- November 28, 2012 -

Good morning & happy Wednesday! I'm currently a little distracted because I JUST got an e-mail at 11:a that my son is not at school. What do you mean he's not at school? He BETTER be at school! If I don't hear back from him in about 15 minutes I'm going to call the school. This better be a mistake on their part. Then again, I usually get a reply instantly when I IM him while he's in school & so far nothing which is making me wonder. Yesterday was a good day. I got all my stuff done which is more

than I can say about the boys & their chores. If Kyle ever has any hope of getting Internet access back, he NEEDS to get to work around here. If Josh doesn't want to start paying rent or get kicked to the curb, HE better get to work around here. I've about had it with both of them. No one lives for free ... unless you live under a bridge. As far as my stuff though, I checked my AT&T page, straightened the dining chairs, dusted the kitchen lights, folded

some laundry, neatened one of my office bookshelves & found the lawnmower manuals in there ... they should have been in the filing cabinet, so I took them from the bookshelf & put them away where they belong, & Kyle & I put up the Christmas lights on the house. I knitted a thin white panel on the knitting machine & then checked eBay & Twitter & then loaded up Sims. I finished the study in Worthington & then loaded up Sussex Valley. I created

Destiny to be my 1st Gen Sim in this home. She's good, a light sleeper, inappropriate, friendly, loves the cold, & wants to be CEO of a Mega-Corporation. She likes egg rolls, custom music, & the color green. She's a Aries who achieved her lifetime wish of CEO at a relatively young age. Her furry companion is Uma (1st gen). Uma is a Birman cat who's hyper, a hunter, & neat. Destiny met & married Lenny Smith-Jones at work, who after they started dating became a vampire. They started out in beautiful winter time & hung green icicle lights on Sussex Valley. They adopted a tiny white fluff-ball kitten that looks so cute running through the snow! You can barely see the kitten most of the time, all you see is this little bath being burrowed underneath the snow. The screenshot I got just happened to be when her little face popped up out of the snow as she was running. If you look closely at the pic, you can see a little white kitten face popping up out of the snow! Destiny & Lenny had a daughter, Hazel Smith-Jones (2nd gen). She's grumpy & brave which lines her up perfectly for the law enforcement or military career (the bravery, not the grumpiness ... although I think grumpiness is trained into most cops LOL! Maybe you just become that way from seeing & trying to process so much 'stupid' every day). Hazel is an Aquarius who likes R&B, Tri-Tip Tofu Steak, & the color blue. Being that she was going to shoot for law or military, I gave her the athletic trait (useful to both) & the genius trait which is useful to law enforcement. She's also absent minded. She's also absent minded. ;) With mom being human & dad being a vamp, she had a 50-50 shot of becoming either one. She became a vampire. Not only does this increase her life-span by a LOT, but it also gives her the chance to master skills in ... oh ... an HOUR (game time). She mastered logic the 1st day of being a child, writing the 2nd day, & painting the 3rd day which granted her lifetime wish of being an Illustrious Author. 3 days into being a child & she has her lifetime wish already. WOW! She's already also at level 7 of both the cooking & fishing skills & level 4 of handiness. Winter faded into spring with a warmer 54° at 2:p. The snow has all melted & Hazel met & married Leo Felder at school. Hazel & Leo had a son, Joel Felder (3rd gen) who is perceptive which lines him up for the Investigator career later in life. He's also clumsy, a Pisces who likes hip-hop, hot dogs, & the color aqua. He was still a baby when I closed the game down for the evening. Pete & I had a quick dinner & watched NCIS: L.A. before bed. I found Kyle, he's at school. He got there late & missed morning roll call & since he didn't sign in like he was supposed to, they didn't even know he was there. He didn't answer my IM because his backpack broke & he left it in my truck along with his phone. Since my truck is in Richardson with Pete, it has a WiFi signal which is why it was showing him online. It's almost December!

Be careful about the messages you forward. If a former employee sends you an acerbic rant about his boss or department head, keep it to yourself. Broadcasting such e-mails can backfire if they eventually reach management or Human Resources.

Close your eyes & say, "I now empty my mind of irritation, frustration, hate & worry." Visualize each 1 leaving. Then say: "I now fill my mind with peace, calm, love, faith." Visualize each 1 coming to you.

Got a young adult in your life who needs some financial sense? Pay them $100 for a book report on The Total Money Makeover.

Jeffrey Dahmer murdered in prison (1994):

Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, serving 15 consecutive life sentences for the brutal murders of 15 men, is beaten to death by a fellow inmate while performing cleaning duty in a bathroom at the Columbia Correctional Institute gymnasium in Portage, Wisconsin.

