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1. What movie starring Seann William Scott involved him selling sperm, stealing a school bus from a blind lady, and leaving Tom Green behind to care for a voracious snake?
Braveheart because anybody with a name such as Seann Will Scott must be Scottish and the go-to movie when somebodoy is Scottish is Braveheart.
2. You can’t travel this way anymore, but back in its day, some of the highlights of this path included Soda Springs, Chimney Rock, and Fort Bridger, which was actually burned down by Mormons, of all people. What was this path called?
The Oregon Trail. You can't travel that way any longer because you'll die of cholera, typhoid fever, or a snake bite.
3. What tale follows the adventures of Professor Otto Lidenbrock, his nephew Axel, and their guide Hans?
The Brementown Musicians because those are Germans names, so you need a German story.
4. Fun with lyrics! Name the song and the artist:
Winter is here, again, Oh Lord
Haven`t been home in a year or more
I hope she holds on a little longer
Wintertime is here by the Vince Guaraldi Trio
5. What man-made object (or, for the politically correct, device of human manufacture) holds the distinction of having traveled the longest distance ever?
Sputnik
6. Tell us your favorite travel story.
My favorite travel story would not be my own. It would belong to my friend, Five. (Yes, I really do call him Five.)
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I have been so stressed lately. For awhile, we've known that Briana is special needs and ADA. For quite awhile, I had suspicions - for years.
However, now that she's away at college, those things have especially been confirmed.
She can't handle money at all. She spends it immediately. She does not know how to keep or handle a budget. This means that she cannot have an inheritance if anything were to happen to our mom, not that we'd want anything to happen.
Right now, she owns part of the house - we're all on it - each of us owns a third of the house and then I think Briana and I would each own a half of the house. I'm not sure if this is okay for her with her SSI or not. Can SSI count owning a house against her having a total of $2000 or not. After all, they do count insurance policy.
The thing is, if anything happens to my mom and to me, Briana cannot live on her own. Yes, she could live in the house and even own the house, but she'd need a caretaker that would help her out. She doesn't need one that would try to handle her life. We'd need a caretaker that would take care of the house and bills because Briana couldn't do that. However, Briana would need the inheritance.
As for me, a husband would need to understand that my sister IS special needs and many people don't seem to understand such things.
As for a marriage for me, I don't care about any traditional wedding ceremony or even a traditional living arrangement. I don't care if we live together or if I am with him part time and my mom and sister part time or even if he wants to come and support me and any children as long as he's with us and helps us out even if he doesn't want to live with us.
I'm not big on having to have traditional things.
The stuff with Briana, though stressed me out and makes me depressed.
She's not as mature as she thinks she is.
She thinks she's so mature, but she is never going to be more mature than about 15 or 16 years old. She thinks she's more mature than those 18 year olds at Texas Lutheran University, but in reality, she's not at all.
She's a mess.
She can't handle stuff.
She needs to be reminded of things constantly.
Within an hour of telling her something, she'll forget.
She needs to have constant reminders. She needs to have help handling money.
The whole 80,000 loan scares me. Yes, it's for four years, and yes, it will go into my credit union account and earn interest as all of it won't be paid to the hotel at once. It'll probably be paid on a weekly or monthly basis. I don't have a problem with the technicalities of that. It's easy enough. I'm not afraid of paying bills. It's just having that amount of money.
I wish there were something special with LaQuinta and ADA or even Super 8 and ADA. The Super 8 is next to the LaQuinta in Seguin, so they are both very close to TLU.
I just am so scared about everything. I am stressed.
The one thing that has been nice for me while Briana has been away at college is that I haven't had Briana trying to tag along with me everywhere I go. NaNoWriMo? Finally, no begging before every single meeting. If I want to go to a play or to meet somebody or see oneof my friends at work? No more begging before I leave.
If I were to date somebody, she would always be jealous that we'd go out and do things - I mean, just simple things - go bowling, go to the movies - I'm not talking about any relationship things - just things you might do with somebody that is simply a friend.
She got jealous of the fact that I simply went to eat lunch with Jeffrey before he left for school! I mean, what can I do? I want to have a life, too.
I want to take care of her and help her, but I also need a life. My life can't be run by Briana 24/7/365.
Yet, she seems to think it can be that way.
When she's near us, she easily reverts back to her even less mature ways as it is. She quits even trying to be mature.
Everybody also tends to ask me, "Where's Briana?"
I hate that. I want to be my own person. I am not "Bridget and Briana." I'm Bridget.
People assume that because Briana is so special needs that I am, too.
I'm not. I have scoliosis and my back gets sore. I hate that part. I wish it didn't. I never regained my full stamina after I had pneumonia in 10th grade. However, other than the physical issues, I don't have issues. My face? My granpa was in WWII and it is some stupid after effect from the fallout from a bomb in the area of Japan.
All this with Briana makes me so stressed and depressed. It's not her fault she has Asperger's.
Yet, she is very rash. She is also very rebelous and she tries to make us feel guilty. We want the best for her, but anything she doesn't like, she tries to make us feel guitly. She also tries to bribe us. She'll say that she's just being nice, and when she just randomly buys stuff and doesn't say anything, that's nice.
However, then, she says, "but I'll pay," whe she wants to go somewhere or she'll say stuff like, "but I paid for 'such-and-such'" trying to make us feel guilty and bribe us.
She couldn't handle money that came from an inheritance because she'd never take care of the house. It would need to all go to somebody that could take care of the house, not Briana. If I got the inheritance, I know I'd have to budget it and that it's not that much money and that it would have to be used to take care of the house.
She'd spend it on frivolous stuff, even though she'd say "I know it has to be used responsibly!" She wouldn't do such a thing. She's proved time and time again that money and responsibility are two things that just do not go together in her mind. They never have and they never will. Money has always burned a hole in her pocket, no matter how much we try to show her and tell her otherwise.
