• March 26, 2013 •

Good morning & happy Tuesday! Yesterday I cleaned the shower, cataloged a book from my inbox, cleaned the bar, dusted the kitchen lights, indexed & put away 3 more books from my inbox, fed the pets, & swept my office. Somewhere in the middle of that I got the mail when UPS & the mailman came. I spent an hour trying to figure out how to activate my new business e-mail address so I could open a new business PayPal account for the new business Pete & I are setting up, but never did get it done. I hate setting up e-mail on any device & this was horrible. I created the e-mail address & then it said if I already have a Yahoo account (which I do), I can just log in with that & manage my new e-mail address from there. Great, that makes life easier. I logged into my Yahoo account & added e-mail to my "My Yahoo" page. Apparently I had signed up for each & every e-mail that gets posted to FreeCycle & a few other lists & hadn't looked at that e-mail for years. It went back for years. You can't just delete it all either, you can only delete 200 at a time which is what they show per page. I spent the next hour deleting e-mails going back to 2007, hundreds of e-mails per day. Then I cleaned up all my folders ... different life 6 years ago. Kept half of them, deleted the other half. Created a folder for the new business & tried to set up the new e-mail address in there. It never did work. I'll have to work on it again today I guess. Wish me luck. I finally got to work for the 1st time in over a week on my LizC864 eBay business & got some stuff listed. Then I finally had some time to do my personal eBay stuff that wasn't business related. When all that was done I took the dogs out again, cataloged a 5th book from my inbox & machine knitted. I haven't done that for a while & it's one of my favorite crafts. Of all the crafts I do, & there are about a dozen, I do have favorites of course. Crocheting, hand knitting, machine knitting, & quilt crocheting are at the top of the list. I showered & then Pete came home. I made beef & white cheddar w/ pasta shells for dinner (Omaha steaks are out for tonight & I'll be making home made mashed potatoes with them). I would have played Sims last night, only shot I had at it for the week, but Pete wanted to watch 3 TV shows last night & it would have been 4, but revolution never recorded. It was supposed to be on last night, right? I modified my schedule again which is starting to get annoying. I just can't seem to get it where I like it. Every single time I do this for HOURS, when I finish I honestly think it's finally perfect. Then I look at it the next day or a couple days later & something about it just seems off so I rearrange the whole thing again. Every time I say it's the last time & I honestly DO mean it at the time ... until the next day or so when I look at it. Let's HOPE this was truly the last time. How many renditions does it take to make it "truly" perfect for me? I guess we'll see. Needless to say the FOUR HOURS I spent rearranging it AGAIN just blew today & today was a busy triple-booked day already between my personal schedule, the FD, & my meetup group. I guess a lot of that isn't going to happen now. Hopefully starting tomorrow, if my schedule still looks "right" to me, I'll be back on track & everything will fall into place. GOD I'm tired of saying that, but one day I WILL get it to the place that I like it & everything from then on WILL flow smoothly from that point on. Let's hope that that time is tomorrow & on. My Sim-self made a veggie burger for dinner, paid the bills & got the mail, set up a party for this morning, showered & went to bed. Only half a day for her, but she was completely upside down. She was getting up in the afternoon & going to bed in the morning. She finally got back on track THIS morning because she only had half a day. This morning I took the dogs out, checked AT&T & my Sim-self chatted with someone on the PC & cleaned the house just as her party guests arrived. LCFD training tonight @ 7:p on pumping 6534 & traffic.

Average adult elephant eats 330 lbs. of vegetation (mostly grass) a day; it's hard to believe that these countries have any grass left!

Average weight of an adult elephant is about 8,500 lbs; they're not fat, just "big-boned!"

Because he was too embarrassed to place his ear on a woman's ample bosom to listen to her heart, a 19th century doctor named Rene Laennec invented the stethoscope.

Countries w/ the highest elephant populations top 10:

1. Bostwana
2. Tanzania
3. Zimbabwe
4. India
5. Kenya
6. South Africa
7. Zambia
8. Mozambique
9. Namibia
10. Uganda

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Ford sells Jaguar and Land Rover to India's Tata (2008):

On this day in 2008, the Ford Motor Company announces the sale of its Jaguar and Land Rover divisions to the Tata Group, one of India's oldest and largest business conglomerates, for some $2.3 billion--less than half of what Ford originally paid for the brands. The sale came at a time when Ford, along with much of the rest of the auto industry, was experiencing a sales slump as a result of the global economic crisis. For Tata, which earlier that year had unveiled the Nano, the world's cheapest car, the purchase of the venerable British-based luxury brands was referred to by some observers as a "mass to class" acquisition.

Jaguar, known for its high-performance luxury autos, grew out of the Swallow Sidecar Company, which was co-founded by William Lyons (1901–1985) of Blackpool, England, in 1922, to make motorcycle sidecars. In the early 1930s, the business was renamed SS Cars Ltd., and in 1935, its first Jaguar automobile, the SS Jaguar 100, launched. Following World War II, the company changed its name again, to Jaguar Cars Ltd., in order to avoid any association with the Schutzstaffel, the Nazi paramilitary group also referred to by the initials "SS." In 1948, the XK120, which was capable of reaching speeds of 120 mph, made its debut and helped Jaguar stake its claim as a sports car brand. By the 1950s, Jaguar was exporting its high-performance cars to America. In the early 1960s, the automaker introduced the E-type (known as the XK-E in the U.S.), a sleek two-seater with a bullet-like silhouette that was the fastest production sports car on the market at the time of its launch. The now-iconic roadster won accolades for its design and in 1996 an E-Type became part of the permanent collection of New York City's Museum of Modern Art (just the third car to do so). In 1989, Jaguar, which had already undergone several mergers, was acquired by the Ford Motor Company for $2.5 billion.

The first Land Rover debuted in 1948 and was the brainchild of Maurice Wilks, the head designer for the British car company Rover, of which his brother Spencer Wilks was the managing director. Maurice Wilks had used an old American-made Willys-Overland Jeep to do work at his farm in England; however, the Jeep was plagued by mechanical problems and Wilks decided to design a more reliable vehicle. He intended it to be used for farm work and be more versatile than a tractor. The resulting Land Rover, known as the Series 1, had a boxy, utilitarian design, four-wheel drive and a canvas roof. Such features as passenger seat cushions, doors, a heater and spare tires were initially considered extras and cost more. The rugged Land Rover was well-received by the public and ended up being used not just for farm work, but by police forces, military organizations, aid workers in remote places and travelers on expeditions where road conditions were poor or non-existent. In 2000, Ford purchased Land Rover, which by that time had also undergone several ownership transitions, for $2.7 billion.

Have your barber shave your hair into the shape of the company logo.

In the average year, 43 Americans die from bee stings, 25 from dog bites, 8 - 8 from rattlesnake bites, & maybe 1 from a shark attack. If you have difficulty breathing or develop all-body hives after a bee sting, seek immediate medical attention.

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Love is something you do: the giving of self, the sacrifices you make, even for people who offend or don't love in return. Love is a value that's actualized through loving actions.

This is a lovely time of year w/ Passover & Easter, & I was waxing my nostalgic today. Yeah, for my Easter Sunday back in Nebraska. Something I still remember - that Easter bonnet w/ all the frills upon it. Kept me out of the war. -Johnny Carson 1985