Psalm 71 one

forgive my typing with no caps, i'm holding her while typingand typing one-handed.

pond, what you said about not being able to live with myself if i should have gone early and it prevented something worse, is so true. i kinda think that is why my kitty, ellie died last year--we waited too long--she was a puker, too, so at first i thought it was her normal puking. by the time we got het to the vet, waiting til next morning, the thread was too far down in her gut. she went downhill fast.

she has stopped puking, her eyes look good, she walks straight, her skin coloring and inside the mouth looks like normal. i did a search for dog concussion symptoms--it seems these are maybe only symptoms of mild concussion. but my worry right now is that she is shivering--cold--and she sometimes is panting while shivering. she does shiver when she pukes, but because of her head getting hit, i worry it's related to that, not cat-poop-puking. I don't have a doggy thermometer-- only one of those you use in your ear--i'm going to get that and check her.

I am wondering if I should call the vet-- it's after 7 pm now, so it would be the emergency vet we'd be calling, and therefore more expensive.

Earlier today (about 3 hours ago) my little Dog, Zippie and I collided. Her head and my shin. (She was running through the kitchen at the same time I had made a fast turn-and-run to the sink with a hot pan) It hurt me like crazy--at first I thought I had broken the bone! I have a nasty tender spot and bruise on my shin. So if it hurt me that much-- what about a little six-pound dog?

When i went to see if she was okay, she wouldn't let me pick her up, and pulled back. (Not entirely unnusual, she doesn't like to be approached head-on to be picked up--she backs up to us when we are sitting down and likes to be scooped up) She wasn't shaking he head or acting like she was hurt, so i went back to making dinner.

Just before I called my family for dinner, i saw she had puked--again, not that unusual-- she eats cat poop from the litter box, and then pukes. But my hubby went to clean that up, and discovered seven places she'd puked--a bit more unusual! We picked her up to pray for her, and she was shaking--again-- she does that when she's puked. I felt around her head, and she evidently has a tender spot, cuz she pulled away from my hand when I touched that side of her head.

She is sleepy, but again-- she gets sleepy this time of night. From just after dinner, while we are cleaning up, she curls up under the table and sleeps, and then follows us when we leave the room, and sleeps under my feet wherever i end up for the eveening. The ONLY thing different tonight is the puking (she's done a few more since dinner), and the knowledge that her bones and my bones made quite an impact against each other.

Obviously, if I call the vet, they'll say bring her in-- and give a guilt trip if i decide not to. My hubby has been unemployed since July, and we are at the end of our funds--November's bills are paid, and December's mortgage, but come January, things will get iffy--so running to the vet to find all she needs is to sleep it off, would be a poor expenditure of our money. But if she's really hurt and needs preventative care that wouldn't be that expensive-- well . . .

Whaddaya think?

OH YAYYYYY! BABY !!!'s hmmmm, wonder if ya hold the baby upside down, does he/she look like this

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hmmmm????

Congrats to all of you, especially Jessica and Jay!

Cindy!

Okayyyy, okayyyyyy. . . . YOU can be the one Mom loves best.... BUT ONLY FOR TODAY!!! Tomorrow I'm gonna splat ya with whatever birthday cake might be left over-- Only AFTER I eat all the raspberries!

I hope you have the happiest of birthdays!! (shhh! don't tell anybody I said that!)

Thank you all, your input is valuable to me.

A quick note to Mr P Mosh & Doojable's about the benadryl. That works for some kids--making them sleepy, but it makes some kids hyper--mine were the ones that got hyper--so they were miserable AND hyper ARRRRGGGGGGHHH!!

As to my idea about the flyers, I see more people dislike them than are "okay" about them. My guess is that would be the response I would get from the homes I deliver them to. And would have to be aware that if a person who hates them was home while i dropped them off, I might get a face melting. When I read this the other day, George's was the last response, so the count of "okay's: and "No-ways" was close enough. I thought maybe I would carry a few $5 gift certificates--to something like Starbucks or something, and if someone stopped me at their door, I would apologize and give them one of the gift certificates. (I was guessing the percentage of people that would stop me at their door would be small). Being this would be my own little business, I wouldn't miss whole streets or houses.