She just cannot handle it.
So, now what?
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![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) ljdq had a practice quiz this week . . .
1. What is your name?
Puddentame, ask me again and I'll tell you the same. Ask me thrice, and I won't be so nice.
2. What is your quest?
To find the perfect sequined vest!
3. What is your favorite color?
Clear - it's camouflaged with EVERYTHING!
4. What is the capital of Assyria?
Not Tarshish, where Jonah tried to go.
5. What is the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow?
African or European and is it carrying coconuts or not?
6. What's your favorite funny quote? (Monty Python optional)
Never meddle in the affairs of dragons for you a crunch and taste good with ketchup.This is how I feel::  silly Audio Enrichment: NaNoWriMo Group Chattering |
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Somebody in the splodefromcute community posted this video:
The little puppy says Elmo!
If the video isn't showing, here's a link to the video.
It's like a late birthday present. It was posted on my birthday. I just didn't know about it until now!
It drives Woofles and Niblet crazy. I had no idea it would. I started playing the video and Woofles jumped down from where he was and started barking.
So, a cute video and my puppy being cute! Niblet even joined in the barking at the sounds from this dog in the video.This is how I feel::  giddy Audio Enrichment: Ellen DeGeneres |
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I think by using Drivel, I may have the correct date. However, I will have to see if it works by reading my journal. I do like that Drivel shows me where I put quotes by putting the text in a different color.
I forget if an lj cut works, though.
I should try.
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I still had to edit the date. Yes, the date on my computer is correct! It says that it is the 13th! Maybe I'll have to use Drivel to update my journal. It seems to have the correct date. |
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I went to post and the date on LJ was still a day ahead. Now I edited it. Let's see what happens when I try to post next time. |
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First of all, why is my journal off by a WHOLE DAY??? What's going on??? It's been doing it for awhile!!!
I love when I get an actual funny spam. This would have been another one that would've just caused a sigh because it seemed like a woman sent some mail looking for a guy to marry and have a family. The name was Yanna K and no gender was mentioned.
However, it was the first line that made me laugh. I'm glad that I decided to read this e-mail.
Greetings to you!
I'd like to run away from you, but if you didn't come and find me ...
(It continues and is pretty boring, but "like to run AWAY FROM you.") That's hilarious! It has no meaning like the rest of the letter!)
I would die. The roads we take away from each other are many, and
sometimes the distance between us makes me feel insecure. But in
truth, each road we take only leads us to each other, because we
are destined to find each other and be together.
Everything we do, we do with each other’s heart. And I take comfort
from what we yet will be...I am not hoping for you, I know you will
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It was bound to happen eventually, but there's actually a Lost And Found song and I don't care for it. It's called "Neighbor." It might change if I understand it, but I don't care for it and I don't think I'm going to care for it. Unfortunately, it's catchy and when I end up hearing it, it gets stuck in my head. However, I don't listen to it by choice.
I've also been going through some music from someboody and deciding what I want to keep and what I want to delete. I haven't made any decisions yet. I'll probably write the songs I delete to some CD, anyway, just in case I end up needing them, but I doubt I'd ever need or want them.
Today was (well, and is) my mom's 50th birthday! Happy Birthday Mama!
I got her an ice cream cake at Marble Slab. I didn't know exactly what they were. An ice cream cake from Marble Slab is simply a tiny bit of cake at the bottom (I'm guessing it's usually chocolate), and then the rest is ice cream shaped like a cake and decorated with whip cream, and some type of candy or cookie. It was fun, and Marble Slab ice cream is good. However, we now know that the cakes truly aren't anything.
My mom went looking for some other things. We ended up out on Nelson near Dollar Bee and where Winkydoo's and Quizno's used to be, but are no longer. That little place has had many restaurants, though Huggy Bear's had stayed for quite awhile. It may actually be much stabler now because Dairy Barn has opened a restaurant there and even put in a drive-thru window! Their burgers are SOOOOO good.
I used to rave about Cotten's, but the last time I got food from Cotten's, I was unimpressed with the quality. The burgers had been getting worse in quality, but they still weren't bad. However, both the burger and onion rings were not at all impressive the last time I had them.
I'd rather get a burger from Dairy Barn. The only sad thing is that I miss having good barbecue in Lake Charles!
Also, I am quite tired, but that is only my fault because I did not go to bed at a decent time. It's my own fault. I should've gone to bed, but I stayed up and watched Disney until 2am. I'm not sure if I've seen all of American Dragon: Jake Long. I might have, though. I guess I should look on the Internet more, though. That's probably a good idea.
I also like watching The Emperor's New School, but I could look on the Internet for information on episodes and if I've seen them all and if I should look for them on the Internet.
Linux even has some bit torrent client which I could never figure out what to download or use on Windows. I've not completely figured out what to use in Linux, but it's been better than what I'd end up with on Windows. |
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I was writing an article and in my article, I had the name of the food "chicken tetrazzini." Open Office decided that it did not like the word "tetrazzini." One of the suggestions was tetracycline. Anybody up for some chicken tetracycline? For those of you that don't know, tetracycline is an antibiotic. I won't go further than that, though. You can look it up and find out exactly what it is if you're interested.
Other suggestions from Open Office:
chicken tetrasodium
chicken tetragonal
chicken tetrameron
chicken terracing
chicken vectorizing
I added tetrazzini to the sandard dictionary.
Briana signed a paper at TLU saying that she could not live at the dorms. However, that does not mean that she cannot attend TLU for college.
She is trying to decide between two different things.
She will either stay in school at TLU and live off campus. We're thinking she can just live in a hotel. After all, it's got all of the servicecs that she needs. She just needs a place to stay and she can sit in the lobby, the breakfast center, or anywhere on campus.
