Long day for a Saturday
I had a very long day yesterday, which is why there was no blog entry for the day. First I went to see "Captain Phillips" and it was pretty good. Then I had to stop by the office where I'm currently preparing returns to sign one and check another. While I was there I had a walk-in and had to stop and do their taxes.
Then it was off to the office where I teach, to tutor for an hour and a half or so. Then I had to help out yet again with that mess from Thursday night. Marketing afterwards and by the time I walked in to my place, I felt like just collapsing on the floor.
If that day wasn't enough, there was yet another in the endless stream of disagreements over the television that I had to go and mediate. The person who was signed up for the hour between 8 and 9 wasn't there and had tried to "give" his hour to someone else. That's not allowed. If the person who has the hour doesn't show, majority rules dictate what will be watched. It took the four people present almost fifteen minutes to decide what they wanted to watch. Thankfully, the people who were signed up for the following two hours were present and won't leave that room again until they shut off the television at 11.
I was also kind of surprised, as many of the channels I have on my cable package weren't available on the community TV. Guess they have only the basic plan, plus some sports channels.
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Time for another trip through the Craigslist Classified Ads:
This one is an excerpt from an ad looking for a combination licensed cosmetologist/personal assistant who must be willing to travel six months out of each year: Must Haves:
"Experience or accreditation as a professional beautician (professional massage experience not necessary)
Current Passport (US or EU)
Positive Attitude (we like smiling around here)
A willingness to learn
Team work oriented
Car in good working condition
Ideally, set up as a personal business as you will not be receiving a W2 or 1099" No W-2 OR 1099? So basically you're not only making this person an employee, you aren't even going to report your illegal treatment of them. You belong in jail in the cell where Wesley Snipes was.
"Male Barber Needed (North Hollywood)
Need a licence male barber that can do all types of hair styles, fades, shaves/beard shave, trim & tapers." Yet another person who doesn't understand you can't be gender specific in a help-wanted ad unless the gender is a "Bona Fide Occupational Qualification.
"BOOTHS FOR RENT/QUALIFIED STYLISTS ONLY" So all of you who aren't qualified shouldn't bother applying.
This one you have to read for yourselves: http://losangeles.craigslist.org/wst/ofc/4124093696.html This guy isn't looking for an assistant, he's seeking a girlfriend.
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I was watching "Victor/Victoria" the other morning and over 30 years later, Robert Preston's performance is still brilliant. His Oscar nomination for that role was well-deserved and got me to thinking. What year for Best Supporting Actor nominations featured the stiffest competition? I think that particular year is a strong contender for that label.
Louis Gossett, Jr., got the big prize for "An Officer and a Gentleman" and the other nominees were John Lithgow for "The World According to Garp", James Mason for "The Verdict", Preston, and Charles Durning for "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas." All outstanding supporting performances.
Of course there is 1987, 1993, 1994, 1996 and many more years where there were five, or at least four outstanding performances in this category. The field in 1993 was particularly good and is the only possible explanation why Val Kilmer's work in "Tombstone" was overlooked.
* * *
When the government shutdown finally ends, I'd love to know what the "suicide caucus" thinks will have been accomplished. They've orchestrated a serious hit to the nation's economy, they've angered the public that they need to accomplish anything in the 2014 elections and they will have done nothing to defund or stop the progress of the Affordable Care Act.
So why? Why did thousands have to have their credit tarnished, be threatened with homelessness because they couldn't pay their rent and more, just to serve a bullshit political agenda?
Because they are idiots.
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Random Ponderings On A Sunday:
Best $23 I've spent in ages was for 15 or 20 minutes of outdoor massage at the mall today. Damn that feels awesome.
Two forks up for celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay for finishing the famed Ironman Triathlon in under 15 hours, well within the time allotted for an "official" finish.
How cool is it that the police finally solved a cold-case more than 20 years old involving a baby whose identity was never discovered until they finally cracked the case? Way cool!
Lice were bad enough but now they're talking about "super-lice". Do they wear capes and have super lice powers?
Don't forget that tax returns, and balances owed are due this coming Tuesday. Yes, even with the government shutdown, tax returns must be filed by then or they are late.
There's a family who is so into living a green lifestyle, they've thrown away only one quart of waste in the last year. That's amazing.
As I was driving home earlier today from a movie, I was cut off by a woman who was driving a car with expired tags, illegally displaying her handicapped placard while the vehicle was in operation and she was talking with her cellphone to her ear. Moments like that make me wish, even if only for a second, that I was a cop again and could write her up for every violation.
