Here is an up close photo showing Maw’s two calli lily flowers of white growing in a container in our backyard. The rest are growing in the front yard.
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Sushi made easy…
Here is a photo of my sushi: fish over rice.
Buy fried fish (half cut) worth $6.00 at Goldilocks. Buy 20 pounds bag of rice (CALROSE-DIAMOND brand) worth $14.00 and cook/steam it.
Behold! For pennies, you can make your own sushi, without seaweed, which you can substitute with steamed veggies!!! Eat at home and stop wasting money in restaurants!!!
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Here is a photo showing a message from my WordPress dashboard:
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Update Internet Explorer or learn how to browse happy.
Dismis.
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20110416-Noticing Numbers
So I’m listening to a YouTube.com video with the “Closed Caption” turned on and in the hopes of taking some notes to make a fine blogging material:
“The Country We Believe In: Improving America’s Fiscal Future” by the “whitehouse“.
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I see that total number of views are 43,322. Hello! Who are you? What do you want?
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- Foreign aid 1% of Federal Budget: 2/3 of Medicare, Medicaid, SS, and National Security.
- 20% make up unemployment insurance, student loans, veteran benefits, tax credits for working families.
- What’s left after interest on the debt is just 12% of everything thing: Education, clean energy, medical, research, transportation, nation parks, food safety, keeping air and water clean.
- 70% cut in clean energy.
- 25% cut in education.
- 30% cut in transportation.
- Cuts in college Pell Grants that will go than $1000 per year.
- They want to give people like me a $200,000 tax cut that’s paid for by asking 33 seniors each to pay $6,000 more in health costs.
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20110414-Floppies Away
Since my HP personal computer doesn’t have a floppy disk drive to format these disks and donate them for reuse, I removed the metal clip with a pair of strong scissors, cracked open both “front” corners and pulled out the metal media, which are to be shredded and recycled. Here is a colorful photo to show for the results. As you can see there are 16 circular media surrounding the rainbow of plastic casing and the metal pieces in the middle. (The Batik bedspread acts as a backdrop for IBM-formatted, disk by FujiFilm, of which 13 are 1.44MB 3.5″ double sided, high density, floppy disk drive utilizing DOS and 3 are zip using ATOMM (Advanced super, Thin layer & high, Output, Metal, Media) of One ultra-thin magnetic layer for superior high density recording and One “titan-fine” non-magnetic layer for durability.
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Prelate of Honor
The three of us attended an “Evening Prayer For The Conferral of Ecclesiastical Honors” on April 2, 2011 at the “Cathedral Basilica Of Saint Joseph – Diocese of San Jose, CA”.
Chaplains To His Holiness:
- Monsignor Jeronimo Gutierrez
- Monsignor Wilfredo S. Manrique
- Monsignor Hien Minh Nguyen
- Monsignor Eugene Patrick O’Donnell
- Monsignor Francisco David Rios
Prelate of Honor:
- Monsignor Stephen F. Perata
Bishop of San Jose:
- Most Reverend Patrick J. McGrath
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The three of us left at 4:33pm. We parked at the Fremont Hotel garage (P1) and were undecided where to get out and pressed the “L” button, which lead us to the lobby of the hotel.After asking which way to the Cathedral, we found ourselves inside the building and meeting the droopy-eyed parishioner, who kindly lead us to the restroom, which is an entrance way to the Loyal Hall where we had our reception after the conferral.
As we emerged from the alleyway towards the front of the Cathedral, we saw Father Perata come in from the side gate. He talked with my parents and I took their picture together. He then blessed us with his right hand and I thought he forgot me. He said to me: “You’re just bashful.” “Yeah you know me.” I replied. In response, he said something to me about: “Old “deadpan“.
Monsignor Stephen F. Perata posing with my parents at the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Joseph (San Jose, CA). After retrieving two small bottled water from Paw’s Mazda Protege, I had to sit away from my parents because the Chinese lady who ALWAYS coughs during weekday morning masses managed to grab my chair. I had to sit next to a Filipina friend of an couple who is “active” politically.
My “saved seat” was fifth chair from the middle-most aisle of the Cathedral. It was the fourth row nearest the recessed display of the crucified “Christ” and crew. I was wearing a WARM fuzzy, purple-colored, turtle neck, short-sleeved sweater. I had to take off my THICKER, acrylic sweater.
