Good morning & HAPPY MARCH! Normally I'd be in a MUCH better mood considering yesterday was a perfect day & today is the beginning of a new month, but I was allowed to oversleep by TWO HOURS. That's 2 hours that I can never make up. I might pull an all-nighter tonight to try & get the stuff done that I THOUGHT I was going to get from today's early start. Why do people let me oversleep?? Ruined my whole day & much of my plans. :(( Now in order to attempt to make up some of the time, I can't go on calls today & I definitely can't do any housework. Since Kyle REFUSES to help with any housework that he didn't already have, that means the house stays the way it is until tomorrow ... or Sunday ... or next Thursday depending on what the weekend turns out like ... which if it's like most weekends are lately, I won't be here at ALL, so that means housework has been postponed until next Thursday. :( As I said, Kyle refuses to help & Josh is
completely USELESS. A lazy shit who doesn't pay rent OR do chores &
still owes me gas money from last week because he ran out & had a
spending spree & spent the money he owed me, making me have to wait.
I can't wait until he moves out & I desperately want to just put
all his shit at the curb. Talk about NO sense of pride. If someone is giving you a place to live, wouldn't you at pay rent? If you're not
paying rent, wouldn't you at LEAST help out around the house as much as
you possibly could in exchange for free housing, free Internet, free
heat, free electricity, free phone service, etc.? I will NEVER understand how he can just sit on his ass like that & not give a crap. He's a leach ... a user. I do NOT want that person marrying my daughter! I don't even want them dating. My daughter deserves better than a welfare recipient! Yes, he's on welfare ... not by the government, but MY welfare & I'm about to pull the damn plug! 2 years & 3 months of leaching off of us now. When will it end?! OK, I need to get into a better mood ... so let's take a look back at yesterday & let me see if I can cheer myself up. Yesterday as I said was a perfect day. I started off with housework. Kyle has 7 chores, I did 2 of his, leaving him 5 & he started shit with me because he didn't want to do the ones I added to his list to help me out. I indexed 3 books into my office bookshelf & online file, dusted my alarm clock, fed the pets, dusted the misc. dining room decor, cleaned the kitchen counters, unloaded & loaded the dishwasher, cleaned the sink, dusted my office wall decor, watered the outdoor plants, did small pickups around the house, swept the back porch, & took out the trash. After the housework was finally done, I paid bills, went to work on eBay, went through the mail, checked facebook & took my game turns. Then it was time to check out my new iPad Mini finally. I mean I've used it, but I didn't really check everything out. I had a lot of apps on my iPhone. When I set up the iPad Mini, it automatically put my apps on it. Trouble is, I have hundreds of apps in iTunes from over the years. It just randomly burped a bunch of apps onto the iPad Mini & I was left having to spend a very long time sitting in front of iTunes & going through the entire list of apps I've downloaded over the years & checking yes or now next to each one. Once I fixed which apps were on the iPad Mini, I had to sort them all so I could actually FIND things. Yesterday I learned that I had TWICE as many apps on my iPhone. I guess I did a lot of housecleaning when I decided what goes on the iPad Mini. Turns out that a lot of the apps are for the iPhone only (makes sense since I was installing them on an iPhone at the time). They either wouldn't work at all, or were stuck in iPhone sized screens, unable to rotate. Now you can press the 2X button to blow them up to iPad Mini screen size, but they look crappy when you do that. I ended up deleting a bunch of them. Some I couldn't replace at all, like the DayTimer app which will work on iPhone or iPod, but NOT the iPads. Others, like the Target app which worked on the iPad but looked like crap, I had to delete & then go download the Target app made specifically for iPads. Looks MUCH better & works great. I didn't try to open every app on there, so over time I'll weed out what I need to delete or replace. Oh, did you know that the iPad does NOT come with a calculator? Nope, it doesn't. I had to download one & the stupid thing has an ad banner across the top. Great. Every time I need to do a calculation now I'll need to look at an ad banner while I do it. Ugh. I finally sat down to do some plastic canvas. I love it! I did it before