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Photo of the Day – A Bright Idea

Posted by Schnik on June 30, 2012
Posted in: oregon, Photo of the Day. Tagged: Art, Arts, bright Idea, illustration, Lightbulb, oregon, Photo, photo of the day, Photography, portland, Tower. Leave a comment

This “photo a day” thing has really caused be to stop and look around, it’s caused me to think about what I’m seeing and how I can share them with you. This photo had me staring at the frame for a while, when I took the photo I was pretty pleased. You Want Me To Do What?

So I posted the following question in one of the forums:

Does any of this sound legal?

CEO and Executive Director:

Sales Manager at a National Furniture Company:

A Job-Seeker:

I’m noticing a trend here, from manager and employee alike.

Store Manager at a National Clothing Company:

Tell your friend to run for his/her life.

It’s true, A real trend.

Human Resources Director – Education

Another Example of Poor Customer Service by Uhaul

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Wow. Another example of extremely poor customer service by Uhaul. Sounds familiar, doesn’t it? #freepalmer to #palmerfreed

Thanks so much to all who have lent your voices, posts, tweets, and most of all, your care and concern to this effort. We have a solution! In fact, as you may have seen in tweets and facebook links earlier, we have been able to get on the road, and we have made it to Ft. Worth, found some wifi and wanted to send an update. We’d have done it earlier, but to be honest, we wanted to get moving.

There are many to thank, but I’ll start with Mr. Don Chandler, the Regional Shop Manager for U-Haul in Abilene, TX. Don and his team (for he is not working alone) came up with a great plan that should get us to Nashville sometime tomorrow, Sunday. He has said that he wanted to find a solution that would be the way he’d like to…

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Quote of the Day – May Sarton on Balance

Posted in: Quote of the day. Tagged: Balance, daredevil, Emile Blondin, humility, life, love, May Sarton, Niagara Falls, proper balance, Quote, quote of the day, Quotes. Leave a comment

Wow. On this day in 1859 – A French acrobat known professionally as Émile Blondin became the first daredevil to walk across Niagara Falls on a tightrope. Talk about balance, I cannot walk across the room without tripping, so to walk across Niagara Falls? Wow.

There is a proper balance between not asking enough of oneself and asking or expecting too much. – May Sarton Used under creative commons, thanks tim ellis!

Photo of the Day – Special Delivery

Posted by Schnik on June 29, 2012
Posted in: oregon, Photo of the Day. Tagged: Arts, International Rose Test Garden, Nature, oregon, Photo, photo of the day, Photography, plants, portland, rose, Roses, Travel, Washington Park. 2 Comments

A great photo from the Portland International Rose Test Garden in Washington Park. Quote of the Day – Will Rogers on Aging

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Interesting enough, On this day in history, Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the law appropriating 33.5 billion (in those days) for highway construction. The modern highway system was born. I went searching for “road” quotes and instead found this one. Much better than: “I can’t drive 55!” right?

Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know “why” I look this way. I’ve traveled a long way and some of the roads weren’t paved. – Will Rogers Photo of the Day – Waterfront and Bushes

Posted by Schnik on June 28, 2012
Posted in: oregon, Photo of the Day. Tagged: Eastbank Esplanade, Nature, oregon, outdoors, Photo, photo of the day, Photography, portland, Sunshine, Travel, Willamette river. Leave a comment

A picture of Portland’s Willamette river from the Eastbank Esplanade. Just though the bushes. 🙂