Went to maintenance yesterday & both of my kids came along to help. My job was to take the fluorescent bulbs back to Home Depot & swap them out for bulbs with the correct connectors. No problem. They're 8' bulbs & I only have a 5' bed. Take into account the truck box & I now have less than 4' back there. Kyle & I somehow get the bulbs back to Home Depot & guess what? They don't sell the ones we need. They have flat connectors, they have a single prong, but they don't have a double prong. At least not in the 8' length. Now what? We drive to Lowe's. Same problem. We drive to Wal Mart. Same problem. Dudes, I think we're out of luck on this one. So what do we do now? Maybe change out all our ballasts? Crap, that's not going to be fun. Anyway, while I'm out ping ponging all over looking for 8' fluorescent lights with double prongs on the end, we get toned out to a med call. At least I made it back to the station before they got back. Then before we left for the night we got toned out again to an electrical fire. I made that one.
I've been waiting for eBay to offer another deal where you can list more items in a month without the listing fees. Well, they did it. Today through Tuesday, 50,000 free listings with free Buy It Now. What I wanted to do when this rolled around again is list all day. In this case, all week. Wake up, go to work, work until Pete gets home. Only 1 problem with that: there's too much to do around here! Yeah, the kids can take over chores for me, but what about all the other things? What about the FD? Believe it or not, I don't just sit around, watch TV & eat bonbons. And yes, there's my hobbies. I've been trying to finish working on the sweater I started on the knitting machine since I set the knitting machine up in my office. I did ONE PANEL & never got to it again. I can't pass up the opportunity to try again today (machine knitting day). What about tomorrow then? Tomorrow is FD day & I have important work that HAS to be done. What about Friday? That's my Sims 3 day & I only do that once a week. It could be short like last week, or it could be a nice, long game day. I won't know until Friday evening which one it is. Saturday & Sunday Pete's home, Monday is crocheting day (the afghan I'm working on is going to take a LONG time as it is), Tuesday is hand knitting (that sweater is taking forever too) AND FD meeting night ... yes, I could stop all work in the house & give up my hobbies (which are all productive BTW ... machine knitting produces clothing & afghans, crocheting produces afghans, & hand knitting produces clothing. Pete & I had a very clear deal worked out. He works & pays the bills, I keep the home fires burning by cooking, cleaning, maintaining, raising the children, etc & my down-time is productive also. Sit & do NOTHING? Doesn't happen ...ever. Even my hobbies, luckily, are productive. SO ... as much as I'd love to sit & list items on eBay for 16 hours & see what kind of additional income that generates, I just don't have the time! Oh yes ... the Sims 3 ... for those of you saying "AH HA! You DO waste time ... the Sims 3!" No ... not really. Yes, it's the least productive of the bunch, but during game play I'm getting ideas for real life which benefit the entire family. When I'm building & decorating a house in Sims 3, I'm also getting ideas for our REAL house & yard. And yes, I actually USE these ideas & put them into action. A benefit for all 5 of us here. So no ... I don't really do ANYTHING that's completely non-productive. Phbbbt! :)
I've decided to start wearing contacts. It's that time of life. I used to have perfect vision & the only glasses you'd see me in were sunglasses. Then my vision started weakening about a decade ago. I started squinting to see my tiny phone display. Then the day came that I needed 1.0 readers to see my computer monitor clearly. Well, that worked it's way up & up. Now I need 3.0 readers to see my monitor & have recently just discovered an old pair of 1.5 readers from a few years ago. Guess what? I can see perfectly with the 1.5s if I leave them on all the time. For the 1st time, I need glasses ALL the time. SO ... what I plan to do is go & get an eye exam, the the script for 1.5 or whatever it turns out to be for all day use, get contacts in that strength, & then go back down to 1.5 readers for the monitor & reading. 1.5 contacts in all the time & 1.5 readers for reading. Woohoo. Damn. At least I can get cool contacts. The colored ones. I'm thinking of getting a very light brown ... tan. I have dark brown eyes, & if I get partially colored tan contacts, you'll see 2-tone dark brown / tan eyes. Cool, huh? I figured I can at least have some fun with this if my eyesight is getting that bad.
Have you ever had a dream that seemed so real that it changed your reality? I had a dream last night about a friend of mine on facebook. We really do know each other in real life, but not since high school & not really that well even back then. We're closer now than in high school thanks to facebook. HA! Anyway, I had a dream about them. The dream was simple everyday life stuff. We spent the day together running errands, grocery shopping, & chatting like old friends. Just everyday life stuff. The dream was so real that now I feel closer to that person as a friend even though nothing in real life has changed. Odd how dreams can be so powerful.
