At GMa's.

I know I'm boring. But everyday, I ask what this life is all about.
I know the answer, of course.
Life, is about experience.
Life is a wonderland of treasures just waiting to be found. 
You know when you've found a treasure. A treasures is worthless unless it is found.
Life is its own self documenting experience.
As such, we owe life for this experience.
I believe the cost (for this top attraction 4D ride) is to share and exploit whatever gifts life has endowed us with.
- If what you do best is make babies, make babies.
- If you're a great cook...then cook.
-If you're a great singer, sing!

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If you do what you do best, everybody and everything that follows you will benefit from it.
If you don't do what you do best, your depriving, not just yourself, but everything from what you could have done.
The discoverer for the cure for cancer, may have been someone who gave up on becoming a doctor, just because it was difficult. So by that person not trying, they've killed billions to come.
I like what Aristotle said, "I stand on the shoulders of the giants that have come before me".
So, with that said, I'm not going to deal blackjack, bartend, or drive a truck.
I'm going to program computers. I know what I've done has already affected millions of people.
And its what I do best.

At the Worlds End. With Paul-n-em.
It looks like they're not coming.
SOOOooooooo......we'er u headed to thu drive-in.

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The loan fell through.
I was told the interest rates were fixed at 3.75%, interest only for 5 years and I'd get $40,000.
In the end, the rates were fixed for 1 month, and I'd get $18,000.
And my loan officer, gets for his 20 minutes of personal attention, gets $6,000.
Just got an update
The loan officer called and said the title company slipped in an extra $1,000 for him.
And my insurance was whacked. They were going create an impound account that included Auto insurance.
He also said my payment won't change for a year.
I got a 1.8g dual processor PC
200gig, 500mg memory, DVD writer for $200, with XP Pro installed.
Sonny actually helped build it.
Its pretty cool, except I can't install IIS6 on it..I don't have an XP Pro SP2 CD.
And to tell ya the truth, I really don't feel like reloading XP.

11:30pm - Interveiw with Louisville, KY. Conference call. Call HH 30 minutes before
2:30pm - Wrap up loan at Common Wealth, 2200 Paseo Verde #190...bring cancelled check.

I canceled the interview at Sam's Town.
I mainly wanted Becky to go, because if I go to work for them, the Notary thing is dead.
Becky was a little too confident about her interview. She had her resume and it was scant.
We'd applied at Sam's Town before.
They want you to fill out another application, even after filling one out online. Last time they wouldn't take my application until I put down the zip code for my schools (including elementary). They intentionally make applying for a job a super pain.
J Long promised we'd have the loan done today at 4pm.
He promised he'd send me an email telling me where to go. He promised today he'd call me in two minutes. He actually told me we could have the loan done Saturday, and then said Monday. But he called in sick Monday, and never called me. I'd drop the WHOLE loan thing, but I'm into it now for $350 and they've pinged my credit history. So, now, this is important.
Greenburg called about 2 positions that opened up.
One is Louisville, KY, the other is in Columbus, GA at Total Sys (TSYS).

Dress nice. I will take an hour. Bring employment history and references.

Dress nice! Bring employment history and references. 

We suck Mikey! Actually, I do.
We were supposed to close the refi on Monday, plus Becky didn't have her complete history.
I just said f it. There was just too much that was supposed to happen Monday.
As it turned out, nothing at all happened Monday.
I spent the day snaking the plumbing and trying to fix my PC.
The motherboard is tweaked out. As it stands, I can't rule out a Jennifer virus, a candy wrapper bridging a connection, or just plain old fault circuitry.
I ordered $400 worth of hardware from Frys/Outpost!
I got a 500 gig hard drive, a 350 gig usb drive and a Garmin street pilot.
I can't wait!!! They had refurbished Garmin GPS I3s for $200 last week.
I'm going to need some kind of GPS system for doing notarys. YellowBook still hasn't come out. :(
But we're expecting repeat business from a notary we did the other day. I can see a build up happening.

