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What Suggestions Do You Have For the National Park Service?
After my recent visit to Mount Rainier National Park, I have the following two very specific suggestions:
First, have hand soap in the campground bathrooms. It seems to me that MORA is trying to save money by not having soap in the campground bathrooms. This seems to pose a public health risk. When talking to the seasonal maintenance staff, they said management told them they didn't have soap because campers would bring their own soap. I suppose this has some logic to it, but it's kind of inconvenient to go number 2 and then, discovering there is no soap, to have to open the door with unclean hands and walk back to camp and dig through everything with contaminated hands to find some bar soap and then walk back to the bathroom to wash one's hands. Perhaps the NPS could divert money SEKI is spending on a Rae Lakes eHike, done to make the parks' web content more "hip". In my opinion soap, clean bathrooms, and toilet paper are more important and more relevant to ACTUAL park visitors than hip web content. The NPS could cut any number of social engineering projects and divert that tax money to providing high-quality basic visitor services.
Secondly, hire quality seasonal interpretive rangers who have proven teaching experience and talent rather than hiring people from certain ethnic groups to "diversify the staff". I sat through the worst evening program in my life at Mount Rainier last week. The NPS has moved from Kodak slide projectors in favor of PowerPoint, but newer technology alone cannot guarantee a higher quality visitor experience. The interpretive ranger had PowerPoint slides with far too much text, including grammatical and spelling errors. Each slide stayed up for several minutes as the ranger droned on and on and on without a solid theme. Her public speaking skills were atrocious, and she mispronounced and misspoke numerous words. Small maps on slides were too hard to read. The program was just horrible. I had to apologize to my wife, who had never seen an evening program. I told her about the amazing programs I saw over the last 22 years and how special they were and how you just had this magical feeling at a campfire program. How did this person get hired? Well, she is an ethnic minority, and the NPS has an unofficial policy of preferring "underrepresented" minorities to "diversify" the staff rather than hiring people based on talent and experience alone. No amount of technology can mask incompetence.
How is Cape Hatteras National Seashore Faring Under Travel Restrictions?
Here we go with our beloved Congress again: they'll look at the economic downturn as an excuse to ramrod their own peeves through to legality. "Oh, the economy is bad, it must be because we aren't letting people tear up the beach with their ORVs." Forget that we have an oil crisis and food costs are going up. These things are keeping people home, not rules on beach usage.
But Congress, being Congress, will use this downturn to trod on the law to the benefit of their friends.
My travels through the National Park System: americaincontext.com
How is Cape Hatteras National Seashore Faring Under Travel Restrictions?
the negative response to the consent decree seems to be overstated and without sufficient basis. I have seen signs that indicate that the government is trying to "close Hatteras." I can only conclude that these signs are intended to misinform the public and to sway public opinion through a campaign of misinformation. I walked the beach along the cape shore this morning (8/5/08) and the ORV's clearly still have sufficient access to the beach and prime fishing areas. The restricted areas seem to be confined to what is reasonably necessary to protect wildlife and, at the same time, allow access for beach driving. The restrictions are limited in time and scope. The park service has clearly provided a throughway for vehicles to pass through the areas restricted for protection of wildlife so that people who want to fish in the surf in more remote areas can continue to do so. I am in Salvo for a 2 week vacation (spending limited personal income for this vacation) and the limited restrictions are in no way a disincentive for my visit. To the contrary, I am pleased that the park service is working towards protecting the valuable and pristine natural resources, including wildlife, on these outer banks, which resources are clearly a draw to tourism. I am not personally or professionally involved in this dispute or litigation but wanted to offer my observations and view of the situation based on my experience as a visitor and someone who enjoys both state and national parks.
Odes to the National Park Rangers Who Wear the Grey and Green
This is a fine piece to be sure, but not all NPS rangers wear the green and grey. Indeed, many of us wear green polo shirts and khaki pants since we are Centennial employees and Congress didn't fund our uniforms, and due to this many visitors don't see us as park employees. Perhaps a better title would be "Odes to the National Park Rangers Who Wear the Arrowhead".
Oklahoma City National Memorial is a Fine Memorial, But It's Not a National Park
I agree that the OCNM is not a national park, however, because it is a very importnant piece of American History, that is a popular place of interest, and this may be one of the reason's that it is listed on the NPS's website (besides the reason(s) given in the article). Unless one has visited the site in person they will not fully understand the impact OCNM has on every person who visits (I know, I was one who did). There are plenty of Memorials across the nation that are not parks, but I assume that they are probably also listed somewhere on the NPS site and have the same FAQs indicating that they're not an actual park, but an affiliate, and therefor listed with NPS as park like.
Example: Cemeteries are not Parks, but goto nationalparkstraveler.com and search for "Arlington National Cemetery" and you can find ANC listed on "nps.gov" because it is a park (http://www.nps.gov/archive/arho/tour/parkinfo.html ) "Park Information"
"Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial is part of the National Park System and is a unit of the George Washington Memorial Parkway, a 7600-acre national park area protecting the landscape, native habitat and cultural history of the Potomac River shoreline. " (Last Updated: 20 October 2006, 7:40 AM by Keith Drews).
Notice right in the opening page quote that it reads "part of the NPS" I believe the reason ANC is listed as a park is because of every man and woman that served this country to defend our rights for the "pursuit of Life, Liberty, and Happiness" w/o the guarantees of absolutely receiving them.
As Janiskee points out it is all about the "know" of what you are looking for and how much research you are willing to put forth in the truth of your information and passing there onto.
What Suggestions Do You Have For the National Park Service?
These suggestions are aimed at Congress for the management of NPS and its units:
1) NPS units should never -- ever-- be designated solely to boost tourism revenue for nearby towns. National Parks should exist to educate and celebrate and preserve ecosystems, landscapes, landmarks and our natural and cultural history.
2) Ditch the entrance fees. The importance of our national parks and the education and enlightenment visitors receive there should be entirely taxayer-funded. No potential visitor should ever have to question whether he or she can afford to enter a park after spending a fortune to get there.
3) Maintain the no pets rule. NPS should never be in the business of managing dogs and cats and their excrement. Park resources are too precious for their managers to be distracted by pets and their testy owners.
4) Put resource protection above infrastructure improvements -- period. Controversial, I know, but the sleekness and extravagance of a visitor center (the new Arches NP monstrosity is a perfect example) is far less important than protecting the very resources the parks were presumably designated for in the first place. That said, when infrastructure must take priority, do it right. New visitor centers should be humble, accessible and artful, following the tradition of the best and least gaudy Mission 66 and previous projects while not being extravagant and grandiose. Economical aesthetic value is important: When Arches erected new roadsigns last year, they lacked the traditional (albeit scant) NPS aesthetic value, looking like boring instutional block-letter highway signs. Please show the least bit of artfulness.
5) All new structures and infrastructure should fit the landscape and should employ "green," energy efficient architecture.
6) The goverment should attempt to purchase land around national parks that can serve as buffer zones between development and the parks themselves, each acting as a transition between the developed environment and that of the protected park setting.
