It's been a couple of days. Wednesday morning after I left here, I had French toast for breakfast & then checked my banking for the week, cleaned the shower, dusted the silk flowers in the bedroom, cleaned the kitchen counters, did a load of laundry, cleaned the living room walls, hosed off the back porch, cleaned my computer, & then showered, checked facebook & eBay, went through the mail for the week, finished the knitted afghan panel that I had started previously, then loaded up the Sims 3 & played Lafayette again. Over 100 games & I played the same one back-to-back. I've never done that before, although it was nice to play a game & actually REMEMBER what I was doing 
because it was the last game I played. LOL! I'm so used to loading up a
game & having to go through my notes for that game, study each
person's traits, where they work, that their skills & skill levels
are, etc. On the flip side, it was kinda boring loading up the exact same game I played last ... again. I played until Pete got off work & then we met at Sicily's for some manicotti & a calzone (I had the manicotti). :) We came home, watched 
some TV & headed off to bed. The next morning I woke up & crawled straight into the Matrix. I completed Northmont & it's been uploaded to the Sims Exchange. You can check it out &/or download it here: https://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=6478861 With Northmont complete, it was time to begin my next creation. This next one will be called Heart of Texas. I chose a nice 30X40 lot to place it on which gives people room 
to decorate & landscape the lot as they like once they download the
lot. Add a pool, add trees, add an outdoor living area, plant a garden
... you'll have space, but not so much that the house looks tiny on the
lot. I started by building a 2 car garage in the front right corner of the property & added 
2 different types of motorcycles. I also added a nice large tree, a driveway, some flowers, a shrub, & a rock for landscaping. Next I'll work on the utility room. Gotta have a place for your washer & dryer. :) After that I loaded up OUR house. The replica of our real house, real cars, & real 
family. I had to make a lot of changes from when I worked on this one last. Eve has moved out (I cried when I kicked her out of the household in the game ... lost her TWICE now), had to remove 1 cat & add other pets. I didn't realize how much had changed in the past 100+ days. Anyway, now everything is as it should be. Furniture has been moved, some added, some deleted, took a screenshot of day & night & wow, it looks like our house all right. Not bad! After I was finished updating that game, I loaded up Glenbrooke (shown in the last screenshot). This is another house I've built & decorated. My 1st generation Sim that I created to play this house is Zack. He's childish, a schmoozer, frugal, an animal lover & has a green thumb. He decided to become a CEO. He likes cobbler, custom music, & the color orange. He's a Sagittarius. His furry companion is an Old English Sheepdog named Xavier. He's non-destructive, shy, & hydrophobic. After spending a few days at work, Zack met Betty Wills & married her. They now have a daughter named Nikki (2nd generation) who hates the outdoors, is insane, & mean spirited (just lovely ... isn't she a peach?). She's a Leo who likes Chinese music, the color yellow, & Ratatouille. Knowing that time would be tight with 2 full time jobs in the business field & a new baby, Zack adopted Marina. Those 2 have have had puppies & the family now also includes Sheba (2nd generation), a hyper & clueless puppy. I played that game until Pete came home & then we picked Kyle & Josh up in Princeton. Came home, took a nap, watched some TV, made dinner, watched more TV, & went to bed early. Here I'm thinking between the nap & going to bed early, I'll be up & going earlier than usual today. I was really looking forward to the early start & feeling fully rested at that! So what happens? Even after the nap earlier in the evening, I slept through a FD call & then overslept this morning by an hour & a half. Sonofa ... oh well. No early start. Same time as usual. My alarm clock never went off this morning. Why? Because as I was trying to go to sleep, my phone rang. It was Eve. I want to talk to her, but I was SO tired. The phone was in a stereo & was LOUD, so I reached over & silenced it. Yeah, my alarm went off this morning ... but it was on silent. Brilliant. Now here it is speeding up on noon already & Josh has to be at work out near Frisco at 3, the same time the homecoming parade starts in Princeton, making it impossible for me to be in the parade with the FD this afternoon. For everyone who WILL be at the homecoming parade, both FD & non-FD, have a great time ... I'm here, wish you were beautiful. ;-)
Accepting unemployment benefits is not immoral, because it isn't immoral to accept something you've paid for. I think the Social Security system is an abysmal mathematical disaster. it's proof that socialism doesn't work. But that doesn't mean I'm not going to take my money out; they took it from me! I don't think that's immoral at all.