Yea it is a shame about dealing 21.
Dealing 21 is the only job I've ever known where you can work an entire shift with your fly undone (they wear aprons).
About you car
A lot of collisions cause the piston rings to score the cylinder walls. Didn't you say you now hear pinging under the hood?
BTW - Did you get whip lash from the rear ending?
A girl friend and I both had whip lash from a rear ender that totalled my 62 Chevy. Our necks hurt and were swollen.
I lost my babe mobile and my date that night, and all I got was a hickey. (^%&$)

The Desert Inn was owned for a time by famed wacky billionaire Howard Hughes. In 1966, Hughes booked the top two floors of the place for ten days...and when the ten days were up, he declined to leave. The proprietors of the hotel wanted him out. Even though he was paying for his lodging, they were in the business of renting to gamblers who'd lose money in the casino, not to rich folks who stayed holed-up in their rooms. Hughes eventually solved the impasse by buying the whole Desert Inn for $14 million, which at the time was around double what the place seemed to be worth. (Next year, there will be individual paintings on the property that cost that much.) Eventually, Hughes purchased other Vegas hotels, including the Frontier — aka The New Frontier — right across the street.
At one point, Mr. Hughes decided he wanted to be able to go back and forth between the Desert Inn and the Frontier but — of course — he was not about to go out and cross Las Vegas Boulevard like any normal human being. So...at considerable expense, he had a tunnel built under the Strip, connecting his two establishments. It cost a couple million and apparently, Hughes never got around to using it himself. In fact, some say he never got around to setting foot in the Frontier or several of the other hotels he owned, like the Sands, the Landmark, the Silver Slipper and Castaways, all of which have since been levelled. But the Desert Inn-Frontier tunnel was used for a few years by employees of both establishments. Wayne Newton tells stories of how he would do his show at the Desert Inn and then, because the headliner at the Frontier was out sick, he'd dash over via the tunnel and fill in across the street.
In the seventies, someone decided that vibrations from the traffic above had dangerously weakened the tunnel structure so they closed it down.
The bringdown of the Desert Inn probably seals off one side of it forever
and any day now, when a deal is finally put in place to implode the Frontier, that will close it off from the other side. Before that happens, someone had better check to make sure Shecky Greene isn't down there.

At IBEW. Oscar Goodman was there too!!!
About 200 people graduated in Paul's class.

DAYAM!!! Your new car. You just bought it.
On the other hand...
What was that you said? Your neck hurts? You won't feel right until you receive $1 million in punitive damages.
Tell me about it though.
You'd think those cell phone drivers have the phone screwed into their brain!
They should put these offenders under the "Clockwork Orange" therapy.
Friday, while doing the courier thing,
- the freeway came to a screeching halt twice 
- some guy switched lanes on me at 70mph.
That's why I really like my Mustang convertible.
My eyes don't have to adjust from the darkness inside the vehicle to the brightness of outside it.
I can see everything around the vehicle, and that's cool.
Of course, if someone's going to slam into my ass at high speed, all that means is I can see my doom coming.
Just be glad it wasn't a tweaked out, 18 wheel, truck driver that smacked you.
That would be a nasty way to get thin, wouldn't it?

Yeehaa...its at the IBEW on Lamb and Bonanza.
Its beautiful, how the smallest of events can change someone's life.
Rob called me about IBEW. I called Paul. We all scooted on up to IBEW.
I got called for work, then changed my mind about working with them.
Paul got called, and decide to give IBEW a shot.
Rob never got called.
Now Paul is a Journey man!!!!
Thank you Mr Rob Allred. RIP.

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From 3300 W Charleston to Graphic Center Dr off of Valley View.
We made $20 for 20 minutes of driving. We delivered payroll documents.
It shoud turn out as repeat business.
We realized half the way through the trip that we forgot our notary supplies.
What if they simply didn't mention they needed a notary.
I had to make out a form.
It includes:
   Order #,
   Item Description,
   Pickup Time/Signature,
   Delivery Time/Signature and Notes.
Its pretty obvious that I'm going to need a GPS system.
I ordered a Garmin I3 from Walmart on 5/19/2007
I used my business card as a reciept.
This seems like a great idea.
It would be wonderful if I had blanks on the back for writing:
   Date/Time
   Item Description
My current business cards look SO good, but they don't let you print on the back of the card.

Here are some interesting tidbits about Howard Hughes, Summa and the 70's.
Howard Hughes was the richest man in the world in the 70's.
He bought KLAS TV because he was a chronic insomniac, and wanted something to watch in the middle of the night.
Hughes was obsessed with dying. He developed a fear of germs, and he tried desperately to halt the underground nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site.
Rumour has it he tried to bribe Humphrey, Nixon, and Agnew, to get them to shut down the testing.

