Hi Olga! How are you doin?
Excellent to hear that, Olga. Job situation is good?
As for me, I'm doing well. I'm busier than expecte despite having become an "empty nester." I thought I'd have loads of free time... not so. It flees as does "extra money," I think.
The job is certainly keeping me busy, Piffka! Too busy, really. But hey, it pays the bills & it keeps me out of trouble, so I shouldn't complain. Much as I love complaining.
Ah, an "empty nester" now! Big change! So I suppose you've had lots of time on your hands & finally painted that mural you'd been planning? Or 3 perhaps?:wink:
Haha... well, it is still in the midst of creation. Those clouds are harder than you'd think. I did take a few more oil painting lessons and enjoyed them very much. Have a bunch of paints now and less time than expected to play with them.
"I don't know whether Mike Brown was qualified to run FEMA, but I do know that pretty much anytime you are near an Arab[ian horse] it's an emergency."
P.C. Kennedy (1950- )
Paint that mural, Piff! Art is more important that the mere trivia of everyday life!
(So, did that inspire you to get stuck right into it, huh?
:wink: )
Yes, indeed-y. Art is bigger than life.
But clouds are darned hard to get right.
"In the past it was thought that Indians came to the Americas across the Bering Strait about 12,000 years ago, that they lived for the most part in small isolated groups and that they had so little impact on the environment that even after millennia of habitation it remained mostly wilderness. It is now realised that this picture of Indian life is wrong in almost every aspect. Indians have been in America far longer than previously thought, and in much greater numbers. They were so successful at imposing their will on the landscape that in 1492 Columbus set foot in a hemisphere completely dominated by humankind, in fact the population of America was greater than that of Europe."
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http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/1491/main.html
"A common plastic used in water bottle manufacturing is PET (polyethylene terephthalate), an environmentally unfriendly substance that actually requires 17.5 kilograms of water to produce only 1 kilogram of PET. In fact, more water is used to make PET bottles than is actually put into them."
Joshua Ortega, Water Wars, Seattle Times 3/20/05
"...most terrorist incidents occur in democracies and...generally both the victims and the perpetrators are citizens of democracies."
F. Gregory Gause III
"Can Democracy Stop Terrorism?"
Foreign Affairs, Sept/Oct 2005
"The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself."
James Wolcott
"From Fear to Eternity"
Vanity Fair - March 2005
"The occupation, separation and annexation [of Texas] were, from the inception of the movement to its final consummation, a conspiracy to acquire territory out of which slave states might be formed for the American Union."
Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885)
Personal Memoirs, Vol.1:54
"How Bush and his junta succeeded in deflecting America's anger from bin Laden to Saddam Hussein is one of the great public relations conjuring tricks in history."
John le Carré (1931- )
"We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."
Richard Dawkins (1941- )
"Snowy, Flowy, Blowy,
Showery, Flowery, Bowery,
Hoppy, Croppy, Droppy,
Breezy, Sneezy, Freezy."
- George Ellis (1733-1815), The Twelve Months
Piffka
Piffka wrote:"We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."
Richard Dawkins (1941- )
That one is a world-class winner!
BBB
The quote that tickles me is the George Ellis one..
I am always a bit startled and pleased when words of yore seem... well, seem just like someone on a2k would type...
That's fabulous, oh, wait, my cake is burning...
