29 Sep 2007, 3:43 pm
The underlining thing: Today you are being given a reprieve. It's Spell Any Way You Want to Day!! !
If I had a hat I'd tip it to you. I've been asked multiple times if I plan on becoming a pharmacist and I am just not sure that I could handle it. I'm suprised that I can handle what I can do now but I think being OCD helps some.
[quote="sinsboldly"]do you have a 'Google' Toolbar on your browser heading? there is a check mark with a small ABC CHECK with a down pointing twistie. if you activate that button, the misspelled words come up and if you right click on them, it will even suggest what you might have ment and you can correct your words. right click where nothing else is and you can stop the function. handy little feature, that
hi, rathermousie, I'm merle [quote]
Hi Merle and thanks! You jogged my fuzzy memory. I was silly and forgot that I temporarly traded laptops with my mom and am not even in the same browser. What I thought was a nice feature of the site was my convienent browser settings on my computer. Did I mention I'm a blonde, aspie with memory problems?
Also, thank you to everyone else who has been very welcoming. I really appreciate finding someplace where I actually feel welcome.
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29 Sep 2007, 3:58 pm
29 Sep 2007, 4:00 pm
I just dropped by to thank everyone for the warm welcome. I am looking forward to getting to know you all. It will take a bit of getting used to, to navigate around this site, but with the help of Postie ( better known around these parts as 'BabyCakes' ) I'll manage 
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29 Sep 2007, 4:03 pm
Gawd help me. 
Baby Cakes, that is just so unfair. 
Howdy Doody rathermousie, but I think you and I have been talking before.
29 Sep 2007, 4:15 pm
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29 Sep 2007, 5:25 pm
now that I think of it, EVERYone looks like a geek on a webcam
now, let's see a show of hands. ... who is content with their image on a web cam??
Merle
uh, me?
transported back to black and white TV cartoons where my uncle told me of a life unknown, wondering why Minne the Moocher would be something shown on morning TV back before network feeds were given to rural tv stations and they had to make do by playing actual film they got from the Orepheum Theater down a block off Broadway and Douglas back from the 20's and 30' and 40's. We watched them until the "Sputnik" times came on where instead of cartoons we watched a picture of a NASA control room and the 'beep, beep, beep' of the little basket ball sized first man made satalite in 'outer space'. Then an afternoon kiddy show came on daily called "Major Astro" and they were network fields of pictures with only mouths moving type of cartoons.
anyway. . .Betty Boop from a German family and she didn't want to eat her stewed rabbit dish (Hasenpfeffer) cause she was a fragile flower so she ran away only to be scared straight by all the scary things out there in the real world. Reminds me of Cat Stevens "Wild World"
hours later. . I went to YouTube to download a Cat stevens song and somehow got involved in the Japanese news feeds from Burma/myanmar and what is unfolding there at this very moment. I have not been to the Youtube site to actually look around before and I thought I would make an account and see what the site was like.
do you always get fascinated by the variety of information on YouTube? it seemed that I could figure out what they were trying to get across even without any translation from the Japanese. . .
Merle
Yep! Can't believe it's free either!
I sit there and watch the foreign videos as well and pretend I can understand what's being said.
Tsk. Tsk. 'Tis sad.
I read foreign newspapers and listen to their radio shows too - I understand almost as much when I listen to English radio stations!
I love to listen to Japanese music - sounds like little kids singing.That's probably not politically correct - but hey, to me it sounds like little kids singing.
I just opened up a You-Tube account today.... I might use it for finding news and 'edu-tainment' material
as I do not have a video camera..... Yet.
29 Sep 2007, 5:42 pm
Nice to meet you SwampBlossum! You too rathermousie! You too Baby Cakes! 
Richie - if you are looking for news, you might like www.kidon.com. Free newspapers, magazines and radio from all over the world. Some of them only permit you to read the front page, but others allow you to read the whole thing. You may want to kill me now. I sometimes get lost in it. Hope I didn't just kill more of your free time.
I like to use it to see other countries' take on the US, and if the news we get here is just total BS. It provides a rather interesting perspective. Makes learning other languages more fun as well. Makes planet earth seem rather small. I usually read several papers daily from England to see what Lau is up to, read whatever I can in the Middle East, hit Africa, always check on France, Germany and Sweden, check out Lemon's Belgium news, roll over to Lauri in Canada, swing down to South America, check out the Aussie news, then check out Russia, Japan, and China. Then I just hit a few at random. Usually hit the New York Times and Chicago Tribune, check out Oregon, and several Florida papers.
Then I read several military papers around the world separately. Then the science news. Then the medical news.
I tell you what - it's like standing in front of a water hydrant blasting water at you full force, and trying to swallow what you can. I can NEVER keep up.