Apple founder Steve Jobs dies (2011):
On this day in 2011, Steve Jobs, the visionary
co-founder of Apple Inc., which revolutionized the computer, music and
mobile communications industries with such devices as the Macintosh,
iPod, iPhone and iPad, dies at age 56 of complications from pancreatic
cancer.
Born on February 24, 1955, in San Francisco, California, to unmarried graduate students Joanne Schieble and Abdulfattah Jandali, a Syrian immigrant, Jobs was adopted as a baby by Paul Jobs, a Silicon Valley machinist, and his wife Clara. After graduating from high school in Cupertino, California, in 1972, Jobs attended Reed College, a liberal arts school in Portland, Oregon, for a single semester before dropping out. He later worked briefly for pioneering video game maker Atari in California, traveled to India and studied Zen Buddhism.
In 1976, Jobs and his computer engineer friend Stephen Wozniak founded Apple Computer in Jobs’ parents’ garage in Los Altos, California. As Bloomberg News would later note about Jobs: “He had no formal technical training and no real business experience. What he had instead was an appreciation of technology's elegance and a notion that computers could be more than a hobbyist's toy or a corporation's workhorse. These machines could be indispensable tools.” In 1977, Jobs and Wozniak launched the Apple II, which became the first popular personal computer. In 1980, Apple went public and Jobs, then in his mid-20s, became a multimillionaire. Four years later, Apple debuted the Macintosh, one of the first personal computers to feature a graphical user interface, which allowed people to navigate by pointing and clicking a mouse rather than typing commands.
In 1985, Jobs left the company following a power struggle with Apple’s board of directors. That same year, he established NeXT, a business that developed high-performance computers. The machines proved too pricey to gain a wide consumer audience; however, British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee developed the World Wide Web using a NeXT workstation. In 1986, Jobs acquired a small computer-graphics studio founded by filmmaker George Lucas and rechristened it Pixar Animation Studios. In 1995, Pixar released its first film, “Toy Story,” the first-ever feature-length, computer-animated movie. It became a huge box-office success and was followed by such award-winning hits as “Finding Nemo” (2003) and “The Incredibles” (2004). In 2006, Walt Disney Company purchased Pixar for more than $7 billion, making Jobs the largest Disney shareholder.
In late 1996, Apple, which had floundered without Jobs, announced it would buy NeXT and hire Jobs as an advisor. The following year, he became Apple’s interim CEO (the “interim” was dropped in 2000), and under his leadership a nearly bankrupt Apple was transformed into one of the planet’s most valuable corporations. A charismatic, demanding perfectionist, Jobs was said to possess the ability to intuit what customers wanted before they knew it themselves. In his trademark jeans and black mock turtleneck, the tech titan turned product launches into highly anticipated events, and Apple introduced a series of innovative digital devices, including the iPod portable music player in 2001, the iPhone in 2007 and the iPad tablet computer in 2010, that became part of everyday modern life. (In early 2007, Jobs announced that Cupertino-based Apple was dropping “Computer” from its official moniker to reflect the fact the company’s focus had shifted from computers-only to mobile electronic devices).
Despite a series of medical issues, including surgery in 2004 to remove a pancreatic tumor and a 2009 liver transplant, Jobs continued to lead Apple until August 24, 2011, when he stepped down as the company’s chief executive. Six weeks later, he passed away at his Palo Alto, California, home. At the time of his death, Jobs, a father of four, had a net worth estimated at more than $7 billion. According to biographer Walter Isaacson, Jobs “was the greatest business executive of our era, the one most certain to be remembered a century from now. History will place him in the pantheon right next to Thomas Edison and Henry Ford.”
BillTracker:
We all have bills to pay. From the water bill to the car payment to the cell phone subscription, BillTracker can help you manage it all. Featuring a well designed user interface and an advanced internal database, BillTracker combines power with ease of use.
Features of BillTracker:
• Track information about each bill including due date, amount due, whether the bill has been paid, confirmation numbers for payments and more.
