Big Tex!

Texas State Fair Weekend.
Classic, country, and fun..!

Colorful Children's Aquarium

Little Tex

Big Tex

Illumination Station

I tried out one of the Infinity massage chairs for free.
It was great! Videos of lakes and rivers on giant wall screens while stretching.
So relaxing, didn't think to take pics, sorry!
Then I tried out foam mattresses with adjustable power bases for free.
I didn't get to try it out, but viewed walk-in tubs, showers, and got to dream about remodeling my future home that my vending route is going to afford me one day.
I say this every year.

New Honor Boxes

These are the new Honor/Charity boxes, and they're awesome.
Much easier for me to deal with, still with donations for HSUS, the Humane Society,
and much more effective donations show up for these boxes.
Will post these on the Machine Pics tab as well.
I would like to donate to Best Friends on a regular basis, but HSUS makes it
really easy to do without interruptions of any sort. 

I donated regularly to the Wildlife Waystation in Angeles Forest, and always
wondered how they would last.
With the destructive fires in California, the most recent one proved too much,
and they are closing down, moving the animals to various sanctuaries around
the country. Martine, the founder, stated that no animals would be euthanized.
I pray for them regularly.

Adding 3 new locations

Wish me luck!
 

Christian car salespeople

I just interviewed for a car sales job.
The reason I accepted it was because they promised to help people keep their cars from the repo guys.
They don't.
They help people from getting bad credit.

When people are bad with money, they can rarely be saved from themselves.
I didn't find anything wrong during the orientation.
What bothered me was that they had one word in their Title.
Christians. Christian car salespeople. Lol.

Of course there are Christians from all walks of life!
U gotta do what u gotta do to make a living.



But when anyone puts out there that they are Christian,
I hold it to a higher standard, and I agreed with everything
they were saying, learned a lot, and it was awesome!
But that word, Christian, was out there front and center,
before anything else.

It bothered me too much.
They cared too much about buying cars.
That word, Christian, shouldn't have been in front.
It should have been in a sub-heading like the after-thought that it was.

Other than that, I have nothing bad to say about that company.
They weren't feeding thousands of people from a loaf of bread,
they were buying up cars at discounts for pete's sake. Sheesh...

Before the Golden Age

Short Stories collected by Isaac Asimov.
Over 900 pages.
Amazing book, still in great shape.
These stories were collected and put together by Mr. Asimov from when he was a kid and he would read science fiction magazines such as Amazing Stories and others.

Remembering that not only were these original stories written in the 1930s, before cell phones, before computers, before reaching the moon, but they were collected and assembled decades later into a book before all that as well.

And yet, these stories read almost exactly like episodes of the Star Trek TV series!
Only the names were different, but the descriptions were almost identical.

Instead of phasers, they were called guns-that-shot-beams.
Instead of monitor screens, they were called visiports,
and instead of computers, the robots conversed and computed in spaceships that were even more slick and quiet than the Enterprise.

On a planet with atmosphere, the spaceships ran on energy collected from air.
The only story that was so annoying that I couldn't even finish reading it, was a story about the moon.

The general public at the time still wasn't convinced the moon wasn't made of green cheese, and
astronauts had not brought back moon rocks.
Even keeping that in mind, reading a love story about the moon that was covered in a thin film of light green moss was too annoying. Too much fiction away from any science I guess.

One story about Mars had beings on it that hadn't been seen by earth's telescopes because the beings lived in canals behind cliffs, which was amusing, but the atmosphere was described as red, windy, and cold and was believable and intriguing.

I can't wait to put it up for sale to hopefully share with someone.
I'm only on page 700, so might be a little while.

And yes, barring inclement weather, I am visiting my bulk vending route Monday.
I will be happy to get back on the road after a very rough and trouble Friday 13th.
Was bad. All too eager to get back to work.
 All the best,
YoungImages.com
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This site transitioning to books

Books are so much more interesting, don't u think?
I originally opened my book-room when Half.com came into being
around November, 2000.
Since then, I have travelled all over the country.
I have left behind some beautiful books, sold most of them, read
and donated others.
Yet I have kept my book-room, even when Half.com moved into eBay.
Still here...
 

 

Pray for those in path of hurricane

The 3-day weekend was luscious. Back to work!

Have a safe Labor Day week!

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Sunday's Child

Monday's Child is Fair of Face, 
Tuesday's Child is Full of Grace, 
Wednesday's Child is Full of Woe,
Thursday's Child Has Far to Go, 
Friday's Child is Loving and Giving, 
Saturday's Child Works Hard for a Living, 
Sunday's Child is Bonny and Brave. 

Saturday's Child Works Hard for a Living

Fun Facts About Saturday

Saturday is the first official day of the regular two-day weekend, and is a day usually synonymous with sleeping in late, being lazy, or going for a night out to paint the town.

Saturday is often the most common day of the week for sports to take place, often ensuring maximum turn-out from fans who would otherwise be working in the week.

There’s quite a few interesting facts about Saturdays themselves, as well as a tapestry of really interesting names for Saturday around the world, so without further delay let’s get to it.

1. Saturday takes its name from Saturn, the Roman god of generation, dissolution, plenty, wealth, agriculture, periodic renewal, and liberation.
2. Generally speaking, many of the days of the week were renamed from the Roman calendar to the Germanic calendar after the Germanic deities instead of the Roman ones. However, for the day Saturday, the Germanic calendar stuck with naming the day after Saturn as none of the Germanic gods were the equivalent of Saturn.
3. In different cultures such as Scandinavian countries, Saturday is called lördag,lørdag, or laurdag, with the name being derived from the old word laugr/laug, meaning bath. So therefore ‘lördag’ equates to “bath-day.” This is due to the Viking practice of bathing on a Saturday.

A Word About HSUS

My main charity of choice is HSUS,
Humane Society of United States.
I often don't agree with their ideologies
or politics, but their animal rescue is
beyond reproach. 
Best Friends is absolutely awesome.
They helped me as best they could to re-home
pets many years ago, one of the best.
As much as I believe in their adoption programs,
the only reason I don't donate to any SPCA
is because they euthanize, and it's a tough call.
 

HSUS.org