Then someone approaches me at the pharmacy and asks, "Did you catch what was said about the drug that was discussed on Oprah?" or "What is the name of that white pill they have been showing on commercials?", and I say, "I rarely watch TV, I'm sorry, I didn't see it." and they look at me as if I am an ignoramus.
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29 Sep 2007, 5:55 pm
Richie - if you are looking for news, you might like www.kidon.com. Free newspapers, magazines and radio from all over the world. Some of them you are only allowed to read the front page, but others you can read the whole thing. You may want to kill me now. I sometimes get lost in it. Hope I didn't just kill more of your free time.
Here are a couple of places to get news, the second link I just found recently, I think it charges a subscription fee:
http://www.newspapers.com/
http://news.individual.net/index.php
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29 Sep 2007, 6:15 pm
'BabyCakes' oh, that's good! that cracks me up!
Welcome to our soiree, SwampBlossom, your presence is known here and welcomed!
are you Aspie too?
Merle
29 Sep 2007, 6:16 pm
http://www.newspapers.com/
http://news.individual.net/index.php
Thanks richie! It's good to have multiple sites to peruse. You never know - the thing you are trying to find may only be on one site. I appreciate the links.
I only pay for medical sites. I like to read about what's going on in the research stages, and what I may see coming down the pipeline in 10 years or so. Micromedex is also one I pay for - good unbiased research with thousands of references. When I retire my eyes will probably scream from all the reading I intend to do!
29 Sep 2007, 6:24 pm
Goodnight Merle! Goodnight richie! Goodnight Baby Cakes! Time to go to work!
29 Sep 2007, 6:29 pm
...Sounds like you were using Firefox (spell checks as you type) and switched backwards to Internot Explunger.
Welcome Rathermuselike, Swapbloom, and me too. (Silly in-joke)
Chick and Richly... if you are really heavily into news, you might like the site my friend generates: http://www.worldnews.com.
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29 Sep 2007, 6:41 pm
...Sounds like you were using Firefox (spell checks as you type) and switched backwards to Internot Explunger.
Welcome Rathermuselike, Swapbloom, and me too. (Silly in-joke)
Chick and Richly... if you are really heavily into news, you might like the site my friend generates: http://www.worldnews.com.
Thanks for the links....
Now I have to be careful not to end like the main character in the late Theodore Sturgeon's story: "...And Now The News..."
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29 Sep 2007, 6:41 pm
Can I say f**k you here?
.......... Like the local PennySaver address? Grace and Trudy are going to the big city next Monday. They heard the turnips are very cheap there and they would like to put them up in the root cellar. Of course we will have a social and parade when they return, that should be on Wednesday. (The pack train makes really good time now that we replaced the log with a bridge.) I can hardly wait to see the new paint job on the fire wagon, they picked orange this year. The Queen of the parade, of course, will ride on top of the hoses and she is exceptional, yes the Baloney Queen is rather delightful to gaze upon. I think the Cheese Queen would have won again this year, but he is over committed pedaling for power. We do have electricity, we're very up to date you know.
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29 Sep 2007, 6:46 pm
Can I say f**k you here?
.......... Like the local PennySaver address? Grace and Trudy are going to the big city next Monday. They heard the turnips are very cheap there and they would like to put them up in the root cellar. Of course we will have a social and parade when they return, that should be on Wednesday. (The pack train makes really good time now that we replaced the log with a bridge.) I can hardly wait to see the new paint job on the fire wagon, they picked orange this year. The Queen of the parade, of course, will ride on top of the hoses and she is exceptional, yes the Baloney Queen is rather delightful to gaze upon. I think the Cheese Queen would have won again this year, but he is over committed pedaling for power. We do have electricity, we're very up to date you know.
Just the sort of thing I need to read now that I'm hearing old Garrison Keillor give the "News From Lake Wobegon".
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29 Sep 2007, 6:49 pm
Can I say f**k you here?
.......... Like the local PennySaver address? Grace and Trudy are going to the big city next Monday. They heard the turnips are very cheap there and they would like to put them up in the root cellar. Of course we will have a social and parade when they return, that should be on Wednesday. (The pack train makes really good time now that we replaced the log with a bridge.) I can hardly wait to see the new paint job on the fire wagon, they picked orange this year. The Queen of the parade, of course, will ride on top of the hoses and she is exceptional, yes the Baloney Queen is rather delightful to gaze upon. I think the Cheese Queen would have won again this year, but he is over committed pedaling for power. We do have electricity, we're very up to date you know.
One of the first annual events to occur is the creation of a sculpture made of butter. Each year, a new Princess Kay of the Milky Way is selected to promote Minnesota's dairy industry. Part of the job involves posing for several hours in a walk-in, glass-walled refrigerator as a 90 pound (41 kg) block of butter is carved into a head with her likeness.
Butter makers started sculpting their products at the fair as far back as 1898, although the head-sculpting tradition didn't begin until 1964.
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