Big Mac work shirts

So I went to Penny's yesterday. J.C Penny's is required for google earth or the GPS to find it. At the Causeway mall; some other name, but it is off of Causeway. I was looking for the work clothes catalog. The women working there had never heard of a work clothes catalog and I sure did not see one. Looked in the main catalog; not there.

I wore Big Mac cotton work shirts, with two breast pockets and button flaps, for years as a hippy. Sometimes I wore Big Mac overalls with no other clothes but huaraches. The cotton chambray shirts have a nice slot in the left pocket flap to keep your toothbrush in. For when you don't know where you will be sleeping that night. They call it a pencil slot.

The women working the catalog department had never heard of Big Mac except as a product of McDonalds.

I found it on the JCP website. Just search for big mac. It'll be in the list, but big mac work shirt will not reveal it. Strange.

Ah. Link won't work. Illegal characters. Here it is:
http://www5.jcpenney.com/jcp/X6.aspx?ItemID=14745df&ItemTyp=G&GrpTyp=SIZ&ShowMenu=T&ShopBy=0&SearchString=big+mac&RefPage=SearchDepartment.aspx&s4PageSize=15&CmCatId=searchresults&Search1Prod=True&S4Filter=N|0|Ntt|big+mac|Ntk|search_all|Nao|0|Nty|1|sid|11DDDA311080|Ntx|mode%2bmatchallpartial|Ntpr|1|Ntpc|1

Taxi Driver

So I finally gave up on finding a truck driving job here. Surprisingly almost everyone requires previous experience already. Driving school graduates only get to go to the big over the road companies. And Schneider doesn't accept a graduation more than 3 months old. I was going to work with my brother Kevin driving his new old truck; Team work. Delays, etc, all the jobs he is finally getting are Kentucky centered, blah blah.

So I am going to do the Taxi gig in Metairie; Jefferson Parish, just up river. Spent a few weeks getting fingerprinted yet again, and drug tested again and paying about a hunnerd bux to various departments and agencies but I now have a Jefferson Parish taxi permit. Spent two days training with two different drivers at A Service Cab. Louis bought his own Suburban, Jiggs drives a company Crown Vic.

The plethora of Suburbans in the Taxi biz here has really surprized me. They seem like they would use a lot more fuel than a Crown Victoria. I still want to call the big Ford a Galaxie or LTD. They should bring back the Galaxie 500 name.

Louis says it doesn't use much more fuel than the Vic and many loads require a bigger car. Lots of the biz here is hauling Tow boat crews to and from the River. The Mississippi is one huge industrial canal.

I do not recall another town with so many Suburbans in the Taxi biz. Toronto had mostly Taurii in the trade instead of Crown Victorias. Perhaps the front wheel drive of the Taurus is better in the snow. But why doesn't Chicago use Table/Saurus then? Ah. Perhaps Taurus/Sable are built in Ontario and Crown Vic/Marquis are not?

Mumbai/Bombay television

Streaming online, you have your Deccan terrorists taking over the Wall Street of South Asia. NDTV seems to be a Mumbai/Bombay television station with live streaming.

office of President Elect?

Change dot Gov? The President in waiting is an office? Has this been so before? There is an official website for the President in Waiting.

Now, I am very happy that Barack Hussein Obama won the election. I was a little worried when McCain started running the ad with all the Berliners chanting Obama, Obama. It did seem a little cultish. And one of Obama's campaign appearances had him behind a faux president to be seal. Now there is a President Elect seal. This is a little over the top.

armistice day

Yesterday was what the USA calls Veterans Day. We used to call it Armistice Day, for the day the Armistice was signed in Europe in 1918. Apparently at Verdun the French shot 600 soldiers for desertion. Must have been a tough battle.

election 2008

Wrote this on election nite:

Last night I saw my first presidential campaign advertisement in
Louisiana. An anti-Obama one; attacking the reverend Wright, saying he
is dangerous. The night before the election, first ad. Strange.

There are a lot more positions subject to election here. Some parish
down river has a 'constable' for each of seven districts up for
election. There used to be elected district assessors here; they were
eliminated after the post-Katrina re-organization.

there are lots of judges being elected; the State Supreme court has
someone endorsed by the Family Research Council (according to his ads)
I'll vote against him; Guidry.

US Senator is the only race that may be a contest here. The only one I

know enough to vote on. Landrieu the conservative Dem. Kennedy the
imaginary Conservative Republican; last year he was a liberal Democrat.
I'll have to vote in that race.

Oh, my Congressional seat is held by William Jefferson, famous for
keeping his savings in cash in the freezer. He came in first in the
'first' primary without campaigning. There were five black guys and one

young white woman running against him. Today is the runoff between Wm
Jefferson and Roberta Moreno. She is cute, a former television weather
reader or something. Then later we will have the actual general election
between the socialist and fascist and vegetarian parties.

We have a hot District Attorney race between two Italian guys. Last time
a black guy was elected who immediately fired most of the white lawyers
in the office; the ensuing civil rights suit is costing the city many
millions of dollars. He dismissed
tons of cases, or declined to
prosecute, and was at his girlfriends house over the river in Algiers
when a friend of hers came over to ask the D.A. what to do after the
shooting he had just committed. Eddie Jordan was his name. He was a
stylish dresser; he resigned last year and we've had fill in temps since
then. A murder a day.

No black DA candidates came close in the primary this time. So now it is
Cannizzaro or Capitelli. Vote for the Italian guy!