Good morning! When I woke up it was dark, stormy, & raining. Now it's sunny & warming up. Yesterday was another busy day, but a good one. I started out with cross stitching & that project is coming along nicely. When I finished, I got ready to go pick Josh up from work, but as I reached for my jacket the phone rang & it was an important call that lasted a little over an hour. The call was important enough that I didn't want to multi-task with driving at the same time, so I ended up being an hour late picking Josh up from work. I also had to make another call on the way to get him, then got home & made another call, then a few minutes after hanging up my phone rang again & I was on another call for a bit. When the phone marathon was over I went to work on eBay & then picked Kyle up from the library. When I got back it was time to check facebook & play a little of the facebook games I like. I found a new game yesterday & spent a little extra time learning it. Now that I understand it better, it'll go quicker today. If you're on facebook & play any one of these games, let me know :) Dice w/ Buddies, Scrabble, Starpires, Words w/ Friends. After facebook I went into the living room & got out my hand knitting, but Pete got home shortly after I got all set up so I put it back away & we started our nighttime routine. The FD got toned out to an odor investigation & wouldn't you know it, I finally get to bed early ... completely exhausted from cutting my sleep short every night since Sunday, & I couldn't sleep. Really? That's not right! I tried for a while but ended up getting back up finally & going to work in my office. I know that's what was keeping me awake anyway. Besides all the normal things I want & need to do & never seem to have time for each day, I ended up finding a LOT of cool things in these boxes I've slowly been unpacking in here. I thought most all of it would be going on eBay. They were my "to be sold" boxes, but apparently there was all kinds of cool stuff mixed in there. Stuff I need to sort though, catalog, put away, etc. Knowing I don't have the time was driving me crazy. WHEN would I ever be able to do all this? Apparently, the answer is; "when I SHOULD be sleeping." What I ended up doing last night was going through a BUNCH of large bottles (they look like prescription bottles but much larger & without the safety caps). They were meant for a specific purpose, but it was decided that they weren't going to be used & they were going to get thrown out. I grabbed them because they were PERFECT for storing beads in. I spent last night very slowly peeling the label off of each & every one of these bottles. When I finally finished peeling the labels off, I sorted out all my beads & started transferring them from the little plastic bags they were in, into the bottles. ONE project done. Now for the rest of the piles of stuff in here. Damn, there's a lot. This is going to take a LONG time to sort & put away. I'm really glad I found all this stuff, but the processing of it all will be very time consuming. Last night's project didn't end until 3-something in the morning & that was just ONE of many out of the boxes I've unpacked so far. I still have a box & a half to go of stuff, so for all I know there's much more. I still don't know what the last huge box holds. I need to finish sorting through the large box that sitting on top of it first. I still got up when I was supposed to today (ok, fine ... I overslept by 4 minutes)! I started out by working on my bead banner. It's looking great & is now over halfway complete. YAY! With my busy life I now understand the saying "eat dessert 1st". I worked on my bead banner FIRST because if today ends up steam rollering me as it has most of this week, at least I will have gotten some time working on the bead banner. HA! Phhhhbt!! Priorities. ;) LCFD Training Tuesday.
CIA operative Aldrich Ames is arrested for selling
secrets to the Soviet Union. Ames had access to the names and identities
of all U.S. spies in Russia, and by becoming a double agent he was
directly responsible for jeopardizing the lives of CIA agents working in
the Eastern bloc. At least 10 men were killed after Ames revealed their
identities, and more were sent to Russian gulags.
Maria del
Rosario Casas Ames, Aldrich's wife, who had been a paid CIA source, was
also charged for her role in accepting approximately $2.5 million (the
most the Soviets ever paid a foreign spy) for providing highly
confidential information to the KGB. It was the Ames' spending that
finally led to their downfall, but for many years no one questioned
their ability to buy expensive cars and homes (paid for with cash) on
his government salary. Ames picked up the cash at secret drops in the Washington, D.C., area and in unauthorized travels to Colombia and Venezuela.
Aldrich
Ames was the biggest success of the Soviet Union's reinvigorated
espionage program. After their invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, the
Russians decided that spying was their best bet for improving their
strategic position vis-a-vis the United States.
