Now that I have added another picture to the one below it did not go where I wanted. I seem to always have problems of this nature. But, WHERE IN THE WORLD IS THE EDIT BUTTON FOR THAT ENTRY?????
These things seem to disappear and make me crazy. What I wanted was to have one photo under the other. ARRRRRGGGGGGGHH.
I am my own worst enemy.......I have figures it out. Thank goodness
I would really like to know how I manage to get myself into electronic limbo....
This picture is really from long ago and far away....This is a picture of my grandfathers family. My grandfather, Willi Schridde, is the soldier in the WW1 uniform, standing in the back. It was taken circa 1816. He was German born and fought in the War to End All Wars. The couple seated are my great grandparents. Heinrich Theodor Frederich Schridde and Anna Meta Margarethe Hackmann They were both from the area around Hamburg, Germany. Willi Had five sisters, Dina, Minna, Lily, Johanna and Oona. I wish I knew which sister was which. I have been trying to find information on them but with out knowledge of the German language it has been a great problem for me.
I am going to a meeting the first week of November in Williamsburg VA. I have a notion to peruse Half Price Books and see if they have a German Language CD and play it during the trip. I will be a prisioner in the car and maybe some of it will be absorbed into my cranium.....
If you compare the family to the snapshot of me and my sibs you will see a great resemblance. At least I do. My brother in the top middle I think looks like my ggrandfather. My sister on the lower left looks like her ggrandmother. I think I resemble my Aunt who is seated in in chair in the front. It is amazing how that genetic works.
I have been working on my genealogy for about two years and I have made progress but I have hit a major brick wall. Some people can trace their ancestory back to Adam and Eve, but I am stuck at the great great grandparents.
Here is another view of Elfreth's Alley in Philadelphia.
Got up this morning at 7 AM. That was a two hour sleep in for me. It is amazing that a day off can be refreshing......The weather outside is rainy and COOL. I love the coolness of the air. The rain was from tropical storm FAY. I guess she is about to run out of steam. We hadn't had rain for a while and things were dry, we really could use it and probably a day or two more.
I love the sound of gentle rain on the roof at night. I woke up and heard it pattering on the roof; then fell back asleep.
Not much on my agenda. Chuck is at work and Emily is at school. Soon the first week will be over for her. This is mostly orientation and I think some basic Nursing Class will start today. A & P had orientation on Tues and will also start for real today too. It is nice to sit at home, it is quiet and I have the cats for company. I think I would like to spend a week as one of my cats. They get to sleep most of the day and have their food handed to them in a little dish.......of course, they are neutered and we have eliminate a large portion of their activity. LOL
This is the last of the three cat photos from the Betsy Ross House. This one just looks contented.
Today was another busy day. Did gyne all day. That is woman's parts, for those who don't know. We did minor procedures and a woman with an ovarian cyst. She had felt uncomfortable for three months. She had a cyst that made her look like she was 7 months pregnant. First they did a small incision and removed the fluid in the cyst. It totaled 13,350 ml of fluid. One 2 liter bottle of fluid has 2,000 ml. So, it was the equivalent of the fluid of 6 and a half bottles of soda. WOW. The good thing was that with this contained cyst it was NOT cancer. Good for her.
Today I took 3 Motrin when I got to work. I also wore my Birkenstock shoes. Yesterday my feet hurt so bad, and actually every bone in my body ached. Last night was a Motrin PM evening. I was so sore that I had trouble falling asleep, after the Motrin kicked in I was able ( with the help of the Benadryl to fall asleep.
I think taking the Motrin when I go to work maybe the answer to my aches and pains. I am off tomorrow and damn glad of it.
Emily likes the Nursing School. Right now all they are having is orientation. Her clinical starts in September. She has the uniforms washed, but the length needs hemmed. She is five foot two inches tall.
This is the second of the three cats on the fountain at Betsy Ross's House. Did you ever notice how cats stretch..........they really look like they enjoy their stretches...wish I could do that............
"The greatest tragedy is indifference."
