What a busy day yesterday! Besides picking Kyle up in Princeton, there was a grass fire, a head-on collision, & a medical call. Even with all that, I STILL managed to FINALLY work on my knitting machine again, only for the 2nd time since setting it up in my office. A sweater is 4 major pieces. The back, the front, & then each sleeve. Well, I had completed the back the day I set up the machine (almost, I didn't get the ribbing done at the bottom). Yesterday I managed to complete the ribbing on the back, do the front, complete the ribbing on the front, graft 1 shoulder seam, do the ribbing on the neck, & graft the other shoulder seam. WOOHOO! It looks GREAT! All I have now is the 2 sleeves & I'm done! Got to cook hamburgers & watch Dallas after Pete got home. Yesterday was a great day. I hope it was for you too. Kyle started debate camp this morning & he couldn't wait. Why am I not surprised that he excels in arguing? Andrew's birthday is Tuesday! I wish I could be with him, but Myrtle Beach is a lot of gallons of fuel away & my truck only gets 15 mpg. This is one of those times that I wish I had a motorcycle or a Prius. Zip out to the coast, zip back. Eve's going to be moving out there soon too, which means 2/3 of my children & my in-laws will all be out in Myrtle Beach. I wish there was work out there for Pete, we'd move too.
On this day in 2009, Frank McCourt, the author of the Pulitzer
Prize-winning, runaway best-seller “Angela’s Ashes,” a 1996 memoir about
his impoverished childhood in Limerick, Ireland, dies at age 78 in
Manhattan from metastatic melanoma. McCourt wrote “Angela’s Ashes,” his
first book, when he was in his mid-60s, after teaching in New York
City’s public schools for nearly 30 years.
Francis McCourt was born on August 19, 1930, in Brooklyn, New York, the oldest of seven children of Irish immigrants Angela and Malachy McCourt. In the midst of the Great Depression, 4-year-old Frank McCourt and his destitute family returned to his mother’s native Limerick. There his drunken, irresponsible father squandered the money he earned from his occasional work as a laborer, while his family subsisted in squalid poverty in the slums of Limerick. Three of McCourt’s siblings died in early childhood. When McCourt was 11, his father abandoned the family; at 13, the younger McCourt dropped out of school to work. As he would later write in “Angela’s Ashes”: “When I look back on my childhood, I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: The happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.”
At age 19, McCourt moved to New York City, where he worked a series of manual-labor jobs. During the Korean War, he served in the U.S. Army, training German shepherds. Afterward, despite his lack of formal education, he attended New York University on the GI Bill, studying English and graduating in 1957. The following year, he embarked on a 30-year teaching career in New York City’s public high schools. A popular, unorthodox teacher, he shared with his students some of the stories about his childhood that would later appear in “Angela’s Ashes.” Along the way, he earned a master’s degree in English from Brooklyn College.
In the 1970s, McCourt and his brother Malachy, an actor and bartender, wrote and performed an autobiographical two-man show in New York, “A Couple of Blaguards”; they later took their show on the road to other cities. After Frank McCourt retired from teaching in 1987, he decided to write his childhood memoirs.
When “Angela’s Ashes” was published in 1996, it received rave reviews from critics (who praised McCourt’s use of language and ability to write about his difficult childhood without bitterness) and went on to become a huge best-seller, with hardback sales alone topping 4 million copies. In 1997, the book won the Pulitzer Prize for biography or autobiography. “Angela’s Ashes” was less warmly received by some in Ireland, where McCourt was criticized for tarnishing the reputation of his mother, the city of Limerick and the Catholic Church, which he portrayed in his book as repressive and unsympathetic.
In 1999, “Angela’s Ashes” was made into a Hollywood movie. That same year, McCourt published his second memoir, “’Tis,” which picked up where “Angela’s Ashes” left off and described his years in America. His third book, “Teacher Man,” about his experiences as an educator, followed in 2005.
Francis McCourt was born on August 19, 1930, in Brooklyn, New York, the oldest of seven children of Irish immigrants Angela and Malachy McCourt. In the midst of the Great Depression, 4-year-old Frank McCourt and his destitute family returned to his mother’s native Limerick. There his drunken, irresponsible father squandered the money he earned from his occasional work as a laborer, while his family subsisted in squalid poverty in the slums of Limerick. Three of McCourt’s siblings died in early childhood. When McCourt was 11, his father abandoned the family; at 13, the younger McCourt dropped out of school to work. As he would later write in “Angela’s Ashes”: “When I look back on my childhood, I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: The happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.”
