April 4, 2010 CALLING ALL CONTACTS... I ONLY NEED FORTY-ONE MORE...

April 4, 2010
 CALLING ALL CONTACTS...  I ONLY NEED
 FORTY-ONE MORE...

Howdy! How goes it in the Land Of Oz for everyone?
 Lockie is doing okay, and is in need of a little bit of a booster. I now have 9,959 page views on this site.
 I have been over here for a long time it seems, and at 360 in the same amount of time I had almost 60,000.
 When they changed the inbox here at Multiply, it cut down on the amount of people who left daily comments and things of that personal nature greatly.
I did not like it then, and I still don't.
One of the best parts of being on a site like this is playing around with decorating your pages and if no one sees it.. what is the point? I complained to the Multiply powers that be about this change, but apparently.. I am just one more Bunny with a Bellyache..
 sigh......

  Anyway, I would love to hit that 10,000 mark and have been watching the number slowly increase for over 3 weeks now. Mostly I am getting people who have online stores here on Multiply dropping in to leave a spammer for me, but I do have a few folks who still do the rounds.
I have to say I am ashamed that I do not do more commenting myself.. but.. the fun kind of flew out of it when nobody knows you put one on their page if they do not have a guest book alert.
 I turned off mine because it filled up my inbox to max capacity from all the others on my contact list, being listed every time someone posted a comment to their pages...
 and yes I tried to filter it..
 but after a few attempts I just gave in and shut it off. I am getting lazy or this site has taken the fire from beneath my feet to find out why and how to do things. They are not real helpful if you know what I mean.. but that is another blog, on another day...

 today...

I NEED CLICKS! ...

Can ya help a bunny out? hummmm.......

lockerridge

WorldAirTraffic0-24h_xvid.flv

This is a simulation video of the amount of air traffic that flies in our earths skies on any given day. You can follow the movement of the earth by watching for the light colored areas where the sun is shining.

This is pretty amazing.. actually quite a testament to the ability of the air traffic controllers expertise to keep it all sorted out, which is proven by the almost non existent amount of crashes.

February 23, 2010 I'm a Winner!

        

February 23, 2010

I'm a Winner!

I actually Won something!
Look out World!
The Bunny is on a Roll!
Never mind what I won is something, that since looking at it.. I am not to sure what to do with it...
But it does not take away the....
I Won Something!
Factor!
I subscribe to a site called  1stWebDesigner, that is a wonderful source of all kinds of goodies, if your into web page designing. Which I suppose I am, actually I am more into doing graphics for web pages, rather than doing all the technical stuff that is involved, but... nevertheless...
I Won!
Yeeeehawwww!
They were giving away two tutorial books on the knowledge of using PHP type coding  for web page design for absolute beginners. I thought I fit into that category with ease,  so I left the required comment on their page, and they picked me!
It was  supposed to be chosen randomly, among those who submitted a comment, but they decided to give it to the two people who left the most well thought out and useful comments to the owners of the website..
 and yeah..
I was one of them!
Hard to believe I won a prize for criticizing something....
 But then again we are dealing with me here, and I suppose that it is not all that difficult to believe.. I always do things bass ackwards.
I still WON!
I downloaded the PDF, and when I got to looking into all I would have to do to just get my computer capable of using the code.. I would have to download Apache something or another and that is a file of around 6 GB's.!
 I have not even gotten the real hang of CSS yet, and they already have CSS2 and CSS3 out there for me to get up to speed on.. so if anyone would like to use this copy of PHP for Absolute Beginners.. give me the word and I will give you the password, and the url to get into the book. I am a sharer.. but just remember ..
 it is me that.....
WON!The website is located...
HERE
And the article that has the contest and my comment on it is located...
HERE
The fellas that are running the site make me feel so old, and so ignorant when it comes to all the things they know, that I am struggling to learn. I will never be as knowledgeable or retain the knowledge that they will be able to.. because.. I have at least 30 years of other stuff floating around in my memory than they do.
Meet the fellas....

Saad Bassi
Saad Bassi is a 20 years old web developer from Pakistan who loves to create beautiful websites with great user experience. He is co-editor at CrispyTech and 1stWebDesigner. He blogs about the next Windows at Windows8Geek.He also loves to make new friends so don't forget to say him a hello on Twitter.
Dainis Graveris

Dainis Graveris is 21 years old blogger and designer with really strong passion. He usually hangs out in Twitter tweeting design related links regularly. If You use Digg actively he can be great friend there and don't forget add to StumbleUpon too! How about Deviantart? Meet him there as well! If You have any questions feel free to write and add him to Gtalk - it is beautiful way to get contacted directly!

