daily chronicle # 13 vol 6

HOWARD’S DAILY CHRONICLE

NUMBER 13 VOL 6

JANUARY 16^TH 2008

WEATHER; COOL/WARM, LOW HUMIDITY, 40/72 DEGREES

CHECKED BOTH BATTERIES THIS MORNING, THE OLDEST ONE IS UP TO 1.300 GRAVITY AND 13.10 VOLTS (A LITTLE OVER CHARGED BUT AFTER 21/2 HOURS OFF THE CHARGER IT SETTLED DOWN TO 1.250 GRAVITY AND 12.90 VOLTS. THE ONE IN THE CAR WAS UP TO 1.200 GRAVITY AND 11.45 VOLTS SO I PUT IT BACK ON SLOW CHARGE FOR 3 HOURS AND CHECKED IT BEFORE I CAME IN, IT WAS 1.250 GRAVITY AND 12.78 VOLTS! I’VE GOT TWO GOOD BATTERIES! THE OLDER ONE I PUT IN THE MERCEDES, TIM WANTS TO CRANK IT UP AND MOVE IT TO A BETTER SPOT TO TAKE SOME PICTURES FOR SOMEBODY DOWN NEAR HIM WHO MAY WANT TO BUY IT! MAYBE IT’LL GET SOLD, I SURE HOPE SO, ALL IT NEEDS IS A LITTLE T.L.C. AND I CAN’T DO IT! OH, I CAN DO THE TINKERING BUT NOT THE HEAVY WORK LIKE PULLING THE FLOOR BOARDS TO GET AT THE TRANSMISSION SOLONOID ETC, ETC.!

WENT TO WAL-MART & HOME DEPOT AND PICKED UP SOME THINGS TO HANG THE ROLL UP BAMBOO CURTAINS TIM GAVE US ON! WE’LL TRY TO GET IT DONE BEFORE THE BAD WEATHER HITS TOMORROW AFTERNOON!

MOM GOT MY NEW KEYBOARD HOOKED UP TODAY AND IT SURE IS GOOD NOT TO HAVE TO GO BACK OVER WHAT I’VE TYPED TO CHANGE SOME LOWER CASE LETTERS TO UPPER CASE AND NOT HAVE TO KEEP PUTTING IT BACK IN UPPER CASE WHEN I’M DOING MY CHRONICLE, FOR SOME REASON I’D BUMP THE “CAP LOCK” AND GO BACK TO LOWER CASE WITHOUT KNOWING IT TILL I LOOKED UP AT THE SCREEN!

