Tuesday, May 31, 2005

End of the month

Well it is the end of the month-May 31, 2005. Tomorrow will be the six month mark. It is usually a time of taking early stock and sorting out what is to some in the coming months. Adjustments are made. It is a time for thinking about what Walt Disney said, which was that it is a new tomorrow and the road is open ahead and that means that we are going places.

Once I get moved in. I will then fire up ol' Bessie and see what I have and make changes based on that. The biggest changes definitely will be in the shaping of the various blogs into their own separate identities. I look forward to playing with my world building games. I look forward to other things as well.

Monday, May 23, 2005

Wow

Well...
I haven't received any comments since I have had the blog. Admittedly, I have not written in it everyday. I don't know that I have compelling entries. It seems to me that I need to further develop a point of view. I will be using my upcoming vacation to do that. Viewing weblogs,inc has certainly given ideas.

Friday, May 20, 2005

My Star Wars life

This is my Star Wars name:




Your Star Wars Name and Title



Your Star Wars Name: Emmla Labos

Your Star Wars Title: Nahbla of Rehtorb





This is my Star Wars Horrorscope. I actually would not have picked R2 for myself. I would have gone with Qui-gon or C3PO:




Star Wars Horoscope for Capricorn




You have a ton of ambition and inexhaustible desire to reach your goals.
You are very loyal, going to great lengths to help someone out.
You are a very social unit, winning the hearts of many with your cute personality.

Star wars character you are most like: R2D2

Thursday, May 19, 2005

Endings and other things

Let's see.
-In one week I move to a new place which is good but also sad as partings usually are. I was hit with all sorts of nostalgia Friday.
-Tonight we will find out if Street Smarts or Book Smarts wins.
-"ER" will find out if they can continue on without a main character to use as a comapass. I still think the best goodbye episode was Mark Green's last one in 2002. I still also maintain that this should have been that season's finale. I don't expect Carter's to top it and honestly, I liked the episode that preceded it when Carter was the focus.
-In one week the company I work for lost at least 5 people.
-It looks like Maytag will be gone.
I am sure that there are other endings that mean something but I don't know them yet.

I am sure that you are all seeking the juicy stuff. The confessional, the "reveal".
Well, let's see. The only thing I can think of is that on two separate occasions I wanted very much to sleep with two supervisors. i don't know if I wanted to have long term relationships with either. I had the safety of both being employed so I could not logically make a move and mess up the natural order of things.
One was out of my reach anyway since she has a boyfriend. It did come to pass that one left not on his time schedule. Now that he was essentially free, there was nothing to stop me. However, like Spock said in "Amok Time" to Ston, 'you will find that having a thing and wanting a thing are two different things' or somthing to that effect. It was funny because I did have a dream where I asked the essential question.
The other rub is that there is another. I quite like him and have thought for the past year, that i would marry him. Not unlike Carter, I planned for a ring and was like Carter going to present it to Abby. But then, like Carter, I realized the essential truth that we were never going to be a "we" unless he sorted out his family situation, not unlike Abby. So like most of my life, I am in limbo.

The problem with being in limbo is that time passes and once you come out of it you are in shock at how much time passes. You can't save time. You can spend it wisely or foolishly and like Dorothy West's mother once said, "a day lost is a day gone forever."

Wednesday, May 18, 2005

This and That

"This and That" was the title of Bette Davis' autobiographical answer to her daughter's memoirs on their relationship. By the time both books came out, their relationship was acrimonious at times at best. I wonder what Jane Fonda would have written about Henry.

I learned through an unscientific taste test that Powerade tastes like it has more sugar than Gatorade does. Gatorade has no real discenable flavor. I guess I would drink both interchangeably.

CBS still has on the whole, more compelling soaps than ABC or NBC although General Hospital when it finds its way is good.

I think that TV talk shows are the new 'religion.'

I wonder how George Lucas feels about being the father of a movement?

Oprah has not had George Lucas on...

Ellen is Ellen.

Tuesday, May 10, 2005

Remember...

You can unlock any door if you find the key.

