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Ladies, I'm sure, after discussing the birds and the bees with your mother, the conversation turned to livestock. "Why should he buy the cow, when he can get the milk for free?" She asked. Basically mom was saying that a man wouldn't value you if you just gave it away. However, a lot of us are giving it away. Every day. I'm not suggesting we are all a bunch of strumpets, harlots and hoes. In fact, I'm not even talking about sex. Allow me to explain.
I pride myself on being a generous person and a good friend. My friends know they can count on me for help anytime. I have another good friend, Lindsey, who has the same philosophy. She called me the other day and she was extremely frustrated! The problem is that she'd taken this generosity of spirit into the business world and it was costing her. In fact, often the line between friend and colleague is often blurred and when it gets that way, she (and I) tend to operate in friend mode.
Recently a colleague needed help on a project. Lindsey jumped into action. She wrote a press release for her, helped her develop a press list, lined up several vendors, scouted locations and even made calls on her behalf. She never got a dime.
My friend and her friend/colleague were coming from different places. Lindsey was coming from small and peaceful place called Friendship Island where inhabitants naturally do for a friend with no expectation of payment. The colleague was coming from bustling Business City where you get what you negotiate. She had asked Lindsay for help with one thing and she helped. Then came the next request and the next. Lindsay did them all with a smile and a "No problem."
But, I asked, "Why would she buy your cow when you'd given so much away for free?"
Lindsey, and I, and probably you need to start valuing our services. Stand up for yourself. Even if money is not involved, stand up for your work, your time, your space. Set your boundaries. I know I'd been reluctant to do that in the past, but then I realized, most people who are asking you expect you to negotiate and even think that you might say no. When you don't, they are more than happy to take that cow.
Next time, I suggested Lindsay do two things:
1) Set a price for the cow, be it cash, barter or some other arrangement.
2) Get the full scope of the project and then state clearly exactly what you can do.
3) Stick to your guns. If they ask you to do more than you stated, you have the right to say no. If you agree, set a new price and new boundaries for the additional work.
Remember, the people drinking the milk love a free cow, but that milk isn't free from the cow's perspective!
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Selling Your Cow
Posted by Karyn Beach at 6:05 AM
Labels: Live and Learn, Setting Boundaries
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- Lynn said...
If it's with friends I go the NO PROB route as long as it fits my schedule. When it comes to people I don't know as well and its a task or project that might be all consuming then I negotiate something for my time. Be it food, money, or bartering for something in the future. All things in moderation. I like your blog and you thoughts.
My best, Lynn
- December 22, 2009 at 9:30 AM
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Hello, and welcome to the Peverett Phile. This week the new attraction at Epcot opens called 'The Seas With Nemo And Friends'. I haven't been on it yet but I heard at the end Nemo gets captured and served as sushi. With the news coverage I'm not sure what to be more worried about. Terrorists in the Middle East, a dictator in North Korea, or a congressman from South Florida. We haven't been able to confirm whether or not North Korea detonated a nuclear bomb. Confirm? We can't even confirm who the father of Anna Nicole Smith's baby is. It's interesting how times have changed. Remember when it was a good thing when two congressmen were on the same page? The U.S. Army has a new slogan. They are dropping the "Army of One" slogan. The new one is "Army Strong". Army Strong – which beat out the phrase, "Did someone say Jihad?" Twenty-five of the wealthiest men in American are currently out of work. But enough about the New York Yankees. Paris Hilton and Nicole Ritchie have settled their dispute. They say that their two hearts combined make one. Their two brains combined also make one. The signs of autumn are all around us. Today for example Terrell Owens almost overdosed on cider. Cher, the star, the national treasure, she just had a big auction. She auctioned off over 800 items including a Louis XVI chair. Actually Cher is so old that the chair was used by Louis XVI.
THE AMAZING RACE 10: One of the simpler tasks in Amazing Race history, rowing a boat, caused nearly every team to implode last Sunday as they struggled against wind and each other. At the very start, Phil told us, "At the end of the last leg , Rob collapsed from heat exhaustion, and received medical attention before being deemed fit enough to continue." Physically fit, that is. Mentally, not so much, as he continued to compete for the memorial Jonathan and Colin jerk award. Shortly after Tyler told us, "I know that when he's down, I'll try to pick him up, and if I'm down, he'll try to pick me up. It's always been that way in our friendship," he told his friend and former junkie pal, "I'm going to see how much dong you got." He was, of course, being a four-year-old and making fun of Vietnamese currency's phallic name, not actually fondling his friend. Mary told us that the race was challenging. "I'm a couch potato. I stay home and I watch reality TV all the time," he said. Now I know why I love her and feel like we're BFFs: We're different in virtually every conceivable way, but we both spend our lives watching others on TV. Of course, now that Mary has actually participated in a reality show, she is now more worldly than I. Tasked to listen for their next clue, the blondes stopped in a park and put their ears near a planter. "Listen! What is that noise? This is it right here, D," Kandice said. "These crickets. I don't know what that means, though." She couldn't understand the cricikets' secret message because a loudspeaker nearby was too loud, continually blasting a message that stared with, "Attention racers!" Rob had issues with his cab driver because of the language barrier. "Dude, I don't speak your language, dude," he said. Then, unbelievably, he asked the driver a question in English, as if the guy suddenly learned the language: "Are you driving in a circle? He's just toying with us right now." Later, Rob said, "I'm done talking with foreigners." Rob, could you also please stop talking to Americans, because we're tired of listening to you be an asshole. Sarah decided to perform the Roadblock task, even though the clue asked "Who's got strong arms and legs?" Peter, as always, was as helpful as As she struggled to scale the rock, he sat lazily in the boat, sucking on a soft drink, and said things such as, "Sarah, you're going to be fine. You're going to do this. All in the mind. … Pull the handicapped placard out and tell them you're next in line. … Hey, give Tyler an ugly look when he passes you. Spit on him or something. Ha ha ha." Seriously, this guy is the biggest assclown ever. Sarah really needs to kick him in the nuts. Mary continued to snipe at David, although I find it hysterical and not at all dysfunctional like when the other couples do it. Among other things, she told him, "You ain't got a sprained leg, David. … When you become my boss, you can tell me what to do." Here's how Rob solves conflict. Floating in the middle of the ocean in rowboat, he screamed at Kimberly, "Get off the boat!" Soon after Sarah scaled the wall using her arms alone, Peter was rowing their boat, and told her, "I really need you not to say anything." Perhaps it was sincere, but Sarah then seemed to start mocking him, saying, "You're really doing awesome," giving him the same kind of faux support he gives her. "I don't need encouragement, I just need direction," he said. At least now he knows what it feels like. A short time later, Peter threw a temper tantrum. "I'm done after this. I don't want to do this anymore," he said. Christ, another Flo. Because the race is blind to assholes, Rob and Kimberly checked in first. Guess which team member left their partner behind in the rowboat, causing them to say, "don't leave me in here!" If you guessed Sarah, you win nothing, because it was completely obvious. "My feelings for Peter have changed. Sometimes I'm not always impressed with his temperament in the situation, or even his treatment towards me," she told us. Sarah also told him the same thing, and Mr. Perky just sat with a goofy, smug-looking grin on his punchable face. Tyler and James' boat captain forgot to pull up the anchor, which explained why they were "going so damn slow," one of them said. They took advantage of the language barrier by giving him a sarcastic thumbs-up, which he eagerly returned. Still, they checked in third. Dumb and dumberer didn't understand the clue about the pit stop, which explained that they were to paddle back to their motorized boat, which would take them nine miles to Phil. One of them told us, "We were just paddling all over trying to find Phil, and we eventually figured out that the boat was where we needed to be, and that it would take us" to the pit stop. That strategy didn't work, although they weren't eliminated, and will continue to reinforce the stereotype that beauty queens are, in fact, incomprehensibly dumb. Tom told Terry, "Stop the whining." Finally. And the whining and crying have stopped for the duration of this race, as the two were eliminated at the pit stop. SURVIVOR: Survivor Cook Islands ethnically diverse cast is something that will remain in future seasons, or at least that's what Jeff Probst hopes. "We won't be pitting one race against the other, but we will keep the show diverse and have equal representation among races," he tells the LA Daily News, which qualifies his statement by saying this is "if he has his way." Being candid, Probst says they probably would not divide tribes by race again, but that doesn't mean other stunt-like moves are out of the question. "You have to try to do things that are different. After 13 seasons, we're running out of ideas," he says. As tothis season's controversy, Probst says, "I wasn't entirely comfortable being a spokesman for racial diversity." That's kind of an understatement, since he pretty much embarrassed himself when talking about ethnicity to the media. But he does say that the (over-) reaction was "appropriate and understandable."
