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I hope you find him! If we still lived in town, we'd come out and help you look. My husband is the guy people always come to when they need help looking for a lost dog, and Fred doesn't give up until he gets his dog. Last year, we looked for four days before finding a dog burned in a barn fire. Unfortunately, she had to be put down anyway, but at least she didn't die a horrible death of hunger or infection. Only thing I can say is get everybody on board to help looking that you can. Put food and water out, and if possible, leave the door ajar in case he comes home on his own. Then think like a dog. If you were him, where would you go? Listen also for other dogs barking and look in that direction. Good luck! I'll be praying for you (... you know, in the way we agnostics pray... we do!).

Spent the afternoon making meatballs, so it's spaghetti and meatballs for dinner, with sauce made from my own vine-ripened tomatoes, lots of Parmesan and maybe even a little garlic bread. Additional Comments: HOMEMAKER'S TIP: When planning a spaghetti dinner, make sure you have noodles.

I love this! ______________________ This was sent to me and it gave me a laugh. No known author, one of those chain emails and it obviously never happened. Still. "Thinking Unconventionally A Letter from a College Professor Some time ago I received a call from a colleague, who asked if I would be the referee on the grading of an examination question. He was about to give a student a zero for his answer to a physics question, while the student claimed he should receive a perfect score and would if the system were not set up against the student. The instructor and the student agreed to an impartial arbiter, and I was selected. I went to my colleague's office and read the examination question: "Show how it is possible to determine the height of a tall building with the aid of a barometer." The student had answered: "Take the barometer to the top of the building, attach a long rope to it, lower it to the street, and then bring it up, measuring the length of the rope. The length of the rope is the height of the building." I pointed out that the student really had a strong case for full credit since he had really answered the question completely and correctly. On the other hand, if full credit were given, it could well contribute to a high grade in his physics course. A high grade is supposed to certify competence in physics, but the answer did not confirm this. I suggested that the student have another try at answering the question. I was not surprised that my colleague agreed, but I was surprised when the student did. I gave the student six minutes to answer the question with the warning that the answer should show some knowledge of physics. At the end of five minutes, he had not written anything. I asked if he wished to give up, but he said no. He had many answers to this problem; he was just thinking of the best one. I excused myself for interrupting him and asked him to please go on. In the next minute, he dashed off his answer which read: "Take the barometer to the top of the building and lean over the edge of the roof. Drop the barometer, timing its fall with a stopwatch. Then, using the formula x=3D0.5--a--t^2, calculate the height of the building." At this point, I asked my colleague if he would give up. He conceded, and gave the student almost full credit. In leaving my colleague's office, I recalled that the student had said that he had other answers to the problem, so I asked him what they were. "Well," said the student. "there are many ways of getting the height of a tall building with the aid of a barometer. For example, you could take the barometer out on a sunny day and measure the height of the barometer, the length of its shadow, and the length of the shadow of the building, and by the use of simple proportion, determine the height of the building." "Fine," I said, "and others?" "Yes," said the student." There is a very basic measurement method you will like. In this method, you take the barometer and begin to walk up the stairs. As you climb the stairs, you mark off the length of the barometer along the wall. You then count the number of marks, and this will give you the height of the building in barometer units. "A very direct method." "Of course. If you want a more sophisticated method, you can tie the barometer to the end of a string, swing it as a pendulum, and determine the value of g at the street level and at the top of the building. From the difference between the two values of g, the height of the building, in principle, can be calculated." "On this same tack, you could take the barometer to the top of the building, attach a long rope to it, lower it to just above the street, and then swing it as a pendulum. You could then calculate the height of the building by the period of the precession". "Finally," he concluded, "there are many other ways of solving the problem. Probably the best," he said, "is to take the barometer to the basement and knock on the superintendent's door. When the superintendent answers, you speak to him as follows: 'Mr. Superintendent, here is a fine barometer. If you will tell me the height of the building, I will give you this barometer.'" At this point, I asked the student if he really did know the conventional answer to this question. He admitted that he did, but said that he was fed up with high school and college instructors trying to "teach him to think"." _________________________________ Goes well with: Source: I Fucking Love Science https://www.facebook.com/IFeakingLoveScience

Sometimes, if I feel it coming on, I can blast it out with 1-2 hardcore aerobic workouts within a few hours of each other. But if it hits and I'm really feeling crappy, I take a couple aspirin, a double shot of something strong, a very long,hot shower, then wrap up in thermals, jump under heavy blankets, and sweat it out. I'm a hug believer in Vick's Vap-O-Rub and chicken soup and lots of sleep. Good luck!

Dim sum! Pork & shrimp steamed dumplings with maple garlic sauce. And I think I'm going to roast up some kale chips for snackies.

Same thing that will be for dinner all week: LEFTOVER TURKEY!!! But I found some stealth Swiss chard out in the garden this weekend, and I have some puff pastry in the freezer. Maybe I will try tartes aux blettes, substituting turkey for chicken. http://www.papillesetpupilles.fr/2006/01/tarte-aux-blettes.html/

I like to make pumpkin rolls but I don't serve them as dessert. Thanksgiving dinner is always too big to consider dessert. I usually put them out in the morning with milk or coffee.

