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for Aunt Elaine’s son, Johnny and his significant other of several years. They are going to do it cowboy style in Joshua Tree, CA … or parts nearby.
I haven’t seen John since we were both under ten when they came to visit us in Oregon. I had the pleasure of visiting with Billie, his sister, my cousin, the other day in Tonopah, and that was great!
I wish I could make it to the wedding, they are going to wear spurs, denims, and for all I know do the deed on horseback. Mom gets to go.
I hope I get to see some pics, at least. I’m just too busy with school.
Maybe I can slip away for a day, it’s only about a seven-hour drive from here.
I guess they are cleaning the ranch and barns and ranch-house, getting ready for the big to-do. Aunt Elaine is surely helping. I imagine they all are pretty busy finding dust bunnies and setting pantry moth traps.
If I get to go I will see relatives I haven’t seen since childhood and a whole bunch that I have never met. I don’t think I have met even one of Billie’s kids, and by now she has a slew of grandchildren.
Maybe I should make a concerted effort to get there.
Well, I will think about it. It’s in three weeks.

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This little plate is the best thing I have made so far in ceramics class. It is about 8 inches by 10 inches.
I signed up for the 3 credit Mata Ortiz ceramic class/trip. Mata Ortiz is about 100 miles south of New Mexico a little northeast of the Casa Grande ruins. I hope we get to go see them, the ruins, while we are there.
I will be back in early June and unemployed. I might take a Spanish class this summer, but that won’t take a lot of time and I have my eyes on the evening class anyway, I have heard good things about the teacher for that particular class.
I love sales, and have even thought of commission only sales for the summer, which is the easiest job to get in this economy. I looked here life insurance lead . Just not sure what I might find, but I AM half-way looking. I don’t want to work hard.
Paris came up with ‘posterior glaucoma unemployment’ which translates into ‘I can’t see my a55 getting a real job’. That’s me.
I also am looking into an internship with Shell. They are one of my most promising targets for Planet Cornucopia money, as they donate a lot and have a large non-profit unit. I would consider working in the non-profit part of Shell Oil, and an internship would be a great place to start.

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Wow, I had the 24 hour bug. It was horrible. Day before yesterday it came on me mid-day, I thought it was the pork rinds, but I had been eating out of that package for several days, it’s one of my favorite gross-out foods. So I don’t know why I would get sick one day and not another. Dave says 24 hr flu, but I have heard that 24 hr flu is actually almost always food poisoning.
Whatever. It was bad. Luckily I hadn’t eaten much that day, but that didn’t stop my stomach from trying to turn inside out for 12 hours. Dave finally fixed me up late at night with sips of watered-down Gatorade. Then I slept for the whole next day off and on. I got to sleep on my new couch. We finally replaced the old leather couch that the pups tore up and the blanket wouldn’t stay on. We shopped everywhere, in the neighborhood, out of the neighborhood, at discount sectionals.
Today I feel much better and am actually up and feel almost like eating something. Maybe I’ll lose some weight from this, but one thing for sure, I have caught up on my sleep.

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You now will have a link to visit my two new works in progress; PlanetCornucopia.com and YesterdayTodayPhoto.com.
To that end, I have been scratching up verbiage and page ideas. For Planet Cornucopia I think I want a chat room, or at least a page that encourages input from readers. I was thinking of a poetry page, with the focus on disaster relief, community development, co-op opportunities, third-world poverty relief.
On that note, I made a haiku:
With rain, the planet
makes possible changes:
Cornucopia.
On another subject, my sweetie and I have not got our TV box coupon yet. You know, the one to use on your old TV so you can get the new signal? Our home theater consists of an ancient TV, at least it’s color, and a bunch of recorded media devices so we don’t HAVE to watch the channels.
If we don’t get the coupon for the box, I can’t see us running out to buy one at full price.
I just don’t see it. We’d rather watch the seasons we bought of Arrested Development, Simpson’s, Futurama … you know, the important shows.

