Happy April! Thank you to everyone who came out & participated in our LCFD Easter Egg Hunt! We all had a great time! :) I was wondering if we were going to get any April Fool's calls yesterday & sure enough ... some prankster called in a fully involved structure fire in the next town & dispatch, although they KNEW the caller sounded very suspicious & SAID SO, had no choice but to take it seriously & scramble 3 departments ... ours being one of them. We got disregarded en route when the 1st arriving apparatus found nothing at all, not even smoke. OK ... people ... I'm not against April Fool's pranks, but some just aren't funny. Anything that scrambles 15 people in the middle of a Sunday afternoon isn't funny. Funny is taking paper out of a shredder, cutting it into tiny little confetti, pouring it into someone's auto vents up by the windshield, turning their fan to High / defrost, & then waiting for them to start their vehicle. FOOF!!!!! Well, it's not funny for the one who has to clean it all up ... & that would be the person who pulled the prank (which is the ONLY reason I didn't do it to Pete ... as funny as it would have been, I didn't have the time to clean it up!) So ... what I'm saying is think before you pull a prank. Is it going to disrupt the lives of strangers? Is it going to waste resources? Is it something you're willing to clean up? Will it hurt anyone? All I'm saying is THINK before you act.
The task of organizing an upcoming social event is starting to get
complicated, due to a difference between your energy and resources and
your companions'. You may think that someone is pinching his or her
pennies just a bit too tightly. 'In for a penny, in for a pound' is an
excellent philosophy, but you do have to respect the boundaries of other
people. Talk to the person who's holding things up and see whether a
compromise can be reached.
Glue yourself to your chair. All sorts of hubbub will explode outside
the confines of your office, but you'll be totally absorbed in your
work. You might even consider having dinner at your desk.
There's never been a better time to act on your big ideas. Get your
lover on board and start making plans together. You'll see results before
you even know it.
I had an OK day yesterday, I got a little done & relaxed by farting around on facebook.
City Council Meeting & LCFD BBQ & Maintenance night tomorrow.
A 3"-high bronze bust of what Hollywood figure fetched
$316,000—more than any other item—at a 2004 auction of actress Katharine
Hepburn’s estate?
Act Like A T-Rex Day
A-Line skirts:
The cut is comfy & camouflages hips.
An idea to nurture:
Auodads at Red Canyon Pourover - Palo Duro Canon, TX.:
A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park, Utah:
Crew Resource Management:
- Establish & maintain an open communication system where information is funneled to promote better supervisory decision-making.
- Seek as much information as possible when making decisions, particularly decisions involving high-risk actions.
- Avoid the susceptibility to tunnel vision that plagues emergency responders.
- Work as a team. End freelancing on the emergency scene.
- Assign tasks based on the qualifications, training & experience of your members. Train personnel to their maximum potential.
Business casual.
Men: Seasonal sport coat or blazer, slacks or khakis, open-collar shirt.
Women: Skirt, khakis, or slacks; open-collar shirt or knit shirt; sweater (no spaghetti straps or decollete).
Estival:
Of or relating to the summer.
The children were already looking forward to the laziness of school-free estival afternoons, & it was barely April.
"Estival" & "festival" look so much alike that you might think they're very closely related, but that isn't the case. "Estival" traces back to aestas, which is the Latin word for "summer" (& which also gave us "estivate," a verb for spending the summer in a torpid state - a sort of hot-weather equivalent of hibernation). "Festival" also comes from Latin, but it has a different & unrelated root - festivus, meaning "festive" or "merry." Festivus is also the ancestor of "festive" & "festivity" as well as the much rarer "festivous" (which also means "festive") & "infestive" ("not merry, mirthless").
Kids:
A child's birthday is a great time to purge toys. Before the birthday party, sort the child's current toys. Donate any toys your child has outgrown or doesn't like to play with. Then you'll have room to store the new toys your child receives.
Know 2 ways out of every room:
Krause Springs, Burnet County, TX.:
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Pope John Paul II Dies (2005):
On this day in 2005, John Paul II, history's most
well-traveled pope and the first non-Italian to hold the position since
the 16th century, dies at his home in the Vatican. Six days later, two
million people packed Vatican City for his funeral, said to be the
biggest funeral in history.
