.  Great fun, although it was a little bit more humid than I like because a rain storm had rolled through just before we got there.  The peaches were huge right off the tree, but harder than I expected.  I guess they’ll soften up over the next few days.  Apparently this was a great year for peaches in Georgia; the rain was just right and there’s a bumper crop of outstanding fruit (which is also why it’s so cheap at the grocery stores).  We got two large baskets of You-Pick peaches for $30.  I think that was a pretty good deal…and fun, to boot!

Anyway, I got a chuckle as I browsed around in the forums.

My car is a base Mustang V6, and has a black honeycomb grille with no foglights. The GT model (two steps up from mine, with a big V8 engine) has a grille with great big fog lights built in.

What amused me is that as I browsed around the “appearance” discussions, I noticed that one of the most-talked-about modifications that owners of V6′s make to their cars is the addition of a GT-style grille with foglights.  In fact, it’s one I’d like to make.

Here’s the “people are funny” part, though: I noticed that several folks who have the GT with the foglight grille were looking to replace the grille with one that DOESN’T have foglights!

I guess everybody wants what they don’t have and/or they just want to be different. Regardless, people ARE funny.

The first message in the quarantine this morning gave me a giggle:

Dental Assistant $50/hr min. salary

“Hmm,” I thought to myself.  ”Could it really be that Dental Assistants make a minimum of $100,000/year (assuming they work full time)?!  That seems just a little bit high to me.”

So I looked it up.

According to Salary.com, the median expected salary for a Dental Assistant in the United States is $33,127.  Assuming full time (2,000 hrs/year), that works out to $16.56/hr.  I suppose it’s possible that they only work 13 hours a week, in which case the $50/hr figure might be correct, but either way, it’s just a little bit misleading.

Perhaps I should just move on to

The secret to making money online

or even

High paying jobs in criminal justice

But probably I’m just as likely to strike it rich with

Cash in with wholesale dropshippers

or

Get cash following you on Twitter

The sad thing is that something like 40% of my incoming mail is trapped as spam, and that’s fairly low.  I’ve heard statistics that upwards of 80% of the mail floating around on the Internet is spam.  What a waste!

The barn in the picture above is about 2 miles from my house.  We’ve had probably close to eight inches of rain in the last 24 hours, and it’s getting surreal.  There’s localized flooding here and there (apparently Paulding County is worse off).  Hwy 78 through Snellville was shut down this morning for a while due to a mudslide across the road.  Cobb County schools announced earlier today that they would dismiss middle schools at 1:15pm (versus the usual 4:15pm), and elementary and high schools would let out at their usual times (2:50p and 3:30p or so).  All extracurricular activities tonight have been canceled. 

I’ve got a bit of water in my office, but there’s lots more in the office at the back of the building, where the storm drain has been overwhelmed and just can’t handle the volume of water that’s flowing down.  My friend Bud has been fighting a leak in his roof for a few days, but that’s the least of his problems right now; he now has water flooding into his basement through the foundation walls, presumably because the water table has risen so high.  I’d go help him bail, but he says that it’s impossible to get into (or out of!) his subdivision because the entrances are flooded.

And to make things interesting here at the office, the rising water has unleashed the ANTS…legions of them.  Fortunately for me, they’re all at the back of the building.  Rich took such delight in nuking them that it bordered — but only barely — on the perverse.

My very favorite commentary on all of it was this Facebook post from my friend, Mark Bullman:

 

I’m taking reservations for the Lido & Carnival decks of the new M-Ark I’ve been working on. We have limited availability because I have to fit 2 of every unclean & 4 of every clean animal on board. We at M-Ark Lines expect two other ships to be ready to sail from Paces Landing on the Chattahoochee in the next few days. So, contact your travel agent right away, spaces are filling quickly (like the tributaries).

They promise that it’ll be buggy and lack features and all of that good stuff, but I’ve downloaded and I’m running it, and I love it.  Ahh…Chrome!

Got a Mac?  Get you some Chrome

Results: Yes, yes it does work.  COOL!

Better still, the tweet also updates my Facebook status.  Talk about digital convergence!  Wonder if I can also set it to blog anything I tweet?  (Wonder if I can create a black hole by making every digital tool I have forward everything to every other tool simultaneously…hmm.  Maybe I need to think about this a bit)

Christopher seems excited about the new camera.

Fun with my new toy, a Nikon D40.