"A woman's appeal is all about breasts and childbearing hips. Only very recently have skinny women-who are barely female, have no breasts and hips and resemble twelve-year old boys-come into fashion. But that look was created by gay men."
Gene $immons
This is not a recient quote, just one that made me laugh.
With all the time at school, and all the studytime it takes to get through the day to pass the daily, weekly, and other various tests, I have just not had time to post much. The audio blog is free too but I have not felt confortable with using it. Seems like what ever I post with it sounds like stupid crap. I just do not have a radio dj voice.
I will try and post more
If you run XP, there is a new set of updates that you should probably run. Always remember to read what your agreeing to install. You might not need all of these items.
Also, (and don't forget to do this if you know how) make a restore point before doing the update.Don't know where to find the page? "Click here"
For anyone who thinks that small children do not watch and grasp the news, think of this.
Is the Queen of Hearts a member of al Qaeda?
All she said was Off with their heads!
It is amazing that kids match up things like that. I wish that they didn't have to be exposed to things like that, but society is changing to where things just like this are blasted out on the news every hour of every day.
I started training to be a Railroad Conductor last Monday. This is very interesting stuff. First, this is supposed to be the new be job market for the US for the next 10 years. Why? Because 80,000 jobs are going to be vacated by retiring employees. I said 80,000 in the next ten years. Think of that. That means people who are in now or are just starting now to get employed with the railroad are going to be able to go nowhere but up. Look at just one google search for "railroad jobs" and see what I am talking about.
This is one of those jobs that are only available through a training program. And I can tell you, this is not easy stuff. I am going to class from 1500 to about 2200 weekdays. That, and I have several hours of homework every night and lots of stuff to go through all weekend. You get tested at the start of every class day, and on Mondays, you get a test over the entire previous week. And from what they told us, the weekly tests are cumulative, so they get harder and harder ever week.
So far, I have a 97.6% grade average. There are now 15 people in the class and we started with 17. In the first 5 days, we lost two people.
If you want to know more about this training and the job potential, either e-mail me or do all the hours of research yourself.
If you have previously run spyware apps like Lavasoft's Adaware 6, or SpyBot - Search and Destroy, today is the day to run them again.
Please remember to run them both, but one at a time. Also, make sure you check for updates. If it has been a long time since you ran these two items, today is the best day to run them. If you have time to read this, you have tie to run your Spyware apps.
While your at it, do a system scan when you get up to walk away from your PC. there is no time like the present to stop a computer virus from hijacking your system, of destroying your data. Besides, I do not want you to send me your virus.
Here is a nice salad to make if your wanting a special item for a party. This is even good if you want to have a more than a tossed or garden salad for dinner. To make it up, you need to plan ahead since it needs to sit in the refrigerator overnight to set up and absorbe the flavors you add.
Ingedrents:
Directions: Leave the peas in the freezer for now and place the bacon on the side. If you have not boiled the eggs yet, wait until tomorrow to make the texture better. Just put them on the top then.
Chop the lettuce into fine strips about 3 inches long if possible and place them in the bowl. Dice the onion and spread it evenly on top to start a layer effect. Then evenly mix the remaining ingredients in a seperate bowl and then spread the mixture on top of the lettuce and onions. pour the peas on top and then crumble the bacon on top of that.
Refrigerate this overnight!
do the last part by boiling the eggs and once cool, chopping them up for placement on top. Crumbling the bacon and serve with big tongs to get the layer effect if you can. that way, no one person gets all topping or lettuce. If this is confusing just try it for your self and family. After you do this once, you will understand what to do.
Let me start with the present. Right now, Linda is gone. So, any thoughts on this subject are absolutely theoretical.
