| Listening to music at work |
| 08.31.05 (4:48 pm) |
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I've become bored with the typical music stations we have in my area. Beside I work in the middle of an all concrete building and my radio reception is horrible! I've taken to listening to the "radio" over the internet to solve my boredom and lack of reception. I use iTunes player for my music (MP3s and CDs) and thought I'd try the radio selections it offered. I was blown away with the huge selection of all kinds of music.  Lately I've been listening to Virgin Radio out of the UK. I've included a link at the Logo and in the righthand column for you. Try it you might really like it!! |
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| 1951 was a very good year | ||
| 08.26.05 (11:36 am) | ||
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Oh I couldn't help myself I HAD to do this one after Alms said she stole it from jerneedog! Guess I'd better get Googling this date and get more stuff!!
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| Children of War |
| 08.21.05 (5:15 pm) |
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Tonight I sit here wondering what I’m doing sitting here working on this computer, listening to my music with the TV on in the other room. How is it that I deserve to be full of dinner living in this wonderful house, happy comfortable and safe when so many in the world live a life of horror, want, and malnourishment? You see I’ve just finished watching the NBC Dateline program on the children of But even the poverty and illiteracy that I saw in 1974 is nothing compared to the horrors children in I know I can not save the world or stop any of the appalling things people do to other people each and every day on this earth. But it does make me think of other ways of helping the less fortunate in this world. Janine and I have talked about perhaps joining the Peace Corps again after we retire or volunteer for the Red Cross or other organizations that need help. I donate to the Heifer Project because it is one way in which I know I can make a difference in someone’s life somewhere in the world. I encourage you to do the same, or perhaps donate to one of the agencies on the Dateline page. If you do nothing else and did not see the program on this Sunday night at least go to the link I have above to the Dateline program and read about this horrible situation. |
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| OK a real post! |
| 08.17.05 (5:47 am) |
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Really things have been going just great the last month or so! Summer has come and is slowly going away. My daughter has attended summer camp for the last time, and my son is still doing just fine on his new meds. I have a normal life, and have had a great time getting to know the real boy that had been hidden for so long by the terrible illness of Bipolar Disorder. Gone is the anger, the oppositional behavior, the awful and violent destruction of property. He and his mother are getting along for the first time in YEARS! She actually enjoys having him over her house and they take the dog for a walk, go swimming and have dinners together! "J" and I are getting along wonderfully! Ever so much in love and enjoying our time together! We think alike and enjoy so much of the same kids of activities and food. We've attended concerts together, and even seena few plays. Last weekend we went to see a live performance of HAIR! I'd seen it maybe 30 years ago in Chicago (yes, in my hippy days) and loved it. Seeing it again now was a real trip (Goovy man)! We had seats right next to the stage, no one in between us and the actors! It was so much fun listening to the music again and hearing the old anti war slogens, really a trip down memory lane! Yes, we did have perfect seats for the nude scene (all of 30 sec.) for all you dirty minded people! We still have no plans on when we are getting married, but are just enjoying our time together. We are talking about the things which matter to us and how we see our lives together. You know, who is going to do what job, if and how we share our money, what kind of house we want to buy, and where, all the basic stuff! I'm having such fun with the photography and have packed my Flickr site with more photos. I'm learning all about Photoshop ver. 7 not the new CS but hey, its more than I've ever had as far as photo manipulation software. I'm still riding my bike to work nearly everyday now that gas is $2.80 /gal. And I'm enjoying the ride, it takes me 45 min. to get to work, I get a shower and get dressed and I'm ready for my day! It is great!! I'll be getting my bike equiped with lights both front and back so I can ride better and safer in the early morning half light, now that the sun is coming up later and later every day as we approach fall! |
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| New Post - for Alms! |
| 08.15.05 (6:25 pm) |
| Nothing much happening! Same old, same old! |
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| Kids say the Darnedest Things |
| 08.04.05 (11:32 am) |
