Posted on 12/13/2010 12:06:08 PM PST by jazusamo
If it was "morning in America" for President Ronald Reagan, a new commemorative postage stamp due in February to mark "the Gipper's" birth centennial will forever view the sunrise.
The new commemorative stamp, whose design was unveiled Monday at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif., always will be valid for a 1-ounce first-class letter, the U.S. Postal Service confirmed. It officially will be released at the library on Feb. 10, 2011, four days after the 100th anniversary of Reagan's birth.
Texas artist Bart Forbes did the portrait, based on a 1985 photograph of Reagan taken at Rancho del Cielo, near Santa Barbara, Calif.
The design was published first in Linn's Stamp News, a hobbyist publication. Earlier this year, Linn's broke the news that a Reagan Centennial postage stamp would be released.
Although the preliminary design shows a 44-cent value, the postal agency recently announced that all commemorative, or special, issues will be inscribed with "Forever," instead of a face value, meaning they would sell for the then-current first-class rate but would remain valid for first-class mail even when rates increase.
A USPS spokesman who asked not to be identified by name said a revised version showing the "Forever" inscription will be released Dec. 28.
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That's pretty much the story behind Scott Adams, the creator of "Dilbert".
Swimming came so easy for me, I hate to talk about it. Suffice to say, I can’t swim underwater because I can’t GET there! ;o]
Tom has a similar experience. And now I must go, it’s time for Tom’s debate class. We found Pat’s Cub Scout belt.
My mother always made us cinnamon toast and cocoa. Sometimes, it would be cinnamon toast in warm milk, but it helped a lot.
I hope Sally recovers soon.
I subscribe to “Dilbert” so I get it every day in email. Some days, it’s just too funny for words.
Happy Birthday, James! *HUG*
Toast is on the long list of things Sally won’t eat. She had some milk, and then she took a bath and I washed her hair. Being clean makes everyone feel better! Now she’s sitting by the fake fire with Ash. She wants some chicken-noodle soup; we’ll be leaving for Walmart shortly.
Other good news is that nobody else is sick, yet. If Pat doesn’t come down with it, we can assume no one will.
When I was a kid, I wouldn’t eat eggs, oatmeal or macaroni and cheese. I was in my mid-twenties before I would eat mushrooms.
We all seem to have certain taste preferences as kids, and who knows why?
Often, if all else failed, we would get rice in milk with cinnamon and sugar when we were ill. Warmed, of course. At any rate, I hope she feels better soon.
She says she’s hungry now. The soup is heating.
Good!
Glad to hear it.
If she gets through the afternoon without throwing up lunch, she can have James’s birthday dinner (macaroni and cheese and hot dogs) and cake and ice cream.
That sounds like a GOOD birthday dinner! I hope she can have some!
(Yawn) Got to the office late, thinking I had the day wide open for working on the powerpoint and wanting a bit more sleep. Found I had a teleconference on the laptop calendar but not the cellphone. Oh well.
*yawn*
I was awakened at 4:30 by a text message. Been up every since.
Erg. I was awakened at 5:55 by Frank saying, “Mama!” but then he didn’t say anything else. I got up, anyway; we’ve been trying to get the day started earlier so we’re not still cleaning up breakfast at noon.
I was awakened at 6:45 by a reminder of a corporate webcast, which I chose to skip. I miss most of them anyway due to travel. I’ll just wait for the summary email.
Scott was trying to make a satiric parody, yet no matter how hard he tried to make it obviously a parody he found that corporations would invariably do exactly what he’d joked about.
(The Dilbert Principle)
I found that out, in corporate life. It was if I had fallen into a play, and the actors had no choice but to recite their lines, no matter how inane or illogical they might sound.
By the way, I have “The Dilbert Principle” right here in front of me.
Page 163:
“Remember, the future depends on assumptions and the assumptions are just stuff you make up. No sense in knocking yourself out.”
The scary part is when management who should know better says their lines with such fervent conviction that you wonder about whether you’ve gone through the rabbit hole.
For example: “We’re increasing security by reducing the guard force.”
And: “Can’t you push a button and make the black and white cameras color?”
And: “Can’t you control the new cameras from the old camera control panel?”
The old control panel was hooked to the old controller which friend in a lightning storm which was why the new cameras were brought in.
The last line above is like buying a computer keyboard, hooking it to your TV and then wondering aloud why you can’t hook to the internet.
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