I have been listening to this station for quite a while. I normally stream it in while online. I classify it as "No-thought-required" music.
If you want to hear news like you never expected it, this is the place. It has a weird "Third-person" feel that catches you off-guard. Sure, the audio is about AM quality, but it is fine when it is streamed.
We all went out for the normal Trick 0r Treat this evening. The kids were looking forward to this for weeks. I think I heard more "Countdown to Halloween" than I did for Christmas last year. We stopped at my Aunts as we usually do. She was not there so we proceeded to the streets up on the top of the hill. It was about 1730 when we started so we started just at dusk.
While up on top, the kids only hit about 50 houses but came back with some much candy and things they were actually complaining about the weight of their bags. The people up there do not have inexpensive things either. Hershey bars, Milky Ways, M&Ms, and Twix bars. And I do not mean those tiny ones that take three for a whole bite. I saw in the bags, the big dollar each 3 Musketter bars and regular sized Hershey Chocolate bars. I am concerned they will go into some type of diabetic coma if they eat much of that. (Or I might if someone leaves alone in front of that pile)
The kids wanted to show "Miss Pam" their costumes so we drove by. She was not there but the kids will make arrangements later so she can see them. They really wanted her to see them. The good part is that they will have these for quite a while.
The highlight of the evening is that we go over to the Hunters home next door. They are the absolute best people. Melissa and Ian make these great big baskets which must take days to make up. I would guess that they would be about $50 in a store with all they do. I only hope that the can see how much We (I) appreciate this. It is like family having them next door.
You should go find the 10/19/2003 12:38:42 AM entry titled "Did IQs drop sharply while I was away?" (I will try and post a link here later). Read that entry and then read this. I was sent this and had to post it. No, I have not investigated it yet but it was so bizarre I had to post it.
I was wondering why Court TV didn't pick up on the murder case being tried at the City Island Courthouse in Daytona Beach of the female day care operator in which the accused's mother was convicted of attempted to off the accused's girlfriend and the accused's new lover is a public defender who believes the accused is innocent, unsuccessfully represented the mother, and was ultimately forced to resign from the public defender's office for abusing attorney-client jail visitation privileges and accepting 212 collect calls from the jailed accused.
Yeah, me too. I had to read that one about four times to understand what happened. I am amazed that the mainstream media didn't pick this one up. Guess there is no money value on incestuous lesbian trysts in the court system, like there are with a big money basketball star(s) alledged a raping small women who deliver room service. Doesn't this sound familiar?
The problem is the high-limit thermostat on the heating unit failed. There is a parts store in Milford that has it in stock, so I am going over there now. It was either $24.95 online and a two day minimum wait, or get it now for $20.00, so I getting it now.
Back when I was in grade school, I had a lunchbox which I thought was what about the things I thought were important. Sure, the other kids had the standard "Jonny Quest" and "Yogi Bear" for boys, or "Cinderella" and "Brady Bunch" for Girls, but I had what was important to me. I had an Apollo Astronauts lunchbox. And the best part is that I still have that lunchbox and the thermos bottle. I even used to use it a couple of years ago to take lunch to work. I even had someone where I used to work offer me several hundred dollars for it one day. I guess that means I picked something that really did mean something, but it took 30 years for others to figure it out.
I just wish I could have met one of these men at some time. I know that I am not someone who would stand out in scientific circles, or have medals all over their chest, (Even though I have 6 Navy medals I earned while on active duty) I am just a regular person, who would have liked to speak to them for a few minutes.
This is where I think I saw mankind stop for a moment, glance down at their shoes, and then slowly walk away wondering what we did as a people, to be shunned by the men we had placed up so high on a pedestal. Did we put them up so high, that they could not come back down?
I had forgotten how long it takes to get clothes dry on a clothes line. I had placed two loads out on the line about noon and the jeans were still not close to dry at sundown. There was a strong breeze most of the day too. Go figure.
For some reason, today's priorities are all screwed up. I intended to do more than bills and job searching (like dismantling the dryer) but it didn't happen. I did get three resumes out. None were in Cincinnati, but that does not seem to matter anymore. I need to make the dryer a priority tomorrow.
The one good thing that came from all of this was the kids and the clothes line. We had a bit of fun taking down and folding the dry things, and putting the towels and sheets out on the line together. I have to keep my eyes open for the bright side of all of this or I will get wiggy (as my Indian friends say).
Cool! I passed the 4000 visitor mark to my blog this week. (and BTW, I do not count hits from my own computer) I didn't know that many people looked at it. Is it that I make some sense, or they just found it by mistake?
No matter what the reason you visited for, I just want to say thank you for stopping by. Please do tell me if I am doing something right or even better if you tell me what I can do to make it better to read! It should be noted that I try and do all the changes in Notepad before uploading it.
Archives! Remember, if you don't know what is in the archives, your missing most of the point.
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The dryer no longer heats. It figures that when things are getting to be really hectic, this happens. I can't be upset about it too much. It is a heater failure. The dryer is one I bought in 1991 while living in Kings Bay Georgia. It was just after I met Bridget and such. So it has lasted throughout 12 years and 6 moves. Not bad altogether.
I will try and move it out into a larger area tomorrow and take it apart. I should be able to determine what the problem is without too much trouble. More on this situation as it develops.
The seminar as a whole was complete information overload after about 90 minutes into the first breakout. What happened was you could choose from one of 4 tracks as to what specific perspective you wanted to see in reference to what you wanted to learn about Microsoft office.
