November 7, 2012

After what we've all been through the last 4 years, how could that many people have voted him BACK in? That's proof that you can't fix stupid. I swear, I give up. Of course by posting this I'm going to piss off the majority, but too bad. I'm allowed to have an opinion & I'm allowed to voice that opinion. Obama hasn't made THAT illegal ... yet. What a stressful night last night with all the elections. As I was watching the election coverage on FOX news, I was also reloading our local county election results page repeatedly. Pete ran for City Council & at 7 we had the early voting results ... he lost. Not by much though. When the election day results were added at 8:30 (more like 8:50, they were late), Pete was

tied for the position. The next reload showed him as the winner. Every reload after that just made him pull ahead more. Pete has secured a seat on our city council. It's about time SOMEONE is on that council that I respect. He & our mayor are the only 2 I care to even talk to or work with. After all that settled, it was back to watching FOX News intently ... watching the electoral votes swing in favor of Romney, then to Obama, then to Romney, then to

Obama ... I was getting motion sickness. When Obama hit 270, they projected him as the winner of the election. Well, there went my night ... & the next 4 years. We're all doomed. Oh well, time to start working on my prepper skills. Put up a good fence & start growing our own food. It's all downhill from here & the majority of the population is either too stupid to see it or they want to destroy what this country used to be. At least I still have control over my own home

& am successful here. I got a lot done yesterday & cleaned the bathroom counters, watered the plant in the bedroom, fed the cats & dogs, dusted the dining room wall decor, cleaned the kitchen counters, cleared & neatened the coffee table, dusted my office wall decor, & swept the kitchen. After that I checked eBay, had a hot dog for lunch (at lunchtime!), knitted another panel on the knitting machine & joined it, checked Twitter & the mail, &

then loaded up Sims. I added the 2nd floor to LizC864 11 & then added the back porch complete with lighting, a chess table, dining table, large bench, & grill. When I was finished with that I loaded up Le Chateau Contreau. A beautiful house built by a very talented other. My 1st gen Sim, Liz, was rebellious, a loner, excitable, flirty, & eccentric. She liked French music, tri-tip steak, & the color turquoise. She was a Sagittarious. She decided to become an

Inventor & after inventing the miner, started digging a hole in the back yard with it. She came across some scrap, a gem, a small moon rock, & then a LARGE moon rock valued at over $6k. Then she hit an underground tunnel system (which has never happened to me in a game before) & stopped mining to explore these tunnels. She also invented a time machine & traveled to the past & future a few times. One evening while trying to travel to the

future, the machine started malfunctioning (I think). Nothing would happen, she's go into the machine & immediately pop back out without any dialog of where (or when) she went. After about half a dozen attempts to have an adventure lasting more than a second, the machine broke. her handiness skill was about 5 of 10 & considering she built the machine, who better to repair it? I told her to repair the machine rather than call a repair technician. She ended up getting a shock. Not good ... try again. The 2nd attempt killed her. Liz had married Felipe Marshall & they had a son, Ivan Marshall (2nd gen). Ivan loves the outdoors & is a virtuoso. A Gemini who likes hip hop, cheese tofu steak, & the color yellow, he also has a good sense of humor. He decided to be a musician when he grows up, but hasn't decided which branch yet (symphonic or rock). It's sad that after the death of his mom, it's just him & his dad in this huge mansion. When Pete got home we had a quick dinner (nothing fancy tonight, I was worn out by the stress of all the election stuff) & won't have anything fancy tonight either. I plan to buy a ham, stuffing, & Hershey's Kisses Thursday so we'll have a good dinner then. :) Milligan Water meeting Monday.

Esemplastic:

Shaping or having the power to shape disparate things into a unified whole.

The prison walls of self had closed entirely round him; he was walled completely by the esemplastic power of his imagination ...

"Unusual & new-coined words are, doubtless, an evil; but vagueness, confusion, & imperfect conveyance of our thoughts, are far greater," wrote English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge in Biographia Literaria (1817). True to form, in that same work, he assembled "esemplastic" by melding the Greek phrase es hen, meaning "into one," with "plastic" to fulfill his need for a word that accurately described the imagination's ability to shape disparate experiences into a unified whole (for example, the poet's imaginative ability to communicate a variety of images, sensations, emotions, & experiences in the unifying framework of a poem). Among other words that Coleridge was compelled to mint are "intensify," "clerisy," & "psychosomatic."

