Yesterday I caught up on my AOL e-mail, updated my apps, & then cleaned the house. I dusted the bathroom accents, made the bed, sorted one of the kitchen cabinets & in doing so, made more room on the counter, neatened the sofa, mopped my office, blew the dust out of my knitting machine, & swept the utility room. After all that I checked eBay & then knitted & joined another panel on the afghan. I loaded up Sims & finished the powder room in Heart of Texas. I then decided to play one of my very 1st creations, a house called Nottingham. WOW was I new when I made this house! The house is OK, but the foundation ... I had no idea how to do diagonal foundations & part if this house was diagonal. I tried to fix it the best I could, but without tearing down walls & removing a bunch of stuff, just to put it all back later, it wasn't going to be repaired completely. My apologies to
anyone who has downloaded Nottingham ... I was REALLY new to creating lots when I made this one. I created a Sim named Urban to play this house. Urban hates the outdoors, is inappropriate, a daredevil, lucky, & neat. He decided to become an International Super Spy. He's going to go into the Special Agent branch once he gets that far & he's pretty close. Level 4 I believe when I left off last night. At level 5 he gets his own police car & at level 6 he
has to choose a direction. He likes cheesesteak, custom music, & the color orange. He's a Cancer. He has a Devon rex cat to accompany him & right when he moved in, some neighbors came to visit & welcome him to the neighborhood. That's when he met Mags Newbie. The Sim he would eventually marry. They now have a daughter, Queen (2nd generation). Queen was still a baby when I closed the game for the night. I was enjoying a plate of Swedish Meatballs when I got up to go get something in the other room. I was gone a MINUTE. I come back & my plate is gone (it was still half full). I asked where my plate was & Pete innocently said: " ... I thought you were done ... Oops?" Now THAT'S how you do portion control. LOL! We watched 666 Park Ave., the show we TRIED to watch the night before ... & then watched Revolution. We went to bed early & there was a FD med call late last night after I was out cold. I have a pretty bad cold today, I spent most of the morning before I got out of bed feeling like someone stabbed me in the left eye. When I got up & took Tylenol & they've helped a little. I've also got a runny nose, so I'm guessing DayQuil is in my very near future ... like NOW. FD maintenance tonight (Boy I hope I feel better by then ... I have a LOT to do at the station & it would be nice if I don't feel like doodoo the whole time I'm there working). Today is Josh's day off so he may join me to the station & if Kyle's home by then he'll be joining me. I'm also hoping Pete wants to go to Steak-n-Shake after FD/work. I don't feel like cooking tonight. I'll bake cookies, but I don't really feel like cooking dinner. I don't think I'll have time for Sims today due to the FD maintenance night, but tomorrow at 2 it's SIMS TIME! At least for a little while before Kyle gets home at 3:30. That gives me an hour & a half to unwind in the middle of the afternoon before going back to work. :) Thursday will be another busy day with no Sims. I have to pick Kyle up early from school, race over & drop Josh off at work early, then ping back up to a different part of the county for an appointment. Then Josh is off Friday & we're into the weekend again already. That's going to make Wednesday my best day this week.
Adobe Photoshop Express:
ADOBE® PHOTOSHOP® EXPRESS: Edit and share — anywhere
**Carphone Warehouse Appy award winner!**
Adobe Photoshop Express software lets you use simple gestures to quickly edit and share photos from your mobile device.
HAVE FUN ON THE RUN
With Photoshop Express, it's easy to improve your photos. Choose from a variety of one-touch effects, or simply drag your finger across the screen to crop, rotate, or adjust color. Add artistic filters like Soft Focus or Sketch. And never fear: A copy of your original file is always saved, and you can undo and redo changes until you get just the look you want.