many many many years ago & the project I tried to do was SO difficult. I gave it up after that, not realizing that had I chosen an easier, beginner project, I would have loved it & would have been doing it all these years. My beginner project this time is a book cover. This is fun! After this initial project to get in the swing of how to do it, I'm going to start making useful items like eyeglass cases, tote bags, koozies, & desk accessories. After I relaxed a little with the plastic canvas, I took a shower & then loaded up Sims. I created the family room in Breckenridge & then loaded up Chateauroux. My 2nd gen Sim Rusty Keaton aged up into a teen & gained the couch potato trait. Hmmm ... another Josh. I'm surrounded. At least I have more control over my Sim than I do Josh & Rusty is now level 7 of the Logic skill & is lining up to be an Investigator after he graduates. About 45 minutes after Pete got home I closed the game & made a quick dinner since I was missing all the ingredients I needed to cook a real dinner. We did our nighttime routine & this morning I woke up at 9. He was out the door around 7-7:30. 2 hours LOST. What can I cut from today to make those hours up? Housecleaning for one ... the other? Lunch I guess. Food is overrated, I need those 2 hours BACK! Before the loss of 2 hours this morning, I was already 12 hours behind which have accumulated over time. I'm still trying to make THOSE up here & there & not doing too well at it. To lose 2 hours today was crushing. Logan's birthday on Monday!
1st Academy Awards ceremony, held in 1929, lasted only 15 minutes & was attended by only 270 people.
Camping Trip Planner:
Camping Trip Planner is an app to help you plan and budget for your next
visit to the great outdoors. Its pre-programmed and customizable list
contains over 220 tasks that go into the typical camping trip. Check
them off as you accomplish them, and keep track of what still needs to
be done. Program costs in at each step, and compare it to the overall
budget at a glance, so you know how much you've spent, and how much you
have left.
The checklist incorporates multiple features that makes using it a breeze, including several ways to manipulate entries as you go: hiding, unhiding, editing, rearranging, and deleting, among others. Save an unlimited number of lists, and export them to your phone’s storage for backup. Easily share them through e-mail or any other sharing client you have on your device. This app comes with free lifetime updates, has no ads, and doesn't require an Internet connection, so you know your privacy is secure.
Going out camping is fun, but forgetting even one thing can turn into a huge hassle when you're in the middle of nowhere. Why add to the risk by being disorganized? Camping Trip Planner helps you make sure that can enjoy nature with a minimum of stress.
Product Features
•Organizes everything you need to do before your camping trip in one app
•Plan using a huge customizable list of pre-programmed tasks
•Check off, edit, and otherwise manipulate task items as you need to
•Save, share, and export as many lists as you want
•Keeps track of your budget and expenses as you go
The checklist incorporates multiple features that makes using it a breeze, including several ways to manipulate entries as you go: hiding, unhiding, editing, rearranging, and deleting, among others. Save an unlimited number of lists, and export them to your phone’s storage for backup. Easily share them through e-mail or any other sharing client you have on your device. This app comes with free lifetime updates, has no ads, and doesn't require an Internet connection, so you know your privacy is secure.
Going out camping is fun, but forgetting even one thing can turn into a huge hassle when you're in the middle of nowhere. Why add to the risk by being disorganized? Camping Trip Planner helps you make sure that can enjoy nature with a minimum of stress.
Product Features
•Organizes everything you need to do before your camping trip in one app
•Plan using a huge customizable list of pre-programmed tasks
•Check off, edit, and otherwise manipulate task items as you need to
•Save, share, and export as many lists as you want
•Keeps track of your budget and expenses as you go
Habit 7 preserves & enhances the greatest asset you have - you.
Honda unveils new Civic (2005):
On this day in 2005, at an auto expo in Geneva,
Switzerland, Honda debuts the Civic Concept, a five-door hatchback. The
Japan-based automaker launched the first Civic in the early 1970s and the compact, affordably priced car went on to become a best-seller in the U.S. auto market.