I hope the scumbags who rearranged the letters on the marquee of a McDonald's in Northern California get caught and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Jermaine Jackson is pissed that Dr. Conrad Murray is close to getting out of jail. Guess JJ will have to console himself with his new Ferrari and hope that his mother wasn't too pissed off over his buying it. He probably also better hope it doesn't get seized and sold next time he's delinquent in his child support payments
So how much trouble is the Fossilman (poker pro Greg Raymer who won the WSOP as an amateur) in with his wife over his prostitution ring involvement?
Why in the world did Michael Douglas' doctor tell him to lie and say he had throat cancer rather than the tongue cancer he was actually suffering from?
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October 13th In History:
54 – Roman Emperor Claudius is poisoned to death under mysterious circumstances. His 17-year-old stepson Nero succeeds him to the Roman throne.
409 – Vandals and Alans cross the Pyrenees and appear in Hispania.
1307 – Hundreds of Knights Templar in France are simultaneously arrested by agents of Phillip the Fair, to be later tortured into a "confession" of heresy.
1332 – Rinchinbal Khan, Emperor Ningzong of Yuan becomes the Khagan of the Mongols and Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, reigning for only 53 days.
1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1644 – A Swedish–Dutch fleet defeats the Danes and captures about 1,000 prisoners.
1710 – Port Royal, the capital of French Acadia, falls in a siege by British forces.
1773 – The Whirlpool Galaxy is discovered by Charles Messier.
1775 – The United States Continental Congress orders the establishment of the Continental Navy (later renamed the United States Navy).
1792 – In Washington, D.C., the cornerstone of the United States Executive Mansion (known as the White House since 1818) is laid.
1812 – War of 1812: Battle of Queenston Heights – As part of the Niagara campaign in Ontario, Canada, United States forces under General Stephen Van Rensselaer are repulsed from invading Canada by British and native troops led by Sir Isaac Brock.
1843 – In New York City, Henry Jones and 11 others found B'nai B'rith (the oldest Jewish service organization in the world).
1845 – A majority of voters in the Republic of Texas approve a proposed constitution that, if accepted by the U.S. Congress, will make Texas a U.S. state.
1881 – First known conversation in modern Hebrew by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends.
1884 – Greenwich, in London, England, is established as Universal Time meridian of longitude.
1885 – The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is founded in Atlanta, United States.
1892 – Edward Emerson Barnard discovers D/1892 T1, the first comet discovered by photographic means, on the night of October 13–14.
1911 – Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, becomes the first Governor-General of Canada of royal descent.
1914 – In Major League Baseball's World Series, the Boston Braves defeat the Philadelphia Athletics, 4 games to 0, at Fenway Park in Boston, completing the first World Series sweep in history.
1915 – The Battle for the Hohenzollern Redoubt marks the end of the Battle of Loos in northern France, World War I.
1917 – The "Miracle of the Sun" is witnessed by an estimated 70,000 people in the Cova da Iria in Fátima, Portugal.
1918 – Mehmed Talat Pasha and the Young Turk (C.U.P.) ministry resign and sign an armistice, ending Ottoman participation in World War I.
1921 – The Soviet republics of Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia sign the Treaty of Kars with the Grand National Assembly of Turkey to establish the contemporary borders between Turkey and the South Caucasus states.
1923 – Ankara replaces Istanbul as the capital of Turkey.
1943 – World War II: The new government of Italy sides with the Allies and declares war on Germany.
1944 – World War II: Riga, the capital of Latvia is occupied by the Red Army.
1946 – France adopts the constitution of the Fourth Republic.
1958 – Paddington Bear, a classic character from English children's literature, makes his debut.
1962 – The Pacific Northwest experiences a cyclone the equal of a Cat 3 hurricane. Winds measured above 150 mph at several locations; 46 people died.
1967 – The first game in the history of the American Basketball Association is played as the Anaheim Amigos lose to the Oakland Oaks 134-129 in Oakland, California.
1970 – Fiji joins the United Nations.
1972 – An Aeroflot Ilyushin Il-62 crashes outside Moscow killing 174.
1972 – Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashes in the Andes mountains, near the border between Argentina and Chile. By December 23, 1972, only 16 out of 45 people lived long enough to be rescued.
1976 – A Bolivian Boeing 707 cargo jet crashes in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, killing 100 (97, mostly children, killed on the ground).
