June 13, 2013

Good morning! Another busy day yesterday & didn't even make it to lunch. I found a new afghan crochet pattern to add to my queue (1st pic). It's called Granny Stripes & was originally a baby blanket & is on Caron's Website. The version shown is a modified version that someone made & there are no directions, so I took the original directions, stared at the photo of the modified version, & rewrote the directions to match the one pictured here. As usual there will be 2 versions, the Red Heart version for more color choices & the Caron Simply Soft version for the super

shiny & soft feature. I would have started already but I don't have all the yarn required (yet). This pattern requires 5 colors & I only have 3 of the Red Heart colors & 2 of the Caron colors. YARN RUN! I spent 3 hours cleaning the house yesterday. Kyle promised that he was going to do my chores yesterday in exchange for being driven all over, but he bailed on me & didn't do them. I swapped out the window

A/C unit in my office because it was getting old. It's huge ... twice the size of the others, but because of it's age only blows cool air instead of cold air. My office is now where the dining room used to be, so the area is extremely large. That A/C unit needs to cool my office, the living room, kitchen, entryway, & hallway. Needless to say it barely cooled my desk area which is right next to it. I put the older unit in my

crafting room because it's a much smaller area & it will be easier for it to keep up. The brand new A/C unit is tiny, but blows COLD air. I'm freezing right now because it's blowing right on me, but later in the day I'll be glad it's brand new & working well. Average mid-day temp in the house? 90° w/ all 3 window A/C units running full blast. My goal was to add 1 new A/C unit per year until the house was a little cooler, but this year's brand new unit had to replace the one that got destroyed accidentally when we tried to drain it. That thing was useless most of the time because every time it rained, it would fill with water & you couldn't turn it on for a couple weeks without it spraying water all over the room because the main fan was sitting in rain water. While making a hole in the bottom of the unit to drain it, a line was punctured. Instant trash. I wish I could afford TWO new units this year since I'd need to buy a SECOND one to actually ADD one to the mix, but I just can't afford it. Maybe next year. I surfed eBay & then took some of my game turns on facebook before Pete got home. Yesterday's Sims game was Lombardi & my Sim Yvette is in the university & going to classes. I was woken up this morning by Lawson picking up our key for the other house. He's going to be doing some work on it for us now that we're renting it out. I took the dogs out & updated the apps on my iPad Mini & iPhone 5. Tomorrow marks the 8th anniversary of the day I got my truck. Happy 8th birthday to my Chevy! It's still running great & I still love that truck. The only issue it's developed is some problem where every time I peel out or take off from a stop really fast, it suddenly begins pulling HARD to the right. I mean I have the steering wheel vertical to the left to keep going in a straight line. Sometimes, if I slam on the brakes really hard it resets it back to normal. Other times I just have to take it slow & wait for it to start working properly again. I have no idea what's wrong with it, it feels like the brakes are stuck though. Not because of a lag, but because of the pulling hard to the right. I'd take it to a shop, but how many times would they have to peel out before it did it for them? I can recreate the problem just fine, but as you know ... when you take it to a repair shop it suddenly makes a liar out of you & works perfectly. Not to mention I can't afford a large repair. They'll take payments on a brand new vehicle, but they won't take payments on a repair. Oh well. I worry about Kyle learning to drive in a truck that has a mechanical issue, but as long as he doesn't peel out we'll be fine. He knows about the problem & knows how to compensate for it. If it happens we'll pull over immediately & switch seats.

According to legend, the burrito (Spanish for little donkey) was invented by taco seller Juan Mendez who used a donkey to carry his food. To keep the food warm, Juan wrapped food in large flour tortillas. People loved it, & began asking for the "food of the guy w/ the little donkey" & that's how the burrito got its name.

