February 1, 2013

Happy February everyone! I hope this new month finds you well. It finds me making plans to be busier in the future. I just signed up for Fire Inspector classes. I'll be solid busy for 2 months come March 19th.  After that class, I'll be taking Fire Investigator in October. Now I just need to track down & buy all the books. Figures, with my large collection of EMS & fire books, none of the 3 I need for Inspector are in my collection. Anyway, pictured is an afghan that I think is really

pretty. It's called Rings of Eternity & I'd like to make this one! After all my beading yesterday I did manage to scrub the toilet (my punishment to myself for beading all day), watered all the plants, fed the pets & let them out for a while, did little pickups around the house, swept the utility room, & dusted my office lights. After that I went to work on eBay, checked facebook, & then Pete came home from work. The FD got toned out early in the morning to a med call. While changing out the final wall calendar from January to February, I decided to write in my Fire Inspector Classes from March through May. Doing that made me realize that at SOME point, I had to re-write my schedule to accommodate the classes. Boy, THAT wasn't fun! Since my schedule is on my Website & since it's all done in raw HTML code via Notepad, it took a while. Not only did I have to move everything around for 3 days out of the week, I had to decide what stayed & got moved & what just got deleted for a couple months. THEN I had to HTML code it all in. I'm done though & it came out good. I like it. I'm going to be doing without quite a few things ... 8 things per day, 3 days a week got poofed. Oh well, I'll adjust ... just in time to go back to normal. HA! That's how it works. As soon as I settle in & get used to change, it all changes again. In this case it changes back to normal. I'm going to keep the class schedule after May though, because I'm going to have the same class schedule again in October - December for the Fire Investigator class. Anyway, the new class schedule will be uploaded before I go to bed on March 18th, the night before classes start. As for this month though, all is still quiet. A normal looking month is ahead with Groundhog Day tomorrow (I'll be that movie will be on several channels throughout the day).

Almost 1/3 of the world's supply of oil comes from the oceans & seas.

Did you read today, the McDonald's company made an announcement? ... Remember when you used to drive around & see over 9 billion sold? You know what the latest is from McDonald's? Over 55 billion. They've sold 55 billion hamburgers. I'll bet they had to buy another cow. -Johnny Carson 1985

Ford GT makes TV debut in Super Bowl ad (2004):

During the Super Bowl on this day in 2004, the first TV commercial airs for the Ford GT, a new, high-performance "supercar" based on Ford's GT40 race car, which won the 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance race in France four years in a row starting in 1966. The TV ad for the two-seater Ford GT featured a driver's eye view of the car noisily zooming around California's Thunderhill Raceway, and ended with the tag line: "The Pace Car for an Entire Company."
The history of the GT40 dates back to the early 1960s, when Henry Ford II (1917-1987), head of the Ford Motor Company and grandson of company founder Henry Ford (1863-1947), decided to launch a racing program in order to better promote his company. Ford set his sights on winning the prestigious 24 Hours of Le Mans race, which was dominated in the first half of the 1960s by Italian automaker Ferrari. Endurance racing tested the stamina of both car and driver, and a victory at Le Mans was considered as a testament to a car's superior engineering. The first Le Mans race was held in 1923; Andre Lagache and Rene Leonard drove 1,373 miles in a Chenard & Walcker auto, for an average speed of 57 mph, to win the event. (Today, along with Le Mans, the 12 Hours of Sebring and the Rolex 24 at Daytona are known as the Triple Crown of endurance racing.)
In pursuit of his goal to win races, Henry Ford II attempted in the early 1960s to acquire Ferrari; however, company founder Enzo Ferrari (1898-1988) abruptly pulled out of the deal. Ford went on to invest millions developing its own racing program instead. In 1964, the Ford GT40 (the initials stood for Gran Turismo or Grand Touring; the number represented the car's height in inches) participated in pre-race testing at Le Mans with lackluster results. Ford then hired car designer Carroll Shelby (1923-) to run its racing program. Shelby, a former race car driver, who in 1959 became just the second American to win Le Mans, oversaw improvements to the GT40, and in 1966, Ford's race cars experienced major success, first at Sebring and Daytona, then Le Mans. That year in France, the team of Bruce McLaren and Chris Amon drove a GT40 MkII a distance of some 3,009 miles with an average speed of 125.39 mph to win the race. The following year, a GT40 Mk IV took first place at Le Mans, while a GT40 Mk I won in 1968 and 1969. Rule changes after the 1969 race ended the GT40's four-year winning streak at Le Mans.
The Ford GT that appeared in the 2004 Super Bowl ad was a bigger version of its 1960s namesake and carried a price tag of around $150,000. Although the Ford GT generated great interest upon its debut, in 2006 the company announced it would discontinue the car, stating it was only intended to be built for two production years. In 2007, Ford shuttered the Wixom, Michigan, plant were the GT was built.

In 1945, while working on a radar project, Percy Spencer's chocolate bar melted in his pocket while standing in front of a magnetron. He went on to invent the microwave oven.

Largest oceans & seas in the world top 10:

1. Pacific Ocean
2. Atlantic Ocean
3. Indian Ocean
4. Southern Ocean
5. Arctic Ocean
6. Caribbean Sea
7. Mediterranean Sea
8. South China Sea
9. Bering Sea
10. Gulf of Mexico

Post your receipt on the fridge. It's an easy inventory of what's waiting to be eaten, & the sum at the bottom provides a gentle reminder to dine at home.

Watch a full season of a TV series on DVD in a week.

When I was a boy the Dead sea was only sick. -George Burns (1896-1996)

Where we stand depends on where we sit.

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