1285: Accused of the ritual murder of Catholic boys, 180 Jews are burned alive in Munich when an angry mob sets fire to their synagogue. 1960: In response to a speech by the Philippine delegation denouncing the USSR's domination of Eastern Europe, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev brandishes one of his sandals at the man during a general assembly of the United Nations. 1966: Sammy Davis, Jr. makes a cameo appearance on the ABC television series Batman, during one of their legendary Batclimbs. 1969: According to rumor, Paul is dead. However, the Beatle somehow persists in making several public appearances for years. 1969: Police capture Charles Manson at Barker Ranch, inside Death Valley National Park. Charlie is arrested for arson, after burning a maintenance vehicle blocking his favorite dune buggy route. One of his followers, Susan Atkins, is arrested the following day and spills the beans about the Tate/LaBianca murderers. Manson has not left prison since. 1970: During his court martial for the My Lai Massacre, Lt. William Calley testifies that Cpt. Ernest Medina had ordered that anybody they couldn't move would be "wasted." Which is why Calley said he and his men killed 350 Vietnamese, including more than 100 civilian men, women, and children. 1978: Former Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious stabs girlfriend Nancy Spungen to death in room 100 of New York's Chelsea Hotel. Because Sid remembers nothing about the crime, theories include robbery and an abortive suicide pact. Vicious dies of an ugly heroin overdose shortly before his trial. 1997: Folk singer John Denver dies when his newest toy, a homebuilt Long-EZ single-seat airplane, crashes into the ocean near Monterey, California. Unfortunately, the person who constructed the plane opted to locate the fuel tank selector valve behind the pilot's left shoulder. In order for Denver to reach back and switch tanks, he had to let go of the flight controls. At which point, the aircraft plunged 500 feet into the Pacific Ocean. Divers later recover most of the body, but not the head. Denver is ultimately identified by his fingerprints. 2000: Two al Qaeda agents pull alongside the USS Cole in a fiberglass boat disguised as a tender at the harbor in Aden, Yemen. Then the boat explodes, ripping a 40-foot hole along the port side of the destroyer's hull, killing 17 sailors and wounding 39 others. 2003: 30 lunatics are killed in Randilovshchina, Belarus when a fire sweeps through their sanitarium, many of whom die locked in their rooms. It is believed that the blaze was an act of arson by one of the patients.
One afternoon a lawyer was riding in his limousine when he saw two men along the roadside eating grass. Disturbed, he ordered his driver to stop and he got out to investigate. He asked one man, "Why are you eating grass?" "We don't have any money for food," the poor man replied. "We have to eat grass." "Well, then, you can come with me to my house and I'll feed you," the lawyer said. "But, sir, I have a wife and two children with me. They are over there, under that tree." "Bring them along," the lawyer replied. Turning to the other poor man he stated, "You come with us, also." The second man, in a pitiful voice then said, "But sir, I also have a wife and six children with me!" "Bring them all, as well," the lawyer answered. They all entered the car, which was no easy task, even for a car as large as the limousine was. Once underway, one of the poor fellows turned to the lawyer and said, "Sir, you are too kind. Thank you for taking all of us with you." The lawyer replied, "Glad to do it. You'll really love my place. The grass is almost a foot high."
And now for a joke from my wife Jen: The husband had just finished reading a new book entitled "You Can Be The Man of Your House." He stormed into the kitchen and walked directly up to his wife. Pointing a finger in her face, he said sternly, "From now on, you need to know that I am the man of this house and my word is law! You will prepare me a gourmet meal tonight, and when I'm finished eating my meal, you will serve me a sumptuous dessert. After dinner you are going to go upstairs with me, and we will have the kind of sex that I want. After that, you are going to draw me my bath so I can relax. You will wash my back and towel me dry and bring me my robe. Then you will massage my feet and hands. Then after that's done, guess who's going to dress me and comb my hair?" His wife replied, "The fuckin' funeral director would be my guess."
One of my favorite shows of the new season is 'Heroes', so I am going to give you 'Heroes' news now and then. My other new favorite show was 'Smith', but that got cancelled after only three episodes. Anyway, here's...
Ali Larter, one of the stars of NBC's new hit series 'Heroes', says that the details of her character's mysterious double life will be revealed in upcoming episodes. "Where we're leading to is that there's going to be a duality within my personality," Larter said in a conference call with journalists on Oct. 11. "So there's one side that has to conform to society's rules and laws, and the shadow side that can actually live out the dark fantasies that are repressed within all of us." On the show, Larter plays single mother Niki Sanders, whose mirror reflection seems to have a life of her own. 'Heroes' creator and executive producer Tim Kring, who also participated in the call, added that viewers can draw a parallel to the character of Niki and other famous dual personalities. "I would say that it's a very safe thing to sort of assume that it's a Dr. Jekyll-and-Mr. Hyde or Hulk kind of personality," Kring said. "But we are leaving the door very open for new surprises." Kring said that Niki's power was intentionally kept vague in the first few episodes because the writers wanted the audience to discover it along with the character. But there will be more explanation as the series continues. "It is intended to be confusing at the beginning, because we are following it through her point of view, as though you had woken up with this very curious thing happening to you," he said. "Niki's character is the one character that is discovering this in the most confusing way. So we are asking the audience to sort of buy into that conceit that it's going to be a road to discovery. And in the next couple of episodes, it becomes clearer and clearer. And after six episodes it should be very clear what's happening." Larter also revealed that her character's story will lighten up in future episodes, and she may even be getting a love interest. "I'm in a bit of fear and distress right now, but if you hold on for just one more episode, we're going to get a little romance," she said. "You get a little bit of cheekiness in it. And, actually, what's amazing about this writing is that it really pushes me and makes me kind of find, actually, all different tones within our show. So you're getting there. That's just the first couple episodes. It definitely opens up to a whole new world." 'Heroes' airs on NBC Mondays at 9 p.m. PT/ET.
Star Wars creator George Lucas told the Associated Press that he's making a 3-D computer-animated version of his hit animated Clone Wars TV series, which could air as early as next year, although he hasn't sold the show to a network yet. The series would be set during the time when the Republic is fighting a civil war against separatists led by Count Dooku. "It basically has all the main characters," such as Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi, Lucas told the AP. But the stars who played them in the movies won't voice them for the TV show. "There's nobody famous," Lucas said.
