Barb’s Blog » Archive for September 2005
6 Things That Make Barb Smile
“Everyone smiles in the same language.” At Unique Exposures (a photo sharing gallery site for all levels of photography), each month we have a monthly theme. We decide or vote on a new and different topic. For the month of October, however, our RevGary offered a different idea. He asked if the theme could be “Six things that make Barb smile” Well, there are so many things that make me smile, it seemed impossible to restrict … Read entire article »
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Nothing Could be Finer than to be a Refiner…
…in the morning…or anytime of the day! I will be the first to admit, I know little about oil, gas, refineries and such, but as we fill up our cars of late at the gas station, it just lends ourselves to get a little educated. Why on earth did two hurricanes increase the prices sky high? Is it true that someone is profiting, and much, from these disasters? Indeed, after watching the news this morning, Marc … Read entire article »
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Keep Your Eye on China
“When China awakes, it will shake the world.” - Napoleon Bonaparte One day last year, my children and I were deep in study of world geography. Before we would start on a new country, we would review some quick facts about each. (Population, capital city, military facts, main exports, etc.) Perhaps I was very naive when we hit the nation of China, and I saw the size of its military. Their population is well known, but I had no idea of their military size. I went back and forth from the US to China’s military stats and was very surprised! China population: 1,273,111,290 Armed Forces: Army: 1,830,000 Reserves: 1,000,000 Navy: 230,000 Air Force: 420,000 US population: 278,058,881Armed Forces: Army: 495,000 Navy: 388,760 Air Force: 390,000 Marines: 174,000 That was my first awareness of this county as something to take notice of – a nation … Read entire article »
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Miquel at McDonogh
This weekend and next Miquel is playing tennis at McDonogh School. After a long time out for injuries, it was good to see him on the court again. Friends at the end of a three set match. … Read entire article »
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They sure didn’t have this when I was school age!
Starting the week of Oct. 17, in Jackson, Kentucky, students will get every Friday off! I find this news very surprising! What do YOU think? News Story Here … Read entire article »
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Energy Fiend
Oh this is interesting, a site dedicated to caffeine, coffee, and all those new energy drinks that are out. (I have tried some, and like them very much.) I found out my system really does need some extra energy occasionally. Check out Energy Fiend … Read entire article »
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Lost: Season Two
Season two of Lost began tonight. The first hour was a recap, and the second hour picked up from last season. We got to know what was in the hole in the ground a little bit more, but, the show didn’t highlight anything on what happened to the people on the raft. Ah…so…maybe next week? … Read entire article »
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Oh Yeah
Just to prove that I can also give praise when things go right! … Read entire article »
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“Wait”
This email came today from a Woman’s Group I belong to. After reading it, I must say, it had meaning to me… I thought to pass it on to other women and young ladies. Wait Find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, Who calls you back when you hang up on him, Who will stay awake just to watch you sleep. Wait for the guy who kisses your forehead, Who wants to show you off to the … Read entire article »
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Comcast finale
Well, I say "finale" but I am sure that this will only be the end of a chapter, and another will unfold. But for now, the issues of slow to no connection and a dangling orange cable seem to be over. I thought that the orange cable was going to be there forever, until one day I open my front door and find little yellow flags, and yellow dotted lines across the front lawn: And then it … Read entire article »
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Maryland Gas Prices
Live in Maryland and looking for where to find the least expensive gas? Go to MarylandGasPrices.com At the same time, you can find who is charging the most. commission accreditation higher education credit income earned advance payments credits and receivables accounts debits law accredited school financial incorporated american credit services social acreditation of master work 3rd and card processing party credit aviation accredited schools Map … Read entire article »
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While we clean up from our tragedy, others celebrate
News is not just facts and news any more. These days it just seems to be a constant tangled web of details and counter details, getting to the truth of anything is very difficult. Add to it a news media that just seems to want to bring our country down. How much worse is it outside our own borders??? The French publication Le Monde: “At this moment, America discovers or rediscovers that she shelters the Third World in herself.” Philip Stephens, writing in The Financial Times :”[There is a] sadness at the loss of so many innocent lives, yet alongside this sits a nagging satisfaction that Mr. Bush’s inert administration has been humbled.” Edward Alden in the same publication put forth that the levees break in New Orleans can be blamed on … Read entire article »
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9-11
When Pearl Harbor , the movie, was out in the theaters, we went to see it…and why not, a movie accounting something that we had always heard of growing up, over and over again. The television previews to the movie were also very enticing. While watching the movie, I could see it was more than history, it was a love story. A love story between two friends, and the lady they both fall in … Read entire article »
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Wish List
