Good afternoon! I got So distracted yesterday with new projects ... it was great! I got the mail, made an over easy egg for breakfast, & then instead of crocheting I started my new sweater (2nd pic). The color in the pick is much brighter than the actual color. It's actually a darker maroon. You can't really see the glitter either. I worked on starting this sweater for SIX HOURS. No, that little bit pictured didn't take 6 hours to knit. What took most of the 6 hours was the pattern. I went to get the pattern online where it's always been for years & years, but it was gone. PANIC! I had always feared this day, so I saved the pattern onto my hard drive, my iPhone, my iPad, a CD, etc. I did find an archived version online though & decided to save it one last time ... this time as a Word Document, a PDF file, AND an Excel Spreadsheet. Then I got an idea (uh oh). The Excel spreadsheet ... the pattern is mostly a fill-in-the-blanks pattern. You take all your measurements, fill in those blanks, figure out which yarn you want to use & then fill in the blank for the swatch gauge, then do a bunch of math & fill in all the other blanks throughout the pattern to get the correct number of cast on stitches, etc. I'm sitting here looking at all this in an Excel spreadsheet now. Do you know what that means? I can take every one of those blanks & turn it into a cell formula to do all the math FOR me from now on. Well, I did it. I turned EVERY blank into an Excel formula. Now, all I have to do is fill in the gauge of the yarn I'm using & Excel instantly fills in EVERY other blank for me throughout the entire pattern. I print it & I'm ready to knit. HA!!! Considering I use ONLY this sweater pattern & considering I've been using it for YEARS, this will save me a LOT of time from now on. The gauge is printed on ever skein of yarn on it's wrapper or card, so all I do is plug that in & print. I love it! After all that was done & tested, I finally got to start knitting the new sweater. It looks great already & it's just a few inches around the neckline. This is going to be my favorite sweater, I can tell already. I still haven't decided which stitch pattern I'm going to use on the main body yet though. I can use cables, lace, some other type of pattern ... it doesn't matter what I use though, it's going to be a beautiful spring/fall sweater. All of my hand knit sweaters are spring/fall because they're all short sleeve sweaters. The sweaters I make on my knitting machine are winter sweaters because they're long sleeve. I really should be making a long sleeve sweater on my knitting machine next, but there's an afghan hanging on the machine that's going to take me forever to finish. It's a hard openwork pattern that makes it take longer to make on the machine that it would have taken to make it by hand. Ugh! I'm not even finished with the 3rd panel yet & there's going to be a LOT of panels because every afghan I make is made to fit a Queen size bed. 6 hours of that & I figured I'd better stop & actually clean the house today. I dusted the bathroom lights & bedroom clock, cleaned the dining table, cleaned out & neatened one of the cabinet doors & packed up a bunch of small plates, glasses, & cups that we no longer need since we're now 3 instead of 5 living in the house which made room for 1 more of my small appliances IN the cabinet instead of taking up counter space. I changed the afghan on the sofa, mopped the bathroom, blew the dust out of my knitting machine, fed the pets, & swept the utility room. I checked the daily deals & still nothing new there, turned my office TV on for some background noise, & looked around on eBay for a bit until Pete got home from work with groceries & a roast chicken for dinner. I had a banana as an appetizer & then it was the nighttime routine. My Sim-self made a veggie burger for lunch, spent time with the pets, went swimming in the pool, showered, spent time with Sim-Pete who didn't reject her today, but they ended up not having woohoo because the dog was sleeping on the bed & only Pete could get on the bed which canceled out that action for the day. She gave up & made mac & cheese for dinner & headed to bed. Back IRL I took the dogs out this morning & then worked on my bead banner for a while. It's coming along nicely & I'm over halfway done with it already. My Sim-Self went fishing this morning & cleaned the house. Back IRL, Easter is this Sunday.
1st & least effective developmental stage of empathic listening is to mimic content. This is the skill taught in "active" or "reflective" listening. Without the character & relationship base, it's often insulting to people & causes them to close up. It is, however, a 1st stage skill because it at least causes you to listen to what's being said.
Along w/ the official holidays, 1 of the most outrageous UNOFFICIAL holidays is the International Talk Like a Pirate Day (ITLAPD), created in 1995 - "Ahoy, matey!"