Red Cross
It's not that I am indifferent, but sometimes I am just all compassioned out. I see the same type of people making the same bad life choices and really wonder "What were you thinking???" Abused women always pick the same type of partner who abuses them again and again. People who don't take responsibility for the upbringing of their children. People who abuse their bodies with what ever vice..
Some times I would like to open their heads and insert some common sense.
This is one of three cats on a fountain outside of Betsy Ross's home in Philadelphia. It looks like a typically pleased feline behavior.
My repaired computer was waiting for me when I got home from Philly. I have been slowly putting things back on. There are still a few things to go. My Office program, iTunes, and a myriad of pictures. I am still investigating photo editing software. All I can say is I am glad I backed up my stuff. I also have the photos, music and genealogy things on a flash drive too. Those flash drives are great. Emily said that the flash drives now contain as much memory as her first computer that she took to college in 2000. That amazing. The first to go back on was AOL, they had downloaded Adobe, but the trial version of Office was not there.........
Emily has off today and school starts tomorrow for her and probably half the population of school students, or maybe more than half....
Do not know what I will do today. Does everyone sit around on their day off and try to decide what to do? I like drinking a cup or two of tea and contemplate the day....
The upcoming week is the last of August. School is starting for many, including my daughter.. That means that getting to work will be a hassle and you have to watch out for all the kids. I have been wondering, since all the traffic stops and lets the kids cross, what happens when they become adults? So, do they think that the traffic stops as if by magic and do a lot get hit by cars? I leave for work at 05:30 and it is a 15 minute drive. I run into the school bus traffic when I go home at 3 PM.
I will be glad to see the autumn. I love the colors and the crisp nights and warm days. I hope the color of the trees are good this year, the past few the colors have been muted. We had a lot of rain this year but not so much for the past few weeks. The lawn is beginning to look a little parched. The water costs too much for me to water grass; but I will have to go out and water my tomato crop.
The tomato crop is in one pot. Maybe I will take pictures of my container garden. I think I will do that tomorrow.
Those vegetables look so good. The colors are fantastic. This was a market it Philadelphia. What I should do is start my water color painting again. I love color and I have a lot of candidates for color in my collection.
Tomorrow we were going to do to the Shaker in the Woods Festival; but it is suppose to be hot and humid and I will be miserable and cranky, so we opted out of that. This festival is in Colombiana OH. It is suppose to be one of the best. They also have a fall and Christmas Festival. Maybe I will go then...........
Here is another picture from Philadelphia with a shop on Pine Street. I LOVE color and its contrasts. The only black and white I like is Ansel Adams. AOL Image Search results for "ansel adams" I hope the search is there when you look. I have yet to master how to keep the type style the same when you add pictures and links.
Yesterday was not too busy. I set up OB, you have to be ready at an moments notice to do STAT csections. I did breaks and lunches and after seven sat around and perused the Internet. We do not need a person on till 11 and I wonder how long it will last. It is a big expense for someone to be there and usually doing nothing.
Today was a very light day. There were only three rooms running. We have thirteen rooms available. Thirteen people were "staff leveled" That means they were told to stay home and go without pay or take 8 hours vacation pay. This is common in the health care business. It doesn't matter if you have bills to pay....just too bad for you. I am glad I am off.
Nothing else going on here. Emily is getting ready for work and I am contemplating the day.
Here is Claudia's version of "Sunflowers" Sorry Vincent...........
Today I was in the GI Lab. I decided hell would be doing colonoscopies for eternity. I did 16, a few of them were gastroscopies too. The youngest person was 44 and she weighted about 130 pounds; she was also the skinniest. WOW what a day. Just got finished at 4:45 PM and I was glad. I was tired and called Emily and asked if she wanted to eat out; she said to pick up Chinese. I have a new favorite of Chinese dish. Garlic Chicken, it has lot of vegetables and not very garlicky. I ordered a small portion for both of us (Emily had shrimp Lo Mein) and there is enough for left overs for tomorrow. The two meals cost about $9 total for two.
Tomorrow I am working for 16 hours. I am assigned to OB, who knows what that will bring.......it is either very busy or very slow....I am hoping for slow. I will spend my day doing lunches and breaks....