7) Congress and the NPS should vigorously oppose any and all energy development surrounding national parks. Canyonlands NP last year had a giant drilling rig set up within view of the Island in the Sky entrance station, while flaring oil wells can be seen at night from Arches National Park's Windows section. Such development (most of it on public land) degrades our parks and their air quality. Congress should pass a moratorium on any resource extraction on public lands within 10 miles or or within view of a national park boundary regardless what anti-park locals have to say about it.
8) It should go without saying that pumping tax dollars into our parks is an investment in our heritage, national identity and future. Neglecting parks and the resources they protect is an affront to all Americans. What we choose to protect and celebrate is a telling commentary on who we are as a nation and a people. Don't squander this opportunity.
What Suggestions Do You Have For the National Park Service?
I have been visiting National Parks since a baby here in Utah and have gained so much more in life because of it. Any extra cost is worth it, if a person can pay $40 for ONE DAY at a Six Flags I think we can manage $80 for a year worth of National Parks and the additional parking fees. However, the parks should notify patrons of the parking fees or supply a list of parks that charge these fees.
I also have another recommendation: Free Days. In Ogden, Utah there is a program called R.A.M.P that charges a tax in order to have the local museums offer a day free. This allows people of lower income or people who would normally not pay to go to local parks/museums a free day to try it. This program has led to me buying multiple season pases to local museums, because I did not realize what they had to offer. National Parks should offer this to build up visitation, thus lowering costs or just to allow people the chance to view.
What Suggestions Do You Have For the National Park Service?
As touched on briefly above, I don't want my "national" parks to be in the business of supporting overseas interests. I don't need "Native American" artifacts made in China, clothing stitched in Cambodia, DVD's produced in Mexico, and disposable cameras from Japan. Have we as a country descended down the path of ineptness to the depths that we are no longer capable of manufacturing products in this country that until recently, were accepted by the world as the benchmark of quality? Has outsourcing become such an accepted way of doing business, centered solely around the corporate bottom line, that we've grown too lazy to do it ourselves, even when we are the ones who stand to directly reap the benefits of our labors? What better forum to display OUR ability and genius than in OUR national treasures? Unless we, as a nation, have no national pride and insist on being the doormat for every international refugee what comes along, to the point of "not wanting to insult or denigrate their heritage by demanding they conform to our society" as the quote goes. What about OUR heritage? Or have we completely lost track of what pathetic little history we've created within the bounds of these shores?
Maybe due to the fact that I maintain a much earlier schedule that do most of you, I've never found parking to be an issue, per se. Finding a convenient spot is one thing, paying an additional fee is indeed totally unacceptable. If there is any justification for the collection of additional access fees it would most assuredly be to recoup the costs incurred from providing a regular, reliable and convenient shuttle service. Until the shuttles are provided and available system-wide as the norm rather than the exception, I find fee collection and the associated congestion and pollution issues to be an abomination within the NPS. You don't have to be of superior intellect to institute routing for each park. But the initial influx of revenue to purchase the equipment and erect the infrastructure is awaiting Congressional approval. Or more accurately, awaiting Congressional interest, of which there exists precious little in Washington. It's a shame and a sham how politicians are allowed to ruin public lands while protecting the interests of pathetic little maggots such as oil barons and foreign investors. But since that manner of person invests heavily in purchasing puppets who wear the label of Senator and Congressman, what more should "we the People" expect from our representatives, who only pay lip-service to OUR interests during election year campaign speeches, which as anyone should be able to diagnose, as nothing short of a large, stinking pile of crap aimed solely at the mindless American once-in-a great-while voter?
The best suggestion I have for the NPS is to free itself from the political toilet that is our "democracy" and create its own federal entity, unbeholden to the garbage that currently is responsible for allocating funding, and function as a self-sufficient "federal business". Become the land managers, preservationists, environmentalists, wildlife managers and ecologists that you were trained to be; exercise and develop those skills that you have not been encouraged or allowed to demonstrate due to constrictions placed on you under the guise of "federal guidelines" enacted by the subservient jesters of special interest "America", your political representatives and mine. Grasp the reigns of a runaway system away from those who have proven they have neither the education nor inclination to "manage" our unique national treasures. Only then, with internally managed allocation of resources, could we expect the see the "right things" done: rebuilding existing and expanding the required infrastructure, improvements to trail access for ALL, oversight of concessionaires on a system-wide basis, in short......less political influence and more of a focus on national pride. We're alleged to be a "first world" nation. It's time we demonstrated to the world that our commitment to every other nation's real estate extends to our own shores as well.
Cape Hatteras National Seashore Settlement Won't Ban ORV Use, But Will Restrict Travel
Frisco Fran - based on your observations, I nominate the ORV people for sainthood
Hidden Hall of Records at Mount Rushmore
So essentially it's a very elaborate time capsule? Could he not have used a shoebox like the rest of us?
What Suggestions Do You Have For the National Park Service?
Beamis, let me interject two important points of clarification. First, Mather and Albright didn't birth the National Park Service. Congress did that in 1916 with the Organic Act. Mather and Albright were administrators. While they were given limited authority to make rules and regulations, they were never given authority to designate or proclaim national parks. Secondly, even before Mather and Albright were hired (in 1917), Congress had made it clear that nationally significant historic sites -- that is, sites commemorating human events or the works of humans -- had a place in the National Park System. Those things said, I share your concern about the politics surrounding the designation and management of our national parks.
What Suggestions Do You Have For the National Park Service?
Yes, the problems with the National Park Service are not problems of the National Park Service, they are the problems of Congress and the Executive Branch. They simply do not care enough about the parks to adequately fund them.
Without a Congress that cares enough to adequately fund the parks, the NPS doesn't have a chance of doing any improvements.
My travels through the National Park System: americaincontext.com
What Suggestions Do You Have For the National Park Service?
amen to you anon and your four suggestions.....scary thing is --it would work!
What Suggestions Do You Have For the National Park Service?
Find a way to prevent Congress from saddling the agency with pork laden redevelopment projects that commemorate such things as the copper smelting heritage of upper Michigan and the industrial legacy of Patterson, New Jersey. This is NOT what the founders of the NPS had in mind for the agency when it was birthed by Mather and Albright early in the 20th century.
The national parks have become little more than political footballs in the postmodern era for the likes of Nancy Pelosi and Ted Stevens to kick around on the field of play known as Capitol Hill.
John Muir is surely spinning in his grave.
What Suggestions Do You Have For the National Park Service?
I'd like to see more of the hiking areas opened up to allow leashed dogs. I am disabled, and thus, cannot climb up, say Clingman's Dome, with my husband. One of the first dreams he had after we got our (very well behaved) Golden Retreiver/Lab mix was that finally he would have someone to climb Clingman's with him. I can't tell you how disappointed he was when we went online to research it and found that dogs aren't allowed on the trails. It seems to me that the responsible pet owners who keep their animals in control and pick up their "deposits" are being punished for the idiots who don't do these things. These are probably the same people who let their children run amuck screaming at the top of the lungs and weaving back and forth at full speed as they run up and down the trails, regardless of the people they run into or knock over. Maybe the next step is to ban kids from the parks, eh??