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School work on spring break, no less. Shouldn’t I be drinking my a55 off in Rocky Point? But no, I will need to work a little bit every day to be on top when classes resume. So Paris is coming over today to help me polish up the web sites. He is also going to teach me how to ‘fish’ for myself, you know, ‘give a man a fish and he’ll eat today, but teach him to fish and he’ll eat for life’. Which is kind of what I hope to accomplish in Hondurus. I believe the internet is the biggest thing I can bring to them. I will of course need a laptop computer of my own on site, but I am looking in to the rules and regs for importing computers to them. If nothing else, I can bring chips and boards with me and build what they need.
The ecommerce part of my project is really the whole point, that and the gardens. Whatever trinket or goods the community can produce isn’t as important as the act of connecting to the world at large to market the goods. This, I believe, will set them free. And the gardens.
I don’t believe that a local government can take your freedom if you can communicate with the global population, and you know what they all have been going through down there in Central and South America from governments, theirs and mine. For several generations these people have been constantly uprooted, undermined, threatened and disrespected by the powers-that-be. No wonder family units have disappeared and they have lost the will to take care of themselves.
I would like to see a world with free internet signal in the very air around this whole globe, like Tesla intended.

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It’s time for Annie to have her vaccination update, we have an appointment this morning. Somehow, she had the courtesy to get sick right before her appointment. How did that happen? She’s had the runs since yesterday, last night when we noticed a little blood, we decided to wait until today to take her in. Last night we would have had to take her to a stranger, at after-hours prices. We decided that since she was not feverish, and it was only a little bit of bright red blood, not tarry, we would wait.
We love our vet clinic. The support staff is right on the ball, which we have found is very important, and the vets are affordable and really good! Paradise Valley Animal Hospital, LLC 602-992-4560.
Drs. Weinacker and Kastner are the best, and like I said, the support staff is on the ball, they don’t lose records or referrals, or forget to call me to remind me about upcoming appointments.
So Annie will get poked and prodded this morning. I have a ziplock baggie with a stool sample for them. Always exciting.

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I have been researching shopping carts and merchant services for my ecommerce class. Pretty interesting range of options out there.
I think I will just go with the PayPal account that I already use, but here is another great source of information that’s been a help to me in figuring out what I need and what I might want versus what I want to pay.
conversion rate optimization

I decided to go with two websites, they are PlanetCornucopia.com and YesterdayTodayPhoto.com
They have widely different goals and target audiences. I started with Planet Cornucopia, of course, since that’s the whole reason I am back in school at my age, but it didn’t seem to present the opportunities for merchant services and shopping carts that I want to learn in this class, so I wracked my brain for another business idea. It litereally came to me in the middle of the night. I will shoot geezers for care centers! You know how I like to shoot the geezers, I had a blast on Valentine’s day, and got a lot of great pics that will make the families very happy.
So I’m working on that, too. I might as well do something tricky while I’ve got the teacher’s brain to pick, that’s what I’m paying tuition for, right? So I’ll just carry on with both. I already got the cards and letterhead for Yesterday Today Photo and developed the logo, in that graphic arts class that I’m taking with Paris.
Anyway, go to the sites and look. They are not near done, but you get the idea.

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I got to meet with a cousin I haven’t seen in over thirty years !
Amazing to see her, she is so sweet and pretty. Here’s a pic of us girls.

We had a nice visit. Mom had a puppy to give to my aunt, so we all met in Tonopah.
On the way back Mom and I stopped in at the Desert Rose Tavern on the Hassayampa Road. There was a chili cook-off going on and a lot of really nice motorcycles, lots of denim and leather. I had a nice dark draft ale and Mom had a Bud.
Yesterday was my official first day of spring break, since I have no classes on Friday, Liz and I hung out talking about photography, mostly, and had a snack under the lanai. This term I really needed the break, there’s so much to do in this term, I need a breather. Check it out medical assistant training school
I hear that a lot of people whose jobs have disappeared lately are going back to school. It can only be a good thing.

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You’re going to waste as much time as I have.
Knightfall

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