Dimitri Yakushkin headed up the effort, and put more emphasis and money
into clandestine operations; his efforts were rewarded when Ames became
a double agent. Ames, who had worked for the CIA full-time since 1962,
and whose main duties had included contacting Soviet sources, was the
crown jewel for Group North. His information destroyed almost the whole
American intelligence program in Russia. Later, a Senate Intelligence
Committee issued a report that harshly criticized the CIA leadership for
their negligence in allowing Ames to get away with his subterfuge for
so long.
Both Ames and his wife were later convicted. Ames was
sentenced to life in prison, while his wife, as part of a plea-bargain
agreement, was a given a five-year sentence.
Due:
Ever wished you could jot down a task and set up a reminder alert really, really fast? Yeah, we do too.
The beauty of Due lies in its simplicity. There's no account to create, no start or end date to set, no need to prioritize, tag nor categorize.
What there is however are what that matters: a note for your reminder and an alert that is set up in mere seconds.
★ WATCH THE VIDEO ★
http://www.dueapp.com/ad/
★ WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ★
"… convenient, low-friction way to set short-term reminders and timers… Focused and thoughtful design" — John Gruber, daringfireball.net
"… passes the highest test I can imagine for an iPhone app: It's so smart, and so pretty, I can't imagine why Apple didn't bake something like it right in." — Bill Barol, boingboing.net
"… one of those missing pieces that should have come in the box when I got my brand new iPhone 4." — Adam Curry, The Big App Show
"Due is simply a must-have app…" — Victor Agreda, Jr, TUAW.com
"… quickly replaced Apple's built-in Clock App for simple time-based alarms, and even Calendar on occasion…" — Rene Ritchie, TiPb.com
"… super clean and super quick way to set up timed reminders for yourself…" — Gizmodo.com
★ FEATURES ★
✓ Super fast
Set up a reminder with alert up to 3x faster than the stock Calendar or Reminder app
✓ Get to the timings you need in a tap
Bring that file before leaving home in the morning? Return a call at lunch time? Zip through the time wheel and set due times by tapping on any of the 4 preset and customizable timings
✓ Reusable countdown, egg timers
Precise to the second, they are perfect for timing your soft-boiled eggs, coffee brewing and tea steeping. Set them up once and reuse them forever
✓ Keep track of outstanding tasks with Smart Badges
See at a glance how many tasks you have for the day, or only those you've ignored or missed, or turn off badging if you don't want any
✓ Never miss any reminders with auto snooze
Repeatedly notifies you of missed reminders until marked done or rescheduled
✓ Reschedule and defer reminders quickly
✓ Powerful recurring reminders
Vitamins before bed each night? Pay rent every 2 weeks on Monday? Submit a report on the last weekday of the month? Yup.
✓ Natural date and time parsing
Create reminders with due date filled in automatically by typing into the title directly eg. Wash the dishes in 30 mins, Leave for badminton at 3pm on Friday
✓ Track past reminders and quickly create new ones based on expired reminders within the Logbook
✓ Time Zone Shifting
Receive timely reminders no matter where you are in the world
✓ 12 great sounding alerts of varying lengths to choose from
✓ Universal app, looks and works great on both iPhone and iPad
✓ Keep reminders in sync* across your iPhone, iPad and Mac with iCloud or Dropbox
* Due must be launched for sync to take place. Sync on Mac requires Due for Mac (sold separately)
✓ Backup, email and restore databases
✓ Undo and redo
✓ Assignable alert sounds
Assign distinctive alert sound for each reminder; louder and longer ones for important reminders, and subtler ones for less critical reminders.
✓ Create reminders for your calendar events and todo items from compatible third-party apps such as Week Calendar or Listary and have Due send you right back to where you left off
✓ Reliable reminders that don't require any Internet connection
✓ Save 20% of your battery life compared with apps using Push notifications
✓ Accessible with full VoiceOver support and Large Text setting
✓ Fully localized for English, Deutsch, 日本語, Italiano, Nederlands, Español, Français, Polski, Русский, 한국어, العربية, Português brasileiro, Dansk, Svenska, Norsk (bokmål), 简体中文, 繁體中文
If you're keen to see Due in your language, contact us at support@dueapp.com
★ COMPATIBILITY ★
Compatible with iPhone (3GS or later), iPad and iPod touch running iOS 5 or later.
The beauty of Due lies in its simplicity. There's no account to create, no start or end date to set, no need to prioritize, tag nor categorize.
What there is however are what that matters: a note for your reminder and an alert that is set up in mere seconds.