Check their site out if you have the time.. you can find some excellent sources of free software, background images, how to's for just about every browser, and what is new and on the edge.
 Just never forget the once in her lifetime of...
Lockie Won!!!!

  

lockerridge

Outside My Window.flv

Sarah Buxton... Outside My Window

I just love this song and wanted to share it with you all.

Experiment For JaeElle and Lockie Only This Time

Hi ya JaeElle!

I have come back to this page that way it will not be the same theme as the one I am wanting you to see if the attachment will open up for you.

I am hoping that when you click onto the attachment down at the bottom of this blog.. you will get your browser to open it up in the form of a copy of the theme of my terri101 site which is Carousel.

What I mean is that when you click the attachment link, it will open up to a copy I have saved to this blog of my Carousel theme completely like it is when it is posted and running. That way I can copy a theme and save it to my computer and then change the theme on the website to a new one.. but still yet put the copied theme into a blog form so people can use them and with the real time copy they would have to look at .. decide if they wish to use the theme or not..

It is just something different than the rest of the people do when they offer themes to people to use. I hope it is legal to do that.. can't see what it would hurt as long as it remains on the Multiply site and I do not take off any of their logos.. hope for me it works.. been working on this a while now!

 I have been trying to set this up for the longest stinking time! lol.. if this does not work.. I am going to give it a rest for a while..

Thank you so much for your help..

love and hugs
terri

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see the attachment to click on the bottom of this blog.

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JANUARY 22, 2010 THIS IS SOMETHING THAT... HAS A STRANGE EFFECT ON MY BRAIN... WHOA!

JANUARY 22, 2010 THIS IS SOMETHING THAT...
HAS A STRANGE EFFECT ON MY BRAIN...
WHOA! As I opened up my Google home page today I did the usual thing of checking my in box to see how full it was, and then I checked my weather widget so I could be able to at least say I knew what was going on outside even if I do not go there often lately.
Then on down to those little links they put at the bottom of the page, for the latest random WikiHow article they hope you'll click onto, and delve further into the Google site, Maybe, even,  perhaps you'll get hooked up editing someones article, and stay longer there in the process.
I always go over and read at least one of them, cause I have actually written and posted several of them myself, and it is always nice to see the number of hits you have received, and what someone else has edited it with, and then editing it to throw that junk off you wikiHow article! LOL..
 Now I wouldn't do a thing like that...
would I?
Honestly.. I am not evil!!
I just sound that way a lot of the time..
well okay, a whole lot of the time!
wink! Today I started the day out with this article about how to use reverse psychology.. Use-Reverse-Psychology And that article led to this article.. Persuade-People-with-Subconscious-Techniques
From that point, I watched the YouTube video posted there, and then that lead to yet another YouTube user site.. that led to another, etc,, and so forth and so on.. you get the drift here I am pretty sure by now.

I hit upon this one video, that had a really profound effect upon this bunnies brain..
it freaking worked on me folks!!!
 I tranced out big time for about 3 minutes of this video!
When I got my flash of
"WAKE YOUR ASS UP WOMAN!"
shot of lightning in the conscious part of my brain,
 I felt absolutely GREAT!!!!!
Relaxed and more refreshed, than as if I had just slept a full eight hours, with only one potty wake up call, and no "Let the doggie outside",  clawing at my face... . Warning! Both videos contain flashing lights and patterns that might trigger epileptic seizures in someone who has any condition, such as epilepsy, that is sensitive to quickly changing light patterns.Warning! Then I did a mental head slap, and thought ... "Now Terri come on.... no way... you just dozed off for a few minutes, because the breathing exercise it was leading you in,  relaxed you,
 and sent some oxygen, to your tar and nicotine clogged arteries,
 and it finally seeped into your brain...

 So I watched it again.

It happened again!
Only this time it did not take as long
 to trance me,
and the come back was not so abrupt...
 hummm... WHOA!!!