Updated links

the links list
http://www.bolt.com/journals/page/kitlat/Weblog
http://rdhigh.blogspot.com/
http://www.livejournal.com/users/ladydayelle/
http://www.xanga.com/kitlat
http://moreexplore.blogspot.com/
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?
http://kitlat.blogs.friendster.com/my_blog/
http://journals.aol.com/ladydayelle/LoveLetters/
Links
http://kitlat.diaryland.com/
http://www.greatestjournal.com/users/ladydayelle/
http://amystickalgrove.zzn.com/email/english/login/login.asp?SubDomain=amystickalgrove
http://www.exploration-.blinkz.com/
http://www.bloglines.com/blog/kitlat
http://Greenwalls.iuplog.com/default.asp
http://www.bolt.com/journals/page/kitlat/Weblog
http://rdhigh.blogspot.com/
http://www.livejournal.com/users/ladydayelle/
http://www.xanga.com/kitlat
http://moreexplore.blogspot.com/
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&blogID=9280267&friendID=3592208&Mytoken=20041206173430
http://www.angelfire.com/zine2/exploration
http://www.angelfire.com/zine2/exploration/kitlat/
http://blog.angelfire.lycos.com/service/blog/control.blog?a=manage&blog_id=144473
http://www.blogthings.com/whatagequiz/
http://www.angelfire.com/zine2/exploration/volunteer/
http://www.angelfire.com/zine2/exploration
http://www.angelfire.com/zine2/exploration/kitlat/
http://blog.angelfire.lycos.com/service/blog/control.blog?a=manage&blog_id=144473
http://ladyday99-ivil.tripod.com
http://ladydayelle.tripod.com/
http://ladyday99-ivil.tripod.com/theothersite
http://build.tripod.lycos.com/trellix/sitebuilder/f_all_my_sites.html

Inactive
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http://pages.ivillage.com/ladyday99/
http://pages.ivillage.com/ladyday99/myday
http://pages.ivillage.com/ladydayelle/myday/
http://pages.ivillage.com/ladydayelle/
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http://pages.ivillage.com/ladyday99/
http://pages.ivillage.com/ladyday99/myday

Has it been 60 years?

Has it really been 60 years since the second "war to end all wars" was fought?

The Vietnam era children (boomers in many cases)that were born to those people will be able to collect social security.

There are whole movies such as 'Casablanca' that are a full of people who are dead.

Japan still can't enter into war per their constitution-a stipulation of the war.

The United States is still in favour of internment.

How many people have had their knowledge of this war shaped by Hollywood?

What would Anne Frank have thought?

Monday, May 9, 2005

Which Clamp book would I belong in-the Top 5

  • My #1 result for the SelectSmart.com selector, Which CLAMP series would you fit in?, is Gouhou Drug




  • My #2 result for the SelectSmart.com selector, Which CLAMP series would you fit in?, is Tokyo Babylon



  • My #3 result for the SelectSmart.com selector, Which CLAMP series would you fit in?, is Clover



  • My #4 result for the SelectSmart.com selector, Which CLAMP series would you fit in?, is X/1999




  • My #5 result for the SelectSmart.com selector, Which CLAMP series would you fit in?, is CLAMP Campus Detectives

  • Thursday, May 5, 2005

    The best sites ...

    Find A Grave-It's just that. You can find famous and non-famous people.
    http://www.findagrave.com/

    Zora Neale Hurston
    http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=2571&pt=Zora%20Hurston

    Alamanzo Wilder:
    http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Wilder&GScid=286603&GRid=3949&pt=Almanzo%20James%20Wilder&

    Laura Ingalls Wilder:
    http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=1625

    Rose Wilder Lane:
    http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=3683

    Robert E. Lee:
    http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Lee&GSfn=Robert+&GSmn=E&GSby=
    1807&GSbyrel=in&GSdy=1870&GSdyrel=in&GSob=b&GRid=615&pt=Robert%20Edward%20Lee&

    MZB:
    http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6108448&pt=Marion%20Bradley

    Hattie McDaniel:
    http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=1367

    Cathryn Damon:
    http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6440476&pt=Cathryn%20Damon

    A ten year old I located randomly:
    http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7151186

    Vaslav Nijinsky:
    http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=4346&pt=Vaslav%20Nijinsky

    Toshiro Mifune:
    http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=9232&pt=Toshiro%20Mifune

    Butterfly McQueen
    http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=5816373

    And of course my favorite site-Dead or Alive:
    http://www.deadoraliveinfo.com/dead.nsf/viewdocs-nf/lastsixmonths

    Ron's my guy...

    Ron
    Your best match is Ron!


    Which Harry Potter Guy are you Most Compatible with?
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    "Hmmm....Another Weasly..."

    Wednesday, May 4, 2005

    The Empire of Gollumidas and Nation States

    Sometimes I check out the country I created on Nation States. (http://www.nationstates.net/) Unlike a total RPG game with a lot more control over variables, this site allows you to create a nation and daily or weekly you make decisions on the policies that affect it. The decisions are implemented in 24 hours. This is the state of my nation today:


    Location: Axen
    The Empire of Gollumidas is a very large, safe nation, renowned for its burgeoning crystal bat population. Its compassionate population of 146 million have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

    It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Social Welfare. The average income tax rate is 47%, but much higher for the wealthy. A robust private sector is led by the Book Publishing, Woodchip Exports, and Arms Manufacturing industries.