“Where there is great love, there are always wishes.” ~Willa Cather Did you ever as a child make a wish list? Perhaps at Christmas time? I don’t really recall doing it, but Amazon.com lets you make one! Xerraire’s Amazon Wish List … Read entire article »
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Adding to my Collection
More MP3z from my CD collection… 1. Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Black Moon [Single Version] (4:49) 2. Emerson, Lake & Palmer – C’Est la Vie (4:19) 3. Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Fanfare for the Common Man [Single Version] (2:59) 4. Emerson, Lake & Palmer – From the Beginning (4:15) 5. Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Hoedown.mp3 6. Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Honky Tonk Train Blues.mp3 7. Emerson, Lake & Palmer – I Believe in Father Christmas [Original Single Version].mp3 8. Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Jerusalem.mp3 9. Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Karn Evil 9- 1st Impression, Pt. 2.mp3 10. Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Knife Edge.mp3 11. Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Lucky Man.mp3 12. Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Still…You Turn Me On.mp3 13. Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Tarkus Medley- Eruption-Stones of Years-Iconoclast-Mass-Manticore-Bat.mp3 14. Emerson, Lake & Palmer … Read entire article »
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Katrina Blog
My comcast internet connection has trouble keeping me connected even in GOOD conditions! Imagine my indignation when reading this blog of a person with 4 others, high up in a building in New Orleans, blogging their situation in the thick of it, AND positively CONNECTED! Ok, so maybe I am a little warped seeing what they are doing from a perspective of them being connected and me here dry and barely a breeze let alone a hurricane, and lucky to be connected when I am, but, that’s what Comcast has forced me to be! (hehe) Anyway. here is a blog from a high-rise in New Orleans… 5 people at a datacenter with power generators, plenty of water and an internet connection » CLICK HERE TO START WITH THEIR DAY ONE … Read entire article »
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School’s Back in Session
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” ~ Mark Twain We started school today. There seems to be a trend in Maryland to start school before Labor Day, but when I went to school, it didn’t begin until the Tuesday after the Labor Day Monday. I have determined not to join the rest of Maryland, and stick with the idea that school should begin with said Tuesday. The first day went just fine, it’s good … Read entire article »
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Cleansing
New Orleans City Council President: "Maybe God’s Going To Cleanse Us" How do you look at natural disasters? Did you watch the horrors of the tsunami and think, "God is judging that part of the world? Did you watch the TV coverage of 9-11 and think, "well, they got what they deserved"? Apparently some think that way. An article I recently read regarding hurricane Katrina says : European papers have suggested: » That Katrina was the punishment the US received for failing to sign onto the Kyoto accord » Islamic militants have rejoiced that "private" Katrina has joined in the holy war against the U.S. for – among other things – the Iraq war. » Some have even suggested that the hurricane was God’s punishment on the U.S. for cooperating in the removal of Jews … Read entire article »
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Beautiful Artwork
After days and days looking at the horrors and destruction, and weary and feeling very tired, I decided to spend some ‘downtime’ on the net looking at something pretty. I visited a site that I haven’t been to in ages, and that’s a shame because Alex was once a good friend, and his artwork is still as lovely as ever. I was in for a treat, first seeing that his page had been updated as recently as … Read entire article »
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Labor Day
More than just summer’s gran finale! The History of Labor Day "Labor Day differs in every essential way from the other holidays of the year in any country," said Samuel Gompers, founder and longtime president of the American Federation of Labor. "All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflicts and battles of man’s prowess over man, of strife and discord for greed and power, of glories achieved by one nation over another. … Read entire article »
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Collect Britain: Accents & Dialects
I enjoy a good accent. Even as a young girl, I remember being very interested in learning another language to the point of making up my own. Also, it doesn’t take a young child long to learn that if you travel from one state to another, even those of us in our own country have different sounds. Later, as I started to study Geography and Spanish, I really did become involved to the sounds around the … Read entire article »
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Comcast Update
If you read my blog rather regularly, you know about my frustration with Comcast. I thought I owed an update. Monday came and their maintenance man came to look at the ‘tap’ up a telephone pole. He did so with some difficulty. It seems the pole is built near a ditch, and he couldn’t get his truck with a moving ‘lift’ near enough, and I feared the worse, he wasn’t going to be able to work on … Read entire article »
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Pope tells Catholics to multiply
Well, during all this tragedy, disaster, and destruction that hit the south because of Hurricane Katrina, the Pope picks NOW to tell the world to “tell Catholics to multiply“. Oh, there’s a timely mandate. Not, tell Catholics to pray…but to MULTIPLY? I couldn’t help but notice in the headline, that only Catholics should multiply. I suppose that makes sense, seems logical that each denomination/religion would like ‘more of their own kind’ populating the earth only. This is as sympathtic as the Germans wiggling their fingers with a “Nanny Nanny Boo Boo” telling us Katrina Should be A Lesson To US on Global Warming. Well thanks for laying that into us right now. I shudder to think that if everything happened in the reverse, we would be sending help over to them … Read entire article »
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