Thursday, October 10, 2013

October 10, 2013

Good morning! Decent day yesterday, I got some really COOL stuff in the mail (that means yarn), had breakfast on the veranda (that was NICE!), cleaned the house, showered & went to work. I listed the last of the home decor I had available to list & then took the dogs out, picked someone up from in town, had lunch out as I had hoped to (good timing), & since there was nothing left to list in the home decor category & my source of new stock was closed, I took a break out on the back porch swing & then sat down & watched a little of Mars Attacks & crocheted a little bit of my ripple afghan. It was nice to get even a few minutes of crocheting in. Yesterday's Sims game was the Graveyard career & my Sim Daniel has been working on his skills & raising their child Christine (2nd gen) who has now aged up into a toddler. This morning I took the dogs out & loaded up Diamond. My Sim Elizabeth (3rd gen) is in grade school & has been going to school & working on her skills.

At the height of the tulip mania in the Dutch Republic in the early 1600s, a single bulb of the rare Viceroy tulip was worth more than 4 fat oxen, 8 fat pigs, 12 fat sheep, 2 tons of butter, & 1,000 pounds of cheese!

Buy day-old bread, rolls & other bakery items. One day doesn't make a big difference in taste (& you'll end up freezing the leftovers anyway).

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Family matters take precedence early in the week, so keep a low profile or better yet, disappear.

Male mile runners of all time top 10:
  1. Dr. Roger Bannister, England, 1st man to run the mile in under 4 minutes
  2. John Landy, Australia
  3. Herb Elliott, Australia
  4. Peter Snell, New Zealand
  5. Michael Jazy, France
  6. Jim Ryun, USA
  7. Sebastian Coe, England
  8. Steve Ovett, England
  9. John Walker, New Zealand
  10. Hicham El Guerrouj, Morocco, set the record at 3:43.13 on July 7, 1999
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Well, kind of nice to see we've finally gotten rid of voter apathy, right? Thanks to the candidates, it's kind of turned into voter hatred now. -Johnny Carson 1992

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