The show is planned as a continuation of the Emmy-winning 2-D animated Clone Wars, which aired in 25 episodes on Cartoon Network from 2003 to 2005.
What is the total trying to describe exactly?BIZARRE X-RAYS
A nail gun shot six nails into construction worker Isidro Mejia's head during an April 2004 accident. He not only survived but was expected at the time to recover fully.
Pirates of the Caribbean 4: Not sure how much I believe that they're writing Orlando Bloom out of the rumored fourth installment. He might be a testosterone-deprived pantywaist, but from my experience, chicks sorta dig that.
Alpha Dog: Kids, don't deal drugs — it only leads to cool tattoos, pool parties, hot babes and easy money.
Ghost Rider: The trailer has a ton of ridiculous moments, but my fave has to be Eva Mendes interviewing a Goth chick about Nic Cage's flaming skull.
I Slept With Joey Ramone: It only took 'Entourage' to remind Hollywood that A) Joey Ramone is dead, and B) Nobody has made a biopic about him.
Pan's Labyrinth: Each generation has its own weirdo kiddie movie filled with trippy visuals. For Gen-Xers, it was Labyrinth. Today's tweens get Pan's version, which has plenty of CGI but an unfortunate lack of David Bowie.
Rambo IV:The Serpent's Eye: Did you know that Christian missionaries are often attacked by pirates? Worse, sometimes they're imprisoned by Burmese soldiers. Fortunately, Stallone and his band of misfit mercenaries are coming to the rescue! But I bet they're not aware that it's only known as Burma to those countries choosing not to recognize its military junta. To those that do, it's Myanmar. You just learned something!
The Bourne Ultimatum: The first set pics see Bourne walkin' around with a predictable new love interest. How do you turn a butt-kicking superspy into an emasculated dork? Put him on a scooter.
Shut Up And Sing: What's on your iPod? On mine you'll find Britney Spears, hair metal, Huey Lewis and the band in this trailer, the Dixie Chicks. Some call my taste "eclectic." Others call it "embarrassing."
Well, well, that's about it. In a few weeks we'll be moving to a house, so there could be a break in the Phile for a week or two. Hopefully I'll know more next week. I will leave you with a random pic. Remember, spread the word and not the turd.


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So I thought I'd share a cluster of sketches from my sketchbook. Most of them are of my character, Bala, but there is one little sketch of jack and a caveman. I'm trying to tweak their designs a little bit to something I wont struggle to keep on model in the comics. I always design someone then after I draw them a few times some little trends in how I interpret them comes up so this is what usually happens. Balas face shape has been simplified a lot.
Okay, so now for the rest of the day, until I have to go to a staff meeting (on my DAY OFF FROM THAT JOB! hate!) I'm going to be colouring todays Hello, Albertosaurus comic page on Live stream so watch for it:! here is a preview:


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What needs to be done in the spring in order to prepare for food preservation through the harvest?
Spring has arrived, and local residents are itching to put on their gardening gloves. Before long, the Taylorsville Farmers Market will once again plant its vendors on Main Street, ready for sunshine and sales.
This is the 13th year Spencer residents have been able to enjoy buying fresh, locally grown produce and fruit downtown. For many, it's a routine part of spring.
Several Spencer County children and adults took a chance to get creative with gourds during a "Share Our Selves" class on Thursday at the Spencer County Cooperative Extension office.
To tell you the truth, I didn't know I had a crafting, creative side until I took a jewelry-making class in town last summer. Since then, I've made countless pairs of earrings and even ventured outside the world of jewelry thanks to the help of Pinterest.
For a lot of people, retirement represents freedom from schedules and the end of those long days spent toiling in jobs that provide income for the necessities of life. It's a time to slow down, sit back and watch the world go by.
But that's the worst thing a retiree can do, particularly anyone who is used to being busy and active, mentally and physically, according to Dr. John Lapp, a licensed professional clinical counselor in Taylorsville.
Safety will be the word of the day Saturday as the Spencer County Fish and Game Club hosts an open house and safety day at the club located at 1520 Little Mount Road (Ky. 44 on the four lane just before the entrance to Tanglewood).
Local fisherman Joe Paul Smith caught this largemouth bass on Feb. 24 in Polk City, Fla. The fish weighed 10 pounds, 1.5 ounces and was 25 inches long.
Smith was accompanied by Ron Call of Polk City and Clayton Call of North Port, Fla.
After the fish was weighed and measured, it was released.
Dawson Moore, the 11-year-old boy whose battle with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma — a tumor on the brain stem — captivated the hearts of Spencer Countians over the last nine months, died on Thursday.
Visitation for Dawson will be Sunday, April 7, from 1 to 8 p.m., and Monday, April 8, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. at Hall-Taylor Funeral Home.
Dawson's funeral will be Tuesday, April 9, at 2 p.m. at Spencer Christian Church.
For more information see the April 10 edition of The Spencer Magnet or visit the obituary section of our website.
One of the signs that spring has arrived is when yellow buttercups begin to appear, but it's during the winter months that the vegetative growth of buttercup actually takes place. As a cool-season weed, this plant often flourishes in over-grazed pasture with poor stands of desirable forages. In fact, many fields that have dense buttercup populations are fields heavily grazed by animals during the fall through the early spring months.
Last year our serviceberry was afflicted with a whimsical looking disease; the beautiful blue berries that appear in the summer looked like something from a Dr. Seuss book. In a good year the cedar waxwings usually flock in and eat the berries as they ripen, not so last year. The strange, white tubular protrusions that the berries were covered in not only looked funny but they kept the birds away, too.
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BATHURST Regional Council has been accused of making a "provocative decision" in its awarding of a scoping study tender for Centennial Park.
Bathurst company Integrated Design Group will conduct a scoping study into the park's future uses, which could range from keeping it as open space to constructing a new community building.
A council notice said the study "would assist council in determining a range of possible options for the future use of Centennial Park".
In January, former mayor Gary Rush said all options were being considered, and he would not rule out buildings being constructed on the site.
And, while council may have now announced which company will conduct the study, it provided no information on what ideas Integrated Design Group had for the future of the park.
Friends of Centennial Park (FoCP) group member Peter Simmons said they have long been concerned about the park's future.
"It does seem a provocative decision to award the scoping study tender to a company that specialises in buildings, not parks or gardens," he said.
"Centennial Park is in an area of town that has seen population density increase dramatically in recent decades.
"So many blocks have been subdivided with units, and those units have little or no garden."
FoCP member Vianne Tourle said the group have already called on council to improve the park, but to keep it as an open space.
It does seem a provocative decision to award the scoping study tender to a company that specialises in buildings, not parks or gardens.Friends of Centennial Park group member Peter Simmons
"[We] are interested in exploring ideas and designs that enable people to interact with and become closer to nature," she said.
New mayor Graeme Hanger said an in-depth community consultation would be conducted in the scoping study, and this would involve liaising with all community interest groups such as Friends of Centennial Park.
"A public discussion forum, open to all members of the community, will also be arranged, as will a working party with councillors to generate ideas for the park's future use," he said.


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This video was taken off youtube a while ago due to copyright infringement, so I'm glad I could find it elsewhere. Brenda Dickson is beyond ridiculous, with her orange lipstick and ostrich feathers. I'm always borrowing her quotes. Now that you've seen this, my "welcome to my home" message when you visit me will take on a whole new meaning.
