I found this site that I thought was kind of interesting, thought you might also.
http://trainhorns.net/sound/
Just in case you were wondering, yes, I heard it.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Thursday, February 19, 2009
An Obituary Worth Reading
A friend of mine posted this on Facebook and I thought I would share it since it sadly applies to the world today.
An Obituary printed in the London Times - Interesting and sadly rather true.
Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years.. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as:
- Knowing when to come in out of the rain;
- Why the early bird gets the worm;
- Life isn't always fair;
- and maybe it was my fault.
Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don't spend more than you can earn) and reliable strategies (adults, not children, are in charge).
His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of a 6-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition.
Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job that they themselves had failed to do in disciplining their unruly children.
It declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer sun lotion or an aspirin to a student; but could not inform parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.
Common Sense lost the will to live as the churches became businesses; and criminals received better treatment than their victims.
Common Sense took a beating when you couldn't defend yourself from a burglar in your own home and the burglar could sue you for assault.
Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement.
Common Sense was preceded in death, by his parents, Truth and Trust, by his wife, Discretion, by his daughter, Responsibility, and by his son, Reason.
He is survived by his 4 stepbrothers;
I Know My Rights
I Want It Now
Someone Else Is To Blame
I'm A Victim
Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone.
An Obituary printed in the London Times - Interesting and sadly rather true.
Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years.. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as:
- Knowing when to come in out of the rain;
- Why the early bird gets the worm;
- Life isn't always fair;
- and maybe it was my fault.
Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don't spend more than you can earn) and reliable strategies (adults, not children, are in charge).
His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of a 6-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition.
Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job that they themselves had failed to do in disciplining their unruly children.
It declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer sun lotion or an aspirin to a student; but could not inform parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.
Common Sense lost the will to live as the churches became businesses; and criminals received better treatment than their victims.
Common Sense took a beating when you couldn't defend yourself from a burglar in your own home and the burglar could sue you for assault.
Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement.
Common Sense was preceded in death, by his parents, Truth and Trust, by his wife, Discretion, by his daughter, Responsibility, and by his son, Reason.
He is survived by his 4 stepbrothers;
I Know My Rights
I Want It Now
Someone Else Is To Blame
I'm A Victim
Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Being Sick
My body decided to all of a sudden try to shut down on me Wednesday last week which resulted in me being sick until Monday. I decided to rest and try and get better...maybe not all the time but I tried. So incidentally I slept quite a bit over the weekend so my body would be able to kick this stuff out. I finally this morning (Tuesday) felt good enough to do something. Well as it would go I feel pretty good and my body decided that since I have been sleeping most of the time that I should be tired at 6:30 p.m. I decided that I wouldn't give in so I could sleep during the night. I figured that if I watched a movie with James that might help so we get halfway through the movie and I'm ready to just close my eyes and not wake till morning.
Well I then decided to do something about being tired, I headed to the gym to go swimming. I get there around 7:00 and realize that this is not the time to be going swimming. Not only are the 3 little kid pools full but they are having swim lessons in the lap pool and the part that isn't being used for lessons also has people swimming in it. So I head back home since I'm not dressed to do anything else at the gym. I get home just as the movie is ending. I wait an hour and ask James if he would like to go swimming with me since I figure swimming lessons are over and most of the children would be gone since at 8:00 they would probably be at home getting ready for bed. We head off to the gym and as I predicted the pool is pretty much empty. So we do some laps and spend about 10 minutes in the hot tub relaxing. I guess that must be the trick to waking me up because now that it's 12:15 and past time for bed I am not really that tired. If I go and lay down I might be able to get to sleep in a half hour but I don't know if I really want to do that or read more of my book now that I'm not tired. I'll have to post about this book in a day or two after I finish it...It's Titled: Don't Stand too Close to a Naked Man By: Tim Allen. Anyway I think I might head off to bed cause sleep might just come sooner than I think.
Well I then decided to do something about being tired, I headed to the gym to go swimming. I get there around 7:00 and realize that this is not the time to be going swimming. Not only are the 3 little kid pools full but they are having swim lessons in the lap pool and the part that isn't being used for lessons also has people swimming in it. So I head back home since I'm not dressed to do anything else at the gym. I get home just as the movie is ending. I wait an hour and ask James if he would like to go swimming with me since I figure swimming lessons are over and most of the children would be gone since at 8:00 they would probably be at home getting ready for bed. We head off to the gym and as I predicted the pool is pretty much empty. So we do some laps and spend about 10 minutes in the hot tub relaxing. I guess that must be the trick to waking me up because now that it's 12:15 and past time for bed I am not really that tired. If I go and lay down I might be able to get to sleep in a half hour but I don't know if I really want to do that or read more of my book now that I'm not tired. I'll have to post about this book in a day or two after I finish it...It's Titled: Don't Stand too Close to a Naked Man By: Tim Allen. Anyway I think I might head off to bed cause sleep might just come sooner than I think.