So how can I know that the one house I am going to next might be the one where they were absolutely furious about it, and how can they know I am not the same person who left the flyers the day before and the day before that? And I'm not likely to keep a record of which houses I have gone to and which ones REALLY hate it. I thought it would be more polite to knock and ASK if they want a flyer, but I personally hate it when I have to go to the door if I am in the middle of something-- the flyers on my driveway or doorknob are a whole lot less bothersome (And i would look at every one of them! LOL!)

I absolutely hate confrontation, and hate it even worse when someone yells at me, so I'm kinda leaning against this idea! LOL!

But the suggestion from ~but now I see~ is a thought --publish a small advertising flyer and put it at convience stores--then people can choose to take them or not. It certainly would be less offensive to the people who absolutely hate the doorknob flyers!

Thanks!

thanks George! We were posting at the same time!

I have this idea that I've run through my head frequently, as a small business, but I don't know if it would work.

Ya know the flyers you get on your doorknob, or put near your mailbox--people advertising what they do--maybe realtors, cleaning companies, distributors for various home-party sales (Pampered chef, etc). I know for myself, I read what they are, and if I have no need for that service, I toss the flyer, or if it's something I know I will need, I keep it.

I understand why these people walk flyers to doors. They are too small a business to afford bulk mailing. I have done various "home businesses" and that has been how i have found customers. I have to put out a bunch of flyers to get only a few customers, but it has been worth it to me, to save money on "advertising". I would have been willing to pay someone to distribute more for me.

So here's the idea I keep having. Why not find 3-5 people with small businesses like this, put all the flyers into one doorknb bag, and charge per 100 flyers delivered, or by 200? Each business couldn't "clash" with the others, (not two realtors, or two kitchen gadget companies), getting as diversifies as possible. Each person's flyer printed on a different color paper, partly to grab the attention of the homeowner, and partly just to distinguish each small business.

Bulk mail costs maybe 23c per piece(? less for higher volume, maybe?) (not counting the initial fees and the cost of a mailing list), so I was thinking of charging $20 per hundred--(don't know if that is too high or not--but I'd charge much more if I am the one who will be making the copies). For one business, that's not a whole lot of pay to do all that walking, but for up to 5 businesses, hmm, now we're talkin!

So, my question(s):

1) If you, as a homeowner got a bag of serveral different colors of flyers left on your doorknob, would you be more apt to look at the various flyers? If you're the kind of person who just throws them away, would you be so much more annoyed, that you'd try to find the people who delivered all that junk to your door and burn their house down? (well maybe not THAT drastic. . . )

Would several flyers be too much to look at, but you would have looked at the flyer had it been only one delivered?

2) If you are a small business owner--too small to afford direct mail or other advertising (yet), would you be willing to have YOUR flyer delivered right along with other businesses?

Even if their product or service isn't like yours?

What's your opinion?

My husband just bought a "new" (rebuilt) laptop computer. We also had a new Linksys router in a box. The old one was working fine, but he bought this cuz the salesperson said it would boost his wireless connection. He always had a Poor or good reception, never "excellent" (His office is two rooms away, with a microwave in the middle room and wireless phones in each room) My hubby knows less about computers than I do, and is impatient! LOL!

He did a lot of stuff wrong in trying to install things--i.e., unplugged old router, plugged in new router, to power source, then to computers BEFORE using the install disc--on his laptop, (Not the main wired computer) which is two rooms away from where the router is. I think I have all that fixed--had to reset the cable box, and the three wired computers can get internet connection. Also, the laptop came to us with an internal wireless card, which was not a Linksys--I don't know much about that one--we uninstalled it via add/remove programs, thinking it would interfere with the Linksys. That was probably a mistake.

I'm hoping if we needed it, we can get it back via system restore?

Lessee if I can make a long story short; I've been on the phone 3 times to Linksys, trying to figure out what is going wrong. First time, we did get a connection-- ONCE. (Thankfully long enough to dl Avast antivirus!)

