Confucius said, it's not that he blogs too much. It's that the others blog too little.
As a matter of perspective. If one person blogs daily and others feel like they only want to blog weekly or monthly, is it the fault of the person who blogs daily that his/her blogs often appear on the main page?
If the website had more member participation there would be more blogs and no reason to complain about the bloggers who 'keep the place alive' and frequently appear on the main page.
Blog more people... Be an active part of the blogging community in a good way and not a bad way.
Maybe the solution is to blog about giving money to scammers or why it's so hard to find someone using online dating.
Those topics rarely get talked about!
It's reported that Donald J. Trump posted Obama's address on his TRUTH social media site and not long after Taylor Taranto shows up there. Was it Obama's real address? Doesn't matter as Taylor's visit was to do harm to Obama.
Taylor is semi-famous as he participated in the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol, kept two firearms and hundreds of rounds of ammunition inside a van he had driven cross-country and had been living in.
I'm sure someone will attempt to defend Trump's actions... play it down as a harmless prank when it really wasn't. The potential for serious injury could end up in a loss of life.
Deviant behavior like that shouldn't be allowed and a price to be paid for it never to happen again. Any 'John Doe citizen' doing something like that would be at risk of arrest. While it's my opinion. If it were Twitter, he'd be banned, but since it's his own social media outlet, he does what he wants, regardless of the outcome.
Upgrades come under a few headings. Do them or ignore them as it's not broke so I don't have to fix it. At some point in time I have to do an upgrade or two and the time is nearing.
I bought a few refurbished computers over the years and they appear to be okay for my normal use. My business computer was purchased new years ago with an older system using Windows 7 and some of the software I'm using requires Windows 10 to get all the features out of them.
The latest version of Google Chrome is like the kiss of death and email drags, times out and sometimes requires a refresh to function.
Time for an upgrade I've been putting off for a while. I bought a refurb and I'm busy migrating all my data and programs from the older computer to the new one. One main program that handles my PDF documents similar to Adobe cannot be moved. The company offered an upgrade that was half price, so I'm in the process of installing and setting up the environment that will take a few hours to accomplish.
Upgrades, sometimes you've got to do them!
Every 4th, Nathan's Famous does a hotdog eating contest and every year Joey Chestnut beats the competition. In 10 minutes he consumed 62 hotdogs. The 2nd place winner trailed by 14 dogs...
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Americans celebrate their Independence Day on July 4th. It's a legal holiday. The internet will be open, but most businesses will be closed. This year, the 4th falls on a Tuesday and many people are extending their holiday to include Monday, making this a (well deserved) 4-day weekend.
As I drive around the area, many billboards are advertising sales of fireworks. I'm sure there are restrictions in Florida to the type of legal fireworks being sold... that doesn't stop people getting fireworks deemed illegal in Florida while traveling to other states with relaxed laws... or slipping the store owner $20 to pull out a private stash in the back storeroom.
Typically, every city or municipality will do free fireworks displays in open areas and have proper safety equipment in the event of a mishap. The best displays I've seen are on the beach, where they have a barge about a half-mile offshore so people are in perfect viewing distance and far enough for safety should there be a misfire or explosion.
Enjoy, be safe and if you eat watermelon at a barbecue, be sure to spit the seeds into the grass and make Loh_key happy. If you happen to eat watermelon indoors, spit the seeds anyway!
The word inspiration comes up frequently in my business, usually mentioned by clients and their designers. They email or text to me photos of kitchen or furniture ideas they have seen online.
If you didn't know, I design and sell custom cabinetry.
Today, I received a photo of a long TV wall unit with floating shelves and a fake fireplace in the middle. The customer gave a description of what they liked about the photo and what they want different. Got it. My meeting with the client is tomorrow. I'll be ready.
Yesterday was a similar scenario. I received a few photos on Monday, we met in the showroom on Wednesday. The woman was very impressed with my presentation and the products we manufacture. When asked how long I've been doing designs, I said "I had brown hair when I started in this business!" We laughed, she liked the joke and felt comfortable with my ability to design a great kitchen for her and her husband.
I was at a previous job for 8 years and it's a good feeling being in the groove again.
A little personal life reveal here.
I thought at my age, I would semi-retire, pick a few projects and have more than 50% free time. That hasn't happened. The company I'm working for got stronger after COVID. We opened a showroom last year and the owner wants greater sales this year.
While we were allowed to use the showroom during construction, we couldn't make any financial transactions until the city signed off on the building permit. I had a client meeting the morning the building inspector gave us the 'go-ahead' and I made the first sale in the new building. Milestone.
That means, new logo, shirts, business cards. I'm enjoying the new look!
This week was hectic with lots of appointments and a few new projects to price.
I'm feeling some pressure to have all my commitments on time. If there is a time constraint, I still make my meetings and gather more information for the next meeting. This is okay as every project has multiple sets of revisions. So if my drawings aren't 100% complete for the meeting, my presentation is good knowing client revisions are normal.
I reached out to some older contacts and they have started bring me new business. Passing by a jobsite with a new house going up, I connected with the general contractor and will have the opportunity to bid that project and get added to bid any future projects they have. Win-win.
I think the new car purchase this year is also a boost of positive energy. Nothing wrong with the previous car, as it was only 3 years old. I do a fair amount of highway driving and the new car rides nicer, more comfortable with less interior road noise.