Gowalla:

Gowalla Offline is your #1 must-to-have iphone app when travelling! Don't want to spend hundreds of dollars/euros/krona/etc on data roaming just for checking in on Gowalla? But you still want to have that special spot in your Gowalla passport? Of course you do! If you've been to Times Square in NYC, the Opera house in Sydney or the Eifel Tower in Paris the world should know about it! We got the solution, let us present Gowalla Offline!
Gowalla Offline allows you to mark a spot without being connected to the internet. Instead it uses the GPS device built in to your iphone (which is always free of charge). So, without the use of WIFI or any other mobile network, you marks the spot and saves it in the app. Then when you reach a free WIFI, gets back home or basically goes online anyway you want, you edit the list of GPS spots. For each GPS spot, you select the actual Gowalla spot (based on the same metrics as in the Gowalla app) and *bang*, it is turned into a Gowalla Check-in.
The app is also very convenient when you don’t have time to do a full Gowalla check-in or if the mobile network is overloaded and to slow to use.
Try the app today and let the world know where you’ve been!

Greenland is technically part of what continent?

A. Western Europe

B. Eastern Europe

C. North America

D. The Arctic

Answer: C. North America

How old must a person be to serve as a U.S. congressman? How about as a senator?

Congressman, at least 25 years old; senator, at least 30. The minimum ages are specified in Article I, Sections 2 and 3, of the U.S. Constitution.

It's not necessary to have any very special gift of cleverness to be a person with whom others are delighted to talk.

Magic Johnson announces he has HIV (1991):

On November 7, 1991, basketball legend Magic Johnson holds a press conference to announce that he has HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, and is retiring from the L.A. Lakers. From then on, he said, he would focus on staying healthy and on helping people—especially young people—understand the importance of practicing safe sex. "You think it can never happen to you," he said, "that it happens only to other people." But "if it can happen to Magic Johnson, it can happen to anybody."

In 1991, many people didn’t understand the difference between HIV and AIDS, and they thought that either one was a certain death sentence. When Johnson’s fans and friends heard the news, many were convinced he would die within a year or two. They were stunned and heartbroken. They did what they could to mourn: For example, Pat Riley, the coach of the New York Knicks, delayed his team’s opening tip so that he could read the Lord’s Prayer to the crowd. Johnson himself tried to be optimistic, but even he wasn’t sure what the news meant. "I’ll live," he said. "I won’t die. And if I do die, I’ll be happy. I’ve had a great life."

But it soon became clear that he wasn’t going to die—not yet, anyway. He didn’t even feel sick. Good doctors and carefully calibrated medications kept his viral load so low that it wasn’t even detectable in his blood. And once he’d gotten over the shock of his diagnosis, Johnson realized that he missed basketball. He played in the All-Star Game at the end of the 1991-92 season, leading the West to a 153-113 victory and winning the game’s MVP award. He played on the gold-medal-winning Dream Team at the Barcelona Olympics that summer. He thought about returning to the Lakers the next fall—he even went to training camp with the team—but some other NBA players (notably Karl Malone of the Utah Jazz) refused to play against someone who had the AIDS virus. They feared that contact with Johnson’s skin or sweat might make them sick, too, even though doctors had shown that it was impossible to get HIV that way.

So, instead of heading back to the basketball court, Johnson went into business. He built Magic Johnson movie theaters, Starbucks coffee shops, and Fatburger franchises in troubled inner-city neighborhoods. He wrote a book on safe sex. He bought a percentage of the Lakers and served as the team’s head coach for a few games during the 1993-94 season. And in 1996, he decided to try another comeback. This time, his teammates and opponents were happy to have him. He was heavier and slower than he’d been in his prime—he was 37, after all—but he was still an intimidating player. He played with the Lakers for 44 games in 1996, and then he retired for good.

The next year, Johnson was named to the NBA’s 50th Anniversary All-Time Team. Five years after that, he was named to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. He is still HIV-positive, of course, but he remains healthy and strong.

My eyes cramp when I see __________ & my brain hurts to __________.

Putter with a plant. Pluck off dead leaves, trim new growth, give it water & a few words of encouragement.

Use a separate laundry hamper or basket to toss clothes to take to the dry cleaner. Don't mix "dry clean only" clothes with your everyday laundry or those clothes could accidentally end up in the laundry machine. This also allows you to grab your dry cleaning & go. Save time by no longer sorting on your way out the door.

What country denounced sloppy men’s hairstyles in a state-run TV series entitled Let Us Trim Our Hair in Accordance with the Socialist Lifestyle?

When I was younger, I always assumed that the rich were super-smart & had tricks that i didn't know. Now, when I meet them, I learn that they're just simple people who have worked hard & paid cash for real estate & mutual finds. It's all right to be simple; you'll be like the rich if you are.

Which are types of renewable energy?

Nuclear, solar, geothermal, natural gas, wind, coal.

Which came 1st?

A. Liberty Bell

B. Statue of Liberty

C. U.S. Flag

ACB. The bell was 1st rung in 1753 & promptly cracked; our flag 1st appeared about 20 years later. She's still there.

Which country beat the USA 1st to win the America's Cup?

A. New Zealand

B. Australia

C. Switzerland