I have uninstalled the network card and reinstalled several times. I have the install disk for it. Each time, when it is first installed, I get the little yellow question mark at device manager telling me I need to update the driver. I have to do this while offline because i have no connection on that computer.

Once that is done, I get a gazillion warning popups telling me I have an external exception. I'm sorry I didn't write the info in the popup warning box down--these always happened while i was on the phone with the Linksys rep, and I was already having a hard time with their accent! The last phone call, the Linksys rep told me it is a problem with my computer and I am going to have to take the computer back to the guy who sold it to us, to have him install whatever it is that will make the computer recognize this notebook adaptor.

The guy we bought it from is in another state, the dad of a friend of ours--I'm hoping maybe the tech is wrong and there still may be something i can do. (like maybe I need to get it online somehow to get an even more updated driver?) The notebook adaptor is a Linksys WPC54G, the new router a Linksys WRT54GS. The computer a Gateway with Windows XP

Let me know if you need to know more of what I have done so far.

Thanks!

editing because just now, in turning on the laptop, having hardwired the puter to the router, I am getting the pop up warning box:

Wireless-G Notebook adapter v2.0 wireless network monitor

inside the box it says:

External exception E0D7363

as of right now, there are at least 25 of them and they are still popping up. Stop when i pull out the wireless card.

Act2, we threw away the Way stuff we had 5 or 6 years ago!--most of which was pre-1985! ACCKKKK!

But I do have some other stuff i was gonna put on ebay--had been waiting on getting a digital camera-- i have one now. I had forgotten about those! One of them is a vintage 1940s wedding dress with shoes, veil etc, that I would think would bring in some decent money. Thanks for the reminder-- no time like the present! LOL! Also with the Christmas season coming up, I've been thinking of getting a booth at a craft fair--I've got a whole bunch of stuff I've made.

I truly appreciate the prayers!

George, I used one foot for the radius because of the definition in Wikipedia for for a unit of torque:

"It is also a unit of torque: 1 foot-pound is the amount of torque created by a force of 1 pound acting at a perpendicular distance of 1 foot from a pivot point."

I figured the pivot point was the bolt, so the radius was 1 foot (The torque being the "wrench") It was a lucky guess for me--I didn't go beyond highschool algebra, and am only having some knowledge refreshed in my kid's homeschool classes. I can't answer your question about giving the solution with all units included. The questions and answers are on a cd that comes with the curriculum, and the answers are a simple list, i.e. 1) 124,000 pounds (The weight being lifted) 2) 24 (pounds of force), 3) 30,144

I added the words in parintheses--he just lists the labeled numbers.

I don't think I would have even attempted this problem if I hadn't had the answer to check against. So what I posted above was the way I did the problem. Most of the questions on this lesson were about regular bolts and nuts and in the dvd lesson he only spoke about the pressure the bolt would be exerting on the item it was bolted to. I don't mean this disrespectfully to the teacher, I think he's wonderful, but might it be possible he is applying a math problem to something he doesn't fully understand himself? (a unit of torque being the same as using a wrench of a certain length?) He used the word "pressure" in the question and maybe he should have been asking "How much force"--maybe? I don't really know, because I barely understood what I just did through this whole lesson--and my son "got it" even less than I did.

Rhino, in every question of this lesson, he gave the size of the bolt and that never figured in-- only the number of threads on the bolt.

It was fun! Now the next unit he's doing is in negative numbers! woohoo! My son actually likes math, too and is pretty good at it, but with his dyslexic thinking, he turns the order of the equations all around--I keep thinking one of these times it WILL matter, but so far, he still comes up with the right answer.

He wants to take chemistry too. . . . (Maybe I'll learn something? HAH!)

FEATHERS! SHHHHHHHHHH!

Exie--yeah, as soon as I saw the word "torque" I was lost! LOL! He's 14, but this particular math program isn't listed as grade-specific, so i don't know if he is doing 8th, 9th or 10th grade math! LOL!