I now have an offer for a book club (thanks Beth!!!). I will peruse the list and see what I want to do. Finding the time is sometimes complicated for me. It is funny, if I take something to read for tomorrow to read in my down time I will be busy as could be, if I take nothing I will be sitting around with nothing to do. It always happens, I wish I knew how that worked.
Emily was reading POSSIBLE SIDE EFFECTS by Augustine Borroughs. She liked it better than RUNNING WITH SCISSORS, that book I thought was the stupidest bookI had read in awhile. Maybe I will give Augustine another chance and read the first listed.
It is hot outside; and to be hot tomorrow. I am ready for fall. I like it when it is warm during the day and cool at night. Soon it will be there...Most people I talk to tell me that fall is their favorite season. But the bad thing about is you know the winter is soon to follow.
Here is Vincent Van Goghs version.
Here is my daughter Emily pretending like she doesn't know I am taking her picture. This was in the Inn we stayed at in Philadelphia. She said if we stayed there again she would take the WIFI booster and plug it in our room. I do not know how it works but it takes the signal from the original site and boosts the signal. Works by magic I guess.
She completed her CPR class and met some of her new classmates. There were also some people she knew from her Microbiology class. Just 6 days till Nursing School starts. She has to take her Nursing courses and Anatomy and Physiology. She had that in high school and enjoyed and did well on that unit.
Emily and her dad are going to see a movie this evening. They both like spoofs and weird comedies. I do not so I am staying at home and typing and reading other journals.
It is amazing that people all over the world have the same thoughts and our lives are basically the same wants, and needs; no matter where we live.
For dinner I made Jamacian Jerk chicken thighs, noodles, corn on the cob and lettuce salad. That chicken is good. Now, a thought from long ago. When we lived in Europe we found out that they do not have corn on the cob. The corn is fed to the animals and even if you cook the corn for a long time it would never get soft. I guess they do not have the same variety of corn here in the USA, I love corn on the cob.
Festive colors at a sidewalk sale. Took this picture at a shop on Pine Street in Philadelphia.
Today is the last day off for this vacation season. Sat around and did not a whole hell of a lot except to go to the library and grocery store. Chucks last day off is tomorrow. Emily has gone to her CPR class, I will hear about that later.
Somedays at the library I find a lot of books and some days none at all. Today I found a few. I go to the bookstores and write down the titles and then go to the library and borrow them. I can read about three novels a week. Somehow I have not been finding a lot of good reads. Am I in a slump? I should google book clubs and lists and go with them. I do not want to be in a hurry, just read at my leisure...which is usually fast.
The picnic was great and I will add one of the pictures of my sibs and I. I didn't have on my glasses so I was sort of squinting.
My sibs and I at Kathys picnic. I am center, front row.
When everything appears to be going right, you've obviously overlooked something...
We had the family picnic yesterday. The weather was great, the kids are all past the swimming pool stage. The water was too cold, a few years back they wouldn't have cared how cold it was.
We had hamburgers, chicken, lettuce salad, potato salad, macaroni salad, baken beans, a lot of deserts, plus chips and other munchies. I took some pictures but have to do a little editing. Next Monday all those kids will be off to school, most of them in college. Three of the kids were working and couldn't make it. I guess it won't be long before marriages and grandkids. WOW !!!! That's a scarey thought.
Tomorrow Emily has her CPR class. She is getting an A on her Micro class. She will also be starting school on the 25th along with the rest of the cousins.
Two more shots from Eastern Penitentiary
Our last day, after checking out of the Alexander Inn, we went to see the Eastern State Penitentiary, in northwest Philadelphia.
This was mostly because of the reference written by Beth. http://journals.aol.com/luvrte66/nutwoodjunction/ She had mentioned it in one of her journal entries.
Beth: It was worth more than the price of admission. If anyone goes to Philadelphia, you have to go and see it. Emily mentioned that it gave her the same feeling as in the dorm of Kohler Hall and Lang Halls at Baldwin Wallace College. She said the feeling was that something was not right. Sort of a creepy feeling some of the time, she never say anything but had the feeling "that you weren't alone."