Welcome to my home
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All the red boots made me crazy!
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Tobler sends NAPA to final round then Capps reaction gets fifth title, while DSR teammate Pritchett, Papa John's Pizza gets to another final
BRISTOL, TN – The first eight races of the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series season featured track- or world-record conditions and Don Schumacher Racing took advantage of those weather conditions.
But trend began going up in smoke as mid-summer temperatures rose last weekend in Englishtown, N.J., and continued the past three days during the NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals at Bristol Dragway in Tennessee.
The only records set Sunday during championship eliminations were for tire smoke, dropped engine cylinders.
Matco's Brown gets another pole at hometown track in New Jersey, Capps leads DSR Funny Cars with NAPA Dodge Charger R/T
ENGLISHTOWN, NJ – It was warm on Friday with temperatures in the low 80s for opening day of the 48th annual NHRA Summernationals at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park at Englishtown, N.J.
Then it got warmer on Saturday for the last day of qualifying with the thermometer reaching 85.
On Sunday for championship eliminations scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. (EDT) … it will be hot. The forecast high of 93, by any definition, is hot.
The rising temps make crew chiefs sweat even in the air-conditioned climes of their offices in Don Schumacher Racing technical trailers.
Capps, NAPA head to New England with 4-event, 15-round streak, aim to defend pole, title earned there a year ago in Mello Yello Series
BROWNSBURG, IN – It's bad news for the opposition on rare occasions when Ron Capps and NAPA AUTO PARTS Funny Car team lose in the first round of NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series competition.
After Capps lost in the first round at Topeka in 2016, the NAPA team led by crew chief Rahn Tobler and assistant Eric Lane went on to win three of the next four NHRA Wally trophies and fell one title short of sweeping the Eastern Swing that covers June.
The next time the world championship team lost in an opening round was this year's Las Vegas Nationals on April 2, and since then, Capps and NAPA team are unbeaten while winning the last four NHRA Wally trophies, including the last race two weeks ago at Topeka, Kan.
Capps Wins Fourth Straight in All-Mopar Dodge Charger R/T NHRA Funny Car Final at Topeka
Topeka, KS – The NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series reached the one-third mark of the 2017 schedule with this weekend's Heartland Nationals, and neither Ron Capps nor his Mopar teammates in the Nitro categories are showing signs of slowing any time soon. Capps took home the Wally trophy in Funny Car for the 53rd time in his career and fourth race in a row, driving his Dodge Charger R/T to the victory over his Mopar and Don Schumacher Racing (DSR) teammate Matt Hagan. Hagan meanwhile became the quickest and fastest driver in Funny Car history during event qualifying. Capps' win is the seventh for Mopar HEMI® power in the Funny Car category this season.
Capps defeated Hagan's Mopar Express Lane Dodge Charger R/T from the left lane with a pass of 3.924 seconds at 321.42 mph after a .054-second reaction time. Hagan turned in a pass of 3.985 at 318.92 with a .057 reaction time off the starting line. Capps and team had lane choice for the final, and made a last-second decision to move to the left lane just before the cars were fired. The race was a re-match of this year's Funny Car final round at the Arizona Nationals, which represents the only final round in which Capps has appeared but not won in 2017.
World champ Capps wins fourth straight with Tobler, NAPA Dodge, combines with Matco's Brown to sweep Topeka nitro titles for DSR
TOPEKA, KS – The Funny Car final round Sunday in the NHRA Heartland Nationals was going to be "déjà vu all over again" for Don Schumacher Racing's Ron Capps or Matt Hagan.
Hagan was trying to replicate what he did a year ago at Topeka, Kan., when he set both NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series world records and concluded his visit to Heartland Park by winning the Wally Trophy.
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I know we've talked about disappearing objects a couple of times, but the latest event in our household surpasses a misplaced pot or pan that turns up in an unlikely place.
One of my children "lost" her Pokemon binder from when she was young. No one has seen it for at least three years, when we moved into a new house. We have assumed it was packed away in some unused corner of the attic waiting to be found.
Before I go on, let me explain that when we moved, we transported everything across town in personal vehicles. There were no movers involved. I personally went through the old house and vacuumed out closets and checked by kid's rooms. The binder was not there.
Fast forward three years and a few months..
My daughter is now ready to go off to college and we take a trip to the big city to do some shopping. We drive into the Goodwill (70 miles from home) and browse for odd and ends for her room.
She notices a big binder and opens it. Inside is a neat array of Pokemon cards. She browses the pages, and notices that it has the same cards she had when she was young, she turns a few more pages and notices some "empty pockets" just like in her old binder, she turns to the end and finds several sheets of blank notebook paper at the back of the binder "just like her old binder." At this point, the theme song from twilight zone plays in her head and she closes the book to take a closer look at the front cover. There on the cover are the very stickers (unrelated to Pokemon)she had placed as a child. The binder WAS her old binder. These WERE her Pokemon cards.
These cards were not left in the old house. No one in the family donated them to Goodwill.(We didn't donate anything to anywhere.) No one gave them away. No one sold them at a yard sale. No one has seen them for at least three years.
So, I ask you. How did they get to the Goodwill still intact, in the same order, complete with loose leaf paper in the back of the book– THREE years later and 70 miles away? ( I will also note that when the clerk put them in the bag, she tipped the binder and cards began to spill out … yet they stayed neatly in order for three years.)
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I received this via an email alerting me to this discovery that did NOT make the MSM news....big shock. It's truly fascinating as to the amount of weapons found and destroyed by our troops.
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If any of these items are making you want to go green you can head over to HUF and get your fix. Be fast though they are a very limited run of clothes and so are extremely prolific.
Saturday, 21 April 2012
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For those of you that are unaware the terminology Four-Twenty is derived from an excursion a group of teens took to find a marijuana plantation. Now although the phrase is used as slang just for smoking green, some traditions remain the same. The 420 refers to the date the 20th of April and is associated with a cannabis bank holiday. Now you may wonder what that has to do with HUF? Well they have released a few green items to celebrate, this includes some awesome socks, a couple of sexy T-shirts, a sweet vest and two dope five panels.


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In the new horror film 'Insidious,' lots of creepy happenings occur inside the house belonging to Renai (Rose Byrne), like the radio that suddenly switches to Tiny Tim's 'Tiptoe Through the Tulips.'
The high-pitched '60s novelty song is arguably shudder-inducing in its own right, but in the new film from the director of 'Saw,' certain spirits' fondness for the tune makes it even creepier.
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I was in need of a variety of buttons and remembered that I had this box from my Grandma's things. Since I just need one button for each little card holder, it was the perfect source. Grandma saved buttons from everything - many of them still have thread in them. It's a great way to repurpose those old buttons and add a little charm to my projects.
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Very cool!
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Senator the Honourable Kamina Johnson Smith, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, in her capacity as Chair of the Caribbean Forum (CARIFORUM) of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States, will lead discussions at two Ministerial consultations.
The first will treat with the Caribbean within the framework of the relations between the European Union and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC). The second will address the future of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP), as well as the future of the ACP-EU relations after the Cotonou Agreement expires in 2020. Approximately 10 Ministers and 60 senior officials from across the Caribbean will participate in the consultations to be held at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in Kingston on March 29-30.
The CARIFORUM consultation is being held in the context of the ACP Group's broader reflections on the future direction of the Group, including its relations with the EU. The ultimate aim is to ensure that the ACP Group becomes a more effective global player, with the ability to influence development policy at the global level so that tangible benefits will redound to the peoples of the ACP Member States.