The other option she is thinking about is going to College Living Experience (CLE) in Austin and going to UT Austin. She does not have to go though. That requires all the tuition at UT Austin and a tution at CLE.
The thing is that what we can so far, living at a hotel would cost about the same as going to CLE. Living at a hotel would give her more freedom. Going to CLE would give her help living, but it would be so structured that she may not have the freedom to go eat and do the fun stuff that she enjoys doing when she does not have classwork or homework that needs to be completed.
Also, TLU is a small campus with small classes. UT Austin may have a few small classes, but most of them are going to be pretty big and she would not get the individual attention that she needs.
She is really thinking of these two things.
One other thing that she can consider is living on the McNeese campus to gain independence and then she'd always be here, but that would require her having to take out trash and clean up after herself again. She now knows that she needs a maid or a housekeeper and help with chores.
Staying at TLU would mean no more essays, no more application fees, no more application forms, just no more of the application nonsense other than a loan for housing expenses at the hotel.
All the other options would at least have a crazy thing with having to get transcripts and loans.
It's her decision, however. We are not going to force her to do anything. This is her call. After all, she is legally an adult and she is learning to be more independent, so it really is her call.
I have no problem keeping her student loan in my credit union account if it is needed and paying the hotel monthly. Paying one more monthly bill isn't going to add that much stress to my life, anyway. It'll just be one of the things I have to do.
Of course, maybe the loan could just be paid to the hotel. We would not know for certain.
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It's that time again! Yep, it's ljdq answer time! You know, go, play, be funny. You might even get quoted!
My latest quote has to do with wrestling and pandas.
1. What was the longest running soap opera in television history?
Hello! Sorry, I can’t come take your call right now. ALL MY CHILDREN are YOUNG AND RESTLESS, so I have to SEARCH FOR TOMORROW and today to find them.
I am praying that the GUIDING LIGHT will remind them that the DAYS OF OUR LIVES are growing short. They will wind up in GENERAL HOSPITAL with only ONE LIFE TO LIVE, even if I do think they are BOLD AND BEAUTIFUL, if they’re not careful.
And if they don’t straighten up, as sure AS THE WORLD TURNS, I’m going to put them in ANOTHER WORLD!
So leave a message at the beep, and I will call you as soon as I get back from PORT CHARLES.
2. "Sandman" character Delirium was once known by what name?
Was or is she Turkish? Then she might be eaten up, being Turkish Delight!
3. Sylvester Stallone and Viggo Mortensen star in which 1996 disaster film?
I'll love it and hug and feed it and name it Dayllight, George.
4. Artists Lori Kanary and Mark Beekman have each held world records in creating the largest versions of what toy?
Really ljdq? LITE Bright, when everything else is LIGHT?
5. "10538 Overture" was the first song produced by which band?
Aren't MOST lights electric?
6. What lights up your day?
The sun and if it's behind the clouds, lamps.
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I've been hoping to make some guy friends and then if it would turn into more, that's fine. I'd just like to find somebody that wants to go out and do things now and then; just an activity partner so I'm not always alone. After all, my friend Jeffrey is in college out in Baton Rouge. We never went out and did things, really, but we saw each other at church and we could go out and catch up and talk when we wanted.
I talked to a guy today and he kept insisted "Lutherans aren't Christians. They don't teach you from the Bible."
Um, why, just why do I have MORE THAN ONE BIBLE? Why did Luther WRITE THE BIBLE so the general public could read it?
Yeah, he went to the huge Assemblies of God Megachurch here in town *cough*GladTidings*cough* that thinks anybody who doesn't attend that church isn't a Christian.
I've been good and not obsessed with updating about NaNoWriMo. It's not that most people care when I do this. It's just that I promised myself I'd not be obsessed with updating, but I'd still write for NaNoWriMo.
The good thing is that I'm still on track for hitting 50k words by November 30! I still stayed up past midnight, but I'm still writing! Yay!
I posted this to ugly_crap today. It's also mentioned in my most recent Mystifying Monday article for AC.
Yeah, I know, it's fashion. Still, I could totally wear a SACK by cutting out the bottom and some little slit for my eye! Look at me, teacher! I'm so creative! NOT!
Lara Torres, just WHAT were you thinking?!?!?!
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I often get quite irritated when people "correct" me with the incorrect information. I know what I'm saying is correct, and they try to correct me.
Of course, there are times that I have no idea what is correct, but then I'm not angry. I'll either just nod or say, "Oh, I didn't know that." Most of the time when I'm reading a word or saying a word, I'll say, I don't know, that word, that weird thing.
For a long while, I did not know how to say "acai."
However, prior to going to New Orleans, I had learned how to say the word because it was mentioned in something I was watching.
It drove me insane that when I tried to say the word correctly, somebody, who was obviously younger than I, tried to correct me. The girl kept saying, "The UH-SIGH berry."
I'd say it correctly, "ah-Sigh-ee."
She's said, "The UH-SIGH" berry.
No matter what, she would always push the way she was saying it as the correct way. One could tell that she was trying to push her way of saying it by the way she stress the word.
I don't even know who it was that did this, but it is just one of those things that really irritated me at the time.
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This one deserves mentioning!
Somebody over in splodefromcute posted a joke to go with the picture they posted!
The joke?
Q: What's worse than a bull in a china shop?
If you're wondering, it made me laugh when I read the answer!
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It's once again time for that time of amazing silliness - the ljdq answers time!
1. Fun with lyrics! Name the song:
Don't tell me the lights are shining
Anyplace but there
We will dance the "Hoochie-Koochie"
I will be your "Tootsie-Wootsie"
When my sister was in preschool, for her preschool graduation, she had to sing a song about fishes doing the Hoochie-Koochie dance. Fish live in water and the Mississippi River contains water. This water flows from Minnesota down to Louisiana. The first National ELCA Youth Gathering I attended was in New Orleans where the Mississippi ends. The next I attended was in St. Louis, MO and the Mississppi runs through St. Louis, so this song must be "Meet me in St. Louis."