Forgotten Ohio: Baldwin-Wallace College
ESP looks like a medieval fortress, it was built in 1829 on the farmland surrounding Philadelphia. It became the Pennsylvania Model of prison design and there are about 300 designed on this plan.
ESP :: Eastern State Penitentiary Website
The prison was antiquated and abandoned and inmates transferred to other places. It was undecided what to do with the facility, and in the end some of the areas were refurbished and it is open to tourists. It is downright spooky.
I have many more photos, the cats in the last two photos are the "Ghost Cats" which are sculptures of a colony of cats in residence. They were trapped, neutered and released back into their colonies. The last of the cats died in about 2002, about the same time as their caretaker, Dan McCloud, had passed away. The cats were designed by Linda Brenner,who had dedicated them to Dan McCloud.
Home again, home again.....I have added some pictures to the Philadelphia entries. The Inn had wifi but we were on the end of the reception, or so Emily and I thought....Links were hard to load, and close to not downloading. I wanted to add pictures at the time but it would not do that.
After the Mutter Museum, we were talking to the volunteer at the gift shop. He told us that we could get the city bus there. It stops at the end of the block, ride north about 8 blocks, and there you are. It was just a two block walk up the Ben Franklin Parkway.
We are members of the Carnegie Museum so we got in for free because most museum, zoos, conservatories (flowers) have reciprocating agreements that if you belong to one you can potentially get in for free at another. Yea, $30 saved. You were allowed to take pictures here, as long as you didn't use the flash. We started at the top floor and walked down. They had an elevator there that was so large that it could have fit a medium sized elephant in it. Guess it is needed so big for hugh works of art.
This is the front, there are two wings out of the ends of the main building. It has three floors, and a basement level. There are about 100 steps which I walked up. This is the east entrance, I found out that they also have a West entrance that only has about 10 steps.
Next is a picture of the Philadelphia skyline.
This was immortalized in 1976 by Sly Stallone in ROCKY.
Does anyone out there know how to make this picture larger??? Here is the link to: I tried to find the music, but no luck. It is out there but I didn't find it.
After three house of walking and looking at art we were tired and took the Phlash bus to the READING TERMINAL MARKET. The Phlash bus is a tourist bus that takes you almost anywhere you want to go along the tourist highlights. It cost $5 per day or $2 for one ride.
Reading Terminal Market - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Emily bought some tea and a woven market bag for $1. I have a few bags but the problem is remembering to take them in the market. Besides I recycle my plastic bags I get at the grocery store. ( The recycling process involves cat litter. Enough on that process)
I love markets like that one, another nice market is in Cleveland. Wish we had one in Pittsburgh. That evening we ate at the IRISH PUB.
Food was better at the first restaurant.
This is our last day in Philadelphia. Yesterday was very busy; we spent the day going to Museums. The Mutter Museum was too far to walk, so we decided to take a cab. The man at the Inn desk had called for two cabs; mine was the second. There was a young man waiting before us and his fare was a long ride. So the first called arrived last and the cabby was expecting the long ride had lost the ride. He was angry with the hotel man and the dispatcher. He moaned and groaned all the way to the museum. My action was do not make eye contact, give a good tip and get the hell out of the cab. I can understand his frustration, but get there in a more timely fashion.
The Mutter Museum was very interesting. The most was the examples of the bacterial diseases such as TB and syphilis on the body. They had wax facial masks of both. I had not realized that TB could become a skin lesion; it was quite gross. They also had TB of the spine (Potts disease) with a few vertebrae which were bent causing the person to walk with their head facing the ground.
The syphilis had also examples of skin lesions and lesions in the bones also. There was bone destruction from infections, osteomylitis where the bone was eaten away from the bacteria. These are thing you read about or hear about in third world countries; but for the most part you do not see in this country today.
Disappointment: You are not allowed to take pictures in the Mutter Museum. There were a lot of things to take pictures of; guess they do not want people fainting in the streets.
