⚇ January 18, 2013 ⚇

Good morning, happy Friday, & happy weekend! The changes went well. Yesterday was a busy day & STILL I made it all the way through ALMOST everything. The ONLY thing I didn't do yesterday was play Sims & that was after losing 4 hours of my day. Not bad huh? The changes worked great! After posting yesterday I cleaned the bathroom sink, dusted the bedroom lights, fed the pets, & swept the bedroom. I went to work on eBay & packaged up a sale that went out along with the rest of the eBay stuff I do, checked my Realtor.com iPhone app & looked at a bunch of photos of the house that's for sale a few houses away from us, checked facebook, swung by McDonald's from an order of large fries on my way to pick Kyle up early from school, then we went to an appointment in McKinney where we met Pete who took a long lunch from work to meet us there, then Kyle & I picked Josh up from work (a little bit late) while Pete ran an errand, came home & Pete was home for the day with us. YAY! Pete & I made sandwiches for lunch & took a 2 hour nap. When we woke up I went through the mail, showered, & then Pete & I watched a movie, a documentary, & headed to bed. If not for the nap & the errands, I would have had 3 hours of Sims time yesterday (still would have had to pick Josh up). SO ... yes, the changes worked. I do miss checking in on facebook & playing Words w/ Friends w/ my friends throughout the day, but I get SO much more done when I don't. No school Monday.

Break your goal into smaller pieces. How much can you aim to save each week or each month? Then spell out how you'll do that. Once you have a purpose, you'll be less distracted by temptations (like dinner out with friends or a new pair of shoes). Saving won't be this thing you should do, but this thing you choose to do. And once you've accomplished your goal, setting the next one will feel less like a sacrifice & more like an opportunity.

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Great country we live in. We spend $750 million looking for life on a planet 212 million miles away. We could have done the same thing here in Burbank. -Johnny Carson 1976

GM auctions off historic cars (2009):

January 18, 2009, marks the final day of a weeklong auction in which auto giant General Motors (GM) sells off historic cars from its Heritage Collection. GM sold around 200 vehicles at the Scottsdale, Arizona, auction, including a 1996 Buick Blackhawk concept car for $522,500, a 1969 Chevrolet Camaro ZL-1 COPO Coupe for $319,000 and a 1959 Chevrolet Corvette convertible for $220,000. Other items included a 1998 Cadillac Brougham, which was built for the pope. (That vehicle was blessed by the pope but never used because of safety issues; it sold for more than $57,000.) Most were preproduction, development, concept or prototype cars.

The vehicles came from GM's Heritage Center, an 81,000 square foot facility in Sterling, Michigan, that houses hundreds of cars and trucks from GM's past, along with documents chronicling the company's history and other artifacts and "automobilia." Rumors spread that the financially troubled GM was selling off its entire fleet of historic vehicles, but that was not the case. As The New York Times reported shortly after the January auction: "Much has been made of the timing of the sale coinciding with G.M.'s current situation, but G.M. is simply doing the same thing that many large-scale collectors and museums regularly do in culling certain pieces from their collections. This was hardly a wholesale dumping of G.M.'s heritage."

Nevertheless, at the time of the January 2009 auto auction, GM was facing enormous financial difficulties. In June of that same year, the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. At the time, the automaker reported liabilities of $172.8 billion and assets of $82.3 billion, making it the fourth-biggest U.S. bankruptcy in history. Bankruptcy was a move once considered unthinkable for GM, which was founded in 1908 and became a giant of the U.S. economy in the 20th century. GM pursued a strategy of selling a vehicle "for every purse and purpose," in the words of Alfred Sloan, who became president of the company in 1923 and resigned as chairman in 1956. By its peak in 1962, GM produced 51 percent of all the cars in the U.S. However, by the late 1960s, GM had begun a slow, decades-long decline that critics charged was due, in part, to the company's failure to innovate quickly enough. In 2008, GM was surpassed by Japan-based Toyota as the world's top-selling maker of cars and trucks, a title the American automaker had held since the early 1930s.