In 1971, it is claimed that a cryogenics chamber had been bought for Hughes.
Google 'Hughes Meier Buhler' to learn more.
It was reported in January 1976 that inside the chamber was a frozen Howard Hughes.
According to the Summa Corporation (the Hughes organization) Howard Hughes was alive and well in 1976.
Hughes was announced officially dead April 5, 1976.
However, former IRS Commissioner Johnnie M. Walters suspected Hughes may have died as far back as 1972.
"Hughes had become such a hermit in his last years that no one was sure it was really Hughes that had died, so the Treasury Department had to use fingerprints to confirm the death of billionaire Howard Hughes."
Read this interesting story.
Age 61, Hughes was in failing health and thought he could cheat death by cryonics: freezing a dead body until science advanced enough to resuscitate the body and prolong life. This way Hughes could live forever!
Check out this story about Hughes
- Meier ordered a cryonic coffin from Germany for Hughes
- His assets were to go into the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, of which he was the only trustee.
- His will was placed in a Texas bank.
I don't necessarily believe any of these articles, but it is interesting. They lead to other interesting stories about the time.

Something remarkable will be lost to time
A tunnel leading under the strip will be buried when they level the New Frontier.
It is probably one of the last accessible tunnels under the Strip.
The tunnels are a time capsule of sorts, where Siegfried and Roy used to traverse to the other side of Las Vegas Blvd to the other side, to avoid the crowds.  I know Bugsy Segal had tunnels built under the Flamingo (for escaping the IRS).
I haven't found much literature on these tunnels.
In the 70's Howard Hughs owned Summa (summa is latin for highest).
Summa owned the Desert Inn, Sands, Landmark, Castaways, Silver Slipper, and the Frontier. It also owned KLAS TV. I still remember the late night movies with breast showing all ablaze. Hughes would call the station and have them play movies for him. I believe Summerlin was named after Summa.
The Frontier is the last hotel remaining from the old Summa empire.
Summa, whose headquarters is on Industrial road, at one time, had contracts with the CIA. Back in the 80's, I had heard the stories when I consulted with Summa for NABS. I saw evidence of it, both at the Industrial complex, and the complex at Spencer an Flamingo.
I have heard one of the access ways to the network of tunnels is in Frontier's basement.
See. So. I almost have to go explore.

I guess Sonny will be laid off.
The suspense is killing me!

It looks like Sonny is going to network...and that's a good thing!
Most of the people Sonny talked to are a bit disgruntled.
Me, I'd be thinking it is a great opportunity.
New job, newer hotels, no more rusting ancient parts to rig.
We all put in applications at Sam's Town yesterday.
I put one in (just for funzees) for Blackjack dealing and Front Desk clerk.
Sonny put one in for Engineer III.
Becky put one in for Bowling Attendant
And wouldn't you know it, I am interviewing there on Monday (as a blackjack dealer extra).
The Frontier is the last standing Summa Hotel.
It signifies the end of Howard Hughes reign in Las Vegas. That's sad.
I worked at the Summa building (on Industrial Road) twice in 1984 and 2001.
Nevada Automated Betting Systems was affiliated with Summa, and I contracted with them. Mgm moved their crew there.
Summa had very high security in 1984.
Rumor had it Summa stored vast amounts of info for the CIA on their hard drives.
Now, no one that works there seems to know anything about it. Its all forgotten.
Good'ol Jimmy Leavelle is the last one left, that I know, who remembers it. Shoot, he's probably dead by now...

Ya know, I'm going to mix Sam's Town and Sam's Club up until the day I day.
I think I'll just call it Sam's...hahahaha.
But I could probably get away with having a portable black jack table in the Sam's Club parking lot.
I noticed the illegals were hawking glowing bracelets at the Drive-In last.
And illegals sell blankets, balloons, flowers, fruits and vegetables all over town.
I think I should have a portable black jack table, and deal black jack at stop lights and off ramps....hahahaha.

The calls are coming in. This guy said someone referred us.
He was on 215 and Jones and the round trip took 40 minutes (the way I took was twice as far as what google suggested).
I need a Garmin Roadmate or a cell phone that can do GPS mapping
But what a sweet sweet drive.
The guy said he does all of the commercials for Cox Cable.
He had a GREAT set up too!
He said he loved the idea of a mobile notary saying "Your service is very handy".
I love it!