Soichiro Honda founded the Honda Motor Company in 1948 in Hamamatsu, Japan, located near the village where he was born in 1906. The son of a blacksmith who also repaired bicycles, Honda grew up in humble circumstances and as a teen went to Tokyo to apprentice as an auto mechanic. He later ran his own auto shop and drove race cars before an injury sidelined him. During World War II, Honda built engines for the Japanese military. After the war, he and a partner formed the Honda Motor Company, which grew into a successful motorcycle manufacturer. In 1957, Honda launched its first car in Japan, the N360. (According to The New York Times, this decision "infuriated the bureaucrats of Japan's powerful Ministry of International Trade and Industry, who ordered [Honda] to keep making motorcycles because they had drawn up plans for Japan to have only a handful of automakers.") Two years later, the company began to sell its motorcycles from a storefront in Los Angeles--its first American retail outlet.
The Honda Civic went on sale in Japan in the summer of 1973. The following year, the company launched a Civic with a fuel-efficient CVCC (Controlled Cortex Combustion Chamber) engine. Starting with the 1975 model year, Civic/CVCC cars were available in the U.S. According to the Times: "The engine used a startling new design, one that burned a leaner mix of gasoline and passed emissions tests--the main barrier to the American market--without using a catalytic converter." The Civic, along with the Honda Accord (launched in 1976), arrived at a time when Americans, who had experienced soaring gas prices as a result of the 1973 Arab oil embargo, were looking for an alternative to the large, gas-guzzlers rolling off the assembly lines in Detroit. The small, fuel-efficient Hondas soon had a foothold in the U.S. auto market.
In 1989, Honda started making Civics at a plant in East Liberty, Ohio. Seven years earlier, in 1982, Honda had become the first Japanese automaker to build cars in America (using domestic and globally sourced parts) when it began producing Accords in Marysville, Ohio. By 1995, a total of 10 million Civics had been produced worldwide. Another milestone in the car's history came in 2001, when Honda introduced a gas-electric hybrid version of the Civic.
Soichiro Honda died of liver failure at the age of 84 on August 5, 1991. At the time of the outspoken auto maverick's death, the company he founded was Japan's third-biggest carmaker, after Toyota and Nissan.
It rained so hard last night that the Mazola Indian girl did a drought dance. It was so wet I saw a sparrow using a sump pump in his birdbath today. J.C. Clown down at jack in the Box had to talk through a snorkel. 1 more. I want to tell you, it was so wet, Bo Derek was standing in water up to her 9. -Johnny Carson 1980
Lincoln Logs were inspired by classical Japanese architecture. John Lloyd Wright, son of the famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright, developed the idea for the child's toy in 1916. Playskool bought the concept for Lincoln Logs in the 1940s.
Most well-known American DVDs (to date) of all time top 10:
Tiny Tower: (This looks like a cute game)
Tiny Tower lets you build a tiny tower and manage the businesses and bitizens that inhabit it!
★Make money to build new types of floors and attract bitizens to live and work inside.
★Special events and VIP visitors will earn you special perks as you build your tower towards the clouds.
★Customize the look and placement of each floor and the bitizens that live in them, and upgrade your elevator.
★Game Center integration to let you see your friends towers, back up your game and earn awards.
★See what is on your bitizens' minds by peeking at the "BitBook" virtual social network for your tower!
On the boss's birthday, hire a singing-telegram delivery person - or, if they won't cooperate, have your friend act as a singing-telegram delivery person - to serenade your boss with "Whistly While You Work."
True or false: If you're middle-aged & have spent the past 20 years smoking, avoiding exercise, or otherwise being unhealthy, it's too late to change now.
Answer: False. Recent research shows that people who quit smoking by age 40 gained nearly 10 years of life over those who continued to puff. And a 2012 study by researchers at the Cooper institute in Dallas concluded that people who started to exercise in middle age - even if they only walked a few times a week - were healthier further into old age than people who never started exercising.