Thank you all for your replies. Some of them went over my head! LOL! I think sometimes these math problems are worded weird and don't apply to real life as they are worded. But I s'pose if the kid gets the "how" of the math equation, then they have learned it right--er sompin!

The whole unit was on simple machines, and the advantages of using inclined planes, pulleys, crankwheels, etc. The last lesson was on bolts and the amount of force created by tightening a bolt and nut--say the amount of force holding two boards together.

The threads of the bolt are likened to an inclined plane. The fraction, (3/8, 3/4, or whatever), is the diameter of the bolt, and the thread count is how many threads per inch (a steeper or less steep inclined plane). Most of the questions were like, "How much force will be created by tightening a 3/8-16 bolt, using a wrench that is 6 inches long and applying a force of 11 pounds to the end of the wrench"

The engine head bolt and the torque of 40 foot pounds was unexpected! LOL!

In the question about the engine head, the number of threads does make a difference, but I don't know if I can explain any further than the above eplanation of it resembling an inclined plane. The size of the bolt or the bolt head is insignificant in this problem. He also had us disregard friction in this equation.

Here was how to set up the equation.

The one foot was the radius, so 2 ft diameter, or 24 inches, because the thread is 10 turns per inch

24 X 3.14(pi) = 75.36 circumference

75.36 X 40 (lbs torque) =3014.4

3014.4 X 10 (# of threads) = 30,144 (pressure being exerted by the bolt on the engine head)

That was the correct answer to this problem. I don't know if it answers all of the questions you brainacs asked me!! LOL!

This was kinda fun-- I sat with him doing most of the work right alongside him. I sorta understood how to set up the problems, but explaining them to my dyslexic son was--er--um--interesting! LOL! (because I "get" how to set up the problem, and get the answers right, but can't explain what I just did! EEK!)

Well, no real job yet, but we have several small busineses going on. . . The boys and I had been doing a small vending business--partly for the money and partly for a "class" within our homeschooling. We just went out and got several new accounts, so that the income will be a bit more significant. While we were cold calling we met a guy who has his own business making packaged snacks or recipes in a jar-type things that are specially packaged for whatever business they are for. They are used for fundraisers, company gifts, etc. He had consession stands at amusement parks, also. He and his wife are trying to restructure, and we are going to meet with him about it. It would probably be straight commission only, but we are up to it (the boys too!)

Lastly, my hubby signed up for a small business selling air purifiers. He's sold three already!

He does still have his resume out and continues to look, but this is getting us by for the time being! Somehow just in time we have been able to pay each bill! It's a bit scary, but God has been faithful to get us through each time a bill has come in! We're sorta living Romans 5:1-5 (Perserverance, patience, hope! LOL!) I appreciate the prayers still!

HAPPY BIRD-DAY, my fine feathered friend!! Here's yer cake!

SPLAT! SPLAT! SPLATTTT!

OOOOOOOOOHHHH!

he won't even be expecting this!!!!

heeheehee. . . .

Psalmie sneaks up behind Lifty with her dental floss. . .

TRIP!

THAT WAS FUN!!!

Happy Belated Birthday, Lifty

My son and I are doing his math work. We came across a question not fully explained in his lesson. (his lessons are on dvd)

Here is the question: An engine head bolt has a specified torque at 40 foot pounds on a 3/4 10 bolt. How much pressure is being exerted by the bolt on the head.

Foot pounds was covered in a previous lesson, but not as "torque". So I googled it.

"1 foot-pound is the amount of torque created by a force of 1 pound acting at a perpendicular distance of 1 foot from a pivot point. "

Now we are trying to figure out about the "one foot perpendicular from a pivot point" Is the one foot the radius or the diameter?

I think then we set up the problem like this:

pi X diameter X 40 (lbs)

then that answer X 10 (the number of threads on the bolt)

I have the answer on the data cd sent with the program, but I want my son to see how to do the problem--but I need help myself! LOL! (We CAN call the teacher that made the dvds, too, but we couldn't get through just now)

think I oughta just throw the pi at the teacher?