Betsy Ross House.
Today we got up and hit the breakfast in the Inn. The usual continental breakfast servings.
Then we trekked to Independence Park and went via Pine Street also know as Antique Row. There weren't many stores; a few stores selling some interesting things. A lot of the antique stores were not open or sitting unopened behind the metal closing gates.
We went by Pennsylvania Hospital which was the first hospital in the USA. Then to Washington Square which has the tomb of the unknown Revolutionary Was soldier. Diagonal from that square is the Independence Park. We perused the Liberty Bell, walked around the Independence Park and the Gift Shop. Did you ever notice that all the gift shops are set up the same and have the same trinkets. The only thing that changes is the name on the T shirt or coffee mug. I actually saw a coffee mug that had written on it the Declaration of Independence....WOW.
Next was the Christ Church Cemetery that is the burial place of Benjamin Franklin and other Revolutionary War leaders. Up the street was the Betsy Ross and Elfreth Alley which is the oldest, inhabited street in America.
I took about 100 pictures but do not have them downloaded yet. On the way back to the Inn we went up the street of Jewelry Row and then back for a brief respite.
Tomorrow is Museum Day, who knows what we will see. The first is the Mutters Museum and the Philadelphia Museum of Art; which is the third largest Art Museum in the USA.
The Liberty Bell with Independence Hall behind.
Elfreths Alley, the oldest, continuously inhabited street in the USA
The five day forecast was a lie. Last night the front came through and it rained very hard. We left this morning and the drive was smooth. There was very little traffic until we got past the mountains and Harrisburg. I have never been to Harrisburg, but have driven past there a few times. They have a state museum and other things to see.
After the exit for Lancaster we stopped for a break and although the gas tank was between 1/3 and 1/4; I filled it up. My thoughts being that the price was right, even though it was the turnpike it was less than in the Pittsburgh area. Moving east on my sojourn in the distance there were dark and menancing clouds. Reminded me of the clouds in the movie WAR OF THE WORLDS.
In about five minutes, the deluge began. The traffic on the turnpike slowed to about 40mph; which is half of about the speed they usually go. People were pulled off the highway en mass. Large semis were also stopped. The rain was so hard that the sounds of the rains sounded like the car was being hit with pellets of metal. There was quite a collection of deceased insect carcasses on the windshield, which the rain cleaned in no time.
The driving was extreme and I am glad I had the AWD Subaru. That car stuck to the road like glue. We found the exit for Philadelphia and spent a bit of time looking for a place to park so we could unload the car. I spent bout 15 minutes driving in squares. Philadelphia is laid out in squares and they are mostly one way, so where you need to turn you can't you keep having to go back and around again. On our second approach there was a space in the unloading area. Parking time was limited to 20 minutes so we unloaded, took our things to our room and out again to park the car. The inn keeper told us how to get to the garage. Just a two block walk from the Inn.
I wanted to go to the Independence Park area but it is a 15 minute walk, and it is raining. Tomorrow looks better. We can walk there via Pine Street which had "Antiques Row" And on the walk back we can peruse Jewelry Row.
The Inn was built in 1900. You can see how narrow the building is; I asked the Innkeeper why and he did not know. He thought maybe it was because it was the only piece of land available was that narrow. My hats off to the architect.
This is where we ate the first night. They had the usual bar fare; plus a minute amount of Irish Food. I had Potato Soup (I give it *****); the best I have ever eaten. They also had ham and cabbage and Shepard's Pie.
I had mentioned before I left that I had found out the Inn was in the Gay Friendly Area. Just check out the rainbow below the street name; if there was any doubt where you were that reaffirms it !!!!!
Chuck said it was named the city of Brotherly Love, that's not what they meant Chuck.
That is Emily in the back with the blue helmet. I checked the five day forecast for Philly and the weather is to be in the high 70's and low 80's. That should be good for trekking around the town. They are calling for a thunderstorm Sunday evening so I must remember to take the umbrella and wear real shoes. I hate when my feet get wet.
