WoW! I am back for a minute. IDK if I LJ'd about the new position I took on or the hours that I was working but, after 4 weeks, I have a reprieve.I worked over 4 weeks straight, 10 hrs + a day. Yea, I took a couple of misses here and there, but damn.what an experience. And the job, LOVE IT! I feel that I have reached the mid point in my career path. Instead of just being a desirable commodity due to my motivation, education, and intelligence, Now I am Finally being utilized for all that, plus my experience and expertise. I got clout, so to say.More responsibility, but damn it's nice! I have a new toy too. I have had the same old mobile forever it seems. Now, I am connected.
I was recently told this story by a friend in San Angelo, TX. A co-worker of hers took their one year old son to the theater to see The Veggie Tales movie. The room was packed with families and their children for the matinee. The co worker noticed that, during the previews, the content was rather harsh for a juvenile crowd. Then, as the lights went down and the feature started, what comes on the screen? The Eye! Apparently, the brainiacs in the projector room got confused. She, along with the rest of the parents, covered their children's eyes and fled the room. She said that The Eye starts out pretty rough. Too rough for a younger audience. I hope that whoever was responsible was demoted to buttering popcorn.
Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou wilt, forget. Christina Rossetti
It was done entirely in green crayon and it was for a contest at my school to see what kid could write and illustrate the best kid's book. William Joyce
The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. Ernest Hemingway
Green is my favorite. And it's my favorite because it's the color of my wife's eyes, grass, trees, life, and money, and mother earth! Casper Van Dien
I won't eat anything green. Kurt Cobain
All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A lot of the songs start with an image. I was sitting there playing the guitar and I pictured this old, dirty green car, with the window rolled down, in the hot, hot, hot Texas heat, and this beautiful woman I knew when I was a kid sitting behind the wheel, looking out at me. Edie Brickell
I was always shocked when I went to the doctor's office and they did my X-ray and didn't find that I had eight more ribs than I should have or that my blood was the color green. Nicolas Cage
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while the pessimist sees only the red stoplight. The truly wise person is colorblind. <a href="http://www.burstnet.com/ads/ad10263a-map.cgi/ns/v=2.3S/sz=300x250A/" target="_top"> <img src="http://www.burstnet.com/cgi-bin/ads/ad10263a.cgi/ns/v=2.3S/sz=300x250A/" border="0" alt="Click Here" /></a> <a href="http://www.burstnet.com/ads/ad10263a-map.cgi/ns/v=2.3S/sz=300x250A/" target="_top"> <img src="http://www.burstnet.com/cgi-bin/ads/ad10263a.cgi/ns/v=2.3S/sz=300x250A/" border="0" alt="Click Here" /></a> <a href="http://www.burstnet.com/ads/ad10263a-map.cgi/ns/v=2.3S/sz=300x250A/" target="_top"> <img src="http://www.burstnet.com/cgi-bin/ads/ad10263a.cgi/ns/v=2.3S/sz=300x250A/" border="0" alt="Click Here" /></a> Albert Schweitzer
A week or so ago, Canada made news by listing the US as a place where prisoners are likely to be tortured. Then, yesterday, Canada refused to turn over Afghan prisoners to Afghan authorities because they feared that the prisoners would be tortured. Following that train of logic to its logical end, this sets a precedent to prevent prisoners from being transferred back to the US from Canada. Anyone out there care to speculate?
40 days and 40 nights, I was on the scene. Allusions to Noah, Ut Naphestim! I fear imminent collision, Derision. Don't force me Backed into a corner You'll see my decision.
