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Archive for August, 2009

The Guessing Game (the treadmill again…)
Six months ago I weighed about 156 to 158 on a normal day.
Today, I am 121 pounds – fully dressed.  This was not a diet or planned event in my life.  Rather, since March 9th I’ve been on a roller-coaster ride with my health for the sixth “mega” event of [...]

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How exciting it is to see the clouds roll in over this “valley of sin.”  The past several days have found Las Vegas temperatures dropping from the 100’s to the 80’s.  Even those of us strange people who adore high temperatures enough to scorch ourselves to death are enjoying this respite from the heat.
Today is [...]

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It constantly amazes me how many workers must have 24/7 assistance from their supervisor to get their job done. This goes for both men and women. After a period of time learning your job and finding out the expectations, you should be able begin to work independently, right?
Well, perhaps that’s a big “NO.” Recently I [...]

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Yesterday morning I awoke with a vivid dream – of bad smells.
I hauled myself out of the comfortable bed with a start and realized, that bad smell was for real.  Quickly Richard and I searched the place, and lo and behold we found that one of the gas stove burners had been turned on.
When, we [...]

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Okay, have I got it straight?  The President of the United States solicited a person in the crowd ‘unknowingly’ a plant by the Obama (or democratic group) people?
And, this person has been proved to be a “plant.”  This woman is not a doctor as stated on television.  She is advertising for the “health care plan” [...]

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Through the past nine years of managing a business and employing people in Las Vegas, we have had some interesting, appalling, frightening, weird, wonderful, strange, and unstable people work for us. 
This is a difficult city to find “normal” people for employment.  We used to think something was wrong with our interviewing processes or that we were [...]

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Blogging, Web Sites and Writing
Next month I will start my very own website for my very own self (!) called amazingly enough http://www.pattiredd.com – isn’t that so original?!
Since I was 12 years old I have wanted to write a book. In fact, writing a book has been on my BIG HIT LIST or “Bucket List” [...]

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Here’s a quick picture of the beauty of Morea, Tahiti – looking at the main island….the beauty of Tahiti is incredible – the food may suck – but the beauty upside and under the water is incredible!

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Today we found out a vendor of ours (an awesome vendor, by the way) has cancer.  She was unable to help us on a service call. 
“ Sorry, XYZ is not available, so we’ll send another technician,” was the company’s response to our phone call for help.
When the other tech who was helping out with her [...]

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