Well you know me... I started to delve into it a bit more, and then ran into this entire plethora of videos,
about a subject I did not know existed.
 This is something that I am totally ignorant of, which is really not a real surprise to anyone I am sure.
 It really is something, which seems to me, to have at least the promise of a help to people with anxiety disorders, and those who need help with finding a way to cope with their days due to addictions, grief, divorce, and life's problems in general.
They make some big claims with this and I am not saying I believe or disbelieve it...
 all I am saying is what could it hurt?
 I believe in giving new things the benefit of the doubt..
and there is plenty of doubt about this.

But that is usually the way of things when something new, and radically different comes along, kind of like the earth is flat,
 versus the earth is round... 
Give it a little room, and watch if it grows to proves its own self to be helpful.
 If people can get around the tests that include astral projection, out of body experiences, and basic new age type thinking,

Give it long enough to let it prove itself worthy or just garbage..
Maybe we will see a new way of healing the very basis of our own bodies cells with our minds.
Sources: Wikipedia Binaural Beats YouTube Web Page: Information From Video Post Page


What do you folks think?

lockerridge

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JANUARY 13, 2010 GREEN ACRES IS THE PLACE FOR ME!

JANUARY 13, 2010
GREEN ACRES
IS THE PLACE FOR ME!

Riddle me this question with your wisdom that I value greatly O'Friends of Lockerridge.... What do the above picture, the move I reported to you all that I was making, fear, and finally realizing your limitations have in common?
If you guessed that I found out that I am a hillbilly deluxe and a fraidy cat.. your 100% correct... grab your prize at the door when you leave this poor pitiful creature to her own voyage of self discovery and ultimate realization that I am not superwoman.. I was raised on a rocky top, learned how to live life with a certain set of values and expectations, and if your somewhere  that same set of values and safety are totally nonexistent, and if you can't cut the skyscrapers, and the drug addicts living in cardboard boxes,the out and out dishonesty of business in the area, and the violence and basic paranoid fear of the place and people... you don't have to!! This woman found out that no matter the job or the need to get a new surroundings.. there is no place like home! I relate big time to Dorothy and ToTo. Not all that glitters is gold folks! This blog is going to be a lot shorter than the last one... because I still haven't completely figured out what caused me to grab my phone and call the Tyson plant, after a tour of the entire city trying to find an apartment that had been advertised as what they actually expected from a potential renter, and finding the only thing left to me to be able to rent and afford was not where I want to be at all! This was supposed to be an exciting and new adventure for me in my life of dull everyday misery.. NOT IN THIS TOWN IT WAS NOT GOING TO BE!! Sometimes I think maybe I must be doing something wrong when I trust people to actually be telling me the truth most of the time. I feel really dumb right about now.. but I am home, I am warm, I have food, I have no need to lock my doors during the daytime, and I never lock my car.. sometimes even forget and leave the keys in it .. for days at a time. No one has ever treated me the way I was in such a short period of time yesterday! When I went to LR initially it was raining cats and dogs the entire time. Yesterday it wasn't .. as since it had been a while of really cold temps.. the uglies of the entire city came out in force since it was a nice day. The fact that they recommended pepper spray or a stun gun be held in my hand on my way out of the plant to the 8 ft. tall barbed wire on top compound they call a parking lot.. The fact that I would be leaving work somewhere around 4 a.m.... and the security gated apartment complexes, who advertise one thing and when you actually arrive to tour what they have to offer.. would require somewhere in the neighborhood of 2000 dollars just to move in and then pay over 200 dollars more a month than they advertised unless you signed a 2 year lease with them... was the real big bringer of the thought of SCREW THIS! to the forefront of my mind.
Add to that the environment that the apartments I could afford had surrounding them... no one in their right mind WANTS to be panhandled everyday to just get to their car... if the car still is there and not in a chop shop somewhere... and your friendly ridge top hillbilly from Arkansas.. just could not see a bright future for herself there at all! So Lockie came home.. and she is going to stay right here and make it work out for herself, instead of running away from my problems, and then if I find something maybe in the town my son is already living in.. I might go for it.. but if not.. then.. right here is where I am staying!!!
I forgot one important rule of life ... home is the place you go to get better acquainted with yourself when your faced with a major upheaval in your life. It is where I am supposed to learn how to regroup and rest ... to pull on the resources of safety and comfort afforded by familiar things and faces.
To reaffirm to me that I was not being a chicken sh*t and that what I had done was the right thing for me.. I was about 20 miles from home and I happened to look on the east bound side of the interstate as I was driving west bound.. and low and behold who do you think was waving and flashing his lights at me?
Good ole Homer...
 yeah.. my cell phone started to ring and he wanted to know how it went.. so I told him.. and he breathed a sigh of relief and said.. " Always knew you were pretty smart, and you haven't changed any at all!"
Then he told me a dirty joke, and I laughed and it all melted away..
No... he isn't coming back ... but he hasn't abandoned me completely either.. and right now..  that is all I need to pick up the pieces and get strong by sticking it out. I already know it is the only way I will ever be ready to accept whatever God has in store for me in the future.