At age 19, McCourt moved to New York City, where he worked a series of manual-labor jobs. During the Korean War, he served in the U.S. Army, training German shepherds. Afterward, despite his lack of formal education, he attended New York University on the GI Bill, studying English and graduating in 1957. The following year, he embarked on a 30-year teaching career in New York City’s public high schools. A popular, unorthodox teacher, he shared with his students some of the stories about his childhood that would later appear in “Angela’s Ashes.” Along the way, he earned a master’s degree in English from Brooklyn College.
In the 1970s, McCourt and his brother Malachy, an actor and bartender, wrote and performed an autobiographical two-man show in New York, “A Couple of Blaguards”; they later took their show on the road to other cities. After Frank McCourt retired from teaching in 1987, he decided to write his childhood memoirs.
When “Angela’s Ashes” was published in 1996, it received rave reviews from critics (who praised McCourt’s use of language and ability to write about his difficult childhood without bitterness) and went on to become a huge best-seller, with hardback sales alone topping 4 million copies. In 1997, the book won the Pulitzer Prize for biography or autobiography. “Angela’s Ashes” was less warmly received by some in Ireland, where McCourt was criticized for tarnishing the reputation of his mother, the city of Limerick and the Catholic Church, which he portrayed in his book as repressive and unsympathetic.
In 1999, “Angela’s Ashes” was made into a Hollywood movie. That same year, McCourt published his second memoir, “’Tis,” which picked up where “Angela’s Ashes” left off and described his years in America. His third book, “Teacher Man,” about his experiences as an educator, followed in 2005.
Don't teach your kids that debt is dumb & then use credit cards yourself. Kids can smell a hypocrite a mile away.
Dross:
1: The scum that forms on the sufrace of molten metal. 2: Waste or foreign matter : impurity. 3: Something that is base, trivial, or inferior.
"There are a few quality programs on television these days, but most shows are just so much dross," complained the critic.
"Dross" have been a part of the English language since Anglo-Saxon times, & 1 19th century book on Old English vocabulary dates it back to 1050 A.D. Its Old English ancestors are related to Germanic & Scandinavian words for "dregs" (as in "the dregs of the coffee"), &, like "dregs," "dross" is a word for the less-than-desirable parts of something. Over the years, the relative worthlessness of dross has often been set in contrast to the value of gold, as, for example, in British poet Christina Rossetti's "The Lowest Room" (1875): "Besides, those days were golden days, / Whilst these are days of dross."
Get your kids involved in doing the laundry. Let kids, even toddlers, sort the whites & darks. Kids can even fold laundry while they watch television.
MileTracker:
MileTracker is your all-inclusive mileage tracking and reporting
application. Its ease of use, full features and great interface make it
an essential tool for any user needing to track their mileage for
business or the IRS. Its power even extends to the desktop by allowing
emailing or exporting of Excel friendly files directly to the desktop.
It's a must have app!
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Features include:
✔ Records all of your mileage and provides a running total for each log
✔ Track parking costs and tolls and take photos of receipts for each
✔ Organize your entries in logs for ideal organization
✔ Hide those fields you do not use
✔ Keeps a frequently used list for appropriate fields like "From", "To", "Client", "Project" and "Description" and presents those when entering for one tap entry
✔ Mark a log as "reimbursed" or "submitted"
✔ Always remembers the last log you edited and returns you there upon returning to the app
✔ Logs can be filed into groups to further organize your information
✔ Sort mileage entries by "Date" or by "Client"
✔ Enter total distance or start/stop odometer reading. Will pre-fill start reading with last stop reading
✔ Supports unlimited number of vehicles and will remember the last odometer reading for each vehicle
✔ Enter the "From" and "To" field and it will auto-fill the mileage if you have previously traveled that route before
✔ Miles pre-fill for return routes (B to A) if initial route if mileage is know for initial route (A to B)
✔ Includes client field and support for sorting and exporting by client. Ideal for those who must bill different clients
✔ Set up total commuter miles and opt to deduct from an entry
✔ Numerous user defined preferences to customize the app the way you like it.
✔ Customizable mileage allowances (ie Business, Medical, Charity, Other). Edit name and allowance amount
✔ Create attractive, finished Mileage and Expense reports in PDF format. Choose from three different templates.