1982-5 Linda, myself, and a about 16 others were stationed aboard the USS Yellowstone. It was a Destroyer Tender so the crew included men and women. Considering all I have ever been stationed aboard are Tenders, this has always been normal to me. OK, while on the Yellowstone, Linda never drank. She was was a recovering alcoholic as she had told me in when we first met. She was "recovering" from when we first met so, once again this was normal to me. Back then, I was living in an apartment in Virginia Beach area. And since we were friends, she would come over and stay to get off the ship. Nothing more than "friend things" ever happened since I was still technically married to Cathy. Not that this mattered anyway, we were just very good friends. She would come over and we would get a movie from blockbuster. Normally, we would just hang around in our underwear, smoke cigarettes and play cards. I figured it didn't matter anyway, nothing was going to happen between us anyway.
Back to the story. She and I would just sit around the apartment (or the shop) and bullcrap for hours. It was one thing to talk to someone you were friends with, and a totally different thing to talk to your spouse. But with her, I could say anything I wanted. All without feeling like I was being scrutinized with a waiting criticism. That is the normal way it was with all my previous relationships. Someone was always waiting around the corner (while sitting on their ass) to come back with some scathing remark about how "that is dumb", or "that will never work". Linda and I worked together for several years at that point so she kinda understood the way I thought.
Back then, I was literally called "MacGyver" because of all the crazy things I would build. Lifting hoists for bearing shafts (there were about 400 pounds and you have to precisely place them on jigs to rework them), vacuum tubes to suck water out of the tiedown holes on the flight deck, goofy things like that. Well, Linda would never criticize me for spending my time making things up. usually, she would just be watching TV in the shop and wander by once in a while to see what it was that day I was making. But she never would give me grief or offer the normal sarcasm the others did. In other words, she was someone I felt confident and relaxed in talking about things.
Another aspect of our friendship was trust. We could do things normal friends could do. If I was there in the shop, I remember washing her hair in the deep-sink several times while we were underway. Showers aboard ship are sometimes few and far between due to water rationing. But in the shop, we had running water. And if need be, we had a big tank and a very large torch which could be made into a hot tub. She used it once that I know of. I remember because when you came into the top level of the shop, you could sorta look down into the tank. She didn't notice I had come in and was spashing around and being silly. I have to assume that Frank let her do this. I don't think she would have ever done it alone (unless she thought she would either never get caught, or no one would ever come in and find her spashing around.
OK, it was really an acid tank for cleaning parts, but we rarely ever used it so it was always clean and empty.We also had some large pots, pans, and buckets for various industrial jobs and making up things to eat which we didn't want to share with everyone. these were great for heating up some water to take a sponge bath.
Now you have to be serious about this idea. When you work with people 24/7 for years, and even sleep in the same shop, on (or under) the same benches, you get to be pretty close. Imagine spending 6 months with 15 or so people in an area roughly 500 square feet. That small area is where you work, relax, watch TV, listen to music, play cards, eat snacks, sometimes even sleep. It gets rather small after a while, and all those ideas of "gender specific" problems go away (quickly). In our case, what we did was so extremely dangerous. The work literally could have killed any of us on any given day. This also added to the trust we maintained in each other. Sure, there were the horndogs in the shop, but that was pretty much contained to their interests outside the shop.
I think the part where I knew we were such close friends, is when we used to sit in the apartment, eating popcorn and watching videos after work, and just fall asleep on the couch. Nothing was ever mentioned between us about anything more. Because that is not what either of us wanted. I do not believe I have ever had another person so close as that.
Married people do not count in what I am trying to say.Bree and I are close friends, but we are married. It is not the same thing. Married people do not have the same rituals or agreements that friends have. They are 180 out in my opinion. One of the things you do when your friends, is that you look out after each other in a different manner. Consider this one. When
"W,S,C" This is one of those times you look back and think "Woulda, Shoulda, Coulda". I imagine that if I had been around, I would have taken care of her. She was one of the best friends I have ever had. But I was not there, I was hundreds of miles away, and going on with my life as it was. I have to remind myself of the facts once in a while just to keep from blaming myself.
I will not go on further with this one. I am just trying to think things through and had to write it down, for my own sake. I am very happy that I have Bridget. She understands and always is there for me.