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The organisation of the meetings is being spearheaded by the CARIFORUM Directorate and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade.
Jamaica's chairmanship of the CARIFORUM commenced last year July and will end June 30, 2017.
The Georgetown Agreement was signed in 1975, and created the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP). The group is composed of 79 African, Caribbean and Pacific States. The Caribbean Forum (CARIFORUM) refers to the group of Caribbean ACP States that are signatories to the Georgetown Agreement.
All CARIFORUM States, with the exception of Cuba, are signatories to the ACP-EU Cotonou Partnership Agreement (Cotonou Agreement) and the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), respectively.
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Good week..
Good week I tell ya ..
First, i finished a book that i recommend each and every one of you to read and buy. Read it 2 or even 3 times if you can. Not many books do that to me, but this one did Influence the way I look at my life, wealth and future security. A must-have in your library.
Also, I discovered the fabulous world of the … (drum roll) .... iPod! My wife bought me the brand new 80 Gig video one in spankin black... and starting Monday this week, I was officially cool.
In work, I tried something new this week as well. I decided to spend at least 2 days working form home, every week. I think it would be an understatement to say that I get more work done in 1 day from home, than a 3 working days in the office.
It simple. No intrusive and random phonecalls diverted form the receptionist, no last minute calls to unscheduled and pointless meetings, no people standing over your head talking and planning their boring weekend... Just plain focus and concentration on getting things done.
I like this new work order. I think I am gonna stick to it for sometime.
Also, i had several but serious discussions on a number of business startups. Three to be precise. One which my wife will look after and its the most promising one. Another which I will be directly involved in with my friend Ali. This one will require major planning and preparation, but we feel very gung ho about it. The last project I discussed requires nothing but financial injection, its a no-brainer and a gurenteed winner.
Also this week I started watching Lost and Family Guy, starting all they way from Season 1. I always wanted to know what the fuss is all about with Lost. And as for Family Guy, I haven't been watching it regularly and ....I simple love that Stuewie charecter.
Oh and for the most important event of the week....
Baby M made her first baby crawl today.... :)


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At the moment I'm working on a novel proposal for an Italian publisher who is looking for First World War themed books for its new series. I was put onto it by a friend of a friend who also happens to be an Italian translator. I rather like the idea of being translated though was rather dubious whether my "And I Shall Be Healed", with its intrinsically English perspective would really interest anyone beyond its shores. Certainly, thousands of digital copies were downloaded in America when it was offered for free, but only one reader felt inclined to write a review and that wasn't a good one, requiring me to linger among the book's reviews on http://www.amazon.co.uk for comfort. Still, nothing ventured nothing gained so off we go.
I've been a bit slack, I must admit. A lack of confidence, the prospect of a new job (which would save me from the living death of freelancing) and a throat infection has kept me at bay for rather a long time and I'm only just getting back into the writing (see previous post for my over-enthusiastic list of writing projects). Anyway, I got through the list of points to include, kindly supplied by my translator, and sent the draft proposal off to her this morning. It has just come back with notes. This is what I want, I can work with notes. Without notes I feel like I'm trying to stab a pea in the dark with a cocktail stick. So, we're fine.
However, there's something else I found interesting. As you may be aware, I'm working on the sequel to "Healed" now. As a rule, I tend to work in layers of concentration: emotion & story; historical background; imagery. While I'm writing the emotion, I find that I think of the protagonist as "poor Leo". I don't think I'm alone, it's not for nothing that female readers like him better than males readers do; we want to take him home, give him a hug and feed him. Today, however, I was flicking through "Healed" to find good sample chapters and noticed that, while he is lonely and, ultimately, very ill, he is also rather a strong, self-motivating character. A timely reminder for me to bring some of that strength into the new book.
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I received a copy of Fixing Perfect by Theresa M. Travis from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
In the community of Avalon on Catalina Island, a psychopath is kidnapping children and perfectly posing and painting the bodies of adult victims to resemble disabled artist, Robin Ingram. Robin struggles with feelings of imperfection, and knowing some madman has a macabre agenda—which includes fixing her—is unsettling. She's relieved when paramedic Sam Albrecht steps up to help. Sam believes he knows the identity of the killer, and he wants nothing more than to prove it in order to keep Robin out of danger. Then Sam is arrested as a suspect for the crimes, and Robin's life is thrown into a fresh whirlwind. She may not know who the real killer is, but she does know Sam is innocent--and she will find the proof to set him free, or she'll die trying.
This was a really good book. Robin Ingram is disabled but that doesn't stop her from living life to the fullest. Each Saturday she plays softball with a group of other disabled people from the community of Avalon on Catalina Island. When a madman starts kidnapping children and posing them to resemble her she and everyone in the community is on edge. A good friend, and Robin's crush, Sam Albrecht helps in the search of the killer. When Sam finds one of the children in a building that had already been searched he becomes the prime suspect. Can Robin help the police find the real killer before it's too late?


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I've not posted much in the last week or so because my mind has been on other things. With the camper purchase, and all the odds & ends that go with it (insurance, title transfer, registration, blah blah blah), my mind has really not been on TTC at all lately.
I must say, its been a very nice distraction. I wish that we had timed it during a 2ww, but it's a good distraction nonetheless. Which got me thinking...
Is it really a distraction, or just a new obsession?
Seems as tho my mind "works best" when it can completely focus on 1 thing, for ridiculously extended amounts of time. Sure, there have been other distractions over the last 3.5 years, some good and some bad, and yet, my mind always comes back to this obsession over kids. Or cycles. My chart. A new med. The next procedure. You get the idea.
I guess I'm just wondering when the obsession will end. Will getting pregnant stop it, or just transform it into something new? What about labor? First steps? First day of school? The discussion about siblings?
How do I calm this obsessive mind of mine? I feel as tho I'm doomed to always have something - anything - in my life that feels mentally and emotionally "all consuming". And to be honest, that's really scary. And it certainly can't be healthy.
So, seriously folks, how do I learn to calm my mind? Or at least refocus it into "obsessions" that I have more control over, that bring about something healthy for me, my family, etc? I'm really looking for some honest and constructive suggestions here. Help! Please!
Friday, October 26, 2007
obsession junkie?
I've not posted much in the last week or so because my mind has been on other things. With the camper purchase, and all the odds & ends that go with it (insurance, title transfer, registration, blah blah blah), my mind has really not been on TTC at all lately.
Posted by IdleMindOfBeth at 9:34 AM
Labels: IF, life changes
3 Comments:
- Kaci said...
I'm glad the camper has provided a temporary distraction from the world of TTC. I can't answer your questions, but I don't think anything will ever consume you the way TTC does. Sure, you'll obsess over a birth plan, parenting skills, breastfeeding, whatever...I imagine you'll read books & websites galore to educate yourself so that you can make informed decisions. I know I tend to jump from one obsession to another, but I don't think I take it to the extreme, and I really don't think you do either. If you did, the HD girls would have to plan an intervention because that is when it becomes unhealthy. :)
- October 26, 2007 at 1:39 PM
- chicklet said...
I can't help you there, I'm as crazy as you are. without something to focus all my attention on, I find something else to focus on...
- October 26, 2007 at 8:01 PM
- Kim said...
I understand your thoughts on this. I obsess over things and I'm hoping at the end of this journey I'll be a little less obsessive and more relaxed. Because we all know there is NO relaxing during TTC, only minor distractions (btw - glad you had some with the camper - lots of fun to come w/ that, I'm sure! Congrats!)
