Archive for July, 2009


>Journal Entry

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July 18, 2009

>Thursday 16 July 2009
Sometimes I am stupid
When I made my nail appointment I didn’t check my work schedule so here I am in a bar (Yes! a bar! Don’t judge me, it’s a nice place attached to a restaurant and in GCT, how much nicer can you get?) waiting until its time to head to the nail salon.

What made me pick up my pen was the thought or question, how do other people see things? Is that a valid question or is it the Negra Modela talking? Here’s how the scene played out if I was were writing a book.

The bartender watched as she moved from one barstool to the other, as she placed her pocketbook on the bar and carefully arranged her ball cap, with her sunglasses and cellphone inside it, her water, beer, basket of chips in a precise semi-circle around her napkin. She picked up her cell phone, smiling at the text message she received and he wondered.

Does anyone else think like that?

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>So anyway

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July 17, 2009

>after all that posting about not posting and how I was getting back to it . . .

Wednesday Em and I came to the city. She took the day off, and it was my RDO. She had an appointment to get her nails done, I wanted to look for shorts. Been looking for a new pair for a while. The main problem is I don’t want to pay $30 for shorts.

After Em got her nails done we walked down Broadway, there was a store I wanted to go to. We stopped for lunch at another chocolate place we found. The food was great, Em got a burger and I got a vege-burger which was pretty good. Then we shared dessert, it was a monster sundae, so big we couldn’t eat it all.

We then continued our trek down Broadway to our destination, Maria Tash where I got another piercing. I took a picture but it didn’t turn out, I will have to take another one, except I don’t know if I want my not quite flat abs displayed. That should tell you what I got pierced. Em had to get another pair of shoes, her feet are now horribly blistered.

Thursday I got my nails done, but I will have to post about that later. I took notes though, I will just have to type up what I wrote in my journal.

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>Breaking News Alert

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>The New York Times
Friday, July 17, 2009 — 8:40 PM ET
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Obituary: Walter Cronkite, Longtime Anchor, Is Dead at 92

Walter Cronkite, who pioneered and then mastered the role of television news anchorman with such plain-spoken grace that he was called the most trusted man in America, died Friday at his home in New York. He was 92.

Read More: ~The New York Times~

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I really need

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July 15, 2009

to start posting again. I mean really posting, not just the crap I’ve putting out lately. Well except for the Postcards. That’s not crap.

Sunday afternoon, Em, Tigger and I went to the city. The Fray concert that had been cancelled was rescheduled on Monday. Em decided it would be better to stay over then get up at 4 to catch the 4:30 a.m. train. We still had to get up EARLY to get there in time to get in. As we were waiting in line this guy came walking by asking if we would like a fan pass, he had an extra one. I was thinking “How hard would Em hit me if I grabbed it?” when Tigger yells out, I’ll take it! Em of course had ‘given him the nod’. He sent me a text saying someone was handing out extra fan passes so I walked up to see if I could get one. Some girls started screaming, my first thought was that they must have seen a band member, turned out it was a cockroach. A man who heard them and saw me looking asked me what it was. When I told him a cockroach, he shook his head and said, “Must not be New Yorkers.” Anyway, I didn’t find the person with the fan passes so Em and I had to stand with the masses while Tigger was right in front of the stage.

After the performance was over we walked around some, not too much cause Tigger’s foot was hurting him. Still that night I was so tired I thought I was going to throw up.

Tomorrow, or later today I mean, is my regular day off (RDO), or Pass Day as the Department likes to call it and Em and I are going to the city so she can get her nails done. We have some other things planned, but some of them fell through. I will try to get back tomorrow evening to fill you in.

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>~ On This Day ~

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July 14, 2009

>On July 14, 1789, During the French Revolution, citizens of Paris stormed the Bastille prison and released the seven prisoners inside.

On July 14, 1798, Congress passed the Sedition Act, making it a federal crime to publish false, scandalous or malicious writing about the U.S. government.

On July 14, 1834, James McNeillWhistler, the famed American-born painter and designer, was born.

