Finished my work for the day, rolled from my desk over to my knitting machine, looked a the machine & smiled. "Time to knit!" ::: Tones go off ::: "Maybe not time to knit." (Not our tones) "Time to knit!" Princeton for a grass fire. "Not time to knit." I get up & start getting dressed to head out while waiting for a location. Maybe it's closer to Branch or Farmersville. Nope, it's in OUR district or right on the border. OK, here we go! Got back from that call & knitted another panel of the blanket. After that I loaded up the Sims & played until Pete came home with dinner. Sicily's! WOOHOO! Thank you Pete! :D The game I chose last night was proving difficult right from the beginning. Brand new game, a house I had built so I'm playing the house & not a career or the bloodline. The Sim that I created at random to start off in this house had the traits & dream to be in law enforcement. I get him started in that career & hope that his boss or partner is female, otherwise I'm screwed because in that career, you don't meet co-workers like you do in other fields. Nope, both are men. Now where am I going to meet someone? He starts working & advancing nicely in his field. Time passes, still no one. I'm starting to think this is going to be a record short game with no 2nd generation to continue it. Finally, his boss or partner, I can't remember which, invites him to a party. I go & pick out the nicest looking Sim there. I introduce myself to her & she's a celebrity. Figures. Difficult to deal with because you 1st have to impress the celebrity before you can interact with them like you would any other Sim. I finally pull that off & somewhere between work, working on my skills that are needed for work, taking care of myself, taking care of my dog, & taking care of my home, I need to build up a relationship with this my future Sim wife. hard to do when you don't work with them because contact is limited. An equal amount of time to how long it took me to meet someone passes before I can build up the relationship enough to marry her & work on the 2nd generation for this game. Turns out she's a vampire. Lovely, they live a VERY long time & remember I said I only build houses with enough room for 3 generations because that's NORMAL? Well the introduction of vampires to the base game (no I didn't buy the supernatural expansion pack) throws a monkey wrench into that plan. She's going to last a LONG time & all vampires give birth to baby vampires who will also live a very long time. Once you get a vampire in your game, all following generations will also be. Anyway, on to generation 2. It's a girl! I named her Piper (I loved Charmed & Piper was my favorite character). I choose 2 traits, hit enter ... It's a BOY! AGAIN?! Are you kidding me?! Twins 2 out of the last 3 games? I swear this game hates me. I know what it is, I got too good at it. It doesn't matter what my Sims traits are, it doesn't matter if they start rich or poor, occupation ... I always succeed. All my Sims are happy, they always have lots of lifetime happiness points to get cool stuff, they always complete their lifetime wish ... but twins screws me up. THAT'S hard to keep up with! Well, now I have twins again. 1 girl & 1 boy again. Well, I succeeded! HA! Not only did I successfully advance to the top of my career, but my wife has almost reached the top of hers (she's going to live long enough to top out in several different careers), but my twins who are now teens, have BOTH mastered 4 skills, completed their lifetime wishes while they were in grade school, & will have the mastered skills to very quickly master any & all careers they want to in their long lifetimes. HA! Try & screw me up will ya? Watch, the game will throw triplets at me next. THAT will trip me up bad, I've never had triplets in any game, ever. I know it's possible, but I've never done it. Anyway, the only failure I had in this game was lack of time teaching the twins while they were toddlers & the game punished me by not letting me choose 1 trait for them when they aged up to school age. The last time this happened the game was nice & gave them good traits, remember? It wasn't nice to me this time. One of them got the insane trait (Ugh!) & the other got the inappropriate trait. It doesn't matter though, with 5 mastered skills each (I just remembered they mastered the music skill as soon as they aged up to high school age) & still in high school, & soon to master EVERY skill (I went to the book store & bought every skill book there was for the skills they hadn't mastered yet including every recipe available), I'd say this game is a mega-win. HA! It was tough & I was clicking my butt off trying to keep up with 4 Sims & 2 dogs, jobs, skills, you name it, but I did it & then some. Oh, the reason the twins have mastered every trait almost is because vampires learn at an alarming rate. What takes a normal Sim weeks in game time to learn, a vampire can learn in 1 hour (game time). So if they pick up a paintbrush & you have the game on high-speed, in 1 minute (your time), they've mastered the painting skill. Literally. Pretty cool, huh? The amount of money flowing into that house is amazing. I have enough to start investing in properties around town & with the latest update you can now not only become a partner of places like the bookstore, but you can outright own venues all over town. Soon this family will own every property, every business ... money is no longer a problem. Oh, & did I mention that they're all celebrities? That means free stuff. I keep getting free hot tubs & expensive furniture just for being a celebrity. HA! Only the best in this house now & I don't have to pay for any of it. I think this game is going to be very strange. I've never had so much success or money in a game & this game has just started. By the 3rd generation, with all the mastered skills & careers under their belts, & all the purchased venues & properties, the cash flow will just be insane. After all this & we all went to bed for the night (in real life), there was a vehicle fire on the edge of our district (but this time the opposite edge from where the grass fire was). LCFD training on hose lay & "Y" connections Tuesday.
