{"id":4608,"date":"2021-11-16T03:38:14","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T03:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/?p=4608"},"modified":"2021-11-16T03:38:17","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T03:38:17","slug":"happy-thoughts-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/happy-thoughts-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0It was a Monday.\u00a0 Much like any other Monday&#8211;good but not great.\u00a0 Started early and had a full day of classes.\u00a0 It was not an unproductive day.\u00a0 Senior food science class cooked pork burgers.\u00a0 None of them had ever eaten a pork burger.\u00a0 Well, they got to taste some Herfy the Hereford.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 We actually took delivery on some torsion axles that I did not expect to get delivered until 2022.\u00a0 Later in the day, I got a call about some other parts that were getting ready to ship.\u00a0 Cool!\u00a0 One of these parts has been on back order since October 2020. The weird part is that the shipping company wanted to charge an extra $250 in order to deliver to a school.\u00a0 BS!\u00a0 That make no sense.\u00a0 I have free labor and access to forklifts\/skid steers, etc.\u00a0 So, it is getting dropped at a business in Shattuck.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Once school was out, I headed to Woodward to get parts and to check projects.\u00a0 Some\/A lot of the Shattuck livestock projects do not reside in the Shattuck school district.\u00a0 This is a good problem but it does add to my travel time.\u00a0 I also went to check a goat project for a fellow ag teacher that asked for help.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 I got home to a supper of porcupine meatballs.\u00a0 Duke is home for a few days (thus the reason Tammy cooked supper).\u00a0 He fired up a movie.\u00a0 Tammy had seen the movie but had never really sat down and watched it with Duke and I.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0You see, this is a movie of intrigue that delves into the trials of life while still being humorous.\u00a0 It is a movie that addresses a spoiled kid that seems to just party through the first couple of decades of his life.\u00a0 Is he a loser or not?\u00a0 \u00a0Yet, it also addresses business and marketing along with community pride.\u00a0 As in real life, failure is always an option.\u00a0 But, this young man realizes success as he works through his own failures while developing friendships and also a little bit of romanticism with a potential lady friend.\u00a0 And in the end, he finds success while saving a business and a community.\u00a0\u00a0Yes, my friends.\u00a0 I love the movie <em>Tommy Boy<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Clint Eeastwood is the biggest Hollywood star.\u00a0 John Wayne is a wicked badass legend.\u00a0 \u00a0Chris Farley may be my personal favorite.\u00a0 I love that movie and I love his characters.\u00a0 How did he not win the oscar for his role as Tommy Boy?\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0If you can&#8217;t tell.\u00a0 I&#8217;m struggling to find time to write on here.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve got plenty of info but&#8230;..something seems lacking.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not done but maybe I should be.\u00a0 However, I have a story that I need to unleash at some point.\u00a0 Is it time?\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know.\u00a0 You will know when I write it.\u00a0 Hard to make this stuff up.\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 As I sit here typing, I&#8217;m getting texts from a buddy of mine who is in Louisville.\u00a0 He is there to celebrate the 1981 Okie State livestock judging national championship.\u00a0 The entire &#8217;81 team is there.\u00a0 And it sounds like OK State just won another.\u00a0 \u00a0Pistols firing!!!\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0It was a Monday.\u00a0 Much like any other Monday&#8211;good but not great.\u00a0 Started early and had a full day of classes.\u00a0 It was not an unproductive day.\u00a0 Senior food science class cooked pork burgers.\u00a0 None of them had ever eaten a pork burger.\u00a0 Well, they got to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4608"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4609,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4608\/revisions\/4609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}