1976 – The first electron micrograph of an Ebola viral particle is obtained by Dr. F.A. Murphy, now at U.C. Davis, who was then working at the C.D.C.
1977 – Four Palestinians hijack Lufthansa Flight 181 to Somalia and demand release of 11 members of the Red Army Faction.
1983 – Ameritech Mobile Communications (now AT&T Inc.) launched the first US cellular network in Chicago, Illinois.
1990 – End of the Lebanese Civil War. Syrian forces launch an attack on the free areas of Lebanon removing General Michel Aoun from the presidential palace.
1992 – An Antonov An-124 operated by Antonov Airlines registered CCCP-82002, crashes near Kiev, Ukraine killing 8.
Famous Folk Born On October 13th:
Allan Ramsay
Ernest Myers
Lillie Langtry
Mary Kingsley
Rube Waddell (pitched while Cy Young was active and Waddell led the majors in strikeouts for six consecutive seasons, a record that still stands)
Cornel Wilde
George Osmond (patriarch of the Osmond Brothers, Marie, Jimmy, and more)
Lenny Bruce
Margaret Thatcher
Walter "Killer" Kowalski
Eddie Yost
Eddie Matthews
Etterlene DeBarge
T. J. Cloutier
Susan Stafford
Demond Wilson
Sammy Hagar
John Ford Coley (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxdsk-cFX-k)
Lacey J. Dalton
Beverly Johnson
John Lone
Pat Day
Reggie Theus (trying to guard him in a basketball game back in the high school days was just impossible)
Marie Osmond
Doc Rivers
Kelly Preston
Jerry Rice
Kate Walsh
Sacha Baron Cohen
Summer Sanders
Ashanti
Ian Thorpe
Movie quotes today come from 2006's "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan"
Oxanna: [as Borat is leaving] If you cheat on me, I will snap off your cock!
Borat: [later] Sadly, I cannot go after Pamela or else my wife will snap off my cock.
#2
Borat: [referring to Pamela Anderson's character in "Baywatch"] This C.J. was like no Kazakh woman I have ever seen. She had golden hairs, teeth as white as pearls, and the asshole of a seven-year-old. For the first time in my lifes, I was in love.
#3
Borat: This is Natalya.
[He kisses her passionately]
Borat: She is my sister. She is number-four prostitute in whole of Kazakhstan.
[She holds up a trophy and smiles]
Borat: Niiice!
Then it was off to the office where I teach, to tutor for an hour and a half or so. Then I had to help out yet again with that mess from Thursday night. Marketing afterwards and by the time I walked in to my place, I felt like just collapsing on the floor.
If that day wasn't enough, there was yet another in the endless stream of disagreements over the television that I had to go and mediate. The person who was signed up for the hour between 8 and 9 wasn't there and had tried to "give" his hour to someone else. That's not allowed. If the person who has the hour doesn't show, majority rules dictate what will be watched. It took the four people present almost fifteen minutes to decide what they wanted to watch. Thankfully, the people who were signed up for the following two hours were present and won't leave that room again until they shut off the television at 11.
I was also kind of surprised, as many of the channels I have on my cable package weren't available on the community TV. Guess they have only the basic plan, plus some sports channels.
* * *
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Time for another trip through the Craigslist Classified Ads:
This one is an excerpt from an ad looking for a combination licensed cosmetologist/personal assistant who must be willing to travel six months out of each year: Must Haves:
"Experience or accreditation as a professional beautician (professional massage experience not necessary)
Current Passport (US or EU)
Positive Attitude (we like smiling around here)
A willingness to learn
Team work oriented
Car in good working condition
Ideally, set up as a personal business as you will not be receiving a W2 or 1099" No W-2 OR 1099? So basically you're not only making this person an employee, you aren't even going to report your illegal treatment of them. You belong in jail in the cell where Wesley Snipes was.
"Male Barber Needed (North Hollywood)
"BOOTHS FOR RENT/QUALIFIED STYLISTS ONLY" So all of you who aren't qualified shouldn't bother applying.
This one you have to read for yourselves: http://losangeles.craigslist.org/wst/ofc/4124093696.html This guy isn't looking for an assistant, he's seeking a girlfriend.
* * *
I was watching "Victor/Victoria" the other morning and over 30 years later, Robert Preston's performance is still brilliant. His Oscar nomination for that role was well-deserved and got me to thinking. What year for Best Supporting Actor nominations featured the stiffest competition? I think that particular year is a strong contender for that label.