Top editing features
• Basics: Crop, Straighten, Rotate, and Flip
• Color: Exposure, Brightness, Contrast, Hue, Saturation, Tint, and Temperature
• Filters: Black & White, Colorize, Sketch, Soft Focus, Sharpen, and Reduce Noise
• Effects: Vibrant, Pop, Border, Vignette Blur, Warm Vintage, Rainbow, White Glow, Soft Black and White, and 45 additional effects that can be purchased
• Borders: Rectangle, Rounded, Oval, Soft Edge, Vignette, Rough Edge, Halftone, Film Emulsion, and 40 additional borders and frames that can be purchased
In-App Purchase: Adobe Effects Pack (available for iPhone 3G and newer, iPad 1 and newer, and iPod Touch 2nd generation and newer)
Give your photos fun, fresh looks using more than 45 eye-catching effects.
• Adjust effects with simple dragging motions.
• Preview effects on your photos before you apply them.
• Try effects before you buy the pack.
In-App Purchase: Adobe Camera Pack (available for iPhone 3GS and newer, iPad 1 and 2, iPod Touch 3rd and 4th generation)
• Reduce Noise: Even the best phone cameras can introduce small amounts of grain and speckling—called noise—into your photos. The Reduce Noise feature smooths out those flaws to quickly improve your photos. It’s fast, accurate, and puts professional Adobe Photoshop quality in the palm of your hand.
• Self Timer: Get yourself in the photo or just ensure a steadier shot by setting a camera timer to 3- or 1-second intervals before your photo is snapped.
• Auto Review: Make sure you get a good shot and delete it if you don’t. Auto Review gives you a quick look at your picture before the action passes you by.
In-App Purchase: Adobe Border Pack (available for iPhone 3G and newer, iPad 1 and newer, and iPod Touch 2nd generation and newer)
• Explore different looks for your photos with over 40 vibrant borders & frames.
• Change border colors by simply dragging over your photo.
• Preview borders on your photos before you apply them.
• Try borders before you buy the pack.
Note: To restore/transfer your purchases to a new device, you can go into the Purchase section of Settings in Adobe Photoshop Express and tap the Restore Purchase button.
Photoshop Express is brought to you by Adobe, makers of the Photoshop family of products.
**Carphone Warehouse Appy award winner!**
Adobe Photoshop Express software lets you use simple gestures to quickly edit and share photos from your mobile device.
HAVE FUN ON THE RUN
With Photoshop Express, it's easy to improve your photos. Choose from a variety of one-touch effects, or simply drag your finger across the screen to crop, rotate, or adjust color. Add artistic filters like Soft Focus or Sketch. And never fear: A copy of your original file is always saved, and you can undo and redo changes until you get just the look you want.
Top editing features
• Basics: Crop, Straighten, Rotate, and Flip
• Color: Exposure, Brightness, Contrast, Hue, Saturation, Tint, and Temperature
• Filters: Black & White, Colorize, Sketch, Soft Focus, Sharpen, and Reduce Noise
• Effects: Vibrant, Pop, Border, Vignette Blur, Warm Vintage, Rainbow, White Glow, Soft Black and White, and 45 additional effects that can be purchased
• Borders: Rectangle, Rounded, Oval, Soft Edge, Vignette, Rough Edge, Halftone, Film Emulsion, and 40 additional borders and frames that can be purchased
In-App Purchase: Adobe Effects Pack (available for iPhone 3G and newer, iPad 1 and newer, and iPod Touch 2nd generation and newer)
Give your photos fun, fresh looks using more than 45 eye-catching effects.
• Adjust effects with simple dragging motions.
• Preview effects on your photos before you apply them.
• Try effects before you buy the pack.
In-App Purchase: Adobe Camera Pack (available for iPhone 3GS and newer, iPad 1 and 2, iPod Touch 3rd and 4th generation)
• Reduce Noise: Even the best phone cameras can introduce small amounts of grain and speckling—called noise—into your photos. The Reduce Noise feature smooths out those flaws to quickly improve your photos. It’s fast, accurate, and puts professional Adobe Photoshop quality in the palm of your hand.
