So what do you do if you’re the child of an astronaut, but not really inclined toward things that would qualify you for a spot on the Space Shuttle?
Earn enough to get into space anyhow, natch!
I can’t say I blame Richard Garriott for wanting to find a way to get into space. I’d go, given a chance, although I would be much surprised if I ever had the money to spare for such a trip. But I also found it inspiring reading about his mother:
The pinnacle one was with my mother’s return on investing in my first software company. She and my dad went back to their hometown of Enid, Oklahoma, and invested their millions into something called Leonardo’s Discovery Warehouse, a hands-on children’s art and science museum, but they built it completely with volunteer labor from the community.
It was my mother who organized this specifically: 10 percent of the entire population of the city — that’s 40,000 people — volunteered and physically came out to help my mother build Leonardo’s Discovery Warehouse.
Wow. I’m utterly impressed with that. It’s some very impressive organizing. How often can you get 10% of the people you ask to do something, especially if you don’t know them?
I often wish that my husband and I were more into entertaining. It has a lot to do with the good dishes my sister-in-law insisted we HAD to register for that rarely get used. So far it’s just when the kids want to do a fancy dinner. Holidays are always at someone else’s home.
To make matters worse, we saw a huge set of fine china at an antique shop for less than was spent on the 6 place settings we received of our pattern. It was hard to resist the temtation to sell them so we could buy the complete set, but we felt that wasn’t a kind thing to do to the people who had bought from our registry.
Now I’m looking at the serveware on the Villeroy & Boch website, and oh is it nice! I clicked over to the classic section, and there’s this beautiful set called Wildberries that I really like. As the name implies, it’s a berry pattern, very simple and not excessively accented. And I’m trying very hard to not think more than necessary about their current 20% off deal that ends October 31.
The Aureus pattern has some beautiful flowers, but I never like more than a little gold patterning when I see it in person, at least for my own use. It’s still very nicely done when I look at it more closely.
One of these years I’m just going to have to insist that my husband and I host for Thanksgiving (not a chance we could get Christmas, just the way things work in our families), and actually get to use our good dishes. Beautiful dishes just add a little something to a special family dinner, and with more family moving away of late it is actually approaching where it would not be impossible for us to get enough dishes to manage it, especially since I would love to have a collection where each place setting matches, but each place has a different pattern. I just like that look.
Elegant isn’t something most people get to do very often anymore, but I do enjoy it every once in a while.
What does it take to land a really good job? Especially one a step up from where you’re at?
A great resume is one of the key factors in landing any job. It’s hard to get an interview without one. But I read on MSN Careers some of the amazingly stupid mistakes people make when writing their resumes.
Now no, I am not looking for a job. This is just something I came across and found amusing. With some of the mistakes you have to wonder if the people were doing everything possible to not get the job. I gather some people like being unemployed.
Applicant specified that his availability was limited because Friday, Saturday and Sunday was “drinking time.”
Nothing like a good bit of drinking to waste the rest of your life away, I guess. If you’re drinking so much that it’s interfering with your work schedule, it’s time to quit… drinking, that is.
Applicant explained that he works well nude.
Sorry dude, but that’s not an advantage in most workplaces. Try a strip club or work from home where no one will care.
Applicant explained a gap in employment by saying it was because he was getting over the death of his cat for three months.
I love cats too, but I can get over the loss of one a lot faster than that.
Am I the only one who reads these things and wants to create a worse resume? It could be fun to see how plausibly I could do it, and how many job interviews I could get.
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I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not a master of makeup. Matter of fact, I’ve used it about once in the past 5 years, that being for my sister’s recent wedding. But I do think about it here and there because I do know how much better I can look when I take the time.
On the other hand, I do a lot with my hair. It’s really long and while I don’t expect to mess with that anytime soon, considering a new hairdo can be fun.
The MakeoverSolutions website lets you do that without all the actual trauma of getting a bad haircut. You can upload a photo of yourself and see how you’d look with a different hairstyle. If you have a free membership you can upload just one photo, but paid members can upload more. They offer tips to make it easier to pick a good photo, for example you don’t want hair in your face.
Free memberships also only get a limited number of hairstyles to try. It’s enough to play with and get a feel for things, but paid members get over 3000 hairstyles to play with, along with more celebrity hair styles, more makeup colors and accessories to play with. Paid members also don’t have to deal with interstitial ads.
And of course, it’s not just for women. They have hairstyles for men as well.
Overall, it’s just a fun site to play around at. You can get really serious about it or not.
For this one I decided to go with candies I like that come in small sizes for giving out at Halloween. Otherwise I’d be listing way too much high quality chocolate.
- Bottlecaps
- Necco Wafers - I don’t quite know why, I just like them about once a year.
- 3 Musketeers
- Hershey’s Special Dark - Not as good as other dark chocolates, but not a lot of options when it comes to Halloween candy.
- Lemon Heads
- Nerds
- Gummy whatevers - Shape doesn’t matter, they’re just fun.
- M&Ms
- Mounds
- Skittles
- Spree
- Starburst
- SweeTarts
What can I say except there are very good reasons I haven’t bought any Halloween candy yet. I know I’ll have to soon to have a good selection, though.
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I’ve always been a bit of a science and technology geek. Just how I am.
I used to love having The Discovery Channel Store in the mall. So much fun wandering the various gadgets and science toys. But they’re gone now, for several months. I gather they decided to stick with just selling online.
The Discovery Channel Store
website is certainly a lot of fun. Lots of really great toys and videos. There’s a rainbow generator, for example, that I bet my daughter would love.
But I’ll keep missing the mall stores. They were just so much fun to wander!
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