Louis Gossett, Jr., got the big prize for "An Officer and a Gentleman" and the other nominees were John Lithgow for "The World According to Garp", James Mason for "The Verdict", Preston, and Charles Durning for "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas." All outstanding supporting performances.
Of course there is 1987, 1993, 1994, 1996 and many more years where there were five, or at least four outstanding performances in this category. The field in 1993 was particularly good and is the only possible explanation why Val Kilmer's work in "Tombstone" was overlooked.
* * *
When the government shutdown finally ends, I'd love to know what the "suicide caucus" thinks will have been accomplished. They've orchestrated a serious hit to the nation's economy, they've angered the public that they need to accomplish anything in the 2014 elections and they will have done nothing to defund or stop the progress of the Affordable Care Act.
So why? Why did thousands have to have their credit tarnished, be threatened with homelessness because they couldn't pay their rent and more, just to serve a bullshit political agenda?
Because they are idiots.
* * *
Random Ponderings On A Sunday:
Best $23 I've spent in ages was for 15 or 20 minutes of outdoor massage at the mall today. Damn that feels awesome.
Two forks up for celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay for finishing the famed Ironman Triathlon in under 15 hours, well within the time allotted for an "official" finish.
How cool is it that the police finally solved a cold-case more than 20 years old involving a baby whose identity was never discovered until they finally cracked the case? Way cool!
Lice were bad enough but now they're talking about "super-lice". Do they wear capes and have super lice powers?
Don't forget that tax returns, and balances owed are due this coming Tuesday. Yes, even with the government shutdown, tax returns must be filed by then or they are late.
There's a family who is so into living a green lifestyle, they've thrown away only one quart of waste in the last year. That's amazing.
As I was driving home earlier today from a movie, I was cut off by a woman who was driving a car with expired tags, illegally displaying her handicapped placard while the vehicle was in operation and she was talking with her cellphone to her ear. Moments like that make me wish, even if only for a second, that I was a cop again and could write her up for every violation.
I hope the scumbags who rearranged the letters on the marquee of a McDonald's in Northern California get caught and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Jermaine Jackson is pissed that Dr. Conrad Murray is close to getting out of jail. Guess JJ will have to console himself with his new Ferrari and hope that his mother wasn't too pissed off over his buying it. He probably also better hope it doesn't get seized and sold next time he's delinquent in his child support payments
So how much trouble is the Fossilman (poker pro Greg Raymer who won the WSOP as an amateur) in with his wife over his prostitution ring involvement?
Why in the world did Michael Douglas' doctor tell him to lie and say he had throat cancer rather than the tongue cancer he was actually suffering from?
* * *
October 13th In History:
54 – Roman Emperor Claudius is poisoned to death under mysterious circumstances. His 17-year-old stepson Nero succeeds him to the Roman throne.
409 – Vandals and Alans cross the Pyrenees and appear in Hispania.
1307 – Hundreds of Knights Templar in France are simultaneously arrested by agents of Phillip the Fair, to be later tortured into a "confession" of heresy.
1332 – Rinchinbal Khan, Emperor Ningzong of Yuan becomes the Khagan of the Mongols and Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, reigning for only 53 days.
1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1644 – A Swedish–Dutch fleet defeats the Danes and captures about 1,000 prisoners.
1710 – Port Royal, the capital of French Acadia, falls in a siege by British forces.
1773 – The Whirlpool Galaxy is discovered by Charles Messier.
1775 – The United States Continental Congress orders the establishment of the Continental Navy (later renamed the United States Navy).
1792 – In Washington, D.C., the cornerstone of the United States Executive Mansion (known as the White House since 1818) is laid.
1812 – War of 1812: Battle of Queenston Heights – As part of the Niagara campaign in Ontario, Canada, United States forces under General Stephen Van Rensselaer are repulsed from invading Canada by British and native troops led by Sir Isaac Brock.
1843 – In New York City, Henry Jones and 11 others found B'nai B'rith (the oldest Jewish service organization in the world).
1845 – A majority of voters in the Republic of Texas approve a proposed constitution that, if accepted by the U.S. Congress, will make Texas a U.S. state.
1881 – First known conversation in modern Hebrew by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends.
1884 – Greenwich, in London, England, is established as Universal Time meridian of longitude.
1885 – The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is founded in Atlanta, United States.