★ WATCH THE VIDEO ★
http://www.dueapp.com/ad/
★ WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ★
"… convenient, low-friction way to set short-term reminders and timers… Focused and thoughtful design" — John Gruber, daringfireball.net
"… passes the highest test I can imagine for an iPhone app: It's so smart, and so pretty, I can't imagine why Apple didn't bake something like it right in." — Bill Barol, boingboing.net
"… one of those missing pieces that should have come in the box when I got my brand new iPhone 4." — Adam Curry, The Big App Show
"Due is simply a must-have app…" — Victor Agreda, Jr, TUAW.com
"… quickly replaced Apple's built-in Clock App for simple time-based alarms, and even Calendar on occasion…" — Rene Ritchie, TiPb.com
"… super clean and super quick way to set up timed reminders for yourself…" — Gizmodo.com
★ FEATURES ★
✓ Super fast
Set up a reminder with alert up to 3x faster than the stock Calendar or Reminder app
✓ Get to the timings you need in a tap
Bring that file before leaving home in the morning? Return a call at lunch time? Zip through the time wheel and set due times by tapping on any of the 4 preset and customizable timings
✓ Reusable countdown, egg timers
Precise to the second, they are perfect for timing your soft-boiled eggs, coffee brewing and tea steeping. Set them up once and reuse them forever
✓ Keep track of outstanding tasks with Smart Badges
See at a glance how many tasks you have for the day, or only those you've ignored or missed, or turn off badging if you don't want any
✓ Never miss any reminders with auto snooze
Repeatedly notifies you of missed reminders until marked done or rescheduled
✓ Reschedule and defer reminders quickly
✓ Powerful recurring reminders
Vitamins before bed each night? Pay rent every 2 weeks on Monday? Submit a report on the last weekday of the month? Yup.
✓ Natural date and time parsing
Create reminders with due date filled in automatically by typing into the title directly eg. Wash the dishes in 30 mins, Leave for badminton at 3pm on Friday
✓ Track past reminders and quickly create new ones based on expired reminders within the Logbook
✓ Time Zone Shifting
Receive timely reminders no matter where you are in the world
✓ 12 great sounding alerts of varying lengths to choose from
✓ Universal app, looks and works great on both iPhone and iPad
✓ Keep reminders in sync* across your iPhone, iPad and Mac with iCloud or Dropbox
* Due must be launched for sync to take place. Sync on Mac requires Due for Mac (sold separately)
✓ Backup, email and restore databases
✓ Undo and redo
✓ Assignable alert sounds
Assign distinctive alert sound for each reminder; louder and longer ones for important reminders, and subtler ones for less critical reminders.
✓ Create reminders for your calendar events and todo items from compatible third-party apps such as Week Calendar or Listary and have Due send you right back to where you left off
✓ Reliable reminders that don't require any Internet connection
✓ Save 20% of your battery life compared with apps using Push notifications
✓ Accessible with full VoiceOver support and Large Text setting
✓ Fully localized for English, Deutsch, 日本語, Italiano, Nederlands, Español, Français, Polski, Русский, 한국어, العربية, Português brasileiro, Dansk, Svenska, Norsk (bokmål), 简体中文, 繁體中文
If you're keen to see Due in your language, contact us at support@dueapp.com
★ COMPATIBILITY ★
Compatible with iPhone (3GS or later), iPad and iPod touch running iOS 5 or later.
Most popular types of plastic surgery in the U.S. top 10:
- Facelift
- Nose surgery
- Eyelid surgery
- Hair transplant
- Breast augmentation
- Breast reduction
- Tummy tuck
- Chemical peel
- Liposuction
- Buttocks enhancement
Order a leather chair.
Plastic surgery - sounds like surgery that would only be available to Barbie.
Popcorn made the old-fashioned way onthe stove is a healthful & inexpensive snack. For just pennies, you can make a huge bowlful of popcorn sprinkled w/ seasoned salt. Plus, oil-popped corn has only 55 calories per cup, & it's a whole grain.
President Bush, yesterday, was in a black neighborhood in Washington, this is true, demonstrating fly-casting for the kids. Something that comes in real handy for their lives. he also showed them how to signal from their schooner when they run out of Grey Poupon. -Johnny Carson 1992
QuickVoice Recorder:
NEWS! Now with ringtone recording functionality; make your own ringtones
for FREE! QuickVoice is the most popular, full-featured
iPhone/iPad/iPod voice recorder available. Record ideas, voice memos,
voice email, dictation, lists, meetings, classes, or entire lectures!
