Good afternoon & happy Saturday! I hope you're all doing well out there. Right after I started yesterdays blog we got toned out to a grass fire, so I was up & out of here. Went on the call & it turned out to be an unauthorized burn in Princeton's district. We called Princeton out, put some water on the fire to knock it down a bit, & then headed back to the station to do paperwork & refill the truck with water. Minutes after getting back home & before I could even sit down & continue blogging, my phone rings. It's the TFS looking to meet someone at the station & he's only 15 minutes out. I called the Assistant Chief & got that all squared away. Before I could sit down, the mailman came & I went through the mail, cataloged the incoming books & patterns, then sat down finally to finish what I started 4½ hours earlier. When I was done blogging I went to work cleaning the house & got all kinds of distracted with that. I cleaned the bathroom counter, sorted & cataloged 2 books in that huge inbox that's now in my office & ended up sorting & arranging half a dozen large boxes that were spread all over ... they're now stacked & lined up & ready to go to the other house ... took out 2 large boxes that were trash filled, filled 2 large trash bags with stuff, & then remembered to get back to the standard housecleaning ... I fed the pets, cleaned the dining table & stove, did the dishes & cleaned the counters, dusted the audio system, went through my bookshelves & cleared out a bunch of catalogs that I'm never going to use, ended up on DoverPublications.com & spent $50 on books (I really love Dover Publications), then remembered the housework again (got distracted twice ... that's not like me), watered all the plants inside & out, & swept the living room. In the middle of all that I had to take a break & go pick Kyle up from Princeton. When I finally got done with the housework & went to work on eBay for a while & then checked facebook. I didn't get to play any of the facebook games because Pete got home before I got to them. Now here's where it gets interesting. Pete works in Denton now. He brought home their little local paper. It's about the size of the Princeton Herald. I cooked a quick dinner, sat down & slowly looked through the paper as I ate. Not much news out there. The police & fire blotter has a summary at the top with how many calls were taken by dispatch in a 24 hour period along with how many police calls & fire calls, then it breaks it all down into individual towns. Some of those fire departments are SLOW. Quiet neighborhoods out there. When I hit the sports section, I closed the paper. No more to see here. Then I'm looking at the back page & thought "oh yeah, let me look at houses for sale. That should be right inside the back page." I opened it up & started looking at the ads. I was in the job section. Very small, but there ... right in front of me, was this: "eBay Amazon Photoshop computer expert wanted". OK, they just described ME. How funny! It said to mail a resume to an e-mail address. I have a resume, but it's from 1992. Not very useful. I looked up the e-mail address & it's a 24 year old company that sells classic Chevy truck parts. Oh wow ... that is SO me! I love cars & trucks & have done time in auto parts stores & warehouses. I e-mailed the guy explaining that I don't really have a current resume, I've been out of the workforce for about 2 decades, but I really feel I'd be perfect for the job. This was at about 11:p. I wasn't expecting an answer until Monday ... IF I got an answer at all. I got a reply almost instantly. It said "Where do you live?" Hmmm ... well, not even in the correct county. I expected it to end there when I replied back with "McKinney". Nope, I got a reply back asking "What's your eBay ID?" I said I could be found on eBay (& almost everywhere online) as LizC864. After about an hour ... he probably checked eBay, Amazon, Pinterest, facebook, Blogger, Twitter, my personal Website, & who knows what else ... I get a reply back saying "It seems on the surface that you might fit in here and be
very useful and I'm sure that you might be worth $25/hr but that is way more
than I pay myself at the moment. We are still struggling to come back from the economic
disaster in 2009. Just a Ma and Pop small time operation here not
a large corporation." We meet on Monday. This is too cool! No jobs my a$$! My daughter & her boyfriend just lost all credibility with their job search sob stories. If our son can have THREE jobs over the summer, my husband can find a job within 24 hours of looking for one, & I can get hired via e-mail at midnight when I wasn't even really LOOKING for a job to begin with & have been out of circulation for 2 decades, they have no excuse at all. I'm really looking forward to meeting on Monday. I didn't want a job & didn't need one. I'm perfectly happy with my life as it is, but this job is just so perfect for me that it wouldn't really be "working". If you love what you do, you never work a day in your life. I may have found that job. Wish me luck on Monday! Early this morning our FD got toned out for a med call.
During the 1920s, as a publicity stunt The Curtiss Candy Company dropped Butterfinger & Baby Ruth bars from airplanes into cities throughout the U.S. Can you imagine being unexpectedly hit onthe head by chocolate candy dropping from the sky?
May a weird holy man squat in your Froot Loops.
Most delicious & popular chocolate candy bars in America top 10:
- Snickers
- Milky Way
- Oh Henry!
- M&Ms, plain
- Baby Ruth
- Kit Kat
- Reese's Peanut Butter Cup
- 3 Musketeers
- Hershey's Milk Chocolate
- Butterfinger
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you're about & what you value.
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On this day in 1997, an estimated 65 million people tune in to watch all or part of Steven Spielberg’s Oscar-winning Holocaust drama Schindler’s List on the NBC television network.
Starring Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes and Ben Kingsley, Schindler’s List (1993) told
the true story of a wealthy German industrialist who helped a group of
Polish Jews escape the Nazi concentration camps during World War II.
Spielberg shot the great majority of the film in black and white, which
only increased the shocking impact of its content. At the Academy
Awards that year, the film won Oscars in seven categories, including
Best Director and Best Picture. It was also a commercial success,
grossing almost $100 million in the United States and more than $300 million worldwide.