• Easily create recurring bills
• Call account phone numbers or view account websites directly from BillTracker
• Protect your data with a passcode
• Bill Reminders. BillTracker alerts you when a bill is due soon or past due and highlights those bills in the list so you won't forget.
• See complete history for each account: every bill and payment!
• Use the currency of your choice
• Export your data to CSV
Car Dashboard:
Have you been in a situation when it was important to know how fast your car / train / airplane / boat / bike is?
If you are a person on the road frequently, and want to know your vehicle's speed, direction, and other useful trip-related information in a very easy readable form, then this is the tool for you!
Dashboard displays the current speed, distance, heading, altitude and travel time information using your iPhone's built-in GPS receiver.
For example, you can use this app to verify your vehicle's speedometer, or if you want to know your heading and altitude, or if you can't see the vehicle's dashboard (on airplane, train, boat, etc...)
Features:
* Extra large speed display
* Altitude
* Heading (8-way N/NE/E/SE/S/SW/W/NW)
* Distance (saved on exit)
* Travel time (saved on exit)
* Portrait and Landscape view
* HUD (mirrored) view
* Very easy to read in car while driving
* Units:
Speed: km/h, mph, kts
Altitude: m, ft
Distance: km, mi, nm
* Switchable text colors, accordig to your car's dashboard illumination
(Orange for Renault, Fiat, Peugeot, etc...)
(Green for Fiat, etc...)
(White for Mercedes, Renault Laguna, etc...)
(Blue for VW, etc...)
(Red for Alfa Romeo, etc...)
* Can disable screen auto-lock
* Absolutely free: no ads, no pop-ups...
Notes:
* iPhone OS 3.0 or higher is required
* Due to older iPhone's (3G/S) limited GPS reception quality, the speed information isn't accurate below 10 km/h (6 mph)
* The compass works only while you are moving.
* On iPod Touch, will work only with external GPS receiver. (There are car kits available with GPS receiver.)
A limited GPS signal can have many different reasons:
* bad positioning of the iPhone in the car. Like with every portable navigation device, the iPhone should always have a free view to the sky.
* metallized thermally insulated windshield
* usage of design or protective covers
While using our Car Dashboard Software please avoid using covers since these influence the reception of a GPS signal.
Copy a cat: Stretch & then shake it out.
Dork Club inducted you as a high-ranking member because __________.
Gettysburg:
The fiercest battle fought on American soil comes to the screen in a realistic production that painstakingly re-creates the events of three fateful days in July 1863 -- from the actual battle locations to the uniforms and boots. Tom Berenger, Jeff Daniels, Martin Sheen and Richard Jordan play key roles in this magnificent epic (based on Michael Shaara's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Killer Angels).
In 1988, what Hollywood leading man starred in both the Oscar-winning Best Picture and the Golden Raspberry Award’s Worst Picture?
Grub Street:
The world or category of needy literary hacks.
That fame lifted him out of Grub Street where for 10 years he had eked out a livelihood.
The original Grub Street was an address in London (it was renamed Milton Street in 1830) described by Dr. Samuel Johnson in his Dictionary of the English Language as "much inhabited by writers of small histories, dictionaries, & temporary poems." As early as 1630, the term was applied figuratively to the dog-eat-dog world of pens-for-hire, & not surprisingly it became the subject of several novels. Writer Tobias Smollett, all too familiar with hackwork himself, described a Grub Street dinner party in his novel The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771). And the allusion to Grub Street as the title of his realistic novel about the intrigues of the Victorian literary world.
Islands of the Central & South Pacific are often collectively known as what?
A. Australasia
B. Eurasia
C. Oceania
D. Pacifica
Manage paper clutter by scanning & then filing important receipts or documents electronically. Be sure to store valuable documents in a fireproof safe or bank deposit box.
Specialty funds that invest in 1 category of industry defeat the purpose of a mutual fund in the 1st place. The purpose of a mutual fund is to be diversified. If I buy a healthcare fund or a utility fund, I might as well have just invested in utilities, because I'm stuck in that one industry, & as goes healthcare, so goes my healthcare fund. I'd rather be in a fund that has a little bit of everything in the economy in it.
Spending more than you should takes the fun out of gift giving. (Boy howdy! I'm going to be paying off Christmas 2010&11 for a VERY long time ... not fun at all).