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I have not posted a good joke in a while so enjoy! I've also expanded my pictures in Flickr, so go take a look, feel free to comment! NUDITY I was driving with my three young children one warm summer evening when a Woman in the convertible ahead of us stood up and waved. She was stark naked! As I was reeling from the shock, I heard my 5-year-old shout from the back seat, "Mom! That lady isn't wearing a seat belt!" HONESTY My son Zachary, 4, came screaming out of the bathroom to tell me he'd dropped his toothbrush in the toilet. So I fished it out and threw it in the garbage. Zachary stood there thinking for a moment, then ran to my bathroom and came out with my toothbrush. He held it up and said with a charming little smile, "We better throw this one out too then, 'cause it fell in the toilet a few days ago." OPINIONS On the first day of school, a first-grader handed his teacher a note from his mother. The note read, "The opinions expressed by this child are not necessarily those of his parents." KETCHUP A woman was trying hard to get the ketchup to come out of the jar. During her struggle the phone rang so she asked her 4-year-old daughter to answer the phone. "It's the minister, Mommy," the child said to her mother. Then she added , "Mommy can't come to the phone to talk to you right now. She's hitting the bottle." MORE NUDITY A little boy got lost at the YMCA and found himself in the women's locker room. When he was spotted, the room burst into shrieks, with ladies grabbing towels and running for cover. The little boy watched in amazement and then asked, "What's the matter haven't you ever seen a little boy before?" ELDERLY While working for an organization that delivers lunches to elderly shut-ins, I used to take my 4- year-old daughter on my afternoon rounds. The various appliances of old age, particularly the canes, walkers and wheelchairs, unfailingly intrigued her. One day I found her staring at a pair of false teeth soaking in a glass. As I braced myself for the inevitable barrage of questions, she merely turned and whispered, "The tooth fairy will never believe this!" DRESS- UP A little girl was watching her parents dress for a party. When she saw her dad donning his tuxedo, she warned, "Daddy, you shouldn't wear that suit." "And why not, darling?" "You know that it always gives you a headache the next morning." DEATH While walking along the sidewalk in front of his church, our minister heard the intoning of a prayer that nearly made his collar wilt. Apparently, his 5-year-old son and his playmates had found a dead robin. Feeling that proper burial should be performed, they had secured a small box and cotton batting, then dug a hole and made ready for the disposal of the deceased. The minister's son was chosen to say the appropriate prayer s and with sonorous dignity intoned his version of what he thought his Father always said: "Glory be unto the Faaaather, and unto the Sonnn ... and into the hole he gooooes." SCHOOL A little girl had just finished her first week of school. "I'm just wasting my time," she said to her mother. "I can't read, I can't write and they won't let me talk!" BIBLE A little boy opened the big family bible. He was fascinated as he fingered through the old pages. Suddenly, something fell out of the Bible. He picked up the object and looked at it. What he saw was an old leaf that had been pressed in between the pages. "Mama, look what I found", the boy called out." What have you got there, dear?" With astonishment in the young boy's voice, he answered, "I think it's Adam's underwear!" |
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| Riding my bike to work | ||
| 08.02.05 (2:44 am) | ||
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It is that time of year that makes me really happy, summer, it is warm the sun shines and I can ride my bike outdoors. The kids are not going to school now, or involved in any activities or working so it leave me a bit freer to ride more often than at other times. I've already competed in the Senior Olympics and have not really tried riding with the "Big Boys" of the Sunday morning ride this year, I'm just enjoying my time with" J" too much to want to leave her on Sunday morning to ride with a bunch of guys I only barely know. However, now I'm riding my bike to and from work, an 11 mile (one way) trip. I love the mornings, the cooler morning air, the newly rising sun and seeing animals that you don't usually see during the heat of the day. Riding in to work is very stimulating really gets my day going, but coming home in traffic is more nerve racking, but I still enjoy it all! Yes, the place I work has showers, and I do shower before work, and after for that fact too when I get home. I can’t help myself I do ride at a good speed and get a great workout. If you were raised in the 60s and 70s you remember Carole King, I know I do, she really spoke to my young soul and my developing mind and spirit. Well, if you have not heard she is now 62 and still singing! She has a new 2 CD set out called “The Living Room Tour”. If you have listened to her in the past and still love her music I suggest getting the new CD, it is really a special treat!
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