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Blog Ideas
I have a hard time coming up with stuff to write on here so if anybody has any suggestions they would be welcomed openly. I usually don't have a hard time with the writing part but when it comes to the coming up with the idea part that always seem to elude me. I can ramble on and on if I have a certain topic in mind but if there is no topic in my mind nothing get written. So if you want to give me ideas I can find someway to ramble about it. Sort of like this post... So I'll end here and wait for someone to come up with something...or maybe in the meantime I might find something. But being sick and it being 11:30 kind of impairs the brain.
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Slacking
So since it has almost been 2 months since I last posted here I figured I would do that now. I have been telling myself that I need to do this for the last couple of weeks and since I haven't done it I figured 11:45 pm is as good a time as any.
Since I last posted here I decided that I wasn't going to do the Senior Solutions volunteer work for various reasons. I have had a call from the Red Cross once and what I did there was go through pieces of paper for a raffle. Those that had e-mail addresses on them I put in one pile and those that didn't went into another pile. I did that for four hours. Fortunately I don't get bored too easy!
I have been going into the Idaho Commission for Libraries once a week and have been enjoying my time. The only drawback on this venture into volunteer work is I was hoping to do some socializing and possibly make new friends. Well apparently volunteer work was not the way to go about it. The socializing that goes on is in the first 10 minutes I am there then everyone finishes what they are doing in my area and they go off and go about their other responsibilities. There has been I believe 3 or 4 times that there has been someone working with me while I have been there but about the time they get there is about the time I am getting ready to leave. My responsibilities are to take the cassettes out of the box, make sure they are rewound and make sure there is nothing wrong with the tape or the cassette. If they are in working order I take the mailing label out and put the cassette on the shelf and go onto the next one. If there is something wrong I fill out a card and put it with the cassette and put that on a shelf to be looked at by someone else later. I usually try to be there for four hours every week. That doesn't always happen because there is a lady that comes in after I do and I have to leave some for her. This past week there wasn't much to do so I was only there for two hours this time.
Well enough about that. Next month James and I are going to be heading off to Virginia for a while. James will be there for 2 weeks. I will be there for a month. We are going because my little sister, Amanda, is pregnant and her baby is due around the 27th of February. Her husband, Robert, is in the Navy and of course he might be out on his ship that week. We were planning on visiting in April but since Amanda needs our help we figured it wouldn't hurt to go a couple of months early. At first James and I figured we both would only stay 2 weeks, but the more we thought about it we figured it wouldn't hurt if I stayed a couple more weeks. We also figured the only thing we would be doing, besides being there for Amanda when she has the baby, is tourist stuff. But James was listening to a tech podcast and found out that Drupalcon is in D.C. the last weekend he will be there. So of course he got his boss to pay for the admittance since he was already paying for the plane ticket. So James is very excited for that and I get to get a head start on becoming the favorite Aunt and also make sure my position of favorite sister is 100% concrete.
So that is the droll update of the past two months. Hope to do better at posting in the future.
Since I last posted here I decided that I wasn't going to do the Senior Solutions volunteer work for various reasons. I have had a call from the Red Cross once and what I did there was go through pieces of paper for a raffle. Those that had e-mail addresses on them I put in one pile and those that didn't went into another pile. I did that for four hours. Fortunately I don't get bored too easy!
I have been going into the Idaho Commission for Libraries once a week and have been enjoying my time. The only drawback on this venture into volunteer work is I was hoping to do some socializing and possibly make new friends. Well apparently volunteer work was not the way to go about it. The socializing that goes on is in the first 10 minutes I am there then everyone finishes what they are doing in my area and they go off and go about their other responsibilities. There has been I believe 3 or 4 times that there has been someone working with me while I have been there but about the time they get there is about the time I am getting ready to leave. My responsibilities are to take the cassettes out of the box, make sure they are rewound and make sure there is nothing wrong with the tape or the cassette. If they are in working order I take the mailing label out and put the cassette on the shelf and go onto the next one. If there is something wrong I fill out a card and put it with the cassette and put that on a shelf to be looked at by someone else later. I usually try to be there for four hours every week. That doesn't always happen because there is a lady that comes in after I do and I have to leave some for her. This past week there wasn't much to do so I was only there for two hours this time.
