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Archive for January, 2010
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When I put my change in jars, I sort it. One jar for pennies, one for quarters and one for the rest. I recently ran out room for the pennies.
The jar is a Sunfresh “Fruit Made Easy” jar.
It is 6″ tall and 3-¼” in diameter. I don’t know how many ounces it held, that was on the label and as you can tell, I removed the label.
Can you guess how many pennies in the jar? Come on PLEASE?
Oh you want a prize if you guess it, hmmm.
O.K. How about a pair of silver and glass bead earrings? I realize this picture is not great quality, my camera is not designed for this type of photography. The ear wires are silver as are the chains, the beads are glass. They are about 2-¼” long. Not very fancy, just pretty little ear bobs. Hand made by me.
Contest open only to United States residents due to cost of international postage.
I keep forgetting to post things. After all this is supposed to be all about me right?
First off, I have made it to 2,000 visits. I would like to thank all my readers for making this moment possible. I even have a little tear in my eye, no wait, that’s an allergic reaction, sorry.
Second my little teapot came and I am so excited! I like it because it is cute and the strainer is a fine mesh so the tea doesn’t end up in the pot like my last teapot with a strainer included. The person who first blogged about it said it didn’t leak when you poured, which I didn’t really believe, I’ve never had a teapot that didn’t leak. Well she was right, it doesn’t leak! I posted a picture of it on Facebook and guess what? Now Em wants one! So I am not sure if I should get her one, or just send her the link. Decisions Decisions.
>I love New York. One of the reasons is all the interesting (a.k.a. Weird) things I’ve seen.
Last saturday Em and I saw a woman wearing a hat shaped like a cow’s head. Really! The front stuck out cause it was stuffed and there were horns and ears. Em and I nearly peed ourselves.
Then yesterday I had a doctor’s appointment and walking back I saw this woman with powder blue high heeled boots, white tights and white short skirt (some woman have freakin’ ugly knees).
When I got to GCT I saw a woman putting a diaper on a dog. Yes I did. New York is such a great city.
>Tomorrow I see a new doctor about my allergies and asthma. I am kind of nervous. I wrote everything down, well not what I’m allergic too, I only had a week and a 50 page notebook. I asked Em if she thinks the doctor will be impressed or scared. She said scared, I agree.
I also printed out the approved drugs and looked them up online. What’s in them and the side effects etc. So I am prepared. I don’t know why I am so nervous.
>The New York Times
Sun, January 03, 2010 — 7:30 PM ET
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U.S. Intensifies Screening for Travelers From 14 Nations
Citizens of 14 nations including Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Nigeria who are flying to the United States will be subjected indefinitely to the intense screening at airports worldwide that was imposed in the aftermath of the Christmas Day bombing plot, Obama administration officials announced Sunday.
But American citizens, and most others who are not flying through those nations on their way to the United States, will no longer automatically face the full-range of intensified security that had been imposed after the attempted bombing of a Northwest Airlines flight, officials said.
Read More: ~The New York Times~
>This morning started good, well sort of good. Had to wear my jacket because all my clean tops are too thin and small. Caught my train, was sitting nice and comfy, and what happened? I’m sure you can guess, equipment change in Croton. So I got to stand from Croton to Grand Central Terminal. Joy. I hope tomorrow the same thing doesn’t happen, from things I heard, it might.
Oh and my teapot came. I didn’t open it, I am taking it to work.
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Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It’s called ‘rain’. – Michael McClary
Airplane humour…. all true stories.
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Los Angeles Center reported receiving a request for clearance to FL 600 (60,000ft). The incredulous controller, with some disdain in his voice, asked, “How do you plan to get up to 60,000 feet?”
The pilot responded, “We’re an SR-71, son, and we don’t plan to go up to it; we plan to come down to it.”
And that’s how you shove someone’s foot in their mouth.
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A pilot was sitting in his seat and pulled out a 38 revolver. He placed it on top of the instrument panel, and then asked the navigator, “Do you know what I use this for?” The navigator replied timidly, “No, what’s it for?” The pilot responded, “I use this on navigators who get me lost!”
The navigator proceeded to pull out a .45 and place it on his chart table. The pilot asked, “What’s that for?” “To be honest sir,” the navigator replied, “I’ll know we’re lost before you will.”
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A military pilot once called for a priority landing because his single-engine jet fighter was running “a bit peaked.” Air Traffic Control told the fighter jock that he was number two behind a B-52 that had one engine shut down.
“Ah,” the pilot remarked, “the dreaded seven-engine approach.”
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Taxiing down the tarmac, the 757 abruptly stopped, turned around and returned to the gate. After an hour-long wait, it finally took off. A concerned passenger asked the flight attendant, “What was the problem?”
“The pilot was bothered by a noise he heard in the engine,” explained the flight attendant,” and it took us a while to find a new pilot.”
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The German air controllers at Frankfurt Airport are renowned as a short-tempered lot. So they grew rather impatient with a British Airways 747 call sign Speedbird 206 when it had trouble locating its gate.
Ground: “Speedbird, do you not know where you are going?”
Speedbird 206: “Stand by, Ground, I’m looking up our gate location now.”
Ground (with quite arrogant impatience): “Speedbird 206, have you not been to Frankfurt before?”
Speedbird 206, rather frostily : “Yes, twice in 1944. But it was dark. And I didn’t land.”
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A Pan Am 727 flight waiting for start clearance in Munich overheard the following:
Lufthansa (in German): “Ground, what is our start clearance time?”
Ground (in English): “If you want an answer you must speak in English.”
Lufthansa (in English): “I am a German, flying a German airplane, in Germany. Why must I speak English?”
At which point a British pilot on another plane cut in with “Because you lost the bloody war!”
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From an unknown aircraft waiting in a very long takeoff queue: “I’m f… ing bored!”
Ground Traffic Control: “Last aircraft transmitting, identify yourself immediately!”
Unknown aircraft: “I said I was f… ing bored, not f… ing stupid!”
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