What a busy day! Pete & Kyle both took the day off & we spent the entire day running errands. It started with driving Josh to work & then off to an important appointment, & then just kept running from there. During all this the FD got toned out to 2 calls & there was absolutely no way I could make either of them. :( We finally got home just as it was getting dark & all crawled off for a nap. It was that kind of day. Here it is 7:p & I'm just sitting down in my office for the 1st time today. Busy, but also productive which is good. I like productive. Yesterday was a full day, too ... but more of a normal full day, the kind I'm used to here at the house. I fueled up with a Carnation Instant Breakfast & then picked
the laundry up off the bathroom floor (men!), dusted the bedroom wall decor, fed the cats & dogs, dusted the misc decor in the dining room, checked the smoke alarms, cleared & neatened the coffee table, dusted my office wall decor, trimmed the shrubs, & swept the bedroom. Then it was off to take Josh to work & run FD errands. I knitted another panel on the knitting machine, checked eBay, went back out to pick Kyle up from school, came back
& checked Woot! & found a great deal on a hair dryer, but since I already have one I let that deal go ... checked Twitter, the mail, & then loaded up the Sims. I completed the 2nd story hallway on LizC864 11 & then loaded up a house I built a while back called Hillsboro. I had created a Sim & put her in the house but never had a chance to play the game until yesterday. Her name is Elizabeth. Named after me, but not me. She's a slob who's never nude, a vegetarian, athletic, & has star quality. Nope, not a single hit on those traits, definitely not me! She's going to be a professional athlete & likes egg rolls, roots music, & the color purple. She's an Aries. She met Barrington Diamond at work & married him. They have a daughter; Christine Diamond (2nd gen). Christine is good, a loner, a Taurus who likes songwrite music, Key Lime Pie, & the color yellow. She's perceptive & a schmoozer. She'll probably be an investigator when she grows up. She's already very skilled in the logic skill. She's met Chet Fox at school & will most likely marry him after graduation. Back IRL, Milligan Water meeting Monday. In other news, with the way this country is going, it's often come up with several different people ... if we were to leave the U.S., where would we go? I have an answer! I KNOW where I want to go if we ever leave the U.S. After a bit of research, I've chosen NORWAY! They've got their stuff together over there! A little cold, but I love to knit & crochet, so I'd fit right in & I'd be toasty warm! :)
Avoiding a verbal brawl:
- Know something about your audience's viewpoints.
- Don't go into attack mode. Avoid, "You're wrong!" Instead, calmly say, "The way I see it ..."
- Know how & when to end the discussion gracefully. Example: "Let's say we agree to disagree, OK?" or "I can see we'll never agree. Let's move on to something else." Then, change the subject.
On this day in 2004, Swedish writer Stieg Larsson dies suddenly of a
heart attack at age 50, only months after turning in the manuscripts for
three crime thrillers—“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” “The Girl who
Played with Fire” and “The Girl who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest”—which
would later become international best-sellers. Known collectively as the
Millennium trilogy, the novels feature the characters Mikael Blomkvist,
a middle-aged journalist, and Lisbeth Salander, a young pierced and
tattooed computer hacker with a troubled past. Larsson, who never lived
to see his books’ success, died without a will, setting off a protracted
legal battle for the rights to his work.
Larsson was born on August 15, 1954, in the town of Skelleftehamm, in northern Sweden. His parents soon relocated to Stockholm in search of better job opportunities, leaving their son to be raised by his maternal grandparents. Larsson eventually joined his parents and younger brother in Sweden’s capital city in the early 1960s. He went on to work as a graphic designer for a Swedish news agency, and later became an investigative journalist who focused on exposing right-wing extremist groups.
In 2002, while vacationing with Eva Gabrielsson, his longtime live-in companion, Larsson began writing what would become the first book in the Millennium series. Over the next two years, he completed three manuscripts for a Swedish publisher. There has been speculation that Gabrielsson, an architect whom Larsson met at an anti-Vietnam rally in Sweden in 1972, helped him with the books; however, the exact nature of her collaboration is unknown. Within months after delivering the manuscripts, Larsson, a heavy smoker and junk food fanatic, died of a massive heart attack after a broken elevator forced him to climb the stairs to his office.
In August 2005, the first Millennium novel was published in Sweden under the title “Man Som Hatar Kvinnor,” or “Men Who Hate Women.” The English-language version of the book would go by the title “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.” In May 2006, “Flickan Som Lekte Med Elden” or “The Girl Who Played with Fire,” was published in Sweden, followed one year later by “Luftslottet Som Sprangdes” or “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest.” The books were best-sellers in their author’s homeland before going on to become a publishing phenomenon and sell millions of copies around the world. Swedish movie versions of the books have been made, and the first English-language Hollywood adaptation is slated for release in late 2011.
Since Larsson died without a will, according to Swedish law, his estate—including the rights to his books--went not to Gabrielsson, his partner of some 30 years, but to his father and younger brother. Gabrielsson has claimed that Larsson was not close to his father and sibling, and a legal battle between the two sides ensued and is ongoing. One thing Gabrielsson does have is Larsson’s laptop, which contains several hundred pages of a fourth--and potentially highly valuable--Millennium novel.
Larsson was born on August 15, 1954, in the town of Skelleftehamm, in northern Sweden. His parents soon relocated to Stockholm in search of better job opportunities, leaving their son to be raised by his maternal grandparents. Larsson eventually joined his parents and younger brother in Sweden’s capital city in the early 1960s. He went on to work as a graphic designer for a Swedish news agency, and later became an investigative journalist who focused on exposing right-wing extremist groups.