1892 – Edward Emerson Barnard discovers D/1892 T1, the first comet discovered by photographic means, on the night of October 13–14.
1911 – Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, becomes the first Governor-General of Canada of royal descent.
1914 – In Major League Baseball's World Series, the Boston Braves defeat the Philadelphia Athletics, 4 games to 0, at Fenway Park in Boston, completing the first World Series sweep in history.
1915 – The Battle for the Hohenzollern Redoubt marks the end of the Battle of Loos in northern France, World War I.
1917 – The "Miracle of the Sun" is witnessed by an estimated 70,000 people in the Cova da Iria in Fátima, Portugal.
1918 – Mehmed Talat Pasha and the Young Turk (C.U.P.) ministry resign and sign an armistice, ending Ottoman participation in World War I.
1921 – The Soviet republics of Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia sign the Treaty of Kars with the Grand National Assembly of Turkey to establish the contemporary borders between Turkey and the South Caucasus states.
1923 – Ankara replaces Istanbul as the capital of Turkey.
1943 – World War II: The new government of Italy sides with the Allies and declares war on Germany.
1944 – World War II: Riga, the capital of Latvia is occupied by the Red Army.
1946 – France adopts the constitution of the Fourth Republic.
1958 – Paddington Bear, a classic character from English children's literature, makes his debut.
1962 – The Pacific Northwest experiences a cyclone the equal of a Cat 3 hurricane. Winds measured above 150 mph at several locations; 46 people died.
1967 – The first game in the history of the American Basketball Association is played as the Anaheim Amigos lose to the Oakland Oaks 134-129 in Oakland, California.
1970 – Fiji joins the United Nations.
1972 – An Aeroflot Ilyushin Il-62 crashes outside Moscow killing 174.
1972 – Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashes in the Andes mountains, near the border between Argentina and Chile. By December 23, 1972, only 16 out of 45 people lived long enough to be rescued.
1976 – A Bolivian Boeing 707 cargo jet crashes in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, killing 100 (97, mostly children, killed on the ground).
1976 – The first electron micrograph of an Ebola viral particle is obtained by Dr. F.A. Murphy, now at U.C. Davis, who was then working at the C.D.C.
1977 – Four Palestinians hijack Lufthansa Flight 181 to Somalia and demand release of 11 members of the Red Army Faction.
1983 – Ameritech Mobile Communications (now AT&T Inc.) launched the first US cellular network in Chicago, Illinois.
1990 – End of the Lebanese Civil War. Syrian forces launch an attack on the free areas of Lebanon removing General Michel Aoun from the presidential palace.
1992 – An Antonov An-124 operated by Antonov Airlines registered CCCP-82002, crashes near Kiev, Ukraine killing 8.
Famous Folk Born On October 13th:
Allan Ramsay
Ernest Myers
Lillie Langtry
Mary Kingsley
Rube Waddell (pitched while Cy Young was active and Waddell led the majors in strikeouts for six consecutive seasons, a record that still stands)
Cornel Wilde
George Osmond (patriarch of the Osmond Brothers, Marie, Jimmy, and more)
Lenny Bruce
Margaret Thatcher
Walter "Killer" Kowalski
Eddie Yost
Eddie Matthews
Etterlene DeBarge
T. J. Cloutier
Susan Stafford
Demond Wilson
Sammy Hagar
John Ford Coley (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxdsk-cFX-k)
Lacey J. Dalton
Beverly Johnson
John Lone
Pat Day
Reggie Theus (trying to guard him in a basketball game back in the high school days was just impossible)
Marie Osmond
Doc Rivers
Kelly Preston
Jerry Rice
Kate Walsh
Sacha Baron Cohen
Summer Sanders
Ashanti
Ian Thorpe
Movie quotes today come from 2006's "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan"
Oxanna: [as Borat is leaving] If you cheat on me, I will snap off your cock!
Borat: [later] Sadly, I cannot go after Pamela or else my wife will snap off my cock.
#2
Borat: [referring to Pamela Anderson's character in "Baywatch"] This C.J. was like no Kazakh woman I have ever seen. She had golden hairs, teeth as white as pearls, and the asshole of a seven-year-old. For the first time in my lifes, I was in love.
#3
Borat: This is Natalya.
[He kisses her passionately]
Borat: She is my sister. She is number-four prostitute in whole of Kazakhstan.
[She holds up a trophy and smiles]
Borat: Niiice!
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