2. What Russian city was named Leningrad until 1991?
L is for Leningrad, a city that has changed names several times. First it was St. Petersburg. Then it was St. Peter's City. Then it was changed back to Leningrad. Thank you sister's 2nd grade play. That means I was in 4th grade . . . which means it was 1991 or 1992.
3. Who is the current Welterweight Champion of the UFC?
I don't know anything about what the UFC is or who is in it. All I know is that it is now the WWE, but it used to be the WWF and I used to get cards with pandas on them and they said WWF, and I would wonder how a panda could possibly be a wrestler.
4. The character Simon Templar is more commonly referred to as whom?
Does this have anything to do with that movie or miniseries that was on NBC called The Last Templar? If it does, I wasn't interested in it. I found it boring and was not able to pay attention. I get an F.
5. Fun with quotes! Name that film:
"So now we got a huge guy theory, and a serial crusher theory. Top notch."
Just from what seems to be the theme of this quiz, because my NaNoWriMo buddies were talking about not being about to see "2" of this movie, I'm going to have to say, "Boondock Saints."
6. What's the nicest thing you've ever done?
I don't know. I'm generally a nice person, so I don't know how to rate niceness. On the other hand, I don't know how to rate evilness, either.
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I do believe in God, and in Jesus, and in the Holy Spirit. There's just something that has absolutely grabbed a hold of me that makes is to I cannot say this is not true. I feel bad if I would say so.
I even feel bad when I start wondering. There are those times when I feel God just isn't there, but mostly, I can feel His love with something.
However, there are some times that I just get to thinking - and sometimes that can be dangerous. I have to remind myself of prayers that were answered either for myself or others and the things historians have found, too.
Sometimes I start thinking about things like, "Well, if God exists, who or what created God? We're here, so how did God get here?"
Of course, then I go back to the fact that something had to create everything that's here and where would it have come from, anyway.
Even if you have the Big Bang Theory and it proves to be right, where did everything used to produce that originate. If that's proved, still, who did it.
Scientists can always tlel us how, but not who.
Those are always two different questions.
Still, thinking, "Who created God?" or "How did God get here?" can be unsettling at times.
Am I the only person taht thinks things like this at times? I certainly hope not, but it's true, I believe, and I still have these questions. |
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If you are going to ask about a book, get the name of the author correct or admit that you don't know the name. As in this case:
Dear person that sent a question via ChaCha,
I do not know if Beth Keane is a character in Fahrenheit 451. I know that Montag is. I cannot find any information on a secret pact or secret agreement between the two. However, the novel is not by Red Branberry. The novel Fahrenheit 415 is by the author Ray Bradbury.
Your ChaCha Guide
Of course, that's not what I put. I gave some general information (which did include the name Ray Bradbury) about the novel since I could not find any specific information that they were requesting.
I felt like composing such a message, though.
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I chose 10 people, so let's see what happened.
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| kagomeshuko goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as Pumpkin. | | abitnutty gives you 19 red grapefruit-flavoured pieces of chewing gum. | | angelamidala gives you 10 red-orange licorice-flavoured jawbreakers. | | bitterlight gives you 5 light yellow watermelon-flavoured gumdrops. | | blergeatkitty tricks you! You lose 22 pieces of candy! | | coffeesnob gives you 3 light blue grapefruit-flavoured gummy bats. | | gracie_musica gives you 8 white apple-flavoured pieces of chewing gum. | | jadeejf tricks you! You lose 13 pieces of candy! | | midassa_in_gold gives you 14 milky white coffee-flavoured pieces of bubblegum. | | peacelovemagic gives you 13 green tropical-flavoured pieces of chewing gum. | | psychic_spychic gives you 17 light orange lemon-flavoured gummy bats. | | kagomeshuko ends up with 54 pieces of candy. | | Another fun meme brought to you by rfreebern. |
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| kagomeshuko goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as Pumpkin. | | 1bigbeatlesfan gives you 4 white grape-flavoured pieces of bubblegum. | | 2dreamsilently gives you 15 milky white grapefruit-flavoured gummy bats. | | angelamidala gives you 11 red-orange licorice-flavoured jawbreakers. | | antithiscully gives you 3 pink licorice-flavoured nuggets. | | babymine tricks you! You lose 2 pieces of candy! | | bitterlight gives you 7 light yellow watermelon-flavoured gumdrops. | | black_crow28 tricks you! You lose 29 pieces of candy! | | blergeatkitty tricks you! You lose 8 pieces of candy! | | cinnamoop tricks you! You get a piece of paper. | | claystorm gives you 1 red-orange mint-flavoured gummy bats. | | kagomeshuko ends up with 2 pieces of candy, and a piece of paper. | | Another fun meme brought to you by rfreebern. |
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Ah, *sigh*
Yep, also still have that weak spot for red heads. I don't know why, but I find guys that are red heads are quite cute.
(If you're wondering, I'm watching "Can of Worms," and was wondering who an actor was. Turns out it is Adam Wylie. He played the kid on Picket Fences.) |
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If you EVER need to read a menu that will make it so you are DEFINITELY NOT HUNGRY, just read < a href"http://www.heptune.com/Ralphbeu.html" target="new">Ralph and Beulah's Online Cuisine for the Adventurous.</a>
I promise you that you'll not be hungry just when you start reading that!
However, I do not promise that you will not be sick.
Oct. 30th, 2009 @ 11:35 pm
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I'm not one to judge people. There are all kind of relationships and whatnot.
I'm hardly perfect. VGB and I . . . I won't even get into that, but I compromised and never should've done that.
