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Do take note that multimedia work will require you to grow a thick skin, and fast. It's one thing to excel in the structure of a classroom with one "boss", the instructor, and one "job", your class assignment, but quite a different environment in the multimedia world. Don't be fooled into...

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Not really easy, but manageable. Lipreading is hard at first with individuals who sport a beard or have a heavy accent, but I find if I really really study their speech for a bit, I can crack their code. Well, just enough. The one situation that leaves me completely stumped is people with...

True, the world is better off with a global economy, but not our country. As third world countries are increasing their economic clout, ours is decreasing. Global labor arbitrage will be a bitter pill for us Americans to swallow. I think if we make a conscientious effort to buy American, we...

I try to take it a step further and buy products made or headquartered in my state. Gonna say this though, I brought an expensive BUNN coffee maker, because it was made in the USA, and the darn thing crapped out after 4 months. BUNN kindly sent me a new one, free of charge. On more than a...

Lol, vibrating rear end indeed. :laugh2: In substitution of wagging a full-fledge tail, our docked dogs compensate with their butts. I call my dog "wiggle butt" when she does this happy dance.

Say! Tail of the Dragon is where a group of friends had their bachelor party last summer. They spent a weekend driving through it, and I won't mention how many speeding tickets were issued. While in Tennessee, they asked the locals where to find a strip bar. Once they paid admission at the...

We have the Buick Regal Turbo, definitely a sportier version with manual transmission. You're right, it is truly a rarity. GM brought a few Turbo's to the US from Germany - I'm assuming manual is more widely used in Europe?

Yes, next time flip them the bird... or the turkey?

This is why I'm learning to drive stick, so I can drive my husband's 1964 Corvette. Oh yeah. :D Disclaimer: Not practicing in the Vette, (so car-lovers, you can breath easy) but in a 2011 Buick Regal. The Regal's engine is so smooth it's no wonder I can't hear the engine!

I blame the turkey's L-tryptophan for depleting my sarcasm artillery.

Jazzberry, we had the same Thanksgiving experience. How ironic the very holiday that is based on being thankful makes us feel quite the opposite? And your car experience? Ugh all the way. My solution to staying preoccupied in the car is to play Scrabble on my iPod touch (highest word score...

True, the child might not be his, hence the mother's reluctance to build a bridge with Brian. She could be using her parent's controlling behavior as a smokescreen, to throw the scent off the trail?

Can't hear car engines either. Been learning how to drive stick this year and I keep yelling at my husband, "When do I switch gears!!!???" He: "Can't you hear the engine working harder??? GO INTO 2ND, GO INTO 2ND!" Me: "Are you SERIOUSLY asking me that???!!!" (forgetting to hit...

Oh, I can totally relate! When the in-laws stay with us, I have to repeatedly beg my husband to keep his mother out of my kitchen! She begs and begs to help in cooking dinner (my only quiet escape from entertaining), and when I assure her I don't need help and ask her to relax in the other...

Aw, thanks! She is a snuggle buddy, knows when to dial down her energy and cuddle with me. I don't use our local dog park either. (I apologize, dogmom) I have a dog bias against the rising number of pitbulls in the area. Around here, pitbull owners are mostly thug wannabees, and I don't...

< - Yep, that's my baby. I just experimented putting cut-up baby carrots inside a 2-liter pop bottle, she's going nuts. Of course, I still have to get a larger milk jug because Abby's managed to crush the slimmer pop bottle with her jaws. Nice toy idea, dogmom! :D

I'm sorry to hear about your sweet rottie, it sounds like you gave her a great life. PLEASE tell me about "backchaining"! As my dog will only fetch and recall if we're firmly planted on the couch, not outdoors anymore. Now she prefers us to run after her, sneaky one. We use baby carrots or...

The milk jug idea is a really good one, too (adding milk to mental grocery list). Kong is a good idea, too, plus I like that they're made in the USA.

The dog play space sounds amazing, and I should stock up on the treat games. Dogs really love to be challenged mentally as well as physically. And like your youngest, Abby is 1.5 yrs, so she's still in the rambunctious puppy stage. I wish we could make an indoor play area for her, as I've...