What Suggestions Do You Have For the National Park Service?
The focus on park fees takes this question to perhaps its lowest level. My suggestions are...
First, fire everyone, from the top of the NPS on down, who has been hired or promoted for any reason other than simple seniority since the third week in January of 2001. Rehire those who seem to truly understand and believe in the NPS ideal instead of the failed ideology of selfishness that we have had stuffed into us over the last eight years.
Second, close all the parks in the system until the NPS budget, by park, has been reinstated to what it was, adjusted for inflation, in 1976. Let the gateway towns and visitors scream; the aerobic benefit of the hyperventilation will do them all a world of good; and it is way past time that we take a stand for the parks themselves, the park ideal, and the resources that they are there to protect.
Third, set the following priorities for the use of the newly restored funds: 1) do the necessary repair, rebuilding, restoration, and modernization of the infrastructure with special attention to those structures, protected though neglected within the parks, that are truly national treasures; 2) hire back the naturalists, zoologists, biologists, botanists, geologists, historians, and other resource specialists that used to be the first line of welcome and educational interface with the public (in 1976, there were, as I read it, as many of these people at Canyon alone as there are in all of Yellowstone today); 3) fund the projects needed to protect and preserve the natural resources, including a shift to mass transit if needed; and 4) hire the law enforcement personnel needed to deal with what so many among us have let themselves become.
Finally, place the resources first. Eliminate any use or activity that goes against long-term resource protection, the dignity of the parks, or the highest embodiment of the park ideal. Again, if the rednecks squeal, let them. Our parks were created to protect and preserve the most precious treasures of our civilization and not as base camps to support the codependent enabling of those among us who choose to wallow their way down the lowest road they can find.
Implement these suggestions and you can quintuple my entrance fees without any protest from me.
What Suggestions Do You Have For the National Park Service?
I am a real fan of the national park system and, unfortunately, I am handicapped. I found it almost impossible to make it to the Arch in St. Louis - there are no provisions for the disabled and a really long walk from parking to the base of the Arch (the entrance). I had few problems at Yellowstone and some problems at Denali (I agree that the tour busses need to be updated and, I agree that what is sold in the parks should be Made in the USA.) but I think the parks are a bargain! I know there are hidden fees but my only complaint is that they are hidden, the national park system is one of the best values in America and every one I have been to has been educational, interesting and just plain FUN.
Battling Invasive Species in Arches National Park
You're right Kurt, invasive species are a huge problem facing our national parks. A system-wide review (http://www.npca.org/stateoftheparks/npri/) of the condition of America's national parks by the National Parks Conservation Association found that invasive species are a limited concern in 90 percent of the parks evaluated, and are considered a widespread or chronic concern in 38 percent. Eighty-two percent of assessed parks have experienced the extirpation of one or more species, while 40 percent of sampled parks have lost a key species or top predator.
NPCA also just recently released an assessment of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park (http://www.npca.org/stateoftheparks/hawaiivolcanoes/) and ranked natural resources of the park in "poor" condition, scoring an overall 60 out of 100 points, primarily because the park battles non-native plants and animals that threaten to overtake native species, many of which are found nowhere else in the world.
Hawaii Volcanoes has among the highest number (54) of threatened and endangered plants and animals in the National Park System, largely due to non-native species, which the National Park Service is working aggressively to eradicate. But because of a lack of funding, the park can only actively monitor and protect four (out of 54) species that it identifies as flagship species: the hawksbill turtle, Hawaiian petrel, Hawaiian goose, and Mauna Loa silversword plant.
Did the NRA Infiltrate Groups Opposed to Overhauling Gun Regulations for the National Parks?
For once the gunnies got a good one in. More of this needs to happen.
At least in California, the Bradyites have attempted to (sometimes with success) infiltrate local 2nd Amendment groups and regional NRA councils. So the "We're so shocked!" attitude by the antis, Bradys, etc. is much like the mutterings of a soccer mom suddenly found doing the day shift in a massage parlor.
In addition the antigunners often have government types in essence working for them. The Deputy AG for our Calif. Bureau of Firearms, Alison Merrilees, frequently communicates with/receives marching orders from Bryan Siebel of the Brady Campaign.
We were able to see how deeply she was involved by PRARing (roughly, the Calif version of FOIA) her communications. She's been able to use her legal status to (so far unsuccessfully) entangle CA firearms-politics websites like Calguns.
And for those worrying about "security" in National Parks, shouldn't you really be worried about the extensive illegal-alien-run methlabs and methheads out in the sticks with some lonely little wildlife-mgmt biology graduate forest ranger trying to keep a lid on things with something like a 50 sq mi coverage area?
Frankly, National parks are unsafe enough no one should visit them *without* a firearm handy.
Bill Wiese
San Jose CA
What Suggestions Do You Have For the National Park Service?
The Park Rangers do a nice job of keeping visitors on the well beaten path and restricting access within the park, especially Yellowstone. These actions do help to preserve and defend the National Parks from destruction. However, if we do not figure out a way to reduce initiation of manmade forest fires and then control them once started, visitation will go way down to a trickle of travelers on loud motorcycles and noisy diesel trucks who want to see burned out forests from the highway. When it is all burned up, there will not be much to protect. The firefighters on the line do the best they can with the given resources but I say we need to do a better job in responding with more people and/or technology. How about a forest "surge" when it is needed. Heck, I pay inflated foreign oil surcharges for everything to get to the park, why not charge a surcharge for firefighting?
What Suggestions Do You Have For the National Park Service?
The strong and common restrictions against dogs are annoying. I understand that there are reasns for the restrictions (mostly irresponsible owners who let dogs off leash and don't dispose of waste), but it seems like the park service should make accommodations. Yellowstone, for example, is the size of a county and quite far from a town where a dog could be boarded. For large and remote parks like that, I would like to see the Park Service maintain local kennels, even for a small fee.
What Suggestions Do You Have For the National Park Service?
Here are some suggestions:
A. Either get rid of all the hidden fees or lower the parks pass back to $50
B. Create a Senior Citizens and Student Pass for half price (or some relevant discount)
C. Create an extended parks pass, that lasts up to 5 years (at a cheaper per-year rate than is currently offered)
What Suggestions Do You Have For the National Park Service?
I feel these are America's parks, yet they are visited more by vistors from other countries. Perhaps because large familes and retirees can not afford all the fees. Maybe there should be a discount put in place for all Americans who wish to enjoy their parks.
Yelllowstone National Park Firefighter "Roughed Up" By Grizzly
Pleasantly surprised that this bear encounter - the firefighter was treated and released, according to KIFI in Idaho - has been buried in the news release and wasn't picked up in any significant way by local media. This sort of thing is usually sensationalized and all over the national press (though what happened last month to the guy just outside the park being attacked in his tent while he slept was a kind of sensational story).
It would be good to know what happened with the bear, but we are led to believe that the bear is fine (except being "frightened").