So, when you look up to somebody because it seems he would practice what he preached and then you find out differently, it just seems to open your eyes a bit to the real human condition of how we can be so hypocritical, I guess.
Wonder what I'm talking about?
I'm not going to go into specifics of who or what, just what I found out.
I'm happy for the guy and I think of him as a friend, not a close friend, but a friend.
Anyway, he became a father to a little girl, and yes, he is married.
Anyway, his daughter was born on September 18th.
So, making September 18th the ninth month makes January 18th the first month.
This would seem normal.
However, they had the wedding in April!
There was something that happened earlier that didn't make me happy and saw this guy as a hypocrite, too. I still saw him as a friend, though.
However, it would just seem that a guy that seems to promote "behaving" and such . . .
well, yeah . . .
Heh.
Oct. 29th, 2009 @ 12:48 pm
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We're currently in Baytown, TX. We thought we'd be able to get going yesterday, but we kept passing the Uhaul place in New Braufels, TX! It was right off I-35 at the Walnut Ave. exit, which is what I said. However, their lighting is SO BAD that even when it is open, we totally missed it!
My mom and I started out when it was light out in the evening, and we didn't see it at all!
We found it in the day because we saw all the bright orange trucks. The sign, which I only saw once we were in the parking lot of the place, only had "aul" lit up and they were barely lit.
So, I'll be home tomorrow instead.
Anyway, I played some of the unverified games on sporcle (anybody can now contribute up to seven games per month, a month starting on the 1st of each month). Why do some people think they are qualified to write clues for their quizzes when they don't really know the details that they are using? Why not stick with things you are sure about or actually use a dictionary? There are plenty of them online by now!
I did leave this as a comment in one quiz.
Good game, except for quite a few errors . . .
An ovary is not an egg. An ovary holds eggs. An ovum is an egg.
stair+child child needs to say "male child" or you need to change the quiz to accept both "stepson" and "stepdaughter.
"heat" is not the same as "fire" It never has been and never will be. Fire is hot, but it is not heat, it produces heat. You could change heat to "flames" or forest ____ (california problem).
"a king's rule" is not spelled "rain," it is spelled "reign."
a worm is not "gardening invertebrates" it is singular - "invertibrate."
Oh well, at least we finally got to have pizza. We ordered from a place called Double Daves. Pretty good stuff.
Oct. 27th, 2009 @ 09:07 pm
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The smartest thing that you can always know is that there is always more to learn. - Me.
Oct. 25th, 2009 @ 06:31 pm
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We're currently in Brookshire, TX and it's been quite a day!
Of course, when I looked up about the Port-O-Trike's being transported, they said they could fit in trunks, and probably in the back seats of cars.
I asked one of the guys that walks along our street if he'd help put the trike in our car (after asking him to help me fold it, which I learned that I have to push a spring to make it fold, but not unfold and lock).
Anyway, we tried the back seat and it didn't lock. Then we tried the front seat and it didn't lock. I cleaned out the trunk and my mom moved some of the stuff out of the trunk as well, and we tried to put the trike in the trunk. It didn't fit there, either.
So much for it being a "Port-O-Trike."
If I have enough money to go visit Briana, I think we'll rent a pick up and we can bungee my trike and my mom's trike into the bed.
Of course, there was really bad traffic just east, right inside, and just west of Houston. I had to try to help my mom with watching all the signs for I-10. She almost got off a few times and one time, we did end up on the off ramp and off the interstate, but thankfully, Sprint navigation got us back on and it was easy - pretty much just following the feeder road. However, it was not easy to convince my mom that she should not make a U-turn under the interstate. This has gotten her into huge messes more than once.
We got off at Exit 732 in Brookshire and looked for the LaQuinta. We finally got the correct number for the LaQuinta in Brookshire and found that we should've got off at Exit 731, after being given wrong numbers to somebody in New York or at least from New York (that was confusing as we thought we were calling the LaQuinta in Brookshire, but I guess we weren't, even though she kept answering the phone "LaQuinta.")
We finally got to the LaQuinta and as for pizza delivery restaurants, do you know what is in Brookshire?
Nothing. Nada. Zip.
There were one or two more local ones, but they weren't open for delivery at all. They have none of the main chains in the city! Everything like that is in the Katy area!
Tomorrow, we'll finish our trip to Seguin.
I'm still a bit angry about the Port-O-Trike, but more tired than angry.
Oct. 23rd, 2009 @ 09:43 pm
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From light of earth, the dark descends, should they return, that all depends... ...when hands point up to moonlit skies on 10-31 the darkness dies.
Yep, we watched "Mostly Ghostly" tonight. It was fun! I'm not into really scary movies, so I'll take Disney Channel scary any day!
We thought we'd start heading to Seguin today, but it was way too rainy, so we're leaving tomorrow. We'll either go all the way there tomorrow or we'll go halfway or a bit more tomorrow and get there some time on Saturday.
Oct. 22nd, 2009 @ 09:21 pm
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He typed in " hyjuyhreddd r" and yes, there was a space before the h. That's how he typed it.
Oct. 21st, 2009 @ 04:51 am
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Oh, yeah, it's [Unknown LJ tag] answer time! It's time for some deliciously funny answers, well, hopefully, anyway. Of course, you yourself should go be funny and you may get quoted in Monday's answers!
1. What did George Spicer claim to have seen on 22 July 1933?
The Loch Ness monster, but it was really on Ju11y, 22, 1933.
2. What 1950's horror movie, filmed in 3-D, featured Julie Adams as the "damsel in distress"?
Prequel to the Simpson's Treehouse of Horrors
3. According to Algonquin legend, what might you become if you engaged in cannibalism?
Well, you are what you eat! Or a flesh-eating scum-sucking zombie.