On
February 23, 1997, NBC broadcast the film in its three-and-a-half-hour
entirety, uncut and uninterrupted by commercials, as per Spielberg’s
request. The network made some effort to warn viewers about the film’s
mature content, airing a message from Spielberg himself cautioning that
the content was not appropriate for young viewers. Still, the number of
viewers who watched Schindler’s List at home that night was more
than double the number who watched it in the theater when it was
released in 1993. The next day, while addressing the National
Association of Broadcasters, Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Chairman Reed Hunt praised NBC’s showing of the film, stating that it
“showed us again the power and glory of broadcast TV.”
Controversy arose the following day, however, when Senator Tom Coburn, Republican of Oklahoma,
issued a release blasting NBC for airing the uncut film, saying it had
taken network television “to an all-time low, with full-frontal nudity,
violence and profanity” and that it should not have aired the movie “on a
Sunday evening during a family time.” Coburn, head of the conservative
Congressional Family Caucus, brought on a firestorm of negative
publicity with his remarks, drawing criticism from fellow conservatives,
such as William Bennett and Jack Kemp, as well as from Democrats.
Coburn later issued an apology on CNN, stating that he thought the movie
should have been aired, just in a later time slot. “I think that at
that time of the evening there are still large numbers of children
watching without parental supervision,” Coburn explained.
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ZipCar:
Ladies and gentlemen, start your iPhone.
Zipcar members, you can use your iPhone or iPod touch to quickly and easily find and reserve a Zipcar around the corner or across the globe. You can also honk the horn, and even lock and unlock the doors. The streamlined interface makes for a very smooth ride.
We don’t like to toot our own horn, but here goes: The Zipcar App was one of Time Magazine’s “Best Travel Gadgets of 2009,” one of Wired’s “Five Commuter iPhone Apps You’ve Gotta Try,” was featured in an iPhone commercial, and voted one of Time Magazine’s 50 best iPhone apps for 2011. (Toot! Toot!)
As always, we’ll keep working to make the Zipcar App better and better and filled with more of the features Zipsters want to see.
10 COOL THINGS MEMBERS CAN DO WITH THE ZIPCAR APP:
1) View available Zipcars on a map or in a list using your current location, a favorite location or any location
2) Reserve a Zipcar any time, 24/7
3) Sort cars by time available, car type and model
4) View upcoming reservations
5) Easily locate your reserved Zipcar by honking its horn
6) Unlock and lock your Zipcar after scanning your Zipcard at the start of each reservation
7) Get directions to your Zipcar
8) Tap to contact Zipcar if help is needed during a reservation
9) Change, extend, or cancel reservations on the go
10) Play around with the virtual key fob and make sounds even when you're not in a reservation
NOT A MEMBER?
Download the app and kick the tires. See which Zipcars live near you (we're in 16 major cities and on university campuses across North America and the UK), make fun sounds with the virtual key fob and learn what being a Zipster is all about. Join Zipcar and the app gets even cooler, because then you can reserve, honk and unlock Zipcars with your iPhone. To hear what current members are saying, find us on Facebook. To learn more about Zipcar or to sign up, visit zipcar.com.
FOR EVERYBODY:
Get the free download now. If you're a fan, tell a friend and rate us. If you think there's a way we can make it better, visit zipcar.com/mobile/contact and tell us what you think.
MORE COOL STUFF COMING SOON:
- Improved options for navigation and damage reporting
- Search for Zipcars by feature (iPod cable, toll pass, ski rack, etc.)
- Detailed directions to your Zipcar's parking spot
Zipcar members, you can use your iPhone or iPod touch to quickly and easily find and reserve a Zipcar around the corner or across the globe. You can also honk the horn, and even lock and unlock the doors. The streamlined interface makes for a very smooth ride.
We don’t like to toot our own horn, but here goes: The Zipcar App was one of Time Magazine’s “Best Travel Gadgets of 2009,” one of Wired’s “Five Commuter iPhone Apps You’ve Gotta Try,” was featured in an iPhone commercial, and voted one of Time Magazine’s 50 best iPhone apps for 2011. (Toot! Toot!)
As always, we’ll keep working to make the Zipcar App better and better and filled with more of the features Zipsters want to see.
10 COOL THINGS MEMBERS CAN DO WITH THE ZIPCAR APP:
1) View available Zipcars on a map or in a list using your current location, a favorite location or any location
2) Reserve a Zipcar any time, 24/7
3) Sort cars by time available, car type and model
4) View upcoming reservations
5) Easily locate your reserved Zipcar by honking its horn
6) Unlock and lock your Zipcar after scanning your Zipcard at the start of each reservation
7) Get directions to your Zipcar
8) Tap to contact Zipcar if help is needed during a reservation
9) Change, extend, or cancel reservations on the go
10) Play around with the virtual key fob and make sounds even when you're not in a reservation
NOT A MEMBER?
Download the app and kick the tires. See which Zipcars live near you (we're in 16 major cities and on university campuses across North America and the UK), make fun sounds with the virtual key fob and learn what being a Zipster is all about. Join Zipcar and the app gets even cooler, because then you can reserve, honk and unlock Zipcars with your iPhone. To hear what current members are saying, find us on Facebook. To learn more about Zipcar or to sign up, visit zipcar.com.
FOR EVERYBODY:
Get the free download now. If you're a fan, tell a friend and rate us. If you think there's a way we can make it better, visit zipcar.com/mobile/contact and tell us what you think.
MORE COOL STUFF COMING SOON:
- Improved options for navigation and damage reporting
- Search for Zipcars by feature (iPod cable, toll pass, ski rack, etc.)
- Detailed directions to your Zipcar's parking spot
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