GEESH! I thought I was the only one! I do the same thing, Bliss. "The Last Sin Eater" was excellent! I started the darn book at 9 pm, and finished it at 4 am! I couldn't put it down-- just like I can't put down most fiction books.

When it's non fiction-- some "how- to", or whatever I'm more reasonable--read an hour or so, can actually put it down to make dinner or whatever. . .

I limit myself in how many books I let myself get because nothing would get done. I also try to wait for a weekend to get a book so it doesn't affect school hours, etc. (I'm homeschooling my boys). I ususally get my books at the library cuz I remember the story well enough that I won't usually read a good fiction book more than once-- saves money!

So. . . um. . . I absolve you. . uh. . . because er um WELL JUST BECAUSE!

((((((excathedra))))) I'm really sorry to read that--was this recently?

Well, he just went today to file for unemployment. We will be able to pay the mortgage for this month, and probably most of the bills, but the home equity loan is gone after that. It's really not too late yet, the clock is ticking, but we're not "under" yet, and I know God is big enough to bring something "just in time".

It WILL be nice to have some cushion with the unemployment income coming in. Long story as to why he waited so long. (He and the former boss both were hoping for a turn-around with the company)

Do ya think my sore jaws are tied into this? heehee (Clenching at night, TMJ's back-- greeeaaatttt )

Well, um, er we HAVE been looking at medieval weapons and found a site showing us how to build our own catapult and trebuchet.

. . . but we wouldn't use 'em fer anything, um ah BAD!

LindaZ, thanks, I always love your posts. I got that idea that it wasn't meant to be personal against me, based on his reaction to what I posted. It's evidently his type of sense of humor. It's a sense of humor I have a very hard time understanding. I stay away from the controversial type threads because I DO have thin skin with the type of sarcasm people use against each other.

I DID take what he said personally, both in the starting of this thread, since he started it right after I was pleading please delete--(Maybe it WAS coincidence, but the mood I was in at the time, I didn't see it that way) and in his post on my other thread.

In hindsight I did see I had overreacted.

Heck, I'm used to seeing my threads die a quick death to the second page within a couple days anyway, so if I had just slept on it a day before my reaction in the other thread, I probably wouldn't have typed what i did there, and then if coincidentally, he'd have started this thread then, I wouldn't have see it as somehow connected.

Don't know if it 'splains anything any better, and maybe if I had been reading here more frequently, recently, I'd have figured out his style of posting and maybe shrugged it off better. In the time I've been around, I've learned the familiar "faces", and whose posts to just not read, knowing I won't like what i see in them anyway.

I can see others do like the way he posts and have said they'll miss him. If he doesn't really leave, then good, they'll still get to enjoy him--controversiality (is that a word?) and all. I'll just choose to not read. (My avoidance of controversy goes farther back than my TWI days)

Rascal, I'm curious as to who stopped posting because of Bumpy's input ?? If anything, it's the little clique group that gets there panties in a knot because someone challenges them with moving on in life instead of dwelling on the past that's driving people away, same ole' people same ole' argument. Let me ask you in all honesty, what has it done for your own life to keep going back there and rehashing TWI days......................yea yea yea, I know it's helped some innies by reading the stuff, but what good has it done for your own life? Isn't there a scripture somewhere about not dwelling on the past and reaching forward? I betcha if I came back hear in 10 yrs that little clique group would still be here rehashing the same stuff, doesn't there come a time in your life when you say enough is enough?

Cowgirl

Okay, I hope this comes out right--I hate these kinds of threads, and it seems every time i post in one of these, my words in print come out different than what I was thinking. So bear with me. . .

Rascal got jumped on because she alluded to something she knows about--about someone getting hurt by something Bumpy posted. That was me. Before someone gets their undies in a bundle, I did NOT go running to her crying "bumpy hurt my feelings". But I did pm her with some other info and explained a post I made and why i said it. And i don't ususally even do the PM stuff--I forget to look!