For professional, educational, and personal use...WITH MORE THAN
3-MILLION USERS!
NOW WITH MULTI-TASKING - Use other apps while still recording in the background!
Compare These Features:
* One Touch Recording
* One Touch Stop & Save
* Voice Email Up to 5MB
* Records for Seconds or Hours
* Pause Record and Resume
* Adjustable Recording Qualities
* Flip Mode For "Mic on Top" Recording
* Record Timer & Playback Counter
* Double Tap for Quick Playbacks
* Auto File Naming w/Optional Renaming
* Finger Scroll Through Messages
* Pause & Resume Playback
* Drag Slider for Seek/RWND/FFWD
* Audio Level Meter
* Displays File Sizes and Time Stamps
* Plays Thru Earpiece, Speaker, Ear Buds
* Use iPhone's Built-In or Add-On Mics
* Ringtone Recording Feature
* Sync Recordings to Computer
* Great "Visual Voicemail Like" Design
* And Best Feature of All? IT'S FREE!
ALSO, check out our immensely popular QuickVoice2Text Email app with SpinVox voice-to-text speech technology. Simply 'Speak & Send' perfectly formatted TEXT emails using just voice and a few touches for no more iPhone typing! As featured, “Top 10 Overall,” in the book “Incredible iPhone Apps for Dummies.” That's Top 10 OVERALL!
* QuickVoice is ALSO AVAILABLE FOR MAC AND WINDOWS COMPUTERS! And, our iPhone version syncs its recordings with our computer versions. Visit our website for more on this.
* To obtain the free sync utility that copies recordings to your computer and-or iTunes library simply send an email to sendmesync@nfinityinc.com. Shortly thereafter you will receive an email with utility download links and syncing instructions.
NOW WITH MULTI-TASKING - Use other apps while still recording in the background!
Compare These Features:
* One Touch Recording
* One Touch Stop & Save
* Voice Email Up to 5MB
* Records for Seconds or Hours
* Pause Record and Resume
* Adjustable Recording Qualities
* Flip Mode For "Mic on Top" Recording
* Record Timer & Playback Counter
* Double Tap for Quick Playbacks
* Auto File Naming w/Optional Renaming
* Finger Scroll Through Messages
* Pause & Resume Playback
* Drag Slider for Seek/RWND/FFWD
* Audio Level Meter
* Displays File Sizes and Time Stamps
* Plays Thru Earpiece, Speaker, Ear Buds
* Use iPhone's Built-In or Add-On Mics
* Ringtone Recording Feature
* Sync Recordings to Computer
* Great "Visual Voicemail Like" Design
* And Best Feature of All? IT'S FREE!
ALSO, check out our immensely popular QuickVoice2Text Email app with SpinVox voice-to-text speech technology. Simply 'Speak & Send' perfectly formatted TEXT emails using just voice and a few touches for no more iPhone typing! As featured, “Top 10 Overall,” in the book “Incredible iPhone Apps for Dummies.” That's Top 10 OVERALL!
* QuickVoice is ALSO AVAILABLE FOR MAC AND WINDOWS COMPUTERS! And, our iPhone version syncs its recordings with our computer versions. Visit our website for more on this.
* To obtain the free sync utility that copies recordings to your computer and-or iTunes library simply send an email to sendmesync@nfinityinc.com. Shortly thereafter you will receive an email with utility download links and syncing instructions.
Shed investment fees. It's one of the quickest ways to save. Consider rolling over 401(k) accounts from old jobs into a self-directed IRA. Since the average 401(k) is $75,000, saving 1% makes sense. Potential savings: $750/yr.
We each have a number of different roles in our lives - different areas or capacities in which we have responsibility. I may, for example, have a role as an individual, a wife, a mother, a teacher, a fire department member, & a businesswoman. And each of these roles is important.
Writing your mission in terms of the important roles in your life gives you balance & harmony. It keeps each role clearly before you. You can review your roles frequently to make sure that you don't get totally absorbed by one role to the exclusion of others that are equally or even more important in your life.
When you get a tummy tuck, does you belly button disappear?
When you think of Mardi Gras, you probably think of New Orleans. But the 1st carnival celebration was actually in Mobile, Alabama. It began there in 1703, over 15 years before New Orleans was founded.
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