Wanna Do Lunch?

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This is the One Stop Wash and Lube in our town. Every small town has one, right?

But I bet you don't have this at yours! So, what do you say..... let's meet for lunch next Tuesday and while we're eating we'll get the oil changed in the car.

Checking number 5 off my Bucket List

Wow, I didn't realize it had been two weeks since my last post. What a slacker! I'm blaming my television, specifically TIVO. Ever since we got Tivo I spend too much time sprawled on the couch watching shows I would have never bothered with before. What a waste of time! But I have to say........I really love my Tivo, last night I watched Dancing with the Stars (a 2 hour show), Brothers and Sisters (recorded the night before) and a sit-com, a total of 3 1/2 hours of shows in less than two hours. So in reality I'm not wasting time, I'm saving time! Okay, now I don't feel so guilty.

Do you have a "Bucket List"? I made a mental list after seeing the movie of things I just had to do before my number is called. One thing on my list was to see Elton John in concert. YES! I'm going to Vegas next month and have my ticket to his Red Piano Show. My sisters and I have talked about taking a trip together for the past year, but that's all we did was talk. Last week I found a good package deal, called Brenda and Jennie and within 15 minutes we were booked. When we saw that Elton John was performing we knew we had to go to his show, regardless of the cost, (not totally true, we're sitting in the nose-bleed section). I don't care about his politics, his lifestyle or anything else, I just love his music.

Photo Tag

This photo tag is from my friend Joan's blog. This is the 6th picture in my 6th photo folder. After you post the picture you are supposed to tell about the photo, so here goes. This is a picture taken on Easter in 1957. My dad is holding my brother Jim, my sister Brenda is next to him and I am standing off on my own. I don't have a clue where the dog came from. We're behind my Grandma Larson's house and I know she didn't ever have a dog. What I like best about this picture is that for once Brenda and I have normal length bangs. In most of our pictures our bangs are horribly short, I don't know if mom meant for them to be that short or if once she started cutting she just couldn't stop.


After you post your picture you're supposed to tag 6 people to do the same. I'm not sure I have 6 people who read my blog, but if you do why not play along.

1. Go to your documents/pictures.
2. Go to your 6th file folder.
3. Go to your 6th picture.
4. Post and blog about it.
5. Tag 6 people to do the same

How Appropriate is This?

Being the mathematical geek that I am it is only appropriate that this applies to my birthday today.

Count on Tuesday's alignment of the calendar to add some excitement to the lives of at least a few math geeks.

Tuesday is Square Root Day, a rare holiday that occurs when the day and the month are both the square root of the last two digits of the current year. Numerically, March 3, 2009, can be expressed as 3/3/09, or mathematically as √9 = 3, or 3² = 3 × 3 = 9.

"These days are like calendar comets, you wait and wait and wait for them, then they brighten up your day--and poof--they're gone," Ron Gordon, a Redwood City, Calif., teacher who organized a contest intended to publicize the event, told the Associated Press. The prize, or course, is $339.

Celebrants are expected to mark the occasion by cutting root vegetables into squares or preparing other foods in the shape of the square root symbol. I think I'll find another way to celebrate.

Square Root Day occurs only nine times in a century. The last one occurred on February 2, 2004, and the next will occur in seven years on April 4, 2016.