IN 1943 WHEN I WAS IN THE 7^TH GRADE AT ST. CHARLES SCHOOL IN NORTH HOLLYWOOD ONE OF MY CLASSMATES FATHER STARTED A PHOTOGRAPHY CLASS AT HIS HOME WHICH I JOINED! HIS DADS NAME WAS JACK URBAN! HIS MAIN BUSINESS WAS MAKING AND REPAIRING SPECIAL STILL CAMERAS FOR THE MOVIE STUDIOS! ANOTHER JOB HE HAD WAS MAKING MINATURE CAMERAS FOR THE FBI AND OTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCYS! MR URBAN TAUGHT US HOW TO POSE PICTURES, WHAT FILM TO USE FOR A PARTICULAR JOB, AND USE THE LIGHT WE HAD OR COULD GET WITH REFLECTORS, THEN WE LEARNED HOW TO DEVELOP OUR OWN FILM! ONE NIGHT AFTER CLASS HE TOOK US IN THE DEN AND MRS. URBAN SERVED US HOT COCOA AND COOKIES WHILE MR. URBAN SAT UP A MOVIE PROJECTOR AND SHOWED US A SHORT FILM ABOUT WHERE HIS MINATURE CAMERAS WERE USED AND SOME OF THE PICTURES THEY HAD TAKEN! ONE PICTURE STILL STICKS IN MY MIND EVERYTIME I REMEMBER THE URBANS’! IT WAS OF TWO MEN STANDING IN FRONT OF GRAUMANS CHINESE THEATER ON HOLLYWOOD BLVD. TALKING, ALL OF A SUDDEN ONE OF THE MEN TOOK OUT A PISTOL AND SHOT THE OTHER MAN IN THE FOREHEAD OR, SO WE THOUGHT! IT WAS A SET UP MOVIE SHOT BUT THE AMAZING THING WAS THE PICTURE WE WERE LOOKING AT WAS TAKEN FROM THE ROOF OF THE CALIFORNIA BANK ON THE CORNER OF HIGHLAND AVE. AND HOLLYWOOD BLVD. OVER TWO BLOCKS AWAY, YOU COULD READ THE LAPEL BUTTON ONE OF THE MEN HAD ON HIS JACKET, IT WAS ABOUT TWO INCHES IN DIAMETER AND SAID; “BUY BONDS” AND IT WAS TAKEN WITH A MINATURE CAMERA MADE BY MR URBAN MOUNTED IN THE HINGE OF A PAIR OF GLASSES WORN BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER! ABOUT TWO YEARS LATER I SAW THAT SCENE IN A SPY MOVIE WITH PETER LORIE AND SIDNEY GREENSTREET BUT I CAN’T REMEMBER THE NAME!

HERE ARE SOME THINGS I HOPE YOU ENJOY!

From: Howard Mahoney To: HOWARD’S DAILY CHRONICLE READERS

Sent: JANUARY 15^TH 2008

Subject: Irish smiles!  

Irish Smiles Definition of an Irish husband: He hasn't kissed his wife for twenty years, but he will kill any man who does. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Murphy told Quinn that his wife was driving him to drink. Quinn thinks he's very lucky because his own wife makes him walk. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The late Bishop Sheen stated that the reason the Irish fight so often among themselves is that they're always assured of having a worthy opponent. --------------------------------------------------------------------- An American lawyer asked, "Paddy, why is it that whenever you ask an Irishman a question, he answers with another question?" "Who told you that?" asked Paddy. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Question - Why are Irish jokes so simple? Answer - So the English can understand them. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Reilly went to trial for armed robbery. The jury foreman came out and announced, "Not guilty." "That's grand!" shouted Reilly. "Does that mean I can keep the money?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- Irish lass  customer: "Could I be trying on that dress in the window?" Shopkeeper: "I'd prefer that you use the dressing room." --------------------------------------------------------------------- Q. What do you call an Irishman who knows how to control a wife? A. A bachelor. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Finnegan: My wife has a terrible habit of staying up 'til two o'clock in the morning. I can't break her of it. Keenan: What on earth is she doin' at that time? Finnegan: Waitin' for me to come home  --------------------------------------------------------------------- Slaney phoned the maternity ward at the hospital. "Quick!" He said. "Send an ambulance, my wife is goin' to have a baby!" "Tell me, is this her first baby?" the intern asked. "No, this is her husband, Kevin, speakin'." --------------------------------------------------------------------- "O’Bryan" asked the druggist, "did that mudpack I gave you improve your wife's appearance?" "It did surely," replied O'Bryan, "but it keeps fallin' off!" ---------------------------------------------------------------------Two ladies went to confession with the new Priest that just came in from Notre Dame he had a small radio with ear phones and was listening to the Notre Dame USC game! The first lady came out shaking her head and went and kneeled down to say her penance! The second lady came out and knelt down next to the first lady! After they were done they sat back in the pew and the first one said; “sure, and he’s a strange young man”. The second one asked; “and why would you sat that?” “ he just gave me ten yards for clipping!” “ you’re lucky he gave me 15 yards for a face mask” needless to say neither one knew what he was talking about but when they told the Pastor, he knew, and there were no more radios in the confessionals!

That’s “30” for this issue.

Howard