There are other fires in the area - notably the Gunbarrel Fire, between Cody and the East Entrance, that's up to 22,000 acres. Although some have been evacuated, this fire also is moving toward the north and the east, mostly through beetle-infested forests that probably need a good burning. It's still creeping a bit to the south. There are a couple small fires in the Absaroka wilderness. To the south, there's a fire in the Bridger-Teton forest. Still, all roads are open.
Pictures are starting to come out of the LeHardy Fire - there's a very interesting set a blogger put out yesterday - check out the one with the bison.
Jim Macdonald
The Magic of Yellowstone
Yellowstone Newspaper
Jim's Eclectic World
What Suggestions Do You Have For the National Park Service?
I visited the Smoky Mountains in June. I didn't have to pay to park or pay to get in. Free to get in is part of the parks history. I had a great time. The only thing that I didn't like was when I went the the gift shop (yes, the parks) to get some post cards to send back home. I picked out the ones that I liked. Then I turned them over to read the back, and there it was MADE IN CHINA?????????????? WHAT????? What a disgrace!!!!!


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ASUS Transformer Book T100 Now Shipping with HDD Keyboard Dock
|ASUS today announced that the Transformer
The game is afoot once again in the battle for top card in the VGA market and NVIDIA is planning on shaking up the tree very shortly. A Tech site named VideoCardz.com has let out a little secret from NVIDIA's bag of tricks that shows some very interesting things happening over at camp NVIDIA.
The emphasis was on supposed new SKU's that range in the top-end of the technology spectrum (and probably out of budget range of many users as well), with NVIDIA pushing the envelope to stay on top of the game.
So the new information floats toward NVIDIA releasing two new power monster cards with the first being the GTX Titan Ultra and the GTX 790, both geared at the enthusiast level user.
The GTX Titan is really much the same as the current Titan being offered, but the Ultra will have all 2880 CUDA cores unlocked, just like its Quadro brother. The current Titan runs off its 2688 CUDA cores, and for reference point the GTX 780 has 2304 CUDA cores enabled. With more available CUDA cores comes the ability to run the cards at higher resolutions or at higher "In Game" settings like more AF/AA that makes the game just look better.
Secondly comes rumors of the GTX 790, which I believe that most NVIDIA fans just take for granted is coming as NVIDIA is always known to have a follow-up dual-GPU card with the launch of every new series; be it series 6,7 or 8 NVIDIA has always made the cards. The idea for this graphics card is that it would feature not one, but two GK110 GPUs, though it is uncertain on the CUDA core count per GPU.
Realistically, we shouldn't expect even near fully enabled GK110 parts. The graphics card is meant as an answer to the upcoming AMD Hawaii graphics cards, as NVIDIA wants to keep the crown for having the fastest VGA card on the market. The real tickler here is that although the GTX 790 will be their Crème' de la Crème' card, they're trying to get it to market with a price of under $1000.
Additional information has suggested that NVIDIA will be releasing the GeForce GTX 800 series 'Maxwell' graphics cards sometime in Q1 2014. Due to this being sooner than expected, it is a possibility that the 'Maxwell' graphics cards won't be baked on a 20 nm lithography just yet, as it appears that TSMC won't be ready for 20 nm lithography until June 2014.
For now all we can do is wait and see what happens, but NVIDIA is never one to remain idle for long, as they are a very hungry and aggressive competitor that you can always expect to try and one-up AMD. Thanks for reading Tech Of Tomorrow, and please let us know your thoughts; are you anticipating these new cards? I am sure that when released, NVIDIA fans will be pleased and AMD fans pissed off, but then AMD will just go back to the drawing board and come up with something else and the cycle continues on.
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Celebrity Baby Scoop
Congratulations to Robert Downey Jr. and wife Susan Levin on the birth of their new baby boy!
The couple welcomed their first child together, Exton Elias Downey, at 7:24 a.m. on Tuesday (February 7) in Los Angeles.
Baby Exton weighed in at 7 lbs. 5 oz.Another VERY unique Celeb baby name. I have never heard Exton before.
What do we think?Read more Hot Goss HERE!
it sounds more greek to me exton is 6th but would say it as ekton!i still like it
Exton. Sounds too much like Sexton. I like to consider the ways in which kids will run with these things at school but each to their own I guess... I personally love this guy ^ iron man FTW lol . Good on ya RDJ n Mrs x
I like it, I proably wouldnt use it but still like it
I think its funny considering in Due Date (the movie) he is weary about the name he gives his baby LOL. Yes different but as others have said theres worse lol
Better then most celebs baby names! And I agree there is definitely something sexy about Robert DJ!
Whoot! I love Rob DJ, he's hot!
Exton is a cute name, his other son is named Indigo, so I think the names go well together.


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From: Kitchen Hero: Rediscovering The Irish Kitchen
The perfect picnic food, Scotch eggs are deliciously soft and crunchy.
From: Neven Maguire: Home Chef
Great with so many dishes.
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This is a variation on my favourite accompaniment. It is great for Christmas Day as it can be made in advance and reheated in individual potions on a baking sheet. It also keeps well in a cool oven.
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Great comfort food.
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1982: $0.82/Share 2011: $29.71/Share In 1886, David H. McConnell founded the California Perfume Company, which eventually became Avon, in New York City. A book salesman, he had created a rose-scented perfume as a "free gift" to encourage people to buy his books. The perfume became so popular, ... Read More
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Things We'll Be Eating This Week
With a short work week, I haven't planned our exact dinners by day, but here are a few things I expect to make this week:
- Fig and Prosciutto Flatbread with Massaged Kale Caesar Salad (such an oldie, but a goodie)
- Crockpot Chicken Tacos with Homemade Whole Wheat Tortillas
- Szechuan Noodles with Shrimp (since the husband would prefer not to eat chicken every night this week)
- Bacon and Brussels Sprout Salad with misc leftovers
Now that school's back in session, it feels like I'm back to the daily grind. (Or at least I'm trying to be!)
Dinner tonight:
Pork chops with caramelized onions, roasted broccoli with garlic, and sweet potato fries. Not pictured - a giant glass of white wine.
Dinner tonight (the 'At the request of the husband') edition:
Chicken stuffed with caramelized onions, ham, Brie cheese, and spinach - with broccoli and mac and cheese with spinach.
So good ! And so much spinach!
Dinner tonight - The 'Entirely Microwaved' edition:
Brown rice, frozen peas, and Trader Joes scallops with mushrooms in a cream sauce. Pretty good, very filling, and super fast!
Omg. Breakfast today was amazing. Leftover French toast from brunch this weekend, eaten al desko. I need to start eating breakast more often and not just grabbing a Clif bar. Meals like this give me hope to tackle my day!
Monday: beef & veggie pot pie with cheddar biscuits…I always halve this, because good lord.
Tuesday: Bobby's Burger Palace for my birfday (BOBBAYYYYYYYY)
Wednesday: one-pot mac
Thursday: buffalo chicken tacos
Friday: no idea
I'm making this one-pot mac tonight (with bacon, of course) and I CANNOT WAIT.