4. François Rabelais wrote a series of books in the 1500's about the lives of which two creatures?
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
5. Fun with lyrics! Name the song and the artist:
And then he swung from the tree and he lit on the ground
He started to rock, really rockin' around
It was a crazy ditty with a swingin' tune
Sing a boop boop aboopa lopa lum bam boom
Have you ever seen the movie? It's so cute! Seriously, there is a movie! My friend didn't believe me when I told her there was a movie to go with that song!
6. What kind of creature (real or fictional) frightens you?
Oct. 20th, 2009 @ 01:29 pm
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Yeah, ljdq answer time. You know, the usual. Go. Play. Be funny.
1. The films "Airplane!" and "The Naked Gun" relied heavily on the writing talents of which two brothers?
The Cohen Brothers
2. What was the original name of the cereal whose mascots have included Cliffy the Clown, Sherriff Quick Draw McGraw, and Dig 'Em Frog?
Those Golden Sugar Smacks or whatever they're called now. Could be the too sweet for your mouth cereal, for all I care.
3. The "Brawl in Montreal" on 20 June 1980 pitted Panamanian boxer Roberto Durán against which Olympic gold medalist?
There's a Brawl in Montreal? I thought it was cold up there, making people crawl in Montreal.
4. What college football bowl game is traditionally held on New Years Day in New Orleans, Louisiana?
The sugar bowl? You'd think I'd know this being I live in Lake Charles, LA, a four hour drive away . . . but I don't know it.
5. The documentary "Funky Monks" describes the time spent by the Red Hot Chili Peppers in a "haunted" house while recording which album?
Celibate Good Times!
6. What's your favorite sweet treat?
Depends on my mood. Dark Chocolate, Junior Mints, Andes Mints, Cheese Cake . . .
Oct. 18th, 2009 @ 09:25 pm
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I'm not sure if this is correct at all because none of the questions had an "unsure" option! I didn't know what I was choosing at all on some of them. I read the questions and went "What am I reading?"
Here's what I got from The Political Compass Test.
This is my final result:
It says I'm in the Libertarian Left, as you can see from this image:
I guess it tells me that I'm somewhere around what Ghandi believes.
Maybe it's around what Nelson Mandela believes.
I used GIMP to figure out right around where I was and I almost overlap Nelson Mandela's dot. I don't know how correct that is, but I certainly have no objections being near Nelson Mandela's ideas if it's true!
Oct. 16th, 2009 @ 10:20 pm
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I can do math, so why do I always get so confused when I try to figure out how many articles and average page views per article would be good for my page views?
I get $2 per every 1,000 page views now. That's because I've worked my way up to that.
So, if I had 1,000 articles and all the articles I got only averaged each of them getting one page view per month, I would get a whole $2.
Ultimately, I'd like to get $500 per month.
If I had 1,000 articles to make $2 into $500, I'd have to multiply $2 by 250. So, I guess that means that I'd have to multiply 1,000 by 250. That means that I'd need 250,000 articles when averaging only one page view per article!
That would be A LOT of articles. I'd be writing all day long and never getting a break from writing at all!
I'm glad that I average more than just one page view per article, but there still are those articles that seem to get no views at all any longer.
Of course, I'm still nowhere near getting $500 per month in page view bonuses. I only thought I was going to get $100 this month, but Associated Content split my payment by paying me $70 and leaving $40 in my account rather than giving me $100 and leaving $10 in my account, so I'm not even truly near getting $100 in page view bonuses.
I definitely need to write tons more for upfront payment!
*faints*
Oct. 16th, 2009 @ 09:52 pm
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I have no idea if I'll even be able to get online today! My web browswer doesn't want to work!
Oct. 16th, 2009 @ 12:03 pm
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| » I figured out more in Xubuntu!!! |
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I have good news today!
I figured out more in Xubuntu. I could not figure out why my mic wasn't picking up sound too well.
I just had to adjust mic settings in my volume settings thing!
It turns out there's MORE than what Windows had! That's actually quite cool!
I had to go to the "capture" tab and bring "capture" up to about the middle. "capture 1" is still all he way down at the bottom.
Now, headset or headphones . . . that'll be another question all together, but for now, I'm quite happy.
Oct. 13th, 2009 @ 05:40 pm
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I love so many of these Savage Chickens comics!