Soichiro Honda founded the Honda Motor Company in 1948 in Hamamatsu, Japan, located near the village where he was born in 1906. The son of a blacksmith who also repaired bicycles, Honda grew up in humble circumstances and as a teen went to Tokyo to apprentice as an auto mechanic. He later ran his own auto shop and drove race cars before an injury sidelined him. During World War II, Honda built engines for the Japanese military. After the war, he and a partner formed the Honda Motor Company, which grew into a successful motorcycle manufacturer. In 1957, Honda launched its first car in Japan, the N360. (According to The New York Times, this decision "infuriated the bureaucrats of Japan's powerful Ministry of International Trade and Industry, who ordered [Honda] to keep making motorcycles because they had drawn up plans for Japan to have only a handful of automakers.") Two years later, the company began to sell its motorcycles from a storefront in Los Angeles--its first American retail outlet.
The Honda Civic went on sale in Japan in the summer of 1973. The following year, the company launched a Civic with a fuel-efficient CVCC (Controlled Cortex Combustion Chamber) engine. Starting with the 1975 model year, Civic/CVCC cars were available in the U.S. According to the Times: "The engine used a startling new design, one that burned a leaner mix of gasoline and passed emissions tests--the main barrier to the American market--without using a catalytic converter." The Civic, along with the Honda Accord (launched in 1976), arrived at a time when Americans, who had experienced soaring gas prices as a result of the 1973 Arab oil embargo, were looking for an alternative to the large, gas-guzzlers rolling off the assembly lines in Detroit. The small, fuel-efficient Hondas soon had a foothold in the U.S. auto market.
In 1989, Honda started making Civics at a plant in East Liberty, Ohio. Seven years earlier, in 1982, Honda had become the first Japanese automaker to build cars in America (using domestic and globally sourced parts) when it began producing Accords in Marysville, Ohio. By 1995, a total of 10 million Civics had been produced worldwide. Another milestone in the car's history came in 2001, when Honda introduced a gas-electric hybrid version of the Civic.
Soichiro Honda died of liver failure at the age of 84 on August 5, 1991. At the time of the outspoken auto maverick's death, the company he founded was Japan's third-biggest carmaker, after Toyota and Nissan.
It rained so hard last night that the Mazola Indian girl did a drought dance. It was so wet I saw a sparrow using a sump pump in his birdbath today. J.C. Clown down at jack in the Box had to talk through a snorkel. 1 more. I want to tell you, it was so wet, Bo Derek was standing in water up to her 9. -Johnny Carson 1980
Lincoln Logs were inspired by classical Japanese architecture. John Lloyd Wright, son of the famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright, developed the idea for the child's toy in 1916. Playskool bought the concept for Lincoln Logs in the 1940s.
Most well-known American DVDs (to date) of all time top 10:
- Finding Nemo
- Shrek 2
- The Incredibles
- Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith
- Lord of the Rings
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
- Pirates of the Carribean: At World's End
- Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
- Transformers
- Cars
Tiny Tower lets you build a tiny tower and manage the businesses and bitizens that inhabit it!
★Make money to build new types of floors and attract bitizens to live and work inside.
★Special events and VIP visitors will earn you special perks as you build your tower towards the clouds.
★Customize the look and placement of each floor and the bitizens that live in them, and upgrade your elevator.
★Game Center integration to let you see your friends towers, back up your game and earn awards.
★See what is on your bitizens' minds by peeking at the "BitBook" virtual social network for your tower!
On the boss's birthday, hire a singing-telegram delivery person - or, if they won't cooperate, have your friend act as a singing-telegram delivery person - to serenade your boss with "Whistly While You Work."
True or false: If you're middle-aged & have spent the past 20 years smoking, avoiding exercise, or otherwise being unhealthy, it's too late to change now.
Answer: False. Recent research shows that people who quit smoking by age 40 gained nearly 10 years of life over those who continued to puff. And a 2012 study by researchers at the Cooper institute in Dallas concluded that people who started to exercise in middle age - even if they only walked a few times a week - were healthier further into old age than people who never started exercising.
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