Television show The French Chef showcased the cooking talents of whom?
A. Rachael Ray
B. Julia Child
C. Bobby Flay
D. James Barber
Answer: Julia Child.
Born on February 24, 1955, in San Francisco, California, to unmarried graduate students Joanne Schieble and Abdulfattah Jandali, a Syrian immigrant, Jobs was adopted as a baby by Paul Jobs, a Silicon Valley machinist, and his wife Clara. After graduating from high school in Cupertino, California, in 1972, Jobs attended Reed College, a liberal arts school in Portland, Oregon, for a single semester before dropping out. He later worked briefly for pioneering video game maker Atari in California, traveled to India and studied Zen Buddhism.
In 1976, Jobs and his computer engineer friend Stephen Wozniak founded Apple Computer in Jobs’ parents’ garage in Los Altos, California. As Bloomberg News would later note about Jobs: “He had no formal technical training and no real business experience. What he had instead was an appreciation of technology's elegance and a notion that computers could be more than a hobbyist's toy or a corporation's workhorse. These machines could be indispensable tools.” In 1977, Jobs and Wozniak launched the Apple II, which became the first popular personal computer. In 1980, Apple went public and Jobs, then in his mid-20s, became a multimillionaire. Four years later, Apple debuted the Macintosh, one of the first personal computers to feature a graphical user interface, which allowed people to navigate by pointing and clicking a mouse rather than typing commands.
In 1985, Jobs left the company following a power struggle with Apple’s board of directors. That same year, he established NeXT, a business that developed high-performance computers. The machines proved too pricey to gain a wide consumer audience; however, British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee developed the World Wide Web using a NeXT workstation. In 1986, Jobs acquired a small computer-graphics studio founded by filmmaker George Lucas and rechristened it Pixar Animation Studios. In 1995, Pixar released its first film, “Toy Story,” the first-ever feature-length, computer-animated movie. It became a huge box-office success and was followed by such award-winning hits as “Finding Nemo” (2003) and “The Incredibles” (2004). In 2006, Walt Disney Company purchased Pixar for more than $7 billion, making Jobs the largest Disney shareholder.
In late 1996, Apple, which had floundered without Jobs, announced it would buy NeXT and hire Jobs as an advisor. The following year, he became Apple’s interim CEO (the “interim” was dropped in 2000), and under his leadership a nearly bankrupt Apple was transformed into one of the planet’s most valuable corporations. A charismatic, demanding perfectionist, Jobs was said to possess the ability to intuit what customers wanted before they knew it themselves. In his trademark jeans and black mock turtleneck, the tech titan turned product launches into highly anticipated events, and Apple introduced a series of innovative digital devices, including the iPod portable music player in 2001, the iPhone in 2007 and the iPad tablet computer in 2010, that became part of everyday modern life. (In early 2007, Jobs announced that Cupertino-based Apple was dropping “Computer” from its official moniker to reflect the fact the company’s focus had shifted from computers-only to mobile electronic devices).
Despite a series of medical issues, including surgery in 2004 to remove a pancreatic tumor and a 2009 liver transplant, Jobs continued to lead Apple until August 24, 2011, when he stepped down as the company’s chief executive. Six weeks later, he passed away at his Palo Alto, California, home. At the time of his death, Jobs, a father of four, had a net worth estimated at more than $7 billion. According to biographer Walter Isaacson, Jobs “was the greatest business executive of our era, the one most certain to be remembered a century from now. History will place him in the pantheon right next to Thomas Edison and Henry Ford.”
We all have bills to pay. From the water bill to the car payment to the cell phone subscription, BillTracker can help you manage it all. Featuring a well designed user interface and an advanced internal database, BillTracker combines power with ease of use.
Features of BillTracker:
• Track information about each bill including due date, amount due, whether the bill has been paid, confirmation numbers for payments and more.
• Easily create recurring bills
• Call account phone numbers or view account websites directly from BillTracker
• Protect your data with a passcode
• Bill Reminders. BillTracker alerts you when a bill is due soon or past due and highlights those bills in the list so you won't forget.
• See complete history for each account: every bill and payment!
• Use the currency of your choice
• Export your data to CSV
Have you been in a situation when it was important to know how fast your car / train / airplane / boat / bike is?