Father went to college Father finished college Mother went to college Mother finished college Have any relative who is an attorney, physician, or professor Were the same or higher class than your high school teachers Had more than 50 books in your childhood home Had more than 500 books in your childhood home Were read children's books by a parent Had lessons of any kind before you turned 18 Had more than two kinds of lessons before you turned 18 The people in the media who dress and talk like me are portrayed positively Had a credit card with your name on it before you turned 18 Your parents (or a trust) paid for the majority of your college costs Your parents (or a trust) paid for all of your college costs Went to a private high school Went to summer camp Had a private tutor before you turned 18 Family vacations involved staying at hotels Your clothing was all bought new before you turned 18 Your parents bought you a car that was not a hand-me-down from them There was original art in your house when you were a child Had a phone in your room before you turned 18 You and your family lived in a single family house Your parent(s) owned their own house or apartment before you left home You had your own room as a child Participated in an SAT/ACT prep course Had your own TV in your room in High School Owned a mutual fund or IRA in High School or College Flew anywhere on a commercial airline before you turned 16 Went on a cruise with your family Went on more than one cruise with your family Your parents took you to museums and art galleries as you grew up You were unaware of how much heating bills were for your family
It makes you want to kick the guy right in the nads! The sad part is, as fucked up as our judicial system is, Alan Statsky will most likely win and ruin this family's credit if they dont pay. This is just another example of the decline of western civilization. Alan Statsky, go fuck yourself!
FEUDALISM: You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk.
PURE SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else's cows. You have to take care of all of the cows. The government gives you as much milk as you need.
BUREAUCRATIC SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and put them in a barn with everyone else's cows. They are cared for by ex-chicken farmers. You have to take care of the chickens the government took from the chicken farmers. The government gives you as much milk and eggs as the regulations say you need.
FASCISM: You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you to take care of them and sells you the milk.
PURE COMMUNISM: You have two cows. Your neighbors help you take care of them, and you all share the milk.
RUSSIAN COMMUNISM: You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but the government takes all the milk.
CAMBODIAN COMMUNISM: You have two cows. The government takes both of them and shoots you.
DICTATORSHIP: You have two cows. The government takes both and drafts you.
PURE DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. Your neighbors decide who gets the milk.
REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. Your neighbors pick someone to tell you who gets the milk.
BUREAUCRACY: You have two cows. At first the government regulates what you can feed them and when you can milk them. Then it pays you not to milk them. Then it takes both, shoots one, milks the other and pours the milk down the drain. Then it requires you to fill out forms accounting for the missing cows.
PURE ANARCHY: You have two cows. Either you sell the milk at a fair price or your neighbors try to take the cows and kill you.
LIBERTARIAN/ANARCHO-CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.
SURREALISM: You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.
I can't believe they're going to destroy the $10k bottle! It's not a, "I can't believe they'd do that." It's more of a, "I am sure some high ranking official will get it." If you thought that the days of bootlegging were over, think again!
this commercial was produced for internal use. It got out and it rocks! LOL, the management there seem to have the right idea. go Kodak go. i LOVE it when he says, "BOO-YAH!"
Something that has not passed between my ears for a while now, the Peruvian Free Trade Agreement. As Fox Journal went on and on this morning, they casually brushed upon the implications of the PFTA here and abroad. Apparently, the PFTA is still floundering in Congress, held up by Democrats who are not impressed with its positive possibilities.
Subsequently, there was a major victory in Mexico for conservative National Action Party Presidential Candidate Calderon. Fox (the news source) is attributing this landslide of partisanship in the north to those who directly benefitted from NAFTA. If this is true, then it shows the positive benefits of free trade creating a strong conservative base populous to overpower the leftist fundamentalists from other regions.
So, we are left with the PFTA. What is it? Better, what does it mean to us? I decided to do a little research. This is what I found:
Stronger tobacco tastes are coming forward. With all of the recent further restrictions on smokers, the trend has started to lean towards stronger blends. Cigars have steadily been making headway for years to achieve the ultimate tobacco P.R. - sexy! Could this mean a resurgence of the Marlboro Man days, with WWI trench warfare shiek Pal Mal's in the forefront? Tax, another restriction on smokers, has also brought out more "roll-your-own" efficiency. These floor sweep, filter-free bombs would get a moose high, but he'd wake up with more money in his pocket. They're cheap! But shiek? It's hard to pull off sexy with brown teeth and yellow fingers. Then again, all of the money that you save could buy alot of teeth whitner. So, with all of the these latest trends, we beg the question, "Why is our government trying to kill off the die-hard smokers faster?" Another would be, "Has the tobacco Industry found a loop-hole back into our ego-maniacal lives in appealing to our libidos?"
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