My favorite day of the year is here! It's New Year's Eve!! We left Myrtle Beach in stealth Saturday morning to come home & check on some things ... the pets, the condition of the house, & a couple other things. I'm sick to the point of bedridden & as soon as I finish this blog I'm going BACK to bed. Of course that includes the break I'm taking in the middle because I just can't go that long in a single stretch. I've had a headache for days now that no meds can get rid of, my fever has finally come down a little, but damn. I'd like to be able to say the trip home was uneventful, but it wasn't. Driving along in the dark at 75 mph, see something in the road-BAM!!! Didn't have time to figure out what it was, swerve, nothing. Whatever it was, we hit it with the front tires, it got thrown up into the truck underneath, made all kinds of horrible sounds & exited out the rear of the truck, but not before slashing the inside of the rear right tire. When I say slashing, I mean it cut a gash in the tire that goes from the tread all the way to the rim. We pulled over right in front of an 18-wheeler that was pulled over & we assumed the part was probably something that fell off of his truck. Well, we pull over & he takes off. Nice. Thanks dude. It's dark, it's COLD, & traffic is passing by us at 80 mph. I called 911 & had the Louisiana State Highway Patrol come out & block for us so we hopefully wouldn't get splatted out there while attempting to change a tire. It always amazed me that such a large pickup truck comes with such a tiny jack. This jack looks like something you'd use to jack up a smart car, not a full-sized 4 door pickup truck. The officer was very nice & even helped us figure out WHERE to put the jack so the entire truck wasn't lifting off the ground. :) I'm driving on my smaller spare tire now & can't afford yet ANOTHER brand new tire. These things were expensive. Just my luck, the one time I put 4 brand new tires on the truck instead of 4 cheap used tires, this happens. We finally get home & I was SO happy to see the pets! Traveling is traumatizing for me ... I miss my little furry critters too much. LOL! After saying hello to the pets, we prepared for the eviction, but Josh isn't here. He popped in while we were sleeping & told Kyle that one of our neighbors that we know tried to break into the house. Josh didn't stick around for us to even get up. He took off again. Does he know we're friends with that family? Does he realize that we're going to go knock on their door the second we're well enough to make it to their house? Does he realize that we're going to tell that that "Josh said ..." It's going to be interesting. As far as the eviction, I guess he'll figure out he's evicted when he notices the locks have been changed. You can't go 2 YEARS without ever paying rent or working it off. You just can't live for free. He did for 2 years & I'm SO angry about it that he doesn't even want to get NEAR me. 2 years of arguing over him not doing his SHARE of chores. His SHARE? He's not paying rent! He should have been doing ALL of the chores for us! WTF? And the excuses! I'm too tired. It's my day off. I thought Kyle was going to do it. It's too hot. It's too cold. I don't feel well. Guess what? You're OUT! Go leach off of someone else for a couple years. I haven't seen this guy do ANYTHING for himself. We make him buy a bicycle so he doesn't get fired while we're gone ... you know, so he can get to work. He never rode it. I give up. I have New Year's Resolutions & this year it's all about ME. I've given & given ... no more. It's time I get something for a change. 2013 is going to be a great year for me. I've seen what people who do NOTHING get. Just imagine what "I" can get?! If all these leaches can receive thousands of dollars of free stuff just for sitting on their asses all day, what can I get since I actually WORK?! Oh yeah ... it's going to be an incredibly wonderful year for me! Now it's time to wrap up the bottom half of the last blog of 2012 ... watch for new & different bottom half content in the blogs of 2013 & see you next year!!
On this day in 1989, 20-year-old actor Christian Slater is arrested for drunk driving in Los Angeles, California.
He had a blood-alcohol level of .24, or .24 grams of alcohol per 100
milliliters of blood--three times the legal limit in California.
Slater's arrest came after a predawn car chase--he was driving 50 MPH in
a 35-MPH zone--that ended when he crashed his Saab into a tree. He
spent 10 days in jail.
People have been driving drunk for almost
as long as they have been driving cars: The first drunk-driving arrest
took place in London in September 1897. In 1931, a toxicologist at Indiana
University named Rolla Harger came up with a way to prove that someone
was too intoxicated to drive, even if he or she wouldn't admit it--a
device he called the Drunkometer. It was simple: all the suspected
drinker had to do was blow into a balloon. The tester then attached the
balloon to a tube filled with a purple fluid (potassium permanganate and
sulfuric acid) and released its air into the tube. Alcohol on a
person's breath changed the color of the fluid from purple to yellow;
the quicker the change, the drunker the person.
