Weekend Update - July 29th
Weekend Update – July 29th
One of my students emailed me in a panic about being overwhelmed and in need of tutoring. I offered to help the student and gave him several times when I could be at school to help him.
He wrote back a little later and thanked me for the offer. He went on to say that he felt he was doing fine in my class but was feeling lost in his mathematics class. He said that he should probably talk to his mathematics instructor instead of me.
That made me feel better; much better actually.
I hope he can find the help that he needs.
Adam Carolla was hosting a car wash on Saturday morning. It should have been an interesting one. The car wash was jointly sponsored by a strip bar called Spearmint Rhino. The dancers / strippers were going to wash the cars for free but you were expected to make a contribution to a charity, a generous contribution.
I had thought about going and getting the Prelude washed. It is way past due a car wash. I almost went and then I came to my senses. I would have spent more on that car wash then I would have spent at a professional car wash where I have a degree of confidence that the workers are competent.
I knew the dancers / strippers were highly skilled at moving their bodies to the sound of music while taking their clothes off. I think their ability to wash cars is suspect at best.
In the end, I decided to take the Prelude to the professional car wash during the week and get it cleaned then. I can combine the car wash with the Prelude’s smog control inspection that is due by September.
We almost had a strike by some port workers in the Los Angeles and Long Beach Harbors. A strike would have closed down the ports and caused significant damage to the United States economy. 40% of the nation’s imports flow through these adjacent ports.
But, being able to find a bright side of almost anything, one good benefit of the strike would have been absence of trucks hauling container boxes on the local freeways. Traffic would have moved faster and more freely. That is an excellent benefit.
There would have been less pollution from the truck’s diesel exhaust. That is an excellent benefit.
I had my six month visit to my dentist on Saturday afternoon. He has a new teeth cleaner that is water based and that does away with a lot of the old scrapping and picking. This is so much better for me. My teeth are all in good shape and so I am good for another six months.
Sweet for me.
I was out television channel surfing on Saturday. I was bored and I did not want to work on lesson plans or write the quiz for my Business Law class. I think I get something like 150 channels of television and I only watch about a dozen or regularly.
One of my mindless channel surfing stops is the car sales infomercials on the Spanish and other foreign language stations. I don’t know that much Spanish or the other languages but I do enjoy watching the young women strut around in short dresses and shout about what a great vehicle the car is.
As I said, it is a mindless diversion for me.
Besides, the advertising programs recycle themselves after 15 minutes so I am not staying there for hours at a time.
As I was wandering between car sales infomercials, I stumbled across an Indian language, Hindi I assume, station that was broadcasting Indian music videos. This sucked me and before I knew it, I had spent close to half an hour watching the Indian music videos.
They are really well made and have some great production values and choreography that reminded me of the American musicals from the 1930s. I suppose my viewing would have been better if I knew who I was watching.
I did see some who could become Women of the Moment. I need to study the music videos more; maybe next weekend I can work on that.
I seem to be developing an acquired like or desire for Indian women. Maybe desire is too strong a term. The Indian women were not like some anorexic Western actresses, models, and singers. I think it is nice to see a healthy woman.
I don’t think I could have a long term relationship with an Indian woman since most of them do not eat beef. You all know how much Doug and I love a really well cooked steak from Morton’s or now from Flemings but only if Amy the Server is working there.
Visitors
We managed to exceed the July 2006 total visitor count this month with a count of 313 as of Sunday afternoon. Last year, we had a total of 265 visitors in July.
We had visitors from Canada [3], Australia [3], United Kingdom [2], Japan, Gibraltar, Spain [2], Korea, Ireland, Indonesia, Netherlands, Chile, Poland, and Texas.
This was the first visit from Gibraltar to the blog.
We had one visitor who stuck around for 20.25 minutes.
I do appreciate all of you who took time to stop by and see what the blog had to offer.
Woman of the Moment
This is the last of Faline Song as a regular Woman of the Moment. I am reasonably certain she will be back as a make up edition or a best of feature. For those of you who want a longer view of Faline, I would suggest that you visit her web site. It can be found at http://www.miss-faline.com. I hope you enjoyed her time as the Woman of the Moment.
That was my weekend. I hope you all had great weekends.