On July 14, 1881, Outlaw William H. Bonney Jr., alias Billy the Kid, was shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner, N.M.

On July 14, 1913, Gerald R. Ford Jr., the 38th president of the United States, was born Leslie Lynch King Jr. in Omaha, Neb. (His mother’s second husband later adopted and renamed him.)

On July 14, 1921, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were convicted in Dedham, Mass., of killing a shoe company paymaster and his guard. (They were executed in 1927.)

On July 14, 1933, All German political parties except the Nazi Party were outlawed.

On July 14, 1965, the American space probe Mariner 4 flew by Mars, sending back photographs of the planet.

On July 14, 1966, Eight women were murdered by Richard Speck in a Chicago dormitory for student nurses. (Speck was convicted and died in prison in 1991.)

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>Check out this blog

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>Read Into This!

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>Breaking News Alert

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July 13, 2009

>The New York Times
Saturday, July 11, 2009 — 4:53 PM ET
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Cheney Is Linked to C.I.A. Concealment of Terror Program

The Central Intelligence Agency withheld information about a secret counterterrorism program from Congress for eight years on direct orders from former Vice President Dick Cheney, the agency’s director, Leon E. Panetta, has told the Senate and House intelligence committees, two people with direct knowledge of the matter said Saturday.

The report that Mr. Cheney was behind the decision to conceal the still-unidentified program from Congress deepened the mystery surrounding it, suggesting that the Bush administration had put a high priority on the program and its secrecy.

Mr. Panetta, who ended the program when he first learned of its existence from subordinates on June 23, briefed the two intelligence committees about it in separate closed sessions the next day.

Read More: ~The New York Times~

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>Little birds

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July 9, 2009

>I had an interesting time at lunch today.

After getting my sandwich, I went to the park. It wasn’t really warm enough to eat outside (yes this is July) but I did it anyway. All these little birds were flying around. I noticed this one little bird, almost at my feet looking up at me with a ‘Are you going to eat that WHOLE sandwich?’ Look on its little face. Then it hopped away to get a crumb. That is not weird, that has happened before. As soon as the sparrow picked up a crumb, another sparrow came hopping up with its mouth open, and the first sparrow fed the crumb to the second sparrow. And this kept on happening! The one little sparrow hopping around getting food, the second one following with it beak open and the first one feeding it.

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>Postcard Friendship Friday #24

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Yes, I really got this postcard from a friend on vacation. I have some weird friends.


She called me ‘Weirdo’, takes one to know one!

For more postcard fun, visit postmistress Marie Reed

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>Commuting

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>Yesterday and today I did not have a boring commute. Now, as much as I don’t like to be bored, I like boring commutes. Getting to work without excitement is the way I like to start my day.

First thing yesterday was I overslept. I forgot to change my phone from vibrate to loud so I didn’t hear it. So I knew I wasn’t going to make the 5:57 a.m. train. Then when I got in my car (with just enough time to catch the 6:18 a.m., as per usual), I couldn’t find my keys in my purse. So I had to think back, I didn’t drive myself to the train station the day before, so when was the last time I had my keys? Hmm, when Tigger drove to Ron’s. So I went back in the house and looked in the rack with all the keys and there they were. So I got back in my car, was thinking, I might make it and took off. When I was driving down the road to the train station, people were walking up the sidewalk, away from the station. Not good. It had rained the night before and the tunnel was flooded. So I drove around to the other parking lot, so I could take the stairs over the track, driving down into that lot I watched the 6:18 a.m. train pull away. I also had to go to the bank so there was no hope to be on time now. The only good thing was the train wasn’t crowded, probably cause all the people from the ferry missed the express train.
Today I thought I was fine. Caught the 5:57, got a seat facing forward. As we pulled into Croton, the conductor announced we were changing trains. Grr! So we all left the one train and got on another. Then we came in the lower level. Someone said, ‘That’s MTA for you, less service, more money.” I’ve never come in on the lower level, we had to walk up a lot of stairs.

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