I am just saving this for later so I can refer people back to it when they screw up and send out spam, porn, or some other kind of stupid item either on purpose or by accident. I do not agree with all of this. It is way to easy on stupid mistakes, but it is interesting all the same.
Avoiding Office Email Gaffes
Smart email use is all about common sense. By Eric Wilinski
Just because e-mail is an everyday part of life in the office doesn't mean it's something you don't have to think carefully about. Sending or receiving ill-conceived or improper email via your work account can lead to everything from embarrassment to disciplinary action.
Or both. Consider the case of one London couple, which last year had their private email correspondence forwarded around the world after the young man involved forwarded a sexually revealing email from the young woman to some pals at work. In addition to the resulting ignominy both suffered, the young man involved became the subject of an investigation by his law firm.
Of course, your email gaffes are most likely not going to turn you into a global laughingstock. But office email, when used improperly, can undermine your efforts to get ahead in your career. Following are some tips to help you use email to your advantage rather than detriment.
Keep it short and sweet. Email is not a form of communication that lends itself to long missives. If you do send a long e-mail-if you send a product description to a potential client, for instance, or if you send a clarification of departmental policy to your colleagues - make sure you go over the details in person as well as in your email, since relying on your email to communicate all the details often fails. And use paragraphs-readers have a much easier time deciphering longer emails that impart information in discreet, readable chunks than in endless-seeming blocks of text.
Avoid discussing sensitive information. Despite the seeming harmlessness of email, it is not really private; just ask the London couple mentioned above. It's way too simple for the recipient of your email to forward it to others. And remember that your company can access any email going into or out of your account. Rule number one for emailing sensitive information: Assume that any email you send will be read by people other than its intended recipients.
Another reason to avoid including sensitive information in e-mail is that you might change your mind about whether you want to let that information be known. Michael Eisner, for instance, once sent financial information about Disney to journalists without realizing it had not yet been publicly released. Rule number two for emailing sensitive information: Think before you hit "send."
Know when to use email, and when to have a discussion in person or over the phone. These days people like to use email for all kinds of purposes for which it is usually not ideal. If you want to brainstorm, or to manage or critique others, it's usually best to do so in person - or, failing that, over the phone.
There are a number of reasons for this. For one thing, email does not communicate unspoken nuances the way personal communication does. For another, people are often not as "present" when they read email as they are in a real-time meeting. Think about it: How many times have you thought you communicated something perfectly clearly via email, only to have to go over it all again later in person?
Send email only to those who will want or need to see it. Don't cc: emails about your company's Widget Version 4.0 to people who are not involved in the Widget Version 4.0 project. Don't hit "reply all" if your message is really meant just for the person whose email you're responding to.
And don't send that forwarded joke about the pope, the rabbi, and the e-business consultant to everyone in the office. Those who don't share your sense of humor - or are too busy to laugh - will lose respect for you over time. Far better to try to spread cheer to a select few who will appreciate it than to everybody.
Give your email context. A message without context is a message that's likely to be deleted as soon as it's read. There are a number of ways to avoid this. For one thing, you should use your emails' subject lines to make it clear what they're about. Don't say "FYI" when you can say "FYI Widget Version 4.0 Q3 revenue estimates." For another, you should use a salutation at the top of the body of your emails, and include your electronic signature at the bottom; that way, those who are forwarded or cc:ed the email will have an easier time understanding who is speaking to whom and why they are being involved in the conversation. Finally, try to respond to emails by cutting and pasting so that your email contains snippets of earlier emails followed by your specific response to each snippet.
Spell recipients' names correctly. This may seem like a no-brainer, but you'd be surprised by how often people misspell their coworkers' names. If the person you're sending an email to is named "Kerry," make sure you don't address her as "Kerri." It shows that the recipient is not important enough to you to take the time to address correctly.
This is all I am going to add. If there is more that you would like to know, just e-mail me. Otherwise, just use common sense.
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