Sure enough, it was about the time of today’s old A&J (1993) that Gene seriously began to transition from being a little kid to being a bigger kid. I’m running late again, today. Turkey hangover would be as good an excuse as any, which brings me to, I hope you had a great Thanksgiving holiday! I have been in further contact with our potential Web designers since I brought the subject up last week, and I’m getting pretty excited about it. I really think we’ll see something this winter. I appreciate those of you who suggest, “Don’t change anything!” Really, how could that not be flattering. However, we all know things change, and let’s be frank: the ol’ Web site is way overdue for some updating. I can assure you, however, the basic experience you have now will be available, along with a lot more. Don’t worry! It’s going to be fun.
It’s Only a Phase
By Jimmy Johnson
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59 responses to “It’s Only a Phase”
We trust you with the site, Jimmy. After all, it it yours, even if we do tend to think of it as “ours”.
Looking for some Milleaneals, huh?
Carry-over from “yesterday”…
Jerry, I read an interesting article just yesterday about why law enforcement organizations have supervisors that tend to be not the sharpest knives in the organization’s drawer. (But based on my observations in the business world, it fully applies there, too.) When the Boss needs to promote someone up to a supervisory position, is he or she going to pull the organization’s best investigator out of the field? Well, no. Is he or she going to pull the organization’s best patrol officer off the beat? Well, no. Is he or she going to pull the organization’s best administrator out of the front office? Well, no.
And that’s how organizations of all kinds end up with a high percentage of supervisors (of both genders) with insensitive gonads.
Is the boss going to hire “Gender neutral”? hmmmm maybe.
As stated above — leave the worker bees hard at work, with the not too successful, moved on up to management!
New Flash! According to multiple emails I’ve received today, multiple companies have extended their sales beyond Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Wow! Who could have seen that coming?
Someone on a financial news network said yesterday that, based on early sales, we should expect to see clothing and other gift items marked down as much as 70 percent the week before Christmas.
It appears some are already there, Ghost. My emails are so full of ads right now I have trouble finding “personal” mail. I did go ahead and order grandson’s choo choo trains (we are nearing saturation point but he KNOWS which ones he doesn’t have) but they did have an added markdown already.
Back when my agency was trying to get total incompetents out of our payroll, they promoted our very worst one to another district office to a higher position and higher pay. Survival of the non-fittest. The fact that is was same position I held and worked myself to death in did not seem to enter into their mentality.
“Here’s our chance to get rid of this turkey!!! Send him to Chicago!”
Love, Jackie
My step-son is very sick and I will be out of town indefinitely.
Jerry, I hope for a speedy recovery for you son and you be careful out there too.
Sorry to read that, Jerry.
I give thanks that my daughter (& entire family) had no injuries and also no lasting damage from a collision the day after T-giving. Seems as though other party ran a stop sign….
Jimmy Johnson said: “Don’t worry! It’s going to be fun.”
Like the current version of the menagerie isn’t! Maybe we will have: interactive strips, videos, and Arloville games. Wait YouTube and Facebook has done that. Whatever it looks like, we’ll some come. Build on.
Re promotions: everything said so far illustrates why The Peter Principle was a best-seller and the term became part of our vocabulary a few decades ago.
Jerry – you know this village will have you in their thoughts and prayers.
I remember the pre-2008 blog that just had Jimmy with no comments. However it did have a lot of pictures. I think that if we could post pictures, that would be kind of cool. Of course we have a few people that we may have to keep a close eye on if that were to happen!
Steve,
I am no threat to National Security, barely able to draw recognizable stick figures. Now, Ghost and Jackie may need a moderator. 😉
P.$. Still would like emoticon support. Thanks in advance. 🙂
OF acting like it wants to erupt, unless it just has erupted.
http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html
Jerry will pray for you, the family, and especially your son.
Sorry, Jerry. Thoughts and prayers.
“Promoting [Ted] out of the way” is a longtime accepted business practice.
Why would Jackie and I need a moderator? We just be keepin’ it real. 🙂
It’s nice about the website, but what about the t-shirts? My wife is demanding to know what I want for Christmas…..
Just read article about man who drank 10 Cokes per day for 30 days and the effect it had on him. Sounded like a Bubba Diet with exception of the beer he didn’t drink. Then I started wondering about all that Kapow soda that Abby drinks over on NCIS.
In total honesty I drink a lot of Diet Coke. I know I shouldn’t and I waffle back and forth, stopping, starting, stopping, starting. But I have seen many a parent fill baby bottles with Coke up here in Oklahoma. I suspect there are a lot of 10 Cokes per day drinkers.
Love, Jackie
Neal, she could get you a Bruins tshirt. 😉
Neal, I am going to order myself a new Beaucoup book and a good fruitcake company from those famous bakers in Texas. If Jimmy has the teeshirts we can probably plan on having them for Valentines.
That is obviously me trying to type “the good company in Texas that bakes the delicious pecan fruitcakes” sent out by oil companies, presidents of our country and the CIA to American and foreign contacts for decades.
Jimmy,
define “fun”.
Oh, Jackie. You may have started another Village kerfuffle. You realize, I’m sure, that many consider “delicious fruitcake” to be the definitive oxymoron.
That’s “Caf-Pow,” Jackie, and it’s supposed to be a high caffeine energy drink. You can buy something with that name, now, but it’s greenish, not red. (At the beginning they used Hawaiian Punch, but now they use unsweetened cranberry juice as the actress is avoiding processed sugars.)