So it's all over and done with. I am so pleased to be able to say that I got $250(as well as A LOT of potential orders)! I'm on cloud nine:)
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Embroidery
So it's all over and done with. I am so pleased to be able to say that I got $250(as well as A LOT of potential orders)! I'm on cloud nine:)
Friday, September 10, 2010
A little humor for you...
One, of many, favorite passages from A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson- our latest book-club selection:
After reaching a mountain top, the author found a man taking mysterious readings of some sort...
"He noticed me watching and said, in a tone that suggested he was hoping someone would take and interest, "It's an Enviro Monitor."
"Oh, yes?" I responded politely.
"Measures eighty values-temperature, UV index, dew point, you name it." He tilted the screen so I could see it. "That's heat stress." It was some meaningless number that ended in two decimal places. "It does solar radiation," he went on, "barometric pressure, wind chill, rainfall, humidity- ambient and active- even estimated burn time adjusted for skin type."
"Does it bake cookies?" I asked.
He didn't like this. "There are times when it could save your life, believe me," he said, a little stoutly. I tried to imagine a situation in which I might find myself dangerously imperiled by a rising dew point and could not. But I didn't want to upset the man, so I said, "What's that?" and pointed at a blinking figure in the upper left hand corner of the screen.
"Ah, I'm not sure what that is. But this-" he stabbed the console of buttons- "now this is solar radiation." It was another meaningless figure, to three decimal places. "It's very low today," he said, and angled the machine to take another reading. "Yeah, very low today." Somehow I knew this already. In fact, although I couldn't attest any of it to three decimal places, I had a pretty good notion of the weather conditions generally, on account of I was out in them. The interesting thing about the man was that he had no pack, and so no waterproofs, and was wearing shorts and sneakers. If the weather did swiftly deteriorate, and in New England it most assuredly can, he would probably die, but at least he had a machine that would tell him when and let him know his final dew point."
He is merciless and HILARIOUS. And he totally made me want to buy a lot of overpriced gear and hike through some beautiful mountains.
Book club tonight:)
By the way, who decided that this September was going to be the busiest month of all time? I am plumb tuckered out and it isn't over yet.
I really shouldn't be on here right now. I need to be preparing food for tonight and for the baby shower tomorrow morning, but I miss having time to sit and write out my thoughts. So I am taking some whether or not I should. ...not that I really wrote down many of my own thoughts. I wrote down some of Bill Brysons to be exact. But that is good enough.
Love to all!
P.S. Didn't ever get around to reading the August chapter in The Happiness Project, nor have I read September's chapter. No new goals, no thought about goals at all. I am oficially falling behind! I really should work on catching up because I am so close to finishing. I am terrible about starting grand projects like this and then getting distracted by other shiny, new projects. There is just too much I want to do!
After reaching a mountain top, the author found a man taking mysterious readings of some sort...
"He noticed me watching and said, in a tone that suggested he was hoping someone would take and interest, "It's an Enviro Monitor."
"Oh, yes?" I responded politely.
"Measures eighty values-temperature, UV index, dew point, you name it." He tilted the screen so I could see it. "That's heat stress." It was some meaningless number that ended in two decimal places. "It does solar radiation," he went on, "barometric pressure, wind chill, rainfall, humidity- ambient and active- even estimated burn time adjusted for skin type."
"Does it bake cookies?" I asked.
He didn't like this. "There are times when it could save your life, believe me," he said, a little stoutly. I tried to imagine a situation in which I might find myself dangerously imperiled by a rising dew point and could not. But I didn't want to upset the man, so I said, "What's that?" and pointed at a blinking figure in the upper left hand corner of the screen.
"Ah, I'm not sure what that is. But this-" he stabbed the console of buttons- "now this is solar radiation." It was another meaningless figure, to three decimal places. "It's very low today," he said, and angled the machine to take another reading. "Yeah, very low today." Somehow I knew this already. In fact, although I couldn't attest any of it to three decimal places, I had a pretty good notion of the weather conditions generally, on account of I was out in them. The interesting thing about the man was that he had no pack, and so no waterproofs, and was wearing shorts and sneakers. If the weather did swiftly deteriorate, and in New England it most assuredly can, he would probably die, but at least he had a machine that would tell him when and let him know his final dew point."
He is merciless and HILARIOUS. And he totally made me want to buy a lot of overpriced gear and hike through some beautiful mountains.
Book club tonight:)
By the way, who decided that this September was going to be the busiest month of all time? I am plumb tuckered out and it isn't over yet.
I really shouldn't be on here right now. I need to be preparing food for tonight and for the baby shower tomorrow morning, but I miss having time to sit and write out my thoughts. So I am taking some whether or not I should. ...not that I really wrote down many of my own thoughts. I wrote down some of Bill Brysons to be exact. But that is good enough.
Love to all!
P.S. Didn't ever get around to reading the August chapter in The Happiness Project, nor have I read September's chapter. No new goals, no thought about goals at all. I am oficially falling behind! I really should work on catching up because I am so close to finishing. I am terrible about starting grand projects like this and then getting distracted by other shiny, new projects. There is just too much I want to do!
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