Chuck, bless his heart, said I could take his computer. So, hopefully I can keep on writing. I am looking for a slot for the camera card but I do not see one. I wonder if that goes under don't download anything ????? I will have to ask him.
Today I will review my itinerary and make a list. I love making lists, I think I like making them better than doing the things on them. That won't be the case for the trip, but I will have a few alternatives just in case. The main item on the trip for Emily is a visit to the Mutter Museum. It has medical oddities. Should prove interesting to see.
The picture was taken on the Ocoee River in NC. This was the white water river used for the Atlanta Olympics....or so they tell me.
I have a Palm handheld that I use at work. It contains many programs that I use routinely use. I have been trying for an hour to get it to Hot Sync. It is set up that you can do this with WI FI because I can get online with it. It would not sync; I really hate when things to not work like they are intended. This applies to all sorts ofelectronic things, which frustrates me the most. After playing with that for a long time, changing the connections on the program and the handheld I decided that maybe it would work with its umbilical cord attachment. Good grief it worked on first try.....Now, why will it work with the cable and not the wireless application. It worked wirelessly the last time...... I just have no idea.
We are going to be leaving for the Philadelphia trip on Sunday. Did you ever look forward to something and have it turn out to be a bust? I always worry about that with vacations. After you spend time and money researching, planning and anticipating it ends up not how you had hoped.
The drive will be on the PA Turnpike which can be another story by itself. This will be about a five hour drive. PA is a wide state. Driving in Philadelphia can be maddening, I have done it before. Traffic can be awful, but, (I hope) it will be lighter because it is Sunday, which leads me to worry on Wednesday because that is the day I will be leaving. The car will be parked until we leave. I sincerely hope it is still there when I get back to the garage....I think it will be because of two items. One the car has amanual transmission and no one wants them and very few can drive them. It is the best anti theft device there is......
I have the itinerary work out in three days. The first is arrival and the historic sights. The next two depend on the weather. One will be shopping and the other will be the museums. Philly is very walk able and flat. I have two pair of shoes, or one shoe and one pair of Birkenstocks.
Still haven't gotten my computer back. This is frustrating to me. They sent me an email yesterday stating that the computer is now in the repair department. I called them and told them that I got the same email 7 days earlier and exactly what was going on. Acer told me they have 7 to 10 days to repair, you have already had it 7 days I said. The technician is working on it, the only bright spot is that their native language was English.
It is actually cool outside, the high today should be in the low 70's. The change is refreshing to me. I turned of the A/C and have a cool, north wind going thru the house.
I plan to take a lot of pictures, and someday hope to get back my computer so I can download and post them....
Another old photo, pre digital that is. Rafting on one of the Mountain River in NC. Worked for 12 of the 16 hours. The sickest people come in as emergencies. I think they all stay at home, hoping each day that they will feel better the next. Then, all of a sudden, the decide that they are NOT going to get better, so they come to the hospital......They are then, in REALLY poor shape when they get there.
One day, about five years ago, I asked my patient who was in his 80's, "When was the last time you went to see your doctor?" Patient: "Oh, after the war" Claudia, "Do you mean World War II?" Patient "Yes." Claudia: "OHH. You managed to stay healthy for a long time !!!" Guess he waited till it got really bad. It was funny, although I didn't laugh at the time. It was a non critical procedure and he did just fine, despite his avoidance of the medical profession.
Or maybe he stayed healthy because he stayed away from doctors. LOL LOL
Another thing they sometimes say; usually upon being wheeled into the OR. "Is my doctor any good?" Really, this is definitely NOT the time to look for a second opinion. I Honestly can not tell you I think your doctor is an incompetent fool. All I can say is he/she would not be my choice for surgery. Going into the OR is NOT the time to ask.... My in laws were in the same mind set. Chuck suggested they get another primary care person. And they asked "Why? He went to Medical School" Yes he did, but as health care professionals we had questioned some decisions. But people don't change, they still cling to the belief that ever thing will be OK; and sometimes with disastrous result.