- October 27, 2007 at 12:33 PM


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Billy Newport Discusses Parallel Programming in Java
Billy Newport talks to InfoQ about the need for higher level abstraction to do parallel programming with multi-core systems effectively. The interview explores some approaches taken with MapReduce products such as Cascading and Pig for a Hadoop cluster, explores the limitations of the actor model and message passing, and touches on IBM's WebSphere eXtreme Scale (ObjectGrid) product.
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In this interview SpringSource's Filip Hanik, a key participant in the company's Apache Tomcat initiatives, explores the reasons for Tomcat's continuing popularity, what tc Server provides on top of a base Tomcat installation, and future plans for both tc Server and Tomcat.
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SpringSource CTO Adrian Colyer talks to InfoQ about AspectJ. The interview explores how products such as Spring Roo are using AspectJ, and how ideas from AspectJ helped SpringSource improve the Groovy compiler inside Eclipse. Colyer also discusses SpringSource's two server offerings, dm Server and tc Server, OSGi and Scrum.
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In this interview made by InfoQ's Srini Penchikala, Rob Harrop talks about SpringSource dm Server, its OSGi based modularity and the advantages it offers. He also touches other adjacent topics like support for Java EE6, cloud computing, JMX, and others.
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In this interview made by Srini Penchikala, with the participation of Ryan Slobojan, Rod Johnson answered many questions about Spring Framework 3.0 and other applications developed under SpringSource's umbrella - Tool Suite, Integration, Web Flow, Batch – talking about their current status and existing plans for the future.
Dan Farino On MySpace's Architecture
In this interview taken by InfoQ's Ryan Slobojan, Dan Farino, Chief Systems Architect at MySpace, talks about the system architecture and the challenges faced when building a very large online community. Because MySpace is built almost entirely on the .NET Framework, Dan explains how a .NET product scales on hundreds of servers.
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In this interview filmed at RubyFringe 2008, Tom Preston-Werner talks about how both Powerset and GitHub use Ruby and Erlang, as well as tools like Fuzed, god, and more.
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This is also one of my all-time favorites. I didn't expect anything from this track, but it became apparent very quickly that it was going to be special. I took the melody from the Norwegian folk song Per Spelmann and wrote lyrics more or less pertinent to Ballard. Captain Obvious told me that places change over time. Ballard has gone from a Scandinavian enclave rich in maritime tradition to a built-up suburb with pricey restaurants. That's all very well and good, but what would someone, say, a ghost named Gunnar, think if he appeared in Ballard, say, on March 21st or so? This is about that.
The pianist is the good-smelling Ty Bailie. Johnny's studio doesn't have a piano, so we used a keyboard instead. It does the job well enough, but there are exposed passages where it sounds totally fake. We only needed two takes to get this in the can. And it was fun. Really fun. Strangely enough, when I was prepping the tunes for recording, I seriously considered hiring someone else to sing every song on this album, such was my lack of confidence in my vocal stylings. Listening to this tune, I have no idea why I would ever think that. It's not that I sound like Pavarotti; no, it's that I can deliver a good performance, sing reasonably in tune and sound like myself. Simple as that. This rendition amazed me because I didn't feel capable of doing anything like this before I started. And this version is not perfect by any means, but that's what I was trying for. It's ragged, but it has life to it. At one point, I almost started laughing, because we were both tripping over each other. It's the rubato line about "delicious Rainier." But I pulled it back and we finished. Throughout the take, things threatened to derail us, but we kept going and it all turned out OK. I'm hoping that this song will also be a metaphor for my fortunes in the business.


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Recently, I completed my first adventure/endurance race and holy….eff…was it hard.
I mean, there are hard races (like the one I ran Sunday in Baltimore that was a bit hillier than I was prepared for) but then there are races that just challenge your endurance and make you leave everything out on the course. Those races can be marathons or they can be endurance 5k races. Regardless of the race that challenges your endurance and confidence as an athlete, the Foam Fest 5k was that race for me.
It was a good race – the Foam Fest 5k course was challenging enough, it looped through woods (wowza hills!) and up and down motocross jumps on a dirt path. We started by running through a massive pile of foam. Woo?
The obstacles seemed pretty standard for a mud run/endurance race based on what I've heard – army crawling through mud (gross. I was so grossed out), over/unders on logs, walls that you climb over, you know the drill.
It was pretty well organized with some solid volunteers kicking around. I was late for the race because it took us longer to get down there than we anticipated, but jumping into another wave wasn't difficult – they started about 10 – 15 minutes apart. However, as I've heard from many others who have completed other endurance runs, I did think that there was a lack of volunteers on the course with many obstacles not having any supervision. Although I personally never felt unsafe, I can see how if someone was a newbie, they could certain feel like something was lacking with the race.
The course it self first sent us through a dirt motocross track for about the fist mile, into the woods, there were a couple of inflatable obstacles that were fun but nothing challenging.
There was one obstacle that held us up for about 10 minutes or so – annoying – it was when you had run over a foam bridge over a pool of muddy water. Of course I fell. Of course I did.
The course had a couple of more obstacles in the field area before we headed into the woods for a good mile and a half with a few obstacles (spider web, army crawling) along the way. We came out of the woods around mile 2-2.5 for a few more inflatable obstacles and a couple of ropes challenges which were…okay…but kind of cheesy at best.
It should be noted that my lululemon cool racerback tank top grew in length about four inches because of the water. Thus looking like my shorts were MIA.
We finished off after a massive slide that totally scared the pants off me. I'm afraid of heights so I definitely had breathe deeply for that one.
All in all, it was a really fun, challenging race. But there were tons of walkers, groups and people of all levels so it was an all-levels race. Definitely, no matter what level you are, go in expecting to run for time.
Unfortunately, Foam Fest has since gone bankrupt leaving a lot of people out of money (the race wasn't cheap!) and angry – understandably so.
All in all, it was fun day. It would have been a lot more fun had I ran it with a group of pals. It's definitely an all-level kind of activity – no one is going to make you feel bad for walking up hills or struggling through obstacles. Everyone was super supportive and the volunteers were great along the way (when I saw them. there didn't seem to be an over abundance of them).
Have you ever done an obstacle race?
Disclosure: I was provided with a free entry to the race thanks to Fit Approach as a race ambassador. All thoughts here are my own.