[ Error: Irreparable invalid markup ('<img [...] <img>') in entry. Owner must fix manually. Raw contents below.] I love so many of these Savage Chickens comics! <img src="http://www.savagechickens.com/images/chickengentle.jpg"> <img src="http://www.savagechickens.com/images/chickendespair.jpg" <img src="http://www.savagechickens.com/images/chickenroses.jpg"> And that's three images, so I'll be nice and put a LiveJournal cut. -oops ONE exception, as I came across this later and <lj user="peacelovemagic"> should love it, I think, if he understands this. (so, really four images, but I'm not changing the text! <img src="http://www.savagechickens.com/images/chickenpoetbot2.jpg"> <lj-cut text="here's the cut, so I spare your friends page"> <img src="http://www.savagechickens.com/images/chickenscottish.jpg"> <img src="http://www.savagechickens.com/images/chickenbinary.jpg"> (Is that 5/7/5 in binary?) (Oh, the first and third line are different.) (Briana is figuring it out.) (She says 11, 21, 13.) (I found an online binary translator at http://home2.paulschou.net/tools/xlate/ and it says as text, I get "o." Yes, a single letter. Maybe I should try one line at a time?) (Okay, here we go: o, [whatever that is], [1101 translates into nothing or a blank space]) <img src="http://www.savagechickens.com/images/chickenexercise.jpg"> <img src="http://www.savagechickens.com/images/chickenfreudlimerick.jpg"> <img src="http://www.savagechickens.com/images/chickenpoetbotcount.jpg"> <img src="http://www.savagechickens.com/images/chickenpoetblog.jpg"> <img src="http://www.savagechickens.com/images/chickenpoetbot_risk.jpg" <img src="http://www.savagechickens.com/images/chickenbasic.jpg"> <img src="http://www.savagechickens.com/images/chickenpoetcritic.jpg"> <img src="http://www.savagechickens.com/images/chickenbattlefield.jpg"> <img src="http://www.savagechickens.com/images/chickenpoetschool.jpg"> <img src="http://www.savagechickens.com/images/chickenpoetbot4.jpg"> <img src="http://www.savagechickens.com/images/chickenofficepoet.jpg"> <img src="http://www.savagechickens.com/images/chickenpoetbot3.jpg"> (Ah, a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but much less poetic. It seems machinery and poetry don't mix well.) <img src="http://www.savagechickens.com/images/chickenundeadpoets.jpg"> <img src="http://www.savagechickens.com/images/chickenundeadpoets.jpg"> <img src="http://www.savagechickens.com/images/chickenhaiku600.jpg"> (Yes, I counted, the entire thing is a haiku.) <img src="http://www.savagechickens.com/images/chickentrash.jpg"> <img src="http://www.savagechickens.com/images/chickendeathpoet.jpg"> <img src="http://www.savagechickens.com/images/chickenroadie.jpg"> <img src="http://www.savagechickens.com/images/chickenpoets.jpg"> <img src="http://www.savagechickens.com/images/chickenreading.jpg"> <img src="http://www.savagechickens.com/images/chickenkubla.jpg"> <img src="http://www.savagechickens.com/images/chickenpoem.jpg"> <img src="http://www.savagechickens.com/images/chickenmuse.jpg"> </lj-cut>
Oct. 10th, 2009 @ 09:30 pm
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I know I'm not the only one with this opinion, which makes me happy, but Obama getting the Nobel Peace Prize? What?
I mean, I respect the guy. He's our president. He had done a lot of good things.
Yet, they awarded him the Nobel Peace Prize for a promise he made and nothing has been done about it!
I'd probably be more "meh, whatever" if they had awarded it to him for something he had done for the community work in Chicago, but that's not why he was awarded the prize or even nominated.
I found out that Greg Mortenson was nominated and he didn't win.
This made me even more upset that the Nobel Peace Prize was given to Obama for a promise!
It seems like even the Nobel Peace Prize is caught up in some of the stuff that is still, "Obama is so great, different, refreshing, first black president, let's make this so special, yay!"
I mean, I'm glad we can have a black president. That is a huge thing. However, the whole giving the Nobel Peace Prize for something he simply said he would do makes me wonder what these people were thinking.
I don't know all that much about Greg Mortenson, but my sister had to read a book for her Freshman Experience class. I think it was called something like "Three Cups of Tea." She told me about it and this guy is amazing.
He is an advocate for educating girls and women. He gets help from people to build schools for girls in these countries where women are considered lower class and not deserving of an education. These countries may be war-torn countries.
How does a promise beat something like that?
Yeah, I think the prize shouldn't have been award to Obama, either, but what can I do? I'm not a member of their committee.
Oct. 10th, 2009 @ 12:53 am
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| » Oh dear, I am sad . . . so many Ubuntu errors! |
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Hi all,
Ugh. I just wanted to thank you for all the help and then also tell you that I may end up having to ask for all that help yet again! I had my computer set on the arm of the chair where I was sitting and it fell off and onto the ground. It didn't have the battery in it, just the A/C adapter. Anyway, when it fell, I just picked it up and everything seemed like it was fine. However, only about a minute later, it turned off and then I saw that the A/C adapter had fallen out of the A/C port, so it wasn't really charging. I tried to restart my computer with Ubuntu and everything seemed fine until after the main start up where it says "Ubuntu" on the screen and has the little bar under it.
Well, after that, it started giving me tons of errors. There were a lot of long numbers with a decimal point in each. Then there were things like I/O not found and initrd errors and such. It was crazy! It was always five minutes worth of errors that appeared on the screen. I could still type "help" to get directory commands, but nothing seemed to do anything else.
So, now, it looks like I am just going to have to reinstall Ubuntu, which I'll probably do a bit later tonight.
I'll try to get files saved online or e-mailed to myself, but I'm not sure what I can and can't do.
After all, Windows Vista doesn't really seem to like me all that much. I can do things like use notepad, but when it comes to using the Internet, it doesn't like to cooperate with browsers.
Oct. 8th, 2009 @ 06:34 pm
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I currently have a "new-to-me" phone. It's not really new, but my mom ended up getting a phone with bigger buttons, but she'd still be able to text with it. I had that touch screen one, but now I have a Samsung Exclaim!
It was just switching phones, no big deal.
I got a new digital camera today. I'm not sure if my last one was stolen or if it is actually just lost in this house somewhere, but I needed one and my sister paid me for when I helped her in her dorm room as I worked a long time for one afternoon and then for about half that time the next afternoon. I was still there, but I wasn't feeling as great.
I got an Olympus Stylus 9000. Things would've been fine, except that the people at Best Buys are idiots. When it says that it takes and SD card, the guy gave me an SD card!
Oh, before Best Buy, my mom and I ate at Izzo's Illegal Burrito. It was a cool place. It was noisy, and it might always be, but it was also the Grand Opening day, so who knows for certain. I think we also sat in a booth that made all the noise echo.
For tex-mex and kinda Mexican food, it's good though. They specialize in Mission style cooking, it said. I don't exactly know what that means, but I enjoyed my burrito, so I think that's good.
The it was Best Buy where the guy was an idiot.
Afterwards, we went to the Sprint store because my mom was tired of her old phone and wanted to be able to dial things and use her keyboard.