Dinner tonight (the 'Served With a Giant Glass of Wine' edition):
Cous cous, green beans, and grilled steak. As much as I love eating out, it feels good to be cooking again!
GPOY(our lunch)W: You can never have too much salsa, right?
In other news - I think I ate my weight in burrito today.
My post-run dinner:
A few meatballs, mac and cheese with broccoli, and a piece of a leftover sandwich with salami, provolone, roasted red peppers, and pesto. I was too tired (and lazy!) to put much thought into dinner, so this array of quick cooked food was great!
Oh my gosh, y'all. After reading tons of positive reviews for these fish tacos, I finally made them last night - with a few modifications. They totally lived up to the hype and the salted cabbage (which I was feeling pretty iffy about) was amazing! I used flour tortillas since that's what we had in the house - and they still tasted delicous. I made a roasted corn salsa (with red onion and jalapeño) instead of the pico de gallo and I was too lazy to google 'lime crema' - so I mixed lime juice into plain yogurt, which was a tasty complement to the spicy salsa.
While making these, I couldn't stop popping the little fried fish pieces into my mouth. However, next time, I'll make just enough for the two of us, since I hated having to make it in batches. I'm too impatient and just wanted to eat!
A delicious summer dinner - crab stuffed portabello mushroom, corn on the cob, and pasta salad (with green and red peppers, cucumber, carrot, onion, celery, and heirloom tomatoes).


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Im not totally agree, as DPS the dmg meter works fine, they tell us if we are doing low dps, also its a good "challenge" to improve our dps even if we are the number 1 on the chart, if we can do more dmg whitout make mistakes in the battle mechanics that will help a lot in any fight whitout question. Also help to find the best spect for a specific encounter.
The meters are always a good presure tool to improve our perfomance.
Great post - I think that's definitely a valid point. They provide a little bit of extra incentive to get better, especially on things you have on farm. When we first did Magmaw, we wiped for like 2 nights. Now, we have it down so cold that we bet each other who can pull the best DPS. While this isn't *exactly* the best way to use a damage meter, it gives us a little extra challenge now that the fight is trivial.


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Walk the streets and you will realize that everybody really loves music. I say this because where ever you go you are bound to see somebody with "Beat by Dre" headphones on or an alternative headphone. Especially with ability to customize the color of your headphones it is easily becoming somewhat of a fashion statement. Headphones like "Beats by Dre" are becoming part of our Urban Culture and hand-in-hand with the most popular iPhone. Click Here for my full thoughts and alternative headphones not named "Beats by Dre".
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Google Now Hiring Autocompleters for Google Suggest
If you were ever wondering how Google Suggest is so good at predicting your desired search, Google today revealed (through a job posting) some rare insight into exactly what powers Google suggestions.If you search on Google today with Google Instant on, you'll see a little link on the bottom of the suggested searches that says "We're Hiring Autocompleters", as shown here:Clicking on the highlighted link will take you to the job description of a Google Autocompleter (click here for a screenshot).
And here are some of the job description highlights... Required Responsibilities of a Google AutocompleterWatch anonymized search queries as they come in to Google.Predict and type completions based on your personal experience and intuition.Suggest spelling corrections when relevant.Keep ... > Read more
Google Plus One: What Google +1 Means to You, Your Campaigns, & The Future of the Universe
All day yesterday I watched the news of the Google +1 beta launch reverberate around the SEO space (see WordStream's own coverage for Google Plus One screenshots and impact on AdWords). There is a lot of great coverage and some interesting insights, including (but I can guarantee you not limited to): Danny Sullivan's take SEO Moz's response Coverage on Tech pubs And the list goes on.
Obviously if you're here at the WordStream blog, you're likely concerned with what this all means for SEO and AdWords. Let's try to unpack that step-by-step, thinking through the following questions: What's the actual, honest-to-goodness impact on SERPs tomorrow and in the next few months? How is Google likely to implement this data? What impact (if any) should this have on your marketing efforts -- today, ... > Read more
Search Gets Social (Again) with Google's +1 Button
Stemming from Facebook's popular "Like" button, the search engine colossus Google is joining the social fray once again. Google's new "+1" feature has just been introduced, and it's quite exciting. Starting today, a small percentage of Googlers will see a +1 button next to search listings.
If you aren't seeing it and just can't wait to try this new feature out for yourself, head over to Google Experiment and click "Join this experiment." With Google's new tool, when you click the +1 button next to a search result, it will light up, basking in the glory of your approval. Now, when you or a friend search a similar topic, they can see that you recommended certain results. And if your buddy recommende... > Read more
Google Testing Less than 10 Results on First Page
Last night I performed a Google search on my home computer, using Firefox. I only got four results back on the first page, though there were over 55,000 results total (see below). I was not signed in but Instant was on. It looks like Google is testing this style of SERP when it thinks a handful of pages are clearly the most valuable, relevant results for the query.
Presumably, some users would prefer fewer choices as long as those choices clearly addressed the query. Didn't either Sergey or Larry once say that in a perfect world, Google would return only one result? This page did not address my needs as a searcher, because I was specifically trying to determine where my own blog ranks for this query -- i.e., whether I rank on the first page. If this experiment became the norm, "the f... > Read more
JC Penney (NYSE:JCP) Busted by Google SEO Web Spam Cops for Black Hat SEO and Link Farms
Yesterday, the New York Times published an article exposing the black hat SEO tactics of J.C. Penney, explaining how jcpenney.com was able to obtain #1 organic search rankings (unpaid or natural search listings) for virtually everything the retailer sold including searches for "bedding" or "dresses" or "Area Rugs," and enjoyed near-the-top first page rankings for searches like "skinny jeans," "home decor," "furniture," "comforter sets" etc.
The New York Times looked into JC Penney's link profile and uncovered a massive web of thousands of pages of blog spam and paid links linking to the J.C. Penney website, rich with relevant, descriptive anchor text designed to fool Google's ranking algorithms. The New York Times presented their findings to Google. Googler Matt Cutts, head of SEO websp... > Read more
mbzrxpgjys - Bing Copies Google - The Bing Sting - But Who Cares
The newswires are today reporting that Google is accusing Bing of copying their results. In a ridiculously dorky plot, Google spent months developing a Bing sting operation. They created random words such as "mbzrxpgjys" or "hiybbprqag" that had no legitimate matches on Bing or Google searches. Google then it created its own "honeypot page" (yes, they actually called it a honey pot page! lol) with Research in Motion at the top of the page.
Within a couple of weeks Research in Motion began appearing at the top of Bing searches for mbzrxpgjys. The following screenshot illustrates the search results for mbzrxpgjys on Bing and Google: Stefan Weitz, director of the Bing search engine at Microsoft, admitted in an interview that the company studies how certain users interact with Goog... > Read more
Google Changes Algorithm to Appease Media ... Or Not
On Black Friday, the New York Times ran one if its oh-so-savvy pieces about Google, demonstrating once again its deep understanding of SEO. </sarcasm> The article, titled "A Bully Finds a Pulpit on the Web," tells the story of DecorMyEyes, an eyeglasses business with an ungrammatical brand and a bad attitude.
