Month: May 2013

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Quotes from the World for Saturday 05/25/MMXIII

A person taking stock in middle age is like an artist or composer looking at an unfinished work; but whereas the composer and the painter can erase some of their past efforts, we cannot. We are stuck with what we have lived through. The trick is to finish it with a sense of design and a flourish rather than to patch up the holes or merely to add new patches to it.

Harry S. Broudy
Harry S. Broudy (b. 1905), Polish–born U.S. educator. “Education for Leisure,” Paradox and Promise: Essays on American Life and Education, Prentice-Hall (1961).

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Way Back Then

Good Morning & Happy Friday,

Why Back Then in 1994, did you think we’d be where we are today?

Today is Friday 05/24/V3.3 & we are XVI days away from my Birthday!!!

I was in Michigan, Kalamazoo, on my way or at South Middle School right now. Doing my last year of middle school. It only took me 4 years to complete 7th & 8th grade. One of those is a lie, it took me just two years to do two years of schooling.

You have to go to shop to get today’s Nook Free Friday book. Head to Head by Linda Ladd.

Although I won’t read that for months. I’m currently reading Sweet Shadows by Tera Lynn Childs. It is going well so far.

The word of the day is skeuomorph which is a design on an object copied from a form of the object when made from another material or by other techniques.

So what does Team Vernon J have going on this weekend. Less than 42 hours to go before it is over. I know on Saturday Morning we are going to be driving in the La Vista Daze Parade. We should go to church and pick up stuff from work. Once those three things are done, we are free to enjoy. Although we have to be up at 04.28 on Sunday.

Work starts at 06.30 proper, not a minute later than that. I am done with training as of later today & start my regular schedule. That’s Saturday – Wednesday 06.30 to 15.00 for weeks upon weeks.

I do have Monday 05/27/V3.3 off & anticipate going to the Memorial Park, Memorial Day events. All Gave Some & SOME GAVE ALL! I just gave some, thanks to all my fellow veterans who gave all. Thanks to the Veterans like me. Thanks to the current serving members of the Armed Forces.

I have a current offer on the table to call L if I go out. That’s the best offer I have right now, so we’ll see how I feel after work. I could make a game day call & go pick up stuff at work tonight. There’s a 33% chance of that happening. Right now there is also a 33% chance of me coming home after work. There’s a 50% chance of me coming home, AT ALL tonight.

So quick run down. 33% chance of me picking up stuff from work. 33% chance of me coming home after work. 33% chance of me hanging out with L. 50% chance of me staying not at home. You could make me an offer and change that 33% to 25%, 20% or even 16.67%.

Vernon J out.

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Quotes from the World for Friday 05/24/MMXIII

Writing fiction is … an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.

Rose Wilder Lane
Rose Wilder Lane (1886–1965), U.S. author. Old Hometown, ch. 1 (1935).

In addition to writing books of her own, Lane helped her mother, Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957), develop her famous series of autobiographical “Little House” books for children

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That no one’s ever

Good Morning & Happy Thursday,

What do you know, want to share that no one’s ever had before.

Today is Thursday 05/23/V3.3 & we are XVII days away from my Birthday.

The word of the day is genethliac which is of or pertaining to birthdays or to the position of the stars at one’s birth.

I have work today, starts at 08.00 or 09.00. Goes to 16.30 or so.

Then there is a meeting at 17.00

YP Connect: Community Development + Public Transportation
KANEKO
1111 Jones Street
Omaha, NE 68102

Well Omaha Gives was a success, $3,075,998.57 given. 19,038 individual gifts. That’s an average of $161.57. People gave up more than their cup of coffee for the day. Good Job Omaha.

I hope you have a good day.

Vernon J out.

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Quotes from the World for Thursday 05/23/MMXIII

All things being equal, I would choose a woman over a man in order to even the balance of power, to insinuate a different perspective into the process, to give young women something to shoot for and someone to look up to. But all things are rarely equal.

Anna Quindlen
Anna Quindlen (b. 1952), U.S. journalist, columnist, author. The New York Times, sect. 4, p. 15 (October 24, 1993).

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Could be

Good Morning & Happy Wednesday,

It Could Be, It Should Be.

Today is Wednesday 05/22/V3.3 & we are just XVIII days away from my Birthday!!!

I don’t really have much today.

I am eating breakfast before making lunch. I guess I’m being kinda lazy today.

I have to work at the Community Center today, you can come hang out with me if you want. I get off at 20.00, so we can also do stuff after that.

I did realize that there was one HUGE mistake that I had overlooked recently. My phone number wasn’t in my twitter profile. NOT that it is on this blog, or other places around the internet & non-internet

The word of the day is theurgy which is the working of a divine or supernatural agency in human affairs.

On Thursday I’m scheduled to go to a meeting about transportation in Omaha.

On Friday I’m going to swing by the office & do some stuff.

On Saturday I’m helping out The Salvation Army. I’ll be driving the the LaVista Daze Parade. I’m going to try to get to church, no promises though.

That’s the extent of my weekend so far.

I ran into Sarah & Codie yesterday. Sarah has died her hair like a teal green, since I met her a little over a month ago. Pay Attention to this little bit of my blog.

Well I’ve got less than XLIII mins before I need to leave.

Dance Baby Dance.

 

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Quotes from the World for Wednsday 05/22/MMXIII

Aphorisms are essentially an aristocratic genre of writing. The aphorist does not argue or explain, he asserts; and implicit in his assertion is a conviction that he is wiser and more intelligent than his readers.

W.H. Auden
W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907–73), Anglo-U.S. poet. Foreword, The Viking Book of Aphorisms. A Personal Selection, ed. with Louis Kronenberger, Viking (1962).

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Rebel

Good Morning & Happy Tuesday,

I’m being a rebel today.image

Today is Tuesday 05/21/V3.3 & we are XIX days away from my Birthday.

This picture is the recommended serving size of milk & cereal. I actually measured it out, that’s probably like the first time I did that.

So today I don’t actually know what I’m doing right now. BUT I’ll be doing it LIKE a BOSS!!!

The word of the day is pasquinade which is a satire or lampoon, especially one posted in a public place.

I left early today, not cause I wanted to get to the office. I want to make a donut run, you’ll find out more about that on twitter today. Do you follow Team Vernon J yet?

Amy does!

For every second that passes you lose time.
For every moment that passes you make a memory!