During a 13-year period, Dahmer, who lived primarily in the Midwest, murdered at least 17 men. Most of these men were young, gay African Americans who Dahmer lured back to his home, promising to pay them money to pose nude for photographs. Dahmer would then drug and strangle them to death, generally mutilating, and occasionally cannibalizing, their bodies. Dahmer was finally arrested on July 22, 1991, and entered a plea of guilty but insane in 15 of the 17 murders he confessed to committing. In February 1992, the jury found him sane in each murder, and he was sentenced to 15 consecutive life sentences.

Two years later, Dahmer was killed at the age of 34 by fellow inmate Christopher Scarver, who also fatally beat the third man on their work detail, inmate Jesse Anderson. Scarver's motive in killing the two men is not entirely clear; however, in his subsequent criminal trial he maintained that God told him to kill Dahmer and the other inmate. Scarver, already serving a life term for murder, was sentenced to additional life terms and transferred to a federal prison.

Life is uncertain. Eat dessert 1st.

Perhaps it's your __________ odor or your __________ appearance, but you're a natural __________ repellent.

Rollercoaster Extreme:

Barclaycard Rollercoaster Extreme is now even more exciting with multiplayer and ghost racing game functionality.
Brought to you by Barclaycard, makers of the top-rated Waterslide Extreme app. Barclaycard Rollercoaster Extreme sees you riding the rails of eight individual rollercoaster tracks in the suburbs of New York City. Race the clock and unlock new areas in Chinatown, Central Park, Upper West Side and Downtown New York. New features include multiplayer functionality that uses Bluetooth to let you race your friends or challenge complete strangers. And ghost racing that pits you against our best Rollercoaster Extreme track times. If you can beat the best you’ll set new world records of your own.
Playing is easy. The faster you go, the higher your score. Tilt your iPhone left and right to dodge obstacles and grab energisers for extra speed boosts around the track. Look out for diversions that test your rider skills and collect all our badges at each level to prove that you’re a real extreme rollercoaster rider. It’s harder than you think.
Key features
- Race around a 3D New York City
- Unlock new areas in the game
- Interact with the game environment on every ride
- Tilt the screen to dodge obstacles or grab speed boosting energisers
- Collect special Rollercoaster Extreme rider badges at every level
- NEW. Multiplayer functionality, challenge the person next to you on all eight tracks
- NEW. Ghost racing mode, try to beat the times of our top racers all over the world
Have you got Barclaycard Rollercoaster Extreme for your iPad yet?
This new game is inspired by the Barclaycard Rollercoaster TV ad. If you missed it, you can check it out at http://bit.ly/rollercoaster-extreme.
You’ll also find a demo of game there, so you can see just how fun it is.

Scurrilous:

1a: Using or given to coarse language. b: Vulgar & evil. 2: Containing obscenities, abuse, or slander.

The man sitting next to me made scurrilous remarks about the speaker under his breath.

"Scurrilois" (& its much rarer relation "scurrile," which has the same meaning) comes from Middle French scurrile. The Middle French word, in turn, comes from the Latin scurrilis, from scurra, which means "buffoon" or "jester." Fittingly, 18th-century lexicographer Samuel Johnson defined "scurrilous" as "using such language as only the licence [sic] of a buffoon could warrant." Qualities traditionally associated with buffoonary - vulgarity, irreverence, & indecorousness - are often invoked by the word "scurrilous." Unlike the words of a jester, however, "scurrilous" language of the present day more often intends to seriously harm or slander than to produce a few laughs.

Traditionally, which card is used as the maid in Old Maid?

A. King

B. Joker

C. Queen

D. Ace

Answer: C. Queen.

What are you suffering from if you have diplopia?

What country singer’s very first hit single proclaimed “. . . this dumb blonde ain’t nobody’s fool.”

Dolly Parton. The song, “Dumb Blonde,” made it onto the country charts at No. 24.

When calling a company's customer service # same time by having all your account information at your fingertips. You'll avoid scrambling to find the information or waiting on hold while the rep searches for the information.

Which actress has the most Oscars?

A. Meryl Streep

B. Ingrid Bergman

C. Katharine Hepburn

CBA. Katharine won 4 Oscars, Ingrid, 3, while Meryl has taken home just 2 - so far. She's been nominated 13 times, more than anyone in history.

Which historical figure came 1st?

A. Peter the Great

B. Lawrence of Arabia

C. Ivan the Terrible

Which of these are part of the Narnia series?

The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe; The Magician's Nephew; Prince Caspain: The Return to Narnia; Prince Aslan; The Wardrobe Closes; The Horse & His Boy' The Silver Chair.