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I was always curious about this book. I have heard of it for as long as I can remember. I have seen many referencs made to it. And I know there was a relationship with this book tied to Mark David Chapman, the assasin of John Lennon.
What I don’t understand is what the big deal is about it. It is well written and very discriptive but ultimately seems pointless. It follows a few days in the life of a student expelled from his school and doesn’t really go anywhere or make any point. I am not a big reader of fiction so maybe I’m missing something here.
All I can say is if you have been one, like myself who has always been curious about “The Catcher and the Rye”, don’t waste your time.
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I am a TOTAL clean freak! I have a housekeeper come clean my place one a week (just a 2 bed apartment) and I still clean ALL the time and am always buying and trying new products. You can eat off all my floors.
I just got this Hoover SteamVac from Amazon, after looking at the others and realizing that the smaller size is better for me than the larger Platinum one because I don’t have a large house and a lot of room for storage.
Well I can’t speak for the assembly because I’m totally clueless when it comes to that and I paid the maintenance man $20 in my building to put it together but it looked pretty easy.
Like I said, I’m a total clean freak and also highly, highly allergic to most pollen, trees, dust, cat dander, dogs etc. I also own the very best vacuum with a Hepa filter ($900 Miele Calisto). I noticed after I would get my carpets cleaned professionally once a month, after I vacuumed and changed my vacuum bags in my Miele they were full of fine white powder. I had no idea what this was and I realized it could ruin my vacuum’s motor. I came to the conclusion, after researching on the web, this fine white dusty powder my vacuum was sucking up and sticking to the nozzle and everything was the carpet shampoo residue when it dried.
So I got this Hoover steam Vac and used only hot water with it, and WOW tons of shampoo, white frothy residue was in the dirty water tank when I was done. I hate, hate using alot of chemicals to clean, especially because I am allergic and I was shocked to see how much powdery crap was lodged in my carpet, especially since I clean my carpets professionally once a month. My carpets are basically spotless to begin with but now I plan on doing it myself with this Hoover Steam Vac using only very hot water. Next time I might add a little of the detergent that came with it but hot water also does the job. Try adding boiling hot water to the clean water tank if you want to kill more germs and dander in the carpets. You will be very happy
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Title: The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Pages: 214
Time spent on the “to read” shelf: 4 or 5 months I think.
Days spent reading it: 4 days.
Why I read it: The Catcher in the Rye is an American classic and very controversial. I honestly wanted to see what was so controversial. Also, it was one of those “classics” that I did not read while in high school. In researching about it later I read that in 1981 it was the most censored book in US high schools and the second most taught book in high schools. It was one of the 10 most challenged books in 2005, but it came off the list in 2006. Those are some fun facts for you.
Brief review:
This book frankly annoyed me. The writing has very repetitive and had many aggravating sayings in it. The word “really” is used almost as much as the curse words that are prevalent throughout the book (one reason it is often censored–I would guess that gd appears 2-3 times a page at minimum, sometimes significantly more). And I assure you, both appear more than they need to, I really mean it.
Holden Caulfield is the main character. He is the epitome of teenage angst. His world is utterly pessimistic. He sees only the bad in everything except his sister and his deceased younger brother. He is bright, but is failing out of school. He is obsessed with sex, but cannot develop a relationship with a girl. He is active and pursues all the pleasure trappings that a big city have, but has no defining meaning to his life.
The book covers three days between him being kicked out of school and his untimely return home. Holden is depressed, hates everyone, exaggerates EVERYTHING (annoyingly so), and seems to have few people skills. In short, he is the perfect anti-hero and irritating enough that I did not like him one bit while reading this book.
I suppose this book speaks to the hearts of some disaffected youth, but they would have to be interested in drudging through 200 pages of dribble in order to find the voic
Gift Jar Old Fashion
Step on technology? OK, but depending on how you store it, you may need to deduct the weight of the unit itself.
If you store the unit flat, you should be fine. In my case however the unit is stored on edge, not flat.
I step onto the scale & it gives me a read on my weight plus the glass top!
With the unit off, I push my foot onto it & remove it. It will come back with the weight of the glass not “0″. Other scales will give you a “0″ read. Now I need to move the switch at the bottom of the unit & center it. Once done, it gives me a “0″ read. Now I can step on it to get my weight. This will vary from surface to surface. Flat on ceramic tile (all 4 corners on same tile) I get one read. On wood floor I get another. On mossaic bathroom floor tile yet another. Bottom line, not any more accurate than any other. (In my opinion). But then again, when I go to my doctor’s office I always weigh more than I do at home. HMMM……………
Southern Palm Gift Bucket
I purchase 2 pedometers one for my wife and on for mayself. I found them to be quite accurate. If you like to track distance as well as steps it is accurate once you have your stride set correctly. I used the instructions in the manual to firdt set the stride but adjusted after walking a known distance 1/2 mile. I also use it for running by adjusting my stride before may run. Overall very happy with purchase.
Estate Gift Tax Handbook
We had looked at many carpet cleaner’s and compared them to each other. After reading comment’s left on various website’s, we chose the Hoover. It can be a tad tricky putting it together. It worked well on a pet stain we had as well as the carpet in our cottage. It’s interesting (or gross) to see the water, even when I thought our carpet was clean! A good price for a good product!
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Great machine. Easy to use and was easy to assemble. Works very well on my carpet especially when used with the Hoover deep cleansing shampoo. I have read some reviews on this cleaner saying it leaks. I read the directions,
made sure everything was seated properly and did not have one leak. You wouldn’t believe how dirty the water was especially this being a 6 month old home and having the carpets cleaned professionally 5 months ago. No children, no outside animals coming and we both take our shoes.
This cleaner has tremendous suction removing most of the liquid on the carpet which enhances the drying time. I especially light the scrubbing brushes (comes with two extra) as they really help with cleaning surface dirt, spills and other stuff. It is absolutely the best carpet cleaner I have ever owned.
Gift Jar Cinnamon Imperials
This is a nice watch with good functionality. It will improve your running. I have two major irritations: 1) it takes forever to synch with satellites, 2) it is silly huge.
First Anniversary Gift
I detest anything obstructing the view through the windshield, whether it’s knickknacks hanging from the rear-view mirror or something suction-cupped to the windshield.
I’m also not inclined to have mounts or evidence of dashboard electronics be visible from outside the car when I am not in it.
With this friction mount the view is clear, there are no suction cup marks on the windshield, and it’s heavy enough to hold the GPS steady through fairly hard turns and the finger-tapping on the screen. The bottom is also textured to grab the dashboard.
When parked, take the GPS with you or hide it, and hide the mount under the seat or back floorboard (if you have tinted windows to keep out prying eyes.)
A BIG bonus for some cars is that using this mount puts the screen on pretty much the same azimuth as (some) dashboard instruments, thus fewer and smaller movements to see or interact with the screen. Smart ergonomics.
I’m not sure why anyone would mount the permanent adhesive “horn” to their dashboard that comes with Garmins and to be fair, the suction-cup mount included with Garmins isn’t all bad… it’s just on the windshield demanding further reach, etc.
And has been stated many times already, the mount allows for easy transfer to a different vehicle.
This mount is worth every penny in my book.
25th Anniversary Gift