This is one of those "How many thinks can you find wrong with this picture?" pics.Sorry for no post last night. I didn't get home from a men's event until about 9:45 p.m. and was whooped from a long day, much of it spent out in the sun. The preacher needed to get to bed.
I worked for about three hours yesterday afternoon getting new shade cloth up on the patio structure to replace what blew off during the wind storm a couple weeks back. Worked another couple of hours again this afternoon - this one is NOT going to blow away! - and have about an hour's work left. I'll finish it tomorrow.
I'll also be going back to the house I worked at last week, the one that had the home inspector's list of things to be fixed before close. One of the things was to install a new garbage disposal. I could get the same brand and model at Home Depot (Insinkerator Badger 5) which made it an easy swap-out. Alas, when I hooked up the dishwasher line to the disposal I forgot about the knock-out plug. So when the inspector came back to check my work the dishwasher wouldn't drain. It will take me all of 5 minutes to pull the hose, knock out that plug and put the hose back. But it's an embarassing slip on my part. Grrrr.
It's been awhile since I posted a game, so here's
Bucketball
The game doesn't give any instructions, but it's pretty simple. Place your cursor over the ball, click and hold to set elevation and angle, then release to launch. The fewer tries it requires to get the ball(s) in the bucket(s), the more points you score. You can mute the music (yes!) and/or the sound effects. Some of the higher levels are pretty interesting.
I found this interesting. It shows the steps used to create a piece of digital art.
Digital Creation
If you get Speed TV on cable, check out the show "Wrecked." It follows the crews of O'Hare Wrecking, a towing company in Chicago that specializes in towing big rigs. The show is in the same genre as some of those that feature a custom motorcycle shop or custom car shop. In this case it's also a family business, but unlike the others this family gets along. No (faked) arguments and conflicts. I find it interesting to watch how they deal with some of the wild situations that come up involving semi's and the like. It's tricky to get a loaded semi upright and hauled off.
OK, grammar question: do you know the difference between "awhile" and "a while?" I think most people always use the latter when the former is more often appropriate.
You are many things, or rather, you see yourself as many things. You are: attractive/unattractive; smart/not smart; athletic/uncoordinated; cool/outsider; funny/dull; good verbally/poor conversationalist, etc.
I've been thinking about those self-perceptions lately. They may or may not be accurate. We'll let that go for now. But when did you first come to that view of yourself? How early in your childhood did you get the message that you were __________?
Did you have a perception of yourself that subsequently changed to its opposite? If so, what caused the transformation?
I think many (most?) of those self-perceptions are formed very early in childhood and rarely reversed. Methinks those that aren't formed by 3rd grade are established in that brutal period known as Jr. High, and that those latter fall into the category of physical attributes (beauty and athleticism).
Children and teens are very atune to messages about who they are. And to the extent those messages create a self-perception, that image can become a self-fullfilling prophecy, determining their life's course - for good or ill. Too often ill.
I got bored around dinnertime and downloaded some ring tones for my new phone. I like to have distinctive rings for certain people. The good news is that those people will never hear the ring I've assigned to them.
I keep waiting for someone to ask me if I want some dessert, but it isn't happening. Whassup with dat? I guess I'm going to have to get it for myself. Bummer!
I worked for about three hours yesterday afternoon getting new shade cloth up on the patio structure to replace what blew off during the wind storm a couple weeks back. Worked another couple of hours again this afternoon - this one is NOT going to blow away! - and have about an hour's work left. I'll finish it tomorrow.
I'll also be going back to the house I worked at last week, the one that had the home inspector's list of things to be fixed before close. One of the things was to install a new garbage disposal. I could get the same brand and model at Home Depot (Insinkerator Badger 5) which made it an easy swap-out. Alas, when I hooked up the dishwasher line to the disposal I forgot about the knock-out plug. So when the inspector came back to check my work the dishwasher wouldn't drain. It will take me all of 5 minutes to pull the hose, knock out that plug and put the hose back. But it's an embarassing slip on my part. Grrrr.
It's been awhile since I posted a game, so here's
Bucketball
The game doesn't give any instructions, but it's pretty simple. Place your cursor over the ball, click and hold to set elevation and angle, then release to launch. The fewer tries it requires to get the ball(s) in the bucket(s), the more points you score. You can mute the music (yes!) and/or the sound effects. Some of the higher levels are pretty interesting.
I found this interesting. It shows the steps used to create a piece of digital art.
Digital Creation
If you get Speed TV on cable, check out the show "Wrecked." It follows the crews of O'Hare Wrecking, a towing company in Chicago that specializes in towing big rigs. The show is in the same genre as some of those that feature a custom motorcycle shop or custom car shop. In this case it's also a family business, but unlike the others this family gets along. No (faked) arguments and conflicts. I find it interesting to watch how they deal with some of the wild situations that come up involving semi's and the like. It's tricky to get a loaded semi upright and hauled off.
OK, grammar question: do you know the difference between "awhile" and "a while?" I think most people always use the latter when the former is more often appropriate.
You are many things, or rather, you see yourself as many things. You are: attractive/unattractive; smart/not smart; athletic/uncoordinated; cool/outsider; funny/dull; good verbally/poor conversationalist, etc.
I've been thinking about those self-perceptions lately. They may or may not be accurate. We'll let that go for now. But when did you first come to that view of yourself? How early in your childhood did you get the message that you were __________?
Did you have a perception of yourself that subsequently changed to its opposite? If so, what caused the transformation?
I think many (most?) of those self-perceptions are formed very early in childhood and rarely reversed. Methinks those that aren't formed by 3rd grade are established in that brutal period known as Jr. High, and that those latter fall into the category of physical attributes (beauty and athleticism).
Children and teens are very atune to messages about who they are. And to the extent those messages create a self-perception, that image can become a self-fullfilling prophecy, determining their life's course - for good or ill. Too often ill.
I got bored around dinnertime and downloaded some ring tones for my new phone. I like to have distinctive rings for certain people. The good news is that those people will never hear the ring I've assigned to them.
I keep waiting for someone to ask me if I want some dessert, but it isn't happening. Whassup with dat? I guess I'm going to have to get it for myself. Bummer!
2 comments:
I know, I know! Awhile means the same as "for a while" otherwise it should always be two words, as in a lot. One of those tips I learned from my grammar guru, Susan Fawver.
Now let's talk about the role of women in the church. =)
I remember loooking forward to the move from CA to Mi because I had the chance to reinvent who I was as a (son to be) sophomore in high schoool. I felt my peer's perception of me was unbreakable, and the chance to start off fresh was the best news a mid-pubescent kid could get.
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