I'm very glad that I saw that the guy with curly hair was married! Yeah, no making a fool of myself. I just sat and read about my camera. I've realized that I have the weaknesses of curly hair and glasses. Why do they seem to make guys so sexy? I mean, they can't make every guy sexy to me, but a lot of times, they sure do! If I think a guy is already cute, those things will especially, uh, make me think/feel things.
Then, I had to go back to Best Buy to get an xD card rather than an SD card.
The only gal that was at customer service didn't know what an SD card was at all. She came back with some package of something and I had no idea what it was.
The next time, I went with her, but a guy was actually there and just told her. Why didn't she ask him before? Also, they had only ONE xD card!
Then, they told me they needed me to go get the credit card just to get the receipt. They got the receipt, but at least they did need the credit card.
At least I get to look forward to playing with my new camera and customizing my phone!
Oct. 7th, 2009 @ 08:53 pm
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| » Linux/Ubuntu almost solved! |
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![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) reboot_kid helped me set up my Ubuntu Linux today! Now I can listen to things and record things. I can use my webcam and I can print to the Artisan 700!
Somebody said I might recognize other stuff in the System Synaptecs, but I doubt it. I think I'll have to ask for more help if I need it.
I might, too. I have a headset. It's not a great one. I got it for all of $5.30 from ebay. I tried plugging it into my headphone and mike ports and I tried to listen through the headphone portion and record through the microphone portion, but I found that I couldn't hear anything through them and that the computer was only picking up sounds from the built in mic and not the headset mic.
However, that is truly the least of my worries.
My volume on this computer, a Toshiba Satellite E105-S1402, has always been extremely low. I wish it weren't. It'd be nice to watch DVDs and listen to music at normal levels. Yes, it is THAT quiet that when I tried to watch any of my Patty Duke DVDs, I had VLC's volume turned up to 200% and the computer volume up to 100%. I know that part of it could've been the DVDs, bu from using other things, I know it is the computer that is keeping the sound so low.
In other news, I am very sore.
Why?
Today did not start out well. Behind the head of my bed, a surge protector is plugged into the wall. I had my USB charger plugged into the surge protector. I was simply doing to take it out like I'd always do so I could use my computer in the living room.
Well, as I unplugged the charger, I rolled backwards and fell off the bed completely backwards and then ended up on the floor after hitting my head quite hardly and also my shoulder. I'm still very sore, but thankfully (believe me, I'm thank God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit so much!), I'm not really harmed, just sore. I may have a scrape or two on my shoulder. I'm not sure. However, that would really be the least of my worries.
Tomorrow, Izzo's Illegal Burritos is supposed to have a grand opening and I may go to Best Buy to look at digital cameras.
Oct. 6th, 2009 @ 10:20 pm
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You know the whole drill with the ljdq answers.
The theme has been revealed . . . so let's see
1. Fun with lyrics! Name the band and the song:
And its true we are immune
When fact is fiction and tv reality
And today the millions cry
We eat and drink while tomorrow they die
"So, tell me about" U2
2. Who was the author of the best-selling novel "Flowers in the Attic"?
A book with flowers in the title? Daniel V. Keyes!
3. The quote "Anyone who hates children and animals can't be all bad" is attributed not to chaosvizier but to which comedian?
Steven W. Right
4. Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen received the Nobel Prize in Physics for which achievement?
X-ray technology
5. In the movie "Star Wars", what kind of vehicle did Gold Leader pilot?
Y shaped slingshot
6. Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill, and Frank Beard are better known as whom?
Z. Bra Gang
7. Story time! Tell us what you did last month!
Well, traveled to Seguin, TX which is a six hour car drive/ride. It wasn't planned. It was sudden thing because my sister needed help. Um, decided that I need to work extra hard to make more money this month so I can afford going to Seguin at the end of the month for a concert. Did my work, but also started a new type of article for every day, so there are series for each day. Aren't I so interesting?
Oct. 6th, 2009 @ 02:20 am
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Oh, Linux community, I really need your help!!!
I am such a n00b at Linux that I have no idea what I am doing at all! I downloaded Ubuntu and all I know is that it does run and lets me access the Internet and do my work. Okay, I also know how to download things from the repository, but that's it. I don't understand any more than that. I try to read some of the things about what to do, but nothing is in layman's terms! I don't understand all this, "Oh, just go to the terminal and tell it such and such and then you'll be okay." I really need it spelled out for me. I've got tons of problems at the moment.
My sister tells me that the Ubuntu runs off the back of windows? It doesn't really matter how it runs, just that it does run.
I don't know exactly what I have on my computer, either. I know it is all built in and the computer is a Toshiba Satellite.
The first problem I have is that I cannot record sounds or talk over the microphone to people.
Then, also, my built in webcam does not work.
While I did download something about Java from the repository and as a firefox add on, when I try to play any games on pogo, I still get the following message:
Pogo.com games use the Java plug-in. You either do not have Java installed or you have a version that is incompatible with our games. It does not cost you anything to install Java.
Do you want to install the Java plug-in now?
If I put yes, I get the download thing. I downloaded it once and I tried to follow the instructions. I finally found my terminal, but when I typed "su" and then my password (should be the same password as I type to log onto ubuntu, right?), it didn't do anything but give me some error.
Today, I tried to watch a DVD. I toldit to open in the media player. Instead, it gave me a bunch of errors. I tried downloading other media players, including VLC. Even VLC gave me a big list of errors! Note, however, that ubuntu did recognize my DVD drive and that a DVD was in the drive.
Then, I also need to set up our wireless Artisan 700 printer with Ubuntu and I have no idea how to do that.
I'm thinking that this may have to do a lot with drivers? I have no clue what I need to do.
Can you please help?
If you need me to get on a messenger and chat, comment to me. I can use either AIM or Yahoo! to chat and we can set up a time to make sure that I'm online.
Thanks so much,
kagomeshuko
Oct. 5th, 2009 @ 05:08 pm
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