It's reset Monday! Our financials have been reset & now our schedules. Pete started his brand new job today & although I hardly got any sleep, I got up when he left & we're doing a schedule reset from this. YAY! Hopefully no more going to bed at 3 or 4 in the morning. I don't really care what shift I'm on, but it was difficult knowing this day would come when it would be time to shift back to 1st shift. Having lunch out is a little difficult when you're on 2nd shift because when it's lunchtime for you, everything is closed if you were planning to eat out. Saturday after I blogged I cleaned the house, we drove Josh into Princeton & then settled into the nighttime routine. Sunday I got more done, but not everything. I woke up & cleaned the house to get that out of the way 1st. I cleaned the toilet, straightened the dining room chairs, cleaned the stove, & did the dishes. When that was done I went through the Sunday paper, checked facebook, & then while Pete did yard work, I checked on yearly stuff & then caught up on my AOL e-mail. We went out to lunch at Culver's & I parked next to a cool motorcycle that I just loved. When we got inside I asked who it belonged to & it belonged to a kid who worked there & was taking his lunch break. Turns out the thing was classic styling, but brand new. The price? Only $4k new. WOO! Looks like I may be getting a Suzuki TU250X. Pete just found a great deal on a Toyota Camry & is considering that for himself. Kyle needs a car soon & he would get Pete's Honda & my truck would be used for weekends &/or Home Depot runs or trips where we're hauling stuff. Go check them out, you sure can't beat the prices! When we got back home (talking about buying that motorcycle the whole time), I cleared my regular e-mail for the week & then went through & updated my leisure time file (don't ask) & then sat down to machine knit for a while before we settled into our nighttime routine. President's Day today.
Americans who itemize on taxes can take a write-off for donated items. Learn what donations are worth for tax purposes on the Salvation Army's Web site.
On this day in 2000, "A Heartbreaking World of Staggering Genius,"
29-year-old Dave Eggers’ best-selling memoir about his experiences
raising his younger brother following the cancer-related deaths of their
parents, makes its debut. The critically acclaimed book became a
finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and turned Eggers into a literary star.
Eggers, who was born in Boston in 1970 and raised in Lake Forest, Illinois, studied journalism at the University of Illinois. However, at age 21 he dropped out of school in order to care for his 8-year-old brother Toph, after their parents died of cancer within five weeks of each other. The brothers moved to Berkeley, California, where Dave took care of Toph and worked as a graphic designer and writer and co-founded the satirical magazine Might. Egger’s chronicle of this time, "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius," was labeled a hip, original and funny tearjerker, filled with clever anecdotes, charts and footnotes. In 2001, the book was the finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction (Ted Conover’s "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" won the award).
Following the success of "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius," Eggers wrote the 2002 novel "You Shall Know Our Velocity," about two friends who travel around the world trying to give away a large sum of money, and the 2004 story collection "How We Are Hungry." Eggers’ 2006 book "What Is the What" blended fact and fiction to tell the story of Sudanese "Lost Boy" refugee Valentino Achak Deng. In 2009, Eggers published the well-received "Zeitoun," about real-life Syrian immigrant Abdulrahman Zeitoun, a New Orleans resident who remained there during Hurricane Katrina then paddled around the flooded city in a canoe rescuing people.
Eggers is also the founder of McSweeney’s, a publishing company that produces books, a literary journal and a magazine called The Believer. Additionally, he has penned screenplays, including 2009’s "Away We Go," co-written with his novelist wife, Vendela Vida, and "Where the Wild Things Are," a 2009 big-screen adaptation of the classic children’s story of the same name. Eggers is known for his philanthropy and has helped establish a number of nonprofits, including 826 Valencia, a San Francisco-based writing and tutoring program for young people, which has opened chapters around the United States.
Eggers, who was born in Boston in 1970 and raised in Lake Forest, Illinois, studied journalism at the University of Illinois. However, at age 21 he dropped out of school in order to care for his 8-year-old brother Toph, after their parents died of cancer within five weeks of each other. The brothers moved to Berkeley, California, where Dave took care of Toph and worked as a graphic designer and writer and co-founded the satirical magazine Might. Egger’s chronicle of this time, "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius," was labeled a hip, original and funny tearjerker, filled with clever anecdotes, charts and footnotes. In 2001, the book was the finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction (Ted Conover’s "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" won the award).
Following the success of "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius," Eggers wrote the 2002 novel "You Shall Know Our Velocity," about two friends who travel around the world trying to give away a large sum of money, and the 2004 story collection "How We Are Hungry." Eggers’ 2006 book "What Is the What" blended fact and fiction to tell the story of Sudanese "Lost Boy" refugee Valentino Achak Deng. In 2009, Eggers published the well-received "Zeitoun," about real-life Syrian immigrant Abdulrahman Zeitoun, a New Orleans resident who remained there during Hurricane Katrina then paddled around the flooded city in a canoe rescuing people.
Eggers is also the founder of McSweeney’s, a publishing company that produces books, a literary journal and a magazine called The Believer. Additionally, he has penned screenplays, including 2009’s "Away We Go," co-written with his novelist wife, Vendela Vida, and "Where the Wild Things Are," a 2009 big-screen adaptation of the classic children’s story of the same name. Eggers is known for his philanthropy and has helped establish a number of nonprofits, including 826 Valencia, a San Francisco-based writing and tutoring program for young people, which has opened chapters around the United States.