In 2002, while vacationing with Eva Gabrielsson, his longtime live-in companion, Larsson began writing what would become the first book in the Millennium series. Over the next two years, he completed three manuscripts for a Swedish publisher. There has been speculation that Gabrielsson, an architect whom Larsson met at an anti-Vietnam rally in Sweden in 1972, helped him with the books; however, the exact nature of her collaboration is unknown. Within months after delivering the manuscripts, Larsson, a heavy smoker and junk food fanatic, died of a massive heart attack after a broken elevator forced him to climb the stairs to his office.
In August 2005, the first Millennium novel was published in Sweden under the title “Man Som Hatar Kvinnor,” or “Men Who Hate Women.” The English-language version of the book would go by the title “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.” In May 2006, “Flickan Som Lekte Med Elden” or “The Girl Who Played with Fire,” was published in Sweden, followed one year later by “Luftslottet Som Sprangdes” or “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest.” The books were best-sellers in their author’s homeland before going on to become a publishing phenomenon and sell millions of copies around the world. Swedish movie versions of the books have been made, and the first English-language Hollywood adaptation is slated for release in late 2011.
Since Larsson died without a will, according to Swedish law, his estate—including the rights to his books--went not to Gabrielsson, his partner of some 30 years, but to his father and younger brother. Gabrielsson has claimed that Larsson was not close to his father and sibling, and a legal battle between the two sides ensued and is ongoing. One thing Gabrielsson does have is Larsson’s laptop, which contains several hundred pages of a fourth--and potentially highly valuable--Millennium novel.
Do you have furniture with detailed carvings on it? Use a cotton swab dipped in furniture polish to dust & polish those tiny hard to reach grooves.
FingerPiano+:
"FingerPiano" allows you to play the piano with just your finger.
You don't need any skill, scores or practice.
You only need a motivation to play the music.
Instead of reading the score, scrolling guides appear on the screen.
Just touching the keyboard with scrolling guides, that's all you have to do.
This application provides you with Over 100 pieces of famous music.
There are 2 ways you can play. Play with one hand or both hands.
These are all famous masterpieces, you might have listened to.
If you are able to perform well, enjoy a musical session with
your friends and family.
"Play" the piano with "FingerPiano", and discover the pleasure of music.
You don't need any skill, scores or practice.
You only need a motivation to play the music.
Instead of reading the score, scrolling guides appear on the screen.
Just touching the keyboard with scrolling guides, that's all you have to do.
This application provides you with Over 100 pieces of famous music.
There are 2 ways you can play. Play with one hand or both hands.
These are all famous masterpieces, you might have listened to.
If you are able to perform well, enjoy a musical session with
your friends and family.
"Play" the piano with "FingerPiano", and discover the pleasure of music.
How to tell you're uncool? You think __________ is a type of __________.
Syllepsis:
The use of a word in the same grammatical relation to 2 adjacent words in the context with 1 literal & the other metaphorical in sense.
Ambrose Bierce, in A Devil's Dictionary, employs syllepsis when he says of a piano that "it is operated by depressing the keys of the machine & the spirits of the audience."
Charles Dickens made good use of syllepsis when he wrote that his character Miss Bolo "went straight home, in a flood of tears & a sedan chair." Such uses as this are humorously incongruous, but they're not grammatically incorrect. However, "syllepsis" has another meaning - illustrated by the sentence "My sisters, & also my youngest brother, feel strongly about the matter" - & here it is something to be avoided. This sentence has a problem: it has 2 subjects, & only 1 of the agrees with the verb "feel." The word "syllepsis" derives from the Greek syllepsis, & ultimately from syllambanein, meaning "to gather together," It has been used in English since at least 1550.
There are only 2 good reasons to incorporate. 1, if you have substantial assets you want to protect. The other would be inf you feel someone in your line of work would be an attractive target for lawsuits.
Try this easy meditation: Think of a favorite phrase. Repeat it deliberately. Let thoughts pass if they interrupt you & return to the repetition.
What famous championship boxing match was the subject of the 1996 Oscar-winning documentary feature film?
The 1974 Rumble in the Jungle (in Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of
the Congo), in which challenger Muhammad Ali, 32, regained his world
heavyweight title by knocking out champion George Foreman, 25. The
documentary was When We Were Kings.
When it comes to Wall Street slang, what is the meaning of the acronym KIPPERS?
Which country hosted the Winter Olympics 1st?
A. Nagano
B. Salt Lake City
C. Turin
ABC. Besides all the elite athletes of the Winter Games, there are some larger-than-life characters. Like British ski jumper Eddie "the Eagle" Edwards, who came in last, & Jamaica's 1st-ever bobsled team. Yes, you heard right.
Which game involves rolling balls up a sloping, table-sized ramp into a variety of holes?
A. Skee ball
B. Dunk ball
C. Scooter ball
D. Rollerball
Which of these countries wasn't neutral during WWII?
A. Sweden
B. Switzerland
C. Canada
D. Spain
Answer: C. Canada
Which religion is America's largest?
A. Protestant
B. Roman Catholic
C. Mormon
With 2 seconds remaining in the football game, the Detroit Lions led the New Orleans Saints by 1 point: 17-16. To win, the Saints needed to make a 63-yard field goal. Saints kicker Tom Dempsey's kick sailed through the goalposts, setting an NFL record. Also of note, Dempsey was born with no toes on his right foot. He kicked with a specially made shoe.
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