Couldn't get to sleep the night before last, so when I finally did at 4:a, I still forced myself to get up when I was supposed to. I cut my sleep short intentionally so I would have no problem falling asleep last night. Yesterday was busy, I was running way behind on everything & then Josh called from way out west on Eldorado. He had been walking & looking for a job. He was overheated & exhausted, so I drove out & picked him up. We stopped at the other house to pick up some boxes so he could do some packing, came back here, he unloaded the empty boxes & went in his room to pack some stuff. He comes out later & said he fell asleep as soon as he went in his room. understandable considering the day he had! We watched an hour of America's Funniest Home videos & then we went up into town for a bit. At some point I did manage to knit that final afghan panel & get everything connected & done. I posted the photo on facebook last night into my mobile uploads album. I chose new yarn for the next afghan. Same pattern, just different yarn. This time different color panels ... I'm thinking at least 4 different colors. I picked out the project & the yarn, then loaded up Sims for a very short time. I played my Sim. My Sim ... as in my 'Elizabeth Christian' Sim. Looks like me & has my traits. She lives in Appaloosa Plains in a small 1 bedroom starter home. No screenshots of this one because you already know what I look like & I've already shown a screenshot of that same starter house from a different game. Anyway, she's on the career track to be a 5-Star Chef & works at the Bistro in town. She met & married Shaun Kiffle, who quit his job at the Bistro to follow his lifetime wish of being a rock star. He now works at the theater in the music profession. They had to stay in the small starter home due to the fact that the game burped & not only does Shaun have NO traits, but his home only showed up as a file directory path (not even on MY computer) to where the home was created on the programmer's PC. So here they are, cramped in this tiny little house with the 2 of them, 2 cats, a litter of kittens on the way, & now a baby boy named Lewis Kiffle ... the 2nd generation for this game. That's as far as I got before Pete got home, which was good because after cutting my sleep short the night before & helping Josh move, I was exhausted. I couldn't wait to get to sleep ... YAY! No trouble sleeping tonight (last night)! We had a nice dinner, watched a very short 20 minutes of How It's Made, & crawled off to bed at 2:a. Exhausted. Guess what? I stared at the ceiling in the dark & tossed & turned for a hour. Sleep wouldn't come. I got up & watched TV in my office for an hour more. Finally gave in & took a sleeping pill. At FIVE AM I FINALLY fell asleep. WTH?! There's nothing wrong. I'm not upset about anything, I'm not excited about anything. Those are the 2 reasons I have sleepless nights & neither of them apply, so why can't I get to sleep even when I'm exhausted? What gives? I woke up at noon today to 2 missed calls from my Chief & 2 text messages from the county & Active 911 that I missed a fatality MVA on 380. Damn sleeping pill ... I didn't hear my phone, I didn't hear the text messages, I didn't hear the radio, I didn't hear my pager. I was OUT. THAT is why I hate taking sleeping pills, NyQuil, or Benadryl. Murphy's Law ... if I take it, we'll have a big call where I'm needed. So ... to my Chief, to my firefighters, to my community ... I'm SO sorry I wasn't there! I should have just given up, not taken the sleeping pill, & at 5:a cooked breakfast & pulled an all-niter. The only reason I didn't is because the last time I did that it was painful. I used to do that all the time to reset my schedule or simply because I was excited about something & didn't WANT to go to bed. I'm older now though & it's not as easy as it used to be. In fact, it went from super-easy, to super-what the hell was I thinking?! Ah ... old age. And I'm only 46. I shouldn't be this tired at this age. I'm old & tired, but I'm not THAT old. Anyway, this has got to stop. Tonight, as soon as Pete gets home from work, I'm going to take a sleeping pill AND melatonin & reset my sleeping pattern. Please ... no calls tonight or tomorrow morning. I don't want to sleep through another one. Be safe everyone! Milligan Water meeting Monday.
The Cable Car bracelet is crafted with high grade 316L stainless steel
and wire inlay in a 20th century industrial design. Three braided steel
cables are inlaid in each link. The industrial hardware reflects the
strength of the stainless steel in a modern style that is tough and
cool.
Children are blessings. I have 3 of them myself, having them was the best thing I've done since I've been on the planet. If you're single or don't have kids of your own for whatever reason, find a way to get involved with them anyway. Volunteer, teach, mentor or babysit - in every case, you'll be blessed.
Condolance note is too personal to follow a formula, but here are some simple guidelines:
- Say what you feel.
- Make it short & sweet.
- Don't dwell on the details of the death or illness.
- Briefly mention the deceases (something complimentary or an anecdote), if you can.
- Don't say, "It was for the best," or "It's a blessing in disguise."
- Offer some specific way to help, if you're able to.
- JUST DO IT!