Well enough about that. Next month James and I are going to be heading off to Virginia for a while. James will be there for 2 weeks. I will be there for a month. We are going because my little sister, Amanda, is pregnant and her baby is due around the 27th of February. Her husband, Robert, is in the Navy and of course he might be out on his ship that week. We were planning on visiting in April but since Amanda needs our help we figured it wouldn't hurt to go a couple of months early. At first James and I figured we both would only stay 2 weeks, but the more we thought about it we figured it wouldn't hurt if I stayed a couple more weeks. We also figured the only thing we would be doing, besides being there for Amanda when she has the baby, is tourist stuff. But James was listening to a tech podcast and found out that Drupalcon is in D.C. the last weekend he will be there. So of course he got his boss to pay for the admittance since he was already paying for the plane ticket. So James is very excited for that and I get to get a head start on becoming the favorite Aunt and also make sure my position of favorite sister is 100% concrete.
So that is the droll update of the past two months. Hope to do better at posting in the future.
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Volunteer Work
I decided a couple of days ago that I need to expand my horizons and do something outside of the home. I did a search for volunteer opportunities online and found a great website for various volunteer opportunities. The website is volunteermatch.org. As usual I over did it and signed up for 8 different opportunities because I didn't figure everyone would get back to me. So far I have had five of those organizations get back to me. I have decided to help with 3 of them.
The first organization to get back to me was Senior Solutions. The elderly who need help sign up for this service. They then send in a volunteer to talk to them, help them go on walks, help them do grocery shopping and/or do small jobs around the home like changing a lightbulb. At first I wasn't sure if I really wanted to do this because I have a hard time coming out of my bubble and talking to people I don't know well, but in the end decided to do it because this would help with that problem.
The next organization to contact me was the Red Cross. What I will be doing for them is clerical work, which includes making thank you calls to first time donors, putting labels on envelopes, sending out flyers, etc. I chose this because I like doing those tedious tasks most people don't enjoy doing just as long as it's not the same thing every day.
After those two got ahold of me then the Idaho Commissions for Libraries sent me their e-mail. I'm not exactly sure what I will be doing for them but when I signed up it sounded interesting. I already have an appointment with these people on Monday to see what exactly I will be doing.
The two other organizations that have contacted me that I won't be helping are Genesis World Mission and the Discovery Center of Idaho. The main reason why I decided not to also help these organizations is because I didn't want to have too much on my plate. The other reason why I didn't accept the Genesis World Mission is because I don't believe I am experienced enough to help with medical data entry. And the other reason why I didn't accept the Dicovery Center of Idaho is because I really don't like speaking in front of groups and some of the responsibilities would be giving tours of their facility. Also I don't think it would keep my interest for too long, for various other reasons.
I am hoping that this step outside of my comfort zone will not only help me be more productive but also help me make many new friends.
The first organization to get back to me was Senior Solutions. The elderly who need help sign up for this service. They then send in a volunteer to talk to them, help them go on walks, help them do grocery shopping and/or do small jobs around the home like changing a lightbulb. At first I wasn't sure if I really wanted to do this because I have a hard time coming out of my bubble and talking to people I don't know well, but in the end decided to do it because this would help with that problem.
The next organization to contact me was the Red Cross. What I will be doing for them is clerical work, which includes making thank you calls to first time donors, putting labels on envelopes, sending out flyers, etc. I chose this because I like doing those tedious tasks most people don't enjoy doing just as long as it's not the same thing every day.
After those two got ahold of me then the Idaho Commissions for Libraries sent me their e-mail. I'm not exactly sure what I will be doing for them but when I signed up it sounded interesting. I already have an appointment with these people on Monday to see what exactly I will be doing.
The two other organizations that have contacted me that I won't be helping are Genesis World Mission and the Discovery Center of Idaho. The main reason why I decided not to also help these organizations is because I didn't want to have too much on my plate. The other reason why I didn't accept the Genesis World Mission is because I don't believe I am experienced enough to help with medical data entry. And the other reason why I didn't accept the Dicovery Center of Idaho is because I really don't like speaking in front of groups and some of the responsibilities would be giving tours of their facility. Also I don't think it would keep my interest for too long, for various other reasons.
I am hoping that this step outside of my comfort zone will not only help me be more productive but also help me make many new friends.
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