Dinosaur Museums in the U.S. top 10:
- Wyoming Dinosaur Center, Wyoming
- Rocky Mountain Dinosaur Resource Center, Colorado
- Dinosaur National Monument, Utah & Colorado
- Dinosaur Journey, Colorado
- Peabody Museum of Natural History, Connecticut
- Museum of the Rockies, Montana
- Field Museum of Natural History, Illinois
- Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, D.C.
- Academy of Natural Sciences, Pennsylvania
- Thanksgiving Point, Utah
Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta, Canada, is the site of the most dinosaurs ever found in one location - 37 kinds of dinosaurs have been found there. It's a "dino-mite" "dino-site!"
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Effective management is putting 1st things 1st. While leadership decides what "1st things" are, it's management that puts them 1st-day-by-day, moment-by-moment. Management is discipline & the act of carrying it out. The word "discipline" derives from "disciple," which means one is a disciple to philosophy, principles, values, an overriding purpose, a subordinate goal, or a person who represents that goal.
Gene Roddenberry originally envisioned Spock as having red skin & eyes, with a solid plate on his stomach to absorb nutrients. That would've meant hours of make-up for actor Leonard Nimoy. Luckily for him, red skin appeared as black on black & white TV of the 60s, & the idea was nixed.
On this day in 2011, in a Kent, Washington, courtroom, Gary Leon Ridgway
pleads guilty to the 1982 aggravated, first-degree murder of his 49th
victim, 20-year-old Rebecca Marrero. Marrero’s remains were found in
December 2010, decades after her murder, in a ravine near Auburn,
Washington. After entering his guilty plea, the 62-year-old Ridgway
received his 49th life sentence without the possibility of parole and
returned to the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla, where he
was already serving 48 consecutive life sentences, one for each of the
other women he killed.
In the 1980s, residents of Washington State were terrorized by the so-called Green River Killer, whose first five victims’ bodies were discovered in or near the Green River in King County (whose largest city is Seattle) in the summer of 1982. The strangled bodies of more victims soon appeared around King County; all were women, most of them young and many of them prostitutes, runaways and drug users. Ridgway, a thrice-married truck painter from Auburn, became a suspect after one of the victims was spotted getting into his truck. However, when questioned by police, he denied any knowledge of the slayings and passed a 1984 polygraph test. In 2001, he was finally arrested after DNA evidence (a technology not available when he began committing his crimes) connected him to some of the killings.
In a controversial 2003 plea deal, Ridgway admitted to the murders of 48 women between 1982 and 1998, and prosecutors agreed not to seek the death penalty against him if he cooperated with police in locating the remains of dozens of his victims. Ridgway reportedly claimed to have murdered more than 60 women in King County, although authorities at the time could only find sufficient evidence to link him to the 48 slayings. (Ridgway’s plea deal was limited to murders in King County; if, in the future, he is linked to unsolved killings in other counties or states, he could be eligible for the death penalty.)
Ridgway told authorities he began to think of murdering prostitutes as his career, and did it “because he hated them, didn't want to pay them for sex, and because he knew he could kill as many as he wanted without getting caught,” according to The Seattle Times. The serial killer said he picked up women off the street, strangled them in his home or truck, and meticulously hid their bodies near natural landmarks (such as trees or fallen logs) in an attempt to keep track of them.
At the time of his 49th conviction, Ridgway had been linked to more murders than any other convicted serial killer in U.S. history.
In the 1980s, residents of Washington State were terrorized by the so-called Green River Killer, whose first five victims’ bodies were discovered in or near the Green River in King County (whose largest city is Seattle) in the summer of 1982. The strangled bodies of more victims soon appeared around King County; all were women, most of them young and many of them prostitutes, runaways and drug users. Ridgway, a thrice-married truck painter from Auburn, became a suspect after one of the victims was spotted getting into his truck. However, when questioned by police, he denied any knowledge of the slayings and passed a 1984 polygraph test. In 2001, he was finally arrested after DNA evidence (a technology not available when he began committing his crimes) connected him to some of the killings.
In a controversial 2003 plea deal, Ridgway admitted to the murders of 48 women between 1982 and 1998, and prosecutors agreed not to seek the death penalty against him if he cooperated with police in locating the remains of dozens of his victims. Ridgway reportedly claimed to have murdered more than 60 women in King County, although authorities at the time could only find sufficient evidence to link him to the 48 slayings. (Ridgway’s plea deal was limited to murders in King County; if, in the future, he is linked to unsolved killings in other counties or states, he could be eligible for the death penalty.)
Ridgway told authorities he began to think of murdering prostitutes as his career, and did it “because he hated them, didn't want to pay them for sex, and because he knew he could kill as many as he wanted without getting caught,” according to The Seattle Times. The serial killer said he picked up women off the street, strangled them in his home or truck, and meticulously hid their bodies near natural landmarks (such as trees or fallen logs) in an attempt to keep track of them.
At the time of his 49th conviction, Ridgway had been linked to more murders than any other convicted serial killer in U.S. history.
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We're celebrating Presidents' Day because we're honoring both Washington & Lincoln. You know, with the recent presidents we've had, you kind of wonder where the new holidays are coming from. I can't envision a Nixon Ford birthday white sale, can you? Washington, of course, is on the $1 bill; Lincoln is on the $5 bill, & Reagan's picture is going to be on cheese. -Johnny Carson 1983
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