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Cheap Phone
This is age of mobile connectivity and everyone around is carrying at least one mobile communicating device with him or her. Nobody wants to stay out of touch with the world even for a minute. It may be a necessity, like staying in touch with the clients or colleagues or checking the constant flow of emails and sms texts. It can also be more of a relaxation, like gaming or receiving constant update from social media like Facebook or Twitter. Whatever is your case, the importance of mobiles to stay in touch with your near and dear ones can never be overlooked. As more and more companies are entering into the field of mobile handset manufacturing and offering a newer model every second day, sometimes the naive buyer is confused with a plethora of options, presented in front of him. If rich enough, he can choose the best mobile his money can buy him, but if he has to work hard for his money and need to spend money wisely, he must select a phone with all desired features at price he can afford


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two diariez today....
but then again I don't have the cables to my ps and I don't know if the controller
would work in a ps2...
but I wonder do the ps2 cables work for ps1? the one cable I DO have for it looks
like the ps2 one.. I can't find the answer on the interwebz so I'll just have to take
a good look at my ps2..... but I'm still afraid to try anything before I know the
answer in case I'm totally wrong and bad things will happen @_@
but if it does work then I can look for a copy and controller for it <333333 and have
THE best gaming experience evah....
just with that one game <3.... and klonoa cause I always thought it looked fun B)
oh yeah, DBGT Final Bout (J) too since I already have it but haven't been able to
play due to being too lazy to get my bro to show me how Swap Magic works.
but omg this game..... ;-; it's... so... awesome... ;_; Minimoni/Morning Musume songs
+ Minimoni on screen dancing with their cute little tambourines + awesome rhythm game
of pwn = MOST BESTEST ADORABLEST GAME EVER <33333333
and omg.... Ai no Uta (the 1st Minihamuzu song) is in the game too....
and Koi no Dance Site <33333333333333 OMG LOOOOVE THIZZZZZZ SO MUCH
(and despite missing my ps cables, I do still have the hacker for it that lets me
play Japanese games on it. that's why I have the jap ver of DBGT Final Bout but
<33333 oooooomgggggggg why do Japan's rhythm games own so much? ;o; sure we get DDR
and Guitar Hero and Rock Band and stuff but they only have English songs and
stuffff... and while the songs that are in DDR gamez and Rockband are awesome from
what I've played of the two games, they still all have 999 songs that I don't care
for or (in gh and rockband's cases) hate... but that's just cause I don't like it
when songs are all music and words and it's like the people aren't even singing in em
or the vocal notes are just terrible to where I'd rather listen to an off-vocal
version.. ^^;
but I like half the songs they choose to put in japanese rhythm games of ownage cause
they'll have 999 good anime songs and stuff like L'Arc~En~Ciel and Nightmare and
Morning Musume and Maximum the Hormone and junk =/ and they don't have to stick to
just their stuff either. they have some of our songs. I mean, heck, KISS was in
Drummania V4... so why don't we get some of theirs <=3..
owell.. hope I can someday play <33333
that 2nd song thee Oi Oi whats with your Web Site thing iz in oendan
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Mountain living only 15 minutes above Boulder. The large bright kitchen has tile floors and skylights. Living room with cozy wood stove. Enclosed porch and 10x16 outbuilding with electric & propane. Newer well and septic. Easy access on paved roads. The school bus stops in front of property. Beautiful lilac bushes along road and large rock-outcroppings behind.
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So, let it be said that I enjoy conceptualising stories, but don't often get around to fleshing the stories out, or even if I do, taking the time to write them. I just like how cool they seem.
Here is another story I've though of, just the beginning. I have big plans for this, lots of fantastic twists, but as I said, I probably wont get around to writing it all out.
yet untitled.
Six small sets of blue eyes gazed out as the patin'Talis held his arms up. The young girls would come once a week to the temple to learn about their history and their people.
"and Talis spread wide her glimmering sapphire arms, allowing her heart and being to pour out into the hard land formed by Rang." At this, the Patin likewise outstretched his arms, and the blue light filtering through the ceiling of the temple suffused him with an ethereal glow. The eyes of the children were wide with wonder.
"The being of Talis is the spirit and the law of the land. Under her heartfelt touch the lands cooled, the oceans rose and shade was cast down from the mountains. Order was put into place to govern the life that would come, for the goddesses had all planned this world's creation and each devoted the nature of their beings to infuse their new world.
"After Talis gave her gift to the land, the emerald goddess joined the goddesses of sapphire and ruby. From her being poured forth all that lives in the land. The greenery of the forests, plains and brushland, the animals and fish in the oceans and birds of the skies. Creatures to live under the law of Talis and on the red lands of Rang."
One of the girls wrinkled her nose and stuck her hand in the air with a question. "Yes, little one?" inquired the Patin.
"Who was the emerald goddess? Did she have a name?"
"I was just getting to that" winked the Patin, "the three goddesses joined their hands and descended down to their new world. When they landed, they scattered through all the realms, leaving their legacy stones buried deep in the ground, and infused the peoples with purpose, drawing them to the goddesses' chosen sites. At these sites, the people gathered together to find large piles of stone, and the cry of a newborn infant. The people used the stone to build temples to the goddesses, and lived around them, raising the infant as their Patin, since each child wore a necklace with the purest of stones in it, resembling the goddesses." At this, the Patin smiled as he touched the sapphire through his robe. It had been passed down through the Patins, and he now wore it, to teach the people of their goddess.
"The first word each child spoke was the name given to the child, and to the goddess who gave it as a gift. Here," the Patin, arms once again extended, looked up and motioned to the building they were in "is where Talis came to rest many years ago. The people of Talis built this very temple and constructed this great roof from the abundance of sapphire stones in the ground."
The temple was a small structure when seen from outside, but on the inside, it seemed massive. The lofty sapphire ceiling cast blue light through the whole place when the sun shone. The planes and angles of the roof were built just so that as long as the sun was above the horizon, the light was caught and reflected down.
"The temple of Rang was built to the north, in arc'Rang, right next to the mountains. And the temple of the emerald goddess was built far to the east, across the vast oceans. The first people of Talis remembered that they saw green streaking towards the oceans even as Talis struck the ground here. The people of the emerald goddess have never travelled across the oceans to arc'Talis, and the name of their goddess has never reached our ears."
At the mention of the people of the emerald goddess, the Patin caught movement to his right. He looked to see Elena emerge from their quarters below. He couldn't help but smile at seeing her, and remember that day so long ago when he first found her, bundled in a rich cloth matching the grass at his feet. The man who brought her was quite odd. He didn't speak a word, and left the child with the Patin. What was most odd was that there was no colour to this man. Whether in his clothes or skin or eyes, he was all shades of gray. The Patin adopted the girl as his daughter. She was an infant, just shy of a year past her birth, and while he was thinking of a name to call her, she looked up at him and squealed "Elena," pronouncing it with odd clarity for one so young, but she kept repeating the word, so the Patin gave it to her for her name.
She was a delightful child and grew over the past sixteen years to be a wonderful young woman. She was one of the few in the tribe without the pure blue eyes of Talis. Instead, hers were emerald in colour. . .
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
another story?
Posted by wanderer/wonderer at 1:06 AM
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- Marblehead Johnson said...
You stole my layout!!
Just kidding :) Hiyas!
- July 24, 2007 at 12:35 PM
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Excuses for skipping another workout? Let me count the ways
My heart is thumping and sweat is sidewinding its way down my temples as my Asics beat against the rubber.
I ran exactly twice in the first two months of the year. I know. Not great for someone trying to get her health back on track.
The litany of excuses are many – moving into a new house, getting a puppy, traveling for work, the coziness of my down comforter. Now, I can feel the extra few pounds that have crept back as I plod along on the treadmill.
I look around me at the men and women (some toned, some not) doing lat-pulldowns and crunches. It's been more than five years since I've had a gym membership. My old apartment complex had one, but the new house does not.
So last week, I drove to the L.A. Fitness closest to my house and signed up.
Not everyone is a gym person, but for me, it's a motivator. Seeing others working up a sweat challenges me to push my body more too.
More importantly, the gym offers variety. Stair step machines, stationary bikes, barbells, swimming pools, yoga classes, the list of options goes on.
I love to run, but it can sometimes get monotonous.
Studies show that switching up your workout routine not only helps work different muscles but also helps you stick with it. Mixing things up can also help reduce the risk of injuries.
And no matter what activity you choose on any particular day, you're still achieving a key goal in keeping yourself at a healthy weight: burning calories.