The Drunkometer
was effective but cumbersome, and it required a certain amount of
scientific calculation to determine just how much alcohol a person had
consumed. In 1954, another Indianan named Robert Borkenstein invented a
device that was more portable and easier to use. Borkenstein's machine,
the Breathalyzer, worked much like Harger's did--it measured the amount
of alcohol in a person's breath--but it did the necessary calculations
automatically and thus could not be foiled or tampered with. (One tipsy
Canadian famously ate his underwear while waiting to take a Breathalyzer
test because he believed that the cotton
would somehow absorb the alcohol in his system. It did not.) The
Breathalyzer soon became standard equipment in every police car in the
nation.
Slater is certainly not the only celebrity to be caught
drunk driving. In 2006, actor Mel Gibson's blood-alcohol level was .12
when the police pulled him over for speeding in Malibu, California. In
that year alone, Paris Hilton and Nicole Ritchie were cited for driving
under the influence, as were actors Rip Torn, Haley Joel Osment, and
Tracy Morgan and boxer Mike Tyson. Other celebrity DUI arrestees include
swimmer Michael Phelps, St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony LaRussa and
basketball player Carmelo Anthony.
Annus mirabilis:
A wonderful year.
"It has been an annus mirabilis for the college: the new dormitories were completed & we've increased enrollment to fill those buildings," announced the president.
To British poet John Dryden, the "year of wonders" was 1666. That was the year of both a great British naval victory over the Dutch & the great London fire. When he titled his 1667 poetic review of 1666 & its events "Annus Mirabilis," Dryden became one of the 1st writers to use that Latinate phrase in an otherwise English context. "Annus mirabilis" is a direct translation from New Latin, the form of that ancient language that has been used since the end of the medieval period (especially for scientific descriptions & classification). The phrase is not extremely common, but it's used by writers & historians to denote any particularly remarkable year.
John Salvi III walks into two separate abortion clinics in Brookline, Massachusetts,
and shoots workers with a rifle, killing two receptionists and wounding
five other employees. He was captured the next day after firing 23
shots at a Norfolk, Virginia, medical clinic.
Salvi, who worked in a beauty salon in New Hampshire
before his murderous rampage, was described by acquaintances as a "very
odd" man. Despite his increasingly erratic behavior, Salvi's parents
resisted getting professional treatment for him. As his mental state
deteriorated, he became a zealous anti-abortion activist.
In March
1996, Salvi's trial jury rejected his insanity defense and convicted
him of murder. After receiving two life sentences, he killed himself in
prison in November 1996.
However, the fallout from Salvi's attack
did not end there. Richard Seron, one of the shooting victims, filed a
lawsuit against the clinic's landlord for failing to provide security
measures Seron claimed would have prevented the attack. After losing
that suit, Seron enraged abortion providers by lobbying against a law
that would establish a buffer zone outside clinics. He further
antagonized pro-choice activists by filing a lawsuit against Planned
Parenthood, claiming that he was entitled to a $100,000 reward for
assisting in the capture of John Salvi.
But even Richard Seron did
not inspire as much public ire as Deborah Gaines, who was scheduled to
have an abortion at one of the clinics on the day of the shooting. After
the incident, she couldn't go through with the abortion and decided to
have the child. She later sued the clinic for wrongful life, arguing
that the clinic should pay the costs of raising the child since their
alleged negligence prevented her abortion. The case, however, was
dismissed before trial.
Before putting away holiday decorations, take photos of your home's current holiday displays. Pack the photos with the decorations when you store them. The photos will serve as reminders of decoration placement when you begin decking the halls next year.
Donate toys your child has no interest in playing with because they've outgrown them or because they don't like them. By making room for their favorite toys they will spend more time using them. Clear out the clutter by clearing out some of the toys. This not only gives you more room to store toys but gives your child more room to play!
During the Ice Age, sea levels dropped, exposing a land bridge between what 2 countries?
A. Australia & New Zealand
B. Japan & China
C. Alaska & Siberia
D. Mexico & Cuba
Answer: C. Alaska & Siberia
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WHAT'S FOR FREE?
-FitnessClass is a free download, with access to watch all the previews before deciding if a ClassPass is for you.
-There are always 7 FREE CLASSES to perform.
MORE FEATURES
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-Post completed class status to your Facebook wall or Twitter feed
-Fill out your profile to calculate your estimated calories burned per class
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-ASK questions to PumpOne right from the app
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Hundreds of thousands of families who, with the best of intentions of paying off their credit cards every month, somehow wander into credit card debt. They look up & they're $80,000 in debt. They lose by a thousand cuts, not by 1 big move of stupidity.
Mansuetude:
The quality of state of being gentle : meekness or tameness.
The mansuetude of Tina's voice made it hard for her teachers to hear her over the drone of her louder classmates.