✔ Email your mileage reports in either plain text or comma delimited (CSV) format for easy import to Excel or Numbers
✔ Export your reports directly to your Mac or PC via a Wi-Fi connection and have your file immediately appear on your desktop
✔ Specify the fields to be exported and the order in which they appear in the file
✔ Expense reports can be customized by filtering and sorting as you choose
✔ Backup/restore so your data will always be safe
✔ Includes password protection option to prevent unauthorized access to your data.
Add-on features:
✔ Purchase the optional Dropbox/MobileMe add-on for access to your Dropbox or MobileMe account
✔ Purchase the optional Sync add-on to add the ability to sync wirelesly with another iOS device (ie your iPhone and iPad)
✔ Many more screenshots on our website: www.silverwaresoftware.com
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Features include:
✔ Records all of your mileage and provides a running total for each log
✔ Track parking costs and tolls and take photos of receipts for each
✔ Organize your entries in logs for ideal organization
✔ Hide those fields you do not use
✔ Keeps a frequently used list for appropriate fields like "From", "To", "Client", "Project" and "Description" and presents those when entering for one tap entry
✔ Mark a log as "reimbursed" or "submitted"
✔ Always remembers the last log you edited and returns you there upon returning to the app
✔ Logs can be filed into groups to further organize your information
✔ Sort mileage entries by "Date" or by "Client"
✔ Enter total distance or start/stop odometer reading. Will pre-fill start reading with last stop reading
✔ Supports unlimited number of vehicles and will remember the last odometer reading for each vehicle
✔ Enter the "From" and "To" field and it will auto-fill the mileage if you have previously traveled that route before
✔ Miles pre-fill for return routes (B to A) if initial route if mileage is know for initial route (A to B)
✔ Includes client field and support for sorting and exporting by client. Ideal for those who must bill different clients
✔ Set up total commuter miles and opt to deduct from an entry
✔ Numerous user defined preferences to customize the app the way you like it.
✔ Customizable mileage allowances (ie Business, Medical, Charity, Other). Edit name and allowance amount
✔ Create attractive, finished Mileage and Expense reports in PDF format. Choose from three different templates.
✔ Email your mileage reports in either plain text or comma delimited (CSV) format for easy import to Excel or Numbers
✔ Export your reports directly to your Mac or PC via a Wi-Fi connection and have your file immediately appear on your desktop
✔ Specify the fields to be exported and the order in which they appear in the file
✔ Expense reports can be customized by filtering and sorting as you choose
✔ Backup/restore so your data will always be safe
✔ Includes password protection option to prevent unauthorized access to your data.
Add-on features:
✔ Purchase the optional Dropbox/MobileMe add-on for access to your Dropbox or MobileMe account
✔ Purchase the optional Sync add-on to add the ability to sync wirelesly with another iOS device (ie your iPhone and iPad)
✔ Many more screenshots on our website: www.silverwaresoftware.com
Shrimp cocktail has only 28 calories.
To butter corn on the cob quickly & evenly, spread butter thickly on a iece of bread & roll the hot cob in it.
What bird’s flight inspired the Wright Brothers to develop a wing warping system for maneuvering and banking aircraft?
The buzzard, which twists one wingtip upward and the other downward to make banked turns.
When you're eating out with a group & some of the meals are served before others, is it okay to start eating, or should you wait until everyone is served?
If a noticeable amount of time passes after the arrival of some meals & before the arrival of others, then the host, or other diners, should encourage those who have already been served to go ahead & eat. This particular etiquette tidbit applies to meals that are to be served (& meant to be eaten) hot. If everyone has ordered cold food, those served 1st should wait until everyone has their meals before starting to eat.
Which driver won the most, 2nd most, & 3rd most Indy 500s?
A. Bobby Unser
B. Bill Vukovich
C. A.J. Foyt
Which language is the most, 2nd most, & 3rd most widely spoken by native speakers?
A. Spanish
B. Mandarin Chinese
C. Hindi
BCA. As of 2005, Mandarin is the native tongue of 836 million people. No wonder I understand so little.
Which of these people were prominent during the Revolutionary War?
Jefferson Davis, Benedict Arnold, Paul Revere, Alexander Stephens, Robert E. Lee, Charles Cornwallis.
Benedict Arnold, Paul Revere, & Charles Cornwallis.
Word "baseball" 1st appeared in print in English author Jane Austen's novel Northanger Abbey. The book was written in the late 1700s but not published until the early 1800s, still well before American baseball was purportedly invented in 1845.
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