That's 7 cups in under an hour. About 40 minutes.

read that book and its prequel.

I read Vonneguts somewhat of a memoir, A Man Without A Country, and have three essays on the database I have read and can use to cite but I just cannot get sentances to form. I feel its so useless to write yet another useless essay for yet another useless grade that will mean nothing to the professor. I'd rather pay someone else to do it

My Wednesday started off pretty well. My younger daughter got up this morning and made waffles for me, for no reason. Wow! I nearly fell over. So, mine started off well. I have two job interviews next week and I'm looking forward to the GTG this weekend. Life is good.

Porn peddler? :D

Good luck with the interviews, Dee!

Friend -- get thee to Google quickly. They have a brand new app called CADIE that is exactly what you need. This describes some of the capabilities of this amazing tool from the CADIE homepage:

"Documents
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*Write more like a grown-up
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And have a HAFD.

Thanks. I know you were joking, but I actually ran across a job for a salesman to do wholesale porn stuff, DVDs, dildos, lubricants, etc. I couldn't believe it. I considered sending them my resume just for the hell of it.

That's a job for Aklim! :D

The goal of writing essays in college is not to create a new Mark Twain but to teach the student how to logically organize thoughts in a compelling manner. When I am MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE I will require anybody who pursues a university degree to get a bachelors in liberal arts. After that they can pursue a degree in science or engineering or math or business or PE or whatever. Liberal Arts is where students learn what it means to live in this country (whichever country you live in), in this culture at this moment in history amid the other countries and cultures of the world.

Without that foundation we have created several generations of university "educated" people who can't write or communicate a compelling argument, don't know how to conduct research to develop the argument and who rely increasingly on other people to do their thinking and live their lives. They don't know the foundational thought behind their culture, they don't know their own history and they haven't developed the intellectual tools and confidence to guide their own lives for their own purpose, the source from which happiness may arise.

IMO, this is exemplified in the western culture by our increasing demand that government meet our needs rather than relying on ourselves. We blame the government when we are unhappy, as though pursuing our own happiness is the duty of other people.

As I look around myself, my community and my country, I see people less likely to take responsibility for their own happiness and as a result, people who work harder and harder but accomplishing little more than acquiring more shiny objects thereby increasing the feeling of futility and failure in their own lives. They do not understand the value of self-motivation. They do not understand themselves well enough to set goals that bring that which only they themselves can find for themselves -- happiness. This they blame on others.

In a sense, they are right. We have taught them for the past 2-3 generations that common goals are more important than personal goals. The community is more important than the individual. We have changed the very definition of liberal and counterfeited a substitute.

I have a master's degree in Liberal Arts and we were required to write a thesis for every class......not an easy task but when I was done I knew what a footnote was.....

Today we've been singing !! :D

Tis the season to pay more taxes. Fa La La La La....

(Last meeting with the CPA for '08 taxes tomorrow morning. Yippie !!)

Could you imagine the buzz around the neighborhood or church if everyone sees your car parked at every sex shop in town?

At least then he'd have work as an excuse.:D

At least it would be something I have a lot of enthusiasm for . . . .

Had a fun night last night (relatively speaking)...La Crosse just got done electing its youngest mayor in its history...a 24yo kid named Matt Harter...

If there's a saying about "...being drunk with euphoria..." I saw it this past evening...

When the results (100% precincts reporting) were read off and it showed he won by 1,300 votes over his oponent, after 12,000 were cast, Matt was just staggering around the place in disbelief...most folks hoped he was going to win, but EVERYONE figured it was going to be REAL CLOSE - but winning by 12% was considered a landslide in this particular election...

Everyone is hoping he does well...and he'll have his hands full when it comes to some of the "good ol' boys" in the City Council...but a lot of folks have expressed their displeasure with the way things were being done and with the way the economy has been beating on everyones' door lately, a few of the "cronies" got the boot this past evening, too.

Maybe all this spending to make the earth greener and trees more huggable is starting to wear thin when it comes to paying for it with the tax bills...

We'll see if La Crosse is going to stay on the map or eventually slide into the Mississippi 'cause the Green-plaid-garden-gophermite is no longer keeping gophers off the eastern banks and the den-digging is undermining the top-soil to the point that sometime, within the next 1.5 milleniums, La Crosse's streets and top-soil will slide West and into the River...

We can only hope the College Kids have taken over the Western edge of town by then... :thumbsup2: :eek: :D

Otherwise, today is goin' to be travelin' day...heading to the upper northern climes of Western Wisconsin to help a few folks tune in a few digital signals...then when I get back this evening, I'll be packing to head south to Decatur, IL., to help the X-wife pack up her mother's belongings to finally close out her apartment...the treatments haven't been going too well and she's been moved from one hospital, to an extended nursing facility, and just yesterday afternoon, we found out that 'cause of her diabetes, they found her yesterday morning with a BS of 40...and dropping...they got her to a hospital just down the street from the ENF, and she sounded "lucid" last night, but the prognosis isn't too good...

It's going to be a very hairy few days this weekend and beyond into the next week...

Wish me well...I'll be on the road for a majority of those days...and wish Mary well, too...she'll need the prayers way worse than I will... :sad:

I have another job interview today. That'll be my focus for this Hump Day. Good luck to all of us job hunters and I hope everybody has a terrific day today. It's sunny here and looks like it'll be a beautiful day all day.