Monday afternoon we went to Des Moines. First picked up our daughter Pam then drove to the funeral home. It was for the visitation of my wife’s sister-in-law who had died. Her side of the family was all there. Her sons and daughters, and down the line. Plus of course my wife’s side (her first husband). Not a too sad a time as everyone was there more to celebrate her life and what she meant to everyone. After about 2 hours or so, we all left and came back home.
This friday will be the gravesite services down in Decatur. She was cremated Monday evening after the visitation and her remains will be interred. My wife and granddaughters will be strumming their guitars and singing the requested songs at the gravesite. They have been practicing for almost a week.
Tuesday morning it was back to Des Moines for the weekly visit to our dear Aunt Louise. Who now hates me she says because I came up with the words she had never heard of to finish some of her crossword puzzles. Funny that she is a retired teacher among other things, and I had to help her out. Of course, how many people could have come up with the long answer to the clue of who was made famous by the 2008 presidential election. Could you? Save you the trouble. The answer was (and Aunt Louise looked at me and asked how in the world do you know this? Oh, how I hate you now. lol) Joe The Plumber.
Then this morning? Back to Des Moines yet again! This time back to Aunt Louises’ because wife’s brother was coming in from Tiffen (out near Cedar Rapids, south side of IH80) with his wife, grandson, and of course his daughter and her little baby girl (known to all as Baby Grace). His daughter is back home for about a month or so from North Carolina as her husband is in Russia of all places (he is in the army and with some specialized group that jumps out of planes and helicopters to thrill the crowds) for a month. Now Baby Grace was, like one of our granddaughters, born 3 months prematurely (she was born in February) and had to fight for her right to live. Tell you, been ages since I held a little baby and even fed her. She is such a doll. Anyways, Aunt Louise at first was not too happy and not too well, but she perked up when she got to hold Baby Grace, her great-grandniece. So we all had a good time visiting and talking. Or at least the women did!
Damn, our eldest granddaughter came over this afternoon to practice with the wife for Friday and she grabbed one of the quarts of jalapenos my wife had put up the other day. I told her to put it back, it was my private stock. So she goes to grandma and grandma says don’t listen to your grandfather, of course you can have it. So I told her, one day I will be over at her house and I will reciprocate. LOL
Ran across this earlier today on Wired Magazine. Found out, I am not the only one that comes up with some shocking ideas to change the world! That there are many others out there (with more fame and pull, power and money, than I will ever have) who think close to how I think. Do check it out for the 12 shocking ideas that could (SHOULD) change the world. Especially if they were put into action ASAP.
Two I like a lot are simple to put into action. But one the US government, state and local governments, would be slower than molasses in February to implement. Something I have said for ages. That is why are we throwing people into prisons for non-violent crimes? Do you know that the USA has more people in prison per capita than any other country on this planet? The other idea is again something I really know about and have talked about ever since I first met our autistic grandson. And that is hire autistic people for jobs (not factory line work, thank you) that require someone to just sit there and find the answer. Or sit there and find the problem. Well, one man found this out and actually started a company that hires autistic people. You will have to read the entire article.
Now go to 12 Shocking Ideas That Could Change the World. Do think about each one as you read about it and think of ways you could help.
I just found this picture and like it. Someone found a good way to end cable clutter!
Something I have always suspected, that we all are part Neandertal.
Up to 4 percent of the DNA of people today who live outside Africa came from Neandertals, the result of interbreeding between Neandertals and early modern humans. That conclusion comes from scientists led by Svante Pääbo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, who pieced together the first draft of the Neandertal genome—which represents about 60 percent of the entire genome—using DNA obtained from three Neandertal bones that come from Vindija cave in Croatia and are more than 38,000 years old.
Read all about this at Our Inner Neandetal.
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Now to take a break, get some more ice tea, and just chill out. Just as I do every day!
I have now made one of my excess blogs into a proxy listing blog. This is where you can find a growing list of proxies you can use to bypass any filters that may be set up where you work or go to school.
If you have a proxy, it is very simple, very fast and free to submit your proxy to my new proxy blog.
At the present time, I am using a simple plugin to run this proxy list. But once traffic increases for this blog, and more proxies are being added every day, I will upgrade to a better proxy list plugin that will give both myself and my visitors more options and a better experience.
Do visit my new proxy list blog at: A Dilly Proxy List Blog
Proxies
If you are looking for the best proxy sites the World Wide Web has to offer, you should go to my new proxy list blog! This blog brings together all the absolutely best proxies available on the internet for your use. Millions of people all around the world are worried about the threat to their privacy they face in the virtual world. The spam in your inbox folder, the greetings some sites offer referring to your country and city and the ever-growing incidence of cyber crimes; all point to one thing – that you are not safe! That’s right. No one is safe in cyber space. If you are wondering how, read on.
When you or someone else makes an HTTP connection, the IP address of the computer of the client gets transmitted in order to find out information about the web resource. This allows the hosting server to find out the IP address of the computer being used to make the web request. Thus it is possible for any web resource to find out a visitor’s IP address and other personal information. It is possible, for instance, to find out which websites you visit regularly, your location, address, phone number and even your email and net banking passwords. Some websites may also restrict users of a certain country or region from accessing them. Proxies make it possible to solve all these issues easily.
