Tunes, Kayaks and Drugs
I feel that I have so little to write in this post, yet there is a vast number of ideas swimming around in my mind. Now, with no further digression, it is my esteemed pleasure to explain the title of this post. Usually when I go to camp, or any other Boy Scout function for that matter, all the songs are ones I know…Just take a look at where I have been, you will understand why I think I know all of the songs.
- Mass Jam 99
- 2001 National Jamboree
- White Stag
- Yawgoog 7 times
- Mass Jam 04
- District Camporee
- Council Camporee
Perhaps the list continues, but that is a lot of singing! I learned a song called “I point to myself” last week. It is a German song, with a very catchy tune. Here it is: (I googled it to verify the words)
I points to my self, vas is das here?
Das is my topnotcher, ya mama dear.
topnotcher, topnotcher, ya mama dear
das vas I learn at dis school.
Clap clap
I points to my self, vas is das here?
Das is my sweat browser, ya mama dear.
sweat browser, topnotcher, ya mama dear
das vas I learn at dis school.
Clap clap
That is repeated several times, each time adding a different body part in order of appearance from topnotcher down…I don’t feel like listing all of them. Be thankful that there is no audio file here so you can here it. It is a very catchy tune. If you ever sing it, I guarantee you will not stop!!!
Back to the other part of the title, with slight digression. I did almost next to nothing today. I ate lots of Fusilli and drank coffee in the morning. Eventually, I got sick of sitting here, running to the kitchen for coffee, taking a sip then running back here (a whole 15 feet!)..so I solved this problem very quickly: I moved the computer into the kitchen! No…Just kidding…I went kayaking! I took tyler along this time. It was his first time in a kayak and he did pretty well. I find it hard to go anywhere without swamping, which is half the fun. I love to ride into big waves from boats, as that gets a lot of water in the boat. At one point, I was trying to get a lot of water in my boat before I caught some waves, but then I accidentally flipped. I thought to myself, no problem, I will just do a T rescue. I do it all the time. Then more waves came… big ones. These waves ended up completely swamping the kayak. I happened to have the kayak that was losing its foam flotation, so it sank pretty far. Alas, many crushed fingers later, I had the water out. It was a laughable incident when my fingers felt better. By the time it was time to head back, my kayak was pretty full of water, so I decided to empty it. That went fine, of course. The real trouble came when Tyler decided to get out of his kayak too. He had some trouble getting back in. We were near nirvana at this point. He finally got onto the kayak, but never situated himself in the cockpit, when he eventually tried to do so, he swamped and began just swimming back. This was a very amusing sight to see. He finally realized that he was going nowhere and made it into the kayak. A fun time was had by all.
I Think I should take this time to report on some stuff that has been going on for a few days. As you may or may not know, CVS and Brooks bought up Eckerd. I will give some background and some interesting information before I get to the point of this paragraph. It was like a 70/30 deal or something. CVS bought all of the stores in Florida, a warehouse in Florida and a warehouse in Texas. Florida is a good place for Pharmacies and there were no CVS’s there. Brooks bought the headquarters and 1500 stores. At the time, brooks had only 400 stores. So, some smart people in Brooks decided to rename the 400 stores to Eckerds in order to save money. They will also be closing the other headquarters and moving here to Rhode Island… So for those of you who drive by Eckerds….BROOKS BOUGHT ECKERD…not the other way around. CVS plans to convert the Eckerds over a 6 month period, beginning last Saturday. Any drug store can be completely gutted and turned into a CVS overnight. CVS employs a specially trained team for that purpose. The conversion that started on Saturday is what all of this is about. My father works in systems and will be taking over the warehouse systems that are being converted. The conversion was supposed to be simple. Using a find command similar to grep(or a shell script with grep) to search through many text files and change all references of JCprenny.com(former owners of eckerd) to cvs.com. The conversion also included checking for product numbers to make sure no store or Item numbers were used by both eckerd and cvs, which would lead to BIG problems on the Main Frame. If a store number came up twice, when that store put in an order, things would go bad, especially if it was for a product number that had two different meanings depending on the warehouse. In order to make things work, all product numbers that are carried by both stores will be converted by a script running on the mainframe. Back to the point… My dad left Yawgoog on Friday night to start the conversion on Saturday. He made it back to Yawgoog on Sunday in time for the cancelled dress parade. As soon as we got home, it was back to work. He came home at 0400 hours the next day. The madness did not stop there. The next day he did not make it home till 2300. That brings us to today. SO far we have no word of when he may be home.