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Interests: I enjoy the finer side of life - Art, Classical Music, Urban Living... I also enjoy the Down Home side of things - haymows, dairy cattle, bluegrass music, dusty roads, etc. Other things - travel, singing, intellectualism, chess, mechanical engineering, fine woodworking, carving, etc... To sum it up - a general knowledge about everything.
Expertise: Selling things, researching, fixing things, Generating enthusiasm
Occupation: Sales
Industry: Furniture, Cutlery, Songbooks,
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Member Since:
4/20/2005
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| Hot Mint Tea is good.
Popcorn seasoned with Greek Seasoning is good.
I'm tired.
Your quote for the week:
Generosity is more fun. That’s the key.
-- Robert Thurman (1941 - )
American scholar and Buddhist monk
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| This is roughly the amount in the proposed Wall Street bailout. How much, exactly, is a trillion? It is so much, that it's pretty much just a number to most people. A million is thinkable. A billion is out of the conceptual grasp of most people. A trillion is in the hands of a small few. Let's see if we can just take a little bit of the mystery out of it.
If you were to stack $100 bills flat, until you had a trillion dollars ($1,000,000,000,000) you would have a stack 789 miles high. That's approximately 144 Mt. Everest's stacked up.
If you were to take $1, and put them flat together (the thin way) - you would circle the earth about 4 times till you had a trillion.
If you counted to a trillion, 1000 every second, it would take you about 37 years.
This is incredible. Almost incomprehensible.
...and our national debt is almost 10 trillion...
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| It was a cold ride on the blue streak today. I rode my moped to work. Wow. The morning ride at 10 was cold. The evening ride at 8 was colder.
I like fall weather. I LOVE the smell of decaying leaves. ...I think that is probably one of the only decaying smells that I care for. Well, I guess the general "woodsy" smell is also very apealing - but that ties in pretty strongly with the leaves. The nippy weather, (when I don't have to ride in it), apple cider, the "Changing of the Colours" (sounds a bit "Arlington-ish", wouldn't you say?), the coming of snow, etc. It's a good time.
I could do with some Mint tea and popcorn with Greek Seasoning on it. Wow. I think I'll go make me some right now. ..except that it's 9:30 - a chance to go to bed early. hhhmmm....what to do? I dunno. If Mom is staying up for a while, I'll probably stay up with her and chat. Otherwise, I might go to bed.
How many of you like popcorn? Did you grow up on it? When I was a kid, we'd buy a 50 lb bag of it, and we had popcorn. Pretty much every day in our school lunch, ...oh shucks. I just remembered. I think that we are almost out of oil. ...that kind of kills the popcorn idea...of course, I could always use butter...so much for trying to lost some wait... hhmm.... anyway, back to the popcorn as a kid... And every Sunday evening at Grandpa's, and other random times. It was great. We'd trade popcorn at school for chips. We didn't ever get chips, and they never got popcorn. I think that it worked out pretty well. Andrew Waldron was always a great person with whom to trade. Nathaniel too, but he wasn't as keen to get the popcorn. ...Wow. Good times. Sometimes when I need to have a good time, I'll remember back to school. I loved school. I didn't understand not liking school. I understand now why kids don't like it, but I still think that they should. It's a great time of life - someone else is paying your way through life, you get to learn new and cool stuff, you spend hours with friends, blah blah blah... It's great. Sit back, and take some time to remember that... ..... ... ..... .... ..... ..... ..... ... ..... .... ..... ..... .... .... ..... .... .... ..... .....
OK. enough now. Have you ever wondered how your brain remembers things? Just how much info is stored up there, anyway? Our language is approaching 4,000,000 words. That's a lot. Many of us know many words. I wonder how many words the average person knows..? The closest competitor in the "number-of-words-in-a-language" contest is German, at about 260,000 words. Not even close. English currently has more Latin words than Latin itself did. Wrap your aforementioned brain around that one for a while. ....... ........... .............. ................. ............... ................ ........... ................ .............. .............. ............... .............. ............. ........ ............ .............. .............. ................ ................ ............. ............. .............. ............. ............ ............... ......