Another important UNOFFICIAL holiday to remember is International Bacon Day!
Countries w/ the most official holidays top 10:
- China
- Egypt
- India
- Indonesia
- Thailand
- Morocco
- Malaysia
- South Korea
- Chile
- Turkey
iBlast Moki 2:
★ App Store named iBlast Moki 2 the best of the iPhone Games category in App Store Rewind 2011 in the US ★
The awards winning puzzle game iBlast Moki is back with an all new adventure in a colorful world of paint and bombs
★ Featured by Apple as Game of the Week on both iPhone and iPad ★
★ One of the best iOS Game ever with a Metacritic of 90 ★
★ iPhone Best Puzzle Game 2009 - IGN 2009 Awards ★
★ Best Mobile Game 2010 - Milthon Award ★
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In this new adventure, the Mokis will use the help of new gameplay elements such as the paint bombs and more crazy contraptions to reach the magic spiral.
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Press reviews
★ TouchArcade.com: "It stands tall as one of the best –if not the best– puzzle games in the App Store"
★ Gamezebo.com - 4.5/5: "iBlast Moki 2 is like Angry Birds with bombs, which is about as awesome as it sounds."
★ TouchGen.net - 5/5: "This is a true sequel, where you take everything that was great about the first game and then improve on it in almost every way."
★ 148apps.com - 4.5/5: "Few games make me feel like the genius that I am like this one when I succeed"
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EXPERIENCE HOURS OF FUN AND DISCOVERY
- Explore 90 levels across 6 colorful worlds with more to come.
- Each location is packed with unique levels, using realistic physics and lots of different items to manipulate such as paint bombs, ropes, rising balloons, rotating wheels
- 6 beautiful and unique musics
- Beautiful Retina graphics
SHARE YOUR CREATIONS
- Build new levels with the advanced physics editor which was used to create the entire game
- Only your imagination is the limit to what you can build, collect the many tools such as joints, motors, decoration, stickers and create some beautiful level with crazy contraptions
- Share your levels online and enjoy the puzzles created by thousands of players
The awards winning puzzle game iBlast Moki is back with an all new adventure in a colorful world of paint and bombs
★ Featured by Apple as Game of the Week on both iPhone and iPad ★
★ One of the best iOS Game ever with a Metacritic of 90 ★
★ iPhone Best Puzzle Game 2009 - IGN 2009 Awards ★
★ Best Mobile Game 2010 - Milthon Award ★
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In this new adventure, the Mokis will use the help of new gameplay elements such as the paint bombs and more crazy contraptions to reach the magic spiral.
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Press reviews
★ TouchArcade.com: "It stands tall as one of the best –if not the best– puzzle games in the App Store"
★ Gamezebo.com - 4.5/5: "iBlast Moki 2 is like Angry Birds with bombs, which is about as awesome as it sounds."
★ TouchGen.net - 5/5: "This is a true sequel, where you take everything that was great about the first game and then improve on it in almost every way."
★ 148apps.com - 4.5/5: "Few games make me feel like the genius that I am like this one when I succeed"
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EXPERIENCE HOURS OF FUN AND DISCOVERY
- Explore 90 levels across 6 colorful worlds with more to come.
- Each location is packed with unique levels, using realistic physics and lots of different items to manipulate such as paint bombs, ropes, rising balloons, rotating wheels
- 6 beautiful and unique musics
- Beautiful Retina graphics
SHARE YOUR CREATIONS
- Build new levels with the advanced physics editor which was used to create the entire game
- Only your imagination is the limit to what you can build, collect the many tools such as joints, motors, decoration, stickers and create some beautiful level with crazy contraptions
- Share your levels online and enjoy the puzzles created by thousands of players
I have a couple of young nephews. Today I went in & bought 2 of those chocolate bunnies. They're kind of cute. And I left them in the car, & the sun came through the car window. I went out there this afternoon & I had a porno Hershey bar. -Johnny Carson 1982
Leave a newspaper in the restroom stall w/ the most provocative personal ads circled.
Shop department stores for clothing on Thursday evenings. Markdown are typically made on Thursday, & clerks stock shelves on this day for weekend specials. You'll have the best selection along with low prices on Thursday evenings.