The owner, whose name, believe it or not, is Vitaly Borker, claims that horrible service – we're talking criminally bad – is his business strategy, because (ex-)customers leave negative reviews on the Internet, driving up his rankings: "I never had the amount of traffic I have now since my 1st complaint. I am in heaven." Danny Sullivan did a long write-up of the article, calling it "great." But I was immediately suspicious of the NYT bla... > Read more
Google Insights for Search Categories Are Largely Useless
Seeing as 2010 is winding to a close, I had the idea to do a sort of year in review for keywords, using Google Insights for Search to find patterns in the year's keyword trends. However, I got so distracted by the screwed up categories, I abandoned the post. Instead I'm just going to complain about how useless they are.
When you filter your Google Insights results for a given time period (I used 2010), the default results call into "all categories," but you can further sort those into 27 (by my rough count) categories, including "Business," "Entertainment," "News & Current Events," "Shopping," "Sports," and so on – sounds potentially useful, right? Unfortunately, whatever method they're using to sort the rising search qu... > Read more
Google Launches Instant Previews
Yesterday Google launched a new feature in Instant Search: Google Instant Previews. When this feature is activated, you can click the magnifying glass icon to the right of a search result to view a pop-up preview of the page before clicking through. It appears that the preview is sometimes an accurate representation of the page, as above; in other instances Google will remove and/or magnify a portion of the page to show relevancy, as below: The pop-out quotes show where the keyword ("civet coffee") appears on the page.
On this particular SERP, Google altered the appearance of the preview for about half the results on the first page. It's not entirely clear what governs this. Will this affect the behavior of the typical Google user? It's hard to say what impact this will ha... > Read more
A Google Sandwich with Google on the Side
As I went through the blog rounds this week collecting interesting links, I noticed a pattern: everything was turning up Google. Not exactly shocking in the search industry, I know. But for some reason this week seemed especially Googley. Here are some of the many Google stories I read this week. First up, Google has made a significant change to its local search results pages called "Place Search.
" According to Google, "We've clustered search results around specific locations so you can more easily make comparisons and decide where to go." As Patrick Altoft puts it, Google is phasing out organic search results for local queries, giving local results all the prime real estate: "The impact of this change is that in the long term any site that doesn't have a physical address in the location... > Read more


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Marty said:
This is a funny story because he has two pitchers of beer, mashed potatos with gravy, and two whole chickens and ice cream and he passes gas and burps and faints. At the end of the story there are four kids playing baseball and they were using a ball that wasn't a baseball. The main character decides to give the kids a real baseball so they have one to play with. Kids of all ages would like this book. [Series: A Baseball Card Adventure]
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I like this book because Joe Stoshak and his dad go back in time to meet Babe Ruth. Joe and his dad bought 75 baseballs and got Babe Ruth to sign all of them and Lou Gehrig to sign one.I also like this book because Joe's dad caught Babe's called shot.
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Why is it that against all odds we still hope? Is this a good thing or a bad thing?
I think the question's quite simple. Whether in cases of unrequitted love, illness, failure, etc...we sometimes convince ourselves that this sadness, grief, helplessness will not be forever. I'd like to know your thoughts about hope. :)
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Feb 7 2014: I believe in the spiritual view that thinking creates reality too.
The way that I understand hope is that it is a form of craving along with fear of not obtaining that craving. If we can create intention with out traces of fear (accepting the outcome, whatever it may be), it will help us prevent despair and the cyclic nature of hoping.
Dewi Barnas 100+Jan 10 2014: I don't remember if it was a quote from a movie, a book, or something else, a hope is a very powerful thing that keeps us moving. Without hope, there is no reason to keep working on whatever it is we aim for.
If you're told by the doctors you only have 50% chance of recovery from an illness, are you going to rely on the 50% chance you're going to recover or the other 50% chance that you're not? Hope gives you a reason that somehow, if you work hard towards your desired end, you can make it. Sometimes you make it, sometimes you don't.
Having a hope to begin with, gives us the boost to strive toward making that hope into realization.
Jan 16 2014: I'd say hope is a good thing. Hope about unsolved problems leads to innovations and solutions. Hope about someone's condition leads to optimism in you and will most likely transfer to the person with the illness, which should help them in their possible last moments. Now that I've written those examples actually, I'd say that hope *and* action is a good things, but hope without action is a bad thing. Hope should hopefully (no pun or whatever intended) lead us to action which will produce results (some of the time), but if hope is thought of more as a crutch, a reason for inactivity, it will not produce any positive results.
Thanks for the question!
Jan 13 2014: Glad you asked.
I don't believe in hope. It is a false belief IMO.
Hope is just an expectation (even by definition), and it is something humans need to learn to let go of.
Believing in false things is never good for reality, sanity or saneness of mind and a peaceful world.
When someone hopes, it is because they don't know, so they hope.
In my experience with others, this occurs especially when it concerns their foundation beliefs, which are shaking or have been shaken.
When this happens people find out they don't really trust what it is they believe in and thus learn they really
don't know what it is they believe in. So they fall back on hope.
I have found that one should come to know what it is they "believe in" and once one does this,
there is no doubt, no worry, no fear, because one "knows".
If one is fearful, then they don't trust what they believe in.
If one worries, then they don't trust what they believe in.
Thus, they really don't believe in it.
In my experience, I believe in what I know and knowing is a very different thing than hope or faith.
Both hope and faith are not wanting to know and not wanting to have to do anything.
But when one knows, then they can do.
Don't worry, something good will happen.
If it doesn't, don't worry. Something bad will happen.
Are you all right? Of course, because I have something that I know.
Now I don't know much, but what I do know, I trust, don't worry and don't fear.
I have one thing in my life that fits that and it takes anything and everything that challenges me
and reduces it to the size of a tiny drop of water just before that drop goes, "BING" and disappears.
Nothing is done by or with hope, nor by faith.
Well, maybe but it is really action that does things and I find knowing to be a better way than hoping or
having faith.
But the quick answer to your question, from me anyway, is that people have been brainwashed to believe
and rely upon false ideas and concepts, mainly to stop them doing. That is why they hope.
Jan 11 2014: Hope for a better future has achieved far greater good for humanity than misery and despair. Most great feats are only achieved after a long while of persistent effort; a hopeless person would give up after a few appearances of failure.
It is good to hope in a better future; and the time to hope is NOW.
Dave Day
Jan 10 2014: We always need something to motivate us. To keep us moving, trying to reach a target, fighting etc.
As we know, not everything deserves our trying, but we need to pay this hope in somewhere. (like the heat produced in your body and you have to get rid of it.)
And ... It is a really good thing. If you never think about it again, so lose your faith to your non-logical hope. In other words, this hope is even more important than the logic itself!
Jan 10 2014: I think hope comes from experience (knowledge that things evolve and change). We are more hopeful if we have more experience of recognizing our own agency in change. Hope helps us overcome fear of taking risks and helps us to make decisions from a perspective of abundance rather than scarcity.
