tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17067930129415828042024-03-05T17:23:34.861-08:00Miser Family Los AngelesFollow the adventures of a Los Angeles family through the absurdity and frustration of The New Depression. Living life on a budget has never been more fun!Peanuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08339779589194004677noreply@blogger.comBlogger245125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1706793012941582804.post-35446274993836950022019-12-19T17:40:00.001-08:002019-12-19T17:40:55.466-08:00Haiku: SocksSocks in the dryer<br />
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Only to vanishPeanuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08339779589194004677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1706793012941582804.post-2939776482361821952017-06-29T00:37:00.000-07:002017-06-29T10:52:01.947-07:00The Laws of Thermodynamics In A Nutshell<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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1. The Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics states that if two systems are each in thermal equilibrium with a third, then they are also in equilibrium with each other.<br />
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2. The First Law, also known as the Law of Conservation of Energy, states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed, energy can only be transferred or changed from one form to another.<br />
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3. The Second Law states that disorder in the universe always increases; when energy changes from one form to another form, entropy (disorder) increases.<br />
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4. The Third Law states that if an object reaches 0 Kelvin, or absolute zero, its atoms will stop moving. At absolute zero, the entropy of a perfect crystal is zero.<br />
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Peanuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08339779589194004677noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1706793012941582804.post-89190339967952963742016-12-08T23:51:00.001-08:002016-12-08T23:55:56.910-08:00Trumped“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”<br />
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<br />Peanuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08339779589194004677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1706793012941582804.post-19030337574767991392016-08-30T14:30:00.005-07:002016-08-30T14:53:35.321-07:00Hospital Chronicles Part 11 - 4 Years Later! <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUwirJnyaeUhSqXpayzbYY-lMJtMpT6jVXQeJH0s_ISEKE1nZmRT-KahFYAvX0jByLv7MYykOxFYlcbtA77bWAAsbJhddIGFPGCFD77LG8KhfQsV09TKPsxVJHcOzQhVZFhgsObVwx_II/s1600/images-2.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUwirJnyaeUhSqXpayzbYY-lMJtMpT6jVXQeJH0s_ISEKE1nZmRT-KahFYAvX0jByLv7MYykOxFYlcbtA77bWAAsbJhddIGFPGCFD77LG8KhfQsV09TKPsxVJHcOzQhVZFhgsObVwx_II/s200/images-2.jpeg" width="166" /></a><br />
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Today I had a commercial audition for a drug called Keytruda. It is prescribed to those with non-small cell lung cancer. I tried out for the part of Shannon, who was successfully taking Keytruda to treat her advanced lung cancer. Wow. It brought up so many memories of my hospitalization back in the Spring of 2012. More than four years ago! A lot has happened since then, but I have never finished chronicling my hospital stay. So I'm attempting to do so now. Of course since it was so long ago some of the details have become fuzzy. Which is kind of a good thing. I guess I'll just start from where I left off in October, 2012: <a href="http://miserfamilylosangeles.blogspot.com/2012/10/hospital-chronicles-part-10-family-at_9.html" target="_blank">(Hospital Chronicles, Part 10 - Family At Last!)</a></div>
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The next day was Monday, my seventh day of being in the hospital. Seven days. Seven. Lucky number seven. (Seven is supposedly the world's most favorite number. There are seven days of the week, seven seas, seven continents, seven colors in the rainbow, seven wonders of the ancient world, and seven deadly sins. There's 7 Up, 7-Eleven, 7 for all Mankind, Jack Daniel's Old No. 7, and the Boeing 747. While we are at it, don't forget about Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, 007, The Seven Year Itch, the Seventh Seal, and the Seven Stranded Castaways on Gilligan's Island. A park ranger named Roy Sullivan was hit by lightning seven times and survived all of them! But I digress.) It turned out to be my last day in the hospital, so perhaps it is a special number after all. Upon waking up on that magical Monday, I was told that I was to have a mammogram in order to rule out breast cancer. They whisked me off in a wheelchair before breakfast, and I soon found my self waiting, again, in another hospital corridor. After what seemed like forever, I was wheeled in to get my mammogram. The very annoying thing is that I was quite capable of walking, I guess they just thought it was faster to wheel me around everywhere. The damn mammogram really hurt, in fact it hurt so badly that I almost fainted and they had to sit me down and give me a cookie and some juice to drink. I think the lack of breakfast also had something to do with almost fainting; all in all it was the most unpleasant mammogram I've ever had.</div>
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I walked around in a daze for the next couple of days. For instance, we all went to the beach and I forgot to pack things, like towels, food, water, etc. <i>But I didn't have cancer! </i>It was such a load off my mind, such a rush to be outside again, to be home again, to be with my family again, to be myself again. And I tried not to worry about the hospital bills that were darkly looming over us.</div>
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Peanuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08339779589194004677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1706793012941582804.post-74291564333151840362015-11-21T00:00:00.000-08:002015-11-21T00:00:08.878-08:00Be Kind<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm thinking about reading all of Kurt Vonneguts books again, in the order in which they were written. He was one of my favorite writers when I was a teenager and his books meant a lot to me. The first book I read of his was "<span style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;">Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death". </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;">Lately though I can't stop thinking about the baptismal speech from "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater: </span><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #282828;"> </span><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #282828;">"Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind."</span></span><br />