Don't leave home without your insurance ID card, an extra supply of any medication you take, copies of essential prescriptions & your doctor's phone number.
Gainsay:
1: To declare to be untrue or invalid. 2: Contradict or oppose.
Their work is useful, but doesn't provide enough evidence to gainsay the conclusions of earlier scholars.
You might have trouble figuring out "gainsay" if you're thinking of our modern "gain" + "say." It might help to know that "gain-" is actually related to "against." In Old English, gean- meant "against." The Middle English fain- was joined with sayen ("say") to form gainsayen, the Middle English predecessor of "gainsay." So when you see "gainsay," think "say against" - that is, "deny" or "contradict." "Gainsay" is a literary, somewhat old-fashioned word that isn't heard much in everyday modern speech.
If you have utensils or appliances that are broken, give yourself a time-frame to get them fixed. If you don't do it in that time-frame then toss them. Don't keep a broken appliance. it's just taking up space.
Muddled:
MUDDLED is an addictive, fast-paced anagram word game. Form all of the
words you can from the letter tiles given before the timer runs out! Get
enough words, and you move to the next round and build your score. Miss
too many, and start again at zero.
MUDDLED makes full use of the iPhone's touch screen and accelerometer. Tap or drag the tiles into place to form words. Shake the phone back and forth to scramble up the letters when you get stuck.
With over 1,400 different boards to play, MUDDLED will keep you entertained for hours!
MUDDLED makes full use of the iPhone's touch screen and accelerometer. Tap or drag the tiles into place to form words. Shake the phone back and forth to scramble up the letters when you get stuck.
With over 1,400 different boards to play, MUDDLED will keep you entertained for hours!
On this day in 2007, Volkswagen of America announces that it is moving its headquarters from Auburn Hills, Michigan to Herndon, Virginia.
The company made the move, it said, to be closer to the East-Coasters
who buy most of its cars. "You want to work in an environment where you
see your customers," Volkswagen CEO Stefan Jacoby told the Washington
Post. "You don't want to work where you basically see only American cars
of the Big Three."
Ever since 1949, when Volkswagen began to import its cars from Germany to the United States, the company has had its ups and downs in the American market. During the 1960s and 70s, American customers bought millions of the company's iconic (they were "homely but cheap and reliable," the New York Times said) Beetles and tiny, fuel-efficient Rabbits. In 1978, Volkswagen became the first foreign car company since World War II to build a factory in the United States when it opened a plant in New Stanton, Pennsylvania
that was designed to produce 200,000 cars every year. But as small,
inexpensive, gas-sipping Japanese cars began to flood the American
market in the 1980s,
Volkswagen lots its grip on its customers. As a result, the Pennsylvania
factory--by that time only turning out about 60,000 cars a year--shut
its doors for good in 1987.
By the time Volkswagen announced
its move to Virginia, the market share for its cars, now produced
exclusively in Europe, had sagged to about 2 percent. In order to boost
sales in the United States and to reduce the company's exposure to the
sinking dollar (which, as one Bloomberg News reporter pointed out,
"makes the carmaker's vehicles more expensive in the United States"), in
July 2008 Volkswagen announced plans to replace its long-shuttered
Pennsylvania factory with a new one in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
(State economic development officials promised the company hundreds of
millions of dollars in tax breaks and other incentives in hopes that, as
one commissioner told reporters, the Chattanooga factory would become
"an anchor project that will draw thousands more automotive jobs to the
state.") Company officials say that the plant, scheduled to be up and
running by 2011, will employ 2,000 Tennesseans (and create an additional
9,500 jobs in construction and other fields). It will produce 150,000
vehicles--mostly a new midsize sedan developed especially for the
American market--each year.
What was Rabbit Creek in the Yukon renamed after prospectors discovered gold there, triggering the 1896 Klondike gold rush?
What was the world’s first fully computer-generated full-length feature film?
Toy Story, in 1995, produced by Pixar.
Which airport is the busiest, 2nd busiest, & 3rd busiest?
A. London Heathrow
B. Atlanta
C. Chicago O'Hare
BCA. In 2005, nearly 86 million people flew in or out of Atlanta International, which is a heck of a lot of luggage.
Which country has the largest, 2nd largest, & 3rd largest population?
A. Ireland
B. Scotland
C. Wales
Which of these events happened in the 1980s?
Tienanmen Square protest, 1st test tube baby born, the Reagan administration, the fall of the Berlin Wall, Mother Teresa wins Nobel Peace Prize, boycott of the Moscow Olympics, Nelson Mandela freed.
Tienanmen Square protest, the Reagan administration, the fall of the Berlin Wall, boycott of the Moscow Olympics.
Your __________, __________, & __________ are ... I can't say, they're just too __________.
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