The only word appropriate for yesterday is "steamrollered". I don't know what happened, but I posted my blog & that was IT on the schedule. 16 hours & I only did ONE thing on the schedule? How is that possible? The mail came while I was blogging, so I stopped & sorted through the mail. I received a cross stitch leaflet that I bought, no problem ... I can catalog that & put it away quickly. My beads also came "YAY!" More beads!! The 3rd & final item would prove to be a time consumer though. A book my best friend got me of 849 quilt blocks. I love the book! Now to catalog 849 quilt blocks by name & book. Oh jeeze. I knew it would take a while, there was no doubt about that ... but I finished at 5:a. No, I don't type THAT slow, but the world just kept coming at me non-stop until then. I chatted with Ann-Marie about life stuff, then did some LCFD stuff, then created a large spreadsheet with all our expenses, broken down into columns for each person in the house & split into household bills (such as electric) vs. personal bills (such as our cell phones). After the spreadsheet was mostly complete as Kyle got home from school, so he & I had a long talk, then he started chores & brought my Avon catalog in from the driveway, I took Josh to work (it was his day off but someone called in sick & they had him cover, cool!), Kyle made us macaroni & cheese for (my breakfast), Pete got home earlier than normal & we went out to run some errands, grabbed (my lunch), went grocery shopping, & picked Josh up from work, came home & did the nighttime routine. After going to bed, I wasn't able to sleep, probably because of the unfinished book I still had to catalog (849 entries), so I got up & finished logging that. At 5:a I went BACK to bed, but still couldn't fall asleep by the time Pete drove Josh to work at 5:30. I was even semi-awake still when Pete got back because I heard Pete batting around & also heard Kyle getting ready for school. I probably finally fell asleep for good around 6:30a. Then a phone call woke me up around 10:15a. I stayed up after that. I was too emotional from the call to get back to sleep & even if I wasn't, going back to sleep would have been a bad idea ... don't want to have the same problem again tonight. After the phone call I logged a fuel expense in AnyTime & then read some news on Yahoo about horse DNA being found in burgers in a 2nd major Irish plant. Glad I wasn't hungry, that would have killed my appetite. I know people in different countries eat different things than we do, but I don't really like to think about it too much. I had a foreign cookbook once that had an entire section on freezing, storing, & preparing DOG. I've gotten rid of that cookbook. City council meeting tonight.
Bloom:
Developed by ambient pioneer Brian Eno and musician / software designer
Peter Chilvers, Bloom explores uncharted territory in the realm of
applications for the iPhone and iPod touch. Part instrument, part
composition and part artwork, Bloom's innovative controls allow anyone
to create elaborate patterns and unique melodies by simply tapping the
screen. A generative music player takes over when Bloom is left idle,
creating an infinite selection of compositions and their accompanying
visualisations.
"Bloom is an endless music machine, a music box for the 21st century. You can play it, and you can watch it play itself." - Brian Eno
Features
- 12 different mood settings
- Random mood shuffle
- Adjustable delay
- Shake to clear
- Evolve when idle
- Sleep Timer
Recommended for headphones or external speakers.
"Bloom is an endless music machine, a music box for the 21st century. You can play it, and you can watch it play itself." - Brian Eno
Features
- 12 different mood settings
- Random mood shuffle
- Adjustable delay
- Shake to clear
- Evolve when idle
- Sleep Timer
Recommended for headphones or external speakers.
Disney releases its 1st full-length animated film: Snow White & the 7 Dwarfs, on this date 75 years ago.
On this day in 2012, 36-year-old Josh Powell, who had been
in the public eye since police labeled him a person of interest in the
2009 disappearance of his 28-year-old wife, Susan, locks out a social
worker then kills himself and his two sons, ages 5 and 7, by setting
fire to his Graham, Washington, home.