Jan 10 2014: There have been times in my life where I have asserted to myself that my experiences are teaching me not to hope. Each time, in eventuality, has lead me to the realization of the ultimate destination of such an assertion; apathy. If we fall into hopelessness, even though we might justify it pragmatically, we eventually stop caring about things, left only with the foundational ponderings of our youth to guide our ambitions away from the raw and meaningless pursuit of success in the eyes of the world.
In short....hope makes things meaningful.
Another thought I've had is that hope is necessary in everything we do. Save chance, we need to hope in something before we achieve it. If we believe the endeavor is hopeless we aren't even likely to start it. It's a hard concept to word, but I'll elaborate on it if asked.


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My Side, Your Side: Claiming Your Territory
Yesterday, Grace shared some of the pros and cons of living alone. One of the items which falls on either side of the spectrum for us is sleeping alone. There's the great part: spreading out, hogging all the covers, piling the bed with magazines, the computer, the IPhone and eating cookies in bed. The not so great part? Sleeping alone: it's cold, there's no one to talk with and it's a lot less fun. We happen to think sharing a bed with someone with whom you share a a sleeping style can be absolutely delicious...
Sleeping alone, we tend to switch from side to side, claiming one portion of the bed or the other as the spirit moves us. However, when we have company, we defer to their preference (though, being left-handed, if pressed, we'd probably admit that we prefer the left side of the bed). Whether you live alone or with someone, do you have a side that's yours? Or is my side of the bed up for grabs in your home? Let us know in the comments...
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i have my own side. although i always wake up to find his elbow in my head or something.
I have a weird and indescribable system of side-selection that involves proximity to doors and windows, neither of which I want to be near, but in a pinch, I'll sleep closer to the window than the door. I'm not sure when I developed this mysterious system, but it means that in our bedroom, I sleep on the right, but in other bedrooms, who knows. My husband lets me claim my side first when we stay at hotels or in someone else's home. He does claim that no matter what side I choose, I somehow end up sleeping in the smack middle of the bed.
West is west and East is east, and never the twain shall meet. He never steals the blankets, but he does steal the top sheet. Its some bizarre combination of macrame, sleep-ballet, and magic. The blanket stays perfectly positioned, but the sheets end up wound up and neatly tied in a square knot.
we each have our own side of the bed; however, i often get up in the middle of the night and sleep in the guest room if the snoring gets too loud.
I sleep better when my face is close to the edge of the mattress - I am convinced I breathe better. And I have some back problems that make it more comfortable to sleep on my left side. So I prefer the left side of the bed, when sharing. But I can cope with either as required (guest rooms, etc.)
I don't care what side I sleep on, as long as I get HALF of the bed. Which I find is impossible because he is a hugger, be it with arms or legs. If a bed is positioned against a wall, I can't sleep on that side because I'm claustrophobic.
I always pick the right side of the bed, unless there's a wall - then I pick whichever side is against the wall. The hubby and I do pretty well with our bed arrangement. We have just a full-size bed, but stick to our own sides. He snores very loudly, but as long as I can fall asleep before the snoring starts, I rarely wake up.
When we upgrade to a king-sized bed, oh what bliss that will be.
This post makes me think that we need to flip the mattress!
FF, my wife makes the same claim. We have to start out close to my end of the bed, so that she has a chance of staying on the bed at all.
You mean to say they are people that don't have a "side" and just sleep wherever they land each night - how weird is that... I need my own personal nesting spot that is the same night after night... I am joined by a number of small people throughout the night - but it is my side ... I just thought everyone had a side - their own consistent side!!!
In my current bedroom, I prefer the right side (as sleeping, left as viewing from the foot of the bed).
However, if the bed is against the wall on the side, I cant sleep next to the wall... and I usually prefer to face the door, for some reason.
i choose the side with the alarm clock on it, if I wake up in the middle of the night and cant see the time i freak out.... I am strange
My boyfriend and I sleep just fine together in his bed. I have my side, he has his. But when we sleep at my place he always ends up pushing me further to the edge until I have no place left to go. Our beds are both queens, but for some reason I can't sleep with him at my place.
i prefer good old-fashioned spooning when bf is over. :) otherwise, i just sleep on my side of the bed, the one away from the wall and then my 2 pups and cat pick their spots.
I take whichever side is furthest from the door/bathroom, since he gets up earlier during the work week.
I typically don't care what side of the bed that I am on, however my boyfriend prefers the left because it is close to the wall. By the morning I usually find that I have been moved (yes, not by my own volition) towards the middle of the bed entangled between him and the cat. The both are very into snuggling so they end up sandwiching me tightly.
A king sized mattress doesn't help us one bit. I would like to videotape my sleep activities sometime, because I manage to push the top sheet to his side and down to the foot of the bed, while pulling the very heavy comforter almost entirely off the bed on my side. Every night.
But otherwise, we do have our "own side" and gravitate toward the edges while we slumber, leaving a wide swath of mattress in between.
I don't care, but I usually end up on the right side of the bed because I think he prefers the right. Also, we do a lot of spooning, so we're both usually in the middle anyway. Sometimes, the dog is down by my legs, too... that makes it much harder! So... perhaps my greater personal difficulty is between me and the dog.
I have a side, though we do tend to cuddle in the middle. As soon as I'm up for more than 5 minutes, my fh has stolen either my side of the bed, my pillows or both. Also he has an odd quirk that he can't sleep with the top sheet tucked in - it makes keeping the bed neat an incredible pain.
KING SIZE BED! It's the only way to go.
More room to... snuggle!
Left side for me (right side if looking from foot of bed towards headboard).
We have sides. And when we wake up in the morning it looks like I haven't even slept on mine because I hardly move in my sleep, so all the covers are still tucked in at the bottom. But his side looks like it's been attacked by a rabid beast. Sheet torn off the mattress, blankets in knots etc.. I usually get an elbow in my face at some point in the night.
Ha! Different sleeping styles cause conflict but are easily cured.
Take 1 200 pound man. Add one 110 pound girl.
Mix with first cohabitation situation: a frat house room, un airconditioned, in the summer.
Top with bed: Regulation twin bed.
Fit these people amenably on this bed for three and half months, and there will never again be sleeping problems. We have been living together for 4 1/2 years now, and we still huddle in the middle of the bed. Might as well ditch our full for a twin.
I have the perfect solution! I use a common east Asian style of bedding which solves most of these problems- and some others; only a fitted sheet and two single duvets. Each person in the bed gets their own duvet. There are no sheets to steal and no blankets to steal. You also save a little money on bedding and can be more creative with your bedding by mixing and matching different duvet covers between the two of you. My husband and I have done this since we first started living together some 10 years ago. It is really a great solution!
Ahhh, the best of both worlds. At his place, we each have our side. Mine is the side with the blanket under the pillow, cause I need lots of pillow-ness to sleep comfortably. At my place, we tend to congregate (cuddle, spoon, etc.) in the middle because my bed is weird and somehow sinks in the middle if two people try sleeping on either side (though it's fine with just one person).