:)

A guy called this morning. He needed a request for a birth certificate notarized.
I came to him, fo a 20 miles drive to Tule Springs.
When I got to his address, he showed me a handwritten letter, and a document.
I asked him for ID and he said, I don't have any ID, that's why I need my birth certificate.
SHEESH!!!
He wanted someone to rubber stamp a lie.
He said he lost is license, and had no other forms of his ID. YEAH, RIGHT!!!
I hope this doesn't happen a lot.
On leaving, he said he'd just have to find a more experienced notary.
I wanted to say "For $25, good luck. I hope you find a nice criminal."
He may find someone too. Hmmm.

I loved it. It was very nice.
Too bad we grabbed a TENT instead of an extra camp chair though...haha.
I liked when Dustin opened the little bag up and said "I don't know how to put it together".
And it was tent poles!!!! hahahahaha.
Next time we'll get it right.
The only thing is, the next time we go it will probably be 100 degrees outside at night.
THAT'S HOT!!!!

OVERHUNTING: American bison skull heap.
There were as few as 750 bison in 1890 due to overhunting.
Mankind is wiping out species at the rate of 30,000 a year.
Its so sad, that with our advances, we have destroyed so many creatures.
This planet should be down to half of its species in a few decades.
But, rats and cockroaches love us!
Mankind is known to have existed for 50,000 years.
Life on this planet is over 2,000,000,000 years old.
And we're ruining it all.

Yeeeehaaaaa!!!! 20,000 people rally in Mexico City to break the Guinness Book of Records
And no, you can't zoom in on these pictures...haha.
Click here for the Full Story.
I keep wondering how this would have worked out in Vegas
Maybe at the Fremont Street Experience or on the Strip.
Would these people be thrown in jail or would it start a ritual? hmmm.
I'm not sure how it would have worked out in the legal arena, but if it were to happen here in July, I guarantee the people would all be wearing sandals!
What I didn't see in these photos is where the people put their clothes. I'd think these people didn't walk naked all the way from home to the Metropolitan Cathedral.
Mexico City is the 2nd largest city in the world.
AND Its only 1,800 miles from Las Vegas.

This recipe comes from Renee (whose 6 months pregnant)
1 - jar of Alfredo Sauce
2 - Packages of any kind of frozen fish meat, prefferable crumbled and without the head.
6 - Taco Shells, corn or flour, it really doesn't matter.
Heat fish in the microwave for 2 minutes.
Add Alfredo Sauce to fish and head 2 minutes.
Put mixture in Tacos. If desired, add catsup or grape jelly to taste.
-- Enjoy --
Renee says these are surprisingly good.

Okay, I'm still bored, but I still keep my mind busy.
Experiment 1 - Inertia dispersment
I put a toy jet boat in a bag half full of water. I put the bag in a sink, full of water. I turned the jet boat on.
With the jet turned to the side, the bag spinned in the opposite direction.
With the jet turned straight to the back, the bag did nothing.
What I expected to see was the inertia coming from the water jet in one single direction driving the bag to one side of the sink. The inertia, for the jet returning to the front, I thought, should have been dispersed omni-directionally. Meaning there should have been some kind of inertial imbalance.
I was wrong. It still seems right though. However, it was a $5 toy boat and the jet was extremely weak.
Experimet 2 - 3D Video Poker
I wanted to create a 3D Video Poker game. I know how to do it, however....
I bought a 3D poster. It had fish on it and they looked raised and 3 dimensional. From an experiment when I was a kid, I realized there were actually 2 pictures behind the plastic grooved lens, each geared for a single eye's line of vision.
Well, I scraped the fish picture off and created a Paint Shop Pro image of a picture with black lines on it.
What I expected when I placed the lens from the poster over the image on my monitor was, to see the image go from full image to black as I moved from the left to right.
What I got was, nothing!!!
My monitor doesn't have a strong enough resolution apparently. Blaaaahhhhh!
Oh well. It never hurts to try!
:)

I liked my first pin hole camera.
It was a piece of cardboard with a pin sized hole in it.
I constructed a box with wax paper on one side, the cardboard with the pin hole on the other side.
As I panned the box around the backyard, I could see its image upside down and inverted on the wax paper. I was amazed about the amount of information carried by light through such a small hole.
I could see the back yard through it!
Black Holes 125 million light years away.
They bend light towards their center, however, some light must escape.
I would think some light might even do a U-Turn around the black hole.
If that is found to be true, a very powerful telescope should be able to view our sun's light from 250 million years in the past. It would offer us a reflection from the past, and it would eliminate our need to travel faster than the speed of light, to look back into Earths past.
Who knows for sure. Maybe the Hubble has already discovered this to be true. hmmm.