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Peanuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08339779589194004677noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1706793012941582804.post-1944065740921650152015-10-09T11:36:00.002-07:002015-10-09T11:36:25.905-07:00Raku Tiles<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />Peanuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08339779589194004677noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1706793012941582804.post-55977018457181706312015-02-08T11:21:00.003-08:002015-02-08T11:21:43.042-08:00Cuteness<a href="http://fuckyeahinterspeciesfriendships.tumblr.com/">http://fuckyeahinterspeciesfriendships.tumblr.com</a>Peanuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08339779589194004677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1706793012941582804.post-85484222436339523142015-01-06T12:27:00.001-08:002015-01-06T12:27:46.043-08:00Acorn<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Be skeptical about all opinions, but try to see some value in each of<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="GramE">them</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dress in a way that pleases both you and those around you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Do not speak quickly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Learn something every day. (<span class="SpellE"><i>Dzien</i></span><i> <span class="SpellE">dobre</span>!</i>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Be nice to people before they have a chance to behave badly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Don't stay angry about anything for more than a week, but don't<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="GramE">forget</span> what made you angry. Hold your anger out at arm's length<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="GramE">and</span> look at it, as if it were a glass ball. Then add it to your glass ball<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="GramE">collection</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Be loyal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Wear comfortable shoes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Design your activities so that they show a pleasing balance<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="GramE">and</span> variety.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Be kind to old people, even when they are obnoxious. When you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="GramE">become</span> old, be kind to young people. Do not throw your cane at<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="GramE">them</span> when they call you Grandpa. They are your grandchildren!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Live with an animal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Do not spend too much time with large groups of people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you need help, ask for it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Cultivate good posture until it becomes natural.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If someone murders your child, get a shotgun and blow his head off.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Plan your day so you never have to rush.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Show your appreciation to people who do things for you, even if you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="GramE">have</span> paid them, even if they do favors you don't want.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Do not waste money you could be giving to those who need it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Expect society to be defective. Then weep when you find that it is far<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="GramE">more</span> defective than you imagined.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When you borrow something, return it in an even better condition.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">As much as possible, use wooden objects instead of plastic or metal<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="GramE">ones</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Look at that bird over there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">After dinner, wash the dishes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Calm down.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Visit foreign countries, except those whose inhabitants have<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="GramE">expressed</span> a desire to kill you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Don't expect your children to love you, so they can, if they want to.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Meditate on the spiritual. Then go a little further, if you feel like it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">What is out (in) there?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sing, every once in a while.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Be on time, but if you are late do not give a detailed and lengthy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="GramE">excuse</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Don't be too self-critical or too self-congratulatory.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Don't think that progress exists. It doesn't.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Walk upstairs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Do not practice cannibalism.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Imagine what you would like to see happen, and then don't do<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="GramE">anything</span> to make it impossible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Take your phone off the hook at least twice a week.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Keep your windows clean.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Extirpate all traces of personal ambitiousness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Don't use the word <i>extirpate</i> too often.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Forgive your country every once in a while. If that is not possible, go<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="GramE">to</span> another one.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you feel tired, rest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Grow something.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Do not wander through train stations muttering, "We're all going to<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="GramE">die</span>!"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Count among your true friends people of various stations of life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Appreciate simple pleasures, such as the pleasure of chewing, the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="GramE">pleasure</span> of warm water running down your back, the pleasure of a<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="GramE">cool</span> breeze, the pleasure of falling asleep.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Do not exclaim, "Isn't technology wonderful!"