On the flip side, I do highly enjoy sleeping alone and being able to sprawl out diagonally on my bed. :D
I've noticed that we have a "sides" for sleeping, eating, camping, and dining out.
In bed, I'm to his left at his house and mine; at the dining table, I'm to his right at his house and mine; when we dine out, I'm always on the right if we're at a sushi bar.
When we go camping, if it's really cold I'm the 'inside' spoon. If it's really warm, I'm the 'outside' spoon.
I think it's funny that we habituated these positions pre-consciously. And if it gets mixed up, I'm weirded out.
k_darling, I don't think that's odd at all. I always have to go around the whole bed in a hotel to untuck the sheet. Otherwise it feels way too constraining, I can't move my feet and I can't sleep
Usually it's the dog taking up one half of the bed, and my boyfriend and I on the other half. Luckily the bigger dog sleeps in the guest room! I have to have my alarm clock. I usually end up fighting for blankets too!
He has a side. I need the side with a nightstand for keeping glasses, pills, etc. If we are staying someplace where the only night stand is on "his" side, all hell breaks loose!
I agree with Aariel. I cannot sleep with a sheet tucked in the bed. I could care less which side of the bed I sleep on but my feet have to be sticking out of the sheets and blankets or I start to feel claustrophobic.
We're fine cuddling as long as it's warm enough. I think there was one time that my husband snuggled me right off the bed when it was cold. I must confess to kicking him a bit when he snores, so that he'll change position and stop. But he hasn't figured it out yet, so we're OK.
Add two cats and things are a bit more complicated. The little one likes to perch on my legs or feet; I have no idea why she finds it comfortable. But often in the middle of the night I open my eyes to notice her 'sailing' up and down as I roll over. Then I try not to kick them; a lot of times I do these weird movements to let them have their space, and then I'll realize they're not even on the bed.
You know you're out of college when you'd no longer think of shacking up in a twin bed.
On my twin air mattress I do not have a side. The cats on the other hand sit on my chest and behind my legs. I toss and turn and wake up different every morning. I also do the fitted sheet and blanket only system. Top sheets are just something to get tangled in.
At his house, or anyone's, I sleep on the side away from the door. It's a protected feeling thing for me. And once that side is chosen it can NOT change!
And if you couldn't guess by the twin air bed, he doesn't stay at my house.
And yes, I'm in college. The twin bed is a definite tell of that.
I sleep alone and enjoy it - I get to sleep in the middle of the bed with all the pillows and nobody is there to snore or hog the covers...
...I'm thinking that when I get married again, separate beds (with occassional visitation) may not be such a bad idea.
i always assumed everyone picked a side... people dont?? I usually take the right (looking at the bed) because i end up sleeping on my left. we just recently moved the bed against the wall, and i took the left side (looking at the bed, the side against the wall) partly because my husband gets up early for work and now he wont wake me up.
i dont really care for sleeping against the wall, but I just dont care as much as I used to.
I second the suggestion of a fitted sheet and two seperate duvets. It's the only way my husband and I can survive! I throw my legs out at night and bundle up my head and shoulders. He wraps his feet and leaves his shoulders exposed. One cover and neither of us are happy. Two covers and we're cuddled and cozy all night long.
Try it, you'll like it.
I'm currently single and I sleep on the right side of the bed but towards the middle.
When I was with my last boyfriend I would sleep on the left side of the bed because the right side was 'his'. Unfortunately the left side was against the wall and the alarm clock was on the right side. He didn't have a job (and didn't seem to want to get another) and I had morning shifts. I'm the type that likes to hit the snooze button like 6 times before I actually get up. I wouldn't do it that many times while with him but it would drive me crazy that I would have to reach over him to get to it.
And then when I would need to get out I'd have to crawl over him. Which always bugged me because if I slept on the right side I wouldn't have to deal with that. I never thought I had a side but thinking about it every other boyfriend I had I've slept on the right side and even when I change where the bed is (putting the right side is near the wall) I still sleep on the right.
I sleep on the part of the bed to the wall. It's practical to me, as if something were to ever happen (a break-in, etc.) My boyfriend could jump up and protect us without having to climb over me. Also, he sleeps less than I do, so its nice not to have him walking all over me.
Before I met him and we started co-habitating I always slept in a single bed with no room for "sides"
I'm not so much as a side but I like sleeping closer to the bedroom door. It's mostly out of convenience - I get up more in the night and I always get up earlier, plus that's where the alarm clock is. I just can't sleep well facing a wall or window.
Now on the sharing, I tend to get a third of the bed while he sprawls out on the other 2/3rds - sadly we only have a full. We so need to upgrade to a queen at least. I always manage to kick the blanket off while staying under the top sheet if it's just me in bed for some reason - but when he's in there, I might as well just hand him the covers since he takes them. I may have to try out the separate twin blankets suggestion.
My ex and I were completely incompatible in sleeping styles. In the morning I would hear that I scooted around the bed, hogged the covers, moved to his side of the bed, kicked and thrashed all night, moved my legs and arms all weird, and essentially kept him awake. We also had "sides" and stuck to them, no matter where we were.
My partner now is a dream - our sleeping styles are so perfect. No numb tingling arms, uncomfortable snuggling positions, and complete flexibility, even in our own bedroom - it all depends on our mood, and the position of the cat. I've also never heard a single complaint with the new guy about any of my previous "oddities" - I described them, he says none of that has appeared. So. I guess I found my perfect sleep partner. :)
I sleep on the open side and he sleeps by the windows. I get up earlier so it makes it easier for me to get up without disturbing him. He also has a much higher body temp so the cool air from the windows keeps him comfortable and would make me too cold.
When we travel I like to deliberately switch sides just to mix things up. It adds to the feel of being somewhere new and different.
if the bed is pushed against the wall then I must sleep on the outside.
My sweetie and I keep separate bedrooms, for a wide variety of reasons, but often sleep together. In his room, I sleep on the right. In mine, I sleep on the left. It's to do with things like where the sunlight is, where the lights are. I wake up to an alarm; he doesn't, so whichever side is within arm's reach of the alarm is mine. In his room, the left side is near the door, and I just can't sleep that close to the door. Etc.
Sounds like a lot of us could almost get accustomed to what we see in old tv shows - where the couple has twin beds with just "visits" to the other bed occasionally. Would be a great space saver since you could just get bunkbeds - LOL.
I have to have the side with the door. I cannot sleep with my face covered or anything in front of it so I guess I lump the wall with that. The sides we sleep on switch depending on where the bed is in relation to the door. I thought I was a right side sleeper but that has changed to the left side with bedroom rearrangements. My husband swears he has to sleep on his left side but that has switched along with the bed. It works for us keeping our backs warm but also gives me a great excuse for kicking him when he snores.
I have to have the side that faces out into the room or I get claustrophobic. Now that our bed is in the middle of the room and not against a wall, it doesn't matter much, but "my" side (with the nightstand with my stuff) faces the wall with the windows. This works well enough since he hates light when he is sleeping. I also have to know what time it is before I can fall asleep... yay for being compulsive. We start the night snuggling, but usually end up on opposite sides with the cats in the middle by morning!


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