A pastor, or any other Christian, should understand that he doesn't really own anything. When it comes right down to it, we're just asset managers for God. And if you understand this deep down in your soul, it will change how you view money & how you handle it.
Natascha Kampusch, an Austrian teenager who was kidnapped at age 10,
escapes from her captor, Wolfgang Priklopil, after more than eight
years. Shortly after her escape, Priklopil committed suicide.
On
March 2, 1998, Kampusch was abducted from a street in Vienna while
walking to school. One of Austria’s largest missing-person searches
followed, during which time authorities checked hundreds of white
minivans after a witness reported seeing Kampusch being dragged into a
white minivan. Police interviewed Priklopil, the owner of a minivan, but
didn’t believe he was a suspect. Kampusch was kept in a secret,
windowless basement room at Priklopil’s house outside of Vienna, where
she was physically and sexually abused by her captor. As time went by,
she was allowed into the rest of the house and would cook and clean for
Priklopil. He gave her books and a radio and she managed to educate
herself.
Early in the afternoon of August 23, 2006, Kampusch,
then 18, was vacuuming Priklopil’s car when he walked away from the
noise to answer a call on his cell phone. Kampusch used the opportunity
to escape and ran to the house of a neighbor, who called police. Several
hours later, Priklopil, a communications technician in his 40s, killed
himself by jumping in front of a train. Overnight, Kampusch became an
international celebrity. She was articulate and seemingly poised, but
hadn’t grown much or gained a lot of weight since her abduction.
Kampusch initially made statements indicating she felt sorry for her
captor, leading to speculation she was suffering from Stockholm
Syndrome. Her mother later claimed that Kampusch carried around a photo
of Priklopil’s coffin.
Be sure your bike is the right size. Sit on it & touch the balls of your feet to the ground. If they don't reach, the bike's too big.
Etiquette is a code of behavior based on the principles of:
- Respect
- Consideration
- Honesty
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Use our barcode scanner the next time you are in a bookstore. Add the book in your hands to your "to-read" shelf and easily view its reviews before buying.
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In what heart-wrenching 1959 movie are the title character’s last words:
“In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at
heart”?
Jeremiad:
A prolonged lamentation or complaint; also : a cautionary or angry harangue.
Mrs. Wilson waggled a finger at us & launched into a doleful jeremiad about how we would come to no good end.
The Jewish prophet Jeremiah (650-570 B.C.) was a naysayer who spent his days lambasting the Hebrews for their false worship & social injustice & denouncing the king for his selfishness, materialism, & inequities. When not calling on his people to quit their wicked ways, he was bemoaning his own lot; a portion of the Old Testament's Book of Jeremiah is devoted to his "confessions," a series of lamentations on the hardships endured by a prophet with an unpopular message. Today English-speakers use "Jeremian" to describe a pessimistic person & "jeremiad" for the way these Jeremiahs carry on. The word "jeremiad" was actually borrowed from the French, who coined it as jeremiade.
Life's pretty easy when you're __________ & __________, but is a life without __________ truly fulfilling?
This stainless steel dog tag pendant is as simple as it
looks. Its wide pane makes it easily noticeable. This pendant can also be engraved by your local engraver.
Tidy up the kitchen after breakfast ... this will help because you know when you leave for work that you can come home to a clean kitchen.
When are icebergs classified as growlers?
When they’re less than 3.3 feet high and 16 feet long. The smallest of
icebergs, they’re known as growlers because of the sound made by
escaping air as they melt.
Which color comes 1st, 2nd, & 3rd on a traffic light from top to bottom?
A. Yellow
B. Red
C. Green
BAC. - At least in the U.S. Rules governing traffic lights vary from country to country.
Which game was created 1st, 2nd, & 3rd?
A. Snakes & Ladders
B. Ludo
C. Reversi
Which of these names appear in T.S. Eliot's "The Naming of Cats"?
Socrates, Alonzo, Demeter, Hercules, Coricopat, Jellylorum.
Alonzo, demeter, Coricopat, & Jellylorum.
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