• Self Timer: Get yourself in the photo or just ensure a steadier shot by setting a camera timer to 3- or 1-second intervals before your photo is snapped.
• Auto Review: Make sure you get a good shot and delete it if you don’t. Auto Review gives you a quick look at your picture before the action passes you by.
In-App Purchase: Adobe Border Pack (available for iPhone 3G and newer, iPad 1 and newer, and iPod Touch 2nd generation and newer)
• Explore different looks for your photos with over 40 vibrant borders & frames.
• Change border colors by simply dragging over your photo.
• Preview borders on your photos before you apply them.
• Try borders before you buy the pack.
Note: To restore/transfer your purchases to a new device, you can go into the Purchase section of Settings in Adobe Photoshop Express and tap the Restore Purchase button.
Photoshop Express is brought to you by Adobe, makers of the Photoshop family of products.
Are your kids starting to bring home A+ tests & artwork from school that you want to keep forever? Scan these & save them electronically to save space. For 3-D artwork, take a photo of the artwork with your child. Save the photo on your computer.
Etiquette was never intended to be a rigid set of rules. It's, rather, a code of behavior that's based on consideration, kindness, & unselfishness - something that shouldn't, & won't, ever change. But manners, derived as they are from etiquette, must change to keep up with the world.
On this day in 2001, Herbert Ross, a Broadway choreographer turned movie director whose credits include The Goodbye Girl (one of my favorites), The Turning Point, Footloose (another one of my favorites) and Steel Magnolias, dies at the age of 74 in New York City.
Ross was born on May 13, 1927, in Brooklyn, New York.
As a young man, he became interested in performing, a choice that came
to cause considerable tension within the family. According to his
obituary in the New York Times: “Telling his family that he was
staying with relatives in New York one summer, Mr. Ross instead joined a
theatrical troupe that toured the Deep South. When he came home
In the 1950s,
Ross began working as a choreographer, creating ballets as well as
Broadway dance numbers. He was instrumental in Barbra Streisand’s early
career, according to the Times, “choreographing the famous ‘Miss Marmelstein’ number in the 1962 Broadway musical I Can Get It for You Wholesale, which is widely credited with jump-starting her stage career.” Ross was the choreographer for 1968’s Funny Girl and went on to direct Streisand in 1970’s The Owl and the Pussycat, co-starring George Segal, and 1975’s Funny Lady, the sequel to Funny Girl, which featured James Caan. Ross also choreographed such films as Inside Daisy Clover, with Natalie Wood, and 1967’s Dr. Doolittle.
Ross made his big-screen directorial debut with 1969’s Goodbye Mr. Chips, starring Peter O’Toole and Petula Clark. He went on to direct 1972’s Play It Again, Sam, based on a Woody Allen play and featuring Allen and Diane Keaton. In 1975, Ross collaborated with Neil Simon on The Sunshine Boys,
starring George Burns and Walter Matthau as a pair of vaudeville
comedians who reunite after a long estrangement. The movie, based on a
Simon play of the same name, earned four Academy Award nominations and
an Oscar for Burns as Best Actor. Ross also directed Simon’s screenplay
for The Goodbye Girl (1977), starring Richard Dreyfuss and Marsha
Mason. The movie was nominated for five Oscars, including Best Picture,
and Dreyfuss collected an Oscar for Best Actor. Ross and Simon also
collaborated on California Suite (1978), which featured an
ensemble cast that included Alan Alda, Michael Caine, Bill Cosby, Jane
Fonda, Walter Matthau, Elaine May, Richard Pryor and Maggie Smith; I Ought to be in Pictures (1982), featuring Matthau; and Max Dugan Returns (1983), with Mason, Jason Robards, Donald Sutherland and Matthew Broderick.
