Sign in Bathroom

When working at this barbershop, employees need to be both clean and dedicated. Rock on, Slayer!

Walk? Don't Walk?

While I do lots of walking around downtown at lunchtime, I run into some graffiti now and again. Some of it is bad or cheap, but some of it has a sense of humor. These pedestrian signs made me giggle.

For instance, this sign. It seems you can't cross here unless you have a mustache.

This sign is by a park, so if you see a soccer player dribbling across the street, you know to yield.

I dare you to push this cross walk button, you might meet the devil!

This creepy little skater face was kind cute.

Finally, be extra careful at this intersection. Hula ensues spontaneously.

Develop a Higher Vision of Your Life

It would be sheer drudgery if you took responsibility for only the bad things in your life. You are also responsible for the good things. If you have a vision for yourself, you can aim higher. The good things become more meaningful because you are heading for long-term fulfillment. This is much better than a string of short-term pleasures, nice as they may be. People without a vision can amass a lot of small pleasures. This kind of immediate gratification is everywhere in our society; distractions are a multi-billion-dollar business. Look at your daily quotient of idling around the Internet, video games, channel surfing, movies, snacking, shopping, and merely hanging around. These distractions are hangovers from adolescence, when immaturity was a natural state. They drop away when life moves on and you undertake the project of building a self. The point isn't to become self-serious and reject having fun. The point is to aim for higher satisfactions that last. By developing a vision of what your life is about, you are asking, "Who am I?" and then turning your answer into positive actions. Deepak Chopra

John, Paul, George, & Ringo

Some pics I haven't seen before. They make me feel good.

Switzerland 2012

I just needed to see some beauty on this blog, so I'm posting random photos from my Switzerland trip.

I also needed to see some frivolity.

Oktoberfest 2012

A repost from "Spiegel Magazine":

The Munich Oktoberfest ended on Sunday after two weeks of beer-fuelled revelry that led to a total of 4,500 items being handed in to the lost property office at the site, including two wedding rings, a hearing aid and two French horns. Unlike in previous years, however, the list did not include false teeth.

Among other items found was a copy of Playboy magazine signed by a model featured in it.

One thousand items of clothing were also left behind, as well as 950 identity cards, 480 mobile phones and 400 sets of keys, the city of Munich said in a statement.

Perhaps that's not surprising given that 6.4 million people visited the festival and drank a total of 6.9 million liters of high-octane beer brewed specially for the festival by the city's six leading breweries.

The guests ate 116 oxen and 57 calves. Attempted thefts of the one-liter beer glasses fell to 111,000, down from 2011 when watchful security staff fished a total of 226,000 glasses out of the bags of departing guests. The glasses are popular souvenirs.

"Over and Over" Teddy Thompson

At work, I look at the screen. I look out the window. I look in the mirror. Nothing to see here.

Days are like rubber bands. They stretch and pull and twist. You don’t know if they’ll bounce back or snap. You close your eyes.

As Teddy says in the song:

"Sometime ago I came up with a plan
Shit on myself, so that no one else can
I have perfected this stance
You better keep your distance"