Ask 3 questions in the same day to your HR person about medicinal marijuana.

iDisplay:

Turn your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch into additional display for your Mac or Windows computer. Increase your personal productivity by extending your computer screen! Perfect tool for multitaskers, iDisplay lets you use your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch as interactive wireless display to give you more screen real estate or mirror your main display.
"iDisplay app turns your iPad or iPhone into secondary screen – too good to be true. That's... brilliant. I mean, I can think of about a billion uses for this." -MobileCrunch
"Yet another reason to buy an iPad: iDisplay" -MobileWhack
Why choose iDisplay over hardware display?
- Your iPad, iPhone and iPod touch can be your secondary display
- Works with both Mac and Windows computers
- iDisplay lets you interact with your additional display: move objects, draw, control playback
- Zoom and Pan your desktop right on iOS device
- Easily switch between portrait and landscape screen orientations: simply rotate your device and it will adjust automatically
- Normal and double resolution modes for Retina displays
- Connect up to 36 iOS devices to one Mac, select their layout once and use it anytime later
- Customize display settings for each device you use as your secondary display, iDisplay will remember your preferences
- Create a list of favorite apps which you regularly use on iDisplay and move them to iDisplay with one click!
On Mac OS X you can choose one of 3 following iDisplay modes:
- Use iDisplay as regular secondary display: gives you more screen space for everything you have to keep your eye on.
- Mirror image from main display on your iPad / iPhone / iPod touch: comes in handy when you need to share your desktop with your audience. Keep in mind that iDisplay allows to connect up to 36 iOS devices to one Mac!
- Single-window mode: use iDisplay for one application of your choice. Quickly move selected apps from list of your favorite apps to iDisplay with one click!
On Windows, iDisplay can be used as regular secondary display, mirroring and single-window modes are not yet supported.
COMPATIBILITY:
Mac OS X
iDisplay Desktop application needs to be installed on your Mac.
iDisplay Desktop is free and can be downloaded anytime at getidisplay.com
iDisplay is compatible with Intel-based Macs running on Mac OS X 10.5 and later.
WINDOWS
iDisplay Desktop application needs to be installed on your PC.
iDisplay Desktop is free and can be downloaded anytime at getidisplay.com
iDisplay is compatible with Windows XP (32-bit only), Windows Vista (32- and 64-bit), Windows 7 (32- and 64-bit) and Windows 8.
Windows 7 Starter Edition is not supported.
For Windows Vista and Windows 7 "Aero" theme may be disabled when connected to iDisplay and will be re-enabled upon disconnection).
NETWORK CONNECTIVITY
Your computer and iOS device must be connected to the same Wi-Fi network.
NOTE: Video playback on iDisplay may be laggy. We're working on its optimization, please make sure to keep your iDisplay up to date!

LastPass Premium:

*** For LastPass Premium customers ONLY ***
LastPass Premium is a service with other benefits beyond this application.
LastPass is the last password you'll ever have to remember. Once setup you'll have your login and password data on your PC and your iPhone/iPad seamlessly synced via a Host Proof Hosting method which does not allow LastPass (or anyone else) access to your sensitive data.
LastPass allows you to quickly login to your accounts via a built in browser (Safari integration is _NOT_ possible yet), edit your accounts, see and fill your form fill data, generate new passwords all seamlessly synced to your LastPass account.
After an initial login your data is available to you even when you're offline.

Look your best at the beach this year ... use the "good scissors" to make a midriff t-shirt or turn those sans-a-belt-slacks into a hip pair of cut-offs. Also get your tattoo now so it's healed up for the wet t-shirt contest at the family reunion this summer.

Most misused words or phrases in the English language top 10:

1. Flush out / flesh out
2. Compliment / complement
3. Proceed / Precede
4. Accept / except
5. Than / then
6. Tortuous / torturous
7. Imminent / eminent
8. Discrete / discreet
9. Persecute / prosecute
10. Lose / loose

People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day will, little by little, expand that freedom. People who don't will find that it withers until they are literally "being lived." They're acting out the scripts written by parents, associates, & society.

Switch to brown mascara for a softer look for day.

Trip to Mars is fascinating because computers figure the orbit of both of the planets, both the Earth & Mars. It'll take 230 days to get there & 240 days to return. But they say the astronauts will not notice a difference because the ride home always seems faster. -Johnny Carson 1991