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The purple pig is staring at me. He's perched between The Aquitaine Progression and A History of Russia!
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Yay hurray this weekend will be in the 100's! I hope the blistering heat stays at bay for a while.
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100s are nice after a month of everyday over 110. I went swimming today and the water was actually chilly! We checked the water temperature and it was 85.
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Took a nice little walk. The sun feels very good at 7:30 in the morning in the morning in Arizona. I didn't even need a coat.
I was supposed to showcase one of the new Taurus at the Bob Dylan concert on Tuesday. I guess the promoters never realized it got hot in Phoenix in August. No concert.
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Hail Colorado! Today's forecast: High in the mid-70's, humidity in the 30's, and a chance of thunderstorms, accompanied by fascinating light shows.
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The low today in Phoenix was 79. By Saturday the low is supposed to be 88. Isn't that sad when our low is warmer than your high?
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I would love to, RFWII but I am expected in Tucson then San Diego. After that I will be all the way up the coast. If I ever get a chance to get out your way, I will drop you a line.
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Snapper, I've always heard that if you want to know how the economy is doing, you should ask a truck driver. So is the economy getting any better?
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Ask a truck driver??? Ha! What a laugh! Ever talk to a truck driver for more than four minutes? It's like talking to someone who has been stuck a deserted island for four years.
Truck drivers exaggerate, they'll tell you they're making so much money that they plan on buying Rhode Island one moment than will claim they're so broke that they've been living on a steady diet of dried raimen noodles for the past year, sometimes all in one sentence.
But since you asked this truckdriver... it ain't doing as bad as the media and politicians say. I'd say we bottomed out but not don't expect that we'll completely rebound for sometime.
I can make this assumption because I haul cars. It looked really bad around Feb. but since then promising signs for the industry have left me confident that no major car companies will be goign under for the time being.
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The economy will be better in the spring of 2010, except in certain industries. However there's a good deal of stuff to dig out of once it does get better.
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The reason that truck drivers supposedly know how the economy is doing is because they are the ones who transport goods. Granted, some only transport one type of good, but they also see other truckers. It is difficult for a factory worker (who makes the goods) to know, because they are only responsible for one, or part of one, type of item. It's the same situation for individual department stores. Where Wal-Mart has not suffered much during this recession, other stores have. However, it is the longterm growth and decline of purchases that determine swings. When truck drivers become busy, that is when the economy is turning up.
People typically judge the economy by their own employment or available job openings. However, as the news reminds us constantly, this is the last indicator.
My biggest concern is the growing national debt, which is creating inflation by devaluating the dollar and the overall decrease in personal credit ratings due to housing issues and long-term unemployment.
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Shipping is a good way to judge how a civilization is doing. Keep your eyes on the ports. If substantially less shipping comes in year by year, the civilization is on its way down. (No, I don't have the USA stats handy, but they must be around somewhere.)
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Yesterday and today, I had this water gurgling up out of the ground just next to my driveway. It was slight but fairly constant, flowing down the driveway and puddling in the low spot.
It wasn't my city water line, which is on the other side of my front lawn, and my meter wasn't moving. It wasn't the sewer: that's closer and the water didn't smell bad. It's not the "dual water" connection: there is none on my side of the street and I'm not hooked up to it.
Today the city guys were here to look at it. (I was out: my father came down and watched things.) Seems there's a whole other city water connection line on that side of the driveway, and that was what was leaking. The city guys had it dug up and fixed quickly enough. (There's a bare spot on my lawn, and it'll probably sink down some, but I'd rather have that than a gusher.)
But why was a separate line there? I've got two guesses. (1) When the house was being built (not by me: I bought it off the rack) they put the line there, then someone decided it wasn't needed and they put another line where it belonged. Or (2) there were two lots here originally, both with city water hookup lines...then the lots were subdivided, two lots into three lots, and the line got forgotten in the shuffle.
quote:My biggest concern is the growing national debt, which is creating inflation by devaluating the dollar and the overall decrease in personal credit ratings due to housing issues and long-term unemployment.
I am one-hundred percent behind you on this. I know Kathleen hates it when we talk politics so I will try to keep things short.
No one is taking thsi seriously. It gets backhanded attention by every politician.
Yes, the deficit is a concern, but (war on terroism, health care, social security, gold tiles in the congressional bathrooms) is a problem for every American...
Every decision made in government and dollar allocated for it should answer this question, is it so important to doom the next generation with national bankruptcy?
The national debt will be resolved the same way it gets resolved in third world nations; runaway inflation. I'm talking double, and sometimes, triple digit kind.
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The news stories circulating today say that the recession is already over---so Ben Bernacke should get another term as Head of the Fed.
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Robert your extra water line reminds me of when people are born with a little extra because they had a twin who died and merged with them. I was actually picturing a house in a womb. Thanks for that bizar image, really.
I try to assume that most of the people don't know what they are talking about, but they talk anyway because what else is there to do?
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Waits so I wasted $10,000 on ammunition and guns for nothing?
I was really hoping that the bottom would fall out and the world would fall into WW V. Yes World War 4, how you may ask, well the 100 year war between all European countries a few hundred years ago was WW I, the Napolic wars were WW II, what we call WW I and WW II was really WW III and WW IV. Take it from someone who has lived 3000 years of human history, I know what I am talking about, or maybe its just the sleeping pills mixed with pain killers at 0130 Mountain time that is making me talk this way..
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I spent the day in a Medicaid/Medicare funded nursing facility. I don't want to get political, but if this is representative of what everyone's future healthcare is going to be like, I plan on taking up skydiving sometime around the age of 80.
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Popping candy is bizarre! It contains carbon dioxide to make it fizz.
As a kid, my best friends were a pair of identical twins. They were very similar, and yet they looked different (to me) and had differences in personalities. They are individuals.
On our street, we had three other pairs of twins, all about the same age. No, it's nothing in the ground---they were all born when their parents lived elsewhere, and moved in when they were babies.
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When I was in college at a small school in Tennessee, we had five people who had gone to the same elementary school - in Nigeria! Three of them were siblings, none of which were twins - children of missionaries. Another was the child of parent who was some kind of business advisor, oil maybe, I don't really remember. And the other, my roommate, was the son of a CIA agent.
Y'know, kindergarten through college, I went to four different schools. There wasn't one student besides me from any of the previous schools. (The college was a thousand miles away from the other three, though.)
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I'm starting to think every day I go in will be my last. Today might very well have been my last day if I'd "expressed my opinion" to the supervisor.
I look forward to retirement. Actually I might be able to pull it off right now, but it'd be a thin living...I hope to sock away a few more bucks in the next few years and then retire.
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I have friends who are identical twins and they are both great singers. It sounds awesome when they sing a duet because their voices are so similar.
In other news... I'm engaged!!! The former BF proposed a week ago, by a lake in West Virginia. We both still have two years left of college, so it will be a while before the big day, but oh well.
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Well, in pop music, it was the Everly Brothers (who weren't twins) who had the most influence on harmony. The Everly Brothers came out of country music, and the harmony of the Everly Brothers influenced the harmony of the Beatles, and the Beatles influenced, well, everybody.
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