    Truth is often impossible to tell from fiction on the evening news, drunk drivers are sentenced to death, the wearing and manufacture of fur apparel is banned, and teenagers across the country are celebrating the defeat of a national curfew bill. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gollumidas's national animal is the crystal bat and its currency is the crys.

    Gollumidas is ranked 1st in the region and 34,235th in the world for Most Rebellious Youth.



    'Axen' is the region, which I created since the region where my country was located originally, the West Pacific, was not allowing us to grow very well. Too much competition. Right now it is just us. Perhaps we will let others in. I made a decision this morning to allow refugees into the Empire. It was either allow them to come, shut them out or allow them to come, take on the unwanted jobs such as trash pick-up and pay them slave wages. Admittedly the questions posed mirror real world issues that companies must grapple with. We haven't joined the UN yet and there is one country we are considering annexing for no other reason than I worked with the person who created it and he seems to have neglected it...
    You have choices when you create your nation as to how you would like to govern it-dictatorship, communist state and so forth. I tried to be a monarchy but the only monarchy choice was a constitutional monarchy, which I did not want. I have often considered what Queen Elizabeth and the United Kingdom would be like if she had real legislative power.


    I really like the fact that drunk drivers are sentenced to death even though when I voted for the measure, it was that they should face punishment. Apparently I am meaner than I thought. The "news" decision was unsatisfying because I had to choose between freedom of speech and state controlled news.

    Here is the link to the Empire in case you want to keep tabs:
    http://www.nationstates.net/cgi-bin/index.cgi/target=display_nation/nation=gollumidas

    I know that there are more involved ones out there but I like this "no muss no fuss" site.

    Tuesday, May 3, 2005

    Things I can watch over and over

    It will please you to know that:

    The current time in Jewish Autonomous Oblast', Russia is
    1:02 AM
    Wednesday, May 04, 2005
    DST +1100 UTC



    Things I can watch on television, DVD and tape over and over:
    The Incredibles
    The Ken Burns' Civil War Series
    Scrubs
    A Pup named Scooby Doo
    Certain episodes of ER
    Soap
    Lost In Space
    The Apprentice
    The Funtastic World of Hanna Barbera
    The Emperor's New Groove
    Blue Crush
    House
    Law And Order original, SVU, CI and TBJ
    Cowboy Bebop

    Sunday, May 1, 2005

    My thoughts on the Apprentice 3-Episode 14

    This is taken from a post I made at another site:

    Trump is the funny one. I have watched the tape of that boardroom a few times and I think as Trump was thinking over the track records he probably reflected on the fact that:

    A) As badly as Tana screwed up with this task, on the whole she has been a winner and a contributer to winning teams both as PM and as a team player. Trump could probably pick at random moments of her success.
    B) Carolyn, Trump and George said that Tana had no fire and may not be able to handle the killers his organization deals with. However, his second Apprentice, Kelly was spoken of as having no fire either but he got hired over the outspoken and combative Jen M, who was described by George as being rough around the edges but a good fit.
    C) Alex's last win as project manager was the graffiti project where he benefitted by my girl Tara's overpersonalization.
    D) Alex flew under the radar-there was no doubt. Not unlike Chris or last season's Ivana, he got over because someone else committed the greater sin in Trump's eyes. Trump also had to see that in the last boardroom sessions, Alex was a common denominator.
    E) Trump respects someone who knows how to defend themselves. Tana brought up the record, which was the one thing that Alex had no defense again. She brought her success as a PM and team player. Trump has the freakish memory. Sometimes he forgets and sometimes he remembers when something sparks it. He also will get fixated on something that he personally disapproves of (Chris's tabacco habit or Season Two Bradford's giving away his immunity or Erin's wisecracking). Then it will come out that he has been paying attention all along. He did notice that Alex and probably remembered the sleeping and so forth and on this task he was like "well she didn't tell me to do marketing..." So much for initiative.

    I know that the interviewers will probably bounce Craig. This is exactly good since he can't blame it on anyone. I am hoping he doesn't cry racism because it would not be in this case.

    I also note that the last person to be fired from regular competition was a former Magna or "book smarts" player...

    Trump as seen over the last two seasons, does not like people who shade their mistakes or who don't admit them. I personally think the latter cost Jen M. the apprenticeship since she defended herself and really did hear what George and Carolyn had to say on what she didn't do right as opposed to Kelly who defended what he did right and acknowledged what he did wrong especiallythe critiques from Carolyn since Carolyn arranges the golf tournaments for a living and he could only benefit from her experience.


    Hurray to the mom from Iowa and her beadazzler.

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