John Paul II was born Karol Jozef Wojtyla in Wadowice, Poland, 35
miles southwest of Krakow, in 1920. After high school, the future pope
enrolled at Krakow's Jagiellonian University, where he studied
philosophy and literature and performed in a theater group. During World War II, Nazis
occupied Krakow and closed the university, forcing Wojtyla to seek work
in a quarry and, later, a chemical factory. By 1941, his mother,
father, and only brother had all died, leaving him the sole surviving
member of his family.
Although Wojtyla had been involved in the church his whole life, it
was not until 1942 that he began seminary training. When the war ended,
he returned to school at Jagiellonian to study theology, becoming an
ordained priest in 1946. He went on to complete two doctorates and
became a professor of moral theology and social ethics. On July 4,
1958, at the age of 38, he was appointed auxiliary bishop of Krakow by
Pope Pius XII. He later became the city s archbishop, where he spoke out
for religious freedom while the church began the Second Vatican
Council, which would revolutionize Catholicism. He was made a cardinal
in 1967, taking on the challenges of living and working as a Catholic
priest in communist Eastern Europe. Once asked if he feared retribution
from communist leaders, he replied, "I m not afraid of them. They are
afraid of me."
Wojtyla was quietly and slowly building a reputation as a powerful
preacher and a man of both great intellect and charisma. Still, when
Pope John Paul I died in 1978 after only a 34-day reign, few suspected
Wojtyla would be chosen to replace him. But, after seven rounds of
balloting, the Sacred College of Cardinals chose the 58-year-old, and he
became the first-ever Slavic pope and the youngest to be chosen in 132
years.
A conservative pontiff, John Paul II s papacy was marked by his firm
and unwavering opposition to communism and war, as well as abortion,
contraception, capital punishment, and homosexual sex. He later came
out against euthanasia, human cloning, and stem cell research. He
traveled widely as pope, using the eight languages he spoke (Polish,
Italian, French, German, English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin) and
his well-known personal charm, to connect with the Catholic faithful, as
well as many outside the fold.
On May 13, 1981, Pope John Paul II was shot in St. Peter s Square by a
Turkish political extremist, Mehmet Ali Agca. After his release from
the hospital, the pope famously visited his would-be assassin in prison,
where he had begun serving a life sentence, and personally forgave him
for his actions. The next year, another unsuccessful attempt was made
on the pope s life, this time by a fanatical priest who opposed the
reforms of Vatican II.
Although it was not confirmed by the Vatican until 2003, many believe
Pope John Paul II began suffering from Parkinson s disease in the early
1990s. He began to develop slurred speech and had difficulty walking,
though he continued to keep up a physically demanding travel schedule.
In his final years, he was forced to delegate many of his official
duties, but still found the strength to speak to the faithful from a
window at the Vatican. In February 2005, the pope was hospitalized with
complications from the flu. He died two months later.
Pope John Paul II is remembered for his successful efforts to end
communism, as well as for building bridges with peoples of other faiths,
and issuing the Catholic Church s first apology for its actions during
World War II. He was succeeded by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, who became
Pope Benedict XVI. Benedict XVI began the process to beatify John Paul
II in May 2005.
Puppetry of the Penis debuts at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival 14 years ago this week (1998). Puppetry of the Penis was created by Simon Morley & puppeteer David Friend & became a global sensation following the Melbourne show. The show utilizes a series of what Morley calls "dick tricks" & "genital gesticulations." These dick tricks have descriptive names as, the "hamburger," "atomic mushroom," "Eiffel Tower" & "Loch Ness Monster."
Silence of the Lambs:
In this pulse-pounding adaptation of Thomas Harris's novel, FBI trainee
Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) ventures into a maximum-security asylum
to pick the diseased brain of Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins), a
psychiatrist turned homicidal cannibal. Starling needs clues to help her
capture a serial killer; unfortunately, her Faustian relationship with
Lecter soon leads to his escape … and now, two deranged killers are on
the loose.
Which era came 1st, 2nd, & 3rd?
A. Cenozoic
B. Paleozoic
C. Mesozoic
Who was the model for Uncle Sam in the U.S. Army’s famous “I Want You” World War I recruitment poster?
The artist who created the iconic image, James Montgomery Flagg, who said he wanted to save on the modeling fee.
Wisdom:
You can drop collision insurance on your car to save money, but the savings usually aren't worth the extra risk. Even if you drive a beater, a cheap car probably means cheap insurance. If you don't have the cash on hand to replace a car, you should probably stick with collision for now.
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