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Learn how to stretch your muscles. Stretch them every day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Don't be depressed about growing older. It will make you feel even<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="GramE">older</span>. Which is depressing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Do one thing at a time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you burn your finger, put it in cold water immediately. If you bang<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="GramE">your</span> finger with a hammer, hold your hand in the air for twenty<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; margin: 0in -1in 0.0001pt 1in;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="GramE">minutes</span>. You will be surprised by the curative powers of coldness and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Be calm in a crisis. The more critical the situation, the calmer you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="GramE">in</span> your adolescence, youth, middle age, and old age.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Contemplate everything's opposite.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you're struck with the fear that you've swum out too far in the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Keep your childish <span class="GramE">self alive</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Answer letters promptly. Use attractive stamps, like the one with a<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Cry every once in a while, but only when alone. Then appreciate<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="GramE">how</span> much better you feel. Don't be embarrassed about feeling better.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Do not inhale smoke.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Take a deep breath.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Do not smart off to a policeman.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Do not step off the curb until you can walk all the way across the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Be good.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Walk down different streets.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Remember beauty, which exists, and truth, which does not. Notice<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="GramE">that</span> the idea of truth is just as powerful as the idea of beauty.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Stay out of jail.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In later life, become a mystic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Peanuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08339779589194004677noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1706793012941582804.post-17378759020661522942014-12-20T21:08:00.000-08:002014-12-20T22:14:32.064-08:00Horseshoe<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Peanuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08339779589194004677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1706793012941582804.post-36246746974563838982014-12-19T10:21:00.000-08:002014-12-19T10:21:51.071-08:00Elephant<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<br />Peanuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08339779589194004677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1706793012941582804.post-80078376643054241092014-12-18T13:59:00.001-08:002014-12-18T13:59:18.470-08:00Blue Bird of Happiness<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<br />Peanuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08339779589194004677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1706793012941582804.post-26436627761409362632014-12-01T08:20:00.001-08:002014-12-01T08:20:38.440-08:00More Lucky Tiles<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Peanuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08339779589194004677noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1706793012941582804.post-90743988654444408852014-08-13T15:41:00.000-07:002014-08-13T15:41:31.381-07:00New Tiles<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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The Times They Are a-Changin': I am morphing into a Minimalist and leaving my Miserly ways behind me.Peanuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08339779589194004677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1706793012941582804.post-51578872805059128112014-02-22T17:14:00.001-08:002014-02-22T17:17:52.592-08:00My Husband's Paintings<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here is the link to the website that I created for Sparky: <a href="http://marknorrisart.com/">http://marknorrisart.com</a>.Peanuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08339779589194004677noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1706793012941582804.post-38718917528890387302014-01-28T11:21:00.000-08:002014-01-28T11:21:27.693-08:00Chartruese<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9kT78r87iKV7XHmK74To3Rx-aJBQ1lD6tGu4m0xJmP0S19NSlGf_Ce1PUSQRJSxw1UgQH9j5WVF0Nz_mDJoHfcVTkPClCWpyl5PjzbvQA6NKUX3PZzAUfn2LuZD0uEbRxwF5dX3rtU8w/s1600/Chartreuse_429758_i0.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9kT78r87iKV7XHmK74To3Rx-aJBQ1lD6tGu4m0xJmP0S19NSlGf_Ce1PUSQRJSxw1UgQH9j5WVF0Nz_mDJoHfcVTkPClCWpyl5PjzbvQA6NKUX3PZzAUfn2LuZD0uEbRxwF5dX3rtU8w/s1600/Chartreuse_429758_i0.png" height="320" width="320" /></a><br />
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One of the many fashion blunders I have made over the years was a chartruese (not puce) <br />
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Peanuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08339779589194004677noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1706793012941582804.post-91306762107727518172014-01-25T19:38:00.002-08:002014-01-25T19:38:16.189-08:00ThreeI'm thinking about joining an improv group.Peanuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08339779589194004677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1706793012941582804.post-73244885014214246572014-01-24T11:48:00.000-08:002014-01-24T11:48:40.461-08:00TwoMy favorite movie that I <i>have</i> seen is a tie between "Airplane!" and "Hot Tub Time Machine."Peanuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08339779589194004677noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1706793012941582804.post-54426775396998752462014-01-23T13:03:00.000-08:002014-01-23T13:04:40.744-08:00OneMy favorite movie that I've never seen is "Snakes on a Plane".Peanuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08339779589194004677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1706793012941582804.post-14151336780003105642014-01-22T15:04:00.000-08:002014-01-22T15:04:35.869-08:00CeramicsHere is what I've been working on lately: <a href="http://elysianceramics.carbonmade.com/">Elysian Ceramics</a>Peanuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08339779589194004677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1706793012941582804.post-55059742839443913282013-04-25T12:01:00.000-07:002013-04-25T12:04:22.586-07:00A Trio Of Beetle Boxes<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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