Proxies are sites which are connected to a proxy server which requests web pages from the host server on behalf of the client, in this case, you. So when you try to access a blocked site from any of the proxies on our list, you will be taken directly to that site. This is because you will be bypassing the filters set up at your workplace or school with the help of the proxies. Proxies are actually middlemen between the end server and your web browser. So there is no possibility of any direct communication between you and the end server. It appears as if it is the proxy that is requesting the web page, and not you. The only way you can be traced is if anyone can access the logs on the proxies you used, which is impossible. This is because all the proxies listed on our site are completely reliable and delete all information that they have gathered about their clients at the end of each session.
If you have never used proxies before, don’t worry. The proxies listed on our blog are easy to use. All you have to do is click on any of the links provided and you will be taken directly to the home page of the proxy site. There you will find an address bar somewhere on the web page. Now you will have to enter the URL of the website you want to go to and click “Go”. This will take you immediately to the web page of your choice. Yes, it’s that easy. All the proxies on our list are fresh, alive and working. Try them today!
Do visit my new proxy list blog at: A Dilly Proxy List Blog
Leave it to Maxine to come up with a solution for the economic mess that the U.S.A. is in now!
I bought a bird feeder. I hung it on my back porch and filled it with seed. What a beauty of a bird feeder it was, as I filled it lovingly with seed. Within a week we had hundreds of birds taking advantage of the continuous flow of free and easily accessible food.
But then the birds started building nests in the boards of the patio, above the table, and next to the barbecue.
Then came the poop. It was everywhere: on the patio tile, the chairs, the table. everywhere!
Then some of the birds turned mean. They would dive bomb me and try to peck me even though I had fed them out of my own pocket.
And others birds were boisterous and loud. They sat on the feeder and squawked and screamed at
all hours of the day and night and demanded that I fill it when it got low on food.
After a while, I couldn’t even sit on my own back porch anymore. So I took down the bird feeder and in three days the birds were gone. I cleaned up their mess and took down the many nests they had built all over the patio.
Soon, the back yard was like it used to be….quiet, serene…. and no one demanding their rights to a free meal.
Now let’s see.
Our government gives out free food, subsidized housing, free medical care and free education, and allows anyone born here to be an automatic citizen.
Then the illegal’s came by the tens of thousands. Suddenly our taxes went up to pay for free services; small apartments are housing 5 families; you have to wait 6 hours to be seen by an emergency room doctor; your child’s second grade class is behind other schools because over half the class doesn’t speak English.
Corn Flakes now come in a bilingual box; I have to ‘press one ‘ to hear my bank talk to me in English, and people waving flags other than ‘Old Glory’ are squawking and screaming in the streets, demanding more rights and free liberties..
Just my opinion, but maybe it’s time for the government to take down the bird feeder.
If you agree with Maxine and I then do pass this on to all your family, friends and coworkers; if not, continue cleaning up the poop.
Tell you that we have been getting a lot, and I mean a lot, of rain here. Today so far, no rain in our area and the outlook for the next few days look good for no more rain. Which is a relief for us.
But there is flooding in many parts of Iowa! And this morning, in the eastern end of Iowa, a dam broke loose….
This is in Delhi, Iowa. Here is just one picture to show you the dam giving way. For more pictures, there will be a link below the picture to the Des Moines Register.
AP PHOTO/THE GAZETTE, JULIE KOEHN
Maquoketa River water surges over the bridge of the Delhi Dam as areas surrounding the Maquoketa River continue to flood on Saturday, July 24, 2010.
For more pictures and information about this damn breaking loose and the areas and towns affected, go to this link:
New: Dramatic photos of Delhi, Iowa, dam failure & downstream flooding: http://bit.ly/9Urltu
Today my wife and her daughters went to a baby shower. So they all stopped at Gordman’s first to buy some baby girl outfits and cards. Got some cute outfits! (wife said to her daughters, this is grandpa’s dream right here picking out dresses for little girls)
For some reason I made a pot of coffee and been drinking coffee. Going to blame the coffee for me being a bit warm here!
Okay, what are the odds of 4 people each on a motorcycle being handicapped?
Are you like me and just hate those freaking videos on youtube and other sites that have to have advertising in the front end? Just viewed one that had an entire one minute commercial before the video finally started. Only to stop every 3 minutes for another one minute commercial! Anyways, one thing I took away from the video (it was an interesting video about idiots doing idiotic things) is that I will never buy any product from Amway! That will teach them to waste a good video with their commercials.
Oh, the visitation for our sister-in-law who died yesterday will be Monday morning. The gravesite services will be Friday. And yes, I forgot the little town where she will be interred. She will be cremated.
And to top off all the other sad news, now one of my wife’s sisters is have renal problems. Talking about dialysis at best, something else at worse. Will find out more as it develops and she tells my wife what is going on.