Now, why did we go all the way to Columbus for this seminar? Because I knew I would not see everything I wanted to see and learn, and I am signed up for the Cincinnati Launch event next week. That way, I can go through two tracks of information and learn twice as much. I think it is a good idea.
Yes, Pam took notes through the whole nine hours. I am glad she had her portable desk drawer with her. That way she had all the writing and note taking utensils with her.
Understanding a computer problem via e-mail is like trying to do surgery over the phone. It just doesn't not work.
Before we left, she created this great smoothie to take to Bridget @ work. I am glad we went directly there to give it to her. It was so good, I probably would have drunk it myself if we had to wait more than a few minutes. It was great.
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What I am trying to shoot for is certification for the Satellite Tool Kit®. I figure that if I get my "STK® Certification, I will not have a problem getting a job anymore.
Also, I am really limiting the amount of people I chat with on Yahoo messenger that do not use the SIMP encryption or any type of encryption for that matter. I just don't feel safe sending plaintext messages.
We used to use Sam' Club Credit (from Monogram Credit Card Bank of Georgia) but after 9 months of grief and hassles, we had to make sure it was closed with written verification.
The problem started when we started to try and use their online system for payments. The account would get locked out because they has changed the site so much, you have to determine how to navigate through to where you could pay online. The instructions were terrible, and the phone staff were less than congenial. Matter of fact, I was so convinced that one of the last phone support people were capable of abusing their security into my account, I felt I had to request a letter from Sam's Club that the account was closed. At least that way, any transactions past the date of the letter would not be mine and traceable back to the culprit.
One of the major problems the site had was that the phone support could reset passwords and accounts, but the user who wanted to get something accomplished had to wait 24 hours for a reset of the system for changes to take effect. This resulted in you having to wait sometimes from Friday to Monday to pay your online bill. Even then, I had several times where I went in on Monday after getting the account reset on the prior Friday, to only find that the account was still locked out.
I can only say that if you are considering the use of a Sam's Club Credit account, think twice. Even though Wal-Mart has their system pretty much perfected, Sam's Club Credit online system is impossible to use. That in itself makes me question the practices they have put into place to safeguard account information. Anytime I have to talk to someone with phone support about a website issue and they have no idea what I am having a problem with, they are not reliable enough to have my bussiness.
In an interesting move, Microsoft has enveloped a Romanian software company.
"Due to the aquisition of RAV’s IPR (Intellectual Property Rights) by Microsoft Corp., GeCAD Software SRL is currently engaged in a strategic reorganisation of their operations, involving the scaling down and eventual discontinuance of the anti-virus related business."
I guess they must have written very good code.
PAIL OF SAND CAKE. This novel cake, topped with crushed cookie 'sand,' will be the hit of any beach party. After your kids eat it up, scrub the pail and let them fill it with real sand (no eating allowed).
And you can't tell me that this does not chap NASA's butt (a lot). With the monstrous successes and catastrophic failures since the Apollo missions, they have to be hurt with by the drive of the Indian people to get this done. All the NASA people hear are scoffs, jeers, and accusations.
Here is another reason that I feel that Darwin is right. While I was away on active duty in the Navy, things changed drastically. Americans are no longer the forerunner in ambition, initiative, or drive. Most United States citizens ** are constrained by their indolence for "personal time", or too bottled up in their compassion for forlorn (murderous) prison inmates, the forsaken trees rights, and court battles about who alledgedly sodimized who. This is all while sitting in front of the television with a 12 inch subway and a diet soda, while cheering on the guy in the commercial for losing 245 pounds his gluttony and sloth managed him to gain in the first place.
Welcome to the land of the free,
(legally protected anarchists, Rich hollywood felons, Fifth generation welfare recipients, Elected malefactors*^*, and religious terrorists),
and the home of the Brave.
(Dead Sailors, Soldiers, Airmen, Marines, Police, and Firemen,)
Would someone please tell me what ever happened to common sense in the last 20 years?
** Notice I didn't say "Americans" above? Mainly because the only "Americans" I know, are people who place a higher value on what this nation stood for, than the all-mighty dollar. Between shipping our jobs overseas to the unions starving businesses what is the use anymore?
*^* You really should take a look at how many of your elected officials (Senators, Representatives, Councilmen, as well as State and Local officials) have been convicted of felony crimes. And I am not even talking about Chappaquidic here. Do a Google search and see what you come up with. Lets do a few searches to get you brain started......
My friend Alan sent this little tid-bit to me (and his mailing list) and I thought it was cewl enough to post. Please take it and send it to whom ever you like. I didn't get any copyright information with it and could not find it with a google search so I believe it is public domain material. I figure if I played around with it for 5 minutes, it passed the curiosity test so I better be good and share.
If anyone knows anything about where this came from or who created it, please tell me so I can either credit the creator or remove it.
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OK, I thought it was cool, no matter what religion you are.
I attended the Government job fair down at Xavier University. I can't say I learned a lot from it. But I can say I understand the job market in Cincinnati a little better. The bottom line: There are lots of folks out there who never expected to be looking for work, pounding the pavement for anything they can get their hands on.
I did meet some nice people there. 
One thing that I did notice right off, was that the average age for people at this event was above 30. Probably somewhere about 32 to 35. There were younger people there too, but none I saw that were under 24 or so. More on this event after I sort through my notes.