After yet another very long day, sitting down to check my email to find the first message is someone getting pissy with me because I didn't get right back to him in 10-15 minutes. (Like I usually do, IF there's any way possible.) I've had a very long, ugly, stressful week. My home is a wreck. I'm dirt tired. I haven't been able to work in a week. And I'm really not in the mood for someone who seems to expect me to jump when he snaps his fingers, and then feels entitled to tell me all about the great opportunity I just blew when I "failed" to (his actual word!). Yep, toots! Sounds like I really lost out big. »_«

Dealing with a very large dog with a very bad UTI. Last night was the first night I got more than a couple hours sleep at a stretch. And I've only had to clean up a few messes today. I'm a week behind on everything I'd planned to do.

It's funny how people always think of our work as the time we spend with our customers. That's the one part of it that, to me, doesn't seem so much like work. But there's a lot more that customers don't think of to this job. Everything from writing ad copy and designing our web sites, to making travel arrangements, to getting audited, to laundering the linens. I guess I'm pretty good at avoiding seeing people I wouldn't like spending time with, but one part of the job that I really don't enjoy (but have learned the hard way that I really must do myself) is answering phones and emails. That's where I'm most likely to encounter people I don't like. This is a business, and every independent is running a business.

Thanks Playtoe, but no, it didn't work. In fact, that's the whole problem in a nutshell right there: although it says my headset and my system are connected, those options don't show up on my Audio and Voice Recording tabs.

My Westie picked my husband out for me. I was dating a lot of different guys, but she had no use for any of them. She'd always get between me and whatever guy was around, and try to get my attention. Until the day she met the man who would become my husband. She was head over heels for him at first sight, and followed him everywhere. I figured, if he was good enough for Katie, he was good enough for me. She made an excellent choice for us.

I never met a dog I didn't love. Currently, the love of my life is an old retired hunting beagle. We're not sure exactly how old. Hell, we're not even really sure who he is. Everybody calls him something different. I call him "Dude," but recently, due to his skill in getting me to put out with the treats, that's sort of morphed into "Cube." We have taken in rescued dogs for thirty years, and usually had four at a time. We just have the one fella now, but our house has become the favourite destination for dogggies of friends and neighbours when their families are out-of-town. Some weekends, we have several staying here. We love it! It reminds me of what people say about grandkids: we get to spoil them, enjoy them, and then send them home! Too easy! ;)

I was a little surprised that Shayla got banned. Her remarks seemed more self-destructive than harmful to the community. I hope she does get a second chance, because I also hope that being exposed to people who think the way most people do on CERB might be a good and very much needed influence on her. Here, she has a chance to be exposed to men who use our services and respect us, who choose to focus on the SPs that provide a quality service rather than wallow in bad reviews, who choose to talk with SPs rather than talk about them. And here, she can be exposed to other SPs who have self respect, who respect the business and respect the men who use our services. That's the kind of exposure Shayla really needs.

I agree with the others, but I always loved the name November.

Oh no! I wish I'd gotten hold of you before you went to all that trouble. I'm way beyond all of that. I have the bluetooth dongle installed, it has discovered my headset and paired with it. However, headset service is not available (not sure whether just for this device or for my bluetooth in general) and so I can't configure my voip clients to work with the headset. Thanks for trying, anyway.

6000!!! Wow! Congratulations, and thanks Cato!

Whoops!! I somehow missed this. Thanks everyone! I'm lucky to be part of such a terrific, informative and supportive community.

It's a real job, even if you don't pay income tax. Let's not forget that many of our sisters around the world live and work in circumstances where they'd be implicating themselves in crimes simply for trying to pay their income taxes and establish credit and a financial identity. (It's just one more way of keeping women down.) And yet, like us, they are making their livings, supporting their families, and working for repeat business. Don't worry about it, Cristy. The jerk that says this is probably the same guy who finds it necessary, when pulled over for speeding, to inform the cop that he pays his salary.

So I hear. Apparently things were working fine until SP2. Still, I know others have found a way. What I'm wondering is, is there a better software than WIDCOMM 4.0? I get the impression that the actual dongle really doesn't have much to do with it; it's the drivers that count.

Windows XP Home (sp3) on an Acer Aspire1 netbook. Plantronics. I haven't had much time to play with it lately. The headset works just fine with our cell phone. I would like to be able to use it with Skype and VoxOx on my netbook. I don't see a headset service available. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I've done a lot of searching online, and it seems like I'm missing some driver, something about a "bluetooth stack" but I can't figure out what. Additional Comments: Also, I can get the dongle to pair with the headset, but that's about where it ends. Because I haven't been able to configure any app to work with the bluetooth (which woud require being able to configure the app to use the bluetooth device as speakers and mic), I'm stuck.