If you are a person on the road frequently, and want to know your vehicle's speed, direction, and other useful trip-related information in a very easy readable form, then this is the tool for you!
Dashboard displays the current speed, distance, heading, altitude and travel time information using your iPhone's built-in GPS receiver.
For example, you can use this app to verify your vehicle's speedometer, or if you want to know your heading and altitude, or if you can't see the vehicle's dashboard (on airplane, train, boat, etc...)
Features:
* Extra large speed display
* Altitude
* Heading (8-way N/NE/E/SE/S/SW/W/NW)
* Distance (saved on exit)
* Travel time (saved on exit)
* Portrait and Landscape view
* HUD (mirrored) view
* Very easy to read in car while driving
* Units:
Speed: km/h, mph, kts
Altitude: m, ft
Distance: km, mi, nm
* Switchable text colors, accordig to your car's dashboard illumination
(Orange for Renault, Fiat, Peugeot, etc...)
(Green for Fiat, etc...)
(White for Mercedes, Renault Laguna, etc...)
(Blue for VW, etc...)
(Red for Alfa Romeo, etc...)
* Can disable screen auto-lock
* Absolutely free: no ads, no pop-ups...
Notes:
* iPhone OS 3.0 or higher is required
* Due to older iPhone's (3G/S) limited GPS reception quality, the speed information isn't accurate below 10 km/h (6 mph)
* The compass works only while you are moving.
* On iPod Touch, will work only with external GPS receiver. (There are car kits available with GPS receiver.)
A limited GPS signal can have many different reasons:
* bad positioning of the iPhone in the car. Like with every portable navigation device, the iPhone should always have a free view to the sky.
* metallized thermally insulated windshield
* usage of design or protective covers
While using our Car Dashboard Software please avoid using covers since these influence the reception of a GPS signal.
Copy a cat: Stretch & then shake it out.
Dork Club inducted you as a high-ranking member because __________.
The fiercest battle fought on American soil comes to the screen in a realistic production that painstakingly re-creates the events of three fateful days in July 1863 -- from the actual battle locations to the uniforms and boots. Tom Berenger, Jeff Daniels, Martin Sheen and Richard Jordan play key roles in this magnificent epic (based on Michael Shaara's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Killer Angels).
In 1988, what Hollywood leading man starred in both the Oscar-winning Best Picture and the Golden Raspberry Award’s Worst Picture?
Grub Street:
The world or category of needy literary hacks.
That fame lifted him out of Grub Street where for 10 years he had eked out a livelihood.
The original Grub Street was an address in London (it was renamed Milton Street in 1830) described by Dr. Samuel Johnson in his Dictionary of the English Language as "much inhabited by writers of small histories, dictionaries, & temporary poems." As early as 1630, the term was applied figuratively to the dog-eat-dog world of pens-for-hire, & not surprisingly it became the subject of several novels. Writer Tobias Smollett, all too familiar with hackwork himself, described a Grub Street dinner party in his novel The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771). And the allusion to Grub Street as the title of his realistic novel about the intrigues of the Victorian literary world.
Islands of the Central & South Pacific are often collectively known as what?
A. Australasia
B. Eurasia
C. Oceania
D. Pacifica
Manage paper clutter by scanning & then filing important receipts or documents electronically. Be sure to store valuable documents in a fireproof safe or bank deposit box.
Specialty funds that invest in 1 category of industry defeat the purpose of a mutual fund in the 1st place. The purpose of a mutual fund is to be diversified. If I buy a healthcare fund or a utility fund, I might as well have just invested in utilities, because I'm stuck in that one industry, & as goes healthcare, so goes my healthcare fund. I'd rather be in a fund that has a little bit of everything in the economy in it.
Spending more than you should takes the fun out of gift giving. (Boy howdy! I'm going to be paying off Christmas 2010&11 for a VERY long time ... not fun at all).
Television show The French Chef showcased the cooking talents of whom?
A. Rachael Ray
B. Julia Child
C. Bobby Flay
D. James Barber
Answer: Julia Child.
Tenacious:
1a: Not easily pulled apart b: Tending to adhere or cling. 2: Persistent in adhering to something valued or desired. 3: Retentive.
