Inner Workings of the Random Brain

I thought I would explain how I came to post about my High School Marching Band yesterday.  I was looking for pictures of military housing in Hawaii on the internet.  See that explains it all, doesn't?!

Let me go back further.  Wednesday I had van troubles. My van wouldn't start.  Turns out its a good idea to look at your battery conections from time to time. The ones on my battery were very coroded and weren't making contact with the battery node properly.  After my boss, another co-worker, and I played with it for about 30 minutes it was decided to "rig" it with a pair of vise grips to get me home.  And that worked.  I was even able to go the autoparts store and get a new connection for the battery wire. 

YAY! I work with great people!

Turns out I bought the wrong connetor at the autoparts store.  Well, its the right connector, I just have a difficult van.  See in order to fix it right I need extra wire so I can cut and strip and clamp the new connector on.  I didn't have extra wire, the peoples who made the van gave me just enough to reach the battery in its new state.  I would have to take it to a mechanic to have it fixed correctly.  Yikes.

Fortunately for me, I have a great neighbor.  He came right over and made it work.  Seriously.  He took the coroded end and flatened it so that the crimp section of the new end would make contact.  It all works like it supposed to now.  I am very fortunate in my neighbors.  That's not to say we don't disagree from time to time on things like where the property lines end, and who's sprinkler is hitting who's pool enclosure.  We do.  But in the end we help each other out.

Which is why I was looking for the picture of military housing.  I grew up with neighbors like that.  Now we complained about the music through the walls.  And trash in the yards.  And parking in the wrong spot.  And dog messes not cleaned up.  And mowing the grass.  But we all helped each other out for the most part.  Not to mention Trick-or-Treating was the best! All those houses packed together, it maxed out the candy hauling!

And while looking for pictures of AMR housing (see above), I found my HS Marching Band mentioned on Wikipedia as the area school for Salt Lake developement in Honolulu, Hawaii.  The school was listed as one of Hawaii's best public schools and described as a "public privite school on par with Iolani and Punahoo privite schools".  Things have changed! When I went there a student brought a hand gun to school with shot gun shells! All the military brats thought that was hillarious! And we thought it was a fairly genuine representation of the slackers at our school.

So there you have it, a little preview of how the random brain works.  Having a conversation with me is just as exhausting! I love jumping from topic to topic!

I posted the orchid pictures because I thought they were pretty (more internet wandering).

Have a great weekend all!

Be seein' ya! Peace!