Mansuetude was 1st used in English in the 14th century, & it derives from the Latin verb mansuescere, which means "to tame." Mansuescere comes from the noun manus (meaning "hand") & the verb suescere ("to accustom" or "to become accustomed"). Unlike manus, which has many English descendants (including "manner," "emancipate," & "manicure"), suescere has only a few: "custom," "accustom," & "desuetude" ("disuse).
On this day in 1999, the United States,
in accordance with the Torrijos-Carter Treaties, officially hands over
control of the Panama Canal, putting the strategic waterway into
Panamanian hands for the first time. Crowds of Panamanians celebrated
the transfer of the 50-mile canal, which links the Atlantic and Pacific
oceans and officially opened when the SS Arcon sailed through on August
15, 1914. Since then, over 922,000 ships have used the canal.
Interest in finding a shortcut from the Atlantic to the Pacific
originated with explorers in Central America in the early 1500s. In
1523, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V commissioned a survey of the Isthmus
of Panama and several plans for a canal were produced, but none ever
implemented. U.S. interest in building a canal was sparked with the
expansion of the American West and the California gold rush in 1848. (Today, a ship heading from New York to San Francisco can save about 7,800 miles by taking the Panama Canal rather than sailing around South America.)
In 1880 a French company run by the builder of the Suez Canal started
digging a canal across the Isthmus of Panama (then a part of Colombia).
More than 22,000 workers died from tropical diseases such as yellow
fever during this early phase of construction and the company eventually
went bankrupt, selling its project rights to the United States in 1902
for $40 million. President Theodore Roosevelt championed the canal,
viewing it as important to America's economic and military interests. In
1903, Panama declared its independence from Colombia in a U.S.-backed
revolution and the U.S. and Panama signed the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty,
in which the U.S. agreed to pay Panama $10 million for a perpetual lease
on land for the canal, plus $250,000 annually in rent.
Over 56,000 people worked on the canal between 1904 and 1913 and over
5,600 lost their lives. When finished, the canal, which cost the U.S.
$375 million to build, was considered a great engineering marvel and
represented America's emergence as a world power.
In 1977, responding to nearly 20 years of Panamanian protest, U.S. President Jimmy Carter
and Panama's General Omar Torrijos signed two new treaties that
replaced the original 1903 agreement and called for a transfer of canal
control in 1999. The treaty, narrowly ratified by the U.S. Senate, gave
America the ongoing right to defend the canal against any threats to its
neutrality. In October 2006, Panamanian voters approved a $5.25 billion
plan to double the canal's size by 2015 to better accommodate modern
ships.
Ships pay tolls to use the canal, based on each vessel's size and
cargo volume. In May 2006, the Maersk Dellys paid a record toll of
$249,165. The smallest-ever toll--36 cents--was paid by Richard
Halliburton, who swam the canal in 1928.
There are 2 different styles for holding utensils from which to choose: the American style (usually with fork tines up) & the Continental (or European) style (with fork tines down). Either way is correct, so use whichever is more comfortable for you.
Update your holiday card mailing list from information you may have gathered in this year's holiday cards. Update changed addresses, names, & add any new friends. Your mailing list will be all ready for next December.
What do spelling bees, soccer games, a debate, a tennis match, & an election for class president have in common? The need for good sportsmanship.
Sportsmanship is manner on any field of competition.
What popular children’s book features characters named Augustus Gloop, Violet Beauregarde, and Veruca Salt?
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl.
What was the chief use of dilithium crystals in TV’s Star Trek series?
Enabling starships to travel faster than light.
When a person's birth date lies exactly between 2 astroligical signs, it's on the what?
A. Equinox
B. Outer region
C. Tangent
D. Cusp
Answer: D. Cusp
Which are the only three grapes authorized for use in producing authentic French champagne?
Which bird is the smartest?
A. Crow
B. Owl
C. Parrot
Which is the title of an old Scottish song that is often sung on New Year's Eve?
A. "Scotland the Brave"
B. "Loch Lomond"
C. "Rising of the Moon"
D. "Auld Lang Syne"
Which part of the body contains the most bones?
A. Hand
B. Spine
C. Skull
ABC. Did you know that a deer's antlers are composed of bone? And a bird's beak is primarily bone covered in a layer of keratin. Make no bones about it!
Who is the only person prominently pictured on U.S. currency who wasn’t born in the continental United States?
Alexander Hamilton, who was born on the island of Nevis, in the West Indies.
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You've been existing for so long that you've forgotten to dream. I want you to go back to dreaming a little bit, but don't stop there. Take the dream & convert it to bite-sized goals that are accomplishable. If you could do anything you wanted to do & education & money weren't barriers, what would you do?
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