We are going to Philadelphia in four days. My compter is not back yet, and will not be by the time I leave. I had hoped it would be back by now. I will have a camera card loaded with lots of pictures and no where to download them to. More importently HOW WILL I CHECK MY EMAIL AND WRITE IN MY JOURNAL.
I guess I should grovel and maybe Chuck will let me take this one.
Another bad thing, the freezer door was left slightly ajar, and the frost was 1" thick. A lot of food was unthawed and I had to pitch a lot of the Lean Cuisine and packaged things that were no longer solid. I did not want to risk food poisoning. We are going to Wally Worldl (aka WallMart) and stock up on lunch entrees. I ate in the hosptial cafeteria and consumed too many calories over two days from the high fat, calorie laden, hospital lunch offerings.
I liked the purple. Long day at work. Today I did vascular and two lung cases. Now they can do VATS, video assisted thorascopic surgery. A while back they had to make a huge incision to open the chest cavity. Now they make a small incision, and can insert a camera and take a look and see. This saves a lot of pain for the patient, and they can do minor things. Like take biopsies, drain fluid, and fix little things. We have tubes that are inserted down the windpipe and you can block off the breathing to one lung. Then the lung is deflated and you can see a lot and operate. At the end of the case the lung is reinflated and then the doc puts in a chest tube and the lung stays reinflated. In a day or two the chest tube is removed and usually they can go home. Now major lung surger requires a large incision and an area to work. But the VATS is a major development for the patients.
Tomorrow I am working 16 hours and I will be exhausted, and then off for the next ten days or so......
Still waiting for the information on my computers return, they haven't me notified me of it status. I know it will be while I am in Philadelphia...
I have the link to my journal on my toolbar. Today I clicked on it and it would not let me add an entry...............I tried it from my favorites and still not luck. Then I did the restart the computer bit and it went on from my toolbar. I was starting to mentally compose my nasty gram to the powers at AOL...............saved by rebooting...............
I read an article on the front page of the Wall Street Journal. I have to re peruse it, but the gist of the article states that (this is a good one)
COMPANIES TAP PENSION PLANS TO FUND EXECUTIVE BENEFITS.
Just when you thought you were finished getting screwed by the executives at corporations another one comes to bite you on the arse. I wanted to post the link but, alas, it is not available for the peons to read.
The information is an example of corporate greed gone wild. With many companies freezing their pensions and putting the responsibility onto the worker, some corporation are putting their plans into resources to fund the executives perks.
I have often wondered how these corporations are able to pay such outrageous sums and ala the way of the real estate debacle it looks like they are not and the regular workers are getting royally screwed again.
The date of the WSJ is Monday August 4, 2008 and is located on the front page.
There is so much going on now. My sister is in CA, and hasn't been rousted by the wildfires. My other sister may have a chance (hopefully) of going to Italy and Ireland. She is getting her passport, requesting time off and will be ready just in case. I hope it goes well for her plans.
She is having a cookout this month and Bill (brother) is coming up from VA. She usually has the cookout because she is the one with the pool. This is everyone bring a dish and she does the meat.
It is freezing cold in that pool. A lady at work has a heated pool and she said it cost her $800 last summer to heat the damn thing. I hope that Saturday is warm and sunny. One year it was so humid and everyone was so miserable. You could have cut the atmosphere with a knife.
I have all kind of photos from years past so maybe I will get some from this year.
My nephew has an interview for a job, his major was in speech (as in remedial) and they said they will call him for a second. I besiege the powers that he gets this job. They will pay for the masters which everyone needs in his field.
"If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research."
Wilson Mizner
I wonder what they call my cutting and pasting of the quotes ????
"When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest."
William Hazlitt
Really, did you see the picture of Elizabeth Taylor going to the hospital with millions of dollars in jewels hanging around her neck like a horses bridal??? The hospital workers can not be responsible for your stupidity when you jewelry gets lost, or missing.
An old rule that is now being seriously enforced. If you can't take off your jewelry for your operation, it is going to get cut off.
IF YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE AN OPERATION, LEAVE YOUR JEWELRY AT HOME. Your're wasting my time trying to get it off, and I personally am not going to remove your piercings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