In 1976, Ross helmed Sherlock Holmes-Sigmund Freud mystery The Seven Precent Solution. His next film was 1977’s The Turning Point,
a ballet-world drama starring Shirley MacLaine, Anne Bancroft and
Mikhail Baryshnikov. The film earned 11 Academy Award nominations,
including Best Director and Best Picture. Ross directed Steve Martin in
1981’s Pennies from Heaven and had a big box-office hit with another dance-themed movie, 1984’s Footloose,
starring Kevin Bacon as a dance-loving teen in a town where dancing is
forbidden. The film launched Bacon’s career. Ross’s next big box-office
success was 1989’s Steel Magnolias, which featured an all-star
cast including Sally Field, Shirley MacLaine, Dolly Parton, Olympia
Dukakis, Daryl Hannah and a then-up-and-coming Julia Roberts, who earned
an Oscar nod for Best Supporting Actress. The director’s final film was
1995’s Boys on the Side, with Drew Barrymore, Whoopi Goldberg and Mary-Louise Parker.
Ross was married to the dancer Nora Kaye from 1959 until her death in 1987. In 1988, he wed Lee Radziwill, the sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. The pair divorced shortly before Ross’ death.
In what year did the stock market crash?
A. 1929
B. 1930
C. 1931
D. 1932
Answer: A. 1929
Sit up straight. When your shoulders are back, you open up your chest & breathe more freely.
Syllabub:
Milk or cream that's curdled with an acid beverage (as wine or cider) & often sweetened.
On special occasions, Grandma would serve syllabub for dessert.
A syllabub is a concoction served as a drink or dessert whose name has had almost as many variations as there are versions of how to make it: "solybubbe,", :sullabub," "sullibib," "sellibub," "sallibube," "sillie bube," "sillybob" - even "sillibucke" & "silly-bauk" in some dialects. There are theories about the word's origins, but no one knows for sure where the name came from. (There's no connection to "silly," as far as we know, though imbibing syllabub might make one act that way.) We do know that both the name "syllabub" & the concoction itself go back to at least the 16th century. Today, we're more likely to encounter "syllabub" in a historical novel than on the menu at a local drinking spot, at least in the U.S., but those fortunate enough to taste the drink/dessert typically give it rave reviews.
What future country music star was an inmate in the San Quentin audience at Johnny Cash’s very first prison concert in 1958?
When you give money to a ministry or charity, you want to see full disclosure. You want to look at the expense ratio. How much of the money goes to administrative costs? You don't want the administrative costs to eat up 90% of the donated dollar & 105 goes to the actual hungry child or whatever the ministry does. (In the case of our volunteer FD, 100% of the donated dollar goes to the FD. There are NO administrative costs because there are NO paid personnel on the FD. About the only thing we pay to have done for us is our annual taxes & things we CAN'T do ourselves like annual vehicle inspections. Donate to your local volunteer FD, it's money well spent. You can write off the donation & the FD NEEDS your help. You think it hurts your wallet when you fill your car? Try filling a fire engine with diesel. OUCH!)
Where in the U.S. is there a full-size replica of Christopher Columbus’s flagship, the Santa Maria?
Quite appropriately in Columbus, Ohio. It was built to commemorate the 500th anniversary in 1992 of Columbus’s historic voyage.
Which bicycle, popular in the late 1800s, had 1 large wheel & 1 small wheel?
A. Moped
B. Minibike
C. Scooter
D. Penny-farthing
Which is the fastest, 2nd fastest, & 3rd fastest?
A. Hawk moth
B. Dragonfly
C. Horsefly
Which weight class in boxing is the lightest, 2nd lightest, & 3rd lightest?
A. Flyweight
B. Bantamweight
C. Lightweight
ABC. Interestingly, demonstration women's boxing was included in the 1904 Olympic Games. But it wasn't part of the 2008 Olympics. I, for one, wasn't disappointed.
You'll forever rue the day you 1st __________. I hope you like to rue because you'll be __________.
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