From exactly 6:00pm to around 6:35pm, the celebration was mostly singing in the Hispanic flavor that is San Jose. It happens to be the 30th Anniversary of the Cathedral (1981 – 2011).
P.S. I didn’t know how to use the garage ticket. and after a couple of attempts of swiping both the ticket and my card into the exit machine, we figured out how to use the PAY MACHINE near the elevators with cash for
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20110307-Noticing Numbers
While reading a feed and viewing the latest article, I see a double digit number in the date of 03.11.11. And from the image below, it looks like the beginning of a battle in Los Angeles, CA. It’s a poster for the upcoming movie in theaters.
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Being the slow dummy that I am for the past few months, I couldn’t connect the dots regarding the TPTB and Friday, 3/11/2011. I probably will never know the significance of the double digit number eleven.
I guess that’s why the sellouts via mainstream media continue to present recent news about wars, especially in the Middle East and in Africa, too. Watch and see: TPTB will attempt to build their story lines based on a movie battle between the heavens and the earth, the aliens/robots and humanity.
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Over the weekend, I tried to explain to Maw my theory on how ALIENS rely on a book of life — their existence. I see that history repeats itself many times over. The scenes. the characters, the costumes, hair and makeup may all be different but the themes, the plot, the stories are eerily similar — good versus evil; life, love and death and a rebirth.
I think these ALIENS or all of us are really dead. And we are just looping around and back upon a matrix of a broken record, CD or other recording devices.
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NeatWorks Scanner
I love my new feed scanner by Neat Company! After all these years, I’ve gotten something that fulfills this one time project of scanning old receipts, invoices, emails and documents, such as time sheets, check stubs, transcripts, transaction reports, letters, notices, and memos.
So over the rainy weekend, I’ve scanned and shredded papers from three folders. I have one dozen or more folders to export into a backup and .pdf files. I have one, paid offsite backup and one external “hard drive” in case my computer crashes. I miss the old computer because the new monitor is more horizontal and makes the fonts diffcult to read and both the keyboard and mouse are slow and sometimes non-responsive.
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Masonic Shades
Masonic Shades Notice the image. It shows half of the face of a fully beared, red head. He is wearing dark shades, too. It’s an ad for a popular email account: “Spam is not invited.”
Perhaps, the “fellow brothers” are really watching out for us.
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20110213-More Spooks
American Wheelchair Mission — A Global Wheelchair Mission Partner — Changing Lives Through Mobility
The American Wheelchair Mission is a non-profit organization with a goal to deliver brand new, free wheelchairs and mobility aids to physically disabled children, teens and adults throughout the world who are without mobility or the means to acquire a wheelchair. With a strong focus on the needs of Children in Latin America, the American Wheelchair Mission will continue to change the lives of entire families with the gifts of hope, dignity, freedom and independence.
Your participation can make the dreams of children come true!
During this morning’s mass at 10:45am, the choir sang with more animation, almost as if they were uplifted in spirit. They used to sing with seriousness and in depressing tones when the choir master was still alive. During the funeral mass of the choir master long ago, I noticed the narrow facial bones and sharp jawlines when l shook the hands of the daughter and mother.
Anyway, instead of the dark-skinned, very short Filipino priest saying the sermon, a 4th degree member of the Knights of Columbus was invited to speak about their mission — wheelchairs. There was a yellow-colored wheelchair in front of the alter.
He showed us a video of some parishioners from Laredo, Texas receiving their wheelchairs. Normally, I would keep my cool. But because today I had my PMS, I shed some tears when I saw how a young boy lost his legs to infection and other elderly residents got their wheelchairs.
I was truly moved by the short video and for a tax-deductible $25.00 donation, I would get a pin! I showed my $20 and $5 bills in cash to Maw but she suggested a different amount. I noticed most parishioners were mostly Asians and not interested. I was disheartened to see not many participated by placing their hard-earned money in to the “second collection” baskets but I did see an elderly couple pull a few envelopes from the pew. The website of the organization was imprinted on the envelop and perhaps they would donate later online.
Here is an image of my new pin:
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Of course, Maw and Paw were not interested but we did notice how lots of groups seem to be “infiltrating” our parish for “good causes”. I was told over ten slong years ago to be careful about charitable organizations. At this point, I felt that the “fellow brothers” were doing honest work. And if I find out they are pocketing the peoples’ money, so help me God!After their mission work here at our parish, the “fellow brothers” will go to Vietnam and then to the Philippines. Oh, that’s nice.