I'll explain and also paste this in a pm to Cowgirl, since she said she was leaving this thread and she asked a specific question to rascal, "Rascal, I'm curious as to who stopped posting because of Bumpy's input ?? "

First of all, I didn't actually stop posting forever, because of what Bumpy said, but I did entertain the idea for a bit, based on the mood I was in at the moment--and grouped all of Greasespot in a "see they're ALL like that!, why do i come here"-type-thingy. (A knee-jerk reaction--I doubt I'm the only one who has ever had that thought)

I hadn't been posting or reading here for a couple months because I got pretty busy over the summer. Came in to post a prayer request, then started reading at the open forums, and post some stuff. Decide to post a a link to a You-tube video my sister sent, because it was very moving--and I was feeling down about stuff that's happening in our lives recently, and this video was really moving for me. (A reminder God really is faithful and will help us through our stuff too.) So I post it. Come back a few hours later and the only post is Bumpy--and his post was, er "less than nice". (Well geesh if ya don't like it, ya don't have to get rude about it.) Then later, only one other reply.

I replied then, but I was hurt--"Nobody likes my thread, I shouldn't have bothered with THIS crowd" yada yada yada "I haven't posted a new thread in a long time and THIS is how they are-- SEE? SEE why i don't come here? I nursed that feeling awhile, came back and deleted my posts and begged Paw-- or anyone to please delete my thread cuz i didn't want to share it anymore.

I overrreacted.

I'm glad Paw didn't delete it.

I got over my funk.

But I still felt Bumpy's post was rude-- geesh how long has he been around? Why me? I'm not much of a threat-- I don't get into the serious debates, and if i don't like what someone says, I don't come back at them with rude comments and then start a new thread about "why don't we delete everything in GS" right after I beg the mods please delete my thread?

What's with that?

Heck he doesn't even know me! I ended up looking up more of his posts--oh--okay, I guess it's not just me-- he definately has a rudeness in his posts--I guess that's his type of sense of humor--evidently some people like it.

I don't. Never have liked that type of humor-- I take it personally--as you can see.

Call me melodramatic, but don't attack Rascal. Incidentally, I didn't dump all this on Rascal when I PM'ed her, I'm dumping it here for all to see. There you have it. I can't help but wonder, if my "please delete my thread" isn't somehow the cause of this whole thread in the first place.

There, now Bumpy can go out with a bang!

Have fun.

(I'm not really leaving GS myself, and i don't really think that the whole of GS is bad or mean or rude, those were just the thoughts I mulled for awhile til I impulsively came back trying to delete my thread. Call me whatever you need to. :P )

OOOOOOOOOOO! You've done it now, MISTER! (Psalmie waits fer Dooj to take cover)

SPLOOT! (HAHA! How's THAT fer a change?) I just flung a soup ladle fulla chocolate pudding atcha. followed closely with spaghetti sauce! (In keeping with the thread, ya know-- nasty, messy) That looks pretty gross on yer breakfast now!

And for my finale, I've rigged up this here humoungous slingshot, filled it with chili, jello and

WAIT! STOP! MY ARM wing is still in there! (something tells me the piggy is going to do a high-fly over Canada!)

WHOA!

ZINGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It IS powerful, isn't it? Larry, me too--when the audience started to clap, that's when I really started bawling! The Lord is pulling for her the whole time, too, but he can't step in til she falls to her knees--seemingly, crying out to him. (When I am weak, then I am strong)

Rascal-- I'm glad I didn't delete it, too, and that Paw didn't delete it too--can't let the pearl-tramplers ruin a good thing, huh?

I'm working. uh hunh! really, I am! Yep, I've gotten a LOT done here! (this is why I can't let myself check in here during the day--it's Hotel California! LOL!!!)

LOL Yeah, Dooj, you're right! heehee!

("course when my 14 year old comes in and asks what I've gotten done for him, uum, I'll say I've been reading teacher materials online! Yeah, that's it! )

Eat more chikken TURKEY!

I s'posed to be working on school stuff for the kids--my family left so the house would be nice and quiet-- and what am I doing?

LOL!!!