Hopefully it will be something I like!

Once again reporting from the home twenty... Lockie from Lockieland!

lockerridge

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JANUARY 7, 2010...... I'M MOVIN' ON

JANUARY 7, 2010....
I'M MOVIN' ON

I promised I would post another blog about the good news I have received .. no let me rephrase that.. I have had a divine intervention good folks!
I have been looking for a job for the longest time and have not gotten even one little nibble to my applications ... until... to give you the long version of where I am at today as opposed to 4 months ago... get a cup of coffee and sit back... I am telling it all!

 I am trained for the position of USDA HACCP Quality Assurance Inspector Level Two... sounds fancy huh? Wrong!
HACCP stands for Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point...  and this means at the level two position that I am responsible for every freaking thing that comes off the end of a line and gets put into the freezer to be sold to the public, to eat.
Metal detection, temperature, sanitation of food and line workers, wearing of safety equipment, the labels on the boxes and the weight of the boxes... how they stack them on the pallet, the quality of the product in alignment with the specifications set down by USDA and the customer in regards to product weight, length, thickness, and then the cooking of the product to make sure it gets done in the time allowed on cooking instructions to get thoroughly done, the uniform appearance of the product, and if they are reworking something.. and mixing it in with the product running down the line.. the date it was put in the freezer and if it is still good. and.... the strength and availability of the disinfectant used on everything.. air temperature must be controlled at no more than 45 degrees, maintenance carried out on the line in case of breakdown and the way they work on things to maintain sanitary conditions or they have to shut it down and wash everything down and then disinfect with me hanging over everything they do cause they got in trouble with me and I had to write them up..
Yeah.. I work my ass off... but it is the most worthwhile thing I think I ever did to earn money.. protecting the public from ptomaine poisoning is a pretty worthwhile task.
Okay now to explain what this has to do with anything.. anything at all.. I used to raise broiler chickens with my broiler houses contracted out to Tyson Foods. Then things went wacko crazy with my life and I had to quit doing that... and went back to public work.. needless to say.. I have had two jobs since shutting down my farm and the first one was in my hometown painting fishing lures.. loved it .. absolutely loved it!
Was like doing arts and crafts with a detail spray gun compared to what I had been doing for fourteen years being a chicken farmer!
This place had been in the town for over thirty years.. I went to work there and was happy as a clam and they closed that division of the plant after I had been there 2 and a half years, so onward I plodded toward the unemployment line and the amount of money I could draw would not feed my dogs let alone me!
This led to getting the QC job and I was there for around 2 years when I got pneumonia and that led to me being sick so badly all the time I finally quit and have not worked since.
 Since I have the training, and that is about all I can lay claim to being professional.. when I started looking for a job recently, I checked on the Tyson website and sure enough there was a position open!
YEAH!....
hey wait a minute..
 in the Little Rock Plant...
ohhhhh.... nooooo...
200 miles from here!
  I figured with my age being 51 and 7/8 the chances of me being called for an interview were slim to none.. Tyson pays its QC department very very well... and the benefits are too fantastic to believe coming from a chicken plant!
Imagine my surprise when a couple weeks later I got a call from the QC night supervisor to see if I wanted to interview for the position. I thought.. why the heck not.. might enjoy the drive since I have never gone by myself and always had so guy driving me. Have gone to a concert at Alltel Arena in the past and had grandmother in the UofA Research and Teaching hospital at one time.
The day we set up for me to go was raining.. I mean never let up kind of rain all the way down there and back! The interstate driving was not to bad till I hit Conway and the traffic backed up and I thought I was going to run my mustang up under a big truck for sure if something didn't give pretty quick.. thank goodness .. we came to an utter standstill .. on the interstate.. never had that happen before. They tell me it is a daily occurrence at rush hour no matter the weather.. Mental note.. DO NOT plan a trip to coincide with rush hour.. ever!
The good thing was that rush hour was over in Little Rock too ... thank goodness! Still yet I managed to get off on the wrong exit and ended up stopping at two liquor stores to get directions.. that second time it was hard not to just get a bottle of Boones Farm and let Mr. Boone take me away from it... but I didn't.
