• July 13, 2013 •

Happy Saturday! With this new day there's lots of excitement about my brand new schedule. I started it yesterday, but it was only about a ¼ day due to the late hour I started. All that programming took a long time & I still can't believe that I did it 100% perfectly on the 1st shot. Not a single error in the code. Wow! I should write code for a living ... oh wait, I do. HA! After my multi-hour code spree resulting in my brand new & now exciting schedule, I made a boiled egg for breakfast, catalog shopped & bought myself a S A Richards Prop-It

Portable Magnetic Needlework Chart Holder (2nd pic) which will hold all of my instruction sheets while I craft. Right now I just sit them on the sofa next to me & the Chihuahuas keep trampling them. I swept the closet & then looked through some old Word documents on my PC & deleted an old "how to" sales pitch for an Avon Anew product from back when I used to sell Avon. Yesterday's Sims game was Grandmother's House & my Sim Faith is in the university working on her skills. Today the FD got toned out to an EMS call & I've taken the dogs out. The rest of the day is an exciting mystery of unknown upcoming scheduled events & I can't wait! It's great to be excited about my day again! I would have still been ok with the old way that I've been doing for the past 2 decades IF I could ever even make it to lunch (halfway). Only ever doing the 1st 6 things of every day over & over & over gets REALLY boring. Now, even if I only get to the 1st 6 things every day, it'll be a completely DIFFERENT 6 things every day! :D I found a crochet pattern that I like (3rd pic) & have downloaded & saved the instructions for it. I have WAY too many projects currently going right now, but I'd like to think that someday I'll make this one. I was thinking window panes. A sky blue w/ white lattice over it & a white border around the outside. It would look like windowpanes once sewn together to complete an afghan. Today's Sims game is Sapphire Point, a house I built for the game (4th pic). My Sim Misty McGlum is newly married to Henry who just retired & won't be going to the

university since the rest of his days are meant to just relax finally. Misty is pregnant, so that means she CAN'T go to the university yet. She looks VERY pregnant, so I'm guessing the baby is due any minute now. As soon as the baby is born, Misty will head off to the university. Kyle's birthday is tomorrow & yes, he's turning 17 & receiving his sock. I'm proud of him, he's doing very well in life so far.

Ergophobia is the fear of work (I know someone who has this!). Try that excuse on your boss today, but only if you also have chrometophobia (the fear of money), as you'll surely see less of that when you get fired.

Fire it up - 79% of all Americans cook out on the grill!

May the breath of a thousand eunuchs curdle your Nestle's Quick. -Johnny Carson 1989

Meat & fish grilling tips top 10:

1. Use rubs & marinades
2. Add hardwood logs or chips to create smoke
3. Create different heat zones within the grilling area
4. Before grilling, of just after, clean the hot grate w/ a wire brush
5. Keep raw meat & fish separated from cooked foods
6. Don't touch or flip the food too often
7. Take a break, rest food before serving
8. Grease the grate to prevent sticking
9. Lay out food in orderly lines on the grate
10. Time the cooking w/ a digital instant timer

Some people say that you have to like yourself before you can like others. I think that idea has merit, but if you don't know yourself, if you don't control yourself, if you don't have mastery over yourself, it's very hard to like yourself, except in some short-term, psych-up, superficial way.

Stanza:
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Purchase popular new books from a selection of over 50,000 contemporary titles available in various partner stores, or choose from an additional 50,000 free classics and recent original works available from Project Gutenberg, Feedbooks, and many other sources. Store and categorize hundreds of books in the organizer, and transfer your own ePub, eReader, PDF, Comic Book Archive (CBR & CBZ), and DjVu books from your Mac or PC to Stanza by dragging & dropping the files into the "File Sharing" section of the "Apps" tab of your device in iTunes.
Stanza has been recognized by numerous organizations:
• Time Magazine lists Stanza as one of their "Top 11 iPhone Applications"
• Stanza is a PC Magazine "Editor's Choice" and one of their "21 cool iPhone Apps"
• The New York Times features Stanza: "Tip of the Week: Turn Your iPhone Into an e-Book"
• Wired features Stanza in their "10 Most Awesome iPhone Apps of 2008" article
• Forbes Magazine lauds Stanza, saying: "Stanza, like Kindle, lets users download new content directly to their device."
• Apple lists Stanza in their collection of "iTunes 2008 Top Apps"
• Stanza is a Macworld reader's favorite in: "Our Favorite iPhone Apps: Your turn"
• Stanza won the 2008 award for "Best Free App" at BestAppEver.com, where they write: "Stanza has redefined how everyone thinks about reading on a mobile device."
Stanza has additionally been praised by CNET, the Washington Post, Ars Technica, the Boston Globe, Information Week, and PC Magazine's AppScout.
Your entire summer reading, your class syllabus for the whole year, all the reference material you will ever need: all at your fingertips. Literally.

Use a photo of your boss as a screen saver.

When grilling steaks, Americans prefer rib-eye, T-bone, & sirloin cuts of beef.

Where You At?

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FEATURES:
★ Use your Facebook account and friends list.
★ Track as many friends as you want.
★ Real Time direction updating from within the app.
★ Turn-By-Turn navigation directions.
★ Estimated Time of Arrival.
★ Cancel tracking at anytime.
★ Offline Mode – temporarily disables background GPS to save battery life.
★ Map view in standard, satellite and hybrid.
★ Directions for driving, bicycling and walking.
★ Distance in English or Metric.
★ Tracking List displays quick view of all friends currently being tracked.
★ 100% FREE
With your Facebook user account, “Where You At?” lets you select friends from your Facebook friends list, who also have the app, and send them a track request. If they accept, you are both instantly connected to one another. Your locations are displayed on the map and you are given turn-by-turn directions along with ETA and distance. Your locations are dynamically updated in real time. So you can both follow each others progress as you travel to meet. Either of you may cancel tracking at anytime. Safe, Secure, Accurate. Keep multiple friends active in your tracking list to quickly follow their locations and get one touch directions.
“Where You At?’ is great for:
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NOTE: Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.

Your moneymaking ability is at a peak, unfortunately so is your spending ability. Put your credit cards in the freezer & eat a Popsicle. Blue is your color for the weekend.