To avoid food poisoning, cook meats thoroughly & refrigerate leftovers promptly. When temperatures soar over 90°, food should not be left out more than 1 hour.
To celebrate the feast day of St. Vincent de Paul, the people of Manganeses de la Polvorosa, Spain, toss a goat off the 50' tall church belfry to be caught by villagers below.
On March 29, 2009, Rick Wagoner, the chairman and
chief executive of troubled auto giant General Motors (GM), resigns at
the request of the Obama administration. During Wagoner's more than 8
years in the top job at GM, the company lost billions of dollars and in
2008 was surpassed by Japan-based Toyota as the world's top-selling
maker of cars and trucks, a title the American automaker had held since
the early 1930s.
G.
Richard Wagoner Jr., who was born on February 9, 1953, spent his entire
career at GM. He went to work for the company after graduating from
Harvard Business School in 1977, eventually becoming president of GM in
1998 then chief executive in 2000. As chief executive, Wagoner undertook
some restructuring measures, including shrinking the size of the work
force, shuttering plants, ditching the money-losing Oldsmobile brand and
working to slash enormous health-care costs for GM retirees. However,
critics charged that GM was slow to innovate and in recent years the
company continued to focus on its small trucks and sport utility
vehicles even as gas prices soared and consumer interest shifted to
smaller, fuel-efficient cars and hybrids. In November 2008, Wagoner was
sharply criticized by the public for flying to Washington, D.C.,
on a private corporate jet to ask Congress for a bailout loan. (The
CEOs of Chrysler and Ford were also knocked for taking private planes to
the congressional hearings.) Nevertheless, the following month, GM,
which had been hard hit by the global economic crisis and slumping auto
sales, received $13.4 billion in federal aid.
On March 30, 2009, the day after the White House announced Wagoner had been asked to step aside, President Barack Obama
stated that GM would have to undergo a fundamental restructuring in the
next 60 days in order for the government to consider loaning it any
more money. On June 1, 2009, GM filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
protection.
Bankruptcy was a move once considered unthinkable
for the company that was founded in 1908 and became a giant of the U.S.
economy in the 20th century. GM pursued a strategy of selling a vehicle
"for every purse and purpose," in the words of Alfred Sloan, who became
president of the company in 1923 and resigned as chairman in 1956. By
its peak in 1962, GM produced 51 percent of all the cars in the U.S.
However, according to The New York Times, during the 1960s
the automaker "began a long and slow process of undermining itself" as
it failed to innovate fast enough in the face of competition from
foreign car manufacturers.
Yelp:
Looking for a burrito joint open now? An Irish pub nearby? A gas
station you can drive to before your tank hits empty? Yelp for your
iPhone or iPad is here to help. Use us to search for places to eat,
shop, drink, relax and play then read reviews from an active community
of locals in the know.
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★ Search for businesses near you
★ Tap quick links to find nearby bars, restaurants, cafes and more
★ Narrow your searches by 'hood, distance, price, and what's open now
★ Browse reviews to read what's great (and not so great) in your city
★ Find great Deals offered by your favorite local businesses on iPhone
★ Add tips, photos, and draft reviews for your favorite businesses
★ Check-in and share on Facebook and Twitter
★ Make reservations on OpenTable without leaving the Yelp app
★ Look up addresses and phone numbers for thousands of businesses, then call or map them from your iPhone or iPad
★ Yelp does augmented reality with Monocle. Overlay business information onto the world around you.
FEATURES:
★ Search for businesses near you
★ Tap quick links to find nearby bars, restaurants, cafes and more
★ Narrow your searches by 'hood, distance, price, and what's open now
★ Browse reviews to read what's great (and not so great) in your city
★ Find great Deals offered by your favorite local businesses on iPhone
★ Add tips, photos, and draft reviews for your favorite businesses
★ Check-in and share on Facebook and Twitter
★ Make reservations on OpenTable without leaving the Yelp app
★ Look up addresses and phone numbers for thousands of businesses, then call or map them from your iPhone or iPad
★ Yelp does augmented reality with Monocle. Overlay business information onto the world around you.
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