I found the plant rather easily after I just slowed down and called them to tell them I was a wee bit lost.. which got me a smile in the voice of the HR Manger.
I found I liked this fella quite a bit.. he took one look at me, got me a cold can of coke, and had me sit for a minute or two before he told me, there was no way I would stay down there if he hired me. Too far from home at my age to stay. I looked at him and grinned and said,"Well why don't you give me the opportunity to make you out a liar on that deal".
He grinned back.
The night supervisor had come down with the stomach virus that I rode out during Christmas, and I was given my entrance exam by the day supervisor and the Plant manager.
That was fun... NOT!
Before I left Mr. Fletcher called the other Tyson Plants closer to me and set up an email interview with them for me. I left out appreciative for the time they took with me and figured that would be the last I heard from them. I went home and emailed the other plants and got back the reply that they were all on budget cuts and downsizing instead of hiring, but that they would keep me in the files for a while.. umm humm..
Well a week or so went by and I was in my email and ran across one of the emails between Amanda and I and so I thought, "What the heck" and emailed her to ask what I had scored on the test and if the posit on was still open to put in my two cents worth of "PICK ME!"  I was amazed when she responded within an hour and said it would be after Christmas before they hired anyone and after the first of the year before they put them into the plant.. I replied.. "Sounds  Perfect!". She told me I aced the test and that to hold tight and she would get back to me one way or another by the following Tuesday.. after Christmas.
Imagine my surprise when on Monday evening Mr. Fletcher called and offered me the position!!
 YEEEHAAAWW! " I ACCEPT!"
Then panic began to set in...
 I am moving to the states capitol.. with skyscrapers, and traffic, and roads that have more lanes than all the roads put together that I have been using for all these years. I won't know anyone there... I have to pack up all my important stuff and rent an apt., and...
 OMG!
I GOT THE JOB!!!
 HOW IN THE HELLO DID THAT HAPPEN?
 DIVINE INTERVENTION...
ONLY THING THAT MAKES
ANY SENSE AT ALL!!
I saw the stack of resumes that were submitted to get that job.. and most of them from people younger, and certified which I am not.
The only thing that makes sense to me is God wants me there. This time I am not going to fight Him.. I am just getting it together and I am going!!
Have to be there on the 11th for a physical, so I have been apt shopping online, setting up some apts. to tour, and pick one that will not put me right in the middle of the gang related violence that happens down there.. but won't make me have to work 80 hours a week to pay for it.. not easy to do folks!
I start work on the 18th, so I am going to do my best to be in my place by Wednesday of next week.
This cold weather has hampered all efforts to do anything in the way of getting a storage unit, and getting things put out of sight till I can have an estate sale in the spring. sigh..
I hope this all works out... cause if it doesn't.. I am going to the UAE and live with my friend PD..
Oh!.. Gee... Seems I might have forgotten to tell him about that decision I made..
  LOL..!!
 Just teasing!
There is a slide show I created, to give me a send off.
 The limited knowledge I have of this new software I got to produce SWF slide shows has me guessing more than doing things like they should be .. and I don't have the time to be the perfectionist I usually am with my stuff.. soooooo...
Rather than upload it to Multiply, I just uploaded it as a file attachment to this blog. When you click onto the link at the bottom of this blog, It will open up another tab in your browser and then you have to wait for it to download the slide show completely before it starts. No streaming media today!
The music will start first and when you see the pictures come up .. mouse over the bottom of the screen to find the on and off buttons. It is pretty long.. but I just went with what I thought meant something to me.. you may think I am a bit of a weirdo...
but then you would be absolutely right!
You see...

Today is the the first day of the rest of my life..
Bunny Hugs!

Okay I think I got this figured out with the slideshow.. I have no idea why some can see it and some can't.. but I have uploaded it to a hosting site .. only thing is they will not embed
it because it has its own player and they will have to convert it to something or another.. either way.. my sweet friends.. here is a download link that will download and open in your browser for you and you will get the entire full screen.. it will play the song twice so don't get to thinking your done when it stops the first time.. lol.. told you I was posting it all didn't I?

This will take you to the download page.
Lockerridge's Slideshow I'm Moving On

lockerridge

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