Be well and stay happy.
One of my students emailed me in a panic about being overwhelmed and in need of tutoring. I offered to help the student and gave him several times when I could be at school to help him.
He wrote back a little later and thanked me for the offer. He went on to say that he felt he was doing fine in my class but was feeling lost in his mathematics class. He said that he should probably talk to his mathematics instructor instead of me.
That made me feel better; much better actually.
I hope he can find the help that he needs.
Adam Carolla was hosting a car wash on Saturday morning. It should have been an interesting one. The car wash was jointly sponsored by a strip bar called Spearmint Rhino. The dancers / strippers were going to wash the cars for free but you were expected to make a contribution to a charity, a generous contribution.
I had thought about going and getting the Prelude washed. It is way past due a car wash. I almost went and then I came to my senses. I would have spent more on that car wash then I would have spent at a professional car wash where I have a degree of confidence that the workers are competent.
I knew the dancers / strippers were highly skilled at moving their bodies to the sound of music while taking their clothes off. I think their ability to wash cars is suspect at best.
In the end, I decided to take the Prelude to the professional car wash during the week and get it cleaned then. I can combine the car wash with the Prelude’s smog control inspection that is due by September.
We almost had a strike by some port workers in the Los Angeles and Long Beach Harbors. A strike would have closed down the ports and caused significant damage to the United States economy. 40% of the nation’s imports flow through these adjacent ports.
But, being able to find a bright side of almost anything, one good benefit of the strike would have been absence of trucks hauling container boxes on the local freeways. Traffic would have moved faster and more freely. That is an excellent benefit.
There would have been less pollution from the truck’s diesel exhaust. That is an excellent benefit.
I had my six month visit to my dentist on Saturday afternoon. He has a new teeth cleaner that is water based and that does away with a lot of the old scrapping and picking. This is so much better for me. My teeth are all in good shape and so I am good for another six months.
Sweet for me.
I was out television channel surfing on Saturday. I was bored and I did not want to work on lesson plans or write the quiz for my Business Law class. I think I get something like 150 channels of television and I only watch about a dozen or regularly.
One of my mindless channel surfing stops is the car sales infomercials on the Spanish and other foreign language stations. I don’t know that much Spanish or the other languages but I do enjoy watching the young women strut around in short dresses and shout about what a great vehicle the car is.
As I said, it is a mindless diversion for me.
Besides, the advertising programs recycle themselves after 15 minutes so I am not staying there for hours at a time.
As I was wandering between car sales infomercials, I stumbled across an Indian language, Hindi I assume, station that was broadcasting Indian music videos. This sucked me and before I knew it, I had spent close to half an hour watching the Indian music videos.
They are really well made and have some great production values and choreography that reminded me of the American musicals from the 1930s. I suppose my viewing would have been better if I knew who I was watching.
I did see some who could become Women of the Moment. I need to study the music videos more; maybe next weekend I can work on that.
I seem to be developing an acquired like or desire for Indian women. Maybe desire is too strong a term. The Indian women were not like some anorexic Western actresses, models, and singers. I think it is nice to see a healthy woman.
I don’t think I could have a long term relationship with an Indian woman since most of them do not eat beef. You all know how much Doug and I love a really well cooked steak from Morton’s or now from Flemings but only if Amy the Server is working there.
Visitors
We managed to exceed the July 2006 total visitor count this month with a count of 313 as of Sunday afternoon. Last year, we had a total of 265 visitors in July.
We had visitors from Canada [3], Australia [3], United Kingdom [2], Japan, Gibraltar, Spain [2], Korea, Ireland, Indonesia, Netherlands, Chile, Poland, and Texas.
This was the first visit from Gibraltar to the blog.
We had one visitor who stuck around for 20.25 minutes.
I do appreciate all of you who took time to stop by and see what the blog had to offer.
Woman of the Moment
This is the last of Faline Song as a regular Woman of the Moment. I am reasonably certain she will be back as a make up edition or a best of feature. For those of you who want a longer view of Faline, I would suggest that you visit her web site. It can be found at http://www.miss-faline.com. I hope you enjoyed her time as the Woman of the Moment.
That was my weekend. I hope you all had great weekends.
Be well and stay happy.
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