- January 5, 2013 -

Happy 1st Saturday & weekend of 2013! Any special plans? Pete wanted to go to 1st Saturday in Dallas or a gun show, but considering he just woke up (it's almost 11:30a) & he's still foggy & hasn't had his coffee yet, I think 1st Saturday is out. Not sure about the gun show. The Dallas Gun & Knife Show is at Dallas Market Hall today & tomorrow, but Pete is already back in bed. This cold is really kicking us hard. I'd be in bed still except I was afraid I'll be up all night. I made snausages for Pete & I for breakfast yesterday (snausages = Little Sizzlers sausages), blew the dust out of my knitting machine, went to pick Josh up from work & did some grocery shopping, came back & went to work on eBay, drove Josh up into Princeton, came back & checked the love quote of the week, & then started dinner. I made baked chicken & pasta w/ spaghetti sauce & mozzarella cheese. It was great! Filling, but great. :) Pete & I sat down to watch TV after dinner but there was nothing on the DVR but fillers (stuff like "How It's Made", so we put a movie in & watched The Lucky One. Great movie! After that we headed to bed & slept way too long. I think I slept 9 hours again & Pete is still working on catching up on sleep / getting rid of this cold we both have. Josh has a full 5 day work week ahead but his hours are early. Pete will be driving him to work every morning & I'll be picking him up every afternoon at 3, except Thursday when he gets off at 2. City Council Meeting Tuesday. Maintenance has been cancelled & instead the LCFD is going to AMR med training hosted at the Anna FD on Wednesday.

Artist Brendan Jamison builds sculptures that are truly sweet - they're made out of sugar cubes! In 2010, he build a scale model of the Tate Modern Museum with 71,908 cubes.

Comment on your new boss's office with the phrase, "I like a guy with a sense of kitsch."

Friendliest cat breeds in the world top 10:

1. Chantilly/Tiffany
2. Somali
3. Ragdoll
4. Persian
5. Manx
6. Main Coon
7. Burmese
8. Exotic Shorthair
9. Birman
10. Abussinian

Lose It!:

Ready to get serious about weight loss? Lose It! can help you make your goal a reality.
Chosen by millions, Lose It! provides a seamless, supportive weight loss program. Download Lose It! today for a personalized and connected experience.
You've seen Lose It! on the Today Show, CNN, Forbes.com, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and The New York Times.
We take a proven, effective approach to weight loss (calorie tracking and peer support) and make it easy to follow with our simple, user-friendly tools.
Join the millions of others who have downloaded Lose It! and give it a try.
Lose It! is simple, fun to use, and includes great features:
- Simple, attractive, streamlined interface
- Comprehensive database of foods and activities
- Quickly add new foods or exercises to the database
- Setup recipes for more complicated foods
- Quickly add to your log with previous meals, my foods, and other shortcuts
- Track nutrients such as protein, fat, carbohydrates, and more
- Log packaged foods quickly with our popular barcode scanner
- Works with or without a network connection
- No advertisements!
Set up a free LoseIt.com account to gain access to additional features and capabilities that no other weight loss application has:
- Log your food and exercise on LoseIt.com
- Automatically keep a back-up of your data
- Connect with friends for extra support and motivation
- Earn badges to recognize your success
- Share custom foods, exercises, and recipes with friends
- Get reminded when you forget to log your meals
- Share your progress on Facebook or Twitter
- Keep your data private or share with friends - you are in control
- Generate reports on your activity and progress
Lose It! is the most popular, complete, and streamlined weight loss app for the iPhone. We hope you’ll join us and start “losing it” today!

May a weird customs inspector discover a secret compartment in your sister.

Sonny Bono killed in skiing accident (1998):

In his characteristically blunt and self-deprecating manner, Sonny Bono transformed himself relatively late in his life, morphing from the shorter, homelier, masculine half of a 1960s husband-and-wife singing and acting sensation (alongside his glamorous third wife, Cher) into a respected California lawmaker and U.S. congressman. On January 5, 1998, Bono’s unusual journey was cut tragically short when he was killed in a skiing accident while on vacation with his family in South Lake Tahoe, California.

The 62-year-old Bono and his fourth wife, Mary, were visiting the Heavenly Ski Resort, located on the Nevada-California border some 55 miles south of Reno, Nevada, with their young son and daughter. The accident occurred when Bono left his family to ski alone on the afternoon of January 5. He was reported missing several hours later, and his body was found that evening. Police said Bono had skied into a wooded area and hit a tree; the cause of death was massive head injuries. Coincidentally, Bono’s death occurred less than a week after another high-profile accident killed Michael Kennedy, the son of the late U.S. Attorney General and U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, on the ski slopes of Aspen, Colorado.

Born Salvatore Bono in Detroit on February 16, 1935, Bono moved to Los Angeles when he was seven years old. As a young adult he became a songwriter and singer at Specialty Records. He later teamed with the prominent songwriter Phil Spector and sang back-up for the Righteous Brothers. While married to his first wife, Donna Rankin, Bono met the 16-year-old Cherilyn Sarkasian; they made several recordings together, but struck gold with their 1965 mega-hit “I Got You Babe.” Bono divorced Rankin and in 1969 had a daughter, Chastity, with Cher; they later married. In August 1971, the couple’s TV show, The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour, premiered, featuring the tall, dark-haired Cher decked out in spangled designer outfits and the mustachioed Bono playing the straight man in bell-bottom pants. The show’s run lasted until 1974, when the couple split amid rampant gossip about extramarital affairs.

A latecomer to politics (he admitted he voted for the first time at age 54), Bono got his start after he became frustrated by the bureaucratic hassle involved in erecting a new sign at the Italian restaurant he owned in Palm Springs, a city in the Southern California desert with a current population of some 40,000 residents. He was elected mayor of the city in 1988, and four years later ran unsuccessfully in the Republican primary for a seat in the U.S. Senate. In 1994, Bono won a seat in the House of Representatives as part of a sweeping Republican victory in the House led by Speaker Newt Gingrich. As a lawmaker, Bono stuck closely to the conservative agenda, but he was known to reach out across party lines, forming friendships with such prominent liberals as Barney Frank, an openly gay Democratic congressman from Massachusetts. When Bono and Cher’s daughter, Chastity, came out publicly as a lesbian in 1995, her father expressed his love and support, but said he could not reconcile himself to the idea of gay marriage.

Reelected in 1996, Bono continued his campaigns to extend copyright laws and repair the damage done to the Salton Sea, a giant lake in Southern California’s Colorado Desert, by large-scale salt mining operations in the region. After Bono’s death, his widow, Mary Bono, completed the remainder of her husband’s term in the House.

TXTCrypt:

TXTcrypt is a general purpose text encryption application for sms/email/notes etc. focused on ease of use and interoperability between mobile and desktop versions.
You can use it for text in any application , including text from the TXTcrypt desktop application.
Say you want to send a sms that only someone knowing a password for it can understand , or just need to encrypt a conversation to hide it for prying eyes , now there is a easy way for that on a iphone.
With TXTcrypt just enter your message and a password for it , now the encrypted message can only be decoded with that password , just tell it to someone , and send them message encrypted with it , they can use TXTcrypt to decode it.
TXTcrypt works with any character set being unicode compliant , the encryption used is as strong as encryption export regulations allow , not military grade but namely RC4 with keys as big as 64bit depending on the length of your password as such providing a decent amount of security.

Use empty egg cartons to store your Christmas ornaments. Each gets cushioned in its own little space - which can reduce breakage.

You always reap what you sow; there's no shortcut.