Susan Cox Powell was last seen alive by someone other than
her immediate family late on the afternoon of December 6, 2009, when a
friend who had just eaten a meal of pancakes and eggs with the Powells
left their West Valley City, Utah,
home. The friend later told authorities Susan Powell felt tired after
the meal, which was made by Josh, and lay down for a nap. After the
Powells failed to drop off their sons Braden and Charlie at daycare the
following morning, and did not show up at their jobs or answer their
phones, relatives contacted police. Later that same day, Josh Powell and
his sons, then ages 2 and 4, returned home. When questioned by police,
Powell claimed he had left with the boys around 12:30 a.m. on December 7
for an overnight camping trip. Asked by authorities why he would
take his young children camping on a freezing night, Powell said he
wanted to test his new generator.
Law enforcement officials soon began treating the
disappearance of Susan Powell, who friends and family said would never
voluntarily walk out on her sons, as a criminal investigation. There
were no signs of robbery, forced entry or struggle at the Powell home,
but investigators found traces of Susan’s blood on a sofa. They also
learned the Powells had been having marital and financial problems. In
mid-December, Josh Powell, who had been less-than-cooperative with the
investigation, according to police, was named a person of interest in
his wife’s disappearance.
In early January 2010, Powell packed up his Utah home, and
he and his sons moved in with his father, Steven, in Payallup,
Washington, where Josh and Susan had grown up. That same year, Josh
Powell publicly speculated that his wife had run away with a Utah man
who went missing around the same time she did, but police found no
evidence to substantiate this theory. In September 2011, Steven
Powell was arrested in Washington and charged with multiple counts of
voyeurism and possession of child pornography. Soon after, a judge
granted Susan Powell’s parents custody of Braden and Charlie.
On February 1, 2012, a Washington judge ordered Josh
Powell to undergo a psychosexual evaluation, including a polygraph test,
before he could regain custody of his boys. Around noon on February 5, a
social worker brought Braden and Charlie to their father’s rental home
in Graham, where he had been living following Steven Powell’s arrest,
for a supervised visit. Powell let his sons into the house but blocked
the social worker from entering. She called 911 and reported smelling
gasoline and hearing the boys crying. Moments later, Powell ignited a
massive blaze that killed him and his children. Later, it was discovered
he had attacked the boys with a hatchet before starting the fire.
Authorities determined Powell had planned the murders in
advance, giving away boxes of his children’s toys to Goodwill on the
weekend of the tragedy and, minutes before setting his house ablaze,
emailing his pastor and several family members with instructions about
how to take care of some of his final business. None of the emails
mentioned Susan Powell.
A lawyer for Susan's parents said that before their deaths
the Powell boys had begun telling their grandparents more of what they
remembered about the night their mother disappeared. According to the
Associated Press, the lawyer said: "The oldest boy talked about that
they went camping and that Mommy was in the trunk. Mom and Dad got out
of the car, and Mom disappeared.” Susan Powell has never been found and
no arrests have ever been made in connection with her case.
In the middle of a 1-on-1 meeting, rearrange the objects on your boss's desk.
Legendary gunfighter & lawman Wild Bill Hickock had a brother nicknamed Tame Bill.
Make your own soda. Is the family's 6-pack habit adding up? Consider a SodaStream seltzer machine (from $80). Your DIY fizzy beverages will cost about .25c/12 oz. (I just did all the research on this. The startup cost is well over $300. I don't think 2 cans of Dr Pepper a day can justify the cost of this thing for me. If you have 4 soda drinkers in your family & you all drink soda every day, it's probably worth it.)
Only the female mosquito feeds on blood. As Rudyard Kipling once wrote, "The female of her species is more deadly than the male!"
Our level of development is fairly obvious with tennis or piano playing, where it's impossible to pretend. But it's not so obvious in the areas of character & emotional development.
Things that will attract a mosquito top 10:
- Sound - any sound
- Body heat of potential victims
- Dark colors
- Body moisture of potential victims
- Movement
- Carbon dioxide of potential victims
- Lactic acid in certain foods
- Roadside water -filled ditches or stagnant pools & ponds
- Dark - sunset to sunrise is a mosquito's favorite "bite time"
- People with high levels of steroids or cholesterol on their skin surface
You know, that's very nice, considering I didn't applaud when you walked in tonight. As I've said before, being an entertainer is the greatest job in the world. Wouldn't you like to go to work tomorrow, just to your office, & you walk in, & people say, "Hey, Bill showed up!" -Johnny Carson 1984
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