Once Linda has decided on a course of action, she can be very tenacious when it comes to seeing it through.
For over 400 years, "tenacious" had adhered closely to its Latin antecedent tenax, an adjective meaning "tending to hold fast." "Tenacious" can suggest either literal adhesion or figurative stick-to-itiveness. Sticker burrs are tenacious, & so are athletes who don't let defeat get them down. We use "tenacious" to descrive a good memory, too - 1 that has a better than average capacity to hold information. But you can also have too much of a good thing. The addition in Latin of the prefix per- ("Thoroughly") to tenax led to the English word "pertinacious," meaning "perversely persistent." You might use "pertinacious" for the likes of rumors & telemarketers, for example.
What royal womanizer is Hugh Hefner dressed to resemble in the portrait
that hangs over the fireplace in the Playboy Mansion library?
Henry VIII.
When planting bulbs to bloom next spring, use a plant marker to indicate where the bulb was planted & to eliminate any surprises in your garden next spring.
Which Elvis movie came 1st, 2nd, & 3rd?
A. Clambake
B. Blue Hawaii
C. Jailhouse Rock
Which is the deepest, 2nd deepest, & 3rd deepest spot?
A. Mindanao Deep
B. Mariana Trench
C. Kuril-Kamchatka Trench
BAC. The deepest point in the Mariana Trench is 36,000' below sea level, or as low as you can go.
Which is the only state to have had its official Post Office
abbreviation changed since 1963, when two-letter postal designations
were introduced?
Nebraska. In 1969, at the request of Canadian postal authorities,
Nebraska’s original abbreviation, NB, was changed to NE to avoid
confusion with the province of New Brunswick.
Which of these television shows are about time travel?
Quantum Leap, Stargate SG-1, Star Trek, Goodnight Sweetheart, Doctor Who, ALF.
Quantum Leap, goodnight Sweetheart, & Doctor Who.
Which properties are the most, 2nd most, & 3rd most expensive in Monopoly? (Boy do I know this one! LOL!!)
A. Pennsylvania Avenue
B. Park Place
C. Boardwalk
CBA. The history of Monopoly can be traced back to 1904. Since then, millions of people around the world have bought & sold property, gone bankrupt, & gone to jail. Some of them have even played Monopoly.
White House siege ends in Moscow (1993):
10 hours into a tank assault on the Russian White
House parliament building, rebel parliamentarians led by Vice President
Aleksandr Rutskoi and Chairman Ruslan Khasbulatov surrender to Russian
President Boris Yeltsin.
Yeltsin, who had barely survived an impeachment bid by the Russian Duma (Parliament) earlier in the year, dissolved the legislative body on September 21 and called for general elections. Rutskoi, Khasbulatov, and other hard-liners responded by barricading themselves inside the White House building and electing Rutskoi as Russian president, beginning a tense siege that ended with Yeltsin's tank assault and the rebels' subsequent surrender and arrest. In December 1993, parliamentary elections were held and a new Russian constitution that gave President Yeltsin greater executive power and decreased the authority of the Duma was approved in a national referendum. After a decade of controversial rule, Yeltsin resigned at the end of 1999 and was succeeded by Vladimir Putin.
Yard waste & kitchen vegetable scraps make up 30% of American's trash. Start composting instead of sending vegetation to the landfill.
Your smile conveys warmth & openness; looking a person in the eye clearly shows that you're focused on him or her.
Yeltsin, who had barely survived an impeachment bid by the Russian Duma (Parliament) earlier in the year, dissolved the legislative body on September 21 and called for general elections. Rutskoi, Khasbulatov, and other hard-liners responded by barricading themselves inside the White House building and electing Rutskoi as Russian president, beginning a tense siege that ended with Yeltsin's tank assault and the rebels' subsequent surrender and arrest. In December 1993, parliamentary elections were held and a new Russian constitution that gave President Yeltsin greater executive power and decreased the authority of the Duma was approved in a national referendum. After a decade of controversial rule, Yeltsin resigned at the end of 1999 and was succeeded by Vladimir Putin.
Yard waste & kitchen vegetable scraps make up 30% of American's trash. Start composting instead of sending vegetation to the landfill.
Your smile conveys warmth & openness; looking a person in the eye clearly shows that you're focused on him or her.
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