Most bugs are attracted to the color black.

Most dangerous bugs in the world top 10:

1. Hemiptera, the kissing bug
2. Asian hornet
3. African ant
4. Locust
5. Fire ant
6. Bee
7. Flea
8. Mosquito
9. Tsetse fly
10. Wasp

Of all these creepy-crawly killers, the most dangerous is the bloodsucking mosquito, a bug that has killed more people throughout history than any other.

There's no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.

UFO on Tape:

★★★★★ Featured by Apple in the prestigious "Games Starter Kit" list of essential must-have games, and now with support for the iPhone5's gorgeous 16:9 screen! What would you do if you were driving along and a real UFO descended from the clouds? Run screaming? Or grab your trusty iPhone and give chase?!
'UFO on Tape' puts you in the hot seat as you speed through the countryside in hot pursuit of visitors from outer space.
One of the most celebrated games on iOS. Has to be seen to be believed.
Watch this video: bit.ly/ufoontape
⚇ "If you want something fresh and unique download this - pronto! I really can't get enough of it." - IGN (Editors Choice Award and Best of 2010 Nominee)
⚇ "We're telling you now..get out and grab UFO on Tape. Totally out of this world!" - TouchArcade
⚇ "Completely unique with an amazing premise built into an exceptionally well built game" - AppAdvice.com
⚇ "May be the most unique experience out there. 4/5 Stars" - 148Apps
⚇ "Downright brilliant execution. There are few games out there that offer this kind of immersion" - SlideToPlay
⚇ "Promises to deliver an experience quite unlike anything else on iTunes" - PocketGamer
⚇ "Engaging and fun to enjoy and definitely worth adding to anyone's collection" - AppSpy.com
⚇ "So cool and unique, you'll consider it 99 cents well-spent" - CNET
⚇ "UFO on Tape is Awesome" - AppTapper.com
Top 50 Arcade Game in 100+ Countries!
How many other titles can claim all these Apple Features?
- New & Noteworthy
- Hot Games
- Staff Favorites
- Essential Games Start Kit
- Big Name Games
- GameCenter
- Stylish Games
- It Came From Space
- Breakthrough Games (Innovative Gameplay).
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UFO on Tape - for iPod touch / iPhone / iPad
How much footage will you get, will it be clear, will you be kidnapped and subjected to scientific experiments?
Only time will tell!
With photo-realistic graphics (no camera required), the best use of the gyroscope or accelerometer this side of the Vega system, loads of in-game voice dialogue from your hysterical virtual girlfriend, gamecenter scoring, and the kind of elusive 'just one more try' gameplay that keeps you up till the wee hours, 'UFO on Tape' is the ultimate pick up 'n play hi-score chaser!
The kind of unique gaming experience that is all to rare and will only be found on iOS devices.
You will believe!
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Breaking News: Now with native iPad support, auto flip screen, and option to invert X and Y controls.
*Dev Notes:
An innovative game sometimes needs a bit of background explanation especially where in cases like this screens don't compare to seeing the game in motion :)
i. Screens show actual in-game graphics! UFO on Tape is designed for the iPod Touch and iPhone and does not require or use the iPhone camera in any way.
ii. It may look uber-realistic (that was the plan :) but we can tell you it does not contain pre-recorded video. It is a high quality game that allows you to move anywhere within the game world.
iii. The game makes exquisite use of the gyroscope but players with older devices will have just as much fun using the built-in tilt controls, with 10,000+ players racking up great hi-scores using the accelerometer. *Now even easier with option to invert X/Y axis.
See a video of the game in action visit bit.ly/ufoontape, or visit our website here: www.revolutionaryconcepts.net and keep your eyes on the skies! :)

When it's cold, it's too cold. When it's hot, it's too hot ... but before you complain about your weather, consider this: the people in Verkhoyansk, Russia, suffer the greatest weather contrast in the world. The difference between the average summer & winter temperatures is 115°!

When the boss is in the restaurant restroom, add salt to his or her drink.