Sunday, February 28, 2010

Day-tripping

THEME DAY: PASSAGEWAY • Alright, I'm cheating again here because we've left Metro Manila. We're on the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway, better known as SCTEx, although where exactly, I have no idea. The SCTex goes through three provinces north of Manila: Pampanga, Bataan and Tarlac. Since it opened in 2008, day trips from Manila to the Subic Bay Freeport Zone, which is located in the province of Zambales, have become easier; it is 110 kilometers away from Manila but the trip now only takes an hour and forty five minutes compared to three hours before the road was constructed. Last year, I took a trip to Subic Bay with my sister and nieces. This time, my girlfriends and I went a bit farther. Come back tomorrow to see where we spent last Thursday.

Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway

From the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary: Passage a: a road, path, channel, or course by which something passes b: a corridor or lobby giving access to the different rooms or parts of a building or apartment. Click here to view thumbnails for all participants.

SEE IT SUNDAY: DIRECTION

Quiet, please !

Quiet graffiti

Trains For Merz

TRAINS FOR MERZ

POLZO

POLZO graffiti

Egoist

Graffiti Egoist

Palmer

Palmer graffiti

Simul

Simul graffiti

Palmer Simul

Palmer Simul graffiti

ANIMAL FARM

Animal Farm graffiti

Animal graffiti

Seez

Seez graffiti

2T

2T Graffiti

GOMEZ

Gomez graffiti

Bruxelles-Midi

Bruxelles-Midi graffiti

SOER

Soer graffiti

Waule Psk

Waule Psk

VMG

VMG graffiti

FE

FE graffiti

Unfinished graffiti

Unfinished graffiti

Unfinish

Unfinish graffiti

Unfinish train graffiti

Elauw

Elauw graffiti

Strike

Strike graffiti

SAK

Sak graffiti

Rush

Rush graffiti

Bear

Bear graffiti

RTM

RTM graffiti train

1Lia

1Lia graffiti

1Lia graffiti

Mouse

Mouse graffiti

Loogie

Loogie train graffiti

CESAR

Cesar graffiti

GedUn

Gedun train graffiti

GedOne

GedOne train graffiti

Jemelle



gare Jemelle

Jemelle

Flash

Flash graffiti

Soc Psk

Soc Psk train graffiti

Soc Psk train graffiti

Ciao

ciao yeahs train graffiti

Alora Malaga

Alora Malaga train graffiti

Unknown

unknown

High Technology

Good Sunday Morning to you all. We are kicking off High Tech Week here at OPOD with this picture of a woman listening to an old radio. The picture is from the 1910's. It is probably hard for any of us to imagine just how cool this was back then. If you want a challenge, you can try to identify the woman in the picture, and why she was famous.

Domestic Update:

I am pleased to report that things are going very well out in Chickie Town. I have been working on tracking egg production, and am pleased to be able to issue the following report. Below, we have a chart that shows daily egg production for the last week. The bars show eggs produced by day, and the red line shows cumulative production (read off the right axis). You can see that things are moving along very well.


In addition to tracking overall production, I am monitoring the production of each chickie. Below, you can see how each of the chickies is doing. As you can see, Miss Lilly, who was featured on the blog last week is a veritable egg laying machine. We have highlighted in red areas where improvement is needed. I have found that chickens are a lot like people . . . you have a few of them carrying the load for the entire group.



Below we are tracking the overall cost per egg of the operation. You can see that the cost per egg is dropping dramatically as the number of overall eggs produced increases.



I have decided that it is very important to encourage the chickens that are not performing to improve their output, so I have created posters which I have posted around Chickie Town. You can see in the picture below one of the posters posted inside the coup. This way, the chickies can check their production numbers as they leave the coup. Below, you can see Miss Lucy reviewing the chart. Miss Lucy has produced some eggs, but is one of the chickies in need of improvement, so I was happy to see her taking note of her production numbers.



Besides posting production numbers and motivational posters around Chickie Town, I also decided to try and encourage increased performance by featuring a Chick of the Week on the blog. We start today.

Chick of the Week: Miss Nelly



Name: Miss Nelly

Birth date: September 28, 2009
Likes: Hanging out with friends, Worms, Scratching the Dirt, and chasing bugs.
Turnoffs: Peacocks, mean chickens, dogs, and rainy days.
Her Ideal Rooster: The ideal rooster would be a good crower, and one who really knows how to strut his stuff around the barnyard. Big red comb a plus.
Best Friend: Ivy June.

So, hopefully with these new procedures put in place, we will be able to further increase egg production.

Graffiti-Style Characters | Graffiti Street Art

graffiti characters
Graffiti-Style Characters | Graffiti Street Art

Design cool like painting graffiti. graffiti work deserves the reward. examples to make graffiti on the wall characters. There is also an interesting kind of graffiti: eg graffiti alphabet letters and write my name in graffiti.

Suddenly Sunday


Since The Sunday Salon is closed to new members, I have created own weekly event of Suddenly Sunday! Feel free to join in the fun, just link back to this blog :)
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Another week has flown by, but at least I feel that I have accomplished a lot in my reading this past week! I was able to post two reviews this week:

There are so many exciting historical fiction novels just recently released and coming up in the next couple weeks; and I'm happy to be able to review a lot of them for you! I have just finished reading The Secret of the Glass by Donna Russo Morin and The Scarlet Lion by Elizabeth Chadwick; their reviews should be up sometime this week. Now, after waiting for what seems like forever, I am starting The Stolen Crown by Susan Higginbotham :)

Be sure to watch or set your DVR to record "The 39 Steps" on Masterpiece Classic tonight (2/28) at 9:00 PM! Here is the Synopsis from Masterpiece Classic:
Newly returned to England on the eve of World War I, Richard Hannay's (Rupert Penry-Jones, Persuasion) listless London life is about to spiral out of control. When a neighbor bursts in with a top-secret notebook full of cryptic codes and a frantic story of an impending assassination, unlikely patriot Hannay is soon on the run to save himself and his country. He bumps into feisty suffragette Victoria Sinclair (Lydia Leonard), and while their fates may be intertwined, their personalities aren't. But like it or not, they'll together navigate murder, betrayal and near death in order to untangle a plot of national importance, and understand the charms and challenges of human nature. A bracing and romantic thriller,The 39 Steps is based on the novel by John Buchan. (One episode; 90 minutes.

I have really been enjoying HFBRT's week long event for The Secret of the Glass by Donna Russo Morin; they have had some great creative posts and interviews! The event is ending today (2/28) but you can still check out everything they have done for this event on their website: Historical Fiction Round Table.

Don't forget to enter in my giveaway! I have one signed copy of The Boleyn Wife up for grabs...hurry the giveaway ends tomorrow (3/1).  Enter in the giveaway here.


Have a wonderful week everyone & happy reading!