Things are good. Real good. My mood is up, I decided to use a designer who had some free time to help me with drawings. I'm using her as a tool to allow me to be more productive and not use my additional free time for play and not work.
That brings me to a few things. Hopefully we all know the distance of Internet (not seeing, hearing people as in real life) often reflect a view that is different to what the person is like in real life. Because of this, some people could be perceived as arrogant, moody, aggressive, mean spirited or bitter when they are actually not. Like a mirror, I've returned less-than pleasing comments with less-than pleasing comments. That doesn't show me in the light I would like to be seen. Someone said 'don't argue with a fool, they will bring you down to their level' I must remember that.
Member gonelikethewimd who is like her name, comes in only to comment and quickly disappears. She commented on another blog that I appear to be taking all the news surrounding ex-president Trump personally. Could it be? I respect her opinion, but every news channel, Yahoo page, YouTube video is 95% about him. In truth, there is nothing I could that could add or subtract to what is going on with the lying and legal mess he created. We can only wait and see the outcome.
My inspiration blog...
All politicians make promises if elected. Some have good intentions, but a lack of understanding how to actually get their promise implemented. For example: Repealing the Affordable Care Act aka Obamacare that went into law in 2010 and replacing it with something better and cheaper. Not happening. Constructing a wall between Mexico and the US to reduce illegal immigration and having Mexico pay for it. Not happening.
Another?
"I"m going to enforce all lors concerning the protection of classified information. We can't have someone in the oval office who doesn't understand the meaning of confidential or classified"
Anyway... there's a new video about it.
(Some people from New York mispronounce laws as lors, about the same way they pronounce caulking as corking or soffer in place of sofa)
The concept of a flying car isn't new. Every wannabe inventor dreams of building one. Popular Mechanics magazine has been writing stories about them dating back to the 1950's but those were full sized vehicles with gasoline engines and huge wings to give them sufficient lift.
In the last 10 years, I've seen the 'winged' versions disappear and the multi propeller electric 'drone style' high lift vehicles show up on technical and aviation news.
A Chinese company had a 2-seater with 4 sets of dual counter-rotating propellers. The problem was the propellers were at knee level without any protective shroud. that idea 'didn't get off the ground' as it failed in safety.
Why is this talking so long?
A few things I can think of.
Cost.
All the wing style vehicles need a runway.
The idea of being stuck in traffic and unfolding the wing to take off won't happen as aircraft need to have a flight plan, start and land st an airport to be on their radar.
FAA certification of the aircraft and one important detail is YOU MUST BE A LICENSED PILOT.
This year is a new flavor... it's a car with a framework like a wall fan and lots of rotors that give it lift. $300,000 for pre-orders. The first of it's kind to have the go ahead of the FAA. Delivery of this flying car is estimated to be a few years away.
Company site:
I like this video showing DOZENS of these cars flying in unison like they are on their way to work!
My car has a front radar used in the safety system for Forward Obstruction Warning (FOW) and Mazda Radar Cruise Control (MRCC) but sometimes the system gives a failure warning. I called Mazda USA and spoke to someone in customer relations who says they have no records of this happening to my model or others.
Last month, I dropped the car off for it's first service and told the service adviser about the failures and showed him photos of the warnings that appeared on the dashboard display.
He did a search and said there's nothing in history of this happening to any other vehicles.
Since they need to put the car to a test drive to try to reproduce the problem, I need to schedule an appointment for them to have the car at lease 2 days and arrange a (free) loaner. While I can make arrangements, I wasn't real sure about them being able to find the trouble. For me it starts while I'm on the highway and it's raining happening about 80% of the time.
I spoke to a friend who used to work at a car dealer and he asked "Did you Google it?"
Pretty simple and I found a few Mazda Tech sites where people post questions and get responses from other car owners. I found EXACTLY what I was looking for. It appears on my model and several others current and dating back a few years. Not a new problem.
At this point, I now have the ammunition I need to get back to the dealer for something that should already know about. Making my point, I'll send the service manager some links that explain the issue, with photos so they can get to the source quickly.
Thanks Google!
I haven't followed the news about the wildfires in Canada, but a designer I'm doing a project with who lives in New York City was in town today and said the smoke reminded her of 911.
Today, there are alerts on the front page of Yahoo so I clicked the link to get a better understanding of the severity to this disaster.
From what I see New York, Pennsylvania and the New Jersey areas are most affected.
I'm surprised about New Jersey as I figure because they are on the coast they should be getting off-shore winds.
I went to the National Hurricane Center to call up some satellite imagery and the live loop shows movement in a counter-clockwise covering the entire tip of the United States.
Since the news is related to the US, I can only image the air quality in Canada must be 20 times worse there than a few hundred miles away.
Here is the link to live satellite image loop of the area:
Many years ago, I took a cheap serrated blade steak knife and used it for cutting watermelon. To accomplish this, I curved the blade. The plastic handle cracked last month. I when shopping for a replacement at the dollar store... where things are $1.25 now.
Times change and the steak knives they now carry, have a straight edge. No problem, so I bought two. I opened one package, washed it and was amazed at the quality of the knife.
Stainless steel with a moulded handle. It cuts much better than the other steak knives and I plan to go back and get a few more.
It cuts like a knife, but it feels so right!
The old knife served me well...
Seedless round melon
We lost Willy last month. Miclee who was MIA returned briefly. namaron has been gone for a long time with no update. galrads was hospitalized with health issues returned for a short time and is gone again. Does anyone have contact with him outside of CS?
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