So I'm going to do my best to get my butt to the gym no matter how much I'd rather be sitting on the couch re-watching an episode of Criminal Minds for the umpteenth time.
Got a health question? Email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Should we slap a tax on sugary drinks?
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Saturday, 23 October 2010
Transformers (Michael Bay, 2007)
With a bland, identikit cast that has clearly mistaken shouting for acting it is down to the Transformers themselves to provide the human interest, but apart from the platitude-spouting Optimus Prime and the silent Bumblebee, the rest of the robots look and sound too similar and do too little to be in any way memorable.
This is a terrible film, one which no amount of nostalgia or brainless summer apologism can possibly excuse. And if the rumours are true that it was only ever made because producer Don Murphy failed to get the rights to 'G.I. Joe', a film that never should have been made in the first place.
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Naar Printer Verzenden. Dit Duurt Zo'n 5 Minuten. Hoe Los Ik Dit Op?It's been more than a year since Formlabs debuted its Form 1+ 3D printer, but that was more of a slight revamp of the company's original 2013-era Form 1 printer, rather than a true successor. In order to minimise down time, all of our technicians carry an extensive range of spare parts and Maintenance Kits as car stock. Snapshot serwis ploterow w Poznaniu have no options for larger media, networking, or memory upgrades. From the most complex repairs to simple fixes, we are committed to providing our customers with exceptional service and support so you can get back to work.
Next, the HP plotters (all supporting HPGL) as primary hardware base were and still are standard. In drum plotters the pen is moved in a single axis track and the paper itself moves on a cylindrical drum to add the other axis or dimension. Canon PIXMA iP4850 printer is quite famous for various countries (America, Canada, the UK). Bubble jet, laser and inkjet are some of the typical technology used in printers for business or individual purposes.
For many universities, 3D printers have become an indispensable asset for promoting learning and education. Inkjet receipt printers are recommended for low turnover retail, banks and gaming industry. In the 1970s & 80s, dot matrix printers were one of the more common types of printers used for general use, such as for home and small office use. Action Printer Repair was formed in 2006, specializing in laser printer repair.
The best part is that your documents are compatibles to these printers regardless of the format they are available in. He prophetically predicted that the press and some members of my own government would turn on me and Bruce and others like us who took aggressive action to prevent the next 9/11 attack and save American lives, " Mitchell writes. This is a plotter where the paper is fixed on a flat surface and pens are moved to draw the image.
He then suggested a refurbished printer that was much cheaper than the part and would accommodate me for my printing needs which he understood from looking at my average usage etc. The electronically controlled pen is moved around the paper by computer controlled motors. Similar to Epson's ink tank naprawa ploterow z Poznania' proposition, Canon's G series printers are designed to offer high volume printing at extremely low running costs.
That interrogator forced Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the alleged plotter of the USS Cole bombing, into positions that caused serwis ploterów HP to scream and risked dislocating his shoulders, Mitchell says. For these very reasons, laser printers are more popular in larger office settings. Given the price of the cartridges this works out at about 1. 6 cents per monochrome page and 7. 3 cents for a colour page, which is remarkably cheap for inkjet printers.
The introduction of the low-cost laser printer in 1984 with the first HP LaserJet, and the addition of PostScript in next year's Apple LaserWriter, set off a revolution in printing known as desktop publishing Laser printers using PostScript mixed text and graphics, like dot-matrix printers, but at quality levels formerly available only from commercial typesetting systems.
One of the most important things you need to discuss with your printers are the price so make sure you tell them what you need exactly, how you want the prints to look etc. For customers with maintenance agreements where service requires a longer period of time, we offer loaner machines through our copier leasing department. HP Designjet 500/510/800 Series Printers - System Error 21: 10- Service station problem.


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Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Yes, grammar still matters.
Attention aspiring sports journalists: Knowing the difference between "who" and "whom" is still important. According to a survey of sports editors, grammar and writing skills are lacking in many of the young journalists they interview and hire. Meanwhile, aspiring writers should also become more tech savvy and versatile, according to the survey. That means making the most of the range of journalism and other classes offered at the university level and seeking experience through internships and other writing outlets.
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Christmas is over for another year and the new year is almost here. I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and wish the best to all for a happy and healthy new year.
We had a lovely Christmas this year with Lauren and Mark and Reese here for several days. We had lots of lobster chowder, the traditional turkey dinner and more lobster. We went to my brother's home in Yarmouth on Boxing Day for fresh lobster and I must admit, I am almost lobstered out.
Reese is just a doll and raced around babbling to herself and anyone who would listen! She recently learned the word no and put that to good use whilst they were here. She even had the occasional NO WAY just to keep her parents on their toes.
Here are a few pictures of Reese on her visit:
Giving her father a big kiss:
A nice comfy place to watch TV:
Playing ball with Maggie & Dad:
On the knitting front, I finished a Wavy Scarf I had started. It needs blocking and I don't have a picture to post. I started a sweater for Mark that I found whilst I was cleaning out my stash pre surgery. I bought the pattern and yarn a few years ago, but he still likes it so I am doing it. I must say, it is a heavy wool and with size 9 mm needles it is knitting up very quickly. I think it may be a bit small but Mark feels it will stretch. We will see. I must say it is doing up so quickly I would almost take it apart and do it over again. Not likely, but I could.
As for Christmas knitting gifts, I received a Swift from my oldest daughter and a gorgeous sweater kit from John. I will confess to having some input into those gifts. I also received a gift certificate to Have A Yarn in Mahone Bay. Did someone say road trip?
The weather has been really horrid lately, either snow or rain or both almost every other day. We are hoping to go to the Charlie Wilson's War movie in Bridgewater tonight, so I hope the snow that is coming down will soon turn to rain like they predicted.
New Years' eve we are going to dinner at the Trattoria della Nonna in Lunenburg with two other couples, so again, we hope for rain no snow!
I have been trying to figure out how to post videos to this stupid blog and it doesn't seem to be working. It says it is uploading and it has been going on for a while and won't let me do anything else, even cancel it. So there may or may not be a cute video of Reese. It won't work. I will try later.
Bye bye for now!
All The Shingle Ladies
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One of the photo shoots I had for the line I created back in the Spring for the school fashion show.
I designed and made the pink tutu and turquoise tutu dress. The vest paired with the pink tutu was an alteration I made by changing the back fabric. I also made the flower headband and hair scarf.


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Well...I just sent my entry for the MME DT! Just in time! I am so glad to have it done! I love what I have created and I hope they do too!
Today Kennedy and I went to Leawood City Hall to a kid's outdoor concert. She was not interested in the music but was very interested in exploring! So we walked all around the grounds! I got a few good shots! She really loves plants and dirt - as you can see from her sitting in the ivy!!
I am not addicted to taking her photo, am I?!
She is just too darn cute!!!
Tonight Jeff had some more events for Corporate Challenge. Tuesday he ran the mile and tonight he had two more track events. Kennedy and I went along to watch and cheer him on! He ran the 800 and did a great job! He also did the long jump - which he had never done in his life!!! So I was very impressed that he jumped at all! I wouldn't have even know when to jump! I did get a shot of him jumping from quite a distance. So it is a little fuzzy, but cool anyway!
It's done!
2 comments:
- Dana Tate said...
wow...looks like Jeff did really good.
Kennedy is so beautiful.
Glad you were able to do this. Now even though we can't always catch up..we sorta can.
- Jenny Lilac said...
Adorable pictures! Good luck with your MME entry!
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