OK. Anyway, the certain smell that you smelled, on your first date. ...or the time when you were REALLY scared. Or the taste of lemon meringue pie... How does your brain keep all of that stuff up there? And where does it know to find it when we need the info? ...that's one thing about getting old - your brain can't find it; hence, you forget things. We are truly fearfully and wonderfully maid. ... ...there's something wrong there... can't ... figure ... out.... ... OH! Yes. I'm not a maid. I'm a may'd. Er, made. Whatever. I like words. I like people. I just met an interesting guy the other day. Well, actually, I meet them frequently. That's a great thing about my job. I meet people from many walks of life. (If I were Schizo, I'd meet people from many walk of lives) I only wish that I could become real friends with many of them. ... And I am, with some of them. I need a wife, so that I can go out to dinner with them, have them to my place for dinner, take them to church, to hear choirs, go on little day trips, etc. ... Maybe I'll have to look into that.
Did you know that the way you refer to a group of Attorney Generals is actually Attorneys General? That's cool. Why is that cool? I don't know.
There are lots of interesting things in the world; fascinating beyond words. Why can't I meet and experience them all? I just decided the other day that making stained glass windows would be great. I like them so much! Wouldn't it be neat to actually be able to do it? You know, have the time, and a better-than-slight level of expertise? Then I see smelting, and fabricating, and carbon fiber, and fiberglass and ... Wow. If I were to build a dream work shop, I think that I could supply an entire village in Africa with supplies. HEY! You were not supposed to say that. I know that African villages have little need for stained glass, but so what? It's still cool. OK, fine. An American village. And pottery making. Glass blowing. Wood carving, turning, cabinet building, steam bending, etc. Every now and then I get these ideas of making cool stuff. Then reality sets in, and I realize that I don't have the time for all of the stuff that I want to do. So what to do about that. ... Yup. Blog about it. It won't help anything, really, but it certainly will make one feel better.
OK now. Off for that tea and popcorn.
Ciao,
Will
..So why not put up a picture, eh? OK. Sure.... ...This was back when I still had a camera... <tears> I love this style of car! I would someday like to have one of these.
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| You know how sometimes CLP SS lessons are sometimes "alternate"? No, this has nothing to do with alternative medicine, or lifestyles, or music. It doesn't have anything to do with alternators, Sushi eaters, alienators, or other automotive products. Oh wait. Never mind. It does have to do with automotives. But, ad rem, this is an "irregular post". Meaning, this isn't a regular post. (you don't say?!) So, I can get away with not posting the content that I said that I would in the last regular post.
So here you have it. I'm now a car. However! I am a very cool car.
You are a Ferrari 360 Modena!
You've got it all. Power,
passion, precision, and style. You're sensuous, exotic, and
temperamental. Sure, you're expensive and high-maintenance, but
you're worth it.
...Hey, wait-a-minute! I said that I wasn't high maintenance! ... so what is the definition of high maintenance, anyway? And am I high maintenance? Would someone please tell me?
This little speal has been brought to you courtesy of...
http://www.tomorrowland.us/sportscar/
I got quiz off of a fellow-Xanginian's site. (the quz, not the results) I like the automotive aspect of it. ...I'm not so sure that I like what it is saying about me, but if that's what it says, then I'll go with it, because my friend looked at this, and he's a lawyer. Hey, while you are at it, take the quiz! Ferrari said that they will give you credits toward a new car every time someone clicks the link from your site. So be sure to take the quiz. If you don't, bad things will happen to you. For example: One day, I hadn't taken the quiz, and a guy pulled out right in front of me! I slammed the brakes, but it was too late. I hadn't taken the quiz. So, I smashed him. See what I could have avoided if had taken the quiz? You should take a lesson, and take the quiz.
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