Kyle's 16th birthday is Saturday & I got him a gift he's going to love! :)
For those who haven't thought about it, today is July 11th. AKA 7/11 ... just like the store. In honor of "their day", the store is offering free Slurpees all day.
On this day in 2010, after a two-year manhunt, 19-year-old Colton
Harris-Moore of Washington state is arrested following a high-speed boat
chase in the Bahamas. Harris-Moore was suspected of stealing an
airplane in Indiana and crash-landing it in the Bahamas the week before.
Nicknamed the “Barefoot Bandit” for going shoeless during some of his
alleged crimes, the teen was a suspect in scores of other burglaries in
the U.S. and Canada, where he was accused of swiping everything from
potato chips to credit cards, small planes, boats and cars. During his
time as a fugitive, Harris-Moore gained a cult-like following online,
with fans viewing him as a folk hero and praising his brazenness and his
uncanny ability to elude law-enforcement officials.
Growing up on Camano Island, Washington, Harris-Moore had a difficult, impoverished childhood. He reportedly stole food from neighbors, had a turbulent relationship with his mother (his father spent time in jail and is believed to have been largely absent from the family) and was often in trouble at school before dropping out in the 10th grade. His first criminal conviction was at age 12, for possession of stolen property.
In April 2008, Harris-Moore escaped from a Renton, Washington, juvenile halfway house, where he was serving time for burglarizing homes. Over the next two years, he continued his crime spree, breaking into a long string of private residences and businesses, primarily in the Pacific Northwest, while camping in the woods and unoccupied homes. The teen, who learned to fly without any formal training, became a suspect in the theft of at least five small planes, all of which he managed to pilot and safely crash-land.
In early July 2010, Harris-Moore commandeered an aircraft in Bloomington, Indiana, and flew it to the Bahamas, where he crash-landed on Great Abaco Island. He allegedly went on to commit a series of break-ins throughout the Bahamas, before being nabbed in a stolen boat by Bahamian police in the early hours of July 11.
In November 2010 in a Seattle courtroom, Harris-Moore pleaded not guilty to five federal criminal charges, including interstate transportation of a stolen aircraft, stolen firearm and stolen vessel, and piloting an aircraft without a valid license. He remains in a federal detention center in Washington awaiting trial.
Growing up on Camano Island, Washington, Harris-Moore had a difficult, impoverished childhood. He reportedly stole food from neighbors, had a turbulent relationship with his mother (his father spent time in jail and is believed to have been largely absent from the family) and was often in trouble at school before dropping out in the 10th grade. His first criminal conviction was at age 12, for possession of stolen property.
In April 2008, Harris-Moore escaped from a Renton, Washington, juvenile halfway house, where he was serving time for burglarizing homes. Over the next two years, he continued his crime spree, breaking into a long string of private residences and businesses, primarily in the Pacific Northwest, while camping in the woods and unoccupied homes. The teen, who learned to fly without any formal training, became a suspect in the theft of at least five small planes, all of which he managed to pilot and safely crash-land.
In early July 2010, Harris-Moore commandeered an aircraft in Bloomington, Indiana, and flew it to the Bahamas, where he crash-landed on Great Abaco Island. He allegedly went on to commit a series of break-ins throughout the Bahamas, before being nabbed in a stolen boat by Bahamian police in the early hours of July 11.
In November 2010 in a Seattle courtroom, Harris-Moore pleaded not guilty to five federal criminal charges, including interstate transportation of a stolen aircraft, stolen firearm and stolen vessel, and piloting an aircraft without a valid license. He remains in a federal detention center in Washington awaiting trial.
Death Valley sizzled with the highest temperature recorded in the U.S.: 134 degrees. (1913)
Graphing Calculator:
Time Magazine selected "Graphing Calculator" as one of the top 10 back-to-school iPhone applications.
Link to article: http://tinyurl.com/yz855ad
--------------------
Graphing Calculator turns your phone or iPod into an intuitive high-resolution function plotter and scientific calculator. Features include the following:
- Includes a powerful, yet easy to use scientific calculator.
- Quickly plot and trace multiple equations on the same graph.
- Custom keyboard to speed up entering in equations.
- Pinch to zoom and drag/slide for scrolling the graph in real time.
- The graph view supports portrait and landscape modes.
- Take screen shots, and e-mail graphs to yourself.
- Evaluate your graphs at any x value using the calculator screen.
- Find the exact (x,y) coordinates for roots, intersections, minimums and maximums using the trace mode.
- Provides conditional statements allow the user to restrict the domain and graph piece-wise functions.
- Supports graphing polar and parametric equations.
- Supports graphing inequalities, and implicit equations in the form f(x,y)=g(x,y).
- Retina display and multitasking support
- Display the graph on a TV, projector, or external monitor using Apple's VGA adapter (iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, 4th gen iPod, and iPad only)
- Currently supports the following functions: abs, acos, acosh, acot, acoth, acsc, acsch, asec, asech, asin, asinh, atan, atan2, atanh, ceil, cos, cosh, cot, coth, csc, csch, deg2rad, exp, fact, floor, gamma, gcd, lcm, lgamma, ln, log2, log10, logbase, max, min, mod, nCr, nPr, nroot, rad2deg, rand, sec, sech, sin, sinh, sqrt, tan, tanh.
Link to article: http://tinyurl.com/yz855ad
--------------------
Graphing Calculator turns your phone or iPod into an intuitive high-resolution function plotter and scientific calculator. Features include the following:
- Includes a powerful, yet easy to use scientific calculator.
- Quickly plot and trace multiple equations on the same graph.
- Custom keyboard to speed up entering in equations.
- Pinch to zoom and drag/slide for scrolling the graph in real time.
- The graph view supports portrait and landscape modes.
- Take screen shots, and e-mail graphs to yourself.
- Evaluate your graphs at any x value using the calculator screen.
- Find the exact (x,y) coordinates for roots, intersections, minimums and maximums using the trace mode.
- Provides conditional statements allow the user to restrict the domain and graph piece-wise functions.
- Supports graphing polar and parametric equations.
- Supports graphing inequalities, and implicit equations in the form f(x,y)=g(x,y).
- Retina display and multitasking support
- Display the graph on a TV, projector, or external monitor using Apple's VGA adapter (iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, 4th gen iPod, and iPad only)
- Currently supports the following functions: abs, acos, acosh, acot, acoth, acsc, acsch, asec, asech, asin, asinh, atan, atan2, atanh, ceil, cos, cosh, cot, coth, csc, csch, deg2rad, exp, fact, floor, gamma, gcd, lcm, lgamma, ln, log2, log10, logbase, max, min, mod, nCr, nPr, nroot, rad2deg, rand, sec, sech, sin, sinh, sqrt, tan, tanh.
If you travel all the time, only buy travel insurance on extremely expensive vacations. If you've poured thousands of dollars into a once-in-a-lifetime cruise, you don't want to lose all that money if an illness or tragedy makes you miss the boat! On the other hand, travel insurance on a $200 plane ticket isn't worth it. If $200 is a life-&-death risk for you, you probably shouldn't be booking the flight, anyway!
In what country was a search engine named Goojje launched in 2010?
Name all 5 partss ofhe modern pentathlon.
Swimming, skiing, running, shooting, wrestling, archery, fencing, horseback riding.
Store rarely used heavy items in bottom cabinets. It's easier & safer to lift heavy items up to a work surface.
Surfeit:
1: An overabundant supply : excess 2: An intemperate or immoderate indulgence in something (as food or drink) 3: Disgust caused by excess
A Red Cross spokesperson noted that a surfeit of donated blood is never really a problem, whereas shortages frequently are.
There is an abundance - you could almost say a surfeit - of English words that derive from the Latin facere, meaning "to do." The connection to facere is fairly obvious for words spelled with "fic," "fac," or "fec," such as "sacrifice," "benefacation," & "infect." Other words like "stupefy" (a modification of Latin stupefacere) & "hacienda" (originally, in Old Spanish & Latin, facienda) don't reveal the facere factor quite as readily. As for "surfeit," its original "c" was dropped along the path that led from Latin through Anglo-French, where gacere became faire & then sur- was added to make surfaire, meaning "to overdo." The Anglo-French noun surfet ("excess") entered Middle English & went through a number of spellings before settling on "surfeit."
Which is the widest, 2nd widest, & 3rd widest?
A. NHL hockey goal
B. NFL goal posts
C. Soccer goal
Which layer of skin is the outer-most, 2nd outer-most, & 3rd outer-most?
A. Sub cutis
B. Epidermis
C. Dermis
BCA. The epidermis forms the waterproof, protective wrap over the body's surface. It contains no blood vessels, & is nourished by the dermis below. It all works nicely. Just avoid punctures.
Which of her signature phrases did TV cooking star Rachael Ray use in naming her child-oriented healthy eating charity?
Yum-o! Her charity is the Yum-o! Organization.
You get rid of calories every night by turning your husband over when he snores. Stop dieting.
You're the guest: Don't complain to the maitre